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The 2020 Guide April 2020 Festivals Editor’s Note Welcome to the 2020 Guide to Summer Festivals, with information for more than 100 festivals. This Guide could be considered as much an expression of hope as it is of planning in this unpredictable time. Festivals’ status and schedules are in continual flux, as you might imagine, so this Guide accu- rately reflects everyone’s plans for the coming season. We urge you to check with the individual events to confirm; we will be updating the Guide’s web pages as we receive new information. Themes for the season include the 250th anniversary of you-know-who’s birth, celebrated at, among many others, the Tanglewood Festival, which is also planning a weekend-long tribute to what would have been ’s 100th birthday. ’s Grafenegg Festival also bows to Beethoven, featuring major artists like Pretty Yende and on its multiple stages, while the Montreal Festival’s tribute includes the complete sonatas with cellist Amit Peled and Alon Goldstein; and Oxford’s Festival in the U.K. hosts Paul Lewis playing the Moonlight and Hammerklavier sonatas along with the . The and symphonies are everywhere, as performed by a vast range of ensembles, from the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in Switzerland to the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in (at the Jurmala Music Festival) to the Philharmonic at the Festival, whose organizers like to call that esteemed orchestra their “house .” Women are also getting some attention, with Music Festival focusing on “Nadia Boulanger and Her World” and Aspen devoted to “Uncommon Women of Note,” exploring works by Julia Wolfe, , Kaija Saariaho, Melody Eötvös, and others of their ilk. Another anniversary being honored is the 75th of the Caramoor Music Festival, which in turn pays tribute to the centenary of the Harlem Renaissance, with a retelling of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream by the Classical Theater of Harlem and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Musical America’s 2020 Festival Guide offers a wealth of robust programming plans and we hope to see them come FestivalsThe 2020 Guide to fruition. Regards, Susan Elliott Editor, Special Reports

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2020 Festivals guide  musicalamerica.com • April 2020 Festivals American Dance Festival (ADF)...... 3 Des Moines Metro Opera...... 11 Lucerne Festival...... 21 The Perlman Music Program Artosphere: Arkansas’ Arts Dresden Music Festival...... 11 Mainly Mozart...... 21 Chamber Music Workshop ...... 30 and Nature Festival...... 3 Drottningholms Slottsteater...... 12 Marlboro Music Festival...... 22 Playboy Festival...... 30 Aspen Music Festival and School...... 4 Dubrovnik Summer Festival...... 12 Merola Opera Program Prague Summer Nights Festival...... 31 Bach of Bethlehem: EAMA Summer Music Institute in Paris...... 12 2020 Summer Festival...... 22 Ravenna Festival...... 31 3th Bethlehem Bach Festival...... 4 Eastern Music Festival...... 13 Riga Jurmala Music Festival...... 32 Bard Music Festival/Bard Summerscape...... 5 Festival d’Aix-en-Provence...... 13 summer at Orchestra Hall...... 22 Rockport Chamber Music Festival...... 32 Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival...... 5 Festival Dans les Jardins de William Christie...... 14 Mizzou International Composers Festival...... 23 Round Top Music Festival...... 32 Berkshire Choral International...... 5 Festival de Lanaudière...... 14 Monteux School and Music Festival...... 23 ...... 32 Besançon International Music Festival...... 6 Festival Internacional de Montreal Chamber Music Festival...... 23 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival...... 33 Blossom Music Festival — Summer Home Música y Danza de Granada...... 14 Moritzburg Festival...... 24 Santa Fe Desert Chorale...... 33 of the ...... 6 Festival Napa Valley...... 14 Mostly Mozart Festival...... 24 ...... 34 Early Music Festival...... 6 The Gilmore Keyboard Festival...... 15 Mozartfest Würzburg...... 24 Sarasota Music Festival...... 35 Bravo! Vail Music Festival...... 6 The Glimmerglass Festival...... 15 Music Academy of the West Saratoga Performing Arts Center...... 35 Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival...... 7 2020 Summer School & Festival...... 25 The Golandsky Institute Summer Symposium...... 15 Seagle Music Colony...... 36 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music...... 7 Music House International...... 25 Grafenegg Festival...... 16 Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival...... 36 Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts...... 7 Music in the Vineyards...... 26 Grand Teton Music Festival...... 16 Sitka Summer Music Festival...... 36 Carinthian Summer Music Festival...... 8 Music@Menlo...... 26 Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival...... 17 Spoleto Festival USA...... 37 Carson City Music & Art Festival: National Repertory Orchestra...... 26 Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy...... 17 Strings Music Festival...... 37 Jazz & Beyond...... 8 Norfolk Chamber Music Festival...... 27 Sun Valley Music Festival...... 37 Central City Opera Festival...... 8 Hitzacker Summer Music Festival...... 18 Off the Hook Arts Summerfest 2020: Chamber Music Northwest Honens Festival...... 18 the Power of Music: Beethoven, Tanglewood...... 38 50th Anniversary Summer Festival...... 8 International Keyboard Institute & Festival...... 18 transcendence, Healing, Part II...... 27 Teatro Nuovo...... 38 Chautauqua Institution ISING! International Young Artists Festival...... 19 Ojai Music Festival...... 28 TIME:SPANS Festival 2020...... 39 Performing and Visual Arts...... 9 27th Istanbul Jazz Festival ...... 19 Olshan Texas Music Festival...... 28 Tippet Rise Art Center...... 40 Cincinnati May Festival...... 9 48th Istanbul Music Festival ...... 19 Opera in the Ozarks...... 28 Trans-Siberian Art Festival...... 40 Colorado Music Festival...... 10 La Jolla Music Society Summerfest...... 19 Opera Theatre of Saint Louis...... 29 Tsinandali Festival...... 40 Cork International Choral Festival...... 10 Lake Field Music Camp...... 20 Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival...... 29 Verbier Festival...... 41 Crested Butte Music Festival...... 10 Lake George Music Festival...... 20 ...... 29 Virginia Arts Festival...... 42 Deer Valley Music Festival...... 10 Les Flâneries Musicales de Reims...... 20 Oxford Piano Festival...... 29 Wolf Trap...... 42

2020 Festivals guide  musicalamerica.com • April 2020 AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL (ADF) ARTOSPHERE: ARKANSAS’ ARTS AND NATURE FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jodee Nimerichter FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION The season includes performances by both new and The esteemed Artosphere Festival Orchestra Fayetteville, Bentonville, Rogers, and additional established companies, highlighting the breadth GENRE Modern Dance (AFO) returns to Northwest Arkansas in May to venues across northwest Arkansas and excellence of today’s modern dance field. Some TICKET PRICE RANGE $12 to $64 delight audiences as the musical centerpiece Festival Website of the companies performing are: Limón Dance of the 11th Annual Artosphere: Arkansas’ Arts Company, Monica Bill Barnes & Company, Pilobolus, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION + Nature Festival. Presented by Walton Arts DATES May 6 – June 29, 2020 Paul Taylor Dance Company, Vertigo Dance Ticket Purchase Link Center and featuring music, film, visual arts, Events suspended. Please check website for more Company, and more. 919-684-4444 and innovative collaborative performances and information. events, Artosphere celebrates ways the arts can MUSIC DIRECTOR LOCATION Durham, NC connect us to the natural world. The AFO features Festival Website Corrado Rovaris, Music Director, Artosphere top from around the world who Festival Orchestra DATES June 18 – July 25, 2020 perform symphonic, chamber, and community Canceled. Please check website for more engagement “pop-” style performances across GENRES Classical • Folk • World information. the region. Under the baton of internationally TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $45 acclaimed Maestro Corrado Rovaris and with more than 90 premier musicians from distinguished TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION symphonies and music programs across the globe, Ticket Purchase Link AFO performances are held at Walton Arts Center 479-443-5600 in Fayetteville and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville. This year’s Chapel BOOKING CONTACT Music Series offers chamber music in local chapels Jason Howell Smith, AFO general manager and architectural marvels with groups including Walton Arts Center Seraph Brass and Jayme Stone, among others. Also 479-571-2731 School for Conductors & Orchestral Musicians featuring the renowned Dover Quartet. And the SOCIAL LINKS annual Artosphere Trail Mix enables audiences to 77th Season Guest Artists Include: hike or bike between stages while enjoying art and - Nathan Cole, , LA Philharmonic entertainment at stops along the way. Visit website - Brant Taylor, cello, Chicago Symphony Orchestra for full event listing. - Jennifer Gunn, /piccolo, Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Steve Lange, , Boston Symphony Orchestra - Howard T. Howard, horn, Met. Opera Orchestra - See website for complete list.

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2020 Festivals guide  musicalamerica.com • April 2020 ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM: AND SCHOOL 113TH BETHLEHEM BACH FESTIVAL FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Aspen, CO FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Various locations in Bethlehem, PA The dual themes of the 2020 season are Festival Website Appearances by Festival Artist-in-Residence Festival Website “Beethoven’s Revolution,” celebrating the guitarist Eliot Fisk, sopranos Rosa Lamoreaux and DATES July 16 – August 23, 2020 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth, Agnes Zsigovics, mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó, DATES May 8-17, 2020 and “Uncommon Women of Note,” exploring Canceled. Please check website for more Benjamin Butterfield, baritone William Canceled. Please check website for more ambition, desire, and identity through a female information Sharp, and basses David Newman and Dashon information. lens, and featuring works by Julia Wolfe, Joan Burton. Fridays,12 noon: FREE performance: Bach ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Greg Funfgeld Tower, Kaija Saariaho, Melody Eötvös, and a new ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Robert Spano Outdoors! Principal violist Paul Miller and friends AMFS commission by Sarah Kirkland Snider. The present arrangements of some of Bach’s most GENRE Classical GENRE Classical season also marks the inaugural year of the Aspen beloved masterpieces on “modern” instruments. TICKET PRICE RANGE $9 to $58 Opera Theater and VocalARTS program under TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $100 2 pm: FREE lecture by George B. Stauffer: “Great Co-artistic Directors Renée Fleming and Patrick Expectations: Bach in .” Two intimate 4 pm TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Summers, presenting , Ricky Ian TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION concerts: “Chamber Music in the Saal” [Moravian Ticket Purchase Link Gordon’s The Grapes of Wrath, and a semi-staging Ticket Purchase Link Museum] and “Bach at 4” with The Bach Choir and 610-866-4382 x115 or x110 of Virgil Thomson’s The Mother of Us All. Major 970-925-9042 Bach Festival Orchestra and mezzo Krisztina Szabó artists appearing include , Vladimir in Bach’s solo 169. Program also includes BOOKING CONTACT Feltsman, , Robert McDuffie, BOOKING CONTACT : Suite in A Minor for Flute Bridget George Asadour Santourian Alisa Weilerstein, the Pacifica Quartet, Seraphic and Strings and other works. 8 pm: “Bach at 8” SOCIAL LINKS Fire, Sharon Isbin, and many more. Booking cycle date range: (full choir and orchestra): Three Bach . May 2020 for summer 2021 Saturdays,10:30 am: Jones Chamber Music Concert. A breathtaking , a beautiful sonata SOCIAL LINKS and the return of the students’ masterful compositions. Concerto for E Major for Guitar and Orchestra (Boccherini), Bach’s Trio Sonata No. 5 in C Major & Chaconne in D Minor. 2:30 pm: The , the centerpiece of our Festival since 1900. 7:00 pm: Zimmermann’s Coffee House offers chamber music “cafT style” in a relaxed setting, with German food and drink, and features young artists—chosen by audition—with Greg Funfgeld and friends.

2020 Festivals guide  musicalamerica.com • April 2020 BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL/BARD SUMMERSCAPE BAYREUTH BAROQUE OPERA FESTIVAL FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Annandale-On-Hudson, NY FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Max Emanuel Cencic Bard SummerScape’s 17th edition celebrates one Festival Website Porpora: New Production Carlo il Calvo with Max of the most important female figures in music Emanuel Cencic, Diego Fagioli, Julia Lezhneva; GENRES Classical • Baroque Opera Seria DATES June 26 – August 16, 2020 history, with music, opera, theater, dance, film, Joyce DiDonato; Vinci: Gismondo, Re di Polonia; TICKET PRICE RANGE €15 to €249 and the SummerScape Spiegeltent, centered ARTISTIC DIRECTORS ; Delphine Galou; Vivica Genoux around the 31st Bard Music Festival. “Nadia TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Leon Botstein, Christopher H. Gibbs, LOCATION Bayreuth, Boulanger and Her World” offers a rare and Gideon Lester Ticket Purchase Link intensive examination of the life and times of Festival Website +49 921 508 9908 the pioneering Parisian pedagogue, composer, GENRES DATES September 3-13, 2020 conductor, pianist, organist, and indomitable Classical • Opera • Theater • Dance personality who shaped a generation of American TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $105 musicians and more. Includes concerts, panel discussions, a film series exploring “Nadia TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Boulanger’s Cinematic Influence,” and the first Ticket Purchase Link fully staged American production of 845-758-7900 (“Le roi Arthus”), the only opera by her compatriot . Daniel Fish directs “Most Happy,” BOOKING CONTACT a setting of songs from Frank Loesser’s 1956 Zedlacher BERKSHIRE CHORAL INTERNATIONAL musical, The Most Happy Fella, and SOCIAL LINKS FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES May 31 – August 11, 2020 Ballet MOVES presents new choreography from • Lenox: May 31 – June 7, 2020 program at the Canceled. Please check website for more Kyle Abraham and Fisher Center Choreographer- Tanglewood Linde Center for Music and Learning, information. in-Residence Pam Tanowitz. concert at Hall. Julian Wachner Mozart’s • Boston: June 21-28, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Frank Nemhauser 2020 program on the campus of Tufts University in GENRE Classical Medford, concert at Boston Symphony Hall. Grant Gershon conducting Orff’s Carmina Burana and TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $25 Poulenc’s Gloria • : July 19-26, 2020 TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION program at the Barbizon Palace Hotel, concert Ticket Purchase Link at the Muziekgebouw. Joe Miller conducting 413-229-8526 Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht • : August 5-12, 2020 program at the Catalonia BOOKING CONTACT Barcelona Plaza Hotel, concert at Palau de la Música. Frank Nemhauser, music director Zaks conducting Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis. Booking cycle date range: LOCATION Fall 2020 for summer 2021 Lenox, MA; Boston, MA; Amsterdam, ; Barcelona, Spain SOCIAL LINKS Festival Website

2020 Festivals guide  musicalamerica.com • April 2020 BESANÇON INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jean-Michel Mathé FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 6-13, 2021 The 73rd Besançon Music Festival will take place in Enjoy a weeklong celebration of early music with Canceled. Please see website for details. September. Among the artists to discover this year, GENRES Classical • Jazz • Ethnic the 21st biennial Boston Early Music Festival— ARTISTIC DIRECTORS note the Bern Symphony Orchestra accompanied by TICKET PRICE RANGE €0 to €49 themed “A Celebration of Women.” The 2021 Alexandre Kantorow, first French pianist to win the centerpiece will be the fully staged North American Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs prestigious 2019 Tchaikovsky Competition. A large TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION premiere of the 1694 opera Circé, featuring music GENRE Classical place is also reserved for the music of our resident +33 (8) 18 20 872 by Henry Desmarets and a libretto by Louise- TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $250 composer Camille Pépin. BOOKING CONTACT Geneviève Gillot de Saintonge, and Agostino Steffani’s Orlando. Other highlights include the LOCATION Jean-Michel Mathé TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Ticket GRAMMY-winning BEMF Chamber Opera Series Purchase Link : Besançon, Belfort, Lons-le-Saunier, Dole Booking cycle date range: performing Francesca Caccini’s , a full week 617-661-1812 Festival Website Spring 2020 for autumn 2021 of festival concerts, the world-famous exhibition, master classes, symposia, family day, dozens of BOOKING CONTACT DATES September 11-20, 2020 Kathleen Fay SOCIAL LINKS fringe concerts, and so much more. Booking cycle date range: LOCATION Boston, MA; Great Barrington, MA Summer 2020 for summer 2021 Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS

BLOSSOM MUSIC FESTIVAL — BRAVO! VAIL MUSIC FESTIVAL

SUMMER HOME OF THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 25 – August 6, 2020 A celebration of great music, stunning natural Canceled. Please see website for details. FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Cuyahoga Falls, OH beauty, and inspiration that is Bravo! Vail. The This summer, the 2020 Blossom Music Festival Festival Website 2020 season kicks off with the debut of Chamber ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Anne-Marie McDermott includes “something for everyone”—classical Orchestra of Europe featuring dazzling pianist Yuja DATES July 3 – September 6, 2020 GENRE Classical favorites, the discovery of lesser-known classical Wang. The Symphony Orchestra celebrates treasures, blockbuster films, musical theater, Canceled. Please see website for details. Dvořák and Mozart, The Fabulous Philadelphians TICKET PRICE RANGE $29 to $152 beloved patriotic tunes, and popular music. rejoice in the majesty of the mountains with ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Franz Welser-Möst TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Audience-favorite artists and conductors return Strauss’s epic Alpine Symphony, and more. Ticket Purchase Link this season, as well as rising stars and popular GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz LOCATION Vail, CO 877-812-700 guests making debuts. 2020 marks the 10th season TICKET PRICE RANGE $26 to $121 Festival Website of the popular Under 18’s Free program, with BOOKING CONTACT more than 200,000 young people attending the TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Jacqueline Taylor, director of artistic planning festival for free since the program’s inception. Ticket Purchase Link , 800-686-1141 SOCIAL LINKS Check the website for the full festival schedule. SOCIAL LINKS

2020 Festivals guide  musicalamerica.com • April 2020 BRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC AND THE ARTS

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 25 – August 23, 2020 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Katonah, NY BCMF’s 37th season, “We Are Beethoven,” features Moved to Fall 2020 The seven weeks of the 75th-anniversary Festival Website 13 concerts including a JS Bach Composer Portrait ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Marya Martin season (June 20 – August 2) pay tribute to the narrated by Alan Alda, Sandbox Percussion in a centenary of the Harlem Renaissance, including a DATES June 20 – August 2, 2020 free outdoor event, “The Core Classics” series with GENRE Classical collaborative retelling of Shakespeare’s Midsummer ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Kathy Schuman works by Zhou Tian, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $175 Night’s Dream by the Classical Theater of Harlem and Schubert. The August 5 program offers and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Site-specific GENRES Beethoven, Spohr, and Caroline Shaw; and August TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION programming includes On Site Opera’s rendition Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic • Opera Ticket Purchase Link 9 features repertoire by Lowell Liebermann, Arvo of Paisiello’s , and the world TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $110 Pärt, Beethoven, and Mozart. Contemporary 212-741-9403 premiere of Field of Vision by Michael Gordon. Nico and traditional repertoire fills out the schedule, BOOKING CONTACT Muhly’s new , Shrink, will be given TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION performed by some of chamber music’s finest Michael Lawrence, executive director its New York premiere by Finnish violinist Pekka Ticket Purchase Link international musicians. Kuusisto and The Knights. Caramoor is committed 914-232-1252 Booking cycle date range: to female composers and performers and offers LOCATION Bridgehampton, NY Spring 2020 for summer 2021 works by Paola Prestini, Anna Clyne, Missy SOCIAL LINKS Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS Mazzoli, and more. Karina Canellakis conducts. Jazz includes an opening night with and the Jazz at Orchestra, CABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC and the all-day Jazz Festival, headlined by Eliane Elias. The American Roots Music Festival begins a FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Santa Cruz, CA new programming partnership with City Winery, America’s longest running festival of new orchestral Festival Website with headliner Taj Mahal and special guest Deva music offers three world, one U.S., and nine West DATES July 26 – August 9, 2020 Mahal. Other featured artists: Orchestra of St. Coast premieres. Under the direction of Cristian Luke’s, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Apollo’s Fire, the Macelaru, audiences are joined by both preeminent Canceled. Please check website for more information. Danish , Inon Barnatan and and emerging composers, an orchestra of dedicated Benjamin Grosvenor, violinist , professional musicians, and renowned guest artists ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Cristian Macelaru conductor Ludovic Morlot, and many more. from across the globe. Also includes a professional training workshop for early career conductors GENRE Classical and composers, open rehearsals, educational TICKET PRICE RANGE $30 to $65 programming. Guest Artists: Benjamin Beilman, violin; Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano; Gregory Smith, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION narrator; Quartet ; Lara Downes. Ticket Purchase Link piano; Stewart Goodyear, piano. Composers in 831-426-6966 Residence: , Dan Caputo, Stacy Garrop, John Harbison, Jake Heggie, Pierre Jalbert, Sarah SOCIAL LINKS Kirkland Snider, Paola Prestini, Kevin Puts, Andrea Reinkemeyer, Ivan Enrique Rodriguez, Sean Shepherd, Gregory Smith.

2020 Festivals guide  musicalamerica.com • April 2020 CARINTHIAN SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL CENTRAL CITY OPERA FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS GENRES FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Central City, CO Opening Concert: Wiener Jeunesse Orchester; Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Crossover • Church Central City Opera’s 2020 Summer Festival opens Festival Website Martin Grubinger, percussion; Christoph Opera with Rodgers & Hammerstein’s beloved musical Ehrenfellner, conductor. Carousel, followed by Verdi’s thriller, Rigoletto, and DATES July 4 – August 2, 2020 TICKET PRICE RANGE €16 to €95 Purcell’s bewitching, hour-long opera Dido and Highlights: July 29—Masabane Cecilia GENERAL/ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Pelham G. Pearce TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Aeneas. Don’t miss this chance to witness timeless Rangwanasha, soprano; Patrick Milne, pianist; tales in a historic 550-seat opera house nestled in GENRE Opera August 20—Jeanne d’Arc: Church Opera; August 29, Ticket Purchase Link +43 1 596 8198 the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. As always, our TICKET PRICE RANGE $31 to $108 2020—Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 festival is filled with additional events to make your LOCATION Wien, Austria BOOKING CONTACT time in Central City memorable. It promises to be TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Festival Website [email protected], +43 1 596 8198 another season not to be missed. Ticket Purchase Link Office hours: Mon-Thursday 10:00 am-5:00 pm, 303-292-6700 DATES July 10 – August 29, 2020 Friday 10:00 am-1:00 pm SOCIAL LINKS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Mr. Holger Bleck Booking cycle date range: Spring 2020 for summer 2020 SOCIAL LINKS

JAZZ & BEYOND: CARSON CITY MUSIC & ART FESTIVAL CHAMBER MUSIC NORTHWEST

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR David C. Bugli 50TH ANNIVERSARY SUMMER FESTIVAL Big bands, combos, jam sessions, lectures; opening event at the Governor’s Mansion; Big Band Basie GENRES Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Portland, OR For our 50th anniversary and David Shifrin’s 40th Festival Website Birthday Bash on August 21; Carson City Open TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $10 and final season, enjoy performances by the Studios Art Tour August 22 and 23. DATES June 22 – July 26, 2020 TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Emerson, Miró, Dover, and Orion string quartets, LOCATION Carson City, NV Ticket Purchase Link Edgar Meyer, Ida and Ani Kavafian, Peter Wiley, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR David Shifrin Festival Website 775-883-4154 Tara Helen O’Connor, Paul Neubauer, Andy Akiho, Anna Polonsky, Bella Hristova, and many more. GENRE Classical DATES August 7-23, 2020 BOOKING CONTACT David Bugli or Elinor Bugli TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $62.50 Booking cycle date range: TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Winter 2020 for August 2021 Ticket Purchase Link 503-294-6400 SOCIAL LINKS SOCIAL LINKS

2020 Festivals guide  musicalamerica.com • April 2020 CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 23 – August 30, 2020 Chautauqua Institution’s summer season of performing and visual arts contains an impressive ARTISTIC DIRECTORS array of offerings in an idyllic lakeside setting. Rossen Milanov, CSO; Timothy Muffitt, MSFO; Festival highlights include weekly performances Marlena Malas, voice; Alexander Gavrylyuk, by resident companies including the Chautauqua John Milbauer and Nicola Mellville, piano Symphony Orchestra, Chautauqua Opera, and GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz Chautauqua Theater, along with pre-professional schools of Music, Visual Art, Theater, and Dance. TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $150 Additional visiting performance series include TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION popular entertainment, chamber music, dance, and Ticket Purchase Link family entertainment. 716-357-6250 LOCATION Chautauqua, NY SOCIAL LINKS Music and art in a unique environment. Festival Website SEASON FIVE July 10 August 29, 2020 CINCINNATI MAY FESTIVAL - FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Cincinnati, OH, and Covington, KY tippetrise.org We’ve reimagined the 2020 May Festival to explore Festival Website the possibilities of the human voice, with eight performances across some of the Cincinnati region’s DATES May 21-31, 2020 treasured venues. Canceled. Please check website for more information. May Festival Cabaret: May 21—7:30pm; Mikaela Bennett, soprano. Beethoven’s Ninth: May 22— ARTISTIC DIRECTOR 8pm; excerpts from Fidelio; Jessie Montgomery: Principal Conductor Juanjo Mena New Work (Co-Comission). conducts GENRES Classical • Choral El Niño: May 23—8pm. All Sing: May 24—2pm the largest gathering of Cincinnati since the TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $99 World Choir Games! St. Thomas Gospel Choir of TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION : May 27—8pm; John Adams: I Was Ticket Purchase Link Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky: 513-381-3300 May 28—8pm; May 31—2pm. America’s Sound [North]: May 29—8pm; America’s Sound [South]: SOCIAL LINKS May 30—8pm.

2020 Festivals guide  musicalamerica.com • April 2020 COLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL CRESTED BUTTE MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Crested Butte, CO Under the guidance of Music Director Peter Chautauqua Auditorium, Boulder, CO CBMF continues to feature distinctive genres Festival Website Oundjian, the 2020 Colorado Music Festival includes Festival Website including chamber music, contemporary classical the new Robert Mann Chamber Music Series, a week works, , gypsy jazz, bluegrass classic jazz, DATES July 26 – October 4, 2020 DATES June 25 – August 1, 2020 dedicated to orchestral music of the 21st century, and . The season theme “Not Just ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Emily and Erik Peterson legendary composer John Adams joining the Canceled. Please see website for more information. Beethoven” celebrates Beethoven’s 250th birthday. Festival as composer-in-residence, and an expansive Highlights include the Ariel Quartet, composer / GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Peter Oundjian celebration of Beethoven’s 250th birthday, all with singer-songwriter , the Rhythm TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $175 the help of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra GENRES Classical • Chamber Music Future Quartet, and Argentinian guitarist Gonzalo and some of the world’s most accomplished Bergara. Education remains a central component TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION guest artists. TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $75 of CBMF’s mission, with camps, lectures, and Ticket Purchase Link workshops for all ages. 970-300-3409 Guest artists include: Takács Quartet, Juilliard TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION String Quartet, Sharon Isbin, , Ticket Purchase Link BOOKING CONTACT Nareh Arghamanyan, Rider, , 303-440-7666 Erik Peterson and Augustin Hadelich. SOCIAL LINKS SOCIAL LINKS

CORK INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL DEER VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Peter Stobart FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Park City, UT Performances by international choirs begin April 29 The Deer Valley Music Festival (DVMF) is Utah Festival Website g] at Cork City Hall, culminating in the Fleischmann GENRES Classical • Choral Music Symphony | Utah Opera’s (USUO) summer home DATES June 30 – August 11, 2020 International Trophy Competition on May 2 and TICKET PRICE RANGE €0 to €31 in the mountain resort town of Park City, Utah. It is closing gala concert on May 3. renowned for consistently delivering a high quality ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Anthony Tolokan TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION and musically diverse experience in casual settings Location Cork City & County, Ireland Ticket Purchase Link of unparalleled natural beauty. GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz Festival Website +353 214 215 125 TICKET PRICE RANGE $30 to $120 DATES April 29 – May 3, 2020 BOOKING CONTACT Canceled. Please check website for updated Elaine Fitzgerald TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION information. Ticket Purchase Link Booking cycle date range: 801-533-6683 Autumn 2020 for summer 2021 SOCIAL LINKS SOCIAL LINKS

2020 Festivals guide 10 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 DES MOINES METRO OPERA DRESDEN MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Indianola, IA FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Dresden, Germany Des Moines Metro Opera’s 48th Summer Festival Festival Website & Jaap van with Festival Website features the long-awaited return of Sondheim’s pianist ; & the Sweeny Todd, alongside company premieres DATES June 26 – July 19, 2020 Philharmonic; & the DATES May 12 – June 12, 2020 of Rameau’s Platée, Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Canceled. Please see website for details. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; BBC Symphony Canceled. Please check website for more Spades, and Gregory Spears/Greg Pierce’s Fellow ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Michael Egel Orchestra & Sakari Oramo with violinist Gil Shaham; information. Travelers. Featured principal artists include Taylor BBC Philharmonic & Omer Meir Wellber with cellist Stayton as Platée, Zachary James as Jupiter, GENRES Classical • Opera Jan Vogler; St. Petersburg Philharmonic & Yuri ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jan Vogler Elizabeth Sutphen as La Folie, and John Brancy as Temirkanov with violinist Emmanuel Tjeknavorian; TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $101 GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic Momus in Platée; Jonathan Burton as Gherman, Dresden Festival Orchestra (with conductors Ivor Sara Gartland as Lisa, and Joyce Castle as the TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Bolton and René Jacobs), , TICKET PRICE RANGE €10 to €125 Countess in The Queen of Spades; Zachary Nelson Ticket Purchase Link Jamie Cullum, Aoife O’Donovan, Till Brönner, as Sweeney Todd, Lucy Schaufer as Mrs. Lovett, 515-961-6221 Martin Grubinger, Avishai Cohen Trio, Patricia TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Ben Edquist as Anthony, Grace Kahl as Johanna, Kopatchinskaja, and . World premiere of the Ticket Purchase Link and Wayne Tiggis as Judge Turpin in Sweeny BOOKING CONTACT Triple Concerto Alisma for Violin, Cello, and +49 (0)351 656 06 700 Samuel Carroll, artistic administrator Todd; and Joseph Lattanzi as Hawkins Fuller by Swiss composer William Blank with the Danish BOOKING CONTACT and Christian Sanders as Timothy Laughlin in Booking cycle date range: National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Imke Hinz or Katarina Hinzpeter Fellow Travelers. Fall 2020 for summer 2021 and summer , with soloists Mira Wang (violin), Jan 2022 Vogler (cello), and Daniel Ottensamer (clarinet). Booking cycle date range: SOCIAL LINKS Spring 2020 for spring 2021 SOCIAL LINKS

2020 Festivals guide 11 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 DROTTNINGHOLMS SLOTTSTEATER EAMA SUMMER MUSIC INSTITUTE IN PARIS

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES August 8-29, 2020 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Philip Lasser by G. F. Handel, August 8-22. The Institute offers summer music programs in ARTISTIC DIRECTORS Sofi Lerström, Conductor: Fracesco Corti; cast: Nahuel di composition, conducting and chamber music at GENRE Classical Maria Lindal Pierro, Ann Hallenberg, Bruno de Sá, Kristina the historic Schola Cantorum in Paris, France. These TUITION $3495 Hammarström, Giulia Semenzato, Renato Dolcini, GENRE Classical programs offer intensive study of the crafts of Kacper Szelazek, Håvard Stensvold. “Donne counterpoint, harmony, analysis, and musicianship APPLICATION INFORMATION disprezzate”—the raging heroines of the Baroque, TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $163 as well as personalized training in composition, Application & Tuition August 29. Conductor: Stefano Montanari, The TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION conducting, and chamber music performance 212-831-7424 Drottningholm Theater Orchestra, artist-in- Ticket Purchase Link taught by our international faculty. CONTACT residence Ann Hallenberg. +46 85 56 93 105 LOCATION Paris, France Pamela Lasser LOCATION Drottningholm, Sweden BOOKING CONTACT Festival Website Booking cycle date range: Festival Website Producer Kristian Holstein DATES July 1-31, 2020 Spring 2020 for summer 2020 SOCIAL LINKS SOCIAL LINKS

DUBROVNIK SUMMER FESTIVAL FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 10 – August 25, 2020 TYING THE KNOT Arturo Sandoval, 10-time Grammy-award winner; English Voices Choir and Marc Korovitch as ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Dora Ruždjak Podolski 2020 SEASON JUNE 19-JULY 17 conductor; Julia Lezhneva, soprano with La Voce GENRE Classical Strumentale; Katia Buniatishvili on piano with Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra and Eduardo TICKET PRICE RANGE €10 to €80 Strausser as conductor; Patricia Kopatchinskaja TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION on violin with and Giovanni Ticket Purchase Link Antonini as conductor; Mariinsky Theater soloists +385 (0)20 326 107 will perform Ballet Gala Night: I am not scared, with Ilya Zhivoi as choreographer; NYO Canada, and BOOKING CONTACT Michael Francis as conductor; Croatian Radio and [email protected] Television Symphony Orchestra; Lindo Folklore Ensemble; Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra; and Booking cycle date range: Presenting 25+ Performances at Inspiration Point in Eureka Springs and Venues Throughout Northwest Arkansas many more. Summer 2020 Location Old City of Dubrovnik, Croatia SOCIAL LINKS VISIT opera.org FOR TICKETS & SCHEDULE INFORMATION Festival Website Hwy. 62 West / Eureka Springs, AR / (479) 253-8595

2020 Festivals guide 12 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 EASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL FESTIVAL D’AIX-EN-PROVENCE

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 27 – August 1, 2020 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS L’incoronazione di poppea, . New Performances, workshops, master classes, seminars, Wozzeck, . New production. Conductor: production. Conductor: Leonardo Garcia Allarcon and activities under the musical stewardship ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Sir • Stage Director: Simon McBurney • Stage Director: Ted Huffman • Orchestra: Cappella of Music Director Gerard Schwarz, EMF’s 59th GENRE Classical • Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra • chorus: Mediterranea at the Théâtre du Jeu de Paume season of Classics Reimagined covers remarkable Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir with repertoire with concerts by the Festival Orchestra, TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $45 and Anja Kampe at the Grand LOCATION Aix-en-Provence, France Festival Website members of the 75-strong artist faculty, and the TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Théâtre de Provence Young Artists Orchestra. Featured artists include Ticket Purchase Link Così fan tutte, . New DATES June 30 – July 18, 2020 Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (violin); Demondrae 336-272-0160 Thurman (euphonium); Alexander Toradze (piano); production. Conductor: Thomas Hengelbrock ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Pierre Audi • Stage Director: Dmitri Tcherniakov • Orchestra: Jason Vieaux (guitar); William Wolfram (piano); Lynn BOOKING CONTACT GENRE Classical Harrell (cello); Stefan Jackiw (violin); Jeffrey Multer Chris Williams, executive director Balthasar Neumann Ensemble and Chorus: Chour de (violin); . Eastern Music Festival l’Opera de Lyon with Veronique Gens, Ricahrd Croft, TICKET PRICE RANGE €9 to €290 PO Box 22026 Georg Nigl at the Théâtre de l’Archevêché Location TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Greensboro, NC 27420 The Golden Cockerel, Nikolai Rimski-korsakov. New Various locations in Greensboro, NC 336-333-7450 x224 Ticket Purchase Link Festival Website production. Conductor: Aziz Shokakimov • Stage +33 (0) 43 40 80 217 Booking cycle date range: Director: Barrie Kosky • Chorus and Orchestra of Booking fall 2020 for summer 2021 Opera de Lyon with , Andrei Popov, SOCIAL LINKS (60th-anniversary season) Dmitry Ulyanov at the Théâtre de l’Archevêché SOCIAL LINKS Innocence, Kaija Saariaho. World premiere. Libretto by Sofi Oskanen • Conductor: Susanna Malkki • Stage Director: Simon Stone • Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra • Chorus: Estonian Philhar- monic Choir with Magdalena Kozena, Anna Prohas- ka, at The Grand Théâtre de Provence

2020 Festivals guide 13 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 FESTIVAL DANS LES JARDINS FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE WILLIAM CHRISTIE DE MÚSICA Y DANZA DE GRANADA FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTORS FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Antonio Moral Musical promenades: short William Christie and Paul Agnew Featuring pianists and Bertrand concerts by the musicians and singers of Les Arts Chamayou. Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester & GENRES Classical • Flamenco GENRE Classical Florissants in the gardens of William Christie. Juanjo Mena. TICKET PRICE RANGE €8 to €90 Concerts on the Miroir d’eau (the reflecting pool): TICKET PRICE RANGE $10.70 to $31.40 great open-air baroque music with the singers and Joyce DiDonato “Songplay.” Rotterdams Philhar- TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION the orchestra of Les Arts Florissants, conducted TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION monisch Orkest & Lahav Shanii & Vilde Frang, violin. Ticket Purchase Link by William Christie and Paul Agnew. Candlelit Ticket Purchase Link Ensemble Correspondances. Orquesta Ciudad +34 958 221 844 +33 (0)2 28 85 85 70 de Granada and Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez: concerts: sacred baroque music in the peaceful BOOKING CONTACT setting of the Thiré medieval church. Beethoven. Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España BOOKING CONTACT and Josep Pons Octava sinf: Mahler. Les Ballets de Ingrid Dominguez/Elia Duro, +34 958 221 844 [email protected] LOCATION Thiré, Vendée, France Monte-Carlo. Booking cycle date range: Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS Location Various location in Granada, Spain Summer 2020 DATES August 22-29, 2020 Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS DATES June 25 – July 12, 2020

FESTIVAL DE LANAUDIÈRE FESTIVAL NAPA VALLEY

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 3 – August 2, 2020 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 17-26, 2020 The Festival de Lanaudière is the leading classical In honor of Festival Napa Valley’s 15th anniversary, Postponed until 2021. Check website for more music festival in Canada and is a member of ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Loranger we will bring back favorite artists including soprano information. Festivals and Major Events (FAME). More than GENRE Classical Nadine Sierra, tenor Michael Fabiano, conductor 50,000 people attend its events every year. Its James Conlon, and more. Other season highlights EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Charles Letourneau programming is accessible and is performed by TICKET PRICE RANGE CAD$21.91 to CAD$84.25 include: Jennifer Hudson performing at the annual GENRE Classical world-famous musicians. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Arts for All gala; the world premiere of Gordon Getty’s opera, Goodbye, Mr. Chips; the first perfor- TICKET PRICE RANGE $5 to $10,000 Location Ticket Purchase Link 800-561-4343 mance of Young People’s Chorus of NYC with Thomas TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Various locations in the Lanaudière region, Hampson; the first performance of original arrange- Québec, Canada Ticket Purchase Link BOOKING CONTACT ments from and his new wife, Larisa 888-337-6272 Festival Website Renaud Loranger Martinez; American violinist Chad Hoopes; Italian conductor and Sophia Loren’s son, Carlo Ponti Jr.; BOOKING CONTACT SOCIAL LINKS and Italian ballet dancers Roberto Bolle and Friends. Charles Letourneau Location Various locations in Napa Valley SOCIAL LINKS Festival Website

2020 Festivals guide 14 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 THE GILMORE KEYBOARD FESTIVAL THE GLIMMERGLASS FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Cooperstown, NY Presented biennially in Kalamazoo, the Gilmore Key- Various locations in Kalamazoo and East Lansing, MI The Glimmerglass Festival is a one-of-a-kind sum- Festival Website board Festival is the largest gathering of keyboard Festival Website mer destination. The scenic campus lies on the artists in North America. This year’s festival includes shore of sparkling Otsego Lake in Cooperstown, DATES July 11 – August 25, 2020 DATES April 22 – May 10, 2020 nearly 40 pianists in more than 100 concerts and NY, nestled between the Adirondack and Catskill DIRECTORS events showcasing the keyboard through a wide Canceled. Please check website for more mountains. Each season, the company presents new information. Francesca Zambello, artistic and general director; variety of programming—from solo and concerto productions of opera and musical theater, accom- Joseph Colaneri, music director performances by most recently named Gilmore DIRECTOR Pierre van der Westhuizen panied by myriad concerts, lectures, and more. As Artist Igor Levit; to chamber jazz by Late Show its core offerings in 2020, Glimmerglass presents GENRE Classical GENRES Classical • Jazz bandleader Jon Batiste; as well as an extensive se- new mainstage productions of Rodger’s The Sound TICKET PRICE RANGE $26 to $149 ries of master classes, pre-concert talks, film screen- TICKET PRICE RANGE $7 to $65 of Music, Handel’s , Wagner’s Die Feen (The ings, and lectures, and an interactive, public art Fairies) and Mozart’s . Additional TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION installation. Maria João Pires also presents her first TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION mainstage events include appearances by Rhiannon Ticket Purchase Link Partitura Residency in the U.S., comprising nine days Ticket Purchase Link Giddens, John Holiday, and Grammy Award-winner 607-547-2255 of workshops and concerts promoting cooperation 269-359-7311 Isabel Leonard, as well as an adaptation of Mozart’s and social engagement among pianists, which she Così and the world premiere of the youth opera The BOOKING CONTACT brings to the U.S. for the first time. BOOKING CONTACT Jungle Book. The Festival is completed by additional Amra Catovic, director of Artistic Administration Pierre van der Westhuizen, director concerts, cabarets, and conversation series. Visit the Booking cycle date range: The Gilmore features piano recitals and concerto website for more information. performances by Sergei Babayan, Kristian Bezuiden- Booking cycle date range: Two years in advance of each Festival season. Spring 2020 for spring 2022. hout, Jonathan Biss, Yefim Bronfman, Michael SOCIAL LINKS Brown, , , Igor Levit, Ma- SOCIAL LINKS ria Jopo Pires, Beatrice Rana, Orli Shaham, Lori Sims, , Alexander Ullman, and 2020 Gilmore Young Artists Misha Galant and Maxim Lando, among others. Ensembles include Apollo’s THE GOLANDSKY INSTITUTE SUMMER SYMPOSIUM Fire Baroque Orchestra; Trio Solisti; piano duo ZOFO; the Battle Creek, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Lansing, and FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Edna Golandsky, founder Join us for a week of lessons, lectures, special Grand Rapids Symphonies; and the Gilmore Festival GENRE Classical Chamber Orchestra. The jazz series features groups presentations, and master classes with the led by pianists Jon Batiste, Emmet Cohen, Aaron Golandsky Institute’s faculty. TICKET PRICE RANGE $995 to $1395 Diehl, Sullivan Fortner, Fred Hersch, and Pablo Location Hayward, CA TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Ziegler, as well as 3Divas, Fox Wolf Duo, Svetlana & Festival Website Ticket Purchase Link The Delancey Five, and TRI-FI piano trio. DATES July 26 – August 1, 2020 646-389-8648 Canceled. Please check website for more SOCIAL LINKS information.

2020 Festivals guide 15 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 GRAFENEGG FESTIVAL GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Grafenegg, Austria FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Jackson Hole, WY This season, top orchestras, artists, and rising Festival Website GTMF’s 59th Season (July 3 – August 22) marks two Festival Website stars play on the open-air stage Wolkenturm, in momentous events: Beethoven’s 250th birthday the Auditorium, the Riding School, the Castle, DATES August 14 – September 6, 2020 and the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage. DATES July 3 – August 22, 2020 Canceled. Please see website for details. and the Schlosspark of Grafenegg, thus bringing ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Rudolf Buchbinder “20/20 Visionaries” commemorates these occa- sound and scenery together in a unique way. One sions by paying homage to women in classical ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Donald Runnicles of the focuses in 2020 is Beethoven in his 250th- GENRE —instrumentalists, singers, conductors, and anniversary year. Voices such as those of Pretty TICKET PRICE RANGE €10 to €144 composers; by thrilling performances of some of GENRE Classical Yende, Camilla Nylund, and Jonas Kaufmann Beethoven’s beloved works; and by masterpieces of demonstrate the art of singing. Great orchestras TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION composers on whom he had a lasting impact. We TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $150 include the with Gustavo Ticket Purchase Link are thrilled to welcome vocalists Renée Fleming, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Dudamel; the London Symphony Orchestra with +43 (0)1 5868 383 Bernadette Peters, and Erin Wall; violinists Midori, Ticket Purchase Link Rudolf Buchbinder and Sir Simon Rattle; the St. Gil Shaham and Adele Anthony; conductors James 307-733-1128 Petersburg Philharmonic with pianist Alice Sara SOCIAL LINKS Conlon, Eun Sun Kim and Karina Canellakis; cellist Ott; and top ensembles from Pittsburgh and Johannes Moser; and pianists Garrick Ohlsson and BOOKING CONTACT Gstaad. In residence are The Youth Daniela Liebman. Other performances include Jeff Counts Orchestra (EUYO) with its young, enthusiastic “Patriotic Pops”; “Mahler in the Mountains”; bound- Booking cycle date range: musicians from all over Europe, the Tonkunstler ary-breaking Time for Three; composer, pianist Spring 2020 for Summer 2021 Orchestra with Music Director Yutaka Sado, and and vocalist Clarice Assad; and the acclaimed St. composer Konstantía Gourzí, who offers two festival Lawrence String Quartet and Dover Quartet. And, SOCIAL LINKS commissions and leads the composer conductor the glory of the festival is the extraordinary group workshop INK STILL WET. of musicians who make their way every year to Jackson Hole to come together as the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, under the visionary lead- ership of Maestro Donald Runnicles.

2020 Festivals guide 16 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 GREEN MOUNTAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL GSTAAD MENUHIN FESTIVAL & ACADEMY

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Burlington, VT FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Green Mountain audiences will enjoy seven Festival Website Among the shower of stars invited to the heart Gstaad and Saanenland, Switzerland concerts featuring the 35 distinguished faculty of the Swiss mountains this summer: tenor Jonas Festival Website members of our summer conservatory. Program- DATES June 28 – July 25, 2020 Kaufmann (starring in Fidelio under the direction of DATES July 17 – September 6, 2020 ming includes music at the heart of the chamber ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Kevin Lawrence Jaap van Zweden), clarinetist Andreas Ottensamer repertory, rarely heard 19th- and 20th-century (in residency for five concerts), “Baroque popes” Canceled. Please see website for details. GENRE Classical works, and fresh compositional voices of our time. René Jacobs (launching into Beethoven’s Missa ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Christoph Müller 200 string players, ages 14-30, are immersed in TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $25 solemnis two nights in a row) and Christophe the Festival’s atmosphere of focused professional- Rousset (conducting his Talens Lyriques in Mozart’s GENRE Classical ism, with four hours of daily individual practice, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION The Magic Flute), countertenor Philippe Jaroussky TICKET PRICE RANGE €30 to €220 daily chamber music rehearsals, lessons, ensemble Ticket Purchase Link (accompanied by L’Arpeggiata), pianist coachings, master classes, and extensive student 802-503-1220 (back with violinist Leonidas Kavakos), Klaus TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION performance opportunities in the concert hall and Maria Brandauer (who will be reading texts by Ticket Purchase Link SOCIAL LINKS in unconventional venues in the Burlington com- Beethoven and Wagner in a dialogue with Sebastian +41 33 748 81 82 munity. Guest artists will include , Knauer’s piano), violinist Renaud Capuçon (in Chad Hoopes, Violaine Melançon, and Philip Setzer. Beethoven’s all too rare Romances under Sylvain BOOKING CONTACT Cambreling’s direction), not to mention the Diabelli [email protected] Variations revisited by Mitsuko Ushida, the complete SOCIAL LINKS Bach Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin by Isabelle Schwabacher Summer Concert Faust, and the return of Sir at the Thursday, July 9, 7:30 PM head of his Académie Sainte-Cécile de Rome in 2020 Merola Saturday, July 11, 2:00 PM Beethoven’s Seventh. Presidio Theatre Summer Festival Postcard from Morocco Thursday, July 23, 7:30 PM Saturday, July 25, 2:00 PM Presidio Theatre Le nozze di Figaro Thursday, August 6, 7:30 PM Saturday, August 8, 2:00 PM Presidio Theatre Merola Grand Finale Saturday, August 22, 7:30 PM War Memorial Opera House

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2020 Festivals guide 17 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 HITZACKER SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL HONENS FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Hitzacker, Germany FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jon Kimura Parker How do you do justice to the oldest and most Festival Website The 2020 Honens Festival includes performances innovative chamber music festival on its 75th by 2018 Honens Prize Laureate Nicolas Namoradze GENRE Classical DATES August 1-9, 2020 anniversary? who has been praised as a “thinking virtuoso” TICKET PRICE RANGE CAD$10 to CAD$50 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Oliver Wille, violinist (Concerto.net) and is “set to become one of the truly We dipped into the treasure chest of past important artists of his generation” (Emanuel Ax). TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION highlights, pulled some out, and reinvented them. GENRE Classical Additional performances and master classes by Ticket Purchase Link Orpheus, the Kafka Fragments, the Quartet Cosmos 403-299-0140 TICKET PRICE RANGE €11 to €64 award-winning pianist John Stetch “who pushes the and Beethoven; , Patricia boundaries of his jazz and classical training to in- Kopatchinskaya and Eberhard Feltz—they will all BOOKING CONTACT TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION corporate melodies from all around the world.” (The Jon Kimura Parker be part of an open and creative celebration. The Ticket Purchase Link Vancouver Concert) Click for more details season also includes Kim Kashkashian, Bomsori +49 (0)5862 941 430 Booking cycle date range: Kim, , Sabine Meyer, Nils Mönkemeyer, Location Calgary, AB, Canada Summer 2020 for autumn 2021, summer 2021 for William Youn, Johannes Fischer, András Keller, Udo BOOKING CONTACT Festival Website autumn 2022 Samel, Markus Becker, my Kuss Quartet colleagues, [email protected] a world premiere on the theme of Orpheus by DATES September 10-13, 2020 SOCIAL LINKS Hitzacker’s 1976 composition prize-winner Manfred Booking cycle date range: Trojahn, our guest appearance at the Hamburg Summer 2020 for summer 2022 Elbphilharmonie and much more. SOCIAL LINKS INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD INSTITUTE & FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS GENRE Classical Masters Series recitals at Kaufman Music Center by Jerome Rose, Jeffrey Swann, Martin Garcia, Kenneth TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $20 Broberg, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Vladimir Feltsman, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION and more. Steven Mayer lecture/recital: Beethoven/ Ticket Purchase Link Liszt: Pastorale Symphony. IKIF James E. Swanton 212-501-3330 (Merkin Hall) Artist Recognition Scholarship Awards Competition. Daily master classes for festival participants. BOOKING CONTACT Julie Kedersha, festival director LOCATION Various location in New York, NY Festival Website Booking cycle date range: Fall 2020 for summer 2021 DATES July 12-26, 2020 SOCIAL LINKS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jerome Rose

2020 Festivals guide 18 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 ISING! INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ARTISTS FESTIVAL 48TH ISTANBUL MUSIC FESTIVAL FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Hao Jiang Tian FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Efruz Çakirkaya The iSING! Festival is a one-of-kind international The 48th Istanbul Music Festival, organized by opera experience, and the first-ever festival GENRES Classical • Opera the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts GENRE Classical dedicated to the vocal arts in China. Founded in TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 (IKSV) under the sponsorship of E.C.A. Presdöküm TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $70 2011 with a mission to introduce Mandarin as a lyric Sanayii A.S., presents “The Enlightened World of language, and Chinese vocal music as an emerging TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Beethoven” featuring his iconic works as well as new TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION genre in the mainstream music world, iSING! offers 646-258-9192 commissions and new projects inspired by him. Ticket Purchase Link a unique opportunity for Western singers to explore +90 212 334 0700 BOOKING CONTACT LOCATION the new and exciting opera scene in China. This Joanna Yuen, director of administration SOCIAL LINKS pioneering program has attracted major media Various locations in Istanbul, Turkey coverage such as the BBC, MSNBC, Associated Press, SOCIAL LINKS Festival Website , and Time magazine. DATES June 2-25, 2020 Location Suzhou, China Postponed until second half of September, 2020. Festival Website See website for more information. DATES July 23 – August 23, 2020

27TH ISTANBUL JAZZ FESTIVAL LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY SUMMERFEST

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Harun Izer FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS MUSIC DIRECTOR Inon Barnatan The surprises of the 27th Istanbul Jazz Festival this SummerFest 2020 Theme: Self + Sound— year include Gregory Porter and Foals, the band GENRES Composers use music to express their individuality GENRES Classical • Jazz Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic • Electronic • Rock • Pop that integrated the new wave and progressive and their identity, celebrate and idealize their TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $92 rock sound of the 2000s with alternative genres. • Reggae • Funk • World Music nationality, convey their love, and immortalize A Moodswing Reunion offers performances from TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $50 friends and family. Yet for all its highly individual TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Joshua Redman (saxophonist), Brad Mehldau expression, music is also universal and speaks to Ticket Purchase Link (pianist), Christian McBride (jazz bassist), and Brian TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION us equally. This summer’s program explores how 858-459-3728 Ticket Purchase Link Blade (drummer). composers write themselves into their music, and BOOKING CONTACT +90 212 334 0700 how the diversity of influences that make us unique Location Sarah Campbell, programming manager SOCIAL LINKS finds its expression in sound. Various locations in Istanbul, Turkey Booking cycle date range: Festival Website Location La Jolla, CA Ongoing, through February prior to the festival Festival Website DATES June 27 – July 14, 2020 SOCIAL LINKS Postponed to a later date. See website for details. DATES July 31 – August 21, 2020

2020 Festivals guide 19 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 LAKE FIELD MUSIC CAMP LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location , Canada FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Lake George, NY Established in 1977, this retreat for adults brings Festival Website Musicians attend solely as a way to advance Festival Website together amateur musicians and an exceptional intellectually, artistically, and professionally; faculty of 20+ professional musicians for one DATES August 9-16, 2020 working closely together in a tight-knit community DATES August 9-21, 2020 week of instruction and creativity in a friendly ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Andrew Wolf and nurturing atmosphere performing daily open ARTISTIC DIRECTORS and supportive environment. Singers and rehearsals, live public concerts, and outreach events Barbora Kolarova and Roger Kalia instrumentalists build their program from 50+ GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic in the picturesque summer resort town of Lake GENRE Classical workshops and large and small ensembles in TICKET PRICE RANGE $899 to $1499 George. The repertoire performed at the festival is classical, jazz, world, and . Instrumental selected from requests submitted by participating TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $50 ensembles range from orchestra and concert band TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION musicians. Each participant can be assured to have to chamber groups and jazz combos as well as Ticket Purchase Link an active and rigorous rehearsal and performance TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION New Orleans and Klezmer music. Vocal options 647-692-3463 schedule. As a performance and community-based Ticket Purchase Link range from the 100-voice “choir for all” and musical festival, LGMF bridges the gap between faculty and 518-791-5089 theater to duets and master classes. Workshops BOOKING CONTACT students. There are no teachers or students, private designed for everyone include African drumming, Andrew Wolf lessons, master classes or organized studios. Rather, BOOKING CONTACT Alexander Lombard hand bells, ukulele, vocal basics, rhythm and sight- Booking cycle date range: a unique roster of distinguished artists and young reading. Concerts by participants and faculty in the March to June for August event musicians at the cusp of their professional careers SOCIAL LINKS evenings offer opportunities to perform or relax collaborate in chamber music ensembles, a full and be entertained. Located on a lakeside campus SOCIAL LINKS orchestral setting, innovative outreach programs, 150 kilometers from Toronto, Canada, with full and cutting-edge concerts. accommodations available.

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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS GENRE Classical In a friendly and warm environment, hear the greatest performers of our time and discover new TICKET PRICE RANGE €0 to €30 young talent. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Location Various locations in Reims, France Ticket Purchase Link Festival Website +33 (0) 892 68 36 22 DATES June 17 – July 18, 2020 BOOKING CONTACT Jean-Philippe Collard ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jean-Philippe Collard SOCIAL LINKS

2020 Festivals guide 20 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 LUCERNE FESTIVAL MAINLY MOZART

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Michael Francis This year’s festival theme is “Joy” and Beethoven’s Various locations in Lucerne, Switzerland June 6: Works by Mozart and Beethoven; June 11: works form its central core. All nine symphonies Festival Website Conrad Jones, , Martin Chalifour, violin, GENRE Classical will be performed by a variety of the best- perform works by Ravel, Haydn, Arvo Pärt, Mozart; TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $88 known international symphony orchestras. The DATES August 14 – September 13, 2020 June 13: violinist Simone Lamsma in works by Lucerne Festival Orchestra will open with the ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Mozart/Beethoven, Bruch Violin Concerto; June TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION First Symphony, led by , and the Michael Haefliger, executive and artistic director 18: cellist Maximilian Hornung in works by Mozart, Ticket Purchase Link Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique under Shostakovich, Mendelssohn; June 20: pianist Dejan 619-239-0100 x2 GENRE Classical Sir will perform Beethoven’s Lazic, in works by Kodály, Mozart, Beethoven. BOOKING CONTACT Ninth at its conclusion. Among the other TICKET PRICE RANGE €25 to €300 Max Crab ensembles: the Vienna Philharmonic, the Royal Location San Diego, CA Concertgebouworkest, Il Giardino Armonico, and TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Festival Website Booking cycle date range: the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra. At the Lucerne Ticket Purchase Link DATES June 5-20, 2020 Summer 2020 Festival Academy, David Robertson and Sylvain +41 (0)41 226 44 80 Some events have been cancelled. Please SOCIAL LINKS Cambreling will direct important projects, and check website for more information. the , pianist , and SOCIAL LINKS percussionist Christian Dierstein are among the coaches. There is a new concert series “Cosmos Boulez,” and the Alumni will give an orchestral concert under Russian conductor Ilan Volkov. CRISIS RESOURCES CENTER Rebecca Saunders is composer-in-residence and Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla the “artiste étoile.” For the Artist in Need To Donate to Relief Efforts National and local relief funds for >>> >MusicCaresMusicCares COVID-19 Relief Relief fund fund performing artists who have lost >>> >SmallSmall BusinessBusiness Relief FunFundd income since the COVID-19 outbreak. >>> >ArtsReadyArtsReady >>>Go>G o >>> >AmericansAmericans for the ArtsArt Check with your local arts organizations; many have set up relief funds specific to musicians in your community.

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2020 Festivals guide 21 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 MARLBORO MUSIC FESTIVAL MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA SUMMER AT ORCHESTRA HALL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTORS FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Minneapolis, MN Led by Co-Artistic Directors and Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss Under the new leadership of Creative Partner Festival Website Jonathan Biss, some of the world’s most acclaimed for Summer Programming Jon Kimura Parker, solo and chamber music artists and outstanding GENRE Classical the Minnesota Orchestra presents Summer DATES July 17 – August 8, 2020 young professional musicians explore chamber TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $40 at Orchestra Hall—four weeks of classical ARTISTIC DIRECTOR music with unlimited rehearsal time and in the kind programming in the heart of downtown Jon Kimura Parker, Creative Partner for Summer of depth only possible at Marlboro. Some of their TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Minneapolis, with music offered both indoors Programming discoveries are shared in weekend concerts that The Ticket Purchase Link and out. Celebrating the Beethoven anniversary New York Times has called “extraordinary.” 215-569-4690 (until June 15); 802-254-2394 (from year, the 2020 summer season is presented GENRE Classical June 20) under the theme “The Beethoven Influence” TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $85 LOCATION Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT and explores music by Beethoven and those he Festival Website BOOKING CONTACT [email protected] for audition information inspired. Featured artists include conductors Akiko TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION DATES July 18 – August 16, 2020 for outstanding young professional musicians Fujimoto, Kerem Hasan, Sarah Hicks, Ken David Ticket Purchase Link Masur, Kristiina Poska, and Dima Slobodeniouk; 612-371-5656 SOCIAL LINKS soprano Jessica Rivera; pianists Jon Kimura Parker, Scott Cuellar, William Eddins, and Andrew Staupe, SOCIAL LINKS as well as In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater, and The Moving Company. MEROLA OPERA PROGRAM 2020 SUMMER FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location San Francisco, CA San Francisco’s acclaimed Merola Opera Program, Festival Website one of the most prestigious and selective opera training programs in the world, launches its 63rd DATES July 9 – August 22, 2020 Canceled. Please see website for details. season offering audiences a look at the opera stars of tomorrow. The 2020 Merola Summer Festival ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Sheri Greenawald announces this year’s 29 Merola artists, selected from more than 800 international applicants from GENRES Classical • Opera as far away as China, South Korea, Germany, and TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $80 Colombia, as well as across the U.S. and Canada. The 2020 Summer Festival features the Schwabacher TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Summer Concert (July 9 & 11), performances of Ticket Purchase Link Postcard from Morocco (July 23 & 25), Le nozze di 415-864-3330 Figaro (August 6 & 8), and the Merola Grand Finale (August 22). The Festival includes performances SOCIAL LINKS in San Francisco at various locations. Click for individual event tickets and information or 415-864- 3330 starting April 14.

2020 Festivals guide 22 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 MIZZOU INTERNATIONAL COMPOSERS FESTIVAL MONTREAL CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Columbia, MO FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Montreal, Quebec, Canada The 2020 Mizzou International Composers Festival Festival Website “One of Canada’s premiere celebrations of musical Festival Website will feature Ensemble-in-Residence Alarm Will collegiality” (Toronto Star), the Montreal Chamber Sound. Hailed by The New York Times as “one of the DATES July 27 – August 1, 2020 Music Festival proudly celebrates its 25th- DATES June 12-21, 2020 most vital and original ensembles on the American ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Stefan Freund anniversary season. Special events include the Cancelled. See website for more information. scene,” the group will work intensively with eight Canadian debut of Hungarian violinist Barnabás resident composers on the premieres of new works. GENRES Classical • New Music Kelemen, the Juilliard Quartet, master pianists ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Denis Brott, C.M. Additionally, this year’s festival will feature guest TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 André Laplante and Alexander Ullman, and a special composers David T. Little and Chen Yi, who will have opening night performance by The Swingles. In GENRE Classical several works performed and will coach the resident TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION honor of the Beethoven 250 year, tributes to Ludwig TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $45 composers. The Mizzou New Music Ensemble and 573-882-3781 include the complete cello sonatas with cellist Amit University of Missouri faculty will perform works by Peled and pianist Alon Goldstein; three of today’s TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Chen, Little, and others affiliated with the festival BOOKING CONTACT fastest-rising string quartets, the Rolston, Ulysses, Ticket Purchase Link and the University of Missouri. All events are free. Jacob Gotlib and the Simply Quartet from Vienna; and a newly 514-489-7444 discovered transcription of Beethoven’s “Kreutzer” SOCIAL LINKS BOOKING CONTACT Sonata for string quintet, featuring Festival Founder Denis Brott, C.M., founder and artistic director, and Artistic Director Denis Brott. 514-489-7444 Booking cycle date range: MONTEUX SCHOOL AND MUSIC FESTIVAL Spring 2020 for spring 2021 SOCIAL LINKS FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 21 – July 26, 2020 Six Festival Orchestra concerts, 5:00 pm Sundays, and five chamber music concerts, 5:00 pm ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Michael Jinbo Wednesdays, in Forest Studio, Monteux Festival GENRE Classical Grounds, Hancock, ME. Featuring violinist Gabe Lefkowitz, concertmaster Louisville Symphony; TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $25 conductor Kensho Watanabe; cellist Bjorn Ranheim, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION St. Louis Symphony; trombonist Stephen Lange, Ticket Purchase Link Boston Symphony; flutist Jennifer Gunn, Chicago 207-812-6260 Symphony. Free Youth Concert, Thursday, July 9 at 10:30 am. Memorial Concert with BOOKING CONTACT Maestro Michael Jinbo conducting, Sunday, July 19 Marc Thayer, executive director at 5:00 pm. Orchestral Pops Concert Sunday, July 26, at 5:00 pm. Booking cycle date range: Summer 2020 Location Hancock, ME Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS

2020 Festivals guide 23 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 MORITZBURG FESTIVAL MOSTLY MOZART FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Dresden, Germany FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DIRECTORS A lively spirit of innovation, musical vitality and Festival Website The 54th annual Mostly Mozart Festival (July Jane Moss, Ehrenkranz, artistic director; Louis fascinating performance venues contribute to the 11 – August 8, 2020) harnesses Mozart’s Langrée, Renée and Robert Belfer, music director DATES August 2-16, 2020 unique atmosphere of the Moritzburg Festival. innovative spirit as its inspiration and includes GENRES Founded in 1993 by Kai Vogler, Peter Bruns, and ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jan Vogler groundbreaking multidisciplinary productions, Jan Vogler, whose inspiration was the famous acclaimed artists of all genres, introductions to Classical • Contemporary • Cross-disciplinary GENRE Classical “Marlboro Festival” in the U.S., the Moritzburg emerging creative voices, as well as commissions TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $175 Festival considers itself a laboratory for musical TICKET PRICE RANGE €8 to €56 and premieres. experimentation while also offering a home to TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION excellence. Under the artistic directorship of the TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION LOCATION Lincoln Center, New York, NY Ticket Purchase Link world-renowned cellist Jan Vogler it has established +49 (0)351 160 926 15 Festival Website 212-721-6500 itself as one of the world’s leading chamber music DATES July 11 - August 8, 2020 Booking cycle date range: festivals. Every August, internationally renowned SOCIAL LINKS Canceled. Please check website for more All year round soloists and outstanding young artists from all information. over the world meet in Moritzburg near Dresden. SOCIAL LINKS Surrounded by idyllic nature they work on new interpretations of chamber music pieces, presenting them in transitional ensembles which are unique and exclusive to the Moritzburg Festival. As outstanding musicality must be safeguarded for MOZARTFEST WÜRZBURG the future, the Festival is very concerned about the support for rising young artists. Since the founding FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Evelyn Meining of the Moritzburg Festival Academy in 2006, young The unique location in the heart of Würzburg as musicians have had the opportunity to intensely well as the innovative MozartLaboratory. Here, GENRE Classical work on joint programs, introducing themselves to renowned scholars, musicians, professors, and other TICKET PRICE RANGE €0 to €180 a broader audience in various concert formats. creative thinkers come together and engage in qualitative research that relates to Mozart and his TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION works. Ticket Purchase Link +49 937 37 2336 Location Würzburg, Germany Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS DATES May 29 – June 28, 2020 Please check website; tickets are not being sold at this time.

2020 Festivals guide 24 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST MUSIC HOUSE INTERNATIONAL

2020 SUMMER SCHOOL & FESTIVAL FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA Music House, directed by Kimberly Fisher, principal Festival Website FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Santa Barbara, CA second violin of The and Visionary director James Darrah returns as creative Festival Website conducted by Maestro Kensho Watanabe, former DATES June 17 – July 3, 2020 director for ’s dance-opera spectacle Les assistant conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra ARTISTIC DIRECTORS Enfants Terribles, Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges, and DATES June 15 – August 8, 2020 (2016-19), is a summer festival held at Bryn Mawr Kimberly Fisher, principal second violinist, Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, with a children’s Festival postponed until July 13; Academy to College, in which college students and young The Philadelphia Orchestra, and Kensho chorus drawn from the Academy’s community Sing! begin as scheduled and online as Music Academy professionals work extensively with principal Watanabe, former assistant conductor, The program. London Symphony Orchestra Conductor Remote Learning Institute. players and other members of The Philadelphia Philadelphia Orchestra Laureate makes his festival CHIEF ARTISTIC OFFICER Jamie Broumas Orchestra in private lessons and master classes, debut as part of the Academy’s LSO educational solo performance and audition preparation, GENRE Classical partnership. He leads the Festival Orchestra’s annual GENRE Classical symphony and repertory orchestra rehearsals, and community concert at the Santa Barbara Bowl. Also TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $10 TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $100 chamber music. Music House also includes ample featured: conductors Fabio Luisi, Larry Rachleff, solo performance opportunities and two concerto TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION and Nathalie Stutzmann; composers-in-residence TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION competitions. 856-875-6816 Ellen Reid and Tyshawn Sorey; vocalist Julia Bullock, Ticket Purchase Link cellist , pianist Conrad Tao; and the 805-969-8787 BOOKING CONTACT resident Takács Quartet with new violist Richard [email protected] O’Neill. Fellows perform alongside faculty and BOOKING CONTACT SOCIAL LINKS guests—five resident LSO principals among them. Jamie Broumas, chief artistic officer All told, 140 fellows and 77 faculty members take SOCIAL LINKS part in 170 concerts, recitals, and master classes on the Academy’s picturesque Miraflores campus and throughout scenic Santa Barbara.

2020 Festivals guide 25 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 MUSIC IN THE VINEYARDS NATIONAL REPERTORY ORCHESTRA

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES August 1-23, 2020 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Breckenridge, CO Now in its 26th season, the Napa Valley’s premier The National Repertory Orchestra (NRO) is Festival Website ARTISTIC DIRECTORS Michael and Daria Adams chamber music festival is held in intimate winery breaking barriers among performance, education, DATES June 13 – July 31, 2020 settings at twilight with witty commentary and GENRES Classical • Chamber Music and the community to develop the 21st-century wine tasting at intermission. Music in the Vineyards classical . This year, the NRO celebrates ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Carl Topilow brings acclaimed chamber music artists and TICKET PRICE RANGE $60 to $80 its 60th-anniversary diamond concert season GENRE Classical ensembles from around the world for a festival TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION along with A Lifetime of Music under the baton known for its quality of music, one-of-kind concerts, Ticket Purchase Link of Music Director Carl Topilow. The eight-week TICKET PRICE RANGE $5 to $45 and the genuine connection between performer 707-258-5559 festival includes two performances weekly at and audience. The festival showcases nearly 40 the Riverwalk Center just below the picturesque TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION world-class artists-in-residence from the U.S., BOOKING CONTACT mountain landscape of Breckenridge, CO. Guest Ticket Purchase Link Europe, and Canada. Artists featured this summer Evie Ayers, executive director conductors include Teddy Abrams, Michael Stern, 970-547-3100 include The Pacifica Quartet, Francisco Fullana, The Joshua Weilerstein, and Marcelo Lehninger. Booking cycle date range: Maxwell Quartet, Zlatomir Fung, Jason Vieaux, The Season highlights showcase Russian composers; BOOKING CONTACT Fall 2020 for summer 2021 Escher Quartet, and many more. “Fabulously French” works by Berlioz, Debussy, Kristin Kall and Ravel; works by Barber, Beethoven, Brahms, Location SOCIAL LINKS Booking cycle date range: Copland, Elgar, Mahler, Florence Pryce, John Napa Valley Wineries, Napa Valley, CA Autumn 2020 for summer 2021 Williams and many more round out a loaded Festival Website schedule of repertoire. SOCIAL LINKS MUSIC@MENLO

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTORS David Finckel and Under the artistic direction of David Finckel and Wu Han, Music@Menlo is a three-week Bay Area festival GENRE Classical comprising concerts, artist-curated recitals, lectures, TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $86 a training institute, and free public events. For its 18th season, “Haydn Connections,” Music@Menlo TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION celebrates the father of the Classical style, and Ticket Purchase Link explores the composer’s life, music, and legacy. The 650-331-0202 festival presents over 50 events on its three stages BOOKING CONTACT in Atherton and Menlo Park with a stellar line up of Daphne Wong 48 reknowned artists. Booking cycle date range: LOCATION Atherton, CA Summer/fall 2020 for summer 2021 Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS DATES July 17 – August 8, 2020 Canceled. Please see website for details.

2020 Festivals guide 26 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 NORFOLK CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL OFF THE HOOK ARTS SUMMERFEST 2020:

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Norfolk, CT THE POWER OF MUSIC: Continuing a 100-plus year musical tradition, the Festival Website Yale School of Music’s Norfolk Chamber Music BEETHOVEN, TRANSCENDENCE, HEALING, PART II Festival is a leader in the study and performance DATES June 25 – August 15, 2020 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Fort Collins, CO of chamber music. Each summer the Festival ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Melvin Chen In a continuation of WinterFest 2020’s celebration Festival Website offers stellar concerts performed by acclaimed of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, musicians from across the globe. Simultaneously, GENRE Classical Off the Hook Arts presents SummerFest 2020, DATES June 15 – July 1, 2020 Norfolk offers three fully funded (tuition, housing, TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $60 surveying the rich themes of Beethoven, and meals) programs, each featuring intensive ARTISTIC DIRECTOR transcendence, and healing over seven study with Festival artists and weekly perfor- TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION exhilarating concert series performances, two GENRES Classical • Jazz mance opportunities. Norfolk’s stunning grounds Ticket Purchase Link outstanding jazz concerts, and the eclectic, four- in the rolling hills of northwestern Connecticut 860-542-3000 TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $400 part “Dynamics” series of inspiring musical talks combined with focused training by some of the and performances, all featuring Off the Hook Arts’ TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION world’s greatest chamber artists offers fellows a BOOKING CONTACT roster of world-class artists. Ticket Purchase Link pivotal and unforgettable experience. James Nelson, general manaager 970-305-2261 Booking cycle date range: Summer 2020 for summer 2021 BOOKING CONTACT Jephta Bernstein, executive director SOCIAL LINKS Booking cycle date range: Mid- to late summer for 2021 summer SOCIAL LINKS

2020 Festivals guide 27 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 OJAI MUSIC FESTIVAL OPERA IN THE OZARKS

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Ojai, CA FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION The 74th Festival with Music Director Matthias Festival Website Opera in the Ozarks is a unique summer music Inspiration Point, Eureka Springs, AR Pintscher will highlight progressive and forward- festival in beautiful Eureka Springs, AR. Founded Festival Website thinking composers of our generation while paying DATES June 11 – 14, 2020 in 1950, it has also earned the reputation of being homage to early classical roots. Featuring a vast Canceled. Please check website for more a prominent training program for emerging opera DATES May 20 – July 17, 2020 information. array of composers from the past six centuries, professionals—alumni have gone on to sing on ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Thomas Cockrell the program will connect the traditional with ARTISTIC DIRECTOR the world’s major operatic stages. Each summer, the contemporary, from , Olga audiences look forward to a vivid repertoire of well- GENRES Classical • Opera GENRE Classical Neuwirth, to Pintscher himself. Joining him on loved operas spotlighting the exceptional voices TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $30 this adventurous musical exploration will be the TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $150 of tomorrow’s stars, accompanied by an orchestra Ensemble intercontemporain in its Ojai Music of gifted musicians. Performing under the baton TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Festival debut, the return of the Calder Quartet, plus TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION of Artistic Director Thomas Cockrell, dozens of Ticket Purchase Link the LA Phil New Music Group, Tamara Mumford, Ticket Purchase Link professional artists and musicians come from across 479-253-8595 Della Miles, and Andrew Staples. 805-646-2053 the country to present a month of performances. BOOKING CONTACT SOCIAL LINKS The 2020 season features Massenet’s Cendrillon, Nancy Preis, general director Donizetti’s , and Ward’s The Crucible—21 performances, fully staged, SOCIAL LINKS OLSHAN TEXAS MUSIC FESTIVAL at Inspiration Point. There will also be multiple performances of a children’s opera, as well as FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 6-27, 2020 two performances of a Broadway cabaret, two Olshan Texas Music Festival brings 80 of classical Canceled. Please check website for more performances of a chamber music program, and music’s rising stars from around the world to information. a Taste of Opera event (dinner). Locations vary each June to develop skills in orchestral, throughout the multi-county region for these ARTISTIC DIRECTOR chamber music, and solo performance. Under the outreach events. Alan Austin, general and artistic director leadership of an exceptional performing artist/ faculty, Orchestra Fellows perform four major GENRES Classical • Jazz orchestral programs. Conductors: Hans Graf, Franz TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $30 Anton Krager, Gerard Schwarz. Soloists: Andrew Staupe, piano; Houston Symphony Chorus; vocal TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION soloists TBA. Additional summer institutes include: Ticket Purchase Link Building Your Craft (Voice), Middle and High School 713-743-3388 Jazz Institute. BOOKING CONTACT Location Houston, TX Alan Austin Festival Website Booking cycle date range: Fall 2020 for June 2021 SOCIAL LINKS

2020 Festivals guide 28 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 OPERA THEATRE OF SAINT LOUIS OREGON BACH FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DIRECTORS FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS GENRE Classical OTSL’s 2020 festival season features three all-new James Robinson, artistic director; Andrew Guest conductors Julian Wachner, Eric Jacobsen, productions and the world premiere of Tobias Jorgensen, general director and Miguel Harth-Bedoya lead three Bach choral TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $70 Picker and Aryeh Lev Stollman’s Awakenings. masterworks: Mass in B minor, St. John Passion, and GENRE Opera TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION The season also includes Bizet’s iconic Carmen, St. Matthew Passion. Ticket Purchase Link Strauss’s effervescent Die Fledermaus, Floyd’s TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $135 LOCATION Eugene, OR 541-682-5000 powerful parable Susannah, and the annual Center Festival Website Stage concert, highlighting the talents of OTSL’s TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION BOOKING CONTACT highly selective young artist programs. Ticket Purchase Link DATES June 26 – July 12, 2020 Michael Anderson 314-961-0644 LOCATION Various locations in St. Louis, MO SOCIAL LINKS Festival Website BOOKING CONTACT Damon Bristo DATES May 23 – June 28, 2020 SOCIAL LINKS

ORCAS ISLAND CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL OXFORD PIANO FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Orcas Island, WA FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Oxford, United Kingdom The 23rd season brings a diverse lineup of artists Festival Website It is a particular joy to see alumni of the Festival Festival Website and a wealth of musical moments featuring ten return for a special concert on August 2. main-stage concerts, free pre-concert talks, a DATES August 7-22, 2020 Collectively, they will traverse five of Beethoven’s DATES August 1-9, 2020 children’s concert, and open rehearsals. Artistic ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Aloysia Friedmann most varied sonatas as a prelude to Paul Lewis’s ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Director and violinist-violist Aloysia Friedmann is performance of two titled sonatas and the Diabelli Marios Papadopoulos, MBE joined by internationally acclaimed performers the GENRE Classical Variations later that evening. Distinguished guests GENRE Classical Montrose Trio, the Kostov-Valkov Duo, violinists TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $40 making their festival debuts are Nelson Freire Daniel Ching, William Fedkenheuer, Jeffrey Thayer, performing Brahms’s No. 2 with the TICKET PRICE RANGE $6.50 to $60 and Sandy Yamamoto, violist Toby Hoffman, flutist TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Oxford Philharmonic; pianist in Sandy Hughes, and pianist Jon Kimura Parker Ticket Purchase Link the opening concert on 1 August; and new-music TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION amongst others for this exciting island festival— 360-376-2281 champion Alain Lefèvre. We look forward to seeing Ticket Purchase Link Classical Music with a View. old friends Nikolai Lugansky and Richard Goode, +44 (0)1865 980 980 SOCIAL LINKS while our master class series will include Vanessa Latarche, Yoheved Kaplinsky, and , SOCIAL LINKS the lifetime president of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra.

2020 Festivals guide 29 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM Jerome Rose Founder/Director CHAMBER MUSIC WORKSHOP +VMJF,FEFSTIB FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Shelter Island, NY Festival Director Led by esteemed cellist and teacher Merry Festival Website Peckham, PMP’s Chamber Music Workshop 22nd Season (CMW) continues to grow into one of the DATES May 23 – June 14, 2020 New York City country’s most prestigious summer chamber ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Merry Peckham music programs. The workshop invites young Concerts July 12-26, 2020 artists ages 18 and up to devote three weeks GENRE Classical Lectures Masterclasses

2020 Festivals guide 30 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 PRAGUE SUMMER NIGHTS FESTIVAL RAVENNA FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Prague and Tabor, Czech Republic FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Ravenna, Classical Movements’ Prague Summer Nights: Festival Website The main theme of this year’s Festival is “Sweet Festival Website Young Artists Music Festival (PSN) affords aspiring color of the Oriental sapphire,” a quote from Dante’s young professionals in the world of opera and DATES June 15 – July 13, 2020 Commedia. The poet’s idea of the East shared many DATES June 3 – July 19, 2020 orchestra the opportunity to perform in some ARTISTIC DIRECTOR John Nardolillo traits of Byzantine Ravenna: It is likely that, when ARTISTIC DIRECTORS of Europe’s most historic venues and offers fully Dante described the sky, he had the starry mosaics President Cristina Mazzavillani Muti, staged opera productions, orchestral performances, GENRE Classical of the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in mind. So Franco Masotti, and Angelo Nicastro chamber music concerts, an opera scenes program, TICKET PRICE RANGE €20 to €50 whilst this year’s theme revels in Ravenna’s history, it voice and concerto competitions, and even a will be matched by a more disturbing image, which GENRES cabaret concert. In 2020, PSN is proud to return to TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION marks a distance to that fabulous East. The Festival Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic • Opera • Ballet the historic Estates Theater, located in the heart 703-683-6040 also looks at the threats Dante’s Earthly Paradise is • Contemporary Dance • Theatre • Musical Theatre of one of Europe’s most beautiful and historic now witnessing as environmentalism becomes one • Sacred Music BOOKING CONTACT cities, Prague. Fully staged performances of Don of our greatest challenges. The 2020 program opens TICKET PRICE RANGE €1 to €100 Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro, with orchestra, Jessica Perez with Koyaanisqatsi, accompanied live by the Philip will be presented on the stage of the Estates with SOCIAL LINKS Glass Ensemble. This year’s events also include TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION professional sets and historic costumes from the the acclaimed production Carmina Burana by Fura Ticket Purchase Link National Theater. dels Baus. leads two concerts with +39 0544 249244 his Cherubini Orchestra, conducts a double event with the Mariinsky Orchestra, and BOOKING CONTACT Ivan Fischer leads the Festival Orchestra. Segreteria Ravenna Festival Feeling like things The 100Cellos celebrate their instrument for a Booking cycle date range: week of events. Autumn 2020, at the latest, for summer 2021 are upside down? SOCIAL LINKS You’re not alone. We’re all trying to navigate these extraordinary times.

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2020 Festivals guide 31 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 RIGA JURMALA MUSIC FESTIVAL ROUND TOP MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Martin T:son Engstroem FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR James Dick The Festival returns for its second run in 2020, 2020 celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Round featuring soloists such as Sir András Schiff, The GENRE Classical Top Festival and the 250th anniversary of L. van GENRE Classical King’s Singers, Maria João Pires, Leonidas Kavakos, TICKET PRICE RANGE €8 to €120 Beethoven’s birth. All orchestral programs include TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $45 Truls Mørk, and Nelson Freire. This year’s orchestras at least one of his works and works by Shostakovich, are Philharmonic Orchestra with Lahav Shani, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Mussorgsky-Ravel, Franck, Stravinsky, Dvořák, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with Manfred Ticket Purchase Link and Ravel. Chamber music programs are mixing Ticket Purchase Link Honeck, Philharmonic Orchestra +371 27770010 Beethoven and contemporary works. Click for full 979-249-3129 with and Philharmonia. BOOKING CONTACT schedule. BOOKING CONTACT LOCATION Riga and Jurmala, Latvia [email protected] Location Round Top, TX Alain G. Declert Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS Festival Website Booking cycle date range: DATES July 10 – August 30, 2020 DATES May 31 – July 12, 2020 Autumn 2020 to summer 2022 Canceled. Please see website for details. Canceled. Please see website for details. SOCIAL LINKS

ROCKPORT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL SALZBURG FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 12 – July 12, 2020 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Salzburg, Austria Under the artistic direction of Barry Shiffman, the Canceled. Please see website for details. Handel’s staged by Robert Wilson; Festival Website 2020 Rockport Chamber Music Festival celebrates Strauss’s Elektra; Mozart’s Don Giovanni and the 250th birthday of . ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Barry Shiffman Die Zauberflöte; Puccini’s Tosca; Donizetti’s Don DATES July 18 – August 30, 2020 From his Ninth Symphony with the jubilant GENRE Classical Pasquale; Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov; Verdi’s ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Markus Hinterhäuser “Ode to Joy” chorus opening the season to his I vespri siciliani; Luigi Nono’s Intolleranza 1960; groundbreaking final Quartet (Op. 131) closing the TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $105 Morton Feldman’s Neither; public master class with GENRE Classical Festival Annex, audiences will hear Beethoven’s TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Christa Ludwig. Singers include , Anna TICKET PRICE RANGE €15 to €750 genius through world-class performances of his Ticket Purchase Link Netrebko, Javier Camarena, Ilda Abdrazakov, and sonatas, trios, quartets, and more. The Festival also 978-546-7391 others of equal calibre. Conductors will be Franz TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION brings works from Vivaldi and Bach to Brahms and Welser-Möst, Joanna Mallwitz, Teodor Currentzis, Ticket Purchase Link Liszt to intriguing new commissions. World-class BOOKING CONTACT Ingo Metzmacher, , Riccardo Muti, +43 662 8045 500 artists include the Brentano Quartet, Miro Quartet, Barry Shiffman Christian Thielemann, , and A Far Cry, pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, the Dover others. The Wiener Philharmoniker is the resident SOCIAL LINKS Quartet with pianist George Li, and much more. Booking cycle date range: orchestra, and many guest orchestras will be Fall/December for following summer participating as well. Location Rockport, MA Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS

2020 Festivals guide 32 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL SANTA FE DESERT CHORALE

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Santa Fe, NM FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Pianist Richard Goode returns for the first time Festival Website The all-professional Santa Fe Desert Chorale Various locations in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, NM in years to give a solo recital; violinist Leila presents the 2020 summer festival of 11 concerts Festival Website Josefowicz makes her Festival debut playing DATES July 19 – August 24, 2020 of three distinct programs under the unifying Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time with pianist Canceled. Please see website for details. theme “Unlikely Partners.” The individual programs DATES July 17 – August 7, 2020 Postponed to Summer 2021 Gilles Vonsattel, cellist Peter Wiley, and clarinetist are titled “The Jew and the Gentile: ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Marc Neikrug Ricardo Morales. Also featured: the newly formed and Claudio Monteverdi,” “Roaring ‘20s,” and “East ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Joshua Habermann Chien-Kim-Watkins Trio; the Dover and Escher GENRE Classical Meets West.” For the last, the Chorale will premiere string quartets in octets by Mendelssohn and a commissioned work for mixed chorus and tabla GENRES Classical • Choral TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $98 Enescu; conductor James Gaffigan; piano-vocal by its first female composer-in-residence in over a TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $95 recitals by mezzo-sopranos Michelle DeYoung decade, Reena Esmail. Two vocal chamber music TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION and Sasha Cooke, tenor Paul Groves, pianist Pei- programs have been added to the program on TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Ticket Purchase Link Yao Wang; debuts by countertenor Jakub Józef Friday, July 17 and Friday, August 7, 2020. The Ticket Purchase Link 505-982-1890 Orlinski and pianists Calio Alonso and Michal Biel; Winter Festival, “Nochebuena,” opens on December 505-988-2282 world premieres of four Festival-commissioned BOOKING CONTACT 12 and runs through December 22, 2020. BOOKING CONTACT string quartets and a work for piano and wind Valerie Guy quintet by Michael Seltenreich; plus Doug Fitch Emma Marzen Booking cycle date range: directs Artistic Director Marc Neikrug’s chamber Booking cycle date range: Winter 2019 and spring 2020 for summer 2021 opera A Song by Mahler. December 2020 for summer 2022 SOCIAL LINKS SOCIAL LINKS

2020 Festivals guide 33 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 THE SANTA FE OPERA

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS The 2020 season presents five operas in 37 perfor- mances and two Apprentice Scenes performances, running from July 3 to August 29. The Opera’s 64th WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS FESTIVAL? season, the second led by General Director Robert At the Santa Fe Opera, the show begins long Meya, Artistic Director Alexander Neef, and Music before curtain. Opera fans come early for tailgate Director Harry Bicket, explores classic works of the parties in the parking lot, preview dinners, or the repertory as well as operas new to the Santa Fe prelude talks. Performances of the highest quality Opera and the world’s stage. are presented in a dramatic theater with stunning views of the surrounding mountain landscape. With its open backstage looking out to the Jemez Mountains, the Santa Fe Opera provides a view of LOCATION spectacular sunsets visible during performances. Santa Fe, NM This season opens with The Barber of Seville. Festival Website From overture to finale, Rossini’s masterpiece is the pinnacle of comic opera. Mozart’s beloved DATES final opera, The Magic Flute, follows. Tim Albery’s July 3 – August 29, 2020 timeless production has been called one of the Canceled. Please see website for details. THE BARBER warmest, truest, and most affecting shows in the OF SEVILLE Santa Fe Opera’s history. Wagner’s Tristan und DIRECTORS Isolde will have its company debut and will feature Robert K. Meya, general director; Alexander Simon O’Neill and Tamara Wilson. Freud-meets- Neef, artistic director; Harry Bicket, music THE MAGIC fairytale in David Pountney’s staging of Dvořák’s director FLUTE dramatic jewel, Rusalka with soprano Ailyn Pérez Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in her role debut. Rounding out the season is the GENRE Watch the world premiere of Huang Ruo and David Henry Classical 2020 Season TRISTAN UND Hwang’s, M. Butterfly. Based on the 1988 TONY Preview TICKET PRICE RANGE ISOLDE award-winning Broadway play, the story is inspired by the true tale of a French diplomat who falls in $38 to $324 love with a Chinese opera singer turned spy. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION RUSALKA Ticket Purchase Link Antonín Dvořák 505-986-5900 or 800-280-4654 WORLD PREMIERE SOCIAL LINKS santafeopera.org M. BUTTERFLY 505-986-5900 Music Huang Ruo Illustration by Benedetto Cristofani Libretto David Henry Hwang

2020 Festivals guide 34 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 SFO-124F_Musical America_v2.indd 1 3/13/20 17:07 SARASOTA MUSIC FESTIVAL SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jeffrey Kahane FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Saratoga Springs, NY The Sarasota Music Festival‘s summer 2020 The Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) Festival Website program is available on its website. GENRES Classical • Chamber Music welcomes resident companies , DATES July 14 – August 25, 2020 TICKET PRICE RANGE $5 to $41 The Philadelphia Orchestra, and The Chamber Location Sarasota, FL Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) for the Canceled. Please see website for details. Festival Website TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION 2020 classical season. City Ballet’s residency ARTISTIC DIRECTORS Ticket Purchase Link DATES May 30 – June 20, 2020 (July 14-18): the complete ; Merce Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Philadelphia Orchestra; 941-953-3434 Canceled. Please see website for details. Cunningham’s Summerspace; works by George and Wendy Whelan, NYC Ballet; BOOKING CONTACT Balanchine and ; new pieces by David Finckel and Wu Han, Chamber Music Society Roseanne McCabe, 941-487-2730 Lauren Lovette and Justin Peck; New York City Ballet of Lincoln Center; Elizabeth Sobol, president and Orchestra led by Music Director . CEO of Saratoga Performing Arts Center SOCIAL LINKS The Philadelphia Orchestra under Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin (August 5-22): Beethoven’s GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic complete symphonic cycle in dialogue with newly TICKET PRICE RANGE $18 to $113 commissioned works by Gabriela Lena Frank, Jessica Hunt, Carlos Simon, and Iman Habibi over four TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION consecutive nights; Porgy and Bess with soprano Ticket Purchase Link Angel Blue and conductor ; Kevin Puts’s 518-584-9330 Triple Concerto with Beethoven’s Triple Concerto CRISIS RESOURCES CENTER on back-to-back nights. Conductors Stéphane BOOKING CONTACT Denève and Louis Langrée and pianist Jonathan Biss Chris Shiley, 518-584-9330 x107 For the Artist in Need To Donate to Relief Efforts also appear. The CMS (August 9-25): repertoire by Booking cycle date range: Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart; Joan Tower and Amy Fall 2020 for summer 2021 National and local relief funds for >>> >MusicCaresMusicCares COVID-19 Relief Relief fund fund Beach. Co-Artistic Directors David Finckel and Wu performing artists who have lost Han in residence all three weekends; performances SOCIAL LINKS >>> >SmallSmall BusinessBusiness Relief FunFundd by the Calidore String Quartet, cellist Inbal Segev, income since the COVID-19 outbreak. >>> >ArtsReadyArtsReady and violinist Francisco Fullana. >>>Go>G o >>> >AmericansAmericans for the ArtsArt Check with your local arts organizations; many have set up relief funds specific to musicians in your community.

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2020 Festivals guide 35 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 SEAGLE MUSIC COLONY SITKA SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS GENRE Classical FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Sitka, AK The 105th annual season includes Die Fledermaus Each week in June you can experience formal Festival Website by J. Strauss July 8-11, Cendrillon by Massenet July TICKET PRICE RANGE $40 to $50 concerts against the spellbinding backdrop of DATES June 7-28, 2020 22-25, Harmony (world premiere) by Banks & Carl TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Southeast Alaska, plus special events such as a August 5-8, and Hello, Dolly! by Herman August Ticket Purchase Link boat cruise or all-you-can-eat crab feed, informal ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Zuill Bailey 19-22. All mainstage performances feature the 518-532-7875 concerts in cafe settings, outdoor concerts, and 32 Seagle Music Colony 2020 emerging artists opportunities to meet the artists. Featured artists GENRE Classical BOOKING CONTACT accompanied by two . for 2020 include cellist Zuill Bailey, violinists TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $100 Tony Kostecki Nikita Borisevich and Helen Kim, pianists Yuliya LOCATION Schroon Lake, NY Gorenman, Natasha Paremski, and Awadagin Pratt, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Festival Website Booking cycle date range: Fall 2020 for summer 2021 and much more. Ticket Purchase Link DATES June 22 – August 23, 2020 907-747-6774 SOCIAL LINKS DIRECTORS SOCIAL LINKS Tony Kostecki, general director; Darren K. Woods, artistic director

SHENANDOAH VALLEY BACH FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Kenneth Nafziger From June 14-21, 2020, the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival will once again bring unparalleled GENRE Classical '3&&53*"- musical excellence to the Harrisonburg community TICKET PRICE RANGE $5 to $29 (&5'6--"$$&4450."$0/5&/5 for the 28th year. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION "$3044"--:063%*(*5"-%&7*$&4 */$-6%*/( Location Harrisonburg, VA Ticket Purchase Link 6OQBSBMMFMFEOFXT JOTJHIU BOBMZTJT 'VMMBDDFTTPOUIFXFC UBCMFU Festival Website 540-432-4582 BOETNBSUQIPOF DATES June 14-21, 2020 BOOKING CONTACT Canceled. See website for details. David McCormick SOCIAL LINKS

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2020 Festivals guide 36 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA (cont’d)

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Planets in a program with Rhapsodic Overture LOCATION Charleston, SC GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz Spoleto Festival USA’s 44th season features more from Charleston-born composer Edmund Festival Website than 150 performances in opera, dance, theater, Thornton Jenkins; a recomposed rendition of TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $200 DATES May 22 – June 7, 2020 and music of all kinds, from choral, symphonic, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons from Max Richter; a TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION and chamber to bluegrass and jazz. Highlights: screening of Jordan Peele’s thriller Get Out with Canceled. Please check website for more information. Ticket Purchase Link the world premiere of a commissioned opera from live orchestra performing the score by Michael 843-579-3100 Rhiannon Giddens titled Omar conducted by Abels, who conducts; chamber music programs DIRECTORS John Kennedy; Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony led directed by Geoff Nuttall include the St. Lawrence Nigel Redden, general director; Joe Miller, director SOCIAL LINKS by Ruth Reinhardt with the Westminster Choir String Quartet, countertenor Anthony Roth for Choral Activities; Geoff Nuttall, director and Charleston Symphony Orchestra Chorus; Costanzo, composer-in-residence Jessica Meyer, for Chamber Music; John Kennedy, resident Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Holst’s The and many more. conductor and director of Orchestral Activities

STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL SUN VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Michael Sachs FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS a pops concert with The Villalobos Brothers; Alasdair Under the direction of Music Director Michael Sachs, The 36th Sun Valley Music Festival commemorates Neale leads Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique to close the festival in its 33 years has featured musicians GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth with the season. from all 25 top U.S. orchestras. This season features TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $165 orchestral performances, chamber music recitals, principal players and concertmasters sharing the and guest lectures, all free to the public. On opening Location Various locations in Sun Valley, ID stage during an eight-week season featuring 13 TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION night, pianist Orion Weiss performs Beethoven’s Festival Website classical performances. The festival continues Ticket Purchase Link Emperor Concerto, followed by his Piano Sonata DATES July 27 – August 19, 2020 Strings’ tradition of featuring contemporary artists, 970-879-5056 x105 No. 23, Appassionata, on July 30. Highlights include MUSIC DIRECTOR Alasdair Neale from national touring acts and nostalgic favorites to BOOKING CONTACT performances by pianist Daniil Trifonov and violinist innovative new performers. More than 70 Grammy- Katie Carroll, director of artistic administration Leila Josefowicz; Kevin Puts’s new triple concerto, GENRE Classical winning artists have performed at Strings Pavilion, and education or Smitty Bell, production director a Festival co-commission, with the Time a 500-seat concert hall that is the centerpiece (booking) for Three. Some orchestral programs juxtapose TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 of the summer festival as well as more than 75 the old and the new, such as Jennifer Higdon’s performances year-round. Booking cycle date range: blue cathedral with Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Fall 2020 for summer 2021 Dances, or Missy Mazzoli’s These Worlds in Us with 208-622-5607 Location Steamboat Springs, CO Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3, or Debussy’s La SOCIAL LINKS Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS Mer alongside Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto. Amarillo DATES June 27 – August 23, 2020 Symphony Music Director Jacomo Bairos conducts

2020 Festivals guide 37 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 TANGLEWOOD TEATRO NUOVO

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Lenox, MA FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Lincoln Center, New York, NY The 2020 Tanglewood season presents several Festival Website Will Crutchfield’s Teatro Nuovo presents semi- Festival Website major musical events, including an Andris staged productions of Rossini’s Maometto Secondo Nelsons-led performance of Act III of Tannhäuser, DATES June 19 – August 30, 2020 and the American premiere of Il Vero Omaggio DATES July 14-16, 2020 Paul Lewis performing all five Beethoven piano ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Andris Nelsons at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Will Crutchfield concertos, a weekend-long celebration of Isaac in Manhattan. Aleks Romano, Alina Tamborini, Stern on the 100th anniversary of his birth, a GENRE Classical Hannah Ludwig, Enrique Guzmán, Hans Tashjian, GENRE Classical Boston Pops presentation of : The Empire TICKET PRICE RANGE $12 to $132 and other rising, young talents star in TICKET PRICE RANGE $30 to $120 Strikes Back under the direction of Keith Lockhart, these performances following weeks of intensive “Film Night” hosted by , Thomas TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION training led by Crutchfield, who shares musical TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Adès directing the 2020 Festival of Contemporary Ticket Purchase Link leadership with Associate Artistic Director Jakob Ticket Purchase Link Music, and a Popular Artist series with , 888-266-1200 Lehmann. In the company’s third summer, it will 914-251-6200 Trey Anastasio, Brandi Carlile, the Mavericks with again showcase the critically acclaimed Teatro Los Lobos, Judy Collins and Arlo Guthrie, Patti BOOKING CONTACT Nuovo Orchestra, a hand-picked ensemble hailed SOCIAL LINKS LaBelle, , and . Alongside Anthony Fogg as “transformative” (The Wall Street Journal) in these programs taking place in the Koussevitzky Booking cycle date range: these American presentations of 19th-century Music Shed will be intimate chamber music and Summer 2020 and earlier for summer 2021 operas on period instruments. Teatro Nuovo recital concerts in Ozawa Hall and engaging and continues the work of the widely heralded Bel thought-provoking activities in the Linde Center, SOCIAL LINKS Canto at Caramoor training program. Its festival which opened to great popular and critical acclaim also offers additional daily vocal and instrumental in 2019. Giants of the classical music field and concerts and a full range of master class, lecture, beloved Tanglewood guest artists Emanuel Ax, and panel-discussion events. Joshua Bell, Pamela Frank, , Leonidas Kavakos, Midori, Yo-Yo Ma, and Gil Shaham perform alongside 22 artists making their Tanglewood debuts, as well as the talented musicians of the Tanglewood Music Center, the BSO’s famed summer music academy, which presents free and discounted concerts all summer long.

2020 Festivals guide 38 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 TIME:SPANS A Contemporary Music Festival FESTIVAL 2020 August 9–20, 2020 Presented by The Earle Brown FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS TIME:SPANS Music Foundation Charitable Trust The Earle Brown Music Foundation is pleased to announce the 2020 TIME:SPANS Festival in New LOCATION York City. The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New 2020 Scheduled from August 9 to 20, 2020, TIME: York, NY SPANS 2020 will include 12 concerts performed by DATES All events take place at: Wed, Aug 12, 7:30 pm Mon, Aug 17, 7:30 pm some of the best performers and ensembles that August 9-20, 2020 The DiMenna Center for Classical Music specialize in new repertoire: Talea Ensemble (NYC), 450 W 37th Street, NY, NY Anthony Cheung Portrait Alarm Will Sound, Alan Pierson (conductor) Spektral Quartet Gilles Vonsattel (piano); Tyshawn Sorey For George Lewis (2019) JACK Quartet (NYC), Bozzini Quartet (Montreal), ARTISTIC DIRECTOR • World premiere Claire Chase (flute); Miranda Cuckson (violin); Sō Percussion (NYC), International Contemporary Thomas Fichter • US premiere Anthony Cheung (piano) • Commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Anthony Cheung All Roads (2018) Tues, Aug 18, 7:30 pm Ensemble (NYC), Yarn/Wire (NYC), and more! Foundation Charitable Trust GENRES Anthony Cheung Elective Memory (2015) Anthony Cheung The Real Book of International Contemporary Ensemble Artistic Director for TIME:SPANS is Thomas Fichter Alice Teyssier (voice); Suzanne Farrin (ondes Martenot) WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS FESTIVAL? Classical • Contemporary Classical Fake Tunes (2015) For more information about The Earle Brown Suzanne Farrin Polvere et Ombra (2008) TIME:SPANS is dedicated primarily to the Music Foundation Charitable Trust (EBMF) and TICKET PRICE RANGE Suzanne Farrin New chamber work (2020) presentation of 21st-century music. The festival is TIME:SPANS 2020, timespans.org $10 to $20 Thurs, Aug 13, 7:30 pm Suzanne Farrin “Freddo al sol” excerpt produced and presented by The Earle Brown Music from Dolce la morte (2016) JACK Quartet and Tony Arnold (soprano) Lars Petter Hagen Syv Studier I Selvpalagt Foundation (EBMF). Artistic director for TIME:SPANS TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Sun, Aug 9, 7:30 pm Amy Williams New work (2020) • Tristesse (2005) is Thomas Fichter. Ticket Purchase Link For string quintet and soprano Peter Kramer I stop somewhere and wait String Quartet No. 2 (2007) 314-580-3041 Sō Percussion for you (2018) Vijay Iyer TORQUE (2018) Louange à l’éternité Steve Mackey It Is Time (2010) de Jesus (1941) SOCIAL LINKS Fri, Aug 14, 7:30pm Bahar Royaee New work (2020) • JACK Quartet Mon, Aug 10, 7:30 pm Natacha Diels Beautiful Trouble (2020) • Wed, Aug 19, 7:30 pm Bozzini Quartet, Juliet Fraser (soprano), Jason Eckardt Passage (2020) • Seth Josel (electric guitar) Talea Ensemble, James Baker (conductor) Marc Sabat Inner Voice (2019) • Ashley Fure Feed Forward (2015) For string quartet and electric guitar Sat, Aug 15, 7:30 pm Anthony Cheung A line can go New work (2018) Cassandra Miller • anywhere (2019) • For string quartet and soprano Talea Ensemble, Yarn/Wire, Bereshit (2011–13) Gregory Vajda (conductor) Matthias Pintscher Naomi Pinnock String Quartet No. 2 (2011–12) • Peter Eötvös Sonata Per Sei (2006) Naomi Pinnock I am, I am (2019) • Anahita Abbasi Faab IV (2016) Nadir Vassena Quaderno del buio (2014) • Thurs, Aug 20, 7:30 pm Christopher Trapani Convergence Lines (2014) Yarn/Wire Tues, Aug 11, 7:30 pm Andrew McIntosh New work (2020) • Wolfgang Heiniger Neumond (2018) Collections for Juliet (soprano and electronics) Sun, Aug 16, 7:30 PM Zosha DiCastri Tachitipo (2016) Juliet Fraser (soprano) Laura Barger, Julia Den Boer, Cassandra Miller Tracery (2017) Tina Dahl, Isabelle O’Connell, Sivan Eldar Heave (2019) Cory Smythe, Ning Yu (keyboards) Nomi Epstein Collections for Juliet (2018) Taylor Brook Virtutes Occultae (2017–19) Lisa Illean A through-grown earth (2018) •• Live version for six keyboards

2020 Festivals guide 39 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 TIPPET RISE ART CENTER TRANS-SIBERIAN ART FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Fishtail, MT FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES March 5 – September 21, 2020 The 2020 summer concert series at Tippet Rise Festival Website March 31, 7 pm, Arnold Kats State Concert Hall, Art Center will feature 24 recitals and chamber Novosibirsk. Trans-Siberian premieres: - ARTISTIC DIRECTOR DATES July 10 – August 29, 2020 music concerts, spanning repertoire from Mozart, Angel. Arvo Pärt: Symphony No. 4, Los Angeles; GENRE Classical Beethoven, Haydn, Schubert, Schumann and Canceled. Please see website for details. Passacaglia for Violin and Orchestra; La Sindone Chopin to Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, and Scriabin, ARTISTIC ADVISOR Pedja Muzijevic for Violin and Orchestra (world premiere); Brahms TICKET PRICE RANGE €5 to €60 plus contemporary composers Anna Clyne, Paul Symphony No. 1. Andres Mustonen (conductor), GENRE Classical TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Desenne, Peteris Vasks, Rolf Wallin, Paul Wiancko Vadim Repin (violin), Novosibirsk Philharmonic Ticket Purchase Link and Jörg Widmann. It will also feature the world TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $10 Orchestra. premiere of a Tippet Rise and Pnea Foundation BOOKING CONTACT co-commission by composer Bora Yoonù, the fifth TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Ticket Location Mr. Oleg Bely Tippet Rise commission in as many years. The new Purchase406-328-7820 Link Various locations in : Novosibirsk; work for flute and electronics, The Haunted Orchard, Krasnoyarsk; Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk Booking cycle date range: will be performed by flutist, MacArthur Fellow, and Regions; Samara; Tyumen; Tobolsk; St Petersburg; Autumn 2020 for winter/spring 2021 for the experimental cultural activist Claire Chase. Artists ; and stops in France and Russian leg of the Festival SOCIAL LINKS Festival Website include pianists Yulianna Avdeeva, Zoltán Fejérvári, SOCIAL LINKS Boris Giltburg, Richard Goode, Marc-André Hamelin, Dasol Kim, Valentina Lisitsa, Anne-Marie McDermott, Pedja Mužijević, Roman Rabinovich, and ; violinists Benjamin Beilman, Chad Hoopes, TSINANDALI FESTIVAL Alexi Kenney, and Tessa Lark; violists Dimitri Murrath and Masumi Per Rostad; cellists Edward Arron, FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES September 5-20, 2020 Gabriel Cabezas, Oliver Herbert, Arlen Hlusko, and The glittering array of soloists includes pianists Inbal Segev; baritone Tyler Duncan; and the Rolston Behzod Abduraimov, (who also ARTISTIC DIRECTORS String Quartet and Tesla Quartet. conducts), and Fazil Say; violinists Vilde Frang Gianandrea Noseda and Martin T:son Engstroem and Joshua Bell; violist Lawrence Power; and GENRE Classical conductors Gábor Takács-Nagy and Pablo Heras- Casado. TICKET PRICE RANGE Location TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Tsinandali Estate, Kakheti, Georgia Ticket Purchase Link Festival Website +995 32 219 55 77 SOCIAL LINKS

2020 Festivals guide 40 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 VERBIER FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location The Verbier Festival, now in its 27th year, returns Various locations in Verbier, Switzerland for 17 days of concerts, master classes, talks, and Festival Website education events in the picturesque setting of the DATES July 17 – August 2, 2020 Colorado Swiss Alps. The Festival pays tribute to the 250th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven highlighting Canceled. Please check website for more his works, influences, and those he has inspired. information. Music Festival More than 90 world-class artists come together ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Martin T:son Engstroem for over 60 mainstage concerts. The Festival’s PETER OUNDJIAN, MUSIC DIRECTOR key mission is to encourage encounters between GENRES Classical • Jazz great musicians and young aspiring artists from TICKET PRICE RANGE $35 to $200 around the world. Audiences witness these June 25–August 1, 2020 unique encounters and partnerships through TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION the Festival’s program of concerts set in the Ticket Purchase Link 6 Weeks | 23 Concerts | Boulder, Colorado unrivalled surroundings of Verbier, with its two +41 (0) 848 771 882 (1pm-6pm, Monday-Friday) main venues, the Salle des Combins and Église de Verbier. Professionals perform alongside the BOOKING CONTACT next generation of artists in the Verbier Festival Manuel Lopez Baumann Academy, Verbier Festival Orchestra, and Verbier Booking cycle date range: Festival Junior Orchestra. Alongside the big names Fall 2019 for summer 2020 such as Evgeny Kissin, , Denis Matsuev, , and Pinchas Zukerman, SOCIAL LINKS legends of classical music are making their long- awaited return to the Festival after more than five years of absence: , Nelson Freire, Stephen Kovacevich, and René Pape.

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2020 Festivals guide 41 musicalamerica.com • April 2020 VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL WOLF TRAP

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Vienna, VA In its 24th season, Virginia Arts Festival will light up Southeastern Coastal Virginia—Norfolk, Virginia This season’s festival highlights include John Festival Website stages throughout Coastal Virginia in spring 2020, Beach, Portsmouth, Newport News, Williamsburg Legend, India’s A.R. RAHMAN, Train, Steve Martin DATES May 24 – September 18, 2020 with spectacular performances of world-renowned Festival Website and Martin Short, The Avett Brothers, Steely Dan Start date moved to May 30. Please check website artists. Classical music fans can enjoy a celebration with special guest Steve Winwood, Barenaked for details. of the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven, DATES May 5 – May 31, 2020 Ladies “Last Summer on Earth Tour,” David Gray Canceled. Please check website for more when Virginia Symphony Orchestra performs plus a Wolf Trap exclusive performance by Brandi GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic Beethoven’s towering Ninth Symphony, in concerts information. Carlile with the National Symphony Orchestra with TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $175 featuring pianist Olga Kern and conductor JoAnn ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Robert W. Cross special guest Tanya Tucker. Indie bands include The Falletta. There’s a marvelous mix of musical styles, Head and the Heart, Andrew Bird and Calexico and TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with GENRES Iron & Wine, The National, and The Decemberists. Ticket Purchase Link Wynton Marsalis and Britain’s Kingdom Choir, banjo Classical • Jazz • Chamber • Dance • Vocal Latin music artists appearing include Pitbull, Ruben 877-WOLFTRAP virtuoso Béla Fleck, rejoining the Flecktones for a TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $125 Blades and Fonseca & Andrés Cepeda in addition 30th anniversary show, and the always-amazing to classical hip-hop duo Black Violin, and English BOOKING CONTACT public radio hit , featuring Chris Thile TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION progressive rock band King Crimson and more. Sara Beesley and a lineup of great guests. Ticket Purchase Link Wolf Trap Opera’s summer season features Puccini’s Booking cycle date range: 757-282-2822 La bohème at the Filene Center, Tchaikovsky’s Fall 2020 for summer 2021 Eugene Onegin, and Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers. BOOKING CONTACT The National Symphony Orchestra’s (NSO) concerts SOCIAL LINKS [email protected] at Wolf Trap include Star Spangled Symphony SOCIAL LINKS featuring pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet performing Gershwin’s Piano Concerto, plus “The Planets: An HD Odyssey,” and family film nights including “Star Wars: A New Hope” in concert, and The Princess Bride in concert.

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