September 26, 2024 May 7, 2024 BMI is a proud sponsor of the Island Hopper Songwriter Fest, September 20-September 29. The festival will take place in Southwest Florida with a range of star-studded performances. BMI singer-songwriter Jeffrey Steele will join the Gulf Coast Symphony in a live performance at the Florida Repertory Theatre in downtown … Read more
The international Candlelight Concert series makes its debut in Fort Myers, presenting a fresh take on classical music. The chamber concerts recreate pop and classic tunes in an intimate setting, with more than 4,000 candles illuminating the scene. Addison Pezoldt | May 1, 2024 Classical melodies echo through my childhood memories of ballet class. I’ve … Read more
WGCU | By Tom Hall, Tara Calligan Published January 26, 2024 at 6:48 AM EST There’s a brand new musical theater company in our area. It goes by the name of Southwest Florida Theatre. It’s actually an off-shoot of Gulf Coast Symphony. GCS founder Andrew Kurtz explains. “Over the summer we made the decision to formally spin off the … Read more
Experience the Magic of Live Music with Gulf Coast Symphony’s Diverse Concert Series Fort Myers, August 29, 2023 – Gulf Coast Symphony is thrilled to unveil its captivating season at the Music & Arts Community Center (MACC) in Fort Myers, a celebration of music that promises to delight audiences of all tastes and ages. Under … Read more
by Sharyl Leifeld The Gulf Coast Symphony is thrilled to host another exciting summer of “Camps at the Music & Arts Community Center (MACC)”! This summer, MusicWorks!, String Orchestra, Jazz/Band are offered for 2 week sessions with a new Jazz Band (Advanced) offered in session two. Musical Theater meets parallel in both sessions for 3 weeks. … Read more
By Sharyl Leifeld Cirque de la Symphonie’s founder Alex Streltsov is excited to be returning to Barbara B Mann’s marvelous venue for the 4 th time since 2012 to perform with Gulf Coast Symphony. Though he retired as performing aerialist in 2017, Alex travels with his troupe of world famous artists and is the first … Read more
Jodi Benson took to social media to share that she will star alongside her daughter, Delaney Benson, in a production of Gypsy in Florida. “I’m so honored & excited to perform with Delaney! She is going to be brilliant as Louise,” Jodi writes. “It has been over 20 years since I have done a fully staged … Read more
He started as a little kid playing with marionettes at home in Appalachia and then sang and danced his way across America to Broadway. Today, he writes, choreographs and directs musical theatre. DJ Salisbury fearfully backed out of his first audition for a role in a show after he arrived at the theater. He was … Read more
Award-winning concert pianist Brian Lin joins the Gulf Coast Symphony for a concerto by Mozart, 14 years after performing with us as a 16-year-old keyboard phenom Brian Yuebing Lin was born in Wuhan, China, though about a month after his birth, the family moved to the city of Shenzhen, where Brian grew up and where … Read more
The Gulf Coast Symphony has entered an era of existential growth, just as Susan Wadsworth has taken over as the quarter-century-old community orchestra’s chairwoman When Susan Wadsworth joined its board of directors in 2019, the Gulf Coast Symphony had just embarked on a transformational project to position itself as a cultural hub in Florida’s Lee County. … Read more
