The Cleveland Orchestra opens its sixth season in Miami next weekend with Yefim Bronfman at the piano and Music Director Franz Welser-Möst on the podium at the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts’ Knight Concert Hall.

The program for the concerts at 8 p.m. Saturday and Jan. 29 includes Sean Shepherd’s Wanderlust, Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 6 and Johannes Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2, with Bronfman as soloist. Ticket holders are invited to arrive at 7 p.m. for a chamber performance by orchestra members and commentary by Shepherd, a Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellow.

Tickets are $20-$162; 305-949-6722, www.arshtcenter.org.

There’s no charge to sit in on master classes on Wednesday presented by the orchestra’s principal guest conductor, Giancarlo Guerrero, at the University of Miami. The sessions are at 10 a.m. for conducting students and 2:30 p.m. for wind ensemble at UM’s Frost School of Music, 1314 Miller Dr., Coral Gables; www.clevelandorchestramiami.com.

Kathy Martin

Lowery honored

Barbara Lowery, who taught drama at Miami Sunset Senior High School for five years and Miami Dade College for 19, will be one of two educators honored Monday at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, by the nonprofit Creative Coalition’s Teachers Making a Difference program.

She was nominated by actor Rob Morrow ( Northern Exposure, Numb3ers ), who was her student at Sunset. Lowery, now retired from Miami Dade College’s North Campus, calls herself “excited, shocked and touched” by the recognition.

Christine Dolen

Quigley to Grammys

Patrick Quigley, founding artistic director of Seraphic Fire, says he will turn over the baton to a guest conductor for the choral ensemble’s Feb. 11 and 12 performances in order to attend the Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles. Seraphic Fire, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary season, has been nominated for two Grammys, Best Choral Performance for its Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem recording and Best Small Ensemble Performance for A Seraphic Fire Christmas.

Quigley will conduct the opening concert on Feb. 10 for the choir’s next program, J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor, on Feb. 10 at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, with pianist Scott Allen Jarrett (who appears on the Brahms recording) stepping in Feb. 11 at First United Methodist Church in Coral Gables and Feb. 12 at St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church in Boca Raton. Tickets are $50; 305-285-9060, www.seraphicfire.org.

Jordan Levin

Mosaic switch

Mosaic Theatre Artistic Director Richard Jay Simon has postponed Conor McPherson’s The Birds to next season (we hear McPherson is doing more work on his Hitchcock-inspired script), and instead will present Ariel Dorfman’s chilling Death and the Maiden March 8-April 1.

Carbonell Award-winning actors Stephen G. Anthony, Laura Turnbull and Oscar Cheda will star, and Avi Hoffman will direct at the American Heritage Center for the Arts, 12200 W. Broward Blvd., Plantation. Tickets are $39.50 ($34 seniors, $15 students); 954-577-8243, www.mosaictheatre.com.

Christine Dolen

St. Martha series

The nine-member Rose Ensemble will perform at 3 p.m. Jan. 29 as part of the St. Martha-Yamaha Concert Series at St. Martha Catholic Church, 9301 Biscayne Blvd., Miami Shores. The St. Paul, Minn., group’s program, “Voices of Ancient Mediterranean Christians, Jews and Muslims,” encompasses four centuries of sacred music. Tickets are $10 and $20 at the parish office or saintmartha.tix.com; 305-458-0111.