Internationally-acclaimed performers from around the world will headline the five concerts planned for 2026 by the Fort Myers Community Concert Association.
Tickets are now on sale for the 76th concert season, which organizers say brings the best in symphony orchestras, brass and dance ensembles to Southwest Florida. All performances will be at the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall on the Florida SouthWestern State College campus in Fort Myers.
“Our 76th season brings together musicians from Italy, Spain and the United States for a stellar season,” Community Concert Association President Mary Lee Mann. “Community Concert Association members and guests will love hearing the Three Italian Tenors in their first ever American tour and the return of the Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass as well as our other artists.”
All five concerts are included in one ticket price, which ranges from $165 for prime orchestra and mezzanine seats to $155 for other orchestra and mezzanine seats, $85 for lower balcony seating and just $65 for upper balcony. There is limited $165 orchestra seating still available, Mann said.
For membership information, visit https://fortmyerscommunityconcerts.com/ or email MLMannConcerts@aol.com. Tickets to individual performances are not available at this time.
The five performances all begin at 7:30 p.m.:
● Orchestra Manhattan – January 22, 2026. The newly formed Orchestra Manhattan is an all-star ensemble of musicians from the New York-New Jersey area. They spent the 2024-25 season playing Carnegie Hall and continue their musical journey under the direction of Conductor Oliver von Dohnanyi. Joining the performance will be piano soloist Elisabeth Pion.
● Orpheus Chamber Orchestra – January 29, 2026. The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra was created in 1972 and made Carnegie Hall its home within its first decade. It quickly became a global sensation through tours of Europe and Asia. Their catalog of recordings includes more than 70 albums of chamber music, including Haydn symphonies, Mozart concertos, and 20th Century music by Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Ravel and Bartok.
● Three Italian Tenors – February 24, 2026. Direct from Rome, Italy, the Three Italian Tenors will present the most famously beloved Italian opera arias ad songs in their first ever North American concert tour. Tenors Giovanni Maria Palmia, Ugo Tarquini and Alessandro Fantoni will be accompanied by Fabrizio Mocata on piano,
● Barcelona Flamenco Ballet – “Carmen” – March 3, 2026. The Barcelona Flamenco Ballet addresses the ever-present myth of Carmen in their latest project. Known for its unique blending of traditional flamenco and ballet concepts with new elements for today’s audiences, this recreation of Bizet’s Carmen showcases new elements of flamenco that were previously unknown.
● Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass – March 19, 2026. The Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass is internationally acclaimed for bringing the joyous experience of great music. The group breaks the usual barriers between genres playing everything from Handel and Sousa to New Orleans traditional. The ensemble is composed of some of America’s top brass musicians, who have appeared on the world’s most prominent stages and performed with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Boston Brass.
The Fort Myers Community Concert Association, now in its 76th concert season, is an all-volunteer not-for-profit organization founded by the legendary Barbara B. Mann in 1949 to bring world-class entertainment to Southwest Florida at affordable prices. The association consists of more than 1,200 members, underwriters and sponsors. Performers brought to Fort Myers in the past by the association include the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine, The Israel Ballet, Violin Virtuoso Itzhak Perlman, Cleveland Orchestra, Vienna Boys Choir, Pianist Andre Watts, Violinist Joshua Bell with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and many others.
