Suncoast Music Scholarships awarded $12,000 to seven talented young musicians from Sarasota and Manatee counties to be used for music education expenses. The scholarship program, funded and managed through a partnership between Sarasota Music Club and Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota, has awarded over $123,000 to young music students. Winners will perform on May 13...

Fitting and Fabulous Final Concert Notes from Dale Jensen A few years ago, the Manatee Music Club folded into the Sarasota club, and sharing finances and goals, they continued under the Sarasota Music Club name to bring to this area excellent music performances and encourage our youth to develop their musical talent. Ninety years of this sponsorship...

Delaneys Deliver Spectacular Performance Notes from Dale Jensen I think it was in 2019 that our indefatigable Program Chairman, Barbara Chertok, first tried to schedule the Delaneys, Kate and Bart, to come to Sarasota from their home in Miami. Then COVID-19 hit, and everybody started staying home. A year ago, as she was working on this...

Sarasota Music Club features the Luca Stine Trio to Close their Concert Series Legacy will Live On through Suncoast Music Scholarships Sarasota Music Club will present its closing series concert on March 17, featuring the Luca Stine Trio with “A Morning of Beebop, Ballads and Blues.” Sarasota Music Club was founded in 1930 to promote music appreciation,...

Notes from Dale Jensen – On SMC’s January Concert The Music Clubs of Sarasota and Manatee Counties shared the early goal of encouraging fine music performances in our small communities, both by local musicians and by bringing in professional performers from "outside," meaning as far away as (gasp!) Tampa. As this involved a six-or-seven-hour slog through Florida swamps, probably...

Suncoast Music Scholarships 2023 News Suncoast Music Scholarships 2023 will offer $12,000 in music scholarship awards to 10th through 12th grade students who reside in Sarasota or Manatee County. These scholarships are offered through a partnership of Sarasota Music Club and Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota that has awarded over $110,000 in scholarships to area...

Notes from Dale Jensen - A nice little bit of nostalgia, as the performers and I shared info about FSU's School of Music, where we all received degrees: mine in 1958 and '62, theirs 60+ years later! The occasion was the Sarasota Music Club's 2022 December concert, featuring Andrew Kapsar, Baritone, and Nadiya Caspary, Piano,...

Notes from Dale Jensen - on "Melodies That Capture the Heart" Following the October offering of "Songs of Grace - Elegant Pieces To Lift Your Spirits," the Sarasota Music Club's November program was entitled "Melodies That Capture the Heart." (Hmm.  'Spirits'? 'Heart'?...Do we sense a theme starting?) The performers here were flutist Rick Aaron and...

By Dale Jensen This year, 2022, marks the 92nd year of the Sarasota Music Club. Originally it was part of the Women's Club, whose members felt that the bustling town of Sarasota (not much more than a fishing village at that time) needed classical music. They brought in pianists and singers from Tampa and beyond...

Sarasota Music Club opened the 2022-2023 concert season with an outstanding performance by soprano Johanna Fincher on October 21. The performance of “Songs of Grace – Elegant Pieces to Lift Your Spirits” was held in the Sanctuary at First Presbyterian Church of Sarasota. On November 18, flutist Rick Aaron will perform “Melodies That Capture the...