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It's hard to believe that the Bonk Festival is 13 years old, but the annual new music extravaganza has hung in there with admirable consistency and can now claim something like venerability. The weeklong series of concerts begins with a welcome return to the Salvador Dali Museum, 1000 Third St. S, St. Petersburg, and a program that includes a Dali-themed chamber opera by Sarasota composer Francis Schwartz as well as pianist Corey Jane Holt at 6 p.m. Sunday.
Other fest highlights include a collaboration with the Hillsborough Community College-Ybor Festival of the Moving Image, with flutist Margaret Lancaster and trumpeter Jay Coble, at 9 p.m. Wednesday at HCC's auditorium, Palm Avenue and 14th Street, Tampa; and violinist Conrad Harris, above, at 3 p.m. March 20 at the Friday Morning Musicale, 809 Horatio St., Tampa. Tickets are $8-$10. See www.bonkmusicfest.com
A devotee of Dvorak
Akiko Suwanai, above, is the soloist in Dvorak's Violin Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, performing Saturday night at 8 at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater. Suwanai, who won the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1990, recorded the Dvorak for Philips in 2001 with Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, to critical acclaim. Andrey Boreyko conducts the Czech Phil in an all-Dvorak program, including the Slavonic Dances and Symphony No. 8. $35, $45. (727) 781-7400.