2016 SSCM Conference

The College of Architecture + The Arts and the FIU School of Music will host the 2016 Annual Conference of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (SSCM) April 14–17, 2016 in Coconut Grove. Paper sessions and concerts will take place at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church; FIU students may attend paper sessions at no charge.

Two concerts are sponsored by FIU and the Miami Bach Society; tickets will be available here. FIU students are admitted to the concerts for free. Our first concert on Thursday April 14 at 7:30pm will celebrate Miami’s Spanish roots by featuring the world’s leading authority on vihuela, John Griffiths.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

For more information about John Griffiths or the vihuela click here.

On Friday April 15 at 7:30pm we will be treated to the John Blow’s Venus and Adonis, a collaborative semi-staged opera-theatre production between the FIU School of Music and the Department of Theatre featuring the Collegium Musicum with a special guest appearance by members of the Conchita Espinosa Academy Children’s Chorus.

For a detailed schedule of conference activities click here.