Miami International GuitART Festival Returns: February 15-22, 2026

FIU Wertheim School of Music presents the eleventh edition of Miami International GuitART Festival at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center from February 15-22, 2026. The festival will celebrate Miami’s Latinx heritage an extraordinary group of artists from Latin America and around the world in 10 concerts, 5 masterclasses, 6 lecture/workshops, and a luthiers expo. The festival concerts will kick off on February 15 with virtuoso Cuban guitarist Rene Izquierdo on February 15 and will continue with Venezuelan virtuoso guitarist Luis Zea, Turkish virtuoso guitarist/composers Celil Refik Kaya and Mesut Özgen, Indian bansuri virtuoso Deepak Ram, Hande Cangökçe, Caribbean Dreams with Hector Molina (cuatro, guitar), Luciana Kube (cuatro, voice), Elvis Martínez (double bass) and Guillermo Faccioli (voice), Italian Maestro Mastrini’s piano & guitar duo, Cuban 19th century music specialist Liamna Pestana, and Brazilian jazz specialist Freddie Bryant.

More info at migf.fiu.edu

This Valentine’s Day Season, Maroon Isle Productions proudly presents Don Juan: Pride and Paradise, a bold, immersive musical adaptation of the classic Don Juan story, written and directed by Your Friendly Neighborhood Surinamese-American playwright Sefanja Richard Galon.The production runs February 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26 and
March 3, 4, 5 at 7:00 PM, inside the intimate and atmospheric setting of Atchana’s
Homegrown Thai (3194 Commodore Plaza, Miami, FL 33133).

In this Caribbean musical adaptation, Don Juan hails from Jamaica and arrives in Miami on the run; having fled his marriage to the formidable Donna Elvira. Driven by desire and ego, he pursues new conquests while attempting to close a high-stakes real estate deal at Atchana’s on behalf of his powerful father, the owner of the illustrious Caribea resort group. Alongside him is his loyal best friend Sergio, who tags along not for romance, but survival, hoping the success of the deal will secure his scholarship to Yale.