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Summer Chamber Music Series
The Punta Gorda Symphony celebrates the summer months with the Summer Chamber Music Series that begin with a String Quartet.
July 18, 2022
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Get Happy! Joan Ellison Sings Judy Garland
From her signature red lipstick to costumes, Ellison was dazzling, treating her adoring audience with an encore Chicago That Toddling Town.
April 26, 2022
Florida Events
Punta Gorda Symphony at the Charlotte PAC
The Punta Gorda Symphony led by Maestro Raffaele Livio Ponti enthralled a packed house at the Charlotte Performing Arts Center. Guest soloist, award-winning, renowned, and gifted violinist Sirena Huang delivered a marvelous performance.
March 6, 2022
Music Reviews
Behind the Notes with Raffaele Ponti
Rating 4.6/5 Beginning this installment of Behind the Notes with Maestro Raffaele Livio Ponti, Maestro Ponti welcomed everyone, and before getting to the music
March 5, 2022
Florida Events
Punta Gorda Symphony and Carnegie Hall
It was a delight to attend this event. The renowned Carnegie Hall Weill Music Institute program was founded in 2003 and has since, through the arts, touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals around the world.
March 5, 2022
Florida Events
Punta Gorda Symphony Presents From Bach to Broadway
Today the audience was treated to a series of works spanning from the Renaissance to modern musical theater. An affable Ming Gao eloquently introduced each piece, describing its characteristics, features, and biographical context. He also drew amusing attention to things like the foot-long clothespins used to keep music safely on music stands, a necessary prop for breezy outdoor venues.
February 23, 2022
The Punta Gorda Symphony at the Charlotte PAC
Ponti raised his baton, and the concert began with Rossini’s Overture to his comic opera L’ltaliana in Algeri (1813), a welcome melodramatic departure to the years of austere opera serie by other composers.
January 15, 2022