NSU Gets Free Sneak Peak of Miami City Ballet Orchestra

Enjoy the Miami City Ballet Orchestra rehearsal presented by the Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts on Wednesday, April 27, 2022, at 7 p.m. This rehearsal is exclusive and FREE to NSU staff, faculty, and students, including NSU University School.

Watch, Listen and Learn as the Miami City Ballet’s orchestra rehearses their upcoming performance pieces as narrated by Principal Conductor and Music Director Gary Sheldon.

Scores to which Miami City Ballet performs: For more information and to purchase tickets to upcoming ballet’s visit Miami City Ballet @  www.MiamiCityBallet.org.
Principal Conductor and Music Director Gary Sheldon returns as music director and principal conductor of Miami City Ballet, now in his 12th season.  He has also held conducting positions with Atlanta Ballet, BalletMet and San Francisco Ballet.  In 2010, Sheldon was the first recipient of the American Prize for Orchestral Conducting.  Other prestigious awards he has received have included the Stokowski and Rupert conducting competitions and in 1996, he received the Bill Graham Memorial Award for Distinguished Service in the Arts in recognition of his dedication to education and outreach as music director of the Marin Symphony in California.  Sheldon’s own ballet compositions – Cole, based on the music of Cole Porter, and Butterfly, based on the music of Puccini – commissions by BalletMet, have been widely performed.

You must show NSU ID for entry plus one guest.

Posted 04/18/22