Past Events
Explore previous Soundbox programs and musical offerings going back to the 2023-24 season. You may request additional information about specific musical works and performing artists by emailing info@soundboxventures.org
This chamber music and ensemble program celebrates storytelling through a multi-sensory experience with local premieres of new music! Join us for an evening in which music explores the fragility of life and boldness of characters, culminating in Marc Migó’s “Carnival de las Indias,” narrated by Annie Dutoit-Argerich, conducted by Glen Cortese, and performed by the Soundbox Camerata. Suitable for children and families.
This performance takes place in New York City at the Manhattan School of Music.
"The End of Early Music" refers to both the disappearance of improvisational and folk music in cultural life as well as the emergence of formal, notated, musical works, aka "classical music." The new idea that music is an experience is not new at all, but rather a revival of a spirit from which earlier music once came. This discussion is a reflection and talk back following the previous evening's premiere performance of Marc Migó's Carnaval de las Indias.
This chamber music and ensemble program celebrates storytelling through a multi-sensory experience with local premieres of new music! Join us for an evening in which music explores the fragility of life and boldness of characters, culminating in Marc Migó’s “Carnival de las Indias,” narrated by Annie Dutoit-Argerich, conducted by Glen Cortese, and performed by the Soundbox Camerata. Suitable for children and families.
This performance takes place in Sarasota at Holley Hall.
A special 2-day music event presented in collaboration with the Sarasota Music Archive! Join us at the Geldbart Auditorium at Selby Library in downtown Sarasota!
Tickets available starting May 5!
1:30 PM: Music and Conservation - Lecture-performance with Winston Schneider, Soundbox SCFP alumnus, with discussion led by Sean Friar, Chair of Composition at University of Denver
2:00 PM: Musical Structures and Narratives with Will Stackpole, Faculty at Stevens Institute of Technology
2:45 PM: Programming for Today – A Conversation on Narratives with Annie Dutoit-Argerich, performer and curator
The sentiment "music begins where words fail" has been expressed by numerous composers and poets in the 19th century. How do writers and composers approach literary and musical texts respectively? How do actors and musical performers? What happens when these two texts meet in opera or other narrative performance works? This discussion is a fitting preview to the evening premiere performance of Marc Migó's Carnaval de las Indias.
Join Soundbox resident artists and composers for a drink at the W XYZ Lounge Bar at Sarasota Marriott Aloft Hotel. Musicians will be reading chamber music and hanging out; come find out what music we will explore for the first time over drinks! Join us for a memorable evening!
Drinks are not included and must be purchased separately at the bar.
A special 2-day music event presented in collaboration with the Sarasota Music Archive! Join us at the Geldbart Auditorium at Selby Library in downtown Sarasota!
Tickets available starting May 5!
1:30 PM: Discovering Old Souls through Historical Recordings with Max Tan
2:15 PM: Lecture and Q&A about Juilliard’s Musical Manuscripts with Jane Gottlieb, VP of Juilliard’s Library and Information Resources
2:45 PM: Tour of the Sarasota Music Archive
While the legacy of great master composers are largely measured by their surviving musical works, the careers of living composers are often affected by many more variables. These include sociocultural changes, economic developments, effects from globalization, and more. What is the state of classical music today? How inclusive is it really of new music? This opening panel discussion focuses on how the business of “new” music has evolved, and the secret sides of composers’ careers often unseen by the world.
Unable to attend in person? Not to worry! Presented as a living room talk show, you can join us from around the world with a cup of coffee, watching from the convenience of your computer or phone. This webinar will be streamed with capabilities for you to ask questions and follow up.
The great Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe, often credited as the father of modern violin playing, created arrangements of famous violin works for violin, piano, and organ. These unpublished arrangements, located in the Special Collections of The Juilliard School, were recently studied and recorded for the first time by violinist Max Tan. This concert tells the story of these manuscripts and presents these arrangements live in celebration of their 100th anniversary. CDs of these first ever recordings will be on sale after the program.
Presented in partnership with ensembleNEWSRQ, this concert features works by the six SCFP 2024 fellows: Treya Nash, David Acevedo, Max Gibson, Daniel Gostelow, Joshua Muetzel, and Sean Quinn.
Tickets are available via the ensembleNEWSRQ website.
Join us for a special evening chamber music performance in the Great Room of a beautiful chateau in South Poinsettia Park, followed by a reception with artists. This intimate experience gets to the heart of chamber music's origins, and will feature the 12 remarkable resident artists of international acclaim associated with such esteemed institutions such as The Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, New England Conservatory, Opera Philadelphia, Staatskapelle Dresden, San Francisco Classical Voice, and more. Details about Soundbox's upcoming season of Listen Hear Salon Concerts will be announced at this event! Tickets are $80.
Suggested dress code: cocktail attire!
Join us for a chamber music performance in the Great Room of a beautiful chateau in South Poinsettia Park, followed by a reception with artists. This intimate experience gets to the heart of chamber music's origins, and will feature the 12 remarkable resident artists of international acclaim associated with such esteemed institutions such as The Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, New England Conservatory, Opera Philadelphia, Staatskapelle Dresden, San Francisco Classical Voice, and more. Tickets are $65.
Suggested dress code: dressy summer or semi-casual attire!
Presented in partnership with the Sarasota Music Archive, two seminars will be presented by artistic director Max Tan and composer mentor-in-residence Marc Migó. Audiences will get a special peek into how classical musicians deal with important and somewhat existential questions of our time. The seminar presentations will also preview concert programming during the festival, featuring the 12 remarkable resident artists of international acclaim associated with such esteemed institutions such as The Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, New England Conservatory, Opera Philadelphia, Staatskapelle Dresden, San Francisco Classical Voice, and more. Tickets are FREE!
Max Tan presents a concert previewing his Carnegie Hall recital debut on April 3, 2024. The program features Clara Schumann’s “Three Romances,” Thomas Ades’ “Märchentänze,” Igor Stravinsky’s “Divertimento,” Eugène Ysaÿe’s “Ballad” Sonata No. 3 for solo violin, and Richard Strauss’s Violin Sonata.
Curated by pianist Marisa Gupta and baritone Tom Meglioranza, this program honoring the centenary of the late American composer Ned Rorem centers on his masterpiece “Aftermath,” written in the wake of 9/11. Through 10 heart-wrenching songs for baritone and piano trio, Rorem’s “Aftermath” focuses on the universal experience of grief and loss and invites us to contemplate what it means to be human and at peace.
American pianist Marisa Gupta will present the world premiere of “12 Preludes for Solo Piano” by the Catalonian composer Marc Migó. Max Tan will host a conversation with Migó and Gupta about the process of composing new works and the relationships between composers and performers. The program will end with Stravinsky's Divertimento, performed by Marisa Gupta with Soundbox Artistic Director Max Tan.