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2025-26 Season

Artis—Naples Enters the Home Stretch

s the 2025-26 season enters its latter stretch in April, In The Baker Museum, exhibitions like Florida Contemporary
Artis—Naples is giving arts-loving patrons plenty to 2025-26, sonia louise davis: to reverberate tenderly, There & Here:
Aenjoy, with two Masterworks programs, a special Naples New Perspectives of the Permanent Collection, The Passion of
Philharmonic performance pairing the orchestra and Artistic Collecting: Stories in Glass and Ceramics from the Sibrack Collection
and Music Director Alexander Shelley with world-class violinist and the newest exhibition, Discovering Ansel Adams, which opened
and Artistic Partner James Ehnes, a Pops program celebrating last month, continue. On April 24, Rebecca Senf, chief curator of
the life and music of a country icon and more. the Center for Creative Photography, delivers a lecture offering
Virtuoso violinist Joshua Bell brings his 300-year-old insight into the celebrated landscape photographer’s work.
Stradivarius to Hayes Hall April 2-4 to perform The Elements, April also includes the season’s final Broadway touring
a five-movement contemporary work inspired by Vivaldi’s production as Hayes Hall welcomes traveling con man Harold Hill
The Four Seasons and the natural world. The program also and the people of River City April 14-19 for Meredith Willson’s
includes Stravinsky’s provocative The Rite of Spring and six-time Tony-winning musical The Music Man. Other highlights
Wynton Marsalis’ vibrant Herald, Holler and Hallelujah. On include vocalist Cynthia Scott appearing with the Naples
April 23 and 25, Shelley and the orchestra are joined by Philharmonic Jazz Orchestra in Daniels Pavilion April 8 and, on
Grammy Award-winning pianist Emanuel Ax for a program April 22, National Geographic Explorer Heather Lynch takes
of instantly recognizable works, including Barber’s Adagio for audiences to Antarctica in a lively multimedia exploration of the
Strings, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 22 and Strauss’ Also ice continent’s favorite feathered friends: penguins.
sprach Zarathustra—epic orchestral works further popularized
through film. Meanwhile, April 7-11, the final Pops program
of the season features a trio of guest vocalists joining Principal
Pops conductor Jack Everly and the orchestra for an innovative
multimedia symphonic experience celebrating the life and songs
of country music icon Dolly Parton in Dolly Parton’s Threads:
My Songs in Symphony. In the month’s final week, Shelley and
the orchestra return April 28, this time alongside Ehnes for a
program of five film-related works by Dukas, Korngold, Mahler,
Gershwin and James Newton Howard.
For fans of chamber music, celebrated American pianist
Evren Ozel joins musicians of the Naples Philharmonic for a
Sypert Salon program featuring Mozart’s bold and emotionally
charged Piano Quartet in G Minor on April 7 and 12. Ozel
is also spotlighted in a Grand Piano Series recital of works by
Beethoven, Bartók, Schumann and Fauré. Grand Piano Series
then closes the month with an April 30 performance by the
ATOS Trio, featuring violinist Annette von Hehn, cellist Stefan
Heinemeyer and pianist Thomas Hoppe.

Exhibition installation of The Passion of Collecting -
Stories in Glass and Ceramics from the Sibrack Collection

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