Sarasota Orchestra is celebrating a $60 million investment to advance the planning and construction of a new Music Center that will bring Florida’s West Coast its first concert hall purpose-built for acoustic music. This extraordinary contribution is one of the largest gifts to any orchestra nationwide and a record-setting philanthropic investment for performing arts organizations in Florida.
When we announced in March that Sarasota Orchestra identified a site for our new home, we expressed a desire to develop our new music center and acoustically engineered concert hall into a valuable arts and cultural asset in which everyone in our dynamic region may take immense pride.
We are excited to share the first of many updates with you as work continues to realize this vision.
When we first announced the music center site in March, our beloved Music Director Bramwell Tovey recognized an acoustic concert hall would have a transformative impact on our community.
“For an orchestra to best resonate, it must be done naturally, in an acoustic hall,” he said.
Last week, we were delighted to achieve another key milestone in our journey toward bringing Sarasota Orchestra’s new music center to life.
The Sarasota County Planning Commission unanimously approved our application for re-zoning and special exceptions.
