The EMMA Concert Association is proud to announce the fifth concert of its 43rd Season. The Russian National Orchestra will be on stage from 7:30-9:30 PM on Saturday, February 12, 2022 at Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada Street, downtown St. Augustine.

The Russian National Orchestra was founded in 1990 by pianist and conductor Mikhail Pletnev. The orchestra has since then been described as “a living symbol of the best in Russian art.” The orchestra’s recording of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and Beintus’s Wolf Tracks, conducted by Kent Nagano and narrated by Sophia Loren, Bill Clinton, and Mikhail Gorbachev, received a 2004 Grammy Award, making the RNO the first Russian orchestra to win the recording industry’s highest honor.

“We are excited to bring beautiful live music back to our beautiful city,” said Joanne Everett, President of EMMA Board of Directors.

Tickets are $50 per guest and include parking and a shuttle to and from the venue. Parking will not be available at Lewis Auditorium at Flagler College for this concert. Parking will take place at the St. Johns County Council on Aging, 180 Marine Street, St. Augustine Florida. Guests will then be transported to and from the concert venue by shuttle service. Student tickets are available for $10 with student ID, and children’s tickets are also $10 per child.

ABOUT EMMA CONCERT ASSOCIATION

Started by a small group of music lovers in April 1979, the organization was named after a famous Spanish cellist, Emil Maestre, who retired to St. Augustine. EMMA is a nonprofit all-volunteer organization with the mission to produce quality music and dance performances at modest ticket prices. In 1989, the EMMA Board of Directors formed the EMMA Guild. The board and the Guild work hand-in-hand to produce one successful concert after another. Since 1993, Lewis Auditorium at Flagler College has been the home for EMMA’s concerts.

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