The Miami-based New World Symphony bills itself as America’s only orchestral academy for young musicians, and stresses education as its primary mission. But in recent years, the profile of the group as a performing ensemble has been rising, helped in part by the lack of a full-time professional orchestra in Miami. “The New World inhabits a peculiar position as an educational institution that, by virtue of the extraordinary quality of its performances, has become the area’s leading classical music organization.”