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2025-26 Season

Summertime Surprises with Artis—Naples

s the days grow longer, temperatures rise and some Visiting Orchestras series on May 3, featuring pianist Yuja Wang
of our friends bid adieu to Southwest Florida for the leading the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. In the more intimate
A warmer months, the 2025-26 Artis—Naples season Daniels Pavilion, the Wang Chamber Music series concludes
steams ahead, bringing full-time residents together for a myriad May 3 with musicians of the Naples Philharmonic performing
of engaging events, compelling exhibitions and sensational Dvořák’s American Quartet and Reena Esmail’s Piano Trio. On
music. May 13, both the Grand Piano Series’ Narrative Musicales and
In The Baker Museum, which remains open throughout the All That Jazz take their seasonal bows, with bassoonist Eleni
summer, the much-anticipated exhibition Linling Lu Fugue in Katz joining pianist Konstantin Soukhovetski for a trek through
3 Voices opens July 11, presenting new, brightly colored circular American soundscapes, while the Naples Philharmonic Jazz
paintings inspired by Beethoven, Dvořák and Stravinsky. Orchestra explores the hard-bop style of Horace Silver. On May
Elsewhere in the galleries, sonia louise davis: to reverberate 24, the Naples Philharmonic and the Naples Philharmonic Youth
tenderly draws to a close on May 24, and the annual exhibition Orchestra join forces under López-Gómez’s baton for their annual
Florida Contemporary continues through June 28. There & Here: Side-by-Side concert, while on June 7, the impressive Hayes
New Perspectives of the Permanent Collection and The Passion of Hall Casavant Frères organ shows off its power and range as the
Collecting: Stories in Glass and Ceramics from the Sibrack Collection American Guild of Organists presents All the Stops: Festival of
continue into the fall and beyond. Discovering Ansel Adams, Great Organ Music.
which debuted in March, runs through August 2. While the end of June brings rising temperatures outside, the
On the stages of the Kimberly K. Querrey and Louis A. arts stay cool through the summer inside Artis—Naples spaces.
Simpson Cultural Campus, there is still much to be excited The Baker Museum remains open and Art After Hours continues
about heading into the summer, beginning with the final on the last Wednesday of each month. Summer programming
Masterworks program of the season on May 8-9. With Artistic heats up in Daniels Pavilion with All that Jazz featuring
and Music Director Alexander Shelley on the podium, the vibraphonist Chuck Redd on July 8, a Narrative Musicales
Naples Philharmonic welcomes violinist Karen Gomyo for program featuring music by Beethoven and Joplin on July 16,
Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, a playful work that Chicago tribute act Chi-Town Transit Authority on July 21 and
blends classical, jazz and Baroque influences. The musical Sail On: The Beach Boys Tribute on August 5.
fireworks continue in Hayes Hall as Associate Conductor
Manuel López-Gómez leads the Naples Philharmonic, Naples
Philharmonic Chorus, Naples Philharmonic Youth Chorus and
Broadway star Julie Benko in Patriotic Pops, an inspiring May
21-22 program saluting the nation’s musical legacy. López-
Gómez also conducts the Naples Philharmonic as Naples Ballet
performs Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake on May 15. Ten days earlier,
on May 5, the orchestra welcomes the return of the Miami City
Ballet.
Orchestral, chamber and jazz music also round out the
season in May, beginning with the final program of the

Discovering Ansel Adams exhibition

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