While this year has been difficult, the Gulf Coast Symphony is poised to resume making music in person as soon as it is safely possible. We look forward to the many educational and community engagement activities we host throughout Southwest Florida.
Well, the Gulf Coast Symphony Has Jake Goldberger on Clarinet!
What is it with doctors playing in community orchestras? Across America, healthcare professionals help form the core of many volunteer ensembles. Big cities such as Los Angeles and New York City have doctor orchestras. There’s even a World Doctors Orchestra.
The Gulf Coast Symphony, too, counts an array of active and retired healthcare professionals at its heart.
The magic of cirque comes to the concert hall! The most amazing veterans of exceptional cirque programs throughout the world—aerial flyers, acrobats, contortionists, dancers, jugglers, balancers, and strongmen–perform to classical masterpieces and music of the Silver Screen.
Originally performed April 2019
Community orchestras such as the Gulf Coast Symphony have musicians from many backgrounds and careers, unlike professional groups, whose players tread a well-worn path to a life’s work in music.
Flutist and piccolo player Sherrie Mangan isn’t the product of a music school. She chose a career articulating financial software in business administration. And as with many of us non-pros, she ceased playing music while building a career and a family.
As part of our continuing commitment to Creating Community Through Music, we’re bringing our concerts to you through our Symphony At Home series!
This weekend we’re pleased to bring you our Nutcracker performance from December 2019!
As part of our continuing commitment to Creating Community Through Music, we’re bringing our concerts to you through our Symphony At Home series! This weekend we’re pleased to bring you our Show Boat performance from March 2019!
Idaho-born Stacey Gossmann began her musical life as do many of us – in elementary school. But unlike many of us, the Gulf Coast Symphony’s principal bassoonist spent years clawing back from the edge of death to go on to play another day.
Born to a trumpet-playing physicist dad and a pianist mother who ran major musical and theatre productions in Idaho, Stacey Gossmann started out on the cello and shortly thereafter embraced the bassoon.
