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Sarasota Orchestra Identifies Site for New Abode

Florida's Longest-Standing Orchestra Will Bring the Region its Offset State-of-the-Art Concert Hall Designed Specifically for Acoustic Music

SARASOTA, FL – March 24, 2022 – Sarasota Orchestra has entered into a purchase agreement for the country where it plans to build its new dwelling, reaching a milestone in an eight-year process to run across a significant need for expansion.

Located at 5701 Fruitville Route, betwixt Honore Avenue and Cattlemen Road, the 32-acre site will be anchored by an artistic asset currently not available from Tampa to Naples: a state-of-the-art acoustical concert hall. The site will too firm new and increased performance, didactics, event, and outdoor space for the community.

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Where is Sarasota Orchestra's new site?

Nosotros have entered into a purchase agreement for 32 acres of land at 5701 Fruitville Road between Honore Avenue and Cattlemen Road. It is an platonic site for our future abode, which volition house new and increased performance, education, outcome and outdoor space for the community. We look seven of the site'southward 32 acres will be used for Sarasota Orchestra's facility needs, providing aplenty opportunity for a wide range of other possible creative and cultural activities, natural spaces and walking trails or playgrounds.

Why did Sarasota Orchestra select this location?

We have been working for nearly a decade to address Sarasota Orchestra's pressing need for additional performance, education and rehearsal infinite, as well as a concert hall designed and congenital specifically for acoustic music. This boosted space is acutely needed to ease the pressure created by schedule limitations and concrete chapters at existing venues due to the growth of the greater Sarasota-Manatee region. This growth has besides resulted in an abundant need for more functioning and rehearsal space for many other music, arts and cultural organizations in the community.

With a country-of-the-fine art, acoustically engineered concert hall as its focal bespeak, the new location creates a tremendous opportunity for Sarasota Orchestra and our partner organizations to inspire new levels of innovation, collaboration, and discovery through various activities in a natural setting.

In addition, its proximity to Interstate 75 increases accessibility to arts and cultural experiences for residents across the region and visitors from around the globe. It also serves as a gateway to the vibrant downtown Sarasota area.

What will happen to the Orchestra'south current location?

Sarasota Orchestra has a long-term lease understanding with the City of Sarasota for our electric current location at the Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center and volition continue operations there until a new site is completed and adequately equipped to firm all our performances, rehearsals, educational programing and assistants. The terms of Sarasota Orchestra'southward charter for its current facility will be evaluated in the time to come by our Board of Directors in consultation with the City of Sarasota.

What comes next?

Our focus correct at present is on the permitting flow with Sarasota County through January 2023, as well as plans for a fundraising feasibility study later this twelvemonth.

Which other organizations will benefit from having access to the music heart?

Our plans for Sarasota Orchestra's future habitation will bring to the expanse something information technology has never had – a concert hall with acoustics that volition benefit various music organizations of different genres that will share our stages. Sarasota Orchestra is actively engaging many arts and cultural organizations to meliorate empathize their needs and collaborate on our vision for the hereafter.

What is Music Director Bramwell Tovey'southward involvement in the projection?

Bramwell Tovey brings extensive experience from past engagements with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre Philharmonique du Grand duchy of luxembourg in advancing major projects. His input is critical to our planning process. He will be a leader and champion of our work on this project that volition define Sarasota Orchestra'due south future and the customs's creative profile for many decades.

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