Page 2 - Boca ViewPointe - February '21

Page 2, Viewpointe February 2021

15th Annual Festival Of The Arts Boca To Reach Global

Audience With Star-Studded Virtual Performances And

Interactive Discussions With Award-Winning Authors

By Hillary Reynolds long list of orchestras includes, amongst others, the genres and settings. He is equally at home with opera,
Boston, Chicago, London, NHK and Vienna Symphony symphonic repertoire, film with live orchestra, music
Festival of the Arts Boca will go forward in 2021, Orchestras, the Los Angeles, New York, Munich and theatre, and composition. His work has taken him all over
with virtual performances by Florida-based artists from Czech Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Cleveland, the world where he has conducted the major orchestras
iconic locations throughout Boca Raton from March 6 Philadelphia, Philharmonia and DSO Berlin orchestras. of North America, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the
– 13, 2021. Each program will stream once only on the On Saturday, March 13, tune in for a salon evening Tokyo Philharmonic. In addition to Maestro Kitsopoulos’
Festival of the Arts Boca website, www.festivalboca.org. with the Festival of the Arts Boca All-Stars featuring engagements as guest conductor, he is Music Director
Access is free with advance registration. Constantine Kitsopoulos, Festival Music Director, and of the Festival of the Arts Boca, and General Director of
“Our 15th installment will celebrate the tremendous musicians from the Festival Orchestra. Chatham Opera and New York Grand Opera.
talent in South Florida, showcase the beauty of Boca from Kitsopoulos has established himself as a dynamic
various venues and honor the legacy of our co-founder, conductor known for his ability to work in many different 15th Annual Festival Of The Arts Boca on page 3
Charlie Siemon,” said Joanna Marie Kaye, Executive
Director of Festival of the Arts Boca. “Charlie would
have been thrilled to see that paradoxically, we have the
opportunity to reach our biggest audience ever in 2021
with all of our events filmed and broadcast worldwide.”
The Festival will
open on Saturday,
March 6 with Boca
native and Metropolitan
Opera star soprano
Nadine Sierra and
friends, in concert at
the Boca Raton Airport.
Hailed as one of the
most promising young
talents in opera today,
Sierra was named the
Richard Tucker Award
winner in 2017 and
the 2018 Beverly Sills
Artist Award by the
Metropolitan Opera.
Having made a string of successful debuts at the Met,
Teatro alla Scala, Opéra national de Paris, and Staatsoper
Berlin, she has become a fixture at many of the top houses
around the world. She released her debut album, There’s
a Place for Us, in 2018.
On Sunday, March 7, the Festival will welcome
Grammy Award-winning Florida-based violinist James
Ehnes and friends, performing from the Boca Raton
Innovation Campus.
Gifted with a rare combination of stunning virtuosity,
serene lyricism and an unfaltering musicality, Ehnes is
a favorite guest of many of the world’s most respected
conductors including Ashkenazy, Alsop, Sir Andrew
Davis, Denève, Elder, Ivan Fischer, Gardner, Paavo
Järvi, Mena, Noseda, Robertson and Runnicles. Ehnes’s

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