Auction item includes two tickets to a 2008-2009 Florida Orchestra Concert.  Auction winner can select a First and Second Choice performance (excludes all special performances and performances held in Ferguson Hall).  Ticket request must be received 72 hours before the performance and seating is based on availability.

Under the leadership of Music Director Stefan Sanderling, The Florida Orchestra is recognized as Tampa Bay's leading performing arts institution, one of the leading professional symphony orchestras in Florida, and one of the best regional orchestras in America.

Founded as the Florida Gulf Coast Symphony in 1968, the orchestra was established by representatives of the Tampa Philharmonic and the St. Petersburg Symphony, who signed documents aboard a barge in Tampa Bay to merge the two cultural institutions. The founders selected as their first music director Irwin Hoffman, who left the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to come to the Tampa Bay area.

The orchestra performs more than 150 concerts annually in the tri-city area of Tampa, Clearwater, and St. Petersburg. Concert series include the Progress Energy Masterworks, Raymond James Super Pops, Holland America Line Coffee Concerts, Target Pops in the Park Concerts, and youth concerts.