Southwest Florida is alive with performing arts organizations’ 2024-25 season announcements. Most of those seasons, however, won’t start until “season” —which for the most part means “fall.”

Not Grand Piano Series.

The series led by President and Artistic Director Milana Strezeva is more committed than ever to year-round programming. Because Artis—Naples is as well, it only made sense for the two groups to team up.

“We are thrilled to partner with Grand Piano Series for two summer offerings,” said Artis—Naples CEO and President Kathleen van Bergen. “As Artis—Naples grows our commitment to year-round programming, it is a pleasure to collaborate with Milana to bring classical music activity to our cultural campus.”

To keep year-rounders entertained throughout the off-season, the series’ director of education and community engagement, pianist Konstantin Soukhovetski, is continuing the same interactive performances for which he’s become noted before and since moving to Naples.

Deeply committed to music education for all ages, Soukhovetski has spun the stories behind the scores in countless masterclasses, interactive lecture/performances and lifelong learning courses. “I’m a one-stop shop,” he says. “Performing the music while I teach about it.”

His second in a series of Narrative Musicales — “Bach to the Future” — is another hour-long, intermissionless concert that intertwines the music with reflections on the composers’ lives and times.

As composer Samuel Barber said of his own work, Soukhovetski’s goal is to present “good music that will be comprehensible to as many people as possible.”

The concerts also make a point of encouraging and spotlighting up-and-coming young talents.

July’s guest pianist, 22-year-old Victor Shlyakhtenko, is a Lang Lang International Music Foundation Young Scholar. The foundation was started by celebrity pianist Lang Lang and strives to educate, inspire and motivate the next generation of music lovers and performers.

Not only will “Bach to the Future” present some of the best of Bach, Scarlatti, Barber and Ravel. Its emcee, who launches the afternoon with a Bach prelude and fugue, will get us questioning our notions about music, even what is modern.

We’ll come to see contemporaries Bach and Scarlatti as stylistic opposites.

We’ll ask: If fugues are old-fashioned, as Johann Sebastian Bach’s sons would have had it, why do we still find one in a 20th-century Samuel Barber sonata commissioned by Irving Berlin and Richard Rodgers?

And might we even hear a futuristic reincarnation of Bach in the “liquid poetry” of Ravel’s impressionistic “Jeux d’eau”?