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2026 FIU Music Festival Opening Night: Amernet Performs Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 +
Thu 7:30 PM
WPAC - Wertheim Performing Arts Center, 10910 SW 17th St., Miami, FL 33199
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The 2026 FIU Music Festival opens with an extraordinary anniversary performance celebrating 30 years of the Wertheim Performing Arts Center and the Wertheim School of Music & Performing Arts. The Amernet String Quartet, FIU’s Artist-in-Residence ensemble, anchors an evening of masterworks, opening with Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 and continuing with Mendelssohn’s Octet, performed alongside Wertheim alumni and current students. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto is brilliant, precise, and full of motion—an intricate conversation among instruments that still feels alive more than 300 years later. Mendelssohn’s Octet answers with youthful fire: sweeping, urgent, and astonishingly assured for a…