MIAMI. Long before Jorge Mejia recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios, before his piano concerto If This Walls Could Talk reached Apple Music Classical, and before the U.S. premiere in his home city of Miami, the story began in a small apartment building on Collins Avenue.
The building, at 221 Collins Ave. in Miami Beach, once housed Mejia, the Colombian-born composer, pianist, and president and CEO of Sony Music Publishing Latin America and U.S. Latin. The property, built in the 1920s, became the emotional and architectural starting point for If These Walls Could Talk, a three-movement piano concerto shaped by memory, imagination, and the ghosts of Miami Beach's past.
