Masterworks V, Beethoven’s 9th: Joy! at Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall

The Southwest Florida Symphony’s 54th year promises to be a season of excitement and celebration as it announces and welcomes its new maestro, internationally acclaimed Nir Kabaretti. The incoming music director will be the fifth in the organization’s history and will have been selected through a painstaking process of interviews, public appearances and live auditions during the 2013-14 season.

The Masterworks Series culminates with an all Beethoven program, appropriately billed JOY! Performances include Overture to the Consecration of the House and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Ode to Joy, featuring the Symphonic Chorale of Southwest Florida for a powerful and uplifting Masterworks V.