With trumpets blaring (literally), the New World Symphony inaugurated its new $160 million Frank Gehry, masterpiece Miami Beach home before a crowd of invited guests and locals who lounged in the adjacent city park underneath the illuminated glow of the cubic architecture and a giant video projected onto the building’s exterior.

Thanks in part to the procurement expertise of The Parker company, the new campus of the New World Symphony offers a combination of practice rooms, rehearsal rooms, technology suites, and performance space, making possible activities ranging from one-on-one teaching to recording sessions and live webcasts, reaching a global audience. According to Victoria Rodgers, Executive Vice President of NWS, “Parker was a real asset, and we appreciate all the extra work they did to make our move successful”.

The new home is a true music laboratory and will enable NWS to continue its role as the leader in integrating technology with music education and concert presentation. NWS was the first arts organization to embrace the possibilities of Internet2, a broadband network 100,000 times faster than the Internet. Capable of producing CD quality sound and DVD quality images, Internet2 opens up the entire world of music to the Fellows—and vice versa.