Events & Tickets

Special Event
YogaRefresh: Vinyasa Flow Yoga
New World Center
YogaRefresh 2018 at New World Symphony
Flow. Restore. Recharge
Start your New Year off right! Celebrate 2018 with a day devoted to mindfulness and music in the world-class New World Center Performance Hall. Retune and relax your body through the healing rhythms of live classical music, yoga, sound bowls and other healing instruments.
10:00 AM Vinyasa Flow Yoga (this session)
Wake up your senses with an energetic 60-minute morning vinyasa flow class led by Amy Dannheim from Tropical Vinyasa, Paula Walker from Greenmonkey® Yoga, and Adrian Molina from Warrior Flow, accompanied by live performances by New World Symphony Fellows. Bring your mat, a towel and water.
5:00 PM Restorative Yoga
Rest, relax and set the tone for your evening with a restorative 60-minute yoga class led by Jodi Carey from Flowintuit Yoga, accompanied by live performances by New World Symphony Fellows. Bring your mat, a towel and water.
6:30 PM Sound Healing
Open up blocks and rebalance your energy with the vibrational power of the sound bowls and other sound healing instruments as they take center stage in a 40-minute sonic session led by Michelle Berlin from Tropical Vinyasa and Innergy Meditation. Bring your yoga mat, a pillow and water.
Prices:
Single Yoga Class: $35
Restorative Yoga Class and Sound Healing: $55
Sound Healing Only: $30
To bundle this class with the restorative class or sound healing session, please call the NWS Box Office at 305.673.3331.
Program
SET I:
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Cello Suite, No. 1, BWV 1007
(1685-1750) IV. Sarabande
Michael Frigo, cello
ERIK SATIE Gymnopédie No. 1
(1866-1925)
Arranged by Claude Debussy
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS Carnival of the Animals
(1835-1921) XIII. The Swan
Michael Frigo, cello
John Wilson, piano
SET II:
IGOR STRAVINSKY Pulcinella Suite
(1882-1971) VI. Gavotte and Variations
GEORGE GERSHWIN Three Preludes
(1898-1937) II. Andante con moto
John Wilson, piano
EDWARD ELGAR Serenade for Strings, Op. 20
(1857-1934) III. Allegretto
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN Berceuse, Op. 57
(1810-1849)
John Wilson, piano
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on Greensleeves
(1872-1958)
FRANCIS POULENC Sonata for Flute and Piano
(1899-1963) II. Cantilena
Masha Popova, flute; John Wilson, piano
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF “Vocalise,” Op. 34, No. 14
(1873-1943)
Gregory Cardi, violin
CLARA SCHUMANN Three Romances, Op. 22
(1819-1896) II. Allegretto
Kristin Kall, oboe; John Wilson, piano
MAURICE RAVEL Le tombeau de Couperin
(1875-1937) III. Menuet
WOLFGANG AMADEUS Piano Quartet in G minor, K. 478
MOZART II. Andante
(1756-1791)
John Wilson, piano; Peiming Lin, violin
Kurt Tseng, viola; Michael Frigo, cello
SET III:
WOLFGANG AMADEUS Divertimento in D major, K. 136
MOZART II. Andante
(1756-1791)
Gregory Cardi, conductor
CLAUDE DEBUSSY Suite bergamasque
(1862-1918) III. Clair de lune
Arranged by André Caplet
Dean Whiteside, conductor

Dean Whiteside was born in New York City and trained in Vienna at the University of Music and Performing Arts. He is a former New World Symphony Conducting Fellow. Mr. Whiteside is founder and director of the Nashville Sinfonietta, hailed by The Tennessean as “a virtuoso band.” He opened the Blair School of Music’s 2013-14 season directing a multimedia realization of Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross called “innovative” by The Tennessean and “deeply meditative and satisfyingly original” by ArtsNash.
Mr. Whiteside’s European debut came in 2011 after winning the Jorma Panula Blue Danube Masterclass and Competition. He has conducted orchestras such as the Boston Symphony, Danish National Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Juilliard Orchestra, Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier, Orlando Philharmonic, Polish Baltic Philharmonic, Sibiu Philharmonic, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Tokyo Philharmonic, Wiener Kammerorchester and Zagreb Philharmonic, as well as the Vanderbilt Orchestra on a five-city tour of China. He has served as Cover Conductor to the Dallas Symphony and San Francisco Symphony.
Mr. Whiteside is the winner of the American Prize in Conducting and received second prize and the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra Award at the Sixth International Competition of Young Conductors Lovro von Matačić. Other awards include the 2017 Mahler Conducting Fellowship, Bruno Walter Memorial Foundation Conducting Scholarship, Croatian Composers' Society Award, David Effron Conducting Fellowship, Bayreuth Festival Scholarship and David Rabin Performance Prize. He has received fellowships from the Aspen Music Festival, Atlantic Music Festival, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and Castleton Festival.
Mr. Whiteside has worked closely with such conductors as Bertrand de Billy, Fabio Luisi, Lorin Maazel, Jun Märkl, Kurt Masur, Jorma Panula, Leonard Slatkin and Robert Spano. He began his conducting studies with Robin Fountain at Vanderbilt University.