Nu Deco Ensemble

• Jupiter from The PlanetsGustav Holst

Special Collaboration with Ledisi

• The Bee Gees Re-ImaginedGibb / Hyken / Lebos / Lopez / Matthews

Intermission

Special Collaboration with Wyclef Jean

Nu Deco Ensemble

Since its inception in 2015, Nu Deco Ensemble has exploded onto Miami's eclectic musical scene captivating audiences, holistically engaging with its community, and fusing innovative, genre-bending orchestral performances and collaborations with the highest levels of musical artistry. Called a “chamber orchestra for the 21st century” by The New York Times, their performances have featured artists including Wyclef Jean, Allen Stone, Macy Gray, Monsieur Periñé, Jacob Collier, and Ben Folds; reimagined orchestral suites of the music of Michael Jackson, Lauryn Hill, The Beatles, and Aretha Franklin; symphonic masterworks from Bernstein, Stravinsky and Gershwin; and new music from some of today's most exciting living composers.

Steve Gibb

Steve Gibb is a guitarist, composer, and musical director whose career spans Broadway, the West End, and film/TV. He served as Musical Director for BUDDY – The Buddy Holly Story and has performed in major Broadway productions including Jersey Boys, Dear Evan Hansen, Beautiful – The Carole King Musical, and School of Rock. As a composer, his music has appeared across major networks including HBO, ABC, NBC, MTV, and National Geographic, among others. He's a published author (a sight-reading book for guitarists via Musicians Institute) and was awarded an ARAM by the Royal Academy of Music for his services to music. His latest fingerstyle guitar album, Island of Woods, was released in April 2023.

Ledisi

Ledisi, a Grammy-winning vocalist, has wowed fans with her unparalleled vocals for over twenty years. Ledisi is also a songwriter, author, actress, music producer, film producer, publisher, educator, and record company executive.

Growing up, Ledisi was heavily influenced by many soulful music icons, but especially Dr. Nina Simone. Ledisi, in 2021, released her dream project on her label entitled, “Ledisi Sings Nina” with the Metropole Orkest conducted by Jules Buckley and The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra conducted by Adonis Rose. This tour de force jazz project garnered Ledisi her 14th Grammy nomination and received rave reviews, prompting John Legend to say, “In terms of her range, dexterity, clarity, and versatility, she can do anything she wants. She's one of the great singers in the world, period.”

In addition to a Grammy win and nominations, Ledisi has garnered three Soul Train Music Awards, 19 NAACP Image Award Nominations, an NAACP Theatre Award, and an NAACP nomination for Breakthrough Performance in a Film for her role as Mahalia Jackson in Remember Me. Ledisi also received two LA Alliance Ovation Award Nominations, one for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

Wyclef Jean

The music that Wyclef Jean has written, performed, and produced — both as a solo superstar and as founder and guiding member of the Fugees — has been a consistently powerful, pop cultural force for over two decades. In 1996, the Fugees released their monumental album The Score, which inspired notoriously prickly rock critic Robert Christgau to write: “so beautiful and funny, its courage could make you weep.” The album, created in Wyclef's studio in his uncle's basement in New Jersey, hit No. 1 on the Billboard chart, spawned a trio of smash singles (including their indelible reinvention of Roberta Flack's 1973 ballad “Killing Me Softly”), and is now certified six times platinum.

But Wyclef, a child prodigy with a wealth of musical influences from jazz to classic rock to reggae, resisted the pressure to duplicate the sound and style of that masterwork. Instead, he launched himself as a producer and solo artist whose work drew from an innovative and eclectic palette that included elements of pop, country, folk, disco, Latin, and electronic music.