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Music and art in unison. Concerts in a new light.
SEASON XII 2025-26
IlluminArts Season XII marked our first season under the leadership of our new Artistic Director, Shawn Crouch. His artistic vision brought a fresh perspective and renewed energy to IlluminArts, shaping an inspiring season of innovative programming. We are excited to continue this journey and look forward to many more exceptional seasons ahead.
XII Anniversary Celebration:
an Evening of Art and Music
The Betsy Hotel, Miami Beach
May 8, 2026 | 7:30 PM
Julia Zurilla, multimedia artist
Elijah McCormack, male soprano
Amernet String Quartet
Anna Fateeva, piano and harpsichord
This anniversary program explored the evolution of perception through music spanning three centuries. Beginning with Benjamin Britten's evocative folk arrangements, the journey moved through the hypnotic minimalism of Philip Glass before culminating in the theatrical illusion of George Frideric Handel. Enhanced by Julia Zurilla's minimalist video art, the program wove together themes of memory, transformation, and the shifting nature of beauty, revealing the timeless connections between these remarkable composers.
South Florida Cabaret
Knight Center for Music Innovation
Hormel Innovation Stage
March 20, 2026 | 7:30 PM
Craig Terry, Pianist
Frost School of Music Emerging Artists
Be transported to 1960s Miami for an evening of song, storytelling, and immersive visuals with GRAMMY-winning collaborative pianist Craig Terry. In Frost’s first partnership with IlluminArts, select vocal students perform and curate a multimedia tribute to the Magic City, accompanied and mentored by Terry, the famed partner to Renée Fleming and Joyce DiDonato.
Songs of the Earth
Miami Beach Botanical Garden
January 23, 2026 | 7:00 PM
Juraj Kojs, Sound Artist
James Reese, Tenor
Brandon Acker, Guitar and Lute
IlluminArts presents Songs of the Earth at the Miami Beach Botanical Gardens, where music, nature, and love converge in an evening of enchanted sound. The program features immersive soundscape installations by multimedia artist and composer Juraj Kojš, alongside guitarist Brandon Acker and tenor James Reese, performing intimate and devastatingly beautiful songs for lute and tenor. These seventeenth-century French airs de cour (songs of the court) explore themes of loneliness, yearning, heartbreak, and pleasure, evoking rivers and trees, desolate landscapes, bawdy taverns, and every shade of love. Across centuries and distances, these songs remind us of our shared humanity.
Old Masters in Context:
Naples, Sacred and Profane
Lowe Art Museum
November 6, 2025 | 6:30 PM
Ampersand, Vocal ensemble
Dr. John Witty, Lecturer
At the center of this collaboration between the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami and IlluminArts is a Neapolitan triptych by Lippo Vanni. Curated by Dr. John Witty, Assistant Curator at the Lowe and a specialist in fourteenth-century Italian art, the program guides us through an evening of royal intrigue, drama, and murder. Through Ampersand’s period performance, it becomes a living counterpart to the art.
Threads of Light:
The Counterpoint of
Olga de Amaral
ICA Institute of Contemporary Art Miami
September 26, 2025 | 6:30 PM & 8:30 PM
Catalina Cuervo, Soprano
Alan Johnson, Piano
Alvaro Bermudez, Guitar
At the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Threads of Light offers a multidisciplinary dialogue between visual and sonic artistry, inspired by the luminous and textural works of Colombian artist Olga de Amaral. Through a curated sequence of vocal, instrumental, and interlude performances, Colombian soprano Catalina Cuervo, guitarist Álvaro Bermúdez, and pianist Alan Johnson explore the thematic and aesthetic resonances between de Amaral’s woven masterpieces and the layered harmonies of contemporary and classical repertoire.