The Sarasota County Commission awarded the Sarasota Concert Association a $46,116 Tourist Development Cultural/Arts grant to help fund its 2019 Great Performers Series. The 2019 Great Performers Series features the piano duo Anderson & Roe (January 14); the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (January 24); the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard (February 11); Academy of St Martin in the Fields, with Jeremy Denk, piano (February 21); the Pavel Haas Quartet (March 15); and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, with Fabio Bidini, piano (April 3). Five of the concerts are at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall and one concert is at Riverview Performing Arts Center. SCA also presents Music Matinees, a free concert series that includes performances by high-caliber, area-based artists. The series is designed to offer a variety of musical genres, including classical, jazz and opera, and features vocal and instrumental performers.

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