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Feature Article Summer Music Programs for Grown-ups A Few Musical Meccas Festivals A 2016 Guide

April 2016 Editor’s Note What is your ideal summer pasttime? Surfing in Hawaii? Biking the Dalmatian Coast? Trekking across the Cotswolds? Enticing for some, no doubt, but for others, the optimum vacation is singing in Sonoma, playing the clarinet in Baltimore, or being part of a lakeside chamber ensemble in Ontario. Our feature story in this, our third annual Festivals Guide, outlines a number of summer music programs that enable individuals to practice a favorite avocation, make friends, and, in many cases, enjoy the scenery. At the Tuscany Project, you can join a gospel while spending a week on the Greek Island of Kefalonia, among other of the Project’s locations; or pull your flute out of moth balls and head to Baltimore for the BSO Academy, where you’ll get to coach under as well as play with Baltimore Symphony musicians; Scor! String Camps pop up in several locations around the U.S.; in Canada, Lake Field Music offers workshops and lesson in voice and an array of instruments across a variety of genres; and Berkshire Choral International brings major choral Festivals conductors in to preside over week-long sing-ins of classic repertoire in both national and international locations. A 2016 Guide This year’s Festival Guide is our biggest ever, thanks to the enthusiastic response from the field. We can’t take credit for the specific information in each listing; the festivals provided that themselves. We can only take credit for asking the right questions. You’ll notice both newcomers, like Tippet Rise, est. 2016 in Fishtail, Montana, and old faithfuls, like the , founded in that historic city in 1920 and still going strong, but hardly standing still: Their chosen highlight? singing Maria in West Side Story. Not to be missed. Regards, Susan Elliott Editor, Special Reports

COVER CREDIT: Locanda Gallo, site of the Tuscany Project’s 25th anniversary in 2017

2016 Festivals guide  musicalamerica.com • April 2016 Summer Music Programs for Grown-ups A Few Musical Meccas The island of Kefalonia, Greece, one of the Tuscany Project’s 2016 sites.

In the last decade, an increasing number Tuscany Project of summer music programs for adults Location, location, location—the Tuscany Project always choses exotic ones for its week-long summer sessions, taking its name from the first workshop, have been cropping up, Stateside and held 24 years ago in a villa in the famed region of . This year, there are two abroad. Some take place in a rehearsal projects, one at the Liboun Chateau, about an hour outside of Prague in the Czech Republic, and the other at a pension on the Greek island of Kefalonia. In room, others on a sprawling lawn, some 2017, the Tuscany Project celebrates its silver anniversary and returns to Italy John Fleming writes for are in the inner city, others by the sea or and its most frequent venue, the restored 12th-century villa Locanda del Gallo, Classical Voice North in the foothills. Either way, what better in the Umbria hills. America, News, The annual event is geared to cabaret, musical theater, jazz, and pop and other publications. way to feed the soul and take a vacation singers, but because enrollment is kept small—16 participants in the Czech For 22 years he covered simultaneously? Republic, 28 in Greece—and the faculty numbers at least four, there is plenty the Florida music scene of flexibility. “We have beginners who have only sung in the shower, and we as performing arts critic have people on their way to Broadway, and we’re comfortable with that range of the Tampa Bay Times. of skills,” says Belle Linda Halpern, a cabaret singer in Boston and one of the

2016 Festivals guide  musicalamerica.com • April 2016 Summer Music Programs for Grown-ups A Few Musical Meccas

the world, and I feel like it’s my opportunity to get to share this with people More Summer Music interested in learning it. And in the Tuscany Project setting, gospel music has Programs for Adults been an incredible vehicle to create community.” Cambridge Early Music, Cambridge, Woods brings an eclectic sensibility to the workshop. “Along with gospel, I like to bring in some world music, some reggae, or an arrangement of a England. [For experienced Renaissance and Baroque spiritual that I heard my grandparents sing,” he says. “We might combine instrumentalists. From 740 pounds ($1,050). The Spanish Everyday People by Sly and the Family Stone with something by Andrae Baroque World: Spain, Naples and the Netherlands (July 31- Crouch. In 2014, we did an amazing job on a South African choral tribute to Aug. 7) and Los Reyes Catolicos: Music from the Courts and Nelson Mandela called Asimbonanga.” Chapels of 16th Century Spain (Aug. 7-13).

Dates: May 21-29 (Czech Republic) and July 15-22 (Greece) Catalina Performance Workshop for Adults, Catalina Island, CA. Instruction in piano. $1,400. Aug. 14-20. Price: 1,150 euros ($1,250) in the Czech Republic and from 850 euros ($925) in Greece; accommodations and meals provided. tuscanyproject.com; Cellospeak, Bryn Mawr, PA. Cello workshops at Bryn Mawr (917) 547-8796 College. From $1,350. July 24-30 and July 31-Aug. 6. Tuscany Project students perform their “final recital.” Chamberre in the Rockies, Rocky Ridge Music Center, Estes Park, CO. For skilled amateur musicians in uncoached project’s founders. “Not only is it about skill, but it’s also about sharing and chamber music sessions and performance. Note: Rocky opening up one’s heart.” The Czech workshop is focused on individual singing, with classes Ridge elevation is 9,200 feet. $520. Aug. 10-14. ranging from vocal technique to improvisation to stage presence. “We ask people to bring two or three songs and then choose to work on one during Fugues in Liberté, Pertuis, France. Chamber music the week,” Halpern says. “It has to have some kind of story. A lot of Sondheim workshop in Provence. From 340 euros ($375). Aug. 13-20. works well—Anyone Can Whistle, Send in the Clowns. So do jazz standards, like My Funny Valentine, or Kurt Weill songs, like Pirate Jenny.” Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, MI. Camps On Kefalonia, the focus is on group singing in a gospel workshop, led include choir, advanced vocal techniques, concert band, by Phillip Woods, a choral director in , DC, who has been with chamber music, flute choir. From $260. June, July, August. the project since 1996. “While gospel music may have been largely created (231) 276-7387. by African-Americans, we don’t own it,” says Woods. “It’s one of our gifts to Locanda Gallo, site of the Tuscany Project’s 25th anniversary in 2017. continued on page 6

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“We accept a wide range of players,” says Jane Marvine, an oboist and English horn player in the BSO who is closely involved with the Academy. “I think a key is that all of the parts in the orchestra are covered by BSO players, which takes the pressure off. Participants can find whatever level they’re comfortable at. Some just kind of sit there and watch the music go by and don’t play very much, and some are very skilled and play solos in the concert.” Davis remembers working all week her first year (2012) on a solo in Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet Suite, then stepping onstage in Meyerhoff Hall for the big (free) Saturday night concert, with BSO music director Marin Alsop . BSO Academy Week wind “It was life changing,” says Davis, who has been back every year since. section. “Here was this wonderful conductor with laser focus looking at me, expecting me to do really great stuff but mostly wanting me to have fun. And when the Baltimore Symphony Principal Trumpet Andrew Balio leads a sectional rehearsal at the BSO time came, I nailed the solo. Absolutely nailed it.” made from my first academy, and encouraged me to get a better instrument. I Academy Week. Davis credits her lessons with BSO principal flute Emily Skala. “She has got a used professional flute that has changed my playing tenfold.” been wonderfully supportive,” Davis says. “She has seen the progress I’ve For Academy week, the BSO tends to program big, complex works that BSO Academy Week community orchestra musicians are not likely to get a chance to play. This Through high school and college Karlotta Davis was a serious flutist until she year, repertoire includes Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2, divided between got to medical school at the University of Michigan. “There was no way I could two groups that each play either Siegfried’s “Rhine Journey” from Wagner’s practice,” Davis says. “I essentially put away my flute for 30 years.” Götterdämmerung or Ravel’s La Valse. For the first time, the concert will not Davis, now an urogynecologist in Denver, is among the hundreds of be led by Alsop, who that week will be conducting the São Paulo Symphony amateur musicians who have decided to dust off their instruments—not to Orchestra, of which she is also music director. BSO Assistant Conductor mention their technique—and head to the Baltimore Symphony for a week of Nicholas Hersh will preside. midsummer magic. Offering the opportunity to rehearse and play a concert with a top-flight orchestra, the BSO Academy, now in its seventh year, brings people Dates: June 18-25 from all over the U.S. and even overseas. Accepting about 110 participants of varying levels, the week-long event includes full orchestra and sectional Price: $1,900 for the orchestral track; some meals provided; accommodations rehearsals, chamber ensembles, workshops, master classes, and optional private not included. Information: bsomusic.org/education-community/programs- lessons. In addition to members of the BSO, the faculty includes guest speakers, for-adults; (410) 783-8051 such as this year’s Noa Kageyama, a psychologist who writes the Bulletproof Musician blog on how to cope with performance anxiety. BSO Academy Week chamber concert.

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There are also week-long BCI programs scheduled in Northern ; Dates: June 12-19 in Sonoma County, CA. (Handel’s Israel in Egypt, Robert Newport, RI; and [see schedule to the right of the page]. Istad conducting); June 26-July 3 in Newport, RI (Bach’s Lobet den Herrn The first time Holly Wolff, a from Saranac Lake, NY, went to BCI, and Jesu Meine Freude; Mendelssohn’s Hor mein Bitten and Ave Maria; David one of her favorite composers, John Rutter, was conducting. She has since sung Hayes conducting); July 10-17 in Vienna, Austria (Haydn’s Theresienmesse and under many other conductors. “I have learned something new from every one,” Schubert Mass in E-flat, Jane Glover conducting). Wolff says. “To this day I warm up to what Anton Armstrong taught us. I sang orchestrated spirituals for the first time under Philip Brunelle, and with Julian Dates in Sheffield, MA: July 17-24 (Beethoven’s Mass in C and the fourth Wachner I learned to love Haydn’s Creation.” movement of Symphony No. 9, John Sinclair conducting); July 24-31 (Dvořák Along with two rehearsals a day, choristers can take an array of classes. , Gary Thor Wedow conducting); July 31-Aug. 7 (’s “Every year I have a private lesson with a staff teacher. I call it my annual tune- To Be Certain of the Dawn and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Kathy Saltzman up,” says Wolff, who sang Britten’s in 2015 with Jane Glover, a Romey conducting). returning conductor this summer. “To put together these major works in a week is phenomenal. There’s a big celebration afterward, because everybody feels, Price: From $1,350 in Sheffield to $3,300 in Vienna; accommodations and Berkshire Choral Institute campus in Sheffield, MA. ‘Oh, wow! We did it!’’’ meals provided. berkshirechoral.org; (413) 229-8526 Berkshire Choral International Since 1982, singers have been heading to Western Massachusetts to spend a week immersed in the study and rehearsal of great choral works, capped off with a final performance with professional orchestra and soloists under a prominent conductor. Berkshire Choral International (BCI) is “directed at the serious amateur singer,” CEO Debi Kennedy says. “Our singers are typically people who are singing in church or community choruses, and as many as 80 percent are repeat customers.” This summer, three sessions will be held on the campus of the Berkshire School in Sheffield, MA, drawing from 150 to 200 participants each. Most stay in dorm rooms and take their meals in the school dining hall. Sheffield is not far from the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Music Center and other attractions in the Berkshires, known to be a cultural mecca in the summer. “Choristers get Friday nights off,” says Kennedy, “and The section rehearsing Britten’s War Requiem at BCI. probably about 50 percent of them go to Tanglewood for a concert and picnic on the lawn.”

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continued from page 3 North Carolina, and elsewhere, are mostly three days long and More Summer Music Programs for draw from 20 to 35 people. The Adults, cont’d Bultmans teach at every camp, and they bring in cello and bass International Music Camp, Dunseith, ND. Classes in choir, teachers. Eastman faculty are band, orchestra, chamber music, handbells, guitar, harp and added at the Rochester camp. others at the International Peace Garden on the U.S.-Canada Participants at Scor! “range border. From $225. July 30-Aug. 2. (701) 838-8472. from beginner to semi-advanced community orchestra-level play- SummerKeys, Lubec, ME. Weeklong workshops in piano, ers,” says Beth. Coaching and private lessons are available, but cello, clarinet, flute, guitar, and others. From $645. June 20- unlike many of these programs, Sept. 2. (973) 316-6220. Scor! does not emphasize pre- paring for a grand finale. “It’s a Walden School Creative Musicians Retreat, Dublin, NH. A Scor! sextet. laid-back environment for adult Scor! founding directors Beth and Kyle Bultman. For musicians interested in composition, improvisation, string players to grow and learn electronic music, performance, choral singing, and music Scor! String Camps without the pressure of a performance,” says Beth. “We want people to be pedagogy. $2,050. June 18-26. (415) 648-4710. Beginning in March and continuing through August, Kyle and Beth Bultman hit able to accept their own progress and have joy in making music.” the road with their moveable music camp for adult string players called Scor! And the most popular instrument? “You wouldn’t believe how many Woodland Chamber Music Workshop, Tofte, MN. Classes, They drive up to 12,000 miles in their “Scor!-Mobile”—a 55-foot motor home adults play the cello,” she says. “It’s because, I think, that for some older people, if you’re going to start a string instrument, it’s easier to sit vertically coaching and performance on North Shore of Lake Superior. plus cargo trailer for all the musical supplies and equipment—to conduct a From $740. June 21-26. (703) 582-2805. dozen camps in locations across the U.S. Nancy Mack, an Atlanta resident who with your arm rather than twist your arm around for the violin. Sometimes our started playing cello at 50 and has attended Scor! camps since 2007, likens camps end up having half cellos and half violins.” the Bultmans to Johnny Appleseed. “They plant the seeds,” she says. “They go around the country and plant musical seeds.” Dates: March through August, with 12 Scor! camps around the U.S Beth, a violinist, and Kyle, a viola player, live in Rochester, NY, where both earned graduate degrees from the Eastman School of Music. The first Price: From $439; not including accommodations, meals. stringcamp.com; Scor! was in Rochester in 2001, and it is still the largest, with up to 80 (877) 726-7267 participants and running five days. Other camps, held at churches, schools, and conference centers in New England, Florida, , California, Iowa,

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“Most people load up their day because they don’t want to miss which she calls “a huge learning curve for me. But I can’t imagine not having anything,” says Andrew Wolf, president of the board of directors. “If you want this experience in my life now.” to do a focused, sort of serious violin or flute or piano or vocal thing, you can do classes that are pretty core to your instrument throughout the day, but we Dates: Aug. 7-14 encourage people to take one or two periods where they’re doing something different, like West African drumming or Balfolk [European folk music and Price: From $1,199 (Canadian); accommodations and meals provided. dance] or handbells.” lakefieldmusic.ca; (647) 692-3463 The camp monitors skill levels by posing pointed questions on the registration forms. “We’ll look at the classes they’re choosing to see if there is any potential problem,” says Wolf, who adds that small ensembles can be more demanding. “We cap the technique classes at eight to 10 participants, so everyone has a chance to get some personal attention during the week.” Hanmer calls the schedule “busy, but busy fun—a can’t-wait-to-get- to-your-next-class busy.” Her experiences at Lake Field have included early music in a chamber group, an accompanist-soloist collaboration, and piano Lake Field Music is located near the Kawartha Lakes region of Ontario, Canada. four hands. She’s taken introduction to organ and instruction in harpsichord, Lake Field Music Lake Field Music, now in its 39th year, is held on the campus of the Lakefield College School near the Kawartha Lakes region of Ontario. With about 120 participants and a faculty of 21, the camp, open to both instrumentalists and vocalists, is organized into six periods a day. The first period is Choir for All, a camp tradition, but after that the offerings entail more than 60 classes, workshops and ensemble-coaching sessions in classical, jazz, musical theater, chorus, and world music. Kim Hanmer attended Lake Field Music for the first time two years ago. “I went not knowing anybody,” says Hanmer, a Toronto resident and piano- playing dental hygienist. “I arrived on Sunday and by Monday afternoon I realized this was going to be a fantastic week. The atmosphere is very positive. Even though I didn’t know anybody, within one day I made new friends that I’ve kept in touch with constantly ever since.” Lake Field Music participants in rehearsal.

2016 Festivals guide  musicalamerica.com • April 2016 Festivals artosphere Festival...... 9 The Golandsky Institute Summer Symposium Opera in the Ozarks...... 29 Santa Fe Desert Chorale...... 33 aspen music Festival and school...... 9 and International Piano Festival...... 19 Opera Theatre of Saint Louis The ...... 33 Bang on a Can summer music Festival Grafenegg Festival...... 19 2016 Festival Season...... 29 Saratoga Performing Arts Center...... 34 at mass moCa...... 9 Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival...... 20 Oregon Bach Festival...... 29 Savonlinna Opera Festival...... 34 Bard summerscape and the Bard music Festival: Hitzacker Summer Music Festival...... 20 Oxford Lieder Festival 2016: Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival...... 34 Puccini and His World...... 0 Bowl 2016 Season...... 20 the Schumann Project...... 30 Spoleto Festival USA...... 35 Bay Chamber Concerts summer music Festival...... 0 International Keyboard Institute & Festival...... 21 Philadelphia International Music Festival...... 30 Stresa Festival...... 35 Berkeley early music Festival and exhibition......  44th Istanbul Music Festival...... 21 Portland Piano International...... 30 Strings Music Festival...... 36 Berkshire Choral international......  20th Istanbul Theatre Festival...... 22 Prague Summer Nights Festival...... 31 Tanglewood...... 36 Blossom music Festival—summer Home of Killington Music Festival...... 22 Rigas RITMI Festival...... 31 Tippet Rise Art Center...... 36 the Cleveland Orchestra......  Kissinger Sommer...... 22 Rockport Chamber Music Festival...... 31 Verbier Festival...... 37 Bowdoin international music Festival...... 2 La Jolla Music Society SummerFest...... 23 Rome Chamber Music Festival...... 32 Virginia Arts Festival...... 37 Bravo!vail...... 2 Lake Field Music...... 23 Round Top Music Festival...... 32 The Walden School Creative Musicians Retreat...... 38 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary music......  Lake George Music Festival...... 24 Salzburg Festival...... 32 Wolf Trap...... 38 Caramoor Center for music and the arts......  Festival...... 24 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival...... 33 Young Euro Classic...... 38 Carmel Bach Festival...... 4 ...... 24 Central City Opera 206 Festival...... 4 Marlboro Music Festival...... 25 Chamber music Northwest summer Festival...... 4 May Festival...... 25 Chautauqua music Festival...... 4 Minnesota Orchestra Sommerfest...... 25 Crested Butte music Festival...... 5 Moritzburg Festival...... 26 decoda|skidmore Chamber music institute...... 5 ...... 26 deervalley music Festival...... 6 Music Academy of the West...... 26 drottningholms slottsteater...... 6 Music Mountain...... 27 eastern music Festival...... 7 Music@Menlo...... 27 Festival d’aix-en-Provence...... 7 Festivals Northern Lights Music Festival...... 27 Festival musique de Chambre Ojai Music Festival...... 28 A 2016 Guide montréal...... 8 OK Mozart International Festival...... 28 the glimmerglass Festival ...... 9 . Olshan Texas Music Festival...... 28

2016 Festivals guide  musicalamerica.com • April 2016 ARTOSPHERE FESTIVAL ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Fayetteville, AR FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 30 - Aug 21, 2016 The Festival will celebrate the opening of the Festival Website The theme “Invitation to Dance” points to the use of Razorback Regional Greenway, a 36-mile trail dance elements in musical works throughout the ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Robert Spano DATES May 11-27, 2016 linking dozens of community destinations between centuries, from Bach to Piazzolla. The Aspen Opera GENRE Classical Bentonville and Fayetteville. The bicycle will be a ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Corrado Rovaris Center presents La Bohème (7/14, 16, 18); Bolcom’s A popular theme and programming will emphasize Wedding (7/28, 30); and Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $90 GENRES Classical • Folk • World its inherent connection to nature and social change. (8/16, 18, 20). Programming includes great 20th-cen- TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION

The annual Trail Mix event will invite community TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $40 tury American music by Charles Ives, Roger Sessions, Ticket Purchase Link members to walk, hike, or bike the Razorback, listen Erich Korngold, Roy Harris, George Antheil, Peter 970-925-9042 to bands performing along the way, and interact TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Mennin, and others. A mini-festival features Shake- with site-specific artwork. Stages will be powered Ticket Purchase Link speare in music, and “White Nights,” with music by BOOKING CONTACT Asadour Santourian by solar, pedal, or other renewable resources. 479-443-5600 Russian, Nordic, and Alaskan composers. Spano con- Booking cycle date range: Summer 2016 for Performances include the Artosphere Festival ducts Kaija Sariaaho’s L’Amour de Loin. Composition summer 2017

Orchestra, SPIN, Circa’s Carnival of the Animals, Egg BOOKING CONTACT Jason Howell Smith students study with some of today’s top composers. and The Okee Dokee Brothers. The 2016 finale is Orff’sCarmina Burana. SOCIAL LINKS SOCIAL LINKS LOCATION Aspen, CO Festival Website BANG ON A CAN SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL AT MASS MOCA BANG ON A CAN SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL AT MASS MOCA, cont’d FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION North Adams, MA Booking cycle date range: Applications for the The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival is Festival Website residency are available a three week immersion in today’s most exciting at www.bangongacan. new music at one of the country’s foremost DATES July 13-30, 2016 org beginning in early contemporary art museums. The Festival includes ARTISTIC DIRECTORS Michael Gordon, November of the daily recitals surrounded by the art in the galleries, David Lang, Julia Wolfe calendar year prior to the free concerts in the community, workshops, festival, and due in mid- and more. On the weekends we hold bigger GENRE New Music January of the year of performances in the main auditorium, culminating TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $25 the festival. in the six-hour festival finale, the Marathon, which will feature the music of our 2016 special guest TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION SOCIAL LINKS composer John Luther Adams. Ticket Purchase Link 413-662-2111

2016 Festivals guide  musicalamerica.com • April 2016 BARD SUMMERSCAPE AND THE BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL: PUCCINI AND HIS WORLD ph Lorenzo di Nozzi ph Lorenzo FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 1 - Aug 14, 2016 The festival will focus on the music and culture of Stresa Festival 2016 Italy, with seven weeks of music, opera, theater, ARTISTIC DIRECTORS , dance, film, and cabaret keyed to the theme of Christopher H. Gibbs, Lake Maggiore, Italy and Robert Martin “Puccini and His World.” Works by some of his 19 July 6 September most compelling compatriots include Iris by Pietro GENRE Classical • Mascagni; the world premiere of Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed; the premiere of TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $90 Gianandrea Noseda conducts the Filarmonica Torino Fantasque, a new ballet; a film series on “Puccini TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION and the Operatic Impulse in Cinema”; and the on Sunday Sept 4th 2016 Ticket Purchase Link and the London Symphony Orchestra return of Bard’s authentic and sensationally popular 845-758-7900 Spiegeltent, hosted by the inimitable Mx. Justin on Tuesday Sept 6th 2016. Vivian Bond. SOCIAL LINKS LOCATION Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Gianandrea Noseda Festival Website Artistic Director of Stresa Festival stresafestival.eu

BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Rockport, ME While you can get your Bach, Beethoven or Brahms Festival Website fix at the festival, it also offers musical flights of imagination. Included are living composers’ work DATES Aug 17-21, 2016 for dynamic percussion groups; unconventional ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Manuel Bagorro combinations of string instruments with guitars and electronics; projected visual art with performers; GENRES Classical • Jazz 22 JULY dazzling harpsichord or theorbo players in a recently TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $125 TO 7 AUGUST written chamber opera. We are located on Midcoast András Schiff 2016 Maine’s craggy and rugged shoreline along a bay TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Charles Dutoit dotted with hundreds of uninhabited islands, and Ticket Purchase Link Paavo Järvi crowned by pined mountains. The atmosphere 207-236-2823 Full programme is famously laid back: Leave stodgy at the door, Daniil Trifonov and reservations at wander around with a glass of wine and introduce BOOKING CONTACT Manuel Bagorro verbierfestival.com Miloš Yuja Wang yourself to the young artists who just lit up your Booking cycle date range: Fall 2016 senses, and your mind. for summer 2017 SOCIAL LINKS

2016 Festivals guide 10 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 BERKELEY EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL AND EXHIBITION BERKSHIRE CHORAL INTERNATIONAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Berkeley, CA FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 12 - Aug 7, 2016 The Berkeley Early Music Festival brings some of the Festival Website At our Sonoma, CA, location: Robert Istad conduct- finest talent the early music world has to offer to ing Handel’s Israel in Egypt. In Newport, RI, David ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Frank Nemhauser DATES June 5-11, 2016 Bay Area audiences. Among the highlights: Davitt Hayes conducting Bach’s Lobet den Herrn and Jesu GENRE Classical Moroney in recital; Sacabuche, Linda Pearse, artistic ARTISTIC DIRECTOR The San Francisco Early meine Freude and Mendelssohn’s Hör mein Bitten and director; Archetti Baroque String Ensemble; Parthe- Music Society Ave Maria. In Vienna, Austria, Jane Glover conducting TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $45 nia, a consort of viols; Robert Mealy with Juilliard Haydn’s Theresienmesse and Schubert’s Mass in E-flat TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION 415; Concerto Palatino; Kristian Bezuidenhout in GENRE Classical Major. In Sheffield, MA, John Sinclair conducting Ticket Purchase Link recital; Rachel Podger with Voices of Music; Vox TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $56 Beethoven: Mass in C Major and Symphony No.9 (4th 413-229-1999 Luminis; Shira Kammen Friends; Concerto Palatino; Movement); Gary Wedow conducting Dvořák’s Re- Philharmonia Baroque Players with Juilliard 415; TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION quiem; Kathy Slatzman Romey conducting Stephen BOOKING CONTACT Frank Nemhauser Rachel Podger with Bezuidenhout in Bach Sonatas Ticket Purchase Link Paulus’s: To be Certain of the Dawn and Bernstein’s for Violin and Harpsichord. 510-528-1725 Chichester Psalms. SOCIAL LINKS LOCATION Sheffield, MA; Newport, RI; Sonoma, CA; Vienna, Austria Festival Website

LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY BLOSSOM MUSIC FESTIVAL— SUMMER HOME OF THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA

th FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Cuyahoga Falls, OH 30 Anniversary AUGUST 3 – 26, 2016 The Cleveland Orchestra performs Beethoven’s Festival Website Symphony No. 3 (Eroica) and works by Adès and DATES July 2 - Sept 4, 2016 Strauss (July 9). Other concerts: “A Salute to America” with the Blossom Festival Band (July 4); the Silk ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Franz Welser-Möst Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma (August 13); an all- Bach concert by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; GENRES Classical • Jazz • Movie Music SummerFest FOR MORE Pete Townshend’s symphonic version of The Who’s TICKET PRICE RANGE $24 to $120 Music Director INFORMATION: Quadrophenia with the Blossom Festival Orchestra Cho-Liang Lin WWW.LJMS.ORG (August 20); Hans Graf conducting Mozart’s Violin TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Concerto No. 5 (Turkish) with Pinchas Zukerman; Ticket Purchase Link Michael Feinstein in Broadway hits; Michael Francis 800-686-1141 conducting Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No. 2 SOCIAL LINKS (July 16); and Raiders of the Lost Ark to live orchestral San Diego’s Premier Chamber Music Festival accompaniment by The Cleveland Orchestra (Sept. 3 and 4).

2016 Festivals guide 11 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 BOWDOIN INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL summer FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 25 - Aug 5, 2016 The Bowdoin International Music Festival’s concerts residency years present distinguished classical musicians from ARTISTIC DIRECTORS David Ying and renowned chamber groups, orchestras, and Phillip Ying JUNE 25 -JULY 29, 2016 conservatories worldwide, and extraordinary young Learn from some of the world’s most accomplished GENRE Classical classical musicians in this beautiful Vermont setting. musicians who travel to Maine each summer to strings winds TICKET PRICE RANGE $40 to $40 masterclasses • lessons • coachings work with them in our summer study program. brass piano performance opportunities TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION LOCATION Brunswick, ME DANIEL ANDAI, Artistic Director Visit our new mobile-friendly website for Festival Website Ticket Purchase Link artist-faculty bios, residency application 207-725-3895 & program details. kmfest.org SOCIAL LINKS

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BRAVO! VAIL 2016 15-25 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Vail, CO roster of musicians AUGUSTJoin an international Bravo! Vail Music Festival inaugurates its 2016 Festival Website artist retreat nestled in the season with London’s Academy of St. Martin in the for a secluded Adirondack Mountains! Fields. Led by world-renowned violinist , DATES June 23 - Aug 6, 2016 of exciting it is the first international orchestra to perform at ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Anne-Marie McDermott LGMF offers a SZ^QæQ Bravo! Vail. Programmed are works by Beethoven, opportunities. Mendelssohn, Vivaldi, and Piazzolla. The Dallas GENRE Classical chamber music and orchestral website at (518) 791-5089 or visit the Symphony Orchestra, , and TICKET PRICE RANGE $28 to $129 For more information, call all make much-anticipated .com returns, performing the classical canon along TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION with innovative new programs. Jean-Yves Ticket Purchase Link lakegeorgemusicfestival Thibaudet, Yefim Bronfman, and Jeremy Denk, and 877-812-5700 violinists Leila Josefowicz and Augustin Hadelich headline the roster of soloists this season. SOCIAL LINKS

2016 Festivals guide 12 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 CABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Santa Cruz, CA The Festival celebrates Marin Alsop’s 25th anniver- Festival Website sary and final year as conductor, music director, and guiding light. Premiere-filled concerts include DATES Aug 5 - Aug 13, 2016 Art and Music under the Beartooth Mountains, works by John Adams, Christopher Rouse, James ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Marin Alsop MacMillan, Mason Bates, , and Kevin just North of Yellowstone Park Puts. Other highlights: a new symphonic ballet by GENRE Classical Anna Clyne choreographed by Kitty McNamee and TICKET PRICE RANGE $30 to $59 danced by members of Hysterica Dance Company; Spider Dance by John Adams, commissioned in TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Alsop’s honor; Puts’s The City; and a new work by Ticket Purchase Link emerging composer Michael Kropf. 831-426-6966 SOCIAL LINKS

CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC AND THE ARTS

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Katonah, NY Caramoor’s 71st annual summer music season Festival Website kicks off with a gala on June 18 featuring Kelli O’Hara with Rob Fisher conducting Caramoor’s DATES June 18 - Aug 7, 2016 resident Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Other highlights: the DIRECTORS Jeffrey P. Haydon, chief executive American Roots Music Festival; Chick Corea Trio with officer; Paul Rosenblum, artistic the ; the American premiere director of Rossini’s Aureliano in Palmira and Beethoven’s INAUGURAL SEASON Fidelio. Jonathan Biss serves as 2016 artist-in- GENRES Classical • Jazz • American Roots residence; other soloists include Gil Shaham, Joshua • Opera JUNE 17-AUGUST 20, 2016 Weilerstein, Pamela Frank; the Akropolis Reed TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $110 Quintet; Edward Arron & Friends; a trio of Wu Christopher O’Riley Han, violinist Philip Setzer, and cellist David Finckel; TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Music Director an Independence Day celebration titled “Pops, Ticket Purchase Link Patriots, & Fireworks”; string quartet-in-residence 914-232-1252 www.tippetrise.org Aizuri Quartet. SOCIAL LINKS

2016 Festivals guide 13 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 CARMEL BACH FESTIVAL CENTRAL CITY OPERA 2016 FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 9 - Aug 7, 2016 The Carmel Bach Festival presents its 79th season Festival Website Escape to the intimate Central City Opera House for “Bach Inspires,” celebrating the centennial of Car- Colorado’s quintessential love story, The Ballad of ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Pelham G. Pearce DATES July 16-30, 2016 mel-by-the-Sea. The program, created by Artistic Baby Doe (60th anniversary), followed by Puccini’s GENRE Opera Director and Principal Conductor , ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Paul Goodwin powerful thriller, . Central City Opera also presents more than 40 events including an opening brings two one-act to Colorado Springs, TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $102 GENRE Classical night concert with Handel’s Water Music. Also pro- Denver, Boulder, and Central City: Mozart’s The TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION grammed is a specially adapted version of Mozart’s TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $128 Impresario, and Later the Same Evening, five of Ticket Purchase Link . New this season are the Monterey Edward Hopper’s paintings brought to life. 303-292-4958 Museum of Art as a performance venue, and Sunday TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION performance times (4:00 pm) for Bach’s monumental Ticket Purchase Link LOCATION Central City, CO BOOKING CONTACT John Baril B Minor Mass. The popular family concert returns on 831-624-1521 Festival Website July 23. The Festival features world renowned musi- Booking cycle date range: 2016 for 2017 cians and vocal soloists, including Thomas Cooley, SOCIAL LINKS summer festival Peter Harvey, Clara Rottsolk, Mhairi Lawson, and SOCIAL LINKS Meg Bragle.

CHAMBER MUSIC NORTHWEST SUMMER FESTIVAL CHAUTAUQUA MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 25 - July 31, 2016 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 25 - Aug 16, 2016 The 37 days of music in beautiful Portland, OR, At Chautauqua the programs are designed for DIRECTORS Timothy Muffitt, orchestra; include 50 concerts, 113 artists, five string quartets, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR David Shifrin exceptional students from ages 17 to 25. The festival Marlena Malas, voice; 16 Beethoven String Quartets, four world premieres, is akin to a professional experience and students GENRE Classical John Milbauer and 16 Protégé Artists. Highlights: Emerson String need to be prepared to undertake the demands Nicola Mellville, piano Quartet; Dover Quartet, Jennifer Frautschi, Akropolis TICKET PRICE RANGE $30 to $75 of the seven-week curriculum. The schools of music, dance, theater, and art are represented by Reed Quintet, André Watts. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION GENRE Classical professional counterparts. LOCATION Portland, OR Ticket Purchase Link TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $86 Festival Website 503-294-6400 LOCATION Chautauqua, NY Festival Website TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION BOOKING CONTACT Rachael Smith Ticket Purchase Link SOCIAL LINKS 716-357-6250 SOCIAL LINKS

2016 Festivals guide 14 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 CRESTED BUTTE MUSIC FESTIVAL Crested butte music festival, cont’d

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Mount Crested Butte, CO BOOKING CONTACT Alexander Scheirle Crested Butte Music Festival presents outstanding Festival Website performances in diverse musical genres. Over Booking cycle date range: Fall/Winter 2016/2017 for DATES June 25 - Aug 20, 2016 150 world-class musicians, conductors, singers, summer 2017 choreographers, stage directors, and educators ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Alexander Scheirle come to the rural Gunnison Valley every summer. SOCIAL LINKS This year the festival offers 40 performances and GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz events, many of which are free. La bohème TICKET PRICE RANGE $30 to $200 features emerging professional singers selected from over 400 national applicants. “Time Spans” TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION celebrates classical works by living composers; Ticket Purchase Link “Gypsy Jazz” brings Frank Vignola and Vinny Raniolo 970-349-0619 to Crested Butte for the third year. Other highlights: violinist Charles Yang and pianist Peter Dugan, funk/roots group Eufórquestra, and the American String Quartet.

DECODA|SKIDMORE CHAMBER MUSIC INSTITUTE

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Saratoga Springs, NY The Decoda Skidmore Chamber Music Institute Festival Website enables young musicians to explore leadership and community service through the intensive study DATES July 10-23, 2016 of chamber music. Under the guidance of Decoda ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Alicia Lee faculty, students will learn how to fully engage their audiences and communities through interactive GENRE Classical chamber music performances while improving their TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $8 own performance and public-speaking skills. Faculty includes: Alicia Lee, Claire Bryant, Angelia Cho, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Anna Elashvili, Catherine Gregory, Michael Mizrahi, Ticket Purchase Link Brandon Ridenour, Kris Saebo, Nathan Schram, and James Austin Smith. Guest Artists Expected: Kim Booking cycle date range: Multiple performances Kashkashian and Caroline Shaw. from July 10-23, 2016 SOCIAL LINKS

2016 Festivals guide 15 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 DEER VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 2 - Aug 6, 2016 The Utah Symphony will perform four chamber music concerts at St. Mary’s Church: July 6, with ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Thierry Fischer conductor Jayce Ogren and soprano Simone GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk 2016 Osborne; July 13, with conductor Jeannette Sorrell; July 20 with Utah Symphony’s associate TICKET PRICE RANGE $35 to $120 conductor Rei Hotoda; and July 27 with conductor TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Pierre Bleuse. Performances with the orchestra Ticket Purchase Link SUMMER JOIN US at Deer Valley Resort include The B-52s, Under 801-533-6683 the Streetlamp, Matthew Morrison, a Rodgers & JUNE 13 – AUGUST 6! Hammerstein Celebration, a tribute to the music of BOOKING CONTACT Toby Tolokan MUSICACADEMY.ORG David Bowie, DreamWorks Animation in Concert, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. Booking cycle date range: Fall/Winter 2016 for FESTIVAL summer 2017 2016 guest artists include Matthew Aucoin, Jeremy Denk, Leon Fleisher, Alan Gilbert, LOCATION Park City, UT , , the Takács Quartet, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and more. Tickets start at $10 and 7-17s are always FREE. Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS

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2016 Festivals guide 16 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 EASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL FESTIVAL D’AIX-EN-PROVENCE

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 27 - July 30, 2016 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Aix en Provence, France With over 60 performances, workshops, master This summer the festival features Così fan Festival Website classes, seminars, and activities spread across five ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Gerard Schwarz tutte, (conductor Louis Langrée; stage director DATES June 30 - July 20, 2016 busy weeks, EMF’s 55th season covers remarkable GENRE Classical Christophe Honoré; Freiburger Barockorchester; territory. The Eastern Festival Orchestra and with , Rodney Gilfry); Pelléas et ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Bernard Foccroulle Chamber Players and a professional teaching faculty TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $45 Mélisande (conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen; stage GENRE Classical of over 75 are joined by guests artists James Ehnes, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION director Katie Mitchell; Philharmonia Orchestra; violin; Cynthia Phelps, viola; Awadagin Pratt, piano; Ticket Purchase Link with Stéphane Degout, , Laurent TICKET PRICE RANGE $17 to $294 Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin; Julian Schwarz, 336-272-0160 Naouri); and Haendel’s ll Trionfo del Tempo e del cello; William Wolfram, piano. Also offered: the world Disinganno (conductor Emmanuelle Haïm, stage TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION premieres of 27-year-old American composer Julia BOOKING CONTACT Chris Williams director Krzysztof Warlikowski; Le Concert d’Astrée; +33 (0) 43 40 80 211 Adolphe’s Viola Concerto and a yet-to-be-named 336-333-7450 x. 224 with , , orchestral composition by André Previn. Sara Mingardo, ). SOCIAL LINKS Booking cycle date range: Booking fall 2016 for LOCATION Greensboro, NC summer 2017 Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS

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2016 Festivals guide 17 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 FESTIVAL MUSIQUE DE CHAMBRE MONTRÉAL

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2016 Festivals guide 19 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 GREEN MOUNTAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL OxFOrd lieder FestivAl 14 – 29 OctOBer 2016

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Burlington VT Artists include A unique celebration of Audiences will enjoy seven concerts by the summer Festival Website christian Gerhaher schumann’s life and works, conservatory faculty, ranging from traditional Juliane Banse DATES June 25 - July 24, 2016 featuring many of the to two world premieres of works by composer world’s leading singers and Evan Chambers. In a four-day residency, cellist ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Kevin Lawrence pianists in over 50 concerts Matt Haimovitz will offer discussions on musical christopher Maltman GENRE Classical Schumann’s complete songs, Mark Padmore entrepreneurship, speak on the current climate of as well as chamber and , and perform. Participants include piano music, choral works, sophie Karthäuser TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $25 film, theatre, talks, Felicity lott 170 string players, ages 14-30, who are immersed masterclasses and more in the Festival’s atmosphere of focused professional TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION christoph Prégardien Bo skovhus development, with four hours of daily individual Ticket Purchase Link A thrilling and immersive fortnight of exploration, roderick Williams practice, daily chamber music rehearsals, lessons, 802-503-1220 discovery and inspiration Wolfgang Holzmair in the heart of Oxford the light and shade of romanticism ensemble coaching, master classes, and the Artist and many others Faculty Concert series, as well as extensive student performance opportunities in the concert hall and throughout the community. oxfordlieder.co.uk Festival passes and hotel packages available now: 01865 591276 | [email protected]

HITZACKER SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL HOLLYWOOD BOWL 2016 SEASON

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 30 - Aug 7, 2016 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 18 - Sept 25, 2016 Every year since 1946 Hitzacker has been forging One of the largest natural amphitheaters in the links between innovation and tradition, between ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Oliver Wille world with a seating capacity of nearly 18,000, the ARTISTIC DIRECTOR youngsters and their paragons, between centuries GENRE Classical Hollywood Bowl has been the summer home of the GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic gone by and our fleeting present. Newly crowned Philharmonic since its official opening quartets join in concert, soloists form new TICKET PRICE RANGE $11 to $39 in 1922 and plays host to the finest artists from all TICKET PRICE RANGE $1 to $143 ensembles. Slam poetry meets chamber music, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION genres of music. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION

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2016 Festivals guide 20 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD INSTITUTE & FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 17-31, 2016 Recitals in the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College by Jerome Rose, Philippe Entremont, George ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jerome Rose Li, Alexander Kobrin, and Geoffrey Burleson. GENRE Classical Concerto evening: Quynh Nguyen, Ilya Yakushev, Gabriele Leporatti and Gesa Luecker with the Jäger TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $20 Meisters Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Eduard TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Zilberkant. Pre-concert program notes. Free lectures: Ticket Purchase Link Ives Concord Sonata with Steven Mayer; Dmitry 212-772-4448 Rachmanov on Rachmaninoff; legacy of Damrosch, Mannes, Godowsky, and Gershwin; homage to BOOKING CONTACT Julie Kedersha Philippe Entremont; Dorothy MacKenzie Scholarship Awards Competition; daily master classes for festival Booking cycle date range: Fall 2016 for participants. summer 2017 LOCATION New York, NY SOCIAL LINKS Festival Website

44TH ISTANBUL MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Istanbul, Turkey The 44th Istanbul Music Festival will host close to Festival Website 600 local and international artists, including Idil Biret, , Gautier Capuçon, Angel Blue, DATES June 1-24, 2016 Gérard Caussé, Herbert Schuch, Patricia Petibon, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Yesim Gürer Oymakmak Alice Sara Ott, Maria Joao Pires, Antonio Meneses, , Richard Galliano, and Sylvain Luc. GENRE Classical EXPERIENCE Also participating are the Vienna Symphony, Venice TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $100 Baroque Orchestra, Orchestra of the Swan, Artemis Quartet, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, this year’s guest Ticket Purchase Link +902123340785 orchestra in residence. schedule information / operaozarks SOCIAL LINKS for ticket and opera.org VisitOPERAopera.org (479) 253-8595 / Hwy. 62 West / Eureka Springs, AR 72632Singers / and musicians from around the world come together for a series of truly inspired performances

2016 Festivals guide 21 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 20TH ISTANBUL THEATRE FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Istanbul, Turkey The 20th Istanbul Theatre Festival will present The Festival Website Kindly Ones by Toneelgroep Amsterdam; Secret Face Decoda | Skidmore (producer/theatermaker Mesut Arslan makes an DATES May 3-28, 2016 Chamber Music Institute evocative adaptation of the surreal film script of ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Leman Yilmaz July 10 – 23, 2016 Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk); Hate Radio (by author and director Milo Rau); The Complete Deaths GENRE Theatre Leadership and Service Through Music by Spymonkey; D’Après Une Histoire Vraie (Christian TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $60 A summer intensive for young musicians offering: Rizzo); Needles and Opium (Robert Lepage); Trois • private lessons, daily coachings, and Hommes Vertes (Valérie Mréjen); and Waiting for TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION masterclasses led by Decoda faculty Godot (Sahika Tekand). +902123340785 • multiple performance opportunities and • meaningful community engagement SOCIAL LINKS all in a community of like-minded friends!

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KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL KISSINGER SOMMER

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Killington, VT FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 24 - July 24, 2016 This year marks 34 years of inspired chamber music Festival Website The 30th-anniversary season marks the farewell performances in the heart of Vermont’s Green of its director with concerts featuring Italian ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Kari Kahl-Wolfsjäger DATES June 27 - July 31, 2016 Mountains. KMF’s esteemed faculty will engage prima donna Cecilia Bartoli, pianist ; the GENRE Classical resident artists through private lessons, small ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Daniel Andai Mariinsky Theater Orchestra, with conductor Valery ensemble coaching, studio classes, masterclasses, Gergiev and violinist Leonidas Kavakos; and soprano TICKET PRICE RANGE $30 to $130 GENRE Classical sectionals and score reading sessions, and . TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION performance opportunities. Among the faculty TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $25 LOCATION Bad Kissingen, Ticket Purchase Link are Daniel Andai, Anat Malkin Almani, Evelyn +49 (0 )971 8048-444 Estava (all violin); Jesus Alfonzo and Dawn Johnson TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Regentenba, Germany (viola); Theodore Bushholz, Cara Colon, and 802-422-3300 Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS Andrew Mark (cello); Timothy Cobb (double bass); Michael Bukhman (piano); Krista Jobson (flute); SOCIAL LINKS Rachael Lueck (); Gina Cuffari (bassoon:); Zohar Schondorf (French horn); and Nuno Antunes (clarinet).

2016 Festivals guide 22 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY SUMMERFEST la Jolla Music Society summerfest, cont’d

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Orchestra with violinist Gil Shaham performing BOOKING CONTACT Leah Rosenthal SummerFest 2016 opens its 30th-anniversary Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2. season with a free outdoor concert at La Jolla Booking cycle date range: Ongoing, through LOCATION La Jolla, CA Cove featuring Time for Three. Returning to the February prior to the Festival Website festival are distinguished artists and ensembles festival. Winter 2016 such as violinists Heiichiro Ohyama and Chee-Yun, DATES Aug 3-26, 2016 through Feb. 2017 for violist Cynthia Phelps, clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera, SummerFest 2017. pianist and SummerFest Composer-in-Residence MUSIC DIRECTOR Cho-Liang Lin SOCIAL LINKS Marc-André Hamelin, and cellist Carter Brey. The GENRE Classical Montrose Trio, the Escher String Quartet, the Danish String Quartet, the Zukerman Trio, and the FLUX TICKET PRICE RANGE $45 to $75 Quartet will also perform. Cellist will play all six of J.S. Bach’s Suites for Unaccompanied TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Cello. Closing the festival, LA Opera Music Director Ticket Purchase Link James Conlon conducts the SummerFest Chamber 858-459-3728

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ARKANSAS’ ARTS + NATURE FESTIVAL PRESENTED BY WALTON ARTS CENTER

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2016 Festivals guide 23 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES Aug 15-25, 2016 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 13-31, 2016 Working together in a tight-knit and nurturing The 20th season will feature 49 dance, music, and atmosphere, musicians perform daily open rehears- ARTISTIC DIRECTORS Barbora Kolarova theater performances in venues on and off Lincoln DIRECTOR Nigel Redden and Roger Kalia als, public concerts, and outreach events. Repertoire Center’s campus. Scheduled for this summer: Reich/ GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Ethnic is selected from requests by participating musicians. GENRE Classical Reverberations, three concerts highlighting works Each can be assured to have an active and rigorous across ’s career; a trio of concerts from So TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $0 TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $25 rehearsal and performance schedule. At the LGMF Percussion; Paradise Interrupted, a one-act opera by TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION there are no teachers or students, private lessons, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Chinese American composer Huang Ruo and visual Ticket Purchase Link master classes or organized studios. Rather, a unique Ticket Purchase Link artist Jennifer Wen Ma; Goran Bregovic and his 212-721-6500 roster of distinguished artists and young musicians 518-791-5089 raucous Wedding and Funeral Orchestra; National collaborate together in chamber music ensembles, Ballet of Canada with Christopher Wheeldon’s The BOOKING CONTACT Nigel Redden a full orchestral setting, and innovative outreach BOOKING CONTACT Alexander Lombard Winter’s Tale. programs and cutting-edge concerts. Booking cycle date range: All year round Booking cycle date range: Fall 2016 LOCATION New York, NY LOCATION Lake George, NY Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS

PERFORMING ARTS AT CHAUTAUQUA LUCERNE FESTIVAL Orchestra • Opera • Theater • Dance FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES Aug 12 - Sept 11, 2016 Programming spotlights women with the theme PrimaDonna. Eleven female conductors will lead ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Michael Haefliger such ensembles as the Vienna Philharmonic, the GENRE Classical São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, and the . Featured soloists include TICKET PRICE RANGE $30 to $350 , Cecilia Bartoli, Diana Damrau, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Sol Gabetta, and Anne-Sophie Mutter. Orchestras Ticket Purchase Link include the Lucerne Festival. +41 41 2264480 LOCATION Lucerne, Switzerland BOOKING CONTACT [email protected] Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS 2016 SEASON • JUNE 25–AUGUST 28 For more information about the arts at Chautauqua, visit ciweb.org/performing-arts

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2016 Festivals guide 24 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 MARLBORO MUSIC FESTIVAL MAY FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES May 20-28, 2016 Artistic Director Mitsuko Uchida works with some James Conlon’s 37-year tenure as music director of the world’s most acclaimed solo and chamber GENRE Classical concludes with programs that recall artistic ARTISTIC DIRECTOR James Conlon music artists and outstanding young professional TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $37.50 milestones and audience favorites from the past GENRES Classical musicians to explore chamber music with unlimited four decades. Festival highlights include an all- rehearsal time and in the kind of depth only TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Mozart opening concert that includes the Mass in TICKET PRICE RANGE $12 to $400 Ticket Purchase Link possible at Marlboro. C minor, and performances of Verdi’s and TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION 215-569-4690 (until June 13); Mendelssohn’s Elijah. LOCATION Marlboro, VT 802-254-2394 (from June 21) Ticket Purchase Link Festival Website LOCATION Covington, KY 513-381-3300 BOOKING CONTACT [email protected] Festival Website DATES July 16 - Aug 14, 2016 for audition information SOCIAL LINKS for outstanding young professional musicians SOCIAL LINKS

MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA SOMMERFEST

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2016 Festivals guide 25 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 MORITZBURG FESTIVAL MOSTLY MOZART FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES Aug 6-21, 2016 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 22 - Aug 27, 2016 The 24th annual festival explores chamber music Mostly Mozart celebrates its 50th anniversary with literature, particularly contemporary works by ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jan Vogler highlights such as concert versions of Così fan DIRECTORS Jane Moss, Ehrenkranz, artistic director; Louis Langrée, Renée Composer-in-Residence Erkki-Sven Tüür. The Festival GENRES Classical • Chamber Music tutte and Idomeneo, Mark Morris’s Mozart Dances, Orchestra, composed of young musicians from the performances of 50 new works, and micro-concerts and Robert Belfer music directors Moritzburg Festival Academy, celebrates its 10th TICKET PRICE RANGE by International Contemporary Ensemble around GENRE Classical anniversary with concerts in Dresden and Bad the city. Other events include films, lectures, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $0 Elster. Other concert venues include the Moritzburg Ticket Purchase Link chamber music, contemporary music concerts, and Castle, the Church Moritzburg and Steinbach, the +49 351 16 09 26 15 late evening recitals. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Proschwitz Castle near Meißen, Volkwagen’s “Die LOCATION New York, NY Ticket Purchase Link Gläserne Manufaktur” in Dresden, and one of the BOOKING CONTACT Jana Reissmann 212-721-6500 hangars of the Elbe Flugzeugwerke Dresden. +49 351 810 54 95 Festival Website Booking cycle date range: All year round LOCATION Dresden, Moritzburg near Booking cycle date range: Fall 2016 for Dresden, and Proschwitz near summer 2018 SOCIAL LINKS Meissen, Germany Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS

MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST 2016 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 13 - Aug 6, 2016 One of the preeminent summer schools and JULY 17 - AUGUST 22 festivals for gifted young classical musicians in PRESIDENT & CEO Scott Reed the US, the Academy offers students from around GENRE Classical the world a tuition-free summer performing and TICKET PRICE RANGE $00 to $50 Santa Fe studying with a faculty that includes leading soloists and principal players from the New York Chamber TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Philharmonic and other leading world orchestras. 805-969-8787 Music LOCATION Santa Barbara, CA SOCIAL LINKS Festival Festival Website Marc Neikrug, Artistic Director Peter Serkin, Artist-in-Residence

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2016 Festivals guide 26 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 MUSIC MOUNTAIN MUSIC@MENLO

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS MUSICAL DIRECTOR Jonathan Yates FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS GENRE Classical String Quartets: Emerson, Shanghai, St. Petersburg, The 2016 season, titled “Russian Reflections,” TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $85 Borromeo, Penderecki, Avalon, Arianna, Harlem, GENRES Classical • Jazz features chamber works by Arensky, Mussorgsky, Cassatt, Enso. Visiting Artists: Richard Goode, Peter TICKET PRICE RANGE $30 to $75 Prokofiev, Scriabin, Shostakovich, and Stravinsky. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Serkin, Julia Hsu, Gilbert Kalish, Danie Epstein, Colin Other highlights include multimedia symposia, Ticket Purchase Link Carr, Pamela Mia Paul, Alexander Fiterstein, Francine TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION 14 performances by the artists of Music@Menlo’s 650-331-0202 Kay, Jonathan Yates Ticket Purchase Link Chamber Music Institute, master classes, and a series 860-824-7126 of informal discussions on music and the arts led by Booking cycle date range: Music@Menlo books LOCATION Falls Village, CT the festival’s musicians and guests. approximately 18 Festival Website BOOKING CONTACT months ahead, [email protected] LOCATION Menlo Park and Atherton, CA based on seasonal DATES June 5 - Sept 11, 2016 Festival Website Booking cycle date range: Fall/winter 2106 through thematic programming October 2016 for DATES July 15 - Aug 6, 2016 determined by the summer 2017 festival. ARTISTIC DIRECTORS David Finckel SOCIAL LINKS and Wu Han SOCIAL LINKS

STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL NORTHERN LIGHTS MUSIC FESTIVAL

June 23 ~August 20 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 1-21, 2016 orchestra • chamber music • world • blues • jazz • rock NLMF Opera presents Puccini’s Madama Butterly starring Danielle Pastin, Cody Austin, Kimberly DIRECTORS Veda Zuponcic, artistic director; Sogioka and Kyle Albertson; conducted by Gavriel Gavriel Heine, music director Heine, and directed by Vincent Connor. Heine GENRE Classical also conducts NLFM Orchestra in Porgy and Bess in concert, starring Lourin Plant and Julianne TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $30 Whitely, and in performances with Competition Winners. Chamber music highlights include TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION the Ravel Piano Trio, esteemed faculty, and Ticket Purchase Link pre-performance lectures. 218-780-2292 LOCATION Minnesota’s Iron Range: Aurora, BOOKING CONTACT Veda Zuponcic Chisholm, Ely, Virginia, Hibbing Booking cycle date range: Fall 2016 for Festival Website summer 2017 SOCIAL LINKS Steamboat Springs, CO • stringsmusicfestival.com • 970.879.5056

2016 Festivals guide 27 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 OJAI MUSIC FESTIVAL Portland Piano International's

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 9-12, 2016 Under the leadership of Music Director , 2016 Summer Festival ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Thomas W. Morris Finnish composer ’s chamber version celebrating The Golden Age of Piano of La Passion de Simone and Only the Sound Remains GENRE Classical both receive American premieres. Other highlights hosted by Arnaldo Cohen, Artistic Director include Don’t Let Me Be Lonely, by Pulitzer Prize- TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $150 June 16 - 19, 2016 winning Caroline Shaw, and world premieres of TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Tyshawn Sorey’s Josephine Baker: A Personal Portrait, Ticket Purchase Link Lewis & Clark College Portland, OREGON, U.S.A. and a new work by Cuban composer/conductor 805-646-2053 Tania León. SOCIAL LINKS LOCATION Libbey Bowl, Ojai, CA Festival Website

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OK MOZART INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OLSHAN TEXAS MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 11-18, 2016 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 7 - July 2, 2016 Themed programs include “Mozart & His Musical With over 20 public concerts and 30 public master Heirs”; “A Musical Voyage from the Americas to ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Randy Thompson classes, the Festival helps 100 young classical ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Alan Austin Europe”; a gala ballroom dance with the Signature GENRES Classical • Jazz musicians develop skills in orchestral, chamber GENRE Classical Symphony Dance Band; “An Evening with the music, and solo performance. Orchestra fellows Crossover Kings”; “Visionary Masterpieces with the TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $185 perform four major programs led by a conducting TICKET PRICE RANGE $5 to $20 Tulsa Symphony Orchestra”; “Reshaping Country, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION faculty that includes Mei Ann Chen, Hans Graf, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Soul, Gospel & Blues”; a chamber music series Ticket Purchase Link Franz Anton Krager, and Carl St. Clair. Soloists study Ticket Purchase Link featuring Oklahoma City Philharmonic musicians, 918-336-9800 with Richard Beene (bassoon); Leone Buyse (flute); 713-743-3313 Brightmusic, and the Miro String Quartet; and a Jonathan Fischer (oboe); Mark Hughes (trumpet); concert finale with the Tulsa Symphony and pianist Booking cycle date range: Summer 2017 festival and Robert Johnson (horn). Additional programs BOOKING CONTACT Alan Austin Anne-Marie McDermott. now booking include Le chiavi di , the High School Piano Institute, the Informed Flutist, and the High School Booking cycle date range: Fall 2016 for June 2017 LOCATION Bartlesville, OK SOCIAL LINKS Jazz Institute. Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS LOCATION Houston, TX Festival Website

2016 Festivals guide 28 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 OPERA IN THE OZARKS OPERA THEATRE OF SAINT LOUIS 2016 FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 17 - July 15, 2016 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES May 21 - June 26, 2016 Opera in the Ozarks will present 22 performances of The 2016 festival includes productions of Puccini’s fully staged productions of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Thomas Cockrell La bohème, Strauss’s , Verdi’s DIRECTORS Timothy O’Leary, general director; Stephen Lord, music Britten’s Albert Herring, Puccini’s Il Tabarro, and GENRES Classical Macbeth, and the world premiere of Jack Perla Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. The festival will also feature and Rajiv Joseph’s Shalimar the Clown, based on director; James Robinson, 10 performances of John Davies’s children’s opera TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $30 the novel by Salman Rushdie. The season also artistic director Pinocchio. Additional highlights include A Taste of TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION includes a center stage concert by OTSL’s young GENRE Classical Opera, dinner and cabaret music followed by an artists; all mainstage productions are accompanied Ticket Purchase Link TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $129 opera performance, and a chamber music program. 479-253-8595 by members of the St. Louis Symphony and are performed in English, with projected supertitles. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION LOCATION Eureka Springs and BOOKING CONTACT Nancy Preis Bentonville, AR LOCATION St. Louis, MO Ticket Purchase Link Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS Festival Website 314-961-0644 SOCIAL LINKS

OREGON BACH FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 23 - July 10, 2016 Meet in the Music Matthew Halls, Robert Levin, Rachel Podger, Monica Huggett, Nicholas Phan, Jeffrey Kahane, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Matthew Halls Sir James MacMillan, Astor Piazzolla, Paul Jacobs, GENRE Classical Punch Brothers, Anton Armstrong, Gabriel Kahane. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $60 Telemann, Graupner, MacMillan, Britten, Schubert, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Liszt, Reubke, Martin. Ticket Purchase Link LOCATION Eugene, OR 541-682-5000 Festival Website BOOKING CONTACTS Michael Anderson, [email protected] Summer Concert Series July 14 – August 12, 2016 SOCIAL LINKS Summer Festival August 17-21, 2016

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2016 Festivals guide 29 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 OXFORD LIEDER FESTIVAL 2016: PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL

THE SCHUMANN PROJECT FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 18 - July 1, 2016 The Festival offers young musicians ages 10 through FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Oxford, England, United Kingdom the college years an opportunity to work for up ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Kimberly Fisher The 15th Oxford Lieder Festival will be The Festival Website to 17 days with members of the Philadelphia GENRES Classical • Piano • Opera Schumann Project, the first ever comprehensive DATES Oct 14-29, 2016 Orchestra. Programs in solo performance studies, survey of this great master of song through talks, symphonic winds and concert band, orchestra, and TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $10 recitals, master classes, readings, film, festival ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Sholto Kynoch opera theater are all available. All include private TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION suppers, theater and more. Offerings include a lessons, master classes, and faculty recitals with complete survey of Robert and Clara Schumann’s GENRES Classical 856-875-6816 members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as c. 300 songs, an exploration of the wider TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $55 music education courses, a daily chamber music BOOKING CONTACT [email protected] cultural context during his lifetime, including his program, solo performance opportunities, concerto relationship with his friends and contemporaries TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION competitions, private practice hours, and off- SOCIAL LINKS and his mental decline, his role in the Bach revival, Ticket Purchase Link campus outings to Philadelphia Orchestra concerts. his legacy as a music critic, and the effects of the +44 1865 591276 March Revolution of 1848 on his writing. Performers LOCATION Bryn Mawr, PA BOOKING CONTACT Taya Smith include Anne Sofie von Otter & Julius Drake, Thomas Festival Website Allen & Malcolm Martineau, Sarah Connolly, Sophie SOCIAL LINKS Karthäuser & Eugene Asti, Christopher Maltman & Graham Johnson, Mark Padmore & Simon Lepper, Christoph Prégardien & Christoph Schnackertz, Felicity Lott & Eugene Asti, and many others. PORTLAND PIANO INTERNATIONAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 16-9, 2016 This year we celebrate the Golden Age of Piano, a theme that will be highlighted through lectures, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Arnaldo Cohen film, master classes, and performances by Alexander GENRE Classical Kobrin, Charlie Albright and Nadejda Vlaeva. In the tradition of Golden Age performances, the concerts TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $450 will include both solo piano and chamber music TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION ensembles. Other guest artists include archivist Ticket Purchase Link Farhan Malik, curator Don Manildi, lecturer Kumaran 503-228-1388 Arul, and professor Susan DeWitt Smith. Two young- artists-in-residence, Justin Bartlett and Bolai Cao, BOOKING CONTACT Ellen Bergstone Wasil will perform the entire cycle of Chopin Etudes. SOCIAL LINKS LOCATION Portland, OR Festival Website

2016 Festivals guide 30 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 PRAGUE SUMMER NIGHTS FESTIVAL RIGAS RITMI FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 12 - July 10, 2016 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 29 - July 2, 2016 The 2016 season includes over 20 orchestral and Festival highlights in 2016 include performances operatic performances, master classes, and cham- DIRECTORS John Nardolillo, artistic director; by the Dave Weckl Acoustic Band, Justin Kauflin, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Maris Briezkalns Sherrill Milnes, stage director ber music concerts presented by conservatory-age Dianne Reeves, Vincent Peirani and Emile Parisien, GENRES Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic students. Other highlights include workshops with GENRE Classical James Morrison, and the Latvian Radio Big Band. Walter Seyfarth, solo clarinet for the Berlin Philhar- TICKET PRICE RANGE $5 to $75 monic, and Josef Spacek, concertmaster for the TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $60 LOCATION Riga, Latvia Festival Website TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Czech Philharmonic. Sherrill Milnes returns to direct TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Ticket Purchase Link performances of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. +420 7036836040 +371 9000 2000 LOCATION Prague and Tabor, Czech Republic BOOKING CONTACT Jeff Mistri BOOKING CONTACT Maris Briezkalns Festival Website Booking cycle date range: Winter 2016 for Booking cycle date range: Year 2016 for spring and summer 2016 summer 2017 SOCIAL LINKS SOCIAL LINKS

american Voices tickets now on sale Featuring two world premiers by leading American composers ROCKPORT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL July 19 24m 29 August 4 Christ Church, Santa Fe FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 3 - July 22, 2016 Cathedral Church of St. John, Albuquerque Joshua Habermann Music Director The 35th edition of the festival features th ARTISTIC DIRECTOR David Deveau “sounds and sweet airs” 34 annual performances by pianist Menahem Pressler with Commemorating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death the Parker String Quartet and pianist Donald GENRE Classical July 28 30 August 3 7m Berman with the Borromeo String Quartet in a Church of the Holy Faith, Santa Fe july 19-august 14, 2016 world premiere of a work by Elena Ruehr. Other TICKET PRICE RANGE $19 to $79 sephardic legacy artists include pianists Kirill Gerstein, George TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION July 26 31m August 2 Li, Gilles Vonsattel, and Jeremy Denk, as well as Ticket Purchase Link New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe the Harlem and Calder quartets, the Kalichstein- 978-546-7391 pergolesi Laredo-Robinson Trio, Trio Solisti, Chanticleer, and August 1 7 10 percussion ensemble NEXUS. Multiple education BOOKING CONTACT David Deveau Loretto Chapel, Santa Fe and outreach programs include a masterclass, open rehearsal, lectures, and a family concert. Booking cycle date range: Fall 2016 to early January rachmaninoV all-night vigil 2017 for summer 2017 August 11 13 14m LOCATION Rockport, MA Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis, Santa Fe SOCIAL LINKS Cathedral Church of St. John, Albuquerque Festival Website Photo: J. David Levy Photo: J.

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2016 Festivals guide 31 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 ROUND TOP MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 5 - July 17, 2016 This year’s performances include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9; the Serenade by Alfred Schnittke; ARTISTIC DIRECTOR James Dick the Harberg Viola Concerto; Prokofiev’s Violin GENRE Classical Concerto No. 1; Paul Dukas’s La Peri; Jacques Ibert’s Flute Concerto; Debussy’s Rhapsody and La TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $45 Mer; Mahler’s Das von der Erde; Beethoven’s TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION AuGust 6 – 21, 2016 Piano Concerto No. 5; and ’s Ticket Purchase Link Symphony No. 10. Among the featured artists are 979-249-3129 Nancy Wu and Regis Pasquier (violin); Ransom Artistic director: JAN VoGLer Wilson and Carol Wincenc (flute); Sasha Cooke BOOKING CONTACT Alain G. Declert composer-iN-resideNce: erkki-sVeN tüür (mezzo soprano); William Burden (tenor); and the Booking cycle date range: Fall 2016 for Artists: e. g. VALeriy sokoLoV, LAwreNce power, ANtti siirALA, Texas Festival Orchestra. ArNAud sussmANN, kim kAshkAshiAN, Boris GiLtBurG, mirA summer 2018 wANG, sArAh weGeNer, Li-wei QiN, kAi VoGLer, pAuL huANG LOCATION Round Top, TX Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS iNformAtioN & tickets: +49 (0)351 16092615 www.moritZBurGfestiVAL.de

ROME CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL SALZBURG FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 26-30, 2016 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 22 - Aug 31, 2016 The festival celebrates its 13th season with concert World premiere of The Exterminating Angel by programs featuring 15 internationally renowned ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Robert McDuffie Thomas Adès. New productions of Die Liebe der ARTISTIC DIRECTORS Helga Rabl-Stadler and Sven-Eric Bechtolf artists playing classical and contemporary chamber GENRE Classical Danae by Richard Strauss, one of the Festival music masterpieces by Mendelssohn, Schubert, founders, and of Gounod’s Faust. Mozart’s Da Ponte GENRES Classical • Opera • Concerts • Mozart, Prokofiev, Dohnányi, and Dvořák, as well as TICKET PRICE RANGE $40 to $50 Cycle. Bernstein’s West Side Story featuring Cecilia Drama a theatrical presentation of L’Histoire du soldat. The TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Bartoli. Leading artists from around the world performing artists will coach and play in concert perform opera, drama, and concerts all nestled TICKET PRICE RANGE $11 to $480 alongside 23 Young Artists. Ticket Purchase Link in the Austrian Alps in one of the great Baroque TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION LOCATION Rome, Italy SOCIAL LINKS cities and the birthplace of Mozart. The Vienna Ticket Purchase Link Festival Website Philharmonic makes this its summer home both with a concert series featuring many of the great SOCIAL LINKS conductors and in the pit for opera productions. LOCATION Salzburg, Austria Festival Website

2016 Festivals guide 32 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL SANTA FE DESERT CHORALE

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 17 - Aug 22, 2016 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Santa Fe and Albuquerque, NM The 44th season features works by Mozart, The season opens with “American Voices” featuring Festival Website Tchaikovsky, Poulenc, Schoenberg, Beethoven, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Marc Neikrug world premieres by Composer-in-Residence Jake DATES July 19 - Aug 14, 2016 Oliver Knussen, Elgar, Brahms, Britten, and Dvořák. GENRE Classical Runestad, with texts by Henry David Thoreau, and Artists performing include Marc Neikrug and Frank Ferko’s Song of the Sky Loom, set to a native ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Joshua Habermann Peter Serkin, Cho Liang Lin and Benny Kim, Keith TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $82 Tewa poem. The second program “Sephardic Legacy” GENRES Classical Robinson and Eric Kim, the Orion and Dover String TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION will be presented in conjunction with New Mexico Quartets, Sarah Shafer (soprano), Kelley O’Connor Ticket Purchase Link History Museum’s exhibit “Fractured Faiths: Spanish TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $75 (mezzo-soprano), Benjamin Bliss (tenor), and Kelly 505-982-1890 Judaism, The Inquisition, and New World Identities.” Markgraf (). Program three, created by guest conductor TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION BOOKING CONTACT Steven Ovitsky Dr. Richard Sparks, is ”Sounds and Sweet Airs,” Ticket Purchase Link LOCATION Santa Fe and Albuquerque, NM commemorating the 400th anniversary of William 505-988-2282 Festival Website Booking cycle date range: Autumn/winter 2016 for Shakespeare’s death. Artists include pianist Nathan 2017 and 2018 seasons Salazar, actress Anna Farkas, and Harry Bicket in a BOOKING CONTACT Emmalee Hinson SOCIAL LINKS Baroque program. Rachmaninov’s All Night Vigil is the SOCIAL LINKS final program, with Joshua Habermann leading the enlarged 32-voice SFDC ensemble.

THE SANTA FE OPERA

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 1 - Aug 27, 2016 PREEMINENT CENTER FOR THE TEACHING OF THE TAUBMAN APPROACH Santa Fe Opera’s 2016 season offers 37 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Charles MacKay Thirteenth Annual performances of five different operas. Patricia Racette sings the role of Minnie in La Fanciulla del GENRES Classical SUMMER SYMPOSIUM AND West, while Dan Okulitch, Isabel Leonard, Leah INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL Crocetto, and Rhian Lois star in Don Giovanni. Ailyn TICKET PRICE RANGE $31 to $499 Perez and Stephen Costello sing the title roles in JULY 9–17, 2016 | PRINCETON UNIVERSITY TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette. Strauss’s stars Ticket Purchase Link Susan Graham, Amanda Majeski, Eric Owens, 505-986-5900 or 800-280-4654 and Ben Bliss. Barber’s Vanessa, features Erin Wall, SYMPOSIUM HIGHLIGHTS INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL PERFORMERS Zach Borichevsky, Helene Schneiderman, and SOCIAL LINKS • Solve debilitating and career-stopping injuries. JOSU DE SOLAUN, piano DAVID SHIMONI, piano & Virginie Verrez. , soprano • Revolutionize your playing: get practical solutions FABRIZIO CHIOVETTA, piano JENNIFER ZETLAN that lead to lasting results! WEI LUO, piano ILYA ITIN, piano LOCATION Santa Fe, NM • SPECIAL – one-day pass for first-timers only $75! BILL CHARLAP, jazz piano Festival Website

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2016 Festivals guide 33 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER SAVONLINNA OPERA FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 17 - Sept 11, 2016 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 8 - Aug 6, 2016 The customary mix of dance, chamber and On the program are three of Verdi’s William orchestral music, and jazz offers Doug Varone and GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz Shakespeare works: a new staging of Otello, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jorma Silvasti Dancers, Twyla Tharp Dance, Alvin Ailey American TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $105 plus Macbeth and in Ravenna Festival GENRES Classical Dance Theater, and the Ballet productions. Teatro Regio Torino will bring La celebrating its 50th-anniversary residency with 16 TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION bohème and Bellini’s full-blooded bel canto opera TICKET PRICE RANGE $60 to $203 ballets by eight choreographers. The Philadelphia Ticket Purchase Link . Also programmed are Janácek’s From the 518-584-9330 TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Orchestra’s 50th-anniversary residency features House of the Dead and Don Giovanni. Ticket Purchase Link artists such as Renée Fleming, Joshua Bell and Chris BOOKING CONTACT Sharon Walsh LOCATION Savonlinna, +358 600 900 900 or +358 15 476 750 Botti, Sarah Chang, and André Watts. The Chamber 518-584-9330 ext. 109 Music Society of Lincoln Center presents eight Festival Website BOOKING CONTACTS Marikki Laaksonen, concerts, while the 39th Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Booking cycle date range: Summer 2017 for Jorma Silvasti Festival features Chaka Khan, Smokey Robinson, and summer 2019 the Chick Corea Trilogy. Booking cycle date range: Summer 2016 for SOCIAL LINKS summer 2017 LOCATION Saratoga Springs, NY Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS

PhiladelPhia international Music caMP & Festival SHENANDOAH VALLEY BACH FESTIVAL Study With Members Of The Philadelphia Orchestra FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 12-19, 2016 Ten concerts include orchestra, choir, soloists, Directed by Kimberly Fisher chamber music, organ, and harpsichord music as ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Kenneth Nafziger Principal Second Violin, Philadelphia Orchestra well as a Leipzig service. Ticketed performances GENRE Classical Pre-colleGe: June 18 - July 1, 2016 | July 16 - July 29, 2016 include a variety of Baroque works, some with countertenor and recorder soloists, and an TICKET PRICE RANGE $22 to $27 colleGe and younG ProFessionals: June 15 - July 1, 2016 orchestral concert of 20th-century music with TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Five Program Options: Orchestra, Symphonic Winds and Concert Band, rural roots. Soloists include Nathan Medley, Nancy Ticket Purchase Link Solo Performance Preparation, Piano Studies, and Opera Theater. Garlick, Christine Fairfield, Joel Ross, Brian Thorsett, 540-432-4582 Bryn Mawr College | Accepting Applications Through May David Newman, Tommy Tutwiler, Arthur Haas, Martha McGaughey, and Linda Quan. BOOKING CONTACT Mary Kay Adams

Photo Courtesy of SueB. Photography Register online at PIMF.org | 856-875-6816 LOCATION Harrisonburg, VA SOCIAL LINKS Festival Website

2016 Festivals guide 34 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA IMMANUEL & HELEN OLSHAN

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES May 27 - June 12, 2016 The 40th season features a world premiere 2016 UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON | MOORES SCHOOL OF MUSIC production of Porgy and Bess as well as the U.S. DIRECTORS Nigel Redden, general director; premieres of Helmut Lachenmann’s The Little Match Joe Miller, director for choral Girl and La Double Coquette by Antoine Dauvergne. activities; Geoff Nuttall, director Bringing Classical music’s rising stars to Houston every June: Other notable repertoire includes Beethoven’s for chamber music; John FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA SERIES Choral Fantasy and Mass in C Major, Messiaen’s Kennedy, resident conductor & Saturdays, 7:30 pm | Moores Opera House Couleurs de la Cite Celeste, and Steve Reich’s Music director of orchestral activities for 18 Musicians. The chamber music series features June 11 | Roman Holiday GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Opera Franz Anton Krager | conductor the St. Lawrence String Quartet, and composer-in- • Dance • Theater Mark Hughes | trumpet residence , hosted by Geoff Nuttall. Tartini: Trumpet Concerto TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $200 LOCATION Charleston, SC Clark: Carnival of Venice Festival Website TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Respighi: Fountains | Festivals | Pines of Rome Ticket Purchase Link June 18 | Musical Firsts 843-579-3100 Hans Graf | conductor Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1 SOCIAL LINKS Webern: Passacaglia | Berg: Three Pieces June 24, 8 pm | Woodlands Pavilion, and June 25 7:30 pm | Moores Opera House STRESA FESTIVAL The Audience’s Guide to the Orchestra Mei-Ann Chen | conductor

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 19 - Sept 6, 2016 PHOTOGRAPHY: JEFF GRASS St. John Flynn | narrator Highlights include Katia and Marielle Labèque in ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Gianandrea Noseda Mitchell Young Artist Competition Winner | soloist the adaptation of The Rite of Spring for two Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy and Gianandrea Noseda conducting the Ars Cantica GENRES Classical • Jazz Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra Choir in Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol. Noseda will also Stravinsky: Petrouchka (1947) lead a program with the London Symphony, while TICKET PRICE RANGE $11.12 to $66.77 Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Rotterdam Phil- July 2 | Grand Finale TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Carl St. Clair | conductor harmonic Orchestra in a program featuring Renaud Ticket Purchase Link Richard Beene bassoon | Leone Buyse flute Capuçon (violin) and Gautier Capuçon (cello). +39 0323 31095 Jonathan Fischer oboe | Robert Johnson horn Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Winds LOCATION Stresa - Lake Maggiore, Italy BOOKING CONTACT Artistic Secretary Festival Website Strauss: An Alpine Symphony SOCIAL LINKS PERSPECTIVES: Faculty Artist Series June 7, 14, 21, 28 | 7:30 pm | Dudley Recital Hall More concerts, information, tickets: Chamber music at its best www.tmf.uh.edu with TMF faculty artists and guests

2016 Festivals guide 35 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 15 - Aug 15, 2016 Lake Field Music camp Principal players from the Boston Symphony,

Chicago Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Michael Sachs , GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz Orchestra, National Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the San TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $150

Francisco Symphony will share the stage for 10 TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION classical performances. Soloists include violinist Ticket Purchase Link

Chee-Yun, pianist Joyce Yang, and trumpeter 970-879-5056 Michael Sachs. Other highlights include Boz Scaggs with his full band, country icon Clint Black, and Red BOOKING CONTACTS Elissa Greene, Rocks favorite Lake Street Dive. Katie Carroll LOCATION Steamboat Springs, CO Booking cycle date range: Fall 2016 for Festival Website summer 2017 SOCIAL LINKS August 7 - 14, 2016 www.lakefieldmusic.ca

TANGLEWOOD TIPPET RISE ART CENTER

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 19 - Aug 16, 2016 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 17 - Aug 20, 2016 The 2016 Tanglewood season features Renée The 20 concerts that comprise the inaugural season

Fleming, , Joshua Bell, Yefim Bronfman, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Andris Nelsons of the Tippet Rise Art Center will take place at ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Christopher O’Riley Paul Lewis, Yo-Yo Ma, Kristine Opolais, Dawn GENRE Classical picturesque sites throughout the Center’s 11,500 GENRE Classical Upshaw, and Yuja Wang in performances with the acres. The artists include the Ariel and Dover String Boston Symphony led by Andris Nelsons, Christoph TICKET PRICE RANGE $11 to $124 Quartets; the Excelsis Percussion Quartet; Jenny TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 von Dohnányi, and Charles Dutoit, among others. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Chen; Elmer Churampi; John-Henry Crawford; TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION

Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center will Ticket Purchase Link Lucas Debargue; Alessandro Deljavan; Nikolai Ticket Purchase Link appear in orchestral, chamber music, and recital 888-266-1200 Demidenko; Caroline Goulding; Emily Helenbrook; performances, including a semi-staged performance Matt Haimovitz; ; Eunice Kim; of Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins and the US BOOKING CONTACT Tony Fogg Konstantin Lifschitz; George Li; Anne-Marie premiere of George Benjamin’s Dream of the Song. McDermott; Svetlana Smolina; Yevgeny Sudbin;

Booking cycle date range: Summer 2016 and earlier and John Bruce Yeh. LOCATION Lenox, MA for summer 2017 Festival Website LOCATION Fishtail, MT SOCIAL LINKS Festival Website

2016 Festivals guide 36 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 VERBIER FESTIVAL FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 22 - Aug 7, 2016 Round Top Music Festival The Verbier Festival has invited the world’s ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Martin T:son Engstroem Six Amazing Weeks Deep in the Heart of Texas! leading classical musicians together with the next June 5 - July 17, 2016 generation of artists, to perform and to learn in a GENRE Classical truly breath-taking alpine environment. TICKET PRICE RANGE $45 to $180 LOCATION Verbier, Salle des Combins Verbier, Eglise, Switzerland TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Festival Website Ticket Purchase Link +41 (0)848 771 882 BOOKING CONTACT Manuel Lopez Baumann Booking cycle date range: Winter 2016 for summer 2016 SOCIAL LINKS FestivalHill.org

BEN VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL

HEPPNER FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES April 9 - June 26, 2016 The Festival’s 20th season includes dance, theater,

EMERSON and music. Ballet classics and contemporary works ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Robert W. Cross STRING QUARTET will be performed by dancers from American Ballet GENRES Classical • Jazz Theater, Britain’s Birmingham Royal Ballet and OLIVER Richard Alston Dance Company, Dance Theater of TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $100 JONES Harlem, Mark Morris Dance Group, and the Tokyo TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION FOUNDER AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR : DENIS BROTT, C.M. Ballet. Theater attractions include Shakespeare’s CAMERON Ticket Purchase Link 21 ST SEASON and the National Theater of Scotland’s 877-741-2787 CARPENTER production of The Strange Undoing of Prudencia RD TH Hart. Classical concerts include cellist Yo-Yo Ma and BOOKING CONTACT Kimberly Schuette PAQUITO pianist Emanuel Ax; Venice Baroque Orchestra; and FEB 23 –JUNE 19 the pianist Yuja Wang in her Festival debut. Booking cycle date range: Fall 2016 for spring 2017 CONNECTED D’RIVERA and 2018 TO THE WORLD! 2016 MEASHA LOCATION Norfolk, Virginia Beach, and Williamsburg, VA SOCIAL LINKS FESTIVALMONTREAL.ORG — 514.489.7444 — #FMCM BRUEGGERGOSMAN Festival Website

2016 Festivals guide 37 musicalamerica.com • April 2016 THE WALDEN SCHOOL CREATIVE MUSICIANS RETREAT WOLF TRAP

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 18-26, 2016 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES May 22 - Sept 13, 2016 The Walden School invites composers, improvisers, This season’s festival highlights include the National electronic musicians, performers of new music, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Caroline Mallonee Symphony Orchestra with pianist Yuja Wang; GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic choral musicians and music teachers to participate GENRE Classical productions of The Rape of Lucretia, L’Opera Seria TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $150 in a week of concerts, composers’ forums, (US Premiere), and La bohème; the premiere of The presentations, and workshops. The Mivos Quartet, TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $0 Firebird with Janni Younge of Handspring Puppet TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION 2016’s ensemble-in-residence, will be available to Company; Riverdance; The Silk Road Ensemble with Ticket Purchase Link TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION 877-WOLFTRAP teach lessons and offer coaching to performers, and Ticket Purchase Link Yo-Yo Ma; the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with will workshop and perform pieces by participating 603-563-8212 Wynton Marsalis; American Ballet Theater’s Romeo BOOKING CONTACT Sara Beesley composers. Michael Daugherty, the 2016 Composer- and Juliet; Tony Bennett; and Garrison Keillor. in-Residence, will offer private lessons, lead master SOCIAL LINKS Booking cycle date range: Fall 2016 for classes, and moderate the three composer’s forums. LOCATION Vienna, VA summer 2017 Festival Website LOCATION Dublin, NH SOCIAL LINKS Festival Website

YOUNG EURO CLASSIC

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES Aug 17 - Sept 4, 2016 The festival annually presents the world’s best youth orchestras. Appearing in 2016 will be the Schleswig- ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Dr. Dieter Rexroth Holstein Festival Orchestra, the Eurasian Symphony GENRES Classical • Jazz • Ethnic Orchestra of the Kazakh National University of the Arts, the National Bulgarian Youth Orchestra, and TICKET PRICE RANGE $16 to $25 the Youth Orchestra. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION LOCATION Konzerthaus Berlin, Germany Ticket Purchase Link Festival Website +49 30 841 089 09 BOOKING CONTACT [email protected] z Booking cycle date range: Fall 2016 for Search Jobs Post Jobs summer 2017 SOCIAL LINKS

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