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The 2018 Guide Festivals

The 2018 Guide Festivals

April 2018

The 2018 Guide Festivals

Feature Article 10 Questions, Two (Very Different) Festivals Editor’s Note Our fifth annual Guide to Summer Festivals is our biggest yet, with some 85 annotated entries, plus our usual free access to the 1400 listings in the Musical America database. The details for the 85—dates, locations, artistic directors, programming, guest artists, etc.—have been provided by the festivals themselves, in response to a questionnaire sent to our list of Editor’s Picks. Those are determined by a number of factors: it’s hardly a surprise to see the big-budget events, such as Salzburg, , and Aspen, included. But budget is by no means the sole criterion. The 2018 Guide Programming, performers, range and type of events offered—all of these factor into the equation. For our feature article, we chose two highly regarded events and asked them one set of questions, just for the purposes of compare and contrast. Since George Loomis traveled to Ravenna last summer and knows Ojai well, we decided he was the perfect candidate to get the answers. Our hunch that the two couldn’t be more different turned out to be quite accurate: one takes place over a weekend, the over a two-month period; one is in the U.S., the other in ; one is rural, the other urban; one’s in a valley, the other by the sea; one focuses on contemporary fare, the other on traditional; one houses its artists in homes, the other in hotels; one is overseen by a man, the other by Festivals a woman; Ojai’s venues are primarily outdoor and strictly 20th century, Ravenna’s are mostly indoor and date as far back as the sixth century. It’s a fascinating study of contrasts, best experienced, of course, in person. Don’t forget to send us a postcard. Regards, Susan Elliott Editor, Special Reports

COVER CREDIT: The Libbey Bowl, the Ojai Festival’s primary venue.

2018 Festivals guide  musicalamerica.com • April 2018 The Ojai and Ravenna festivals boast similarly estimable lin- eage and prestige yet could hardly be more different—in locale, duration, budget, and atmosphere, not to mention musical focus. Yet they face many of the same challenges 10 and often deal with them in similar ways, as we discovered in talking with Fabio Ricci, head of communications and press at Ravenna, and Thomas W. Morris, longtime artistic director Questions,Two (Very Different) Festivals at Ojai. An edited version of our conversations follows. The Stats Ravenna: , symphonic, chamber, jazz, world, dance, theater Founding Budget Audience size Ojai:1947 Ojai: $2 million Ojai: 8,000, mostly from Ravenna: 1990 Ravenna: €5 million ($6.2 million) Ravenna: 50,000 to 60,000, about half from within 50 miles Locale Staff size Ojai, CA: Rural city, pop. 7,600. Located in the lush, verdant valley of Ventura Ojai: seven full-time, one part-time County, Northern California Ravenna: 34 full-time, 12 seasonal By George Loomis Ravenna, Italy: Urban city, pop. 160,000. Located near the Adriatic Sea in Dates the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. Ravenna was once the western Ojai: Four days, June 7-10, 2018 Ravenna: 63 days: June 1-July 22; November 23-December 2, 2018 George Loomis is a regular capital of the Roman Empire contributor to Musical Performance site(s) Management America and writes Ojai: Mostly outdoor—Libbey Park, Libbey Bowl Ojai: President Jamie Bennett; Artistic Director Thomas W. Morris; Music about Ravenna: Historic churches, cloisters, and piazzas that house some of the Director (appointed annually); violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaya for 2018; COO for The Financial Times, world’s finest Byzantine mosaics Gina Gutierrez , Genres Ravenna: Founder and President Cristina Mazzavillani Muti; Artistic Directors Opera magazine, and other publications. He has a Franco Masotti and Angelo Nicastro; General Manager Antonio De Rosa doctorate in music history from . Ojai: Music, emphasis contemporary

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The Libbey Bowl, the Ojai Festival’s primary venue. The Westminster Cathedral Boys Choir performs in the Basilica of Sant’Apollinare in Classe, one of Ravenna’s many historic venues. PHOTO: Jenny Carboni.

How far in advance do you begin planning the festival? Please describe how the festival has evolved from its Ravenna: Originally focused on classical music, it now includes theater, Ojai: The selection of the music director [which changes from year to year] beginnings. dance, jazz, and more. But the festival remains true to Cristina Muti’s aim to is fundamental, since it outlines the shape and profile of the festival. That Ojai: The festival has always been held during one long weekend, but not just present international stars but to celebrate Ravenna’s heritage, which generally occurs about three to four years ahead; interactive planning with for the last decade we have begun it on Thursday. In 2006 we began to is one reason its ancient buildings serve as our venues. Since our concert in the artistic director then usually lasts about two years. intensify audience immersion by offering events beyond concerts, such as Sarajevo in 1997, the festival has included “The Roads of Friendship” initiative, Ravenna: Around 18 months, but special projects, such as the Italian pubic discussions by performers and festival staff, community gatherings, which brings and composed of European musicians premiere next summer of Kiss Me Kate in a production by , may opportunities to get to know artists in smaller venues, and film screenings. on annual visits to wide-ranging cities, many of which have been afflicted by require up to three years. So each day’s schedule has expanded to practically around the clock. In war, political stress, or other hardship. Kiev, Ukraine, is this year’s destination. 2011 we formed a partnership with Cal Performances to present about 60 We also now have the Luigi Cherubini Youth in residence and have percent of our offerings in Berkeley following Ojai. [Ojai at Berkeley, June added our annual “Autumn Trilogy” (which constitutes the festival’s second 14-16] Next summer we’ll launch a similar partnership with Britain’s part), presented in Ravenna’s Teatro Alighieri. This year’s are Nabucco, . , and Otello.

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How do you handle housing? For artists? For audiences? The Ojai Festival Ojai: Artists are accommodated in private homes, which strengthens the bond with the community, and also at hotels. For audiences, there are a Located in a valley number of attractive hotels in the Ojai Valley as well as nearby towns such northwest of Los as Ventura. Angeles, the Ojai Ravenna: The festival provides accommodations for artists; as a major Festival has a destination for cultural tourism, Ravenna benefits from a thriving network of picturesque setting, hotels and resorts, both in the town and in nearby seaside locales. more bucolic than urban. It concentrates What percentage of your audience is local? What percentage its events into a single, is national? International? chock-full weekend. Ojai: About 20 percent comes from Ojai, from elsewhere in Ventura County, and Each year a different from nearby Santa Barbara County. Visitors from the rest of California amount The Teatro Alighieri, Ravenna’s opera house. Ojai Festival Artistic Director acclaimed musician Thomas W. Morris. serves as music Do you have a training program for young artists? director and formulates programming in partnership with Ojai: No, although we are active in training public-school students through the artistic director. Repertoire is predominantly but not our BRAVO program, which offers music lessons and other instruction as well exclusively contemporary; what is constant is a desire to as opportunities for students to perform alongside professionals. challenge and provoke. This year’s music director is the Ravenna: The Cherubini Youth Orchestra, an ensemble of European charismatic Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaya, musicians under age 30 selected by audition and headed by Riccardo Muti, whose career so far has unfolded primarily in Europe. Known in effect constitutes our young artists program. In addition, the Autumn Trilogy operas are cast significantly with singers on the threshold of careers. for the diversity of her repertoire and distinctly personal South Korean Vittoria Meo, for example, debuted as Lady Macbeth interpretations, she is a “brave and forceful performer” in 2013 and since has had many international engagements, including who “exudes energy,” according to Thomas W. Morris, Ojai’s in Salzburg. The Italian Opera Academy, founded in 2015 by Riccardo Muti, artistic director. The festival will give the American premiere embraces an intense series of master classes by Muti for young conductors of her second staged program, Dies Irae, which features and répétiteurs and culminates in performances; although the academy is music from Gregorian Chant and Early Baroque to Giacinto autonomous, it relies on the festival team for its operations. Contemporary music group “red fish blue fish” performing at the Ojai Festival, atop Scelsi and Galina Ustvolskaya. Meditation Mountain.

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to 60 percent, with the remaining 20 percent coming from other parts of the U.S. and abroad. The Ravenna Festival Ravenna: The local audience (within 50 miles) amounts to 55 percent of the total, with national and international audiences accounting for 35 percent and Riccardo Muti is 10 percent, respectively. The international audience has grown over the years, staunchly loyal to his especially for the Autumn Trilogy, when it rises to around 25 percent. Neapolitan roots, but you can’t blame him Name two successful marketing campaigns for making his home Ojai: To promote the world premiere of Jeremy Denk and Steven Stucky’s The in Ravenna, of which Classical Style: An Opera (of Sorts), when Denk was music director in 2014, his wife, Cristina we dressed three actors in full costume as Beethoven, Mozart, and Haydn. We Mazzavillani Muti, is a had them appear at the Ojai Farmer’s Market and downtown, a week before the festival. We took video and photos and used both on our social media native. The idyllic town channels and email campaigns leading up to the festival. They also made brief near the Adriatic Sea Ravenna Founder and President in the Emilia-Romagna appearances in Libbey Park and at a donor event, which added to the spirit of Christina Mazzavillani Muti. spontaneity at the festival. [The Classical Style sold out.] region of Northern Italy Quartetto Lyskamm in an evening performance at Ravenna’s Cloister of the Classense Library. Ravenna: For the 2016 Autumn Trilogy of operettas performed by visiting PHOTO: Zani-Casadio. was once the western capital of the Roman Empire, and its Hungarian theaters, the festival created a Danube-like atmosphere in the city surviving churches, cloisters, and piazzas house some of with free open-air concerts by Hungarian and Gypsy musicians, events featuring Ravenna: The festival presents, co-produces, and commissions works calling the world’s finest Byzantine mosaics. The city’s potential Hungarian food and wine, and a concert by the Budapest Gypsy for direct involvement of townspeople. Especially significant is last summer’s as a festival setting was recognized by Signora Muti, who Orchestra. Also, over time, we have increased our profile in the city by decorating dramatic adaptation of Inferno, the first part of Divina Commedia, whose has served as president of the festival from the beginning. buses and shop windows, and placing small flags at street corners to remind author, Dante Alighieri, lived his last years in Ravenna and is entombed here; Muti himself appears regularly, but as a guest without everyone that the festival is a real celebration. literally hundreds of local people were involved in that. Purgatorio and Paradiso will follow in 2019 and 2021, the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death. Local administrative responsibility. A tribute to Martin Luther What efforts do you make to involve the local community? artists also participate extensively in our “Young Artists for Dante” concerts King next summer includes a strong American component Ojai: We offer events targeted to the local audience—both ticketed and and in the daily Vespers at San Vitale. stretching from Bernstein to rock. A Muti-led Macbeth, free—in a variety of venues and at times other than the festival weekend. On new works by choreographers Bill T. Jones and Emio Greco, the last night of the 2016 festival, we put on a free street party and jam ses- What are your most popular programs/events? Least popular? several visiting orchestras, and a salute to Ukrainian sion in the nearby town of Santa Paula with all the artists participating. This Ojai: We have an audience that craves and expects adventure and that wants are also planned. year, the music director will host a free children’s concert during the festival. to be surprised. We hardly ever have a program with just one artist or work but

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What is the singular most anxiety-inducing aspect of Where do you see the festival five years from now? your job? Ojai: We will continue to build new and stronger networks and partner- Ojai: Since the festival lasts only four days, it’s a constant challenge to ships with other institutions having a similar cutting-edge aesthetic, ensure, on a very small budget, that the festival maintains significant visibility such as Berkeley and Aldeburgh. Everything we do we do from scratch, so throughout the year as well as producing cutting-edge projects. We schedule partnerships are an effective way to share costs through co-productions off-season events to build interest in what is coming. and co-commissions. Ravenna: With a festival as large as ours, many things can go wrong. Ravenna: We envision the festival continuing in largely the same form as But managing the logistics of The Roads of Friendship is particularly chal- at present, but in 2021 we will host a special celebration of Dante on the lenging. Detailed planning is required when any major musical ensemble occasion of his anniversary. No writer is more important to Italian literature. travels, but the task is compounded when the destination city is not accus- A celebration of , who lived in Ravenna during part of his seven- tomed to such visits. Political realties can complicate matters still further, year Italian sojourn, is also in the works. whether relatively routine, like obtaining visas, or of a more nuanced nature. But the human and cultural ties it promotes make The Roads of Friendship enormously rewarding.

A crowd gathers for a performance in the Gazebo in Ojai’s Libbey Park. PHOTO: Timothy Norris.

instead tend to mix everything together—the festival is “through-composed.” Since programs don’t overlap, a person can go to everything. People don’t like it if we play it too safe. In a recent year we did Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and people complained that it was too traditional, although it is, in fact, a strange and fascinating work. Ravenna: In general, symphonic concerts, operas, and ballets draw the most people. Although they attract smaller audiences, the festival also provides niche-genre and/or intimate performances and often commissions new work. Cristina Muti regards it as a major accomplishment that the festival has conditioned its audience to welcome even the most innovative events with curiosity and enthusiasm.

Ravenna’s Basilica of San Vitale.

2018 Festivals guide  musicalamerica.com • April 2018 Festivals Artosphere: Arkansas’ Arts + Nature Festival...... 8 Festival dans les Jardins de William Christie...... 20 Norfolk Festival...... 35 Round Top Music Festival...... 43 Aspen Music Festival and School...... 8 Festival Napa Valley...... 20 Off the Hook Arts...... 35 ...... 44 Summer Music Festival The Gilmore Keyboard Festival...... 21 Ojai Music Festival...... 36 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival...... 44 at Mass Moca...... 9 The Glimmerglass Festival...... 21 Olshan Music Festival...... 37 Santa Fe Desert Chorale...... 44 Bard Music Festival/Bard Summerscape...... 10 The Golandsky Institute Summer Symposium...... 22 Opera Holland Park...... 37 The Santa Fe Opera...... 45 Bay Chamber Concerts Summer Grand Teton Music Festival...... 22 Opera in the Ozarks...... 38 Sarasota Music Festival...... 45 Music Festival...... 10 Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival...... 23 Opera Theatre of Saint Louis...... 39 Saratoga Performing Arts Center...... 46 Beethovenfest ...... 11 International Keyboard Institute & Festival...... 23 Bach Festival...... 39 Seagle Music Colony...... 46 Berkeley Festival & Exhibition...... 11 The International Music Festival “Chopin and Oregon Music Festival...... 40 Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival...... 47 111th Bethlehem Bach Festival...... 12 His Europe”...... 24 Oxford Lieder Festival...... 40 Sitka Summer Music Festival...... 48 Blossom Music Festival—Summer Home of 46th Istanbul Music Festival...... 25 Spoleto Festival USA...... 48 the Orchestra...... 13 Oxford Festival...... 41 22nd Istanbul Theatre Festival...... 25 Strings Music Festival...... 49 Bowdoin International Music Festival...... 13 Ravenna Festival...... 41 Killington Music Festival...... 26 Tanglewood...... 50 Bravo! Vail Music Festival...... 13 ...... 42 La Jolla Music Society Summerfest...... 26 Teatro Nuovo...... 50 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music...... 14 Rigas Ritmi...... 42 Lake George Music Festival...... 27 Rockport Chamber Music Festival...... 43 Tippet Rise Art Center...... 51 Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts...... 14 Les Flâneries Musicales de Reims...... 27 Carinthian Summer Music Festival ...... 15 Liechtensteiner Gitarrentage Ligita...... 27 Carmel Bach Festival...... 16 Lucerne Festival...... 28 Central City Opera 2018 Festival...... 16 Marlboro Music Festival...... 29 Summer Festival...... 16 Orchestra Sommerfest...... 29 Chautauqua Music Festival...... 16 Mizzou International Festival...... 30 The 2018 Guide Crested Butte Music Festival...... 17 Mostly Mozart Festival...... 30 Decoda | Skidmore Chamber Music Institute...... 17 Music Academy of the West Summer Festival...... 31 Deer Valley Music Festival...... 17 Music House International...... 31 Des Moines Metro Opera...... 18 Music Mountain...... 32 Drottningholms Slottsteater...... 18 Music in the Vineyards...... 33 The EAMA—Nadia Boulanger Institute...... 19 Festivals Music@Menlo...... 33 Encuentro de Santander, Música y Academia...... 19 National Repertory Orchestra...... 34 Festival d’Aix-en-Provence...... 19

2018 Festivals guide  musicalamerica.com • April 2018 ARTOSPHERE: ARKANSAS’ ARTS + NATURE FESTIVAL ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Fayetteville and Bentonville, AR FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Yuja Wang, Alisa Weilerstein, and ; string The esteemed Artosphere Festival Orchestra Festival Website Music Director leads a season quartets include the American, Emerson, Jupiter, (AFO) returns to Northwest Arkansas in June to themed “, City of Light,” exploring the Pacifica, and Escher. A number of premieres are delight audiences as the musical centerpiece DATES June 10 - 23, 2018 incomparable creative force with which this city also on the schedule. The season closes with of the 9th Annual Artosphere: Arkansas’ Arts + MUSIC DIRECTOR Corrado Rovaris has illuminated the arts, especially in the 19th Spano selections from Die Walküre with Nature Festival. Presented by Walton Arts Center and 20th centuries; theme works include those by soprano Tamara Wilson and - Ryan and featuring both performing and visual arts, GENRES Classical • Folk • World Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Poulenc, Offenbach, Bizet, McKinny. the festival celebrates the intersection of art, TICKET PRICE RANGE $5 to $49 Ibert, Gounod, Messiaen, and Boulez. Two mini- music, and nature with events across the region. themes illuminate related, distinct creative threads: LOCATION Aspen, CO Under the baton of internationally acclaimed TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Ticket Diaghilev Ballet Russes composers from 1909 to Festival Website Maestro Corrado Rovaris and with more than Purchase Link 1929 and the American composition students of DATES June 28 - August 19, 2018 90 premier musicians from distinguished 479-443-5600 Nadia Boulanger. and music programs across the ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Robert Spano BOOKING CONTACT Other highlights include the 25th anniversary of globe, AFO performances are held at Crystal GENRE Classical Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville Jason Howell Smith, Walton Arts Center Harris Concert Hall, the conclusion of Jonathan and Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville. This year’s Biss’s complete Beethoven piano sonatas cycle, TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $90 and the beginning of James Ehnes’s complete Chapel Music Series offers chamber music in local SOCIAL LINKS chapels and architectural marvels with groups sonata cycle (both launched in Aspen), a new TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION such as the acclaimed Dover Quartet and the partnership with Grammy Award-winning vocal Ticket Purchase Link Zorá , as well as violist Roberto ensemble Seraphic Fire, and a new brass chamber 970-925-9042 music program led by the American Brass Quintet. Díaz, among others. And the annual Artosphere BOOKING CONTACT Asadour Santourian Trail Mix weekend enables audiences to hike Operas being performed are Rossini’s The Barber of or bike between stages while enjoying art and Seville and Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann. The Booking cycle date range: entertainment at stops along the way. Visit website AMFS will also present a concept presentation of May 2018 for Summer 2019 for full event listing. Bernstein’s one-act opera Trouble in Tahiti, woven together with Charlie Chaplin’s silent film A Dog’s SOCIAL LINKS Life. Performers include Behzod Abduraimov, , Ray Chen, Vladimir Feltsman, , , Daniel Hope, Sharon Isbin, Stefan Jackiw, Robert McDuffie, , , Lise de la Salle, , Orli Shaham, , Jean-Yves Thibaudet, ,

2018 Festivals guide  musicalamerica.com • April 2018 BANG ON A CAN SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL AT MASS MOCA Celebrating one man is like celebrating an army of men when that solo figure is . Fortunately, Ravinia has engaged FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION North Adams, MA one the of the master’s last protégés, , to curate our multi-year celebration of Bernstein the conductor, the composer, The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at Festival Website the teacher, the activist, the television star, the —the man the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary with all his faults and glories. Art is a musical utopia for innovative musicians DATES July 9 - 29, 2018 in the beautiful Berkshire mountains of western ARTISTIC DIRECTORS 14 28 JUL MARIN ALSOP CONDUCTS THE EVENT OF THE YEAR! JUL Massachusetts. The festival is entirely dedicated Michael Gordon, David Lang, SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA to adventurous contemporary music. Composers ODE TO JOY! will have their new works performed. Musicians GENRE Classical contemporary ODE TO FREEDOM! VOCALITY & CHICAGO will play in ensembles alongside their teachers. TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $25 Alsop Conducts the CHILDREN’S CHOIR The Festival includes daily performances in the CHICAGO SYMPHONY museum galleries, free with museum admission, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS Kevin Newbury and concludes with a six-hour blow-out Marathon Ticket Purchase Link BEETHOVEN’S Director Concert performed by Festival ensembles and 413-662-2111 Acclaimed for the Lyric’s 6<03+21<12b Bel Canto and the opera special guests. The Festival also features African AND BERNSTEIN’S sensation Fellow Travelers Paulo Szot SOCIAL LINKS CHICHESTER PSALMS Baritone (Celebrant) and Latin music workshops, electronics and music business seminars, free events in the community, 18 and more. JUL Superstar pairing

Back from last Long-awaited year’s Ravinia & Ravinia debut triumph First time together Yuja Wang in Chicago Beethoven’s 7th Symphony was Dudamel’s first recording and Bernstein’s final note.

Joshua Bell plays Bernstein’s Serenade Nadine Sierra and Michael Fabiano sing 12 10 JUL with Alsop and the CSO on a program also AUG the great American songs composed by featuring the Candide Overture. Bernstein and his peers. Jamie Bernstein hosts “Late Night with The CSO performs Bernstein’s favorites, including 27 18 Lenny,” a heartfelt evening of music JUL his Slava, Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, and AUG and anecdotes. Ravel’s played by Igor Levit. “America’s music teacher” is celebrated with performs her first 28 19 JUL a family concert created by Jamie Bernstein, AUG “Jeremiah” Symphony. Alsop also leads featuring her father’s music. the CSO in Mahler’s First Symphony.

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2018 Festivals guide  musicalamerica.com • April 2018 BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL/BARD SUMMERSCAPE BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Annandale-on-Hudson, NY FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Rockport, ME This year’s Bard Music Festival explores the musical Festival Website Bay Chamber’s Summer Music Festival glimmers Festival Website world of composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. with variety. While you can get your Bach, Highlights include semi-staged performances of DATES August 10 - 19, 2018 Beethoven, or Brahms fix, you will also experience DATES August 15 - 19, 2018 The Tsar’s Bride (with Lyubov Petrova, soprano; ARTISTIC DIRECTORS novel, one-of-a-kind creative happenings— ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Manuel Bagorro Nadezhda Babintseva, mezzo-soprano; Andrei , Christopher H. Gibbs, Gideon Lester musical flights of imagination for audience Valentii, baritone; Efim Zavalny, baritone; Yakov and artists alike. This Festival shines a light on GENRES Classical • Jazz • Ethnic GENRES Classical • Opera • Theater • Dance Strizhak, bass) and Mozart and Salieri (with Mikhail living composers’ work for dynamic percussion TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $60 Svetlov, bass, and Gerard Schneider, ); TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $105 groups, or unconventional combinations of string and a program devoted to Russian piano music instruments with guitars and electronics, or TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION featuring Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION mind-expanding projected visual art with physical Ticket Purchase Link Rachmaninoff’s Suite No. 2, Medtner’s Sonata Ticket Purchase Link performers and classical musicians, or dazzling 207-236-2823 Tragica, Op. 39, and Scriabin’s Sonata No. 2, among 845-758-7900 harpsichord or theorbo players playing a recently other works, with including Danny Driver, written chamber opera. And Rockport, Maine, is BOOKING CONTACT Manuel Bagorro BOOKING CONTACT Irene Zedlacher Piers Lane, Orion Weiss, and Fei-Fei. The festival a destination with a craggy and rugged shoreline Booking cycle date range: will open with a program surveying the Mighty SOCIAL LINKS along a bay dotted with hundreds of uninhabited Fall 2018 for Summer 2019 Five, featuring among other works Balakirev’s islands, and crowned by pined mountains. The Islamey, Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death, musical venues are approachable, sometimes SOCIAL LINKS and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Le coq d’or Suite and historic, and always New-England-beautiful. And Russian Easter Festival Overture (performed by The this high-note of summer is famously laid back: Orchestra Now with Leon Botstein conducting; Leave stodgy at the door, wander around with a pianist Andrey Gugnin; and bass Önay Köse). Other glass of wine, and introduce yourself to the young programs will highlight the folk traditions of the artists who just lift up your senses, and your mind. Russian Empire, the legacy of Pushkin; music under Tsarist autocracy; the competing styles of the St. Petersburg and conservatories; and the influence of the classical, the exotic, and the national with a concert featuring a rare performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s From Homer.

2018 Festivals guide 10 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 BEETHOVENFEST BONN BERKELEY FESTIVAL & EXHIBITION

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Bonn, FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Berkeley, CA September 8. Orchestra of the Age of Festival Website The 2018 Berkeley Festival & Exhibition reimagines Festival Website Enlightenment, Adam Fischer conductor. the concept of traditional Early Music by broadening Beethoven: Egmont Overture, Symphony No. 5; DATES August 31 - September 23, 2018 the boundaries to include historically informed DATES June 3 - 10, 2018 Haydn: Symphony No. 101, The Clock ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Prof. Dr. Nike Wagner masterworks from as far back as the early Middle ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Robert Cole Ages through the Romantic era. Highlights include September 21. Symphony Orchestra of Flanders, GENRE Classical Early Music ensemble Sequentia; programs of GENRE Classical Jan Latham-Koenig conductor. Adriana Kohútková TICKET PRICE RANGE $9 to $115 J.S. Bach’s and motets featuring Belgian TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $56 soprano; Markéta Cukrová ; Jaroslav ensemble Vox Luminis; a concert version of Březina tenor; Pavel Švingr bass; Daniela Valtová TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Purcell’s ; a 19th-century salon- TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Kosinová organ; Philharmonic Chorus; Lukáš Ticket Purchase Link style presentation of solo and chamber works Ticket Purchase Link Vasilek choir director. +49 (0) 228 50201313 by Schumann and Schubert; and the Festival’s 510-528-1725 Brahms: Schicksalslied for chorus and orchestra. inaugural International Early Piano Competition BOOKING CONTACT Dr. Markus Kiesel devoted to Classical and on BOOKING CONTACT Harvey Malloy Dieter Schnebel: Schicksal: Beethoven/Hölderlin for Booking cycle date range: historically appropriate instruments. Booking cycle date range: speaker, contralto, chorus and chamber ensemble Spring 2018 for fall 2018 Fall of 2018 for Summer 2020 (world première, commissioned by the Bonn The eight-day festival also includes over 50 Beethovenfest) SOCIAL LINKS concerts; an exhibition that brings together SOCIAL LINKS instrument makers, publishers, retailers, and Leós Janáček: Glagolithic Mass for solo , organizations; Young Artist Series featuring Seattle chorus, orchestra and organ. Historical Arts for Kids, Davis Senior High School September 23. ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baroque Ensemble, Juilliard415, and . Michael Boder conductor. Feldman: Coptic Conservatory of Music students, faculty, and Light for orchestra; Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 alumni. The Westfield Historical Keyboard Center will present historical keyboard specialist in a program of Debussy’s piano music on the beautiful 1913 Bechstein; also planned are an international Early Music Film Festival and special lectures and master classes.

2018 Festivals guide 11 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 111TH BETHLEHEM BACH FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS 2:30 pm: The , the centerpiece of our The 111th Bethlehem Bach Festival features artist- Festival since 1900. in-residence She-e Wu, ; Rosa Lamoreaux, soprano; Cassandra Lemoine, soprano; Danial Taylor, 7:00 pm: Zimmermann’s Coffee House offers countertenor; Benjamin Butterfield, tenor; William chamber music “café style.” Sharp, baritone; David Newman, bass. May 20: Finals of the Young American Singer Fridays: Competition, no tickets required. Noon: free performance: “Bach Outdoors.” Violist Location Bethlehem, PA Paul Miller, joined by She-e Wu and Dale Henderson, Festival Website present arrangements of some of Bach’s most beloved masterpieces on “modern” instruments. DATES May 11 - 20, 2018 Two intimate 4 pm concerts: Chamber Music in the ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Greg Funfgeld Saal of the Moravian Museum with Charlotte Mattax GENRE Classical Moersch, performing the Goldberg Variations on harpsichord. “Bach at 4” with members of The Bach TICKET PRICE RANGE $9 to $58 Choir and Bach Festival Orchestra in 106, Gottes Zeit is die allerbeste, and other works. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Ticket Purchase Link “Bach at 8”: Cantata 21 Ich hatte viel Bekummernis; 610-866-4382 transcription for marimba of the Third Suite in 2018 Faculty Oxford Handel’s Ode for Saint Cecelia’s Day. BOOKING CONTACT Yoheved Kaplinsky Philharmonic Bridget George, Executive Director Orchestra Saturdays: Marios Papadopoulos 10:30 am: Ifor Jones Chamber Music Concert. Bach’s SOCIAL LINKS Seong-Jin Cho Oxford Piano Festival Fifth Brandenburg Concerto, and Third Suite in D Anne Queffélec 28 July - 5 August 2018 Major, BWV 1068. Sir András Schiff Residential course for pianists and piano enthusiasts set in Niel Immelman Dame Fanny Waterman an historic Oxford college ‘Oxford’s masterclasses turn piano lessons into performance art’ The New York Times [email protected] oxfordphil.com

2018 Festivals guide 12 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 BLOSSOM MUSIC FESTIVAL— BOWDOIN INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL

SUMMER HOME OF THE FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS are dedicated to collaborating with and guiding The Bowdoin International Music Festival is one of the next generation’s most promising artists. FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Cuyahoga Falls, OH the world’s premiere music institutes, providing Blossom Music Center, The Cleveland Orchestra’s Festival Website an intensive and in-depth exploration of chamber LOCATION Brunswick, ME summer home, marks its 50th anniversary this and solo music. Every summer, 250 students Festival Website summer. July 7, opening night, will be conducted DATES July 3 - September 2, 2018 make life-long connections with peers, enhance DATES June 23 - August 4, 2018 by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst. July 21: ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Franz Welser-Möst musicianship through study and performance, and former Blossom Music Festival Director Jahja engage with world-renowned faculty. ARTISTIC DIRECTORS David Ying and Phillip Ying Ling conducts Mahler’s Titan Symphony, also GENRES celebrating 50 years of partnership between Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Movie Music Festival faculty come to Bowdoin from leading GENRE Classical conservatories including Curtis, Cincinnati the Kent/Blossom Chamber Orchestra and The TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $120 TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $45 Cleveland Orchestra. July 29: Audra McDonald Conservatory, Cleveland Institute of Music, sings Broadway favorites. August 12: Yo-Yo Ma TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Eastman, Indiana, Oberlin, Juilliard, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION plays all six of Bach’s Cello Suites. August 25: Ticket Purchase Link School of Music, Mannes, New England Ticket Purchase Link , with the Blossom Festival Chorus 216-231-1111 Conservatory, Peabody, Rice, Royal College of 207-725-3895 (also celebrating its 50th anniversary). Music, and University of Southern California, SOCIAL LINKS among others. At Bowdoin, these faculty members SOCIAL LINKS Other events: July 3 and 4: Loras John Schissel returns to lead the Blossom Festival Band; July 8: performs ’s TOMMY with members of The Who Band and The Cleveland BRAVO! VAIL MUSIC FESTIVAL Orchestra. August 4: Family Fun Day with the classic Disney film The Little Mermaid. August FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Vail, CO 31-September 2 is a screening of Star Wars: A Bravo! Vail is a musical adventure in a setting like Festival Website New Hope. The Cleveland Orchestra plays John no other, bringing the world of magnificent music Williams’s classic score live. to the Vail Valley each summer. The 2018 season DATES June 21 - August 4, 2018 has a distinctly global flair with internationally ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Anne-Marie McDermott “Under 18s Free” continues for every Blossom renowned guest artists and ensembles from all Music Festival concert. over the world, both rising stars and legendary GENRE Classical masters, offering virtuoso performances. The TICKET PRICE RANGE $5 to $100 incredible musicians of Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Dallas Symphony, The TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Orchestra, and all make their Ticket Purchase Link eagerly awaited returns. Orchestral masterworks, 877-812-5700 sensational pops presentations, intimate chamber artistry, and family-friendly fun, performed by the SOCIAL LINKS world’s finest musicians, all take place in spectacular settings throughout the Vail Valley. Let the musical adventures begin!

2018 Festivals guide 13 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 CABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC AND THE ARTS

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Santa Cruz, CA FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Katonah, NY America’s longest-running festival of new Festival Website The resident Orchestra of St. Luke’s opens and Festival Website orchestral music celebrates its 56th season and closes the festival with concerts featuring superstar the second season of brilliant new Music Director DATES July 29 - August 12, 2018 vocalists Audra McDonald and , DATES June 16 - July 29, 2018 and Conductor Cristian Macelaru, who wowed ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Cristian Macelaru plus a mid-summer performance of Tchaikovsky, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Kathy Schuman critics and audiences last year. Works that are rarely Smetana, and a New York premiere by Matthew more than a year or two old by both preeminent GENRE Classical Aucoin. Met Opera star Isabel Leonard gives an GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic • Opera and emerging composers are performed by an TICKET PRICE RANGE $30 to $65 intimate recital with guitarist Sharon Isbin, and San orchestra of dedicated professional musicians and Francisco’s peerless vocal ensemble Chanticleer • Symphonic renowned guest artists from across the globe. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION celebrates its 40th-anniversary season. New music TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $110 With a professional training workshop for early Ticket Purchase Link abounds, performed by the , So career conductors and composers, open rehearsals, 831-426-6966 Percussion, and The Knights; John Luther Adams’s TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION educational programming, and a street fair monumental out-of-doors percussion piece Ticket Purchase Link showcasing local performers and artists, the festival SOCIAL LINKS Inuksuit, featuring 60+ musicians, will be the 914-232-1252 offers dozens of opportunities for meaningful highlight of a free day of events. engagement. BOOKING CONTACT [email protected] Operatic offerings include Handel’s Atalanta Among this year’s 17 composers-in-residence with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and SOCIAL LINKS are Karim Al-Zand, , Anna Clyne, a special Sunken Garden production of Mozart’s , Dan Dediu, Zosha di Castri, Gabriela The Secret Gardener. Cleveland Baroque orchestra Lena Frank, Vivian Fung, Michael Gandolfi, Pierre Apollo’s Fire completes the early music roster. The Jalbert, Kristin Kuster, Missy Mazzoli, Huang Ruo, Verona Quartet serves as the Ernst Stiefel String Pande Shahov, Sean Shepherd, Peter Shin, and quartet-in-residence, premiering a Caramoor Andrea Tarrodi. commission from composer Julia Adolphe. Other chamber offerings include concerts by the Jasper and Brentano Quartets and solo piano recitals from Marc-André Hamelin and Michael Brown. Ted Sperling leads a “Bernstein’s Broadway” concert with Broadway stars; Dianne Reeves headlines the annual Caramoor Jazz Festival; singer/songwriter Aimee Mann headlines the annual American Roots Music Festival.

2018 Festivals guide 14 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 CARINTHIAN SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Vienna, July 26: Kärntner Sinfonieorchester, Kristiina Poska, Festival Website conductor. Aigul Akhmetshina, mezzo-soprano. by Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Tchaikovsky, DATES July 14 - August 26, 2018 Bellini, Saint-Saëns, Massenet, and Bizet. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Mr. Holger Bleck July 31: Benjamin Appl (baritone) & Graham GENRES Johnson (piano). Selected songs by Gottfried von Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Crossover • Church Opera Eine; ; ; Hugo Wolf. TICKET PRICE RANGE $10.67 to $101.40 August 7: Rudolf Buchbinder (piano). Works by Haydn, Schubert, Beethoven. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Ticket Purchase Link August 23: ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, +43 (0) 4243 / 2510 Markus Poschner, conductor. Anika Vavic, piano. BOOKING CONTACT Art, music, and nature in the rolling Leonard Bernstein: Overture to Candide, Symphony [email protected] No. 2, . Von Einem: Dantons Tod Phone +43 (0) 4243 / 2510 foothills of the Beartooth Mountains. Suite, Op. 6a (1944/1946), Concerto for Orchestra. Booking cycle date range: Spring 2018 for Summer 2018 SOCIAL LINKS

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2018 Festivals guide 15 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 CARMEL BACH FESTIVAL CHAMBER MUSIC NORTHWEST SUMMER FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Portland, OR The Carmel Bach Festival presents its 81st Festival Website From Classical trios by Mozart, to a chamber opera Festival Website performance season, July 14-28, 2018, in venues by combining Chinese and Western throughout Carmel, Monterey, and Pebble Beach, DATES July 14 - 28, 2018 elements, to new arrangements of works by Duke DATES June 25 - July 29, 2018 California. This year’s schedule features more than ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Paul Goodwin Ellington and Jefferson Airplane, in addition to ARTISTIC DIRECTOR David Shifrin 40 events including main concerts, recitals, and a performances ranging from pianist André Watts, to “Music and Ideas” series. GENRE Classical Imani Winds, to pipa player Wu Man, we’re reveling GENRE Classical TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $128 in everything chamber music can be! Highlights TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $64 “World-renowned musicians and vocal soloists, include the Beyond the Cultural Revolution series including Mhairi Lawson, Clara Rottsolk, Meg Bragle, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION in which CMNW explores contemporary Chinese TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Thomas Cooley, Rufus Mnller, and John Brancy Ticket Purchase Link music. Other highlights: works by Jeff Scott, Andy Ticket Purchase Link will appear,” said Paul Goodwin, artistic director 831-624-1521 Akiho, John Luther Adams, J. P. Redmond, Valerie 503-294-6400 and principal conductor. “The 2018 Carmel Bach Coleman, as well as Mozart, Dvořák, Beethoven, Festival is full of stories and narratives that use the SOCIAL LINKS and more, and performances by Cho-Liang Lin, SOCIAL LINKS expressive power of music and words to lift you out David Shifrin, the Dover Quartet, the Miró Quartet, of the ordinary and into the extraordinary!” and many, many more.

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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Central City, CO FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 23 - August 26, 2018 Delight in the glorious music of Mozart’s The Festival Website Chautauqua Institution’s summer season of Magic and Verdi’s extraordinary performing and visual arts contains an impressive ARTISTIC DIRECTORS featuring artists from around the world. Revel DATES July 7 - August 5, 2018 array of offerings in an idyllic lakeside setting. , CSO; Timothy Muffitt, Orchestra; Marlena Malas, Voice; Alexander Gavrylyuk,John in the remarkable voices of the Bonfils-Stanton GENERAL/ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Pelham G. Pearce Festival highlights include weekly performances Foundation Artists performing Acis and Galatea and by resident companies including the Chautauqua Milbauer and Nicola Mellville, Piano the 40th-anniversary production of The Face on the GENRE Opera Symphony Orchestra, Chautauqua Opera, and GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk Barroom Floor. Be inspired by exquisite opera this TICKET PRICE RANGE $31 to $108 Chautauqua Theater, along with pre-professional summer in the world-renowned jewel box theater schools of Music, Visual Art, Theater, and Dance. TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $150 nestled in the Rocky Mountains of . Steal TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Additional visiting performance series include TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION away for an unforgettable weekend and enjoy up to Ticket Purchase Link Popular Entertainment, Chamber Music, Dance, and Ticket Purchase Link four different opera performances. 303-292-6700 Family Entertainment. 716-357-6250 SOCIAL LINKS LOCATION Chautauqua, NY SOCIAL LINKS Festival Website

2018 Festivals guide 16 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 CRESTED BUTTE MUSIC FESTIVAL DECODA | SKIDMORE CHAMBER MUSIC INSTITUTE

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Crested Butte, CO FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION At the Crested Butte Music Festival, our mission is Festival Website The Decoda | Skidmore Chamber Music Institute Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY to enrich, educate, and inspire our community with enables young musicians to explore leadership Festival Website diverse art forms that celebrate the human spirit. DATES July 5 - August 11, 2018 and community service through the intensive DATES July 8 - 21, 2018 Now in its 22nd year, CBMF presents outstanding ARTISTIC DIRECTORS Emily & Erik Peterson study of chamber music. Under the guidance of performances in a variety of musical genres with Decoda faculty, artist students will learn how to ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Alicia Lee accompanying hands-on educational programs. GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz fully engage their audiences and communities GENRE Classical In 2017, over 130 world-class artists, including TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $200 through interactive chamber music performances professional musicians, educators, and singers, as while improving their own performance and public TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $8 well as celebrated soloists, popular ensembles, and TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION speaking skills. award-winning performers in jazz, bluegrass, and Ticket Purchase Link TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION folk, traveled to Crested Butte from all over the 970-349-0619 Faculty includes: Alicia Lee, Brad Balliett, Claire Ticket Purchase Link nation to perform beloved masterpieces of old and Bryant, Anna Elashvili, Catherine Gregory, Michael premiere works anew in the Gunnison Valley. BOOKING CONTACT Erik Peterson Mizrahi, Brandon Ridenour, Kris Saebo, Nathan SOCIAL LINKS Schram, James Austin Smith, Jack Stulz, and This year marks the second year of two new SOCIAL LINKS Saeunn Thorsteinsdóttir. Guest Artists: Lembit initiatives for developing professionals and Beecher and Jennifer Koh. passionate amateur musicians. The Orchestral Fellows Program provides conservatory and music school students the unique opportunity to perform orchestral concerts and chamber music DEER VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL side-by-side with the professionals of the Festival Orchestra. The Chamber Music Intensive caters to FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS principal players performing in the beautiful setting serious amateur musicians who will be coached by Highlights of the 15th annual summer festival of St. Mary’s Church. world-class musicians. in Park City include: Kristin Chenoweth with the Utah Symphony performing Broadway favorites; Location Park City, UT folk-rock singer/songwriter Amos Lee and “Jessie’s Festival Website Girl” Grammy Award-winning Australian vocalist DATES June 30 - August 11, 2018 Rick Springfield with the Utah Symphony; soundtracks accompanying Hollywood’s ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Anthony Tolokan blockbuster movies; tributes to Swedish pop GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz sensation ABBA, the music of the ‘80s, and the music of Pink Floyd with the Utah Symphony. TICKET PRICE RANGE Disney in Concert “A Silly Symphony Celebration.” TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Tributes to and Stephen Ticket Purchase Link Sondheim; the 1812 Overture featuring live cannon 801-533-6683 fire from Cannoneers of the Wasatch; four chamber orchestra programs featuring Utah Symphony SOCIAL LINKS

2018 Festivals guide 17 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 DES MOINES METRO OPERA DROTTNINGHOLMS SLOTTSTEATER

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Indianola, IA FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 28 - September 22, 2018 Des Moines Metro Opera’s 46th Summer Festival Festival Website The Japanese master choreographer and features company premieres of Dvořák’s Rusalka, multitalented artist Saburo Teshigawara will be ARTISTIC DIRECTORS with Sara Gartland as Rusalka, Evan LeRoy Johnson DATES June 22 - July 15, 2018 staging Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera-ballet Sofi Lerström/Maria Lindal as the , and Jill Grove as JePibaba; Jonathan ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Michael Egel Pygmalion this summer. Cast includes Anders J. GENRE Classical Dove’s Flight, with John Holiday and Audrey Luna Dahlin and Kerstin Avemo. Swedish director Pia as the Refugee and the Controller; and Copland’s GENRES Classical • Opera Forsgren will be creating The Siblings of Mantua, TICKET PRICE RANGE $40 to $125 The Tender Land, as well as a new production of TICKET PRICE RANGE $37 to $98 a newly written Baroque opera with some of the TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION J. Strauss’s with Susannah Biller leading artists of the contemporary arts. “We’ve Ticket Purchase Link as Rosalinda, Anna Christy as Adele, and David TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION invited artists with very distinguished careers +46 771707070 Pershall as Eisenstein. Ticket Purchase Link within the contemporary performing arts to create 515-961-6221 something new in our unique theatre environment,” BOOKING CONTACT Producer Kristian says Sofi Lerstrom, artistic and managing director. Holstein BOOKING CONTACT Samuel Carroll, Artistic Administrator LOCATION Drottningholm, Sweden SOCIAL LINKS Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS

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2018 Festivals guide 19 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 FESTIVAL DANS LES JARDINS DE WILLIAM CHRISTIE FESTIVAL NAPA VALLEY

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES August 25 - September 1, 2018 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Napa Valley, CA Musical promenades and short baroque music July 20, 2018: Festival Napa Valley begins with a Festival Website concerts by the musicians and singers of Les Arts ARTISTIC DIRECTORS performance by soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor Florissants in the gardens of William Christie; William Christie & Paul Agnew Bryan Hymel, accompanied by the Blackburn DATES July 20 - 29, 2018 concerts on the reflecting pool; great open-air GENRE Classical Music Academy Orchestra. Opening weekend DIRECTORS baroque music concerts with Les Arts Florissants, continues with a performance by Compay Segundo, Richard Walker, President & CEO; Charles conducted by William Christie and Paul Agnew; TICKET PRICE RANGE $9.90 to $30.80 celebrating the music of Cuba, on Saturday, July 21. Letourneau, Executive Producer plus, candlelit concerts of sacred baroque music in TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION the peaceful setting of the Thiré medieval church. Throughout the week of July 23, featured artists GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic Ticket Purchase Link include Lea Solanga, Arturo Sandoval, and three LOCATION Vendée, France +33 (0)2 28 85 85 70 winners of the most prestigious international piano TICKET PRICE RANGE $2 to $10000 Festival Website BOOKING CONTACT competitions. On July 26, returns to TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION [email protected] the festival for The Red Violin live with the Festival Ticket Purchase Link Orchestra NAPA, conducted by Michael Stern, to 888-337-627 SOCIAL LINKS honor composer-in-residence John Corigliano during his 80th birthday year. BOOKING CONTACT Jessica Milde Closing weekend brings the Dede Wilsey Dance Booking cycle date range: Gala, with American Ballet Theater principal Isabella Fall 2017 for Summer 2018. Boylston, and a Bernstein Centennial program, with Michael Fabiano, Larisa Martínez, and the Festival SOCIAL LINKS Orchestra NAPA, conducted by .

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2018 Festivals guide 20 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 THE GILMORE KEYBOARD FESTIVAL THE GLIMMERGLASS FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Kalamazoo, MI FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Cooperstown, NY The 2018 Gilmore Keyboard Festival features Festival Website The Glimmerglass Festival is a one-of-a-kind Festival Website more than 50 pianists and 200 artists in nearly 100 summer destination. The scenic campus lies on the concerts and events including classical, jazz, and DATES April 25 - May 12, 2018 shore of sparkling Otsego Lake in Cooperstown, DATES July 7 - August 25, 2018 theater performances, as well as master classes. DIRECTOR Pierre van der Westhuizen New York, nestled between the Adirondack and DIRECTORS Highlights include 2018 Gilmore Artist Award Catskill mountains. Each season, the company Francesca Zambello, Artistic & General Director; recipient Igor Levit in recital and performing GENRES Classical • Jazz presents new productions of opera and musical Joseph Colaneri, Music Director Beethoven’s No. 4 with the Grand TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $65 theater, accompanied by myriad concerts, lectures, Rapids Symphony, as well as performances by and a world-premiere youth opera. As its core GENRE Classical fellow Artist Award recipients Rafal Blechacz, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION offerings in 2018, Glimmerglass presents new TICKET PRICE RANGE $26 to $149 Ingrid Fliter, Kirill Gerstein, and . Ticket Purchase Link mainstage productions of Bernstein’s West Side The 2018 Festival showcases a broad spectrum 269-359-7311 Story, Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, Rossini’s TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION of keyboard virtuosity and repertoire with solo , and Kevin Puts’s Silent Night. Ticket Purchase Link recitals by , Daniil Trifonov, Benjamin SOCIAL LINKS Additional mainstage events include appearances 607-547-2255 Grosvenor, Michael Brown, and , among by , Eric Owens, Margaret Atwood, others. This year’s Gilmore Young Artist Award and Bill Murray, Jan Vogler and Friends. The Festival BOOKING CONTACT recipients Wei Luo and Elliot Wuu make multiple is completed by additional concerts, cabarets and Christopher Powell, Director of Artistic Operations appearances; violinist Benjamin Beilman joins and Kelley Rourke’s youth opera Odyssey. SOCIAL LINKS Orion Weiss for duo performances, Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi play Harlem Stride piano, joins the Gilmore Festival Chamber Orchestra, and tenor Lawrence Brownlee sings Schumann’s . Jazz offerings include the Emmet Cohen Trio, Bill Charlap Trio, Dr. Lonnie Smith, player Julien Labro’s quartet, and the Grammy Award-winning Salsa and Latin Jazz band Spanish Harlem Orchestra. The Gilmore also presents singer-songwriter Nellie McKay, Snarky Puppy, and celebrates the Bernstein Centennial with “Late Night with Leonard Bernstein,” hosted by his daughter Jamie and featuring pianists John Musto and Michael Boriskin with acclaimed soprano Amy Burton.

2018 Festivals guide 21 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 THE GOLANDSKY INSTITUTE SUMMER SYMPOSIUM GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS FOUNDER/ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Edna Golandsky FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Jackson Hole, WY We offer daytime lectures that teach the Taubman This year, the Grand Teton Music Festival takes Festival Website Approach and evening concerts featuring talented GENRE Classical inspiration from the Bernstein centenary to cel- DATES July 3 - August 18, 2018 pianists on the idyllic campus of Lewis & Clark TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $25 ebrate American music at the foot of the majestic College in Portland, Oregon. Teton Mountains. The seven-week season kicks off ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Donald Runnicles TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION with a Patriotic Pops concert on July 4. Opening LOCATION Portland, OR Ticket Purchase Link week continues with concerts featuring star pianist GENRE Classical Festival Website 877-343-3434 Daniil Trifonov performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $200 DATES July 29 - August 4, 2018 SOCIAL LINKS Concerto No. 1 (July 6 & 7). Conductor Markus Stenz and violinist Leila Josefowicz appear in a TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION performance of ’s Scheherazade.2 and Ticket Purchase Link Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony. On July 19, Broad- 307-733-1128 way sensation Audra McDonald stars in a special fundraising gala concert, and later in the week, pia- BOOKING CONTACT Marty Camino nist Kirill Gerstein and conductor Stéphane Denève Booking cycle date range: team up for a program of Gershwin and Bernstein. Spring 2018 for Summer 2019 Cellist Johannes Moser and Music Director Donald Runnicles lead the Festival Orchestra in a per- SOCIAL LINKS formance of Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 on July 27 & 28. doubles as soloist America’s Oldest Bach Choir! and conductor in a program of Mendelssohn and 111th Bethlehem Bach Festival Mozart (August 3 & 4). On August 10 & 11, mezzo- MAY 11–12 & 18–19, 2018 in Bethlehem, PA soprano Kelley O’Connor makes her return in the penultimate weekend of orchestral concerts with Celebrate with The Bach Choir of Bethlehem! Mahler’s Symphony No. 3. The festival closes with Experience Baroque music performed in glorious settings a concert adaptation of Bernstein’s West Side Story 111th Bethlehem throughout town. Join us as we toast to the 35th Anniversary with full cast. BACH FESTIVAL of Artistic Director and Conductor Greg Funfgeld, our May 11–12 & 18–19 120th birthday, and our treasured Bethlehem Bach Festival. The Bach Choir of Bethlehem The 2018 season features two world premieres, Bach Festival Orchestra · Festival artist-in-residence She-e Wu, marimba including a string quartet by Syrian-American Greg Funfgeld, Third Cello Suite in C Major, BWV 1009 composer Kareem Roustom, and a piece for · Handel’s Ode for Saint Cecilia’s Day orchestra by Sean Shepherd (co-commissioned · The epic Goldberg Variations with the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music). Charlotte Mattaz Moersch on harpsichord Orchestral works, chamber music, lectures, and movies complete the season, with bassist Edgar · Fifth Brandenburg Concerto, BWV 1015 Greg Funfgeld on harpsichord, with violin & flute Meyer, pianist Olga Kern, Canadian Brass, and Dover Quartet appearing in chamber and recital · The Mass in B Minor, the centerpiece of the annual Festival programs. Complete Festival Schedule & Tickets @ BACH.org | 610-866-4382

2018 Festivals guide 22 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 GREEN MOUNTAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD INSTITUTE & FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Burlington, VT FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION New York, NY This season, Green Mountain audiences will enjoy Festival Website The 20th-anniversary season offers recitals in the Festival Website a series of seven concerts featuring the 35 distin- Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College by Jean-Efflam guished faculty of our summer conservatory, in DATES June 24 - July 22, 2018 Bavouzet, Vladimir Feltsman, Yekwon Sunwoo DATES July 15 - 29, 2018 creatively programmed concerts including music ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Kevin Lawrence (Gold Medal 2017 Cliburn), Jie Chen, Jerome Rose, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jerome Rose at the heart of the chamber repertory, rarely heard Steven Mayer, Alon Goldstein with the Fine Arts 19th- and 20th-century works, and fresh compo- GENRES Classical Quartet, Jeffrey Swann, Dina Ivanova, Ilya Yakushev, GENRE Classical sitional voices of our time. Concert dates for 2018 TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 Massimiliano Ferrati, Geoffrey Burleson. Pre- TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 will be June 27 and 29, July 4, 6, 11, 13, and 20. In a concert program notes are provided each evening four-day residency, cellist , known TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION with faculty and guests. There will be two Faculty TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION for his presentation of classical music in uncon- Ticket Purchase Link Artists Gala Concerts in the Kaye. The Prestige Ticket Purchase Link ventional venues, will offer discussions on musical 802-503-1220 Series concerts in Lang Recital Hall feature young 212-772-4448 entrepreneurship, speak on the current climate of artists. Recital by Yuan Sheng and Lieder concert classical music, and perform on the July 6 Artist SOCIAL LINKS by Yuri Kim with Nils Neubert, tenor, in Lang. Free BOOKING CONTACT Faculty Series concert. Chad Hoopes, winner of a lecture celebrating the Debussy anniversary year. Julie Kedersha, Festival Director 2017 Avery Fisher Career Grant, will perform on the IKIF Scholarship Awards Competition. Daily master Booking cycle date range: July 20 concert. classes for festival participants. Fall 2018 for Summer 2019 Participants in this intensive four-week program SOCIAL LINKS of solo and chamber music study energize the audience for our Artist Faculty Concert Series. 185 string players, ages 14-30, are immersed in the Festival’s atmosphere of focused professionalism, with four hours of daily individual practice, daily chamber music rehearsals, lessons, ensemble coachings, and master classes, as well as extensive student performance opportunities in the concert hall and in unconventional venues in the Burling- ton community.

2018 Festivals guide 23 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL “CHOPIN AND HIS EUROPE”

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS International Music Festival: Chopin and His Europe. “From Chopin to Paderewski.” WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS FESTIVAL? Opera, oratoria, symphonic, and chamber concerts; One important strand to the festival program recitals; grand masterpieces of classical music; is historical performance—presenting works as both Polish and World repertoire; outstanding they were originally heard, on period in performances; world premieres. 50 concerts, 500 the possession of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute; musicians. beyond this, what remains key to the concept of Chopin and His Europe are top-class performances Legendary soloists, i.e. winners of Chopin piano of Polish music. competitions: , , Dang Thai Son, Garrick Ohlsson, Seong-Jin Cho, LOCATION Charles Richard-Hamelin, Alexei Lubimov, Makoto , Ozone, , Olli Mustonen, , Festival Website Leif Ove Andsnes, Nelson Goerner, Krzysztof Jablonski, Marc-André Hamelin, Benjamin DATES Grosvenor, , Yaara Tal, Christoph September 10 - 30, 2018 Prégardien, Tomasz Konieczny, Aleksandra Kurzak, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Alena Baeva, , Renaud Capuçon, Stanislaw Leszczynski Fabio Biondi, Andrzej Bauer Ensembles: Collegium 1704 / Vaclav Luks, Europa Galante / Fabio Biondi, GENRE Concerto Köln, Orkiestra Historyczna {OH!}, Orpheus Classical Chamber Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra TICKET PRICE RANGE / Ed Gardner, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / $10 to $100 Grzegorz Nowak, Russian National Orchestra / , Sinfonia Varsovia / Jacek Kaspszyk, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Florencio Junior, European Youth Orchestra / Ticket Purchase Link Gianandrea Noseda, Amadeus Chamber Orchestra +48 22 4416 193 / Agnieszka Duczmal, Apollon Musagete, Quatuor Mosaiques, , Ensemble Dialoghi SOCIAL LINKS

2018 Festivals guide 24 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 46TH ISTANBUL MUSIC FESTIVAL 22ND ISTANBUL THEATRE FESTIVAL FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Istanbul, Turkey FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Istanbul, Turkey The festival will host leading figures of classical Festival Website The Istanbul Theatre Festival returns to an annual Festival Website music, including Filarmonica della Scala, Joyce cycle after 15 years of being held biennially. Istanbul DiDonato, and . The festival, which DATES May 23 - June 12, 2018 Theatre Festival will once again enrich Istanbul’s DATES November 16 - 30, 2018 celebrates its 46th edition together with the ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Yesim Gürer Oymak cultural life with its wide program of international ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Leman Yilmaz performers on the stage, listeners in their seats, and local theatre and dance performances and and its supporters behind-the-scenes, presents a GENRE Classical events. GENRE Theatre program built around this year’s theme, “Family TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $150 TICKET PRICE RANGE $5 to $80 Bonds.” TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Ticket Purchase Link +90 21 23 34 07 85 +90 21 23 34 07 18 SOCIAL LINKS SOCIAL LINKS

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2018 Festivals guide 25 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY SUMMERFEST

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Killington, VT FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION San Diego, CA KMF 2018 marks 36 years of inspired chamber Festival Website La Jolla Music Society SummerFest 2018, August 3- Festival Website music performances, in the heart of Vermont’s 24, marks violinist Cho-Liang “Jimmy” Lin’s 18th and Green Mountains. Resident artists will work with DATES June 30 - July 27, 2018 final year as music director. The Festival welcomes DATES August 3 - 24, 2018 KMF’s esteemed faculty through private lessons, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Daniel Andai many distinguished artists and ensembles, many of MUSIC DIRECTOR Cho-Liang Lin small ensemble coachings, studio classes, master whom are Jimmy’s close friends coming together classes, sectionals, and score reading sessions, in GENRE Classical for the celebration. GENRE Classical addition to having performance opportunities. TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $40 TICKET PRICE RANGE $45 to $89 The supportive environment at KMF encourages Program highlights include opening night active cooperation and the open exchange of TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION featuring Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals; TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION musical ideas. 802-773-4003 three “An Evening with…” programs showcasing Ticket Purchase Link , , and Adele Anthony 858-459-3728 Violin faculty: Daniel Andai, Boris Abramov, Sophie SOCIAL LINKS and Gil Shaham; “A Night of Jazz” with the John Arbuckle, Arik Braude, Hirono Borter, Huifang Pizzarelli Trio; an afternoon with Emerson String BOOKING CONTACT Leah Rosenthal Chen, Evelyn Estava, Sergiu Schwartz, John Vaida; Quartet; and an All-Star SummerFest Orchestra viola: Sophie Arbuckle, John Vaida; cello: Theo- Finale led by American conductor David Zinman. Booking cycle date range: dore Buchholz, Michele Kesler, Benjamin Swartz, Ongoing, through February prior to the Philip Borter; double bass: Timothy Cobb, Pascale In addition to 16 mainstage performances, festival. Winter 2018 through February 2019 for Delache-Feldman; piano: Simon Ghraichy, Yianni SummerFest also includes numerous preconcert SummerFest 2019. Winter 2019 through February Iliadis; flute: Krista Svjetlana Kabalin; bassoon: recitals, interviews, lectures, and free musical 2020 for SummerFest 2020. encounters in La Jolla. Gina Cuffari. SOCIAL LINKS

2018 Festivals guide 26 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL LES FLÂNERIES MUSICALES DE REIMS

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Lake George, NY FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jean-Philippe Collard Musicians attend solely as a way to advance Festival Website In a friendly and warm spirit, find the greatest intellectually, artistically, and professionally, working performers of our time and discover new young GENRE Classical DATES August 11 - 24, 2018 closely together in a tight-knit community and talents. With the highest artistic standards, the TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $30 nurturing atmosphere performing daily open ARTISTIC DIRECTORS festival aims to enable the public to find the best rehearsals, live public concerts, and outreach events Barbora Kolarova and Roger Kalia and lesser known composers of past centuries but TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION in the picturesque summer resort town of Lake also to discover our contemporaries. Ticket Purchase Link George. The repertoire performed at the festival is GENRE Classical +33 (0) 892 68 36 22 (€0.34/min) LOCATION Reims, France selected from requests submitted by participating TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $50 BOOKING CONTACT Jean-Philippe Collard musicians. Each participant can be assured to have Festival Website an active and rigorous rehearsal and performance TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION DATES June 20 - July 21, 2018 SOCIAL LINKS schedule. Ticket Purchase Link 518-791-5089 As a performance- and community-based festival, LGMF bridges the gap between faculty and BOOKING CONTACT Alexander Lombard students. There are no teachers or students, private lessons, master classes, or organized studios. Booking cycle date range: Fall 2018 Rather, a unique roster of distinguished artists and SOCIAL LINKS young musicians at the cusp of their professional careers collaborate in chamber music ensembles, a full orchestral setting, and innovative outreach LIECHTENSTEINER GITARRENTAGE LIGITA programs and cutting-edge concerts. FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS GENRE Classical Bejing Guitar Duo; Eos Quartett; Alvaro Pierri; Göran Söllscher; Amadeus Guitar Duo; Canizares TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 LOCATION Principality of Liechtenstein TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Festival Website Ticket Purchase Link DATES July 7 - 14, 2018 BOOKING CONTACT Roger Szedalik ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Roger Szedalik Booking cycle date range: May 2018 SOCIAL LINKS

2018 Festivals guide 27 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 LUCERNE FESTIVAL IMMANUEL & HELEN OLSHAN

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Lucerne, “Childhood” is the festival theme, featuring works Festival Website 2018 UNIVERSITY OF | MOORES SCHOOL OF MUSIC by great composers related to childhood, programs for young concertgoers, the “child prodigy” DATES August 17 - September 16, 2018 phenomenon, and a Special Event Day on 26 EXECUTIVE/ARTISTIC DIRECTOR KraGER August, along with an expanded array of offerings Michael Haefliger FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA SERIES for children and families. Saturdays, 7:30 pm | Moores Opera House GENRE Classical and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra June 9 | COSMIC BEGINNINGS will devote themselves to music by Stravinsky TICKET PRICE RANGE $21 to $340 Franz Anton Krager | conductor and Mozart, Ravel and Debussy, and Wagner Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Holst: The Planets and Bruckner; will be the soloist for Ticket Purchase Link June 16 | HEROIC STATEMENTS the Opening Concert. ”Kosmos Stockhausen,” +41 (0)41 226 44 80 a retrospective of the composer Karlheinz Horst Förster | conductor Timothy Hester | piano soloist Stockhausen, will mark his 90th birthday. The SOCIAL LINKS Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 Lucerne Festival Academy, together with Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, Pathétique Eötvös, Lin Liao, David Fulmer, Gergely Madaras, Sir June 22, 8 pm Woodlands Pavilion , Matthias Pintscher, and Duncan Ward, June 23, 7:30 pm Moores Opera House | will perform Inori, Gruppen, and additional works. DANCING THE NIGHT AWAY Fritz Hauser will be composer-in-residence; cellist Carlos Spierer | conductor and the director Dan Tanson will appear Mitchell Young Artist Competition Winner FORSTER as “artistes étoiles.” Turina: Danzas Fantásticas Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story SPIERERMárquez: Danzon No. 2 June 30 | SHOSTAKOVICH: FIRST AND LAST Hans Graf | conductor Nikolay Didenko | bass soloist Scherzo, Op. 1 | Symphony No. 1 | Suite on Verses of Michelangelo PERSPECTIVES: Faculty ArtistGRAF Series Tuesdays, 7:30 pm | June 5, 12, 19, 26 Dudley Recital Hall Festival faculty artists perform chamber music in the intimate acoustics of Dudley Recital Hall. Information | Tickets: www.tmf.uh.edu Bringing Classical music’s rising stars to Houston each June

2018 Festivals guide 28 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 MARLBORO MUSIC FESTIVAL SOMMERFEST

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 14 - August 12, 2018 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Minneapolis, MN Led by Artistic Director , some of The Minnesota Orchestra’s 2018 Sommerfest Festival Website the world’s most acclaimed solo and chamber ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Mitsuko Uchida celebrates late Nobel Peace Prize-winning DATES July 13 - August 1, 2018 music artists and outstanding young professional GENRE Classical leader Nelson Mandela as part of a world-wide musicians explore chamber music with unlimited commemoration of Mandela’s Centenary. Running MUSIC DIRECTOR Osmo Vänskä rehearsal time and in the kind of depth only TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $40 from July 13 to August 1, the “Music for Mandela” GENRE Classical possible at Marlboro. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Sommerfest features a Mandela Tribute concert Ticket Purchase Link showcasing speakers and South African music; the TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $85 Some of their discoveries are shared in weekend world premiere of South African composer Bongani concerts that the New York Times has called 215-569-4690 (until June 12); 802-254-2394 (from June 19) Ndodana-Breen’s Harmonia Ubuntu, a work written TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION “extraordinary.” in honor of Mandela; and a performance of Ticket Purchase Link LOCATION Marlboro, VT BOOKING CONTACT Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Minnesota 612-371-5656 Festival Website [email protected] for audition information Chorale, gospel choirs, and South African soloists; as well as additional concerts that explore musical SOCIAL LINKS SOCIAL LINKS expressions of peace, freedom, and reconciliation. Following Sommerfest, Music Director Osmo Vänskä will lead the Minnesota Orchestra on a five- city tour to South Africa. Sommerfest conductors include Osmo Vänskä, Sarah Hicks, Roderick Cox, and Akiko Fujimoto. Soloists include violinist James Ehnes, pianists Inon Barnatan and Stewart Goodyear, soprano Goitsemang Oniccah Lehobye, mezzo Minette du Toit-Pearce, tenor Siyabonga Maqungo, baritone Njabulo Madlala, bass-baritone Kevin Deas, and vocal ensemble Insingizi, among others.

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2018 Festivals guide 29 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 MIZZOU INTERNATIONAL COMPOSERS FESTIVAL MOSTLY MOZART FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Columbia, MO FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION New York, NY The 2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival Festival Website The Mostly Mozart Festival offers a major expansion Festival Website will feature ensemble-in-residence Alarm Will of its programming in 2018, with five weeks of Sound. Hailed by the New York Times as “one of the DATES July 23 - 28, 2018 music, theater, and dance inspired by the legacy DATES July 12 – August 12, 2018 most vital and original ensembles on the American ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Stefan Freund of Mozart on the campus, as well as DIRECTORS scene,” the group will work intensively with eight in Central Park and . This year’s schedule Jane Moss, Ehrenkranz Artistic Director; Louis resident composers—selected from an international GENRES Classical • New Music includes Haydn’s staged by the wildly Langrée, Renée and Robert Belfer Music Directors pool of applicants—on the premieres of new works. TICKET PRICE RANGE $18 to $80 inventive Catalonian theater collective la Fura dels Baus, Leonard Bernstein’s MASS with bass-baritone GENRE Classical Additionally, this year’s festival will feature TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Davóne Tines, Ashley Fure’s acclaimed The Force of TICKET PRICE RANGE NA distinguished guest composers Alex Mincek Ticket Purchase Link Things: An Opera for Objects with artists-in-residence (Chicago, IL) and (Kansas City, MO), who will 573-882-3781 the International Contemporary Ensemble, the TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION have several works performed and will coach the world premiere of a new Mark Morris creation set Ticket Purchase Link resident composers. Alarm Will Sound will perform BOOKING CONTACT Jacob Gotlib to Schubert’s Trout Quintet, and the world premiere 212-721-6500 an arrangement of Chen’s Sparkle— a musical SOCIAL LINKS of John Luther Adams’s In the Name of the Earth, for impression of flying sparks inspired by traditional approximately 800 voices presented in a site-specific BOOKING CONTACT Chinese music—as well as the preview of a large- performance at Central Park’s Harlem Meer. Jane Moss, Ehrenkranz Artistic Director scale work by Alex Mincek commissioned by Alarm 212-875-5456 Will Sound. The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, led by Robert and Renée Belfer and Music Director Louis Langrée, Booking cycle date range: All year round Finally, the festival will feature performances by will perform eight programs with guests including SOCIAL LINKS the Mizzou New Music Ensemble and University Emmanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Rosa Feola, Thomas of Missouri faculty, in works by Chen, Mincek, and Dausgaard, Christian Zacharias, Daniel Lozakovich, other composers affiliated with the festival and the , and many more. Additional University of Missouri. recitals, chamber concerts, and intimate late night performances feature the , Stephen Hough, Paul Lewis, and other established and rising artists.

2018 Festivals guide 30 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST SUMMER FESTIVAL MUSIC HOUSE INTERNATIONAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Santa Barbara, CA FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Bryn Mawr, PA The Music Academy of the West is an eight-week Festival Website Music House, directed by Kimberly Fisher, principal Festival Website summer festival for 140 full scholarship fellows, second violin of The , is a 70 distinguished faculty and guest artists, and DATES June 18 - August 12, 2018 summer festival in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in DATES June 13 - 29, 2018 audiences in the tens of thousands. Highlights PRESIDENT Scott Reed which college students and young professionals ARTISTIC DIRECTORS this summer include a new partnership with work with principal players and other members of Kimberly Fisher, Principal Second Violinist and the Symphony Orchestra that will bring GENRE Classical The Philadelphia Orchestra in private lessons and Kensho Watanabe, Assistant Conductor, The musicians from the LSO to the festival; appearances TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $100 master classes, solo performance and audition Philadelphia Orchestra by , Stéphane Denève, Jeremy Denk, preparation, symphony and repertory orchestra Gustavo Dudamel, , the Takács TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION rehearsals, and chamber music. At the end of the GENRE Classical Quartet, , and Deborah Ticket Purchase Link 17-day festival, musicians are invited to perform 10 TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 Voigt. Some 200 public events incorporate 805-969-8787 minutes of solo repertoire and select excerpts in a orchestral concerts, fully staged opera, master mock auditions setting for Philadelphia Orchestra TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION classes in voice, orchestral instruments, and solo BOOKING CONTACT Assistant Conductor Kensho Watanabe. The program 856-875-6816 piano, chamber concerts, and guest artist recitals. Patrick Posey, vice president of artistic planning offers intensive repertoire exposure to works Six composers-in-residence will coach fellows and and educational programs regularly found on major orchestral auditions. BOOKING CONTACT [email protected] speak about their work: Guillaume Connesson, 805-695-7922 This season’s teaching and master class faculty SOCIAL LINKS Timothy Higgins, Hannah Lash, Elizabeth Ogonek, SOCIAL LINKS Caroline Shaw, and James Stephenson. members include Philadelphia Orchestra members: associate concertmaster Ying Fu, assistant concertmaster Marc Rovetti, assistant principal second violin Dara Morales; assistant principal viola Kerri Ryan; principal cello Hai-Ye Ni; assistant principal bass Joseph Conyers; principal of the LA Philharmonic Boris Allakhverdyan; co- principal bassoon Mark Gigliott; associate principal horn Jeffrey Lang, and many others.

2018 Festivals guide 31 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 MUSIC MOUNTAIN

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Falls Village, CT America’s oldest continuing summer chamber music Festival Website festival will kick off its 89th season on June 10th with the complete Beethoven String Quartet cycle DATES June 10 - September 23, 2018 performed by the Shanghai String Quartet. The ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Oskar Espina-Ruiz series will also feature Music Mountain premieres and welcome first-time guest artists and returning GENRES Classical • Jazz favorites including Penderecki String Quartet, TICKET PRICE RANGE $30 to $75 American String Quartet, Harlem String Quartet, Avalon String Quartet, Amernet String Quartet, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Escher String Quartet, St. Petersburg Piano Quartet, Ticket Purchase Link Cassatt String Quartet, and Ariel String Quartet. 860-824-7126 or 860-824-7626 Guest artists include Paul Katz, cello; pianists Robert McDonald, Yekwon Sunwoo, Victoria Schwartzman, BOOKING CONTACT Booking inquiries STRINGS • WINDS • PIANO Fei-Fei Dong, Soyeon Kate Lee, and , SOCIAL LINKS together with Chauncey Patterson, viola; , cello; Jihyun Kim, oboe; Caitlin Beare, clarinet; Shannon Hagan, horn; Adam Romey, bassoon. The 2018 season closes with the Music 2018 RESIDENCY Mountain debut of Artistic Director Oskar Espina- June 30 - July 27 Ruiz, clarinet, on September 23. The Saturday Evening Twilight Series begins on performance opportunities Saturday, June 16, with the Ted Nash Quintet and masterclasses • lessons • coachings continues with some of the best jazz groups playing today. DANIEL ANDAI, Artistic Director

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2018 Festivals guide 32 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 MUSIC IN THE VINEYARDS MUSIC@MENLO

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Napa Valley, CA FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Atherton, CA Now in its 24th season, the Napa Valley’s premier Festival Website For the 16th season, titled Creative Capitals, seven Festival Website chamber music festival is held in intimate winery great cities will serve as the festival’s musical stages. DATES August 3 - 26, 2018 settings at twilight with witty commentary and “London” includes English composer Ralph Vaughan DATES July 13 - August 4, 2018 wine tasting at intermission. Hear internationally ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Michael and Daria Adams Williams’s Songs of Travel, with pianist Gilbert Kalish ARTISTIC DIRECTORS David Finckel and Wu Han renowned artists-in-residence and ensembles and tenor Kang Wang. “” will feature works GENRES Classical • Chamber Music including The Escher Quartet, Pacifica Quartet, Miró by Bach, Telemann, and Mendelssohn, as well as GENRE Classical TICKET PRICE RANGE $55 to $60 Quartet, and the Trio Machiavelli. , whose epic Piano Quintet will TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $85 TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION be performed by violinist Alexi Kenney alongside Notable debuts this season include guitarist David pianist Michael Brown, violinist Aaron Boyd, violist TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Leisner, violist Rebecca Young of the New York Ticket Purchase Link 707-258-5559 Paul Neubauer, and cellist Keith Robinson. A Ticket Purchase Link Philharmonic; pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, much-anticipated stop in “” features cellist 650-331-0202 soprano Diana Newman, clarinetist Bixby Kennedy, BOOKING CONTACT David Requiro alongside pianist Gilles Vonsattel and flutist Tara Helen O’Connor. Returning favorites Evie Ayers, Executive Director in Beethoven’s F Major Cello Sonata, as well as BOOKING CONTACT Nathan Paer include pianists William Wolfram and Michael Mendelssohn’s Second Piano Trio, with violinist Brown; cellists Joshua Roman, Tanya Tomkins, and Booking cycle date range: Booking cycle date range: Fall 2018 for Summer 2019 Arnaud Sussmann and Artistic Directors Wu Han Summer/Fall 2018 for Summer 2019 Nick Canellakis; violinists Axel Strauss, Violaine (piano) and David Finckel (cello). A visit to “St. Melançon, Ara Gregorian, and Hye-Jin Kim. SOCIAL LINKS Petersburg” offers ’s seldom heard SOCIAL LINKS for Winds, Strings, and Piano. “Paris” presents flutist Demarre McGill, oboist Stephen Taylor, clarinetist Jose Franch-Ballester, bassoonist Peter Kolkay, French hornist Kevin Rivard, and pianist Jon Kimura Parker in Poulenc’s joyful for Wind Quintet and Piano. “Budapest” will be a delicious sampling of folk tunes from through the compositions of Kodály, Ligeti, Dohnányi, and Bartók, whose Fifth String Quartet will be performed by the Calidore String Quartet. The Creative Capitals journey concludes with “Vienna,” with Brahms’s magnificent Piano Quintet and Schoenberg’s Verklarte Nacht for String Sextet.

2018 Festivals guide 33 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 NATIONAL REPERTORY ORCHESTRA NATIONAL REPERTORY ORCHESTRA, cont’d

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2018 Festivals guide 34 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 NORFOLK CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL OFF THE HOOK ARTS

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Norfolk, CT FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Fort Collins, CO Summer chamber music festival and Yale Summer Festival Website Off the Hook Arts (OtHA), in its seventh season, has Festival Website School of Music. Concert series by leading musicians announced its programming lineup for SummerFest plus chamber music study and student recitals each DATES June 21 - August 18, 2018 2018. Entitled “Mission Earth,” it takes a deep and DATES June 24 - 20, 2018 June - August in the Litchfield Hills of northwestern ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Melvin Chen thoughtful look at climate change and its impact on ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Connecticut. School is open to individuals and the planet by bringing together music, visual arts, pre-formed groups, and offers several sessions GENRE Classical and science for four weeks of concerts, lectures, GENRE Classical focusing on different areas of the chamber music TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $60 films, art exhibitions, and STEM-based educational TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $300 repertoire. Performers/faculty in 2018 include the events for all ages. Mission Earth is dedicated to the Brentano, Emerson, and Shanghai String Quartets, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION life and work of the late Dr. Piers Sellers OBE, who TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, plus individual Ticket Purchase Link was an astronaut and scientist. Ticket Purchase Link artists including Atar Arad (viola), 860-542-3000 970-305-2261 (violin), Frank Morelli (bassoon), David Shifrin With more than 25 events across four weeks, OtHA (clarinet), Orion Weiss (piano), and many more. BOOKING CONTACT will offer world premieres by Artistic Director BOOKING CONTACT Jephta Bernstein James Nelson, General Manager Bruce Adolphe and Artist-in-Residence Kate Doyle, Sessions include a New Music Workshop directed including Ouroboros, which combines video and Booking cycle date range: by Martin Bresnick; a six-week Chamber Music Booking cycle date range: animation with music and sounds from space Mid- to late-Summer 2018 for Summer 2019 Summer 2018 for Summer 2019 Session with Faculty Artist concerts each Friday and and Earth, which includes special effects by Eric SOCIAL LINKS Saturday evenings, along with free Fellows’ concerts SOCIAL LINKS Robertson of Mr. X Gotham. on Thursday evenings and Saturday mornings; and a Choral Conducting Workshop directed by Simon Adolphe’s I Saw How Fragile and Infinitely Precious Carrington. the World Is receives its first live performance at the Festival. Scored for mezzo-soprano and cello the work is based on the text by Festival dedicatee Piers Sellers OBE, as he looked at the earth from space. Mezzo-soprano Hanslowe and cellist Sophie Shao will be the soloists. Artists include cellists Colin Carr, Mike Block, and Nicholas Cannelakis; pianist Michael Brown; Miami String Quartet; tabla player Sandeep Das; Triptych Jazz Trio; and the Apollo Trio.

2018 Festivals guide 35 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 OJAI MUSIC FESTIVAL OJAI MUSIC FESTIVAL, cont’d

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Yang, composer/sound designer Jorge Sanchez- DATES June 7 - 10, 2018 SOCIAL LINKS The 72nd Ojai Music Festival, June 7-10, 2018, will Chiong, and Ms. Kopatchinskaja’s parents, Viktor present the dynamic violinist and Emilia Kopatchinski. For more information on ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Thomas W. Morris as music director. Praised for her “savage energy” programs and series passes, visit OjaiFestival.org. GENRE Classical (The Washington Post) and “mesmerizing artistry” Ojai at Berkeley will take place from June 15-17 in (The Strad), Ms. Kopatchinskaja’s unbounded musical Berkeley, CA, and a new partnership with Aldeburgh TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $150 creativity will be in full force, showcasing her as Festival will take place June 21-24. [See also “10 TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION a soloist, collaborator, and new music advocate. Questions, Two (Very Different) Festivals,” page 2.] Ticket Purchase Link Joining her will be her close artistic collaborators, 805-646-2053 all of whom are making their Festival debuts: the LOCATION Ojai, CA in its first extended U.S. Festival Website residency, JACK Quartet, composer/pianist , pianist Markus Hinterhäuser, pianist/ harpsichordist Anthony Romaniuk, pianist Amy

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r:EVOLUTION With a theme of r:EVOLUTION, the 2018 SUMMER FESTIVAL 2018 Festival brings world-class artists such as the Emerson, Brentano and Dover quartets, Cliburn winner Yekwon Sunwoo, 37th Annual young vocal sensation Davóne Tines, A Far Cry, the incomparable Pinchas Rockport Chamber Zukerman Trio, and much more. Music Festival Miriam Khalil in Ayre June 15�July 15, 2018 Barry Shiffman, artistic director

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2018 Festivals guide 36 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 OLSHAN TEXAS MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Houston, TX Olshan Texas Music Festival brings 100 of Classical Festival Website �8 DAYS. 88 PIANOS. �5 EVENTS. music’s rising stars from around the world to Houston each June to develop skills in orchestral, DATES June 1 - July 1, 2018 GILMORE ARTIST IGOR LEVIT. chamber music, and solo performance. Under the GENERAL/ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Alan Austin leadership of an exceptional performing artist/ faculty, Orchestra Fellows perform four major GENRE Classical AND YOU! orchestral programs. Conductors: Horst Foerster, TICKET PRICE RANGE $5 to $25 Hans Graf, Franz Anton Krager, Carlos Spierer. Soloists: Timothy Hester, piano; Mitchell Young Artist TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Competition Winner. Ticket Purchase Link 713-743-3388 Additional summer institutes include: Building Your The largest gathering of piano talent in the Western Hemisphere. — National Public Radio Craft (voice), The Informed Flutist, High School Jazz BOOKING CONTACT Alan Austin Institute. Booking cycle date range: APRIL 25 TO MAY 12, 2018 · THEGILMORE.ORG With over 20 public concerts and 30 public master Summer/Fall 2018 for June 2019 classes, TMF is Houston’s largest presenter of Classical music each June. SOCIAL LINKS OPERA HOLLAND PARK

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2018 Festivals guide 37 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 OPERA IN THE OZARKS

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Eureka Springs and Springdale, AR Located in beautiful Eureka Springs, Arkansas, Opera Festival Website in the Ozarks, founded in 1950, is a unique summer July 5 - August 11, 2018 DATES June 22 - July 20, 2018 music festival and prominent training program “This will be our reply to violence: to make music for emerging opera professionals. Each summer, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Thomas Cockrell more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly audiences look forward to a vivid repertoire of well- loved operas spotlighting the exceptional voices GENRES Classical • Opera than ever before.” Leonard Bernstein of tomorrow’s stars, accompanied by an orchestra TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $30 of gifted musicians. Performing under the baton of Artistic Director Thomas Cockrell, dozens of TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION DJ Johnny Dynell • Bonnie and the Clydes (bluegrass) professional artists come from all across the country Ticket Purchase Link Tito Munoz, conductor • Charles Yang, violin • Peter Dugan, piano to present a month of performances. 479-253-8595 John Jorgenson • Vinny Raniolo • Jason Anick • Nicki Parrot The 2018 season features fully staged productions BOOKING CONTACT Max O’Rourke • Daniel Bernard Roumain • Altius Quartet of Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, Rossini’s Il barbiere di Nancy Preis, General Director Steve Poltz • Don Byron • Aruán Ortiz • Aaron Diehl • Jooeun Pak Siviglia, and Douglas Moore’s The Ballad of Baby SOCIAL LINKS Dave Devine + members of DeVotchka and Kneebody Doe, for a total of 22 performances. Most take place • • Natalia Zukerman at Inspiration Point in Eureka Springs, with three presented at Arts Center of the Ozarks in Springdale. Mariachi Sol de mi Tierra

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2018 Festivals guide 38 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 OPERA THEATRE OF SAINT LOUIS OREGON BACH FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION St. Louis, MO FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 29 - July 14, 2018 For its 43rd season, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis will Festival Website Anton Armstrong, Nicole Cabell, Richard Danielpour, present its 27th world premiere, plus three other , JoAnn Falletta, , GENRE Classical DATES May 19 - June 24, 2018 productions. Soprano will make her Monica Huggett, Paul Jacobs, , Nicholas TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $70 directorial debut with La Traviata, featuring former DIRECTORS Phan, Alexander Weimann, Imani Winds, The Rodney young artists Sydney Mancasola and Geoffrey James Robinson, Artistic Director; Timothy Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass, Simply Three, Bach, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Agpalo as Violetta and Alfredo. Artistic Director O’Leary, General Director Bernstein, Danielpour, Glass, Mendelssohn, Mozart. Ticket Purchase Link 541-682-5000 James Robinson will stage a new production of Marc LOCATION Eugene, OR GENRE Opera Blitzstein’s Regina, with celebrated mezzo-soprano Festival Website BOOKING CONTACT Michael Anderson Susan Graham in the title role, joined by James TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $129 Morris, Susanna Phillips, and Ron Raines. Matthew SOCIAL LINKS Ozawa directs the world premiere of composer TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry Hwang’s An Ticket Purchase Link American Soldier, starring Andrew Stenson and Mika 314-961-0644 Shigematsu. SOCIAL LINKS OTSL is partnering with The Big Muddy Dance Company in a new production of Gluck’s Orfeo & Euridice, directed by Ron Daniels and choreographed by Katarzyna Skapretowska. Jennifer Johnson Cano and Andriana Chuchman sing the title roles. The season also includes the fourth annual Center Stage concert, the one-night-only event showcasing the incredible talents of OTSL’s Gaddes Festival Artists and Gerdine Young Artists.

2018 Festivals guide 39 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 OREGON MUSIC FESTIVAL OXFORD LIEDER FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Resident ensembles include Oregon Festival FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location A month-long, premiere classical music event Orchestra, Portland Civic Orchestra, Orpheus This year’s Oxford Lieder Festival traverses Europe Oxford, United Kingdom (various sites across located in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, extending Academy Orchestra, Third Angle New Music, in a musical feast that ranges from the great works the city) from June 18 to July 14, 2018, and based in Portland, Trio Martinů, and OMF Artistic Collegium. of the Viennese masters to the heart-on-sleeve Festival Website Oregon. This year’s festival opens with a concert OMF’s educational arm, Orpheus Academy runs emotion of Russian song, and from the rarely by the international megastar Andrea Bocelli, concurrently with the festival. This is a free, merit- heard delights of the Nordic repertoire to the DATES October 12 - 27, 2018 Oregon Festival Orchestra, and Portland Symphonic based, music immersion program for talented passionate songs of southern climes. The Festival ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Sholto Kynoch Choir at Moda Center on June 23 and ends with a young musicians ages 15-25 that offers orchestral also celebrates three significant anniversaries, with performance by the Festival Orchestra under the training, masterclasses, private instruction, concert a major survey of the songs of Claude Debussy GENRE Classical direction of Festival Music Director Zvonimir Hačko and chamber music training by the festival resident as well as events devoted to the songs of Charles TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $55 featuring Canadian mezzo Wallis Giunta and dancer/ artists/teachers in two sessions over a period of Gounod and Hubert Parry. Artists include: choreographer Jennifer Nichols in the semi-staged three weeks. Louise Alder (winner of the audience prize at the TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION version of Kurt Weill’s satirical ballet chanté Seven LOCATION Portland, OR BBC Cardiff singer of the World last year), Véronique Ticket Purchase Link Deadly Sins. Festival Website Gens, and Carolyn Sampson; mezzo-sopranos Sarah +44 (0)1865 591276 Connolly and Dorottya Láng; James Gilchrist, The festival main concert series includes many BOOKING CONTACT Taya Smith standard and contemporary masterworks DATES June 18 - July 14, 2018 Christoph Prégardien, and Toby Spence; Benjamin Appl and Thomas Oliemans; pianists Julius and features soloists and conductors from the ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Zvonimir Hačko Booking cycle date range: international musical community including those Drake, Graham Johnson, , Roger Fall 2018 for Fall 2019 from Austria, Czech Republic, Korea, , Croatia, GENRE Classical Vignoles; and many others. , Iceland, Switzerland, and USA. Festival’s SOCIAL LINKS TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $65 The historic city of Oxford provides a stunning Signature Concert Series includes such notable backdrop for a fortnight comprising upwards of works as Mendelssohn’s Symphonies 1, 3 and 4; TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION 100 events. A number of intimate concert venues, three Oregon premieres of contemporary chamber Ticket Purchase Link including the Holywell Music Room—Europe’s music compositions (Reich’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 503-927-2910 oldest purpose-built concert hall—and several Double Sextet, Missy Mazzoli’s Still Life with college chapels, are ideally suited to song recitals. Avalanche, and Pēteris Vasks’s Cantabile); the rarely BOOKING CONTACT Jeremy Lillie There is also a strong program of related chamber heard Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion by Booking cycle date range: and choral music, and many other events including Bela Bartók; by Copland, Shostakovich, Fall 2018 for Summer 2019 Beethoven and Górecki; and additional orchestral lectures, master classes, workshops, and more. works by Haydn, Martinů, Mozart, and Canteloube. SOCIAL LINKS

2018 Festivals guide 40 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 OXFORD PIANO FESTIVAL RAVENNA FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS also delighted to welcome back last year’s debutant FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Ravenna, Italy Marking the 20th anniversary of the Oxford Piano Richard Goode, and Menahem Pressler, the Festival’s The 29th edition of Ravenna Festival pays homage Festival Website Festival, we welcome back Patron Alfred Brendel most frequent visiting recitalist. to Martin Luther King with the title “We Have a KBE and President Sir András Schiff. Brendel will Dream”: 50 years after his death, his words offer the DATES June 1 - July 22, 2018 lecture on playing Mozart, and Schiff will conclude Location Oxford, United Kingdom chance for a mosaic of themes. The program runs in Festival Website DIRECTORS the Festival with the second part of Bach’s Well- the veins of America with tributes to, among others, President, Cristina Mazzavillani Muti; Artistic Tempered Clavier. DATES July 28 - August 5, 2018 Leonard Bernstein and the Minimalism of Glass, Directors, Franco Masotti and Angelo Nicastro Reich, Riley; on the other hand, it celebrates music’s Other highlights include Piotr Anderszewski’s ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Marios Papadopoulos, MBE resiliency to oppression. GENRES at St. John the Evangelist Church, Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic • Opera • Ballet Chopin’s first piano concerto with Seong-Jin Cho GENRE Classical “The Roads of Friendship” program reaches Kiev • Contemporary Dance • Theatre • Musical Theatre and the Oxford Philharmonic, and Anne Queffélec TICKET PRICE RANGE $14 to $70 this year; in Ravenna Riccardo Muti will also lead • Sacred Music making her Festival debut in Merton College the Orchestra del Maggio Fiorentino in a concert Chapel with baroque transcriptions and classical TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Macbeth and his Cherubini Youth Orchestra. Also on TICKET PRICE RANGE $1.23 to $136 masterworks. A welcome addition to the program +44 1865 980 980 the podium: Wayne Marshall, , Dennis TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION is a Lieder recital from tenor Nicky Spence and Russell Davies, David Fray, and James Conlon; SOCIAL LINKS Ticket Purchase Link world-renowned accompanist Julius Drake. We are dance features Bill T. Jones and Emio Greco with +39 0544 249244 two national premieres, A Letter to My Nephew and Apparition. Also on the program: Cole Porter’s Kiss BOOKING CONTACT Me, Kate, avant-garde rocker , numerous Segreteria Ravenna Festival st rd July 1 through 23 2018 theater performances, and the invasion of the Do you want to work and perform with “100 electric guitars,” a week of solos and group Booking cycle date range: these great musicians? concerts. The basilicas of Ravenna will host world- Fall 2018, at the latest, for Summer 2019 Join in and share the stage with them in Santander! renowned choirs, from Estonia Heinavanker to SOCIAL LINKS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, PÉTER CSABA England’s Sixteen, concerts, a tribute to Dante, and GUEST ARTISTS, INSTRUMENTS & CHAMBER MUSIC Vespers concerts. [See also “10 Questions, Two (Very Zakhar Bron & Mihaela Martin, violin Different) Festivals,” page 2] Nobuko Imai, viola Frans Helmerson, violoncello Felix Renggli, ute Hansjörg Schellenberger, oboe Pascal Gallois, bassoon David Guerrier, horn/trumpet Galina Eguiazarova & Márta Gulyás, piano Francisco Araiza, voice Fabián Panisello, contemporary ensemble Péter Csaba, orchestra Juanjo Mena, orchestra www.encuentrodesantander.es

2018 Festivals guide 41 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 RAVINIA FESTIVAL RIGAS RITMI

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Highland Park, IL FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 7 - 30, 2018 In 2018 Ravinia will launch a two-season centennial Festival Website Rigas Ritmi festival is one of the most attended tribute to one of the all-time legends of American and loved music festivals in . It features both ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Māris Briežkalns DATES June 1 - September 16, 2018 music, conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein, rising and well-established artists on various stages GENRE Jazz and in 2019 will open the Ravinia Music Box ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Welz Kauffman throughout the area. This year’s highlights include experience center with an exhibit of important Richard Bona & Latvian Radio Big Band, Shenel TICKET PRICE RANGE $12 to $94 GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic mementos from Bernstein’s life and storied career, Johns, Hejira + Adam Benzra, Alfredo Rodriguez Trio TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION including his personal piano. TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $140 + Beady Belle, Gregory Boyd & Macats/Hasselberg/ Ticket Purchase Link MofJell, Tasiya & Sammy Lukas + 371 20011189 Ravinia’s celebration intends to comment on TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION each aspect of the multi-hyphenate’s career with Ticket Purchase Link LOCATION , Latvia BOOKING CONTACT Anastasija Ivanova performances of the compositions he penned, 847-266-5100 Festival Website films he scored, composers he championed, and SOCIAL LINKS artists he influenced. BOOKING CONTACT Welz Kauffman Central to Ravinia’s celebration will be the two-year SOCIAL LINKS appointment of Marin Alsop, one of Bernstein’s final protégées, as the first musical “curator” in the festival’s 113-year history. Bernstein’s own history with Ravinia began on July 4, 1944, with his CSO debut—just eight months after his astonishing New York Philharmonic debut at . He conducted 10 more CSO programs at the festival through July 28, 1956. The 9th annual Mizzou International Composers Festival

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2018 Festivals guide 42 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 ROCKPORT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL ROUND TOP MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS violinist Danny Koo, pianist Tony Yang, and a special FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Round Top, TX The first Rockport Chamber Music Festival under Rockport Fellowship Quartet of young artists. They In 2018, the Festival celebrates the 80th birthday of Festival Website the artistic direction of Barry Shiffman encompasses will be involved in mainstage concerts as well as leading female composer (June 23), and a dramatic theme—r:EVOLUTION. Building on its bringing music to the community through pop-up the centennials of Leonard Bernstein’s birth (July 1), DATES June 3 - July 15, 2018 history of presenting the highest caliber of classical concerts, family concerts, and other activities. A and Claude Debussy’s death (July 7 and 14). ARTISTIC DIRECTOR James Dick musicians, the Festival will bring such artists as new late-night classical cabaret series will feature a The Texas Festival Orchestra, body of the Young the Brentano Quartet, pianist Stephen Prutsman, casual, intimate setting on the Performance Center’s GENRE Classical Artists, will present eight programs, including the A Far Cry, violinist James Ehnes, the comedic duo third floor offering beverages of choice and a 45- “Patriotic Concert” on July 1. Orchestra rehearsals TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $45 Igudesman and Joo, and close with the great minute concert. every weekday are free and open to the public. This Emerson Quartet with cellist Colin Carr. A special year’s conductors include Israeli-born Yaniv Dinur, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION “annex” performance in August will bring the LOCATION Rockport, MA Ticket Purchase Link Festival Website assistant conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony; incomparable Trio. Additionally, Serbian Vladimir Kulenovic, music director of the 979-249-3129 a strong emphasis this year on the next generation DATES June 15 - July 15, 2018 Lake Forest Symphony; Dallas-born Michelle Merrill, BOOKING CONTACT Alain G. Declert of stars will introduce artists on the rise including assistant conductor of the Detroit Symphony; ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Barry Shiffman Cliburn winner Yekwon Sunwoo; break-out vocal Maltese-born Charles Olivieri-Munroe, chief Booking cycle date range: sensation Davóne Tines (along with the Rolston GENRE Classical conductor with Philharmonie Sudwestfalen and Fall 2018 for Summer 2020 Quartet), presenting a special program “Were You the Krakow Philharmonic; Texas-born Carl St. Clair, There”; the Dover Quartet; the Attacca Quartet; TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $115 music director of the Pacific Symphony; and Ransom SOCIAL LINKS and mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey. The Festival Wilson, music director of the Redlands Symphony. brings 36 festival debuts and the artists will create TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION new experiences with works by contemporary Ticket Purchase Link Repertoire highlights: Strauss’s Don Juan and composers, including this year’s composer-in- 978-546-7391 Till Eulenspiegel, Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony, Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, Bruckner’s Fourth residence . His spectacular song BOOKING CONTACT Barry Shiffman cycle Ayre will receive a beautifully staged theatrical Symphony, Debussy’s Images and Prokofiev’s Fifth presentation revealing the musical intermingling of Booking cycle date range: Symphony. Distinguished soloists performing with Christian, Arab, and Sephardic Jewish cultures. Summer-Fall 2018 for Summer 2019 the Texas Festival Orchestra: pianist James Dick; violinists Regis Pasquier, Stefan Milenkovich, and Embracing the history of delivering both world- SOCIAL LINKS Joan Kwuon; flutist Carol Wincenc; and violist Brett class artists and young rising stars, Rockport Music Deubner. Chamber music is well represented and launches the Rockport Fellows program bringing serves as a showcase for faculty and young artists.

2018 Festivals guide 43 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 SALZBURG FESTIVAL SANTA FE DESERT CHORALE

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 20 - August 30, 2018 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Santa Fe, NM Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Strauss’s Salome, The all-professional Santa Fe Desert Chorale presents Festival Website Tchaikovsky’s Pique Dame, Rossini’s L’Italiana in ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Markus Hinterhäuser the 2018 summer festival of 10 concerts of three DATES July 21 - August 9, 2018 Algeri, Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, GENRE Classical distinct programs: “Bernstein, Bolcom, and Barber: Henze’s The Bassarids, and Bizet’s The Pearl Twentieth Century American Masters”; “Sure on this ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Joshua Habermann Fishers. Many performances with the Wiener TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $450 Shining Night: Choral Works that Evoke the Beauty GENRES Classical • Choral Philharmoniker. Conductors include , TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION of the Natural World”; and “The New World: Journey William Christie, , , Ticket Purchase Link from the Inca Trail.” Free public lectures precede each TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $85 Franz Welser-Möst, and Jean-Christophe Spinosi. +43 (662) 8045 500 concert and provide context. The first program lifts Performers include Plácido Domingo, , up three iconic American composers and poses the TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Ildar Abdrazakov, Sonya Yoncheva, , SOCIAL LINKS question that Bernstein himself coined in his Young Ticket Purchase Link Albina Shagimuratova, , and Asmik Peoples Concerts: “What makes American music 505-988-2282 Grigorian. sound American?” In the “Shining Night” program, stewardship of the natural environment and how BOOKING CONTACT Kyle Nielsen Location Salzburg, Austria place influences the creation of text and music are Festival Website Booking cycle date range: the themes. Instrumentalists for the New World Fall 2017 for 2019 program will be engaged through Caminos del Inka and are steeped in the Latin American Baroque SOCIAL LINKS tradition. Images culled from the Caminos archive SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL in Peru will be synchronized with the music and projected. Multi-disciplinary collaborations with FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Santa Fe and Albuquerque, NM the O’Keeffe Museum, New History This season, conductor and violinist Alan Gilbert, the Festival Website Museum, The Museum of International Folk Art, The former music director of the New York Philharmonic Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, and the Santa Fe and chief conductor designate of ’s NDR DATES July 15 - August 20, 2018 Botanical Garden complete the programming. Elbphilharmonie Orchestra returns to the Festival ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Marc Neikrug to serve as artist-in-residence for an unprecedented third time. During his residency, Gilbert will GENRE Classical appear on three programs both as a violinist and a TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $90 conductor. As a conductor, he will lead Schoenberg’s chamber orchestra arrangement of Mahler’s Das TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION von der Erde, featuring Grammy Award-winning Ticket Purchase Link mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke and tenor Paul Groves. 505-982-1890

2018 Festivals guide 44 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 SARASOTA MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Sarasota, FL The Sarasota Music Festival is a magical combination Festival Website of 40 acclaimed faculty artists performing intriguing and dazzling pieces with 60 students from around DATES June 3 - 24, 2018 SUMMER the country. Led by Music Director , ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jeffrey Kahane the participants (ages 18-30) perform chamber music together and alongside the faculty. This year’s GENRES Classical • Chamber Music concerts include an evening of Baroque music, TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $55 Appalachian Spring and Darius Milhaud’s Creation of the World led by Kahane from the piano, Mozart TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Symphony No. 39 conducted by Larry Rachleff, as Ticket Purchase Link well as many other chamber and orchestra pieces. 941-953-3434 FESTAUGUST 3–24, 2018 Soloists this year include violinist Angelo Xiang Yu and Vijay Venkatesh, a piano alumnus. Featured this BOOKING CONTACT Roseanne McCabe 858.459.3728 | LJMS.ORG year will be a piece commissioned by the Festival 941-487-2730 for the ensemble YMusic and Jeffrey Kahane. Master SOCIAL LINKS CELEBRATING CHO-LIANG LIN’S 18 REMARKABLE YEARS AS MUSIC DIRECTOR classes and rehearsals are all open to the public and the intimate environment of SMF infuses the faculty, students, and audience with inspiration, harmony THE SANTA FE OPERA and great hope for the future of classical music. Faculty includes pianists Jon Kimura Parker and FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Santa Fe, NM Robert Levin; violinist Frank Almond, Margaret The 2018 season presents five operas in 36 Festival Website Batjer, James Buswell, Zachary DePue, , performances of works by American icons and Ani Kavafian, Alexander Kerr, Timothy Lees; violists European masters, four of which are repertory from DATES June 29 - August 25, 2018 James Dunham, Robert Vernon, Barbara Westphal; the 20th and 21st centuries. The season opens ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Charles MacKay cellists Timothy Eddy, Clive Greensmith, Desmond with Candide, Bernstein’s smash Broadway hit, in Hoebig, Brinton Smith; bassists Timothy Cobb, a new production by Laurent Pelly. Lee Blakeley’s GENRES Classical • Opera Paul Ellison, Lawrence Hurst; flutists Leone Buyse, celebrated 2010 production of Madame Butterfly TICKET PRICE RANGE $31 to $499 Thomas Robertello, Carol Wincenc; oboist Nancy returns, directed by Matthew Ozawa, as does King, Stephen Taylor, ; clarinetist Frank Edward Hastings’ 2002 production of The Italian TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Cohen, Eli Eban, Charles Neidich; bassoonist Nancy Girl in Algiers, directed by Shawna Lucey, which Ticket Purchase Link Goeres, Frank Morelli, Richard Svoboda; horn Julie has since been revived in cities across the country. 505-986-5900 or 800-280-4654 Landsman, William Purvis, William VerMeulen. John Adams and Peter Sellars’s Doctor Atomic has its company premiere in a highly anticipated SOCIAL LINKS production. The season closes with R. Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, in a new production by Tim Albery.

2018 Festivals guide 45 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER SEAGLE MUSIC COLONY

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Saratoga Springs, NY FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DIRECTORS The 2018 Freihofer Saratoga Jazz Festival (June 23 Festival Website The 103rd annual Seagle Music Colony season Tony Kostecki, General Director; Darren K. Woods, and 24) will feature , Chris Botti, Herbie includes Candide by Leonard Bernstein, July 5-7; Artistic Director Hancock, Gregory Porter, Joey Alexander, and DATES June 6 - August 21, 2018 Julius Caesar by G.F. Handel, July 18-21; The Great GENRE Classical gospel and R&B legend Mavis Staples. The National GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic Gatsby by , August 1-4; and Mame Ballet of Cuba (BNC) makes its first-ever SPAC by , August 15-18. All mainstage TICKET PRICE RANGE $35 to $50 appearance (three performances of Giselle, June TICKET PRICE RANGE $18 to $113 performances feature the 32 Seagle Music Colony 6-8), in one of just five locations on the company’s emerging artists accompanied by two pianos. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Ticket Purchase Link 2018 U.S. tour. The Ballet residency Ticket Purchase Link (July 17-21) features four programs including LOCATION Schroon Lake, NY 518-532-7875 518-584-9330 Festival Website Romeo and Juliet, an all-Balanchine evening, and BOOKING CONTACT Tony Kostecki a program of four SPAC premieres by 21st century BOOKING CONTACT Chris Shiley DATES June 23 - August 19, 2018 choreographers. The annual NYCB gala, July 21, 518-584-9330 ext. 107 Booking cycle date range: will celebrate the centennial of the birth of Jerome Fall 2018 for Summer 2019 Robbins and Leonard Bernstein, with a program of Booking cycle date range: their works. Fall 2018 for Summer 2019 SOCIAL LINKS The Philadelphia Orchestra residency (August 1-18) SOCIAL LINKS will showcase two weeks under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin; three new Thursday matinees, one led by Stéphane Denève; a new “Cinema Saturdays @ SPAC” series with the Orchestra accompanying; and two closing evenings with Joshua Bell. The Chamber like a mirror Music Society of Lincoln Center returns (August 5-21) with six city-centric programs including “An Classical Music, Jazz, Crossover Afternoon in Vienna,” and “An Evening in Prague.” 14 July – 26 August, 2018

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2018 Festivals guide 46 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 THE$57ISTS SHENANDOAH VALLEY BACH FESTIVAL FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Harrisonburg, VA L@BIIF%FRKQ> From Bach to Bernstein, the 26th annual Bach Festival Website Festival explores a wide array of classical music. PEHBK>WVv World-class soloists join Artistic Director Ken DATES June 10 - 17, 2018 Nafziger, the Festival Orchestra, and Festival Choir ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Kenneth Nafziger &>@HL"LPPFK for eight days of orchestral masterworks and $LOKF!LEBK dynamic chamber music. GENRE Classical 1BOA>O7RK Works by Bach and Telemann open the festival, TICKET PRICE RANGE $5 to $29 followed by repertoire of Beethoven, Vaughan TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION AB-IFSBFO> Williams, and William Walton. A mostly Bernstein Ticket Purchase Link centennial concert includes the West Side Story 540-432-4582 >B@EQBI IRB Suite, Chichester Psalms, and excerpts from Candide. The Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival is a week- BOOKING CONTACT David McCormick PQLKB2VKFB@ long summer music festival devoted to promoting O>PI>SPHV&>Q an appreciation and understanding of the music SOCIAL LINKS of Bach and a featured composer, country, era or QLK R@E>KLKL people. Three featured concerts with orchestra, soloists, and choir; six chamber music concerts; 20'-+ 02',3 a Leipzig Service; and open rehearsals infuse the Valley with musical riches. The Festival has been 2&'0" ,%*# named the “jewel in Harrisonburg’s crown” by the ,#5+31'! Virginia Commission for the Arts. OREGON 02'12'!!-* *#%'3+.-02 MUSIC * ,"!'4'! FESTIVAL -0!x  =YRQLPLU+DĀNR$UWLVWLF'LUHFWRU -0#%-,$#12' June 18-July 14, 2018 Portland, Oregon 4 *-0! www.oregonmusicfest.org 20 -0. ! "#+7-0 !x music unleashed 2018 Festivals guide 47 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 SITKA SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Location Sitka, AK FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Liza Lim, Zosha Di Castri, Annea Lockwood, Anna Each week in June experience formal concerts Festival Website The Festival’s 2018 operas include two U.S. Thorvaldsdottir, Jennifer Walshe, Talia Amar, against the spellbinding backdrop of Southeast premieres: Liza Lim’s Tree of Codes, directed by and Katie Balch. The Festival’s jazz offerings are Alaska, plus special events such as a boat cruise or DATES June 5 - July 1, 2018 Ong Keng Sen, conducted by John Kennedy, and highlighted by celebrated pianists , Jon all-you-can-eat crab feed, informal concerts in cafe ARTISTIC DIRECTOR featuring soprano Marisol Montalvo and baritone Batiste, Craig Taborn, Fred Hersch, and Chucho settings, outdoor concerts, and opportunities to Elliot Madore; and Donizetti’s Pia de’ Tolomei, Valdés; vocalist Jazzmeia Horn; and flutist Nicole meet the artists. GENRE Classical directed by Andrea Cigni, conducted by Lidiya Mitchell, cellist Tomeka Reid, and drummer Mike TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $100 Yankovskaya, and featuring soprano Amanda Reid in trio. Featured artists for 2018 include Trio Jinx, pianist Woodbury, tenor Isaac Frishman, and baritone Valdis Alfredo Oyakuez, cellist Zuill Bailey, violinist Helen TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Jansons. Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto, featuring LOCATION Charleston, SC Kim, pianist Natasha Paremski, and much more. Ticket Purchase Link six members of the Westminster Choir, completes Festival Website 907-747-6774 the opera programming. DATES May 25 - June 10, 2018 SOCIAL LINKS Hosted by Geoff Nuttall, the Bank of America GENERAL DIRECTOR Nigel Redden Chamber Music series features countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo; trombonist Peter Moore; GENRES tenor Paul Groves; and the JACK Quartet, which, Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Opera • Dance • Theatre together with the St. Lawrence String Quartet, TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $150 premieres a new octet by composer-in-residence Doug Balliett. Filmmaker Atom Egoyan provides TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Jerome Rose stage direction for You Are Mine Own, an orchestral Ticket Purchase Link Founder/Director multimedia presentation of Zemlinsky’s Lyric 843-579-3100 +VMJF,FEFSTIB Symphony and Berg’s Lyric Suite performed by Festival Director soprano Natalia Pavlova, baritone Alexander SOCIAL LINKS Dobson, and the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra. 20th Anniversary Steven Sloane conducts an evening of Mozart and Mahler, and the Westminster Choir, Charleston Symphony Orchestra Chorus, and Spoleto Festival Concerts USA Orchestra join forces for Brahms’s German Lectures July 15-29, 2018 . The adventurous Music In Time series, Masterclasses directed and hosted by Kennedy, features a wide 7d]cTa2^[[TVT=TfH^aZ2Xch range of works from female composers including Participants may compete for $10,000 IKIF Scholarship Awards Tuition $950 / Session I or II $590 / Application fee $50 Applications due April 15 / Tuition due May 15 www.ikif.org [email protected]

2018 Festivals guide 48 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS In addition to the classical programming, the 2018 Strings Music Festival moves into its 31st season summer festival will feature contemporary favorites in 2018. including David Crosby, Melissa Etheridge, the Indigo Girls, and Andrew Bird, among others. Under the direction of Music Director Michael Sachs, the 2018 classical season features principal WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS FESTIVAL? players and concertmasters from leading orchestras Strings Music Festival presents music of the highest across the nation. Members of the Chicago quality, performed by some of the world’s finest Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, musicians, in the beautiful setting of Colorado’s Philharmonic, Orchestra, New stunning northwest. The Strings Music Pavilion, York Philharmonic, and Philadelphia Orchestra, built with a bowstring-like truss ceiling, showcases June 23: Opening Night Orchestra along with many others, will share the stage this a terrific acoustical environment and provides an June 27: Cliburn Silver Medalist Kenny Broberg summer during an eight-week season featuring 12 intimate setting for concertgoers. June 30: Celebrate America Vol. II classical performances. July 7: SHUFFLE Concert LOCATION July 11: Attacca Quartet Soloists include the 2017 Van Cliburn Piano Steamboat Springs, CO July 14: Alpin Hong: Chasing Chopin Competition Silver Medalist Kenny Broberg; Joel Festival Website July 18: Chamber Music Duos & Trios Noyes, assistant principal cellist of the Metropolitan July 21: Haydn and His Students Opera Orchestra; and Benjamin Hochman, pianist DATES June 22 – August 24, 2018 July 25: Watercolors and winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant. Also July 28: Happy Feet! participating are Brett Mitchell, music director of ARTISTIC DIRECTOR August 1: Cello/Piano Recital the Colorado Symphony; Loras John Schissel, senior Michael Sachs August 4: Orchestra Finale musicologist at the ; and Mark Plus popular contemporary concerts Gould, retired principal trumpet of the Metropolitan GENRES throughout the summer! Opera Orchestra and former conductor of the Battle Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz Creek Brass Band. Cleveland Orchestra principal TICKET PRICE RANGE trumpet Michael Sachs will be featured both on the $25 to $150 podium and as soloist. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Highlights of the 2018 summer season include Ticket Purchase Link a Fourth of July celebration featuring patriotic 970-879-5056 favorites; a night of Haydn and his students featuring Hummel and Schubert; a celebration BOOKING CONTACTS of American dance music from the Ragtime Era Elissa Greene or Katie Carroll 970.879.5056 to the Roaring 20s with Loras John Schissel from the Library of Congress conducting; an evening of Booking cycle date range: June 22- August 24 Impressionistic chamber music featuring Debussy, Fall 2018 for Summer 2019 Steamboat Springs, CO Ravel, and Takemitsu; the Attacca Quartet, and SOCIAL LINKS stringsmusicfestival.com much more.

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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Lenox, MA FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Purchase, NY As the culmination of a year-long worldwide Festival Website Will Crutchfield’s new organization presents semi- Festival Website celebration of the centennial of Leonard Bernstein’s staged productions of Rossini’s Tancredi and Mayr’s birth, the 2018 Tanglewood season, entitled DATES June 15 - September 2, 2018 at The Performing Arts Center at DATES July 28 - August 5, 2018 “Bernstein Centennial Summer-Celebrating Lenny ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Andris Nelsons Purchase College, starring Jennifer Rowley, Tamara ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Will Crutchfield at Tanglewood!,” will pay tribute to Bernstein’s Mumford, Sydney Mancasola, Santiago Ballerini, and legacy as a consummate artistic figure of the GENRE Classical more. Crutchfield, conductor Jonathan Brandani, GENRE Classical 20th century and his incomparable contribution TICKET PRICE RANGE $12 to $160 and concertmaster Jakob Lehmann share musical TICKET PRICE RANGE $30 to $120 to the Tanglewood festival from 1940 to 1990. As leadership; the Festival also features daily vocal one of the places most closely associated with TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION and instrumental concerts, and a full range of TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Bernstein, Tanglewood this season will honor his Ticket Purchase Link masterclass, lecture, and panel-discussion events. Ticket Purchase Link singular contributions as a multifaceted composer 888-266-1200 914-251-6200 for orchestra, Broadway, and film; a brilliant Teatro Nuovo will also take over and expand the programmer and conductor of the world’s great BOOKING CONTACT Tony Fogg work of the acclaimed Bel Canto at Caramoor SOCIAL LINKS orchestras; and an innovative and provocative training program, and introduce a new hand-picked Booking cycle date range: orchestra in the first American presentation of 19th- educator through his widely popular Young People’s Summer 2018 and earlier for Summer 2019 Concerts and lectures. Bernstein’s close relationship century opera on period instruments. with the Symphony Orchestra spanned a SOCIAL LINKS half-century, from the time he became a protégé of legendary BSO conductor and Tanglewood founder as a member of the first Tanglewood Music Center class in 1940, until the EXPLORE final concerts he ever conducted with the BSO and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra at Tanglewood RETHINK in 1990. RECHARGE

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2018 Festivals guide 50 musicalamerica.com • April 2018 TIPPET RISE ART CENTER

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Fishtail, MT Bringing together an international roster of Festival Website celebrated artists, the third season at Tippet Rise Art Center will feature eight weeks of music including DATES July 6 - September 9, 2018 extraordinary concentrations of masterworks by J.S. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Charles Hamlen 26. liechtensteiner gitarrentage Bach and of varied and exciting compositions from the 20th and 21st centuries. Other programs will GENRE Classical feature immersions into the Romantic repertoire— TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 07. - 14.07.2018 one of the hallmarks of Tippet Rise—and the world premiere of a new piece by Aaron Jay Kernis, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Liechtenstein commissioned by Tippet Rise and performed by the Ticket Purchase Link www.ligita.li Borromeo String Quartet. The majority of concerts 406-426-5063 at Tippet Rise are performed in the 150-seat Olivier Music Barn. Weather permitting, select concerts will BOOKING CONTACT also take place at the open-air Domo, a 98-foot-long, Lindsey Hinmon, Director of Outreach and Logistics Wieselburger Gitarrentrio 16-foot-tall, acoustically rich sculptural structure Eos Guitar Quartet designed by Ensamble Studio. Performances may SOCIAL LINKS Margarita Escarpa also be scheduled at other large-scale sculptures Alvaro Pierri You Wu that are seamlessly set within the landscape. Pre- Nora Buschmann und concert lectures are offered at the Tiara, a 100-seat Guitar Duo outdoor acoustic shell. Agustín Luna Cañizares y su grupo flamenco Performers in 2018 include: pianists Timo Andres, Nuccio d’Angelo Julien Brocal, Jenny Chen, Ingrid Fliter, Wu Han, Göran Söllscher Jeffrey Kahane, Anne-Marie McDermott, Pedja Dieter Kreidler Muzijevic, and Orion Weiss; Amadeus Guitar Duo violinists Aaron Boyd, Krista Bennion Feeney, Vadim Martha Masters Gluzman, Caroline Goulding, and Daniel Phillips; Stefan Hackl cellists David Finckel, Myron Lutzke and Johannes Moser; flutist Tara Helen O’Connor; clarinetist Anton Julio Azcano Dressler; bassist Xavier Foley; horn player Stewart Hans-Werner Huppertz Rose; vocalist and pianist ; and The Borromeo, Calidore, Dover and Escher string quartets.

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