Starting July 7, 2026, relive the highlights of our 2025 – 2026 season!
Tune in Tuesday nights at 8 pm on Classical WSMR (89.1 & 103.9 FM) or stream online. Learn more at wsmr.org.
Schedule
Pablo Sáinz-Villegas, featured guitarist
July 14 | Masterworks 2 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Recorded December 6 – 7, 2025 at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
Featuring
Giancarlo Guerrero, Music Director
Pablo Sáinz-Villegas, guitar
Program
- DUKAS The Sorcerer's Apprentice
- RODRIGO Concierto de Aranjuez
- JOHN WILLIAMS Suite from Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- RESPIGHI Pines of Rome
Himari, featured violinist
July 21 | Masterworks 3 Pictures at an Exhibition
Recorded January 17-18, 2026 at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
Featuring
Peter Oundjian, conductor
Himari, violin
Program
- MICHAEL ABELS Amplify
- BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1
- MUSSORGSKY arr. RAVEL Pictures at an Exhibition
Giancarlo Guerrero, Music Director
July 28 | Masterworks 4 Variations on America
Recorded February 13-15, 2026 at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
Featuring
Giancarlo Guerrero, Music Director
Program
- ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK An American Port of Call
- IVES arr. SCHUMAN Variations on “America”
- DAWSON Negro Folk Symphony
Benjamin Beilman, featured violinist
August 4 | Masterworks 5 Rite of Spring
Recorded February 27 - March 1, 2026 at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
Featuring
Giancarlo Guerrero, Music Director
Benjamin Beilman, violin
Program
- JOAN TOWER 1920/2019
- MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5 (Turkish)
- STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring
Katharina Wincor, guest conductor
August 11 | Masterworks 6 Beethoven’s Fifth
Recorded March 20 - 22, 2026 at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
Featuring
Katharina Wincor, conductor
Zlatomir Fung, cello
Program
- BRAHMS Academic Festival Overture
- DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto
- BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5
Chee-Yun, featured violinist
August 18 | Masterworks 7 Bernstein and Mahler
Recorded April 17 - 19, 2026 at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
Featuring
Giancarlo Guerrero, Music Director
Chee-Yun, violin
Program
- BERNSTEIN Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium)
- MAHLER Symphony No. 5
Jeff Scott, SMF Horn Faculty Artist
August 25 | SMF Chamber Showcase Excerpts
Excerpts from three SMF Chamber Showcase performances recorded June 5, June 6, and June 12, 2026 at Holley Hall
Featuring SMF Faculty Artists
Alan Stepansky, cello
David Bowlin, violin
Benjamin Kamins, bassoon
Jeffrey Scott, horn
Michael Stephen Brown, piano
Program
- PRICE Adoration
- MENDELSSOHN Octet
- Valerie COLEMAN Tzigane
- SCHUMANN Piano Quintet
Jasmine Choi, SMF Flute Faculty Artist
September 1 | SMF Festival Finale
Recorded June 13, 2026 at the Sarasota Opera House
Featuring
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Jasmine Choi, flute
Festival Orchestra
Program
- SCHUBERT Overture in the Italian Style
- MOZART Flute Concerto No. 2
- BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7
