FestivalsThe 2021 Guide

April 2021 Editor’s Note Spring is in the air, vaccinations are in (many) arms, and our hardy crop of mountain, lakeside, and pastorally sited music-makers appear to be in major recovery mode from a very long, dark year. Our 2021 Festival Guide lists 100-plus entries, some still in the throes of program planning, others with their schedules nailed down, one or two strictly online, and most a combination of all of the above. We’ve asked each about their COVID-19 safety protocols, along with their usual dates, places, artists, and assorted platforms. Many are equipped to head outside: Aspen Music Festival, Tanglewood, and Caramoor Music Center already have outdoor venues. Those that don’t are finding them: Central City Opera Festival is taking Carousel and Rigoletto to a nearby Garden Center and staging Dido & Aeneas in its backyard; the Bay Chamber Concerts Screen Door Festival is headed to the Camden (ME) Amphitheater. Still others are busy constructing their own pavilions: “Glimmerglass on the Grass” is one, with 90-minute re- imagined performances of The Magic Flute, Il Trovatore, and the premiere of The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson. The Virginia Arts Festival has also built a new open-air facility called the Bank Street Stage, a large tent area with pod seating options. Repertoire range is as broad as ever, with the Cabrillo Festival priding itself on being “America’s longest-running festival of new orchestral music”; Bang on a Can will make as much avant-garde noise as humanly possible with its “Loud Weekend” at Mass MOCA and its composer trainings later in the summer. Standard repertoire remains prevalent; Beethoven anniversary celebrations forced to cancel last summer are on the agenda for the Rome and FestivalsThe 2021 Guide Montreal chamber music festivals, among others. We’ve heard from the been-around-forever standbys, like the Salzburg Festival and Marlboro Music Festivals, and a few newcomers, such as the Berkshire and the West Edge opera festivals. About this time in 2020, the light at the end of the tunnel was growing dimmer by the second. May our festival colleagues continue to make it brighter. Regards, Susan Elliott Editor, Special Reports

COVER PHOTO: Sun Valley Music Festival concertgoers enjoying a broadcast from the Pavilion lawn during last year’s virtual Summer Season. CREDIT: Nils Ribi Photography

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 1 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 FESTIVALS 28th Ameropa International John Coltrane International Lucerne Festival...... 20 Ravenna Festival...... 31 Chamber Music Academy...... 3 Jazz & Blues Festival...... 11 Mainly Mozart...... 21 Ravinia Festival...... 31 Aspen Music Festival and School...... 3 Cork International Choral Festival...... 11 Mann Center for the Performing Arts...... 21 Riga Jurmala Music Festival...... 31 Crested Butte Music Festival...... 12 Bach Choir of Bethlehem: Marlboro Music Festival...... 22 Rigas Ritmi Festival 2021...... 32 113th Bethlehem Bach Festival ...... 3 Deer Valley Music Festival...... 12 Merola Opera Program Summer Festival...... 22 Rockport Chamber Music Festival...... 32 Bang on a Can’s Loud Weekend Festival Des Moines Metro Opera...... 13 Minnesota Orchestra Summer at Orchestra Hall.....22 Rome Chamber Music Festival...... 32 at Mass MOCA...... 4 Dresden Music Festival...... 13 Mizzou International Composers Festival...... 23 Round Top Music Festival...... 33 Bard Music Festival/Bard Summerscape...... 4 Drottningholms Slottsteater...... 13 Monteux School and Music Festival...... 23 Salzburg Festival...... 33 Bay Chamber Concerts Screen Door Festival...... 4 Dubrovnik Summer Festival...... 14 Montreal Chamber Music Festival...... 23 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival...... 33 Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival...... 5 EAMA Summer Music Institute in Paris...... 14 Mozartfest Würzburg...... 24 Santa Fe Desert Chorale...... 34 Bergen International Festival...... 5 Early Music Days...... 14 The Santa Fe Opera...... 34 Berkshire Choral International...... 5 Eastern Music Festival...... 15 Music Academy of the West 2021 Summer School & Festival...... 24 Saratoga Performing Arts Center...... 35 Berkshire Opera Festival...... 6 Festival d’Aix-en-Provence...... 15 Music in the Vineyards...... 24 Seagle Festival...... 35 Besançon International Music Festival...... 6 Festival dans les Jardins de William Christie...... 15 Music@Menlo...... 25 Sitka Music Festival...... 35 Blossom Music Festival—Summer Home of Festival Internacional de the Cleveland Orchestra...... 6 Música y Danza de Granada...... 16 National Repertory Orchestra...... 25 Solsberg Festival...... 36 Boston Early Music Festival...... 7 The Glimmerglass Festival...... 16 Norfolk Chamber Music Festival...... 25 Spoleto Festival USA...... 37 Bowdoin International Music Festival...... 7 The Golandsky Institute Summer Symposium...... 16 Ojai Music Festival...... 26 Strings Music Festival...... 37 Bravo! Vail Music Festival...... 8 Grafenegg Festival...... 17 Olshan Texas Music Festival Sun Valley Music Festival...... 37 Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival...... 8 Grand Teton Music Festival...... 17 Orchestral Institute...... 26 Tanglewood...... 38 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music...... 8 Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival...... 17 Opera in the Ozarks...... 27 Teatro Nuovo...... 38 Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts...... 9 Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy...... 17 Opera Theatre of Saint Louis...... 28 TIME:SPANS Festival 2021...... 39 Carson City Music & Art Festival: Hitzacker Summer Music Festival...... 18 Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival...... 28 Tippet Rise Art Center...... 40 Jazz & Beyond...... 9 Honens Festival...... 18 Oregon Bach Festival...... 29 Tsinandali Festival...... 40 Central City Opera Festival...... 9 International Keyboard Institute & Festival...... 18 Oxford Lieder Festival...... 29 Verbier Festival...... 40 Chamber Music Northwest Summer Festival...... 10 Kaleidoscope of Colors...... 19 Oxford Piano Festival...... 29 Virginia Arts Festival...... 41 Chautauqua Institution Klosters Music 2021...... 19 The Perlman Music Program The Walden School Creative Musicians Retreat ...... 41 Performing and Visual Arts...... 10 La Jolla Music Society Summerfest...... 19 Chamber Music Workshop...... 30 The Walden School Young Musicians Program...... 42 Cincinnati May Festival...... 10 Lake Field Music Camp...... 20 Prague Summer Nights Festival...... 30 West Edge Opera...... 42 Colorado Music Festival...... 11 Lake George Music Festival...... 20 Puccini Festival...... 30 Wolf Trap...... 42

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 2 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 28th AMEROPA INTERNATIONAL ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL (cont’d) CHAMBER MUSIC ACADEMY LOCATION Aspen, CO TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $100 Festival Website FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Prague, Czech Republic TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION “Ameropa” was founded as an international Festival Website DATES July 1 – August 22, 2021 Ticket Purchase Link organization for chamber music in 1993 by 970-925-9042 DATES July 25 – August 8, 2021 PANDEMIC & SAFETY Professor Vadim Mazo (U.S.). Its main idea is to build Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival BOOKING CONTACT the so-called “Musical Bridges” between AMErica PANDEMIC & SAFETY Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Asadour Santourian and EuROPA with classical music, a medium that has Does this event intend to follow U.S. government guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes no borders in the world. guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Booking cycle date range: ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Robert Spano May 2021 for summer 2022 Ameropa is based in Prague, where the tradition ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Vadim Mazo of chamber music dates back to the time of W.A. GENRE Classical SOCIAL LINKS Mozart and other greats of that era, all of whom GENRE Classical were enchanted by the picturesqueness, cultural TICKET PRICE RANGE €10 to €30 originality, and innate musicality of the city. Mozart dedicated his famous opera Don Giovanni to Prague. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Ticket Purchase Link BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM: To this day, you will not find a country with such +420 608 011 554 a large number of excellent professional chamber 113th BETHLEHEM BACH FESTIVAL music ensembles, spreading the fame of Czech music around the world, starting in the 20th century FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY with the world-famous Smetana Quartet. Come and Our 113th Bethlehem Bach Festival comes to you Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival visit us at this European musical metropolis and virtually this year, with Festival Artist-in-Residence Does this event intend to follow U.S. government experience its unique summer music atmosphere. Paul Taylor Dance Company, and music from guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes The Bach Choir of Bethlehem and Bach Festival Orchestra, with soloists to be named. Highlights ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Greg Funfgeld include The Barnette Distinguished Scholar GENRE Classical ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL Lecture— Peter Wollny, director of The Bach Archive in Leipzig, Germany; chamber music by Bach and TICKET PRICE RANGE $5 to $58 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Among the many featured artists: American other composers including Vivaldi’s Four Seasons TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Our in-person season will be safe, distanced, Brass Quintet, Lawrence Brownlee, Julia Bullock, with Elizabeth Field, concertmaster, as the violin Ticket Purchase Link and full of performances to enjoy in the open- Sarah Chang, Jeremy Denk, Vladimir Feltsman, soloist and one instrument to a part; and more. 610-866-4382 x115 or x110 air Benedict Music Tent. Performances include Renée Fleming, Augustin Hadelich, Andreas LOCATION Virtual from locations in orchestral concerts, recitals, chamber music, Haefliger, Sharon Isbin, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, BOOKING CONTACT Bethlehem and Allentown, PA opera presentations, and more. In 2021, the AMFS Kantorei, Paul Lewis, Gil Shaham, Golda Schultz, Bridget George Festival Website begins significantly highlighting AMELIA (African, Daniil Trifonov, Music Director Robert Spano, and SOCIAL LINKS Middle Eastern, Latin, Indigenous, and Asian) guest conductors James Conlon, Roderick Cox, DATES May 14-15, 2021 composers and performers. Jane Glover, Nicholas McGegan, Ludovic Morlot, Gemma New, and more.

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 3 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 BANG ON A CAN’S BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL/BARD SUMMERSCAPE (cont’d) LOUD WEEKEND FESTIVAL AT MASS MOCA ARTISTIC DIRECTORS TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Leon Botstein, Christopher H. Gibbs, Ticket Purchase Link FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY Gideon Lester 845-758-7900 “Loud Weekend” is three days of today’s most Does this event intend to follow U.S. government exciting and adventurous new music in the guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes GENRES BOOKING CONTACT beautiful Berkshire Mountains. Past programming Classical • Opera • Theater • Dance Irene Zedlacher ARTISTIC DIRECTORS has included Philip Glass’s Dracula (with film), Bang TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $105 SOCIAL LINKS on a Can All-Stars, Sun Ra Arkestra, music and/ Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe or performances by Brian Eno, David Lang, Dither GENRE Guitar Quartet, Horse Lords, Julianna Barwick, Julia New/Contemporary/Avant Garde Music Wolfe, Michael Gordon, Michael Riesman, Pamela Z, plus the many musicians of the Bang on a Can TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $90 Summer Music Institute, a residency program taking TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS SCREEN DOOR FESTIVAL place from July 12 – August 1. Ticket Purchase Link FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Manuel Bagorro LOCATION MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA 413-662-2111 Camden, ME, is a destination with a craggy and Festival Website BOOKING CONTACT rugged shoreline along a bay dotted with hundreds GENRES Classical • Jazz • Ethnic DATES July 30 – August 1, 2021 info@bangonacan of uninhabited islands and crowned by pined TICKET PRICE RANGE $1 to $45 mountains. The musical venues of the Bay Chamber’s SOCIAL LINKS Screen Door Festival are approachable, sometimes TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION historic, and always New England-beautiful. This Ticket Purchase Link year’s Festival will be held entirely outdoors at the 207-236-2823 Camden Amphitheater next door to the public BOOKING CONTACT BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL/BARD SUMMERSCAPE library. COVID precautions apply. While you can get Manuel Bagorro your Bach, Beethoven, or Brahms fix at the Festival, Bay Chamber Concerts & Music School FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS the world premiere of I was waiting for the echo you will also experience novel, one-of-a-kind creative PO Box 599 SummerScape’s 2021 season celebrates one of the of a better day, choreographed by Pam Tanowitz happenings, shining a light on living composers. Rockport, ME 04856 most important figures in classical music history with music by Jesse Montgomery. LOCATION Camden, ME Booking cycle date range: with seven weeks of events centered around the Festival Website 31st Bard Music Festival, “Nadia Boulanger and LOCATION Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Fall 2021 for summer 2022 Festival Website Her World.” Nadia Boulanger was the pioneering DATES August 18-22, 2021 SOCIAL LINKS Parisian pedagogue, composer, conductor, DATES June 26 – August 16, 2020 PANDEMIC & SAFETY pianist, organist, and indomitable personality Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival who shaped a generation of American musicians. PANDEMIC & SAFETY Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Does this event intend to follow U.S. government SummerScape will also present the North guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes American premiere of King Arthur (Le roi Arthus), guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes by Boulanger’s compatriot Ernest Chausson, and

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 4 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 BAYREUTH BAROQUE OPERA FESTIVAL BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Max Emanuel Cencic FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Anders Beyer Nicola Porpora: Carlo il Calvo, with Max Emanuel The theme for the 2021 Bergen International Festi- Cencic, Franco Fagioli, Julia Lezhneva, Jakub Jozef GENRES Classical • Baroque Opera Seria val is ‘This is America?’ with American Missy Mazzoli GENRES Classical • Theater/Dance Orlinski, Dorothee Oberlinger, Simone Kermes, Lea TICKET PRICE RANGE €15 to €249 as Festival composer-in-residence. Her music will be TICKET PRICE RANGE €13 to €60 Desandre, and Lucy Crowe. highlighted in a number of concerts and constella- TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION tions. American culture and music will be featured TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION LOCATION Margravial Opera House, Bayreuth Ticket Purchase Link throughout the Festival program, which is still in Ticket Purchase Link Festival Website +49 921 508 9908 development. Other artists include Norwegian vio- +47 470 36 065 DATES September 1-14, 2021 SOCIAL LINKS linist Ragnhild Hemsing, pianists Håvard Gimse and BOOKING CONTACT Ingrid Andsnes, and opera star Danielle de Niese. PANDEMIC & SAFETY Program Manager: Tonje Elisabeth Peersen Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival LOCATION Production Manager: Elisabeth Hobrad Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Online and venues in Bergen, Norway Booking cycle date range: guidelines for pandemic safety? Under Festival Website From one to five years in advance consideration DATES May 26 – June 9, 2021 SOCIAL LINKS PANDEMIC & SAFETY Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival Does this event intend to follow U.S. government guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes TYING THE KNOT NEW SEASON / JULY 2021 BERKSHIRE CHORAL INTERNATIONAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS GENRES Classical In-person programs are cancelled for 2021 due to the pandemic. Access a variety of free and low-cost TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $25 online resources and classes for choral singers. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION LOCATION Great Barrington, MA Ticket Purchase Link Festival Website 413-229-8526 DATES June 1 – August 1, 2021 BOOKING CONTACT Steven Smith, president PANDEMIC & SAFETY Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Booking cycle date range: Fall 2021 for summer 2022 VISIT opera.org FOR TICKETS & SCHEDULE INFORMATION guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes 16311 Hwy. 62 West / Eureka Springs, AR / (479) 253-8595 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Frank Nemhauser SOCIAL LINKS

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 5 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 BERKSHIRE OPERA FESTIVAL BESANÇON INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL (cont’d)

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Brian Garman PANDEMIC & SAFETY TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Berkshire Opera Festival’s 2021 season will feature Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Ticket Purchase Link the powerful and intimate American work Glory GENRE Classical guidelines for pandemic safety? Under +33 38 12 50 585 Denied, July 22 and 24 at the beautiful McConnell TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $99 consideration Theater on Bard College’s Simon’s Rock campus. BOOKING CONTACT Next, BOF will present four cast members from its TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jean-Michel Mathé Jean-Michel Mathé production of Falstaff in a summer evening concert Ticket Purchase Link GENRES Classical • Jazz • Ethnic Booking cycle date range: entitled, “Much Ado About Shakespeare,” on the 413-528-0100 Spring 2021 for autumn 2022 grounds of Edith Wharton’s House, also known as TICKET PRICE RANGE €0 to €49 BOOKING CONTACT SOCIAL LINKS The Mount, on August 11. BOF’s mainstage opera If you or someone you know is interested in this season, Falstaff, will bring down the house with performing with BOF, please email your interest its hilarious story line and remarkable cast, August with links to [email protected] 21, 24, 27 at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. Booking cycle date range: LOCATION Great Barrington, MA Typically books one year in advance Festival Website BLOSSOM MUSIC FESTIVAL— SOCIAL LINKS DATES July 22 – August 27, 2021 SUMMER HOME OF THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PANDEMIC & SAFETY FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY Does this event intend to follow U.S. government The 2021 Blossom Music Festival will mark a return Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes to in-person concerts after the pandemic forced Does this event intend to follow U.S. government the cancellation of the 2020 season. The Cleveland guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Orchestra will present a mix of classical and pops concerts for audiences in its scenic home, Blossom ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Franz Welser-Möst Music Center. For safety, audience capacity will be GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk BESANÇON INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL limited and a variety of protocols will be in place. Check here for the full festival schedule and for TICKET PRICE RANGE $26 to $121 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS the music of our resident composer, Camille Pépin, health and safety information. The 74th Besançon Music Festival will take place as well as a première (ordre of the Festival) for the TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION in September. This will also be the year of the 54th Competition Final. LOCATION Cuyahoga Falls, OH Ticket Purchase Link International Competition for Young Conductors Festival Website 800-686-1141 LOCATION (chaired by conductor Paul Daniel). Among the DATES July 2 – September 5, 2021 SOCIAL LINKS artists to discover this year will be the Orchestre France: Besançon, Belfort, Lons-le-Saunier, Dole, National de Lyon, Les Siècles orchestra, pianists Vesoul Boris Berezovsky, Alexandre Kantorow, and Katia & Festival Website Marielle Labèque. A large place is also reserved for DATES September 10-25, 2021

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 6 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY The 2021 Boston Early Music Festival will be Does this event intend to follow U.S. government exclusively online, from June 6-13. Themed “Music guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes of Solace & Joy,” the week will feature archival video ARTISTIC DIRECTORS of our 2017 production of Campra’s Le Carnaval de Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs Venise and our 2014 double-bill of comic operas by Pergolesi, along with newly recorded concerts GENRES Classical by the BEMF Vocal & Chamber Ensembles, soprano Amanda Forsythe, recorder virtuoso Erik Bosgraaf, TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $25 keyboardist Benjamin Alard, Ensemble Doulce TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Mémoire, L’Archéron Consort, and other spectacular Ticket Purchase Link artists. There will also be a virtual exhibition, fringe 617-661-1812 series, master classes, and more. BOOKING CONTACT LOCATION Boston, MA, and online Kathleen Fay Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS DATES June 6-13, 2021

BOWDOIN INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY One of the world’s premiere music institutes, the Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Festival offers an intensive and in-depth explora- guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes tion of chamber and solo music. Every summer, 250 JULY 2–AUGUST 21 students make life-long connections with peers, ARTISTIC DIRECTORS enhance musicianship through study and perfor- David Ying and Phillip Ying MUSIC DIRECTOR SIR DONALD RUNNICLES mance, and engage with world-renowned faculty GENRE Classical from leading conservatories. Those include Curtis, JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING Eastman, Juilliard, Mannes, NEC, Peabody, USC, TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $45 and others. At Bowdoin, these faculty members are TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION dedicated to collaborating with and guiding the Ticket Purchase Link next generation’s most promising artists. 207-373-1400 gtmf.org LOCATION Brunswick, ME SOCIAL LINKS 307.733.1128 Festival Website DATES June 6 – August 7, 2021

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 7 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 BRAVO! VAIL MUSIC FESTIVAL BRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Marya Martin Bravo! Vail’s 34th season kicks off with the return Does this event intend to follow U.S. government BCMF’s 38th season will present concerts from GENRE Classical of Academy of St. Martin in the Fields led by guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes August 7-22. Programming will feature well-known violin virtuoso Joshua Bell. The Dallas Symphony ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Anne-Marie McDermott masterpieces from the canon as well as little- TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $175 Orchestra is joined by violinist James Ehnes; known gems. Artists from around the world will the Philadelphia Orchestra performs Valerie GENRE Classical gather in Bridgehampton to rehearse and perform TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Coleman’s new work Seven O’Clock Shout and Ticket Purchase Link TICKET PRICE RANGE $29 to $175 concerts over three weeks, with concerts on welcomes pianists Yefim Bronfman and Anne-Marie Wednesdays and Sundays throughout this period. 212-741-9403 McDermott and violinist Gil Shaham; and pianist TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION BOOKING CONTACT Daniil Trifonov joins the New York Philharmonic. LOCATION Bridgehampton, NY Ticket Purchase Link Michael Lawrence, executive director Plus, the pioneering outdoor Music Box stage makes 877-812-5700 Festival Website a return alongside the world-class chamber series. Booking cycle date range: BOOKING CONTACT DATES August 7-22, 2021 LOCATION Vail, CO Spring 2021 for summer 2022 Jacqueline Taylor, director of artistic planning PANDEMIC & SAFETY Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS SOCIAL LINKS Does this event intend to follow U.S. government DATES June 24 – August 5, 2021 guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes

CABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 31 – August 8, 2021 Mann Center for the Performing Arts The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, PANDEMIC & SAFETY a non-profit performing arts center America’s longest-running festival of new orchestral music, presents its second-ever virtual season over Does this event intend to follow U.S. government guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes [email protected] President & CEO - Catherine M. Cahill two weekends, July 31 – August 1 and August 7-8, 2021. Led by Music Director Cristian Macelaru, the ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Cristian Macelaru www.MannCenter.org Vice President of Artistic Planning & Chief event offers site-specific dance, environmental Innovation Officer - Toby Blumenthal photography, animation, and videography woven GENRE Classical (215) 546-7900 through new and recent compositions for full TICKET PRICE $0 Artistic Advisor - Evans Mirageas orchestra and chamber ensemble. Composers are Danny Clay, Gabriela Lena Frank, Jake Heggie, Sean TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Shepherd, and emerging composers Theo Chandler, Ticket Purchase Link ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE: 123 S. Broad Street, Suite 815, Philadelphia, PA 19109 Eli Gilbert, Meng Wang, and Jeremy Rapaport-Stein. 831-426-6966 The Cabrillo Festival Orchestra will be featured, with THEATER: 5201 Parkside Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19131 three new works recorded remotely. SOCIAL LINKS LOCATION Virtual Festival Website

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 8 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC AND THE ARTS CENTRAL CITY OPERA FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Kathy Schuman FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts is planning The 2021 Summer Festival opens on July 3 with Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival on having a live summer season, starting on GENRES Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel, followed by Does this event intend to follow U.S. government June 19 and going to August 27. All artists and Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic • Opera Verdi’s Rigoletto, and Purcell’s bewitching opera, guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes programming are subject to change. TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $110 Dido and Aeneas. The first two will be staged with socially distanced seating in The Hudson Gardens GENERAL/ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Pelham G. Pearce LOCATION Katonah, NY TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION & Event Center’s beautiful outdoor amphitheater. GENRE Opera Festival Website Ticket Purchase Link Our company members will reside and rehearse in DATES June 19 – August 27, 2021 914-232-1252 Central City and we will present Dido and Aeneas in TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $75 SOCIAL LINKS the Central City Opera House Gardens. Additional TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION PANDEMIC & SAFETY outdoor performances are planned. Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival Ticket Purchase Link Does this event intend to follow U.S. government LOCATION Central City, CO 303-292-6700 guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS DATES July 3 – August 1, 2021

JAZZ & BEYOND: CARSON CITY MUSIC & ART FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR David C. Bugli Great variety of music in an historic, small city near Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada. Events are free and GENRES Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic include big bands, combos, jam sessions, lectures; TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $10 and a Carson City Open Studios Art Tour August 21 and 22. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Ticket Purchase Link LOCATION Carson City, Nevada 775-883-4154 Festival Website BOOKING CONTACT DATES August 13-29, 2021 David Bugli, Elinor Bugli PANDEMIC & SAFETY Booking cycle date range: Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Winter 2021 for August 2021 guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes SOCIAL LINKS

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 9 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 CHAMBER MUSIC CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS (cont’d) NORTHWEST SUMMER FESTIVAL PANDEMIC & SAFETY GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz Does this event intend to follow U.S. government FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $150 Chamber Music Northwest presents a four-week Does this event intend to follow U.S. government TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION 2021 Summer Festival in scenic Portland, OR, guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes DIRECTORS Rossen Milanov, CSO; Timothy Muffitt, MSFO; Ticket Purchase Link from July 1 – August 1. The Festival celebrates 716-357-6250 an engaging variety of chamber music for ARTISTIC DIRECTORS Marlena Malas, voice; Alexander Gavrylyuk, both in-person and streaming audiences. Gloria Chien and Soovin Kim John Milbauer and Nicola Mellville, piano SOCIAL LINKS This summer’s lineup includes the Brentano, GENRE Classical Dover, Jupiter, and Flux quartets, and the East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO), as well as TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $50 exciting performances by such artists as pianist TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION CINCINNATI MAY FESTIVAL Marc-André Hamelin, clarinetist David Shifrin, Ticket Purchase Link saxophonist Branford Marsalis, and Co-Artistic 503-294-6400 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Roosevelt), 2. River Song (Arlene Geller). Juanjo Directors Gloria Chien and Soovin Kim. May 21 and 22, 7:30pm: Bruckner Adagio of String Mena, conductor, CSO, May Festival Chorus, Joélle BOOKING CONTACT Quintet WAB 112 (orchestra transcription); J. Perry Harvey, soprano, Paul Appleby, tenor. LOCATION Portland, OR Jaren Hillard Festival Website Stabat Mater; G. Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden LOCATION Booking cycle date range: Gesellen, arr. Schoenberg; Holst Choral Hymns from Locations in Cincinnati,OH, and Covington, KY DATES July 1 – August 1, 2021 Fall 2021 for summer 2023 the Rig Veda, First Group H.100 for Male Voices. Juanjo Mena, conductor, Cincinnati Symphony Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS Orchestra, Men of the May Festival Chorus. Sara DATES May 21-30, 2021 Couden, contralto; Elliot Madore, baritone. PANDEMIC & SAFETY May 28, 2021, 7:30pm: Copland Emily Dickinson Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION Songs; M.Schneider Winter Morning Walks; J. Adams Does this event intend to follow U.S. government The Wound-Dresser. Robert Porco, conductor, CSO, guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS May Festival Chorus. Sasha Cooke and Sophia Burgos; Davóne Tines, baritone ARTISTIC DIRECTOR FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Also offered are professional pop music, dance, and Juanjo Mena, principal conductor Chautauqua Institution’s summer season of family events and chamber music. May 29 and 30, 7:30 and 2:30pm: Mahler performing and visual arts contains an impressive Adagietto from Symphony No. 5; Britten Les GENRES Classical • Choral LOCATION Chautauqua, NY array of offerings in an idyllic lakeside setting. Illuminations; Schubert arr. Reger: Nacht und Träume TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $99 Festival highlights are weekly performances by Festival Website D.827, Litanei D.343, Gruppe aus dem Tartarus D.583. resident companies including the Chautauqua DATES June 26 – August 29, 2021 Schubert, arr. Berlioz: Der Erlkönig H136; Holst TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Symphony Orchestra, Chautauqua Opera, and Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Second Group Ticket Purchase Link Chautauqua Theater, along with pre-professional H.100 for Female Voices. R.Esmail I Rise: Women 513-381-3300 schools of Music, Visual Art, Theater, and Dance. in Song. 1. The Beauty of their Dreams (Eleanor SOCIAL LINKS

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 10 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 COLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL CORK INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 1 – August 7, 2021 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Music Director Peter Oundjian directs the 2021 • April 27, Cork City Hall: Opening Gala Concert, guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Colorado Music Festival with the new Robert Mann PANDEMIC & SAFETY April 28: Gala Concert ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Peter Stobart Chamber Music Series, four world premieres, a week Does this event intend to follow U.S. government • April 29, St. Finbarre’s Cathedral: Chamber Choir guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes of music by living composers, and more. Featuring Ireland; Evocations, North Cathedral GENRES Classical • Choral Music Colorado Music Festival Orchestra and guest artists ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Peter Oundjian • April 30, Cork City Hall: Fleischmann International including Augustin Hadelich, Steven Banks, Stewart Trophy Competition. This two-session concert will TICKET PRICE RANGE €0 to €31 GENRES Classical • Chamber Music offer audiences the opportunity to hear some of Goodyear, Ji Su Jung, Conrad Tao. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION the world’s top amateur choirs competing for one Ticket Purchase Link LOCATION TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $75 of the most prestigious choral prizes in Europe. +353 214 215 125 Chautauqua Auditorium, Boulder, CO TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION • May 3, Cork City Hall: Closing Gala Concert Festival Website BOOKING CONTACT Ticket Purchase Link LOCATION City and County of Cork, Ireland Elaine Fitzgerald 303-440-7666 Festival Website Booking cycle date range: SOCIAL LINKS DATES April 27 – May 1, 2022 Autumn 2021 for summer 2022 PANDEMIC & SAFETY SOCIAL LINKS Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival

Alfred Brendel KBE JOHN COLTRANE Patron Oxford Sir András Schiff Philharmonic INTERNATIONAL JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL President Marios Papadopoulos MBE Orchestra Artistic Director FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Oxford Piano Festival An integral part of the organization’s mission is to guidelines for pandemic safety? YES Last week of July 2021 preserve and celebrate the life and music of John [email protected] An exciting program of Coltrane in his hometown of High Point, North Caro- ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Joe Williams oxfordphil.com recitals and masterclasses lina. Importantly, this mission includes the enrich- GENRE Jazz from world-leading pianists ment of lives through jazz and other musical genres. set in historic Oxford TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $300 LOCATION ‘Oxford’s masterclasses Oak Hollow Festival Park, High Point, NC TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION turn piano lessons into Festival Website Ticket Purchase Link performance art’ 336-819-JAZZ (5299) The New York Times DATES September 4-5, 2021 BOOKING CONTACT PANDEMIC & SAFETY Joe Williams Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival SOCIAL LINKS

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 11 Musical America 2021.indd 1 musicalamerica.com 12/03/2021 • April 2021 14:13 CRESTED BUTTE MUSIC FESTIVAL FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Does this event intend to follow U.S. government THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO Now in its 25th year, CBMF performances will guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart take place across the Gunnison Valley, including WORLD PREMIERE innovative outdoor programming in the Rocky ARTISTIC DIRECTORS Emily and Erik Peterson Mountain wilderness and the shores of Blue Mesa GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz THE LORD OF CRIES Lake. The season offers chamber and contemporary Music: John Corigliano, Libretto: Mark Adamo classical music, opera, gypsy jazz, bluegrass, and TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $175 indie rock. Specifics of programming and tickets EUGENE ONEGIN TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky will be available May 1. Education remains a central Ticket Purchase Link component of CBMF’s mission, and we will be 970-300-3409 working closely with Public Health to ensure the A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Benjamin Britten safety of our artists and patrons. BOOKING CONTACT Erik Peterson LOCATION Crested Butte and Gunnison, CO ANGEL BLUE IN CONCERT Festival Website Booking cycle date range: January-March 2021 for July-September 2021 DATES July 26 – September 6, 2021 SOCIAL LINKS PANDEMIC & SAFETY Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival

DEER VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY The Deer Valley Music Festival (DVMF) is Utah Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival Symphony | Utah Opera’s (USUO) summer home in Does this event intend to follow U.S. government the mountain resort town of Park City, UT. The Deer guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Valley Music Festival is renowned for consistently delivering a high quality and musically diverse ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Anthony Tolokan experience in casual settings of unparalleled GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz natural beauty. TICKET PRICE RANGE $30 to $120 LOCATION Park City, UT Festival Website TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Ticket Purchase Link Follow our For more information visit santafeopera.org DATES July 2 – August 7, 2021 801-533-6683 Reopening Plans or call 505-986-5900 Illustration by Benedetto Cristofani SOCIAL LINKS

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 12 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 SFO-151C_Musical America_v3.indd 1 3/12/21 18:57 DES MOINES METRO OPERA DRESDEN MUSIC FESTIVAL (cont’d)

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY PANDEMIC & SAFETY BOOKING CONTACT The 2021 Summer Festival features the long- Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Imke Hinz; Katarina Hinzpeter awaited return of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd Does this event intend to follow U.S. government guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes alongside Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Booking cycle date range: Rameau’s Platée, and Gregory Spears/Greg Pierce’s ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jan Vogler Spring 2021 for spring 2022 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Michael Egel Fellow Travelers. Principals include Taylor Stayton, GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic SOCIAL LINKS Zachary James, Zoie Reams, Elizabeth Sutphen, GENRES Classical • Opera and John Brancy in Platée; Jonathan Burton, Sara TICKET PRICE RANGE €10 to €145 TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $150 Gartland, and Joyce Castle in The Queen of Spades; TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Zachary Nelson, Lucy Schaufer, Ben Edquist, Grace TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Ticket Purchase Link Kahl, and Wayne Tiggis in Sweeney Todd; and Ticket Purchase Link +49 (0)351 656 06 700 Joseph Lattanzi and Christian Sanders in Fellow 515-961-6221 Travelers. BOOKING CONTACT LOCATION Indianola, IA Michael Egel, general and artistic director Festival Website DROTTNINGHOLMS SLOTTSTEATER Booking cycle date range: DATES July 2-25, 2021 Fall 2021 for summer 2022 and summer 2023 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY SOCIAL LINKS Agrippina by G. F. Handel, August 7-21— Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival Conductor: Fracesco Corti, director: Staffan Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Valdemar Holm. Cast: Nahuel di Pierro, Ann guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Hallenberg, Bruno de Sá, Kristina Hammarström, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Roberta Mameli, Håvard Stensvold, Kacper Sofi Lerström (until April 30); Anna Karinsdotter Szelazek, Mikael Horned. “Donne disprezzate— (May 1 onward) DRESDEN MUSIC FESTIVAL the raging heroines of the Baroque,” August 29— Concert with Artist-in-Residence Ann Hallenberg, GENRE Classical FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Lemper, Pape Diouf, Noa, and others. Kent Nagano mezzo-soprano; Conductor Stefano Montanari Hong Kong Philharmonic and Jaap van Zweden leads the Hamburg Philharmonic in the premiere of and the Drottningholm Theater Orchestra. TICKET PRICE RANGE €30 to €145 with cellist Jan Vogler; London Symphony & Sir William Blank’s Triple Concert, Alisma, with soloists TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Events and activities for families take place Simon Rattle; Royal Concertgebouw & Fabio Mira Wang (violin), Jan Vogler (cello), and Daniel Ticket Purchase Link throughout the summer, with daily guided tours, Luisi; Bavarian Radio Symphony & Jakub Hrusa Ottensamer (clarinet). +46855693105 with pianist Emanuel Ax; Vienna Philharmonic & May – September. LOCATION Dresden, Germany BOOKING CONTACT Daniel Harding; Dresden Festival Orchestra (with LOCATION Drottningholm, Sweden Festival Website Kristian Holstein, producer conductors DanieIe Gatti and Ivor Bolton); Sting, Festival Website Jamie Cullum, Aoife O’Donovan, Till Brönner, Ute DATES May 14 – June 12, 2021 SOCIAL LINKS DATES August 7-28, 2021

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 13 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 DUBROVNIK SUMMER FESTIVAL EAMA SUMMER MUSIC INSTITUTE IN PARIS (cont’d)

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Dora Ruždjak Podolski TUITION PRICE RANGE $4500 to $6500 BOOKING CONTACT Petrit Çeku, Lovre Marusic, and Goran Filipec will Pamela Lasser present their mastery as soloists with the Dubrovnik GENRE Classical APPLICATION INFORMATION Ticket Purchase Link Booking cycle date range: Symphony Orchestra, in chamber performances or TICKET PRICE RANGE €10 to €80 recitals. City spaces will be enlivened by dynamically 646-369-0527 Spring 2021 for summer 2021 TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION durable and visually attractive programs such as SOCIAL LINKS Percussion Collective, a percussion treat led by the Ticket Purchase Link excellent Ivana Kuljeric Bilic. “Dubrovnik on a Rock +385(0)20326107 of Music” will gather Dubrovnik’s musicians in a rare BOOKING CONTACT and unexpected program from the belle époque. [email protected] LOCATION Old City of Dubrovnik, Croatia Booking cycle date range: Festival Website Summer 2020 EARLY MUSIC DAYS DATES July 10 – August 25, 2021 SOCIAL LINKS FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY PANDEMIC & SAFETY The 37th Early Music Days festival, held July 3-10, Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Does this event intend to follow U.S. government 2021 in the city of Vác, will offer a unique program guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes of concerts and master classes. The organizer, Filharmonia Hungary, invites students and early- ARTISTIC DIRECTOR György Vashegyi music enthusiasts to attend and attain a wider GENRE Classical knowledge of historical music. All will learn the secrets of playing Baroque music from master TICKET PRICE RANGE €50 to €190 EAMA SUMMER MUSIC INSTITUTE IN PARIS classes by professors like Agnes Kovács and TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Elisabeth Scholl in singing, Vera Balogh on flute, Ticket Purchase Link FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Paris, France Sheng-Fang Chiu on recorder, Malcolm Bilson on +36 30 32 08 314 The Institute offers expert musical training in Festival Website fortepiano, Simon Standage on violin, and György composition, conducting, and chamber music at Vashegyi on chamber music. BOOKING CONTACT DATES July 1-30, 2021 Éva Kelemen, operative manager the historic Schola Cantorum in Paris, France. Join us LOCATION Vác, Hungary (near Budapest) for a month of intensive study of the fundamental PANDEMIC & SAFETY Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS crafts of music: counterpoint, harmony, analysis, Does this event intend to follow U.S. government and musicianship. The EAMA experience delivers guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes DATES July 3-10, 2021 personalized training by our international faculty hailing from The Juilliard School, Jacobs School ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Philip Lasser of Music at Indiana Bloomington, and the San GENRE Classical Francisco Conservatory of Music.

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 14 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 EASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL FESTIVAL D’AIX-EN-PROVENCE (cont’d)

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY PANDEMIC & SAFETY TICKET PRICE RANGE €9 to €320 Eastern Music Festival, a nationally acclaimed Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival classical music festival & educational institution, Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Does this event intend to follow U.S. government TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION celebrates 60 years of musical excellence this guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes guidelines for pandemic safety? Under Ticket Purchase Link summer. Visit the website for program and schedule consideration +33 (0)4 34 08 02 17 announcements. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Gerard Schwarz ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Pierre Audi SOCIAL LINKS With thrilling performances, workshops, master GENRE Classical GENRE Classical classes, seminars, and activities spread across TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $45 five busy weeks (June 26 – July 31, 2021) under the musical stewardship of Music Director Gerard TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Schwarz, 2021 marks EMF’s 60th-anniversary season. Ticket Purchase Link In 2021, all programming is subject to change under BOOKING CONTACT FESTIVAL DANS federal, state, and local health and safety mandates. Chris Williams, executive director 336-333-7450 x224 LOCATION Greensboro, NC LES JARDINS DE WILLIAM CHRISTIE Booking cycle date range: Festival Website FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTORS Fall 2021 for summer 2022 DATES June 26 – July 31, 2021 Musical Promenades (August 21-28): short baroque William Christie and Paul Agnew SOCIAL LINKS music concerts by the musicians and singers of Les Arts Florissants in the gardens of William Christie. GENRE Classical Concerts on the Miroir d’eau (the reflecting pool): TICKET PRICE RANGE $10.70 to $31.40 great open-air baroque music concerts with the singers and the orchestra of Les Arts Florissants, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION FESTIVAL D’AIX-EN-PROVENCE conducted by William Christie and Paul Agnew. Ticket Purchase Link Candlelit Concerts: sacred baroque music in the +33 (0)2 28 85 85 70 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS • Rimsky Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel—Daniele peaceful setting of the Thiré medieval church. BOOKING CONTACT • Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro—Conductor Thomas Rustioni / Barrie Kosky LOCATION Thiré, Vendée, France Marie Lobrichon Hengelbrock / Director Lotte de Beer • Verdi: I Due Foscari, in concert—Daniele Rustioni Festival Website • Verdi: Falstaff—Daniele Rustioni / Barrie Kosky SOCIAL LINKS * World premiere • Wagner: Tristan und Isolde—Sir Simon Rattle / DATES August 21-28, 2021 Simon Stone LOCATION Aix-en-Provence, France PANDEMIC & SAFETY • Kaija Saariaho*: Innocence—Susanna Mälkki / Festival Website Simon Stone Does this event intend to follow U.S. government • Combattimento: The Black Swan Theory— DATES June 30 – July 25, 2021 guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Sébastien Daucé / Silvia Costa • Samir Odeh-Tamimi*: The Arab Apocalypse—Ilan Volkov /Pierre Audi

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 15 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL THE GLIMMERGLASS FESTIVAL (cont’d) DE MÚSICA Y DANZA DE GRANADA PANDEMIC & SAFETY TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Ticket Purchase Link • Philharmonia Orchestra & Javier Perianes & Klaus Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes 607-547-2255 Mäkelä; Orquesta Ciudad de Granada & Klaus Does this event intend to follow U.S. government DIRECTORS BOOKING CONTACT Mäkelä; Le Concert des Nations & Jordi Savall. guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Francesca Zambello, artistic & general director; Amra Catovic, director of artistic administration • Orquesta Nacional de España & Josep Colom ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Antonio Moral Joseph Colaneri, music director & David Afkham; Gürzenich-Orchester Köln & Booking cycle date range: François-Xavier Roth & Isabelle Faust. GENRES Classical • Flamenco GENRE Classical Two years in advance of each Festival season • Orchestre de Paris & Janine Jansen & Klaus Mäkelä; Christian Zacharias; Elisabeth Leonskaja; TICKET PRICE RANGE €8 to €90 TICKET PRICE RANGE $26 to $149 SOCIAL LINKS Jordi Savall; Arcadi Volodos; P. Sainz Villegas; TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION András Schiff; Javier Perianes. Ticket Purchase Link • Ballet, flamenco, guest soloists. Special project: +34 958 221 844 George Crumb about Federico García Lorca. BOOKING CONTACT LOCATION Granada, Spain Ingrid Dominguez/Elia Duro, +34 958 221 844 Festival Website THE GOLANDSKY INSTITUTE SUMMER SYMPOSIUM Booking cycle date range: DATES June 17 – July 18, 2021 Summer 2021 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS FOUNDER AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR SOCIAL LINKS Join us for an exciting three-day virtual festival of Edna Golandsky lessons, lectures, special presentations, and master classes with the Golandsky Institute’s faculty. GENRE Classical LOCATION Virtual TICKET PRICE $0 Festival Website TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION DATES July 9-11, 2021 Ticket Purchase Link THE GLIMMERGLASS FESTIVAL 646-389-8648 PANDEMIC & SAFETY FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Carlos Simon. The season will also feature “Gods and SOCIAL LINKS The Glimmerglass Festival heads outside for Mortals,” focusing on the works of Wagner, and” To Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Glimmerglass on the Grass, an outdoor festival of the World,” a concert of musical theater favorites. guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes 90-minute re-imagined performances of: Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Verdi’s Il Trovatore, Offenbach’s LOCATION Cooperstown, NY Songbird (La Périchole), and the world premiere Festival Website of playwright Sandra Seaton’s The Passion of Mary DATES July 15 – August 17, 2021 Cardwell Dawson, about the founder of the National Negro Opera Company, with original music by

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 16 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 GRAFENEGG FESTIVAL GREEN MOUNTAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 27 – July 24, 2021 In 2021, Grafenegg celebrates its 15th festival with a Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival As of April 15, we will decide whether Green Moun- program filled with renowned orchestras and artists. Does this event intend to follow U.S. government tain audiences will enjoy our four-week Festival PANDEMIC & SAFETY The main venues in the impressive surroundings guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes live or online. Planned are seven concerts by the Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival are the open-air stage Wolkenturm in Grafenegg’s 35 distinguished faculty of our summer conserva- Does this event intend to follow U.S. government ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Rudolf Buchbinder Schlosspark and the Auditorium concert hall. The tory, performing traditional and contemporary guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes roster includes the Vienna Philharmonic, Renée GENRE Classical repertoire. Concurrently, some 200 string players, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Kevin Lawrence Fleming with the Filarmonica della Scala, the ages 14-30, will study in the atmosphere of focused Munich Philharmonic under Valery Gergiev, Hélène TICKET PRICE RANGE €10 to €164 professionalism, with individual lessons, rehearsals, GENRE Classical Grimaud and the Tonhalle-Orchestra Zurich, Janine TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION master classes, and performances. Guest artists will Jansen, Joyce DiDonato, Composer-in-Residence TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 Ticket Purchase Link include Lawrence Dutton, Matt Haimovitz, Chad Toshio Hosokawa, the Tonkunstler Orchestra, and +43 (0)1 5868383 Hoopes, Violaine Melançon, and Philip Setzer. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION the European Union Youth Orchestra. Ticket Purchase Link BOOKING CONTACT LOCATION Burlington VT LOCATION Grafenegg, Austria Doris Schmidl Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS DATES August 13 – September 5, 2021 GSTAAD MENUHIN FESTIVAL & ACADEMY GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY Stars invited this summer include violinists Daniel Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival The Grand Teton Music Festival celebrates its 60th Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Hope, Nigel Kennedy, and Julia Fischer; singers Juan Does this event intend to follow U.S. government summer season with seven weeks of performances guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Diego Flórez and Thomas Hampson; pianists Hélène guidelines for pandemic safety? Under including a world premiere by Melody Eötvös, co- Grimaud and Maria Joao Pires. Jaap van Zweden consideration commission by Jessie Montgomery with soprano ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Sir Donald Runnicles leads the Gstaad Festival Orchestra for two eve- ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Christoph Müller Julia Bullock, and a concert of opera highlights GENRE Classical nings, one with Sol Gabetta in Elgar’s Cello Concerto; with renowned soloists. Guest artists: violinists Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra accom- GENRE Classical James Ehnes and Leila Josefowicz, Broadway’s TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $75 pany violinist Alexandra Conunova (for Sibelius) Capathia Jenkins, pianist Yefim Bronfman, cellist TICKET PRICE RANGE €30 to €220 TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION and pianist Alexandre Kantorow (Prokofiev). Choirs Sheku Kanneh-Mason, and conductors Gemma 307-733-1128 include VOCES8 and the King’s Singers and a concert TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION New, Stéphane Denève, and Miguel Harth-Bedoya. version of Bellini’s I Puritani stars Lisette Oropesa, Ticket Purchase Link The Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra performs BOOKING CONTACT Javier Camarena, and Erwin Schrott. +41 33 74 88 182 under Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles. Jeff Counts LOCATION BOOKING CONTACT LOCATION Teton Village, Jackson Hole, WY Booking cycle date range: Gstaad, Saanenland, Switzerland [email protected] Festival Website Spring 2021 for summer 2022 Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS DATES July 2 – August 21, 2021 SOCIAL LINKS DATES July 16 – September 4, 2021

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 17 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 HITZACKER SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL HONENS FESTIVAL (cont’d)

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $50 BOOKING CONTACT “Deeper yearning’s holy longing / Into fairer worlds Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Jon Kimura Parker TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION is thronging”—this is the beginning of Franz guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Ticket Purchase Link Booking cycle date range: Schubert’s poem My Prayer. And how we all long 403-299-0140 Summer 2021 for fall 2022; summer 2022 for fall for concerts and musical embraces in these times. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Oliver Wille, violinist 2023 Where would that work better than here? A new GENRE Classical interpretation of our motto “Tradition Meets Today”: SOCIAL LINKS Schubert.NOW! Guests include: Nico and the TICKET PRICE RANGE €11 to €66 Navigators, Christian Tetzlaff with Lars Vogt, Maurice TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Steger, Sir András Schiff, the Busch und Gaspard Ticket Purchase Link Trios, the Auryn and Kuss quartets, and many more +49 (0)5862 / 941 430 performing great works of chamber music in their own spirit of NOW. BOOKING CONTACT [email protected] INTERNATIONAL LOCATION Hitzacker, Germany Festival Website Booking cycle date range: KEYBOARD INSTITUTE & FESTIVAL Summer 2021 for summer 2013 DATES July 31 – August 8, 2021 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jerome Rose SOCIAL LINKS IKIF participant students have the opportunity to hear their teachers in performance and can choose GENRE Classical the teacher or teachers they wish to study with TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $10 during the Festival. Recitals and classes online and in-person, regulations permitting. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION On site purchase LOCATION To be determined HONENS FESTIVAL Festival Website BOOKING CONTACT Julie Kedersha, festival director FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Calgary, AB, Canada DATES July 11-25, 2021 Honens' annual Festival in Calgary presents Booking cycle date range: Festival Website PANDEMIC & SAFETY engaging, accessible, high-quality classical music Fall 2021 for summer 2022 Does this event intend to follow U.S. government featuring the piano, in a mix of free and ticketed DATES September 10-12, 2021 guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes SOCIAL LINKS concerts. The 2021 Festival offers top-notch PANDEMIC & SAFETY Canadian musicians performing on outdoor Does this event intend to follow U.S. government stages, in local parks, and, hopefully, in the guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes concert hall. For 2021, Festival programming is reimagined to meet all AHS guidelines while at ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jon Kimura Parker the same time reach a wider audience through live-streaming. See here for more details about GENRE Classical 2021 Festival programming.

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 18 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 KALEIDOSCOPE OF COLORS KLOSTERS MUSIC 2021 (cont’d)

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY PANDEMIC & SAFETY BOOKING CONTACT Fifteen pipe organs in recital from across 14 states in Does this event intend to follow U.S. Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival Julia Mäder the U.S. spanning three centuries of organ building. government guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Does this event intend to follow U.S. government guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Booking cycle date range: World premiere commission of variations on the Spring 2021 hymn tune Nettleton. Each Sunday in August on ARTISTIC DIRECTOR W. Edward McCall ARTISTIC DIRECTOR David Whelton the Organ Historical Society’s YouTube channel, SOCIAL LINKS viewers will delight in three recitals featuring a GENRE Classical GENRE Classical wide array of instruments and a diverse pool of TICKET PRICE $1 TICKET PRICE RANGE €45 to €90 performers. The Festival Program Book (available now for sale) provides an in-depth description of TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION each instrument, the stop list, repertoire, performer 484-488-7473 Ticket Purchase Link +41 900 585 877 biography, and pictures of the organ. BOOKING CONTACT LOCATION Virtual W. Edward McCall Festival Website Booking cycle date range: DATES August 1-29, 2021 18 months LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY SUMMERFEST SOCIAL LINKS FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS MUSIC DIRECTOR Inon Barnatan SummerFest 2021 Theme: Self + Sound. Composers use music to express their individuality and their GENRES Classical • Jazz identity, celebrate and idealize their nationality, TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $100 convey their love, and immortalize friends and KLOSTERS MUSIC 2021 family. Yet for all its highly individual expression, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION music is also universal and speaks to us equally. Ticket Purchase Link FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS also welcomes another line-up of the world’s finest This summer’s program explores how composers 858-459-3728 Following the great success of KM 2020 with its soloists including Sir András Schiff, Christian Tetzlaff, write themselves into their music, and how the BOOKING CONTACT celebration of Beethoven, we can look forward Steven Isserlis, and Julie Fuchs. The finale of the diversity of influences that make us unique finds its Sarah Campbell, programming manager to another series of exceptional concerts in the third Klosters Music is Cinema Paradiso, a grandiose expression in sound. summer of 2021. From July 31 to August 8, Klosters film classic on the big screen with live film music. Booking cycle date range: Music will present eight exclusive events, in the LOCATION La Jolla, CA Ongoing, through February prior to the Festival magnificent setting of the Klosters Bergwelt, LOCATION Klosters, Switzerland Festival Website Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS celebrating the musical life of Bohemia in the DATES July 30 – August 20, 2021 18th and 19th centuries. Star conductors Jakub DATES July 31 – August 8, 2021 Hrůša and Maxim Emelyanychev lead KOB and PANDEMIC & SAFETY DKB in three magnificent programs of music by Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Mozart, Smetana, Dvořák and Brahms. Klosters guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 19 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 LAKE FIELD MUSIC CAMP LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL (cont’d)

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY PANDEMIC & SAFETY TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Located on a lakeside campus 150 kilometers Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Ticket Purchase Link from Toronto, Canada, with full accommodations guidelines for pandemic safety? Under guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes 518-791-5089 available, this retreat for adults brings together consideration amateur musicians and an exceptional faculty of ARTISTIC DIRECTORS BOOKING CONTACT 20+ professionals for one week of instruction and ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Andrew Wolf Barbora Kolarova and Roger Kalia Alexander Lombard creativity in a friendly and supportive environment. GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic GENRE Classical Booking cycle date range: Singers and instrumentalists explore classical, jazz, Two years world, Broadway, and folk music in contexts ranging TICKET PRICE RANGE $899 to $1499 TICKET PRICE $25 SOCIAL LINKS from orchestra and concert band to chamber and TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION jazz groups as well as New Orleans and Klezmer Ticket Purchase Link music. Vocal options range from the 100-voice “choir 647-692-3463 for all” to duets and master classes. BOOKING CONTACT LOCATION Lakefield, ON, Canada Andrew Wolf Festival Website LUCERNE FESTIVAL Booking cycle date range: FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION DATES August 8-15, 2021 March to June for August event The Festival theme is “crazy.” The Lucerne Festival Various locations in Lucerne, Switzerland SOCIAL LINKS Orchestra will be led by Riccardo Chailly and Festival Website Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Working with the musicians of the Lucerne Festival Academy will be Heinz DATES August 10 – September 12, 2021 Holliger, Lin Liao, Johanna Malangré, David PANDEMIC & SAFETY Robertson, and Ilan Volkov. Rebecca Saunders will Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL be composer-in-residence and Yuja Wang “artiste Does this event intend to follow U.S. government étoile.” Among the international orchestras are guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS unique roster of distinguished artists and young the Berlin Philharmonic with Kirill Petrenko, the Musicians attend solely as a way to advance musicians at the cusp of their professional careers London Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle, EXECUTIVE & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR intellectually, artistically, and professionally; all work together. and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with Daniel Michael Haefliger they work together in a tight-knit and nurturing Barenboim and Lahav Shani. Soloists include singers GENRE Classical community performing daily open rehearsals, LOCATION Lake George, NY Cecilia Bartoli and Juan Diego Flórez, violinist Anne- live public concerts, and outreach events in this Festival Website Sophie Mutter, and pianists Yefim Bronfman, Lang TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $360 picturesque summer resort town. Repertoire is Lang, Igor Levit, and Anna Vinnitskaya. The Festival DATES August 18-25, 2021 TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION selected from requests submitted by participants. begins with performances by international youth Ticket Purchase Link There are no teachers or students, private lessons, ensembles such as the Russian National Youth +41 (0)41 226 44 80 master classes, or organized studios. Rather, a Orchestra and the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra. SOCIAL LINKS

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 20 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 MAINLY MOZART MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (cont’d)

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $350 SOCIAL LINKS Utilizing Mozart’s influence in the classical music Does this event intend to follow U.S. government world, we build momentum around a festival that guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION celebrates his genius, using an orchestra comprised Ticket Purchase Link of concertmasters and principal players from ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Michael Francis 800-982-2787 the best orchestras in the country. Five nights of GENRE Classical BOOKING CONTACT concerts feature works by Mozart, Beethoven, Toby Blumenthal Ravel, Haydn, Arvo Pärt, Bruch, and Kodaly. Soloists TICKET PRICE RANGE $49 to $100 include Conrad Jones, trumpet (Haydn Concerto in TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION E-flat); Martin Chalifour, violin (Pärt: Fratres for solo Ticket Purchase Link violin, string orchestra and percussion); Augustin 619-239-0100 ext 2 Hadelich, violin (Bruch Concerto No. 1). BOOKING CONTACT LOCATION Del Mar, CA Katie McBride-Muzquiz Festival Website Booking cycle date range: DATES June 10-26, 2021 Currently fluctuates due to pandemic restrictions SOCIAL LINKS

MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES May 1 – October 31, 2021 Highlights include but are not limited to The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Philly POPS, Opera PANDEMIC & SAFETY Philadelphia, and Soundwalk by composer and Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival sound designer Ellen Reid, performed by The Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Philadelphia Orchestra Soundwalk Ensemble. Artists guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes and programs subject to change. Please visit Mann ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Center for our full season lineup. Toby Blumenthal, vice president of artistic LOCATION Philadelphia, PA planning & chief innovation officer Festival Website GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 21 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 MARLBORO MUSIC FESTIVAL MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA SUMMER AT ORCHESTRA HALL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DIRECTORS Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Led by co-Artistic Directors Mitsuko Uchida and The Minnesota Orchestra will offer Summer Season Jon Kimura Parker, creative partner for summer Jonathan Biss, the Festival hosts some of the world’s GENRE Classical concerts from July 16 through August 28 on programming most acclaimed solo and chamber music artists TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $40 selected weekends with Jon Kimura Parker, pianist and outstanding young professional musicians. and creative partner for Summer at Orchestra Hall. GENRE Classical Together they explore chamber music with TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Programs will be offered for radio, television, and TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $85 unlimited rehearsal time and in the kind of depth Ticket Purchase Link streaming, as well as for in-person audiences of a only possible at Marlboro. From their discoveries, 215-569-4690 (until June 15); 802-254-2394 (from limited size. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION they offer five weekends of public concerts that The June 20) Ticket Purchase Link New York Times has called “extraordinary.” LOCATION Minneapolis, MN 612-371-5656 BOOKING CONTACT Festival Website LOCATION Marlboro, VT [email protected] for audition information SOCIAL LINKS Festival Website for outstanding young professional musicians DATES July 16 – August 28, 2021 DATES July 17 – August 15, 2021 SOCIAL LINKS PANDEMIC & SAFETY Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival PANDEMIC & SAFETY Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Does this event intend to follow U.S. government guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes

MEROLA OPERA PROGRAM SUMMER FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY San Francisco’s acclaimed Merola Opera Program, Does this event intend to follow U.S. government one of the most prestigious and selective opera guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes training programs in the world, gives audiences a look at the opera stars of tomorrow. Twenty-nine ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Carrie-Ann Matheson Merola young artists, selected from more than 800 GENRES Classical • Opera international applicants from as far away as China, South Korea, Germany, and Colombia, as well as TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $80 across the U.S. and Canada, will train and perform TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION with opera luminaries and prepare for public Ticket Purchase Link performances. 415-936-2324 LOCATION San Francisco, CA Booking cycle date range: Festival Website Fall for the following summer program DATES June 1 – August 31, 2021 SOCIAL LINKS

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 22 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 MIZZOU INTERNATIONAL COMPOSERS FESTIVAL MONTEUX SCHOOL AND MUSIC FESTIVAL (cont’d)

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY PANDEMIC & SAFETY BOOKING CONTACT The 2021 Mizzou Festival will feature ensemble-in- Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Marc Thayer residence Alarm Will Sound, which has been called guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes “one of the most vital and original ensembles on Booking cycle date range: the American scene.” The group will work intensively ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Stefan Freund ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Michael Jinbo 1-2 years with eight resident composers, accepted by applica- GENRES Classical • New Music GENRE Classical SOCIAL LINKS tion, on the premieres of new works. Guest com- posers David T. Little, Chen Yi, and others will have TICKET PRICE $0 TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $25 several works performed and will coach the resident TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION composers. The Mizzou New Music Ensemble and 573-882-3781 Ticket Purchase Link University of Missouri faculty will perform. All 305-205-4500 Festival events are free and open to the public. BOOKING CONTACT Jacob Gotlib LOCATION Columbia, MO Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS MONTREAL CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL DATES July 26-31, 2021 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Denis Brott, C.M. The Montreal Chamber Music Festival, celebrating its 25th anniversary, presents a richly diverse GENRE Classical program featuring extraordinary artists from TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $45 MONTEUX SCHOOL AND MUSIC FESTIVAL around the world and in Canada, all taking place at the beautiful and intimate Bourgie Hall at the TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Asia. Previous coaches include: Nathan Cole, first Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.” One of Canada’s Ticket Purchase Link Founded as a school for conductors in 1943 by associate concertmaster, Los Angeles Philharmonic; premiere celebrations of musical collegiality” 514-489-7444 renowned conductor Pierre Monteux, the Monteux Brant Taylor, cello, Chicago Symphony Orchestra; (Toronto Star), the Festival proudly celebrates its BOOKING CONTACT School and Music Festival is one of the finest sum- Gabe Lefkowitz, concertmaster, Louisville Orchestra; 25th-anniversary season. Special events include the mer training programs and festivals of its kind. It is Jennifer Gunn, piccolo/flute, Chicago Symphony Or- Denis Brott, C.M., founder and artistic director Montreal premiere of the Zukerman Trio performing 514-489-7444 based on Monteux’s belief that conductors should chestra; Felicia Foland, bassoon, St. Louis Symphony Beethoven and a program devoted to the voice play in the orchestra while observing the lessons of Orchestra; Tony Prisk, trumpet, Philadelphia Orches- featuring Karina Gauvin. Booking cycle date range: their colleagues, thus learning from both sides of tra; Stephen Lange, trombone, Boston Symphony Spring 2021 for spring 2022 the podium. The school offers an intensive six-week Orchestra. LOCATION Montreal, Canada program that includes a series of symphonic, cham- Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS ber, and children’s concerts in a creative, supportive LOCATION Hancock, ME DATES October 18 – December 7, 2021 environment. Alumni have gone on to successful Festival Website careers in the orchestral, opera, and education fields DATES June 13 – July 25, 2021 PANDEMIC & SAFETY throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Does this event intend to follow U.S. government guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 23 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 MOZARTFEST WÜRZBURG MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST 2021 SUMMER SCHOOL & FESTIVAL (cont’d)

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Evelyn Meining PANDEMIC & SAFETY TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION The festival offers a unique location in the heart Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Ticket Purchase Link of Würzburg as well as the innovative MozartLab. GENRE Classical guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes 805-969-8787 Renowned scholars, musicians, professors, and TICKET PRICE RANGE €0 to €180 other creative thinkers come together and engage ARTISTIC DIRECTOR BOOKING CONTACT in qualitative research that relates to Mozart and TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Jamie Broumas, chief artistic officer Jamie Broumas, chief artistic officer his works. Ticket Purchase Link GENRE Classical SOCIAL LINKS +49 937 37 2336 LOCATION Würzburg, Germany TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $100 Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS DATES May 28 – June 27, 2021 PANDEMIC & SAFETY Does this event intend to follow U.S. government guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes MUSIC IN THE VINEYARDS FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY Now in its 27th season, the Napa Valley’s premier Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival chamber music festival, August 1-22, will offer Does this event intend to follow U.S. government MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST a mix of in-person outdoor concerts and virtual guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes 2021 SUMMER SCHOOL & FESTIVAL concerts featuring the familiar winery settings, artist alchemy, and concert commentary that patrons ARTISTIC DIRECTORS Michael and Daria Adams FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Mosher Guest Artists will be featured in recitals know and love. Featured in 2021 are the renowned GENRES Classical • Chamber Music More than 100 fellows from 13 countries study programmed specifically with the Academy Escher and Miró quartets, as well as esteemed with exceptional faculty, teaching artists, and guest community in mind and in master classes with artists including Rebecca Young (viola), Wei-Yi Yang TICKET PRICE $65 speakers, as well as forge close connections with Fellows. These remarkable artists include the cellist (piano), Axel Strauss (violin), Francisco Fullana TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION community members through a unique Compeer and educator known for his profound musicianship (violin), and many more. Festival details are being Ticket Purchase Link Program. Fellows and alumni receive invaluable and technical mastery Steven Isserlis; percussionist/ refined in keeping with California State and 707-258-5559 career-advancement opportunities through the composer and 2017 MacArthur Fellow Tyshawn Napa County health and safety requirements. Academy’s Innovation Institute and its partnerships Sorey; two-time Grammy Award-winning mezzo- Check for updates. BOOKING CONTACT with the London Symphony Orchestra, led by soprano Sasha Cooke, a Music Academy alumna Evie Ayers, executive director LOCATION Sir Simon Rattle, and Beth Morrison Projects. (2002); and Conrad Tao, pianist/composer and Napa Valley Wineries, Napa Valley, CA Booking cycle date range: Signature events for audiences will include master recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant. Festival Website Fall 2021 for summer 2022 classes, chamber concerts by Fellows and faculty LOCATION Santa Barbara, CA ensembles, a program with Michael Tilson Thomas, DATES August 1-22, 2021 SOCIAL LINKS side-by-side performances, and competitive events Festival Website including the Solo Piano Competition, Fast Pitch DATES June 28 – August 7, 2021 Awards, and a Digital Challenge.

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 24 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 MUSIC@MENLO NATIONAL REPERTORY ORCHESTRA (cont’d)

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Michael Stern BOOKING CONTACT Following last summer’s all-digital festival, Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Alexis Luque Music@Menlo will return to the live concert stage guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes GENRE Classical Booking cycle date range: with “Gather,” July 16 – August 1. This Festival TICKET PRICE RANGE $5 to $45 includes performances from our new home, ARTISTIC DIRECTORS David Finckel and Wu Han Autumn 2021 for summer 2022 the Spieker Center for the Arts at Menlo School, GENRE Classical TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION SOCIAL LINKS which will also be live-streamed. There are nine Ticket Purchase Link main-stage programs, plus two afternoon Prelude TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $55 970-453-5825 performances featuring artists from the Chamber TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Music Institute’s International Program. The roster Ticket Purchase Link includes both Festival debuts and familiar faces 650-331-0202 such as pianists Gilbert Kalish and Wu Han, violinists Kristin Lee and Arnaud Sussmann, violists Paul BOOKING CONTACT NORFOLK CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL Neubauer and Matthew Lipman, and cellists Dmitri Daphne Wong Atapine and David Finckel. FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY Booking cycle date range: Continuing a 100+ year musical tradition, the Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival LOCATION Atherton, CA Summer/fall 2021 for summer 2022 Yale School of Music’s Norfolk Chamber Music Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS Festival offers stellar concerts performed by guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes DATES July 16 – August 1, 2021 acclaimed chamber musicians from across the globe. Simultaneously, Norfolk offers three fully ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Melvin Chen funded programs of intensive study with Festival GENRE Classical artists plus weekly performance opportunities on stunning grounds in the rolling hills of TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $60 NATIONAL REPERTORY ORCHESTRA northwestern Connecticut. Festival artists for TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION 2021, which will be virtual only, include the Ticket Purchase Link Brentano, Miro, and Emerson String Quartets, FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Beethoven, Bernstein, Coleridge-Taylor, Copland, 860-542-3000 plus Ani Kavafian (violin), Steven Tenenbom The National Repertory Orchestra (NRO) Montgomery, Prokofiev, Simon, and Vivaldi. (viola), and pianists Boris Berman, Ann Schein, BOOKING CONTACT is breaking barriers among performances, and Wei-Yi Yang, among others. James Nelson, general manager education, and the community to develop the LOCATION Breckenridge, CO Sept – May: 203-432-1966; June – August: 21st-century classical musician. For eight weeks, Festival Website LOCATION Norfolk, CT 860-542-3000 audiences can enjoy the NRO’s music festival in DATES June 20 – August 1, 2021 Festival Website the charming mountain town of Breckenridge, CO, Booking cycle date range: and surrounding areas in the Rocky Mountains. PANDEMIC & SAFETY DATES June 17 – August 8, 2021 Summer 2021 for summer 2022 and 2023 The 2021 season will feature Music Director Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival Michael Stern, Music Advisor Carl Topilow, and Does this event intend to follow U.S. government SOCIAL LINKS other renowned conductors, artists, alumni, guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes and talented young musicians in works by

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 25 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 OJAI MUSIC FESTIVAL OLSHAN TEXAS MUSIC FESTIVAL ORCHESTRAL INSTITUTE (cont’d)

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Libbey Bowl, Ojai, CA TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $30 BOOKING CONTACT The Festival marks its 75th by honoring its role as a Festival Website Alan Austin champion of a new generation of composers and TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION artists. We respond to these immensely challenging DATES September 16-19, 2021 Ticket Purchase Link Booking cycle date range: 713-743-3388 2021 for 2022, 2023 times by placing our faith, now more than ever, in PANDEMIC & SAFETY this next generation to show us the way forward. Does this event intend to follow U.S. government SOCIAL LINKS Music Director John Adams has been unwavering guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes in his desire to focus the 75th Festival on nurturing an environment of exploration and adventure for ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Ara Guzelimian artists and audiences alike. Composers include GENRE Classical Samuel Carl Adams, Timo Andres, Dylan Mattingly, Gabriela Ortiz, Rhiannon Giddens, Carlos Simon, TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $150 and Gabriella Smith. Performers include Giddens and Francesco Turrisi, pianist Víkingur Olafsson, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Attacca Quartet, violinist Miranda Cuckson, and Ticket Purchase Link recorder player Anna Margules, pianist/composer 805-646-2053 Timo Andres, and members of the LA Phil New SOCIAL LINKS Music Group.

OLSHAN TEXAS MUSIC FESTIVAL ORCHESTRAL INSTITUTE

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Houston, TX The 2021 TMF Orchestral Institute is on hiatus, Festival Website due to the COVID-19-pandemic. Usually, Olshan Texas Music Festival brings 80 of classical music’s DATES June 6-25, 2022 rising stars from around the world to Houston PANDEMIC & SAFETY each June to develop skills in orchestral, chamber, Does this event intend to follow U.S. government and solo performance. Under the leadership of an guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes exceptional performing artist/faculty, Orchestra Fellows, all on full fellowship, perform three major GENERAL & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Alan Austin orchestral programs. Additional summer institutes GENRE Classical include Building Your Craft (voice), and the High School Jazz Institute.

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 26 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 OPERA IN THE OZARKS OPERA IN THE OZARKS (cont’d)

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS present a month of performances. The 2021 season PANDEMIC & SAFETY TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Opera in the Ozarks is a unique summer music spans July 2 through July 24 and features 16 full Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Ticket Purchase Link festival in beautiful Eureka Springs, AR. Founded stagings of Massenet’s Cendrillon, Donizetti’s Lucia guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes 479-253-8595 in 1950, it has also earned the reputation of being di Lammermoor, and a family adaptation of Mozart’s Tickets available after April 1, 2021 a prominent training program for emerging opera The Magic Flute. All feature full orchestra and take ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Thomas Cockrell BOOKING CONTACT professionals; alumni have gone on to sing on the place at Inspiration Point in Eureka Springs. This GENRES Classical • Opera world’s major operatic stages. year, capacity will be strictly limited and all patrons Nancy Preis, general director must wear face masks to protect our singers. TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $30 Each summer, audiences look forward to a vivid SOCIAL LINKS repertoire of well-loved operas spotlighting the LOCATION exceptional voices of tomorrow’s operatic stars, Inspiration Point, Eureka Springs, AR accompanied by an orchestra of gifted musicians. Festival Website Performing under the baton of Artistic Director Thomas Cockrell, dozens of professional artists DATES May 26 – July 24, 2021 and musicians come from all across the country to

VIRTUAL School for Conductors & Orchestral Musicians 113TH BETHLEHEM MICHAEL JINBO, MUSIC DIRECTOR HANCOCK, MAINE BACH FESTIVAL Greg Funfgeld, Artistic Director & Conductor AUDITION WORKSHOPS AND CONDUCTOR SEMINARS WITH MUSICIANS FROM MAJOR May 14 & 15, 2021 > One weekend only U.S. ORCHESTRAS AND SCHOOLS OF MUSIC. Full and Partial Scholarships Available JOIN US! For Repertoire, fees SEASON and application visit: monteuxmusic.org BACH.org > 610-866-4382 PO Box 457 | Hancock, Maine 04640 | 207-812-6260 JUNE 13 - JULY 25, 2021 [email protected] | monteuxmusic.org PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY > ESPLANADE

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 27 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 OPERA THEATRE OF SAINT LOUIS

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY OTSL’s 2021 festival season includes Puccini’s Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival Gianni Schicchi, William Grant Still’s Highway 1, Does this event intend to follow U.S. government U.S.A, Poulenc’s La voix humaine, and the world guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes premiere of three 20-minute commissions by the composer/librettist teams of Damien Sneed & DIRECTORS Karen Chilton, Laura Karpman & Taura Stinson, James Robinson, artistic director; Andrew and Steven Mackey & Rinde Eckert. Other events Jorgensen, general director include the annual “Center Stage” concert, GENRE Opera highlighting the talents of OTSL’s highly selective young artist programs, and “I Dream a World,” the TICKET PRICE $39 company’s first-ever concert celebrating Black TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Music Month, co-presented with the Missouri Ticket Purchase Link History Museum. 314-961-0644 LOCATION St. Louis, MO BOOKING CONTACT Festival Website Yvette Loynaz DATES May 22 – June 20, 2021 SOCIAL LINKS

ORCAS ISLAND CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES August 6-21, 2021 Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival offers world- class musicians performing in intimate settings on PANDEMIC & SAFETY a beautiful ferry-accessed island off the coast of Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Music and sculpture Washington State. The remote settings and small guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes under the silence of population guarantee an experience in beauty and ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Aloysia Friedmann camaraderie like no other. While we do not currently Montana’s big sky know what the summer of 2021 will bring, the GENRE Classical Festival will continue to offer the finest in chamber TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $40 music via whatever means we are able. Please check our website for our latest and future plans. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION tippetrise.org Ticket Purchase Link LOCATION Orcas Island, WA 360-376-2281 Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 28 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 OREGON BACH FESTIVAL OXFORD LIEDER FESTIVAL (cont’d)

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS GENRE Classical LOCATION Oxford, United Kingdom TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Grammy-winning Oregon Bach Festival has Festival Website Ticket Purchase Link presented world-class music for nearly five decades. TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $40 +44 (0)186 559 1276 DATES October 8-23, 2021 Drawing audience and artists from all corners of TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION the globe and set against a beautiful backdrop of BOOKING CONTACT Ticket Purchase Link PANDEMIC & SAFETY Taya Smith Oregon’s natural landscape, OBF is a destination for 541-682-5000 Does this event intend to follow U.S. government music lovers of all kinds. A series of digital concerts guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Booking cycle date range: is planned for summer 2021; please check website BOOKING CONTACT Fall 2021 for fall 2022 for details. Josh Gren ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Sholto Kynoch SOCIAL LINKS LOCATION Eugene, OR SOCIAL LINKS GENRE Classical Festival Website TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $55 DATES June 25 – July 11, 2021 PANDEMIC & SAFETY Does this event intend to follow U.S. government guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes OXFORD PIANO FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY Each summer, students and observers gather from Does this event intend to follow U.S. government OXFORD LIEDER FESTIVAL across the globe at St. Hilda’s College in Oxford guidelines for pandemic safety? Under to attend the Oxford Piano Festival. This year, the consideration FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS celebrate that: from the recurring motif of water in Festival hosts an exciting program of master classes “Nature’s Songbook” is the title of the 20th the songs of Schubert to a new work from Associate and recitals from world-leading pianists in an ARTISTIC DIRECTOR anniversary Oxford Lieder Festival, exploring the Composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad (co-commissioned historic Oxford setting with a combination of in- Marios Papadopoulos, MBE manifold appearances of flora, fauna, landscapes, with the Oxford Botanic Garden in celebration person and online offerings. GENRE Classical and the elements in poetry and song across the of its 400th anniversary) to a journey around the ages. An array of internationally acclaimed singers landscapes of Scandinavia. The historic city of For all the latest information on our 2021 program TICKET PRICE RANGE £10 to £45 includes Sarah Connolly, Dietrich Henschel, Oxford provides a stunning backdrop for a fortnight and COVID-19 safety, please visit our Festival Thomas Oliemans, Christoph Prégardien, Dorothea comprising over 100 events. In-person attendance is website TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Röschmann, Carolyn Sampson, Robin Tritschler, anticipated in the city’s many ideal song venues, but Ticket Purchase Link LOCATION Roderick Williams, and many others, alongside the Oxford Lieder will also build on its hugely successful +44 1865 980 980 Oxford, United Kingdom, and online best emerging artists and a complementary series online Festival in 2020 and livestream much of the Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS of chamber music, choral works, and study events. programming, bringing a thrilling and immersive fortnight of exploration, discovery, and inspiration DATES Last week of July 2021 For many, the past year has led to a strengthened direct to people’s homes around the globe. relationship with nature and the Festival will

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 29 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM PRAGUE SUMMER NIGHTS FESTIVAL (contt’d)

CHAMBER MUSIC WORKSHOP PANDEMIC & SAFETY TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival +420 (1)703 683 6040 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 4-27, 2021 Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Led by esteemed cellist and teacher Merry guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes BOOKING CONTACT Peckham, PMP’s Chamber Music Workshop (CMW) PANDEMIC & SAFETY Jessica Perez continues to grow into one of the country’s most Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival ARTISTIC DIRECTOR John Nardolillo Booking cycle date range: prestigious summer chamber music programs. Does this event intend to follow U.S. government GENRE Classical Spring 2021 for summer 2021 Young artists ages 18 and up devote three weeks guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes to studying masterworks with an exceptional ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Merry Peckham TICKET PRICE RANGE €20 to €50 SOCIAL LINKS roster of artist-faculty in Shelter Island, NY. Open to violinists, violists, cellists, pianists, and GENRE Classical ensembles. The artist-faculty includes Kirsten TICKET PRICE $0 Docter, Joseph Kalichstein, Joel Krosnick, Laurence Lesser, Director Merry Peckham, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Itzhak Perlman, Patrick Romano, Peter Salaff, 631-830-2770 PUCCINI FESTIVAL Roger Tapping, Don Weilerstein, Vivian Hornik- Weilerstein, and Areta Zhulla. BOOKING CONTACT FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Giorgio Battistelli Merry Peckham The Puccini Festival is one of the most important in LOCATION Shelter Island, NY Italy and the world’s only annual summer festival GENRE Classical Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS dedicated to the composer. The 67th Festival TICKET PRICE RANGE €19 to €149 takes place July 23 to August 21 in the Gran Teatro all’aperto Giacomo Puccini and includes opera, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION concerts, and recitals. Scheduled this summer are Ticket Purchase Link Tosca; Turandot, with the finale by Luciano Berio; +39 0584359322 PRAGUE SUMMER NIGHTS FESTIVAL La bohème; Pierot Lunnaire; and themed orchestral BOOKING CONTACT concerts around the music of Puccini. Franco Moretti, general manager FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS orchestral and chamber music concerts, an opera LOCATION Booking cycle date range: Debuting in 2015 and hailed for its “high- scenes program, voice and concerto competitions, Torre del Lago Puccini, Tuscany, Italy September 2020 for summer 2021 quality productions” (Hospodárské noviny) and and even a cabaret concert. Festival Website “sophistication” (Prague Post), Classical Movements’ SOCIAL LINKS Prague Summer Nights: Young Artists Music Festival LOCATION Prague and Tabor, Czech Republic DATES July 23 – August 22, 2021 Festival Website (PSN) offers young professionals the opportunity PANDEMIC & SAFETY to perform at Europe’s most historic venues. DATES July 5 – August 2, 2021 Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival Scheduled are full stagings of Don Giovanni and Le Does this event intend to follow U.S. government nozze di Figaro, with orchestra, at historic Estates guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Theater with professional sets and historic costumes from the National Theater. Also planned are

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 30 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 RAVENNA FESTIVAL RAVINIA FESTIVAL (cont’d)

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTORS PANDEMIC & SAFETY TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $250 The Ravenna Festival’s 32nd edition—the second President Cristina Mazzavillani Muti; Artistic Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival braving the pandemic with regulations aimed Directors Franco Masotti and Angelo Nicastro Does this event intend to follow U.S. government TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION at guaranteeing the safety of the artists, staff, guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Ticket Purchase Link and audience—draws inspiration from the GENRES 847-266-5100 Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic • Opera • Ballet ARTISTIC DIRECTOR 700th anniversary of Dante’s death in Ravenna BOOKING CONTACT with commemorative events including newly • Contemporary Dance • Theatre • Musical Theatre Marin Alsop, chief conductor and curator • Sacred Music Erik Soderstrom commissioned dance, theater, and musical works. GENRES Riccardo Muti and the Wiener Philharmoniker lead TICKET PRICE RANGE €1 to €100 Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic • Rap • Children’s Booking cycle date range: the Festival’s preview on May 9; the full program • Music Theater Summer 2021 for summer 2022 TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION features concerts led by Charles Dutoit, Wayne SOCIAL LINKS Marshall, and Kristjan Järvi. Soloists include Beatrice Ticket Purchase Link Rana and Daniil Trifonov. +39 0544 249244 LOCATION Ravenna, Italy BOOKING CONTACT Segreteria Ravenna Festival Festival Website RIGA JURMALA MUSIC FESTIVAL DATES June 2 – July 31, 2021 Booking cycle date range: Autumn 2021, at the latest, for summer 2022 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY PANDEMIC & SAFETY The Festival returns for its second run in 2021, Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Does this event intend to follow U.S. government SOCIAL LINKS featuring soloists such as Yuja Wang, The King’s guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Singers, Vi’kingur O’lafsson, András Schiff, Truls Mork, Renaud Capuçon, Yefim Bronfman, Renée ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Martin T:son Engstroem Fleming, Bryn Terfel, Leif Ove Andsnes, and Maria GENRE Classical João Pires. Orchestras include Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with John Eliot Gardiner, TICKET PRICE RANGE €8 to €120 RAVINIA FESTIVAL St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra with Yuri TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Temirkanov, Concertgebouworkest with Daniel Ticket Purchase Link FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS The Chicago Symphony Orchestra will return to Harding, and Bayreuth Festival Orchestra with +371 7292 7355 The Ravinia Festival will reopen in July for the Ravinia starting in July for its six-week summer Andris Nelsons. 2021 summer season, presenting its signature residency. Conductor Marin Alsop will lead seven BOOKING CONTACT mix of classical, popular, and chamber music concerts with the orchestra in her first season as LOCATION Riga, Latvia [email protected] programming. All concerts at Ravinia this summer Ravinia’s chief conductor and curator. Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS will take place outside in the open-air Pavilion, have DATES July 16 – September 5, 2021 a reduced audience capacity, and be offered with LOCATION Highland Park, IL reserved-in-advance, distanced seating. Festival Website DATES July 1 – September 30, 2021

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 31 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 RIGAS RITMI FESTIVAL 2021 ROCKPORT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL (cont’d)

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY GENRE Classical SOCIAL LINKS The 21st International Festival of Improvisation, Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Jazz and Global Music Rigas Ritmi 2021 will offer guidelines for pandemic safety? Under TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $80 concerts by both foreign stars and local artists in consideration TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION a number of different regional venues. This year ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Maris Briezkalns Ticket Purchase Link features new star of American pop, jazz, and soul 978-546-7391 music Clark Beckham, global music supergroup GENRES Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic Bokanté, new flamenco-styled Spanish saxophonist BOOKING CONTACT and singer Antonio Lizana, Lithuanian modern TICKET PRICE RANGE €0 to €60 Barry Shiffman jazz masters Shinkarenko Jazz 4N together with TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Booking cycle date range: Lithuanian singer Neda, and Latvian pianist Kristaps Ticket Purchase Link Fall to December for following summer Vanadzins. There will also be workshops led by the +371 9000 2000 main stars of the festival. BOOKING CONTACT LOCATION Riga, Latvia Maris Briezkalns, artistic director Festival Website Booking cycle date range: ROME CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL DATES July 1-3, 2021 2021 for autumn, and spring and summer of year 2022 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY This year’s Rome Chamber Music Festival, founded Does this event intend to follow U.S. government SOCIAL LINKS in 2003 by Robert McDuffie, will feature a belated guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes birthday celebration of Beethoven as well as music by Leonard Bernstein and Frank Zappa. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Robert McDuffie International artists such as McDuffie, Lawrence GENRE Classical Dutton, Andrea Lucchesini, and Elena Metteucci will ROCKPORT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL play alongside 30 of the world’s most promising TICKET PRICE RANGE €35 to €40 artists in the De Simone & Partners Young Artists TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Rockport, MA Program. Rehearsals are open to the public and Ticket Purchase Link Under the artistic direction of Barry Shiffman, the Festival Website begin November 18. Visit here for details. +39 347 4499174 2021 Rockport Chamber Music Festival celebrates DATES July 9 – September 19, 2021 LOCATION Rome, Italy SOCIAL LINKS the return of live music with performances by Festival Website the dynamic Dover Quartet with pianist George PANDEMIC & SAFETY Li, the incomparable Brentano Quartet, the Does this event intend to follow U.S. government DATES November 21-25, 2021 creative St. Lawrence String Quartet, as well as guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes the exhilarating violinist Ray Chen, cellist Stephen Isserlis, and much more. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Barry Shiffman

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 32 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 ROUND TOP MUSIC FESTIVAL SALZBURG FESTIVAL (cont’d)

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR James Dick PANDEMIC & SAFETY TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Our Festival is an educational project inviting young Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival Ticket Purchase Link talented artists after challenging auditions. They GENRE Classical Does this event intend to follow U.S. government +43 (662) 8045 500 receive full scholarships after acceptance. The Texas TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $45 guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Festival Orchestra is made up of the student body. SOCIAL LINKS Performances take place in a concert hall with peer- TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Markus Hinterhäuser less acoustics. The year 2021 celebrates the 50th Ticket Purchase Link GENRE Classical anniversary of the Round Top Festival and the 250th 979-249-3129 TICKET PRICE RANGE €15 to €750 anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. All orchestral pro- BOOKING CONTACT grams include at least one of his works. Alain G. Declert LOCATION Round Top, TX Booking cycle date range: Festival Website Fall 2021 to summer 2022 DATES June 6 – July 18, 2021 SOCIAL LINKS SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL PANDEMIC & SAFETY Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Highlights include conductors Alan Gilbert and Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival guidelines for pandemic safety? Under David Robertson; violinist Leila Josefowicz, pianist Does this event intend to follow U.S. government consideration Nicolas Namoradze, chansonnier HK Gruber, guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Berlin Philharmonic Principal Horn Stefan Dohr, pianist Kirill Gerstein, and the Dover, FLUX, Miami, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Marc Neikrug and Orion string quartets. Programs include the GENRE Classical complete Bach Solo Cello Suites; commissioned SALZBURG FESTIVAL premieres by Augusta Read Thomas, Helen Grime, TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $98 Brett Dean, Sean Shepherd, Michael Seltenreich, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS orchestra; guest ensembles include the City of Huw Watkins, and our two 2021 Young Handel’s Il Trionfo del Tempo del Disinganno directed Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre des Ticket Purchase Link Composers; and the New Mexico premiere of 505-982-1890 by Robert Carsen; Strauss’s Elektra; Mozart’s Don Champs-Élysées, musicAeterna, West-Eastern Divan Marc Neikrug’s chamber opera A Song by Mahler, Giovanni and Cosi fan tutte; Puccini’s Tosca; Luigi Orchestra, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Chicago directed by Doug Fitch. BOOKING CONTACT Nono’s Intolleranza 1960; Berlioz’s La Damnation de Symphony, and Berliner Philharmoniker. Festival Valerie Guy Faust in concert; Morton Feldman’s Neithe; public founder Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Jedermann is the LOCATION Santa Fe, NM master class with Christa Ludwig. Singers include annual centerpiece. Festival Website Booking cycle date range: Cecilia Bartoli, Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov, Ildar Winter 2020 and spring 2021 for summer 2022 DATES July 18 – August 23, 2021 Abdrazakov, and more. Conductors: Franz Welser- LOCATION Salzburg, Austria SOCIAL LINKS Möst, Joanna Mallwitz, Teodor Currentzis, Andris Festival Website Nelsons, Riccardo Muti, Christian Thielemann, and DATES July 17 – August 31, 2021 others. The Wiener Philharmoniker is the resident

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 33 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 SANTA FE DESERT CHORALE SANTA FE DESERT CHORALE (cont’d)

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Various locations in Santa Fe, NM TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION SOCIAL LINKS The all-professional Santa Fe Desert Chorale Festival Website Ticket Purchase Link presents a Festival of 11 concerts of three distinct 505-988-2282 programs under the unifying theme “Unlikely DATES July 16 – August 6, 2021 Partners.” The individual programs include “The BOOKING CONTACT PANDEMIC & SAFETY Emma Marzen Jew and the Gentile: Salamone Rossi and Claudio Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Monteverdi”; “Roaring ‘20s”; and “East Meets guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Booking cycle date range: West.” For this last, the Chorale will premiere a December 2021 for summer 2022 commissioned work for mixed chorus and tabla ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Joshua Habermann by its first female composer-in-residence in over a GENRES Classical • Choral decade, Reena Esmail. Two vocal chamber-music concerts take place on Friday, July 16, and Friday, TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $95 August 6, 2021. THE SANTA FE OPERA

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY The 2021 Season presents four operas and two Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival Apprentice Scenes in 30 performances, running Does this event intend to follow U.S. government from July 10 to August 27. The season explores guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Bo on Early Music Fe ival June 6–13, 2021 classic works of the repertory as well as operas new to the Santa Fe Opera and the world’s stage. DIRECTORS s s Robert K. Meya, general director; Alexander Neef, Our 2021 Festival is going VIRTUAL with The Marriage of Figaro opens the season, followed by the world premiere of John Corigliano and artistic director; Harry Bicket, music director “BEMF spares no effort a weeklong celebration of Early Music! Mark Adamo’s The Lord of Cries. New productions GENRE Classical when it stages opera.” enjoy 2 gorgeous opera productions, 8 concerts from acclaimed of Eugene Onegin and A Midsummer Night’s Dream —BachTrack TICKET PRICE RANGE $36 to $278 artists and ensembles including Doulce Mémoire, ACROnYM, soprano round out the season. Amanda Forsythe, and L’Achéron, plus Free events, a virtual exhibition, LOCATION Santa Fe, NM TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION and so much more, all from the comfort of your own home! Festival Website Ticket Purchase Link 505-986-5900 or 800-280-4654 TiCkeTs sTART AT $10 —VisiT BeMF.ORg DATES July 10 – August 27, 2021 subscribe to 16 perFormances For just $150! SOCIAL LINKS

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 34 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER SEAGLE MUSIC COLONY (cont’d)

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTORS DIRECTORS BOOKING CONTACT The Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) will Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Philadelphia Orchestra; Tony Kostecki, general director; Darren K. Woods, Tony Kostecki welcome its resident companies—New York City Jonathan Stafford and Wendy Whelan, NYC Ballet; artistic director Ballet, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and The Chamber David Finckel and Wu Han, Chamber Music Society Booking cycle date range: Music Society of Lincoln Center—to Saratoga of Lincoln Center; Elizabeth Sobol, president and GENRE Classical Fall 2021 for summer 2022 Springs, NY, in July and August for the 2021 season. CEO of Saratoga Performing Arts Center TICKET PRICE $25 SOCIAL LINKS More programming and details will be announced at a later date. GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION TICKET PRICE RANGE $18 to $113 Ticket Purchase Link LOCATION Saratoga Springs, NY 518-532-7875 Festival Website TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION DATES July 13 – August 31, 2021 Ticket Purchase Link 518-584-9330 PANDEMIC & SAFETY Does this event intend to follow U.S. government BOOKING CONTACT guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Chris Shiley, 518-584-9330 x107 SITKA SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL Booking cycle date range: Fall 2021 for summer 2022 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY Alaska’s premier chamber music festival since 1972 Does this event intend to follow U.S. government SOCIAL LINKS brings the world’s finest musicians together in the guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes pristine setting of Sitka, AK. Modified plans for 2021 include live concerts on Friday & Saturday nights ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Zuill Bailey for smaller capacity, socially distanced audiences. GENRE Classical SEAGLE MUSIC COLONY Informal concerts will also be held on the lawn of Stevenson Hall. Featured artists include cellist TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $100 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Carl & Russell Banks. All performances feature Zuill Bailey, violinist Kurt Nikkanen, pianists Maria TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Seagle Festival is the premiere opera and the 32 Seagle Festival 2021 Emerging Artists Asteriadou and Natasha Paremski, and four guest Ticket Purchase Link musical theater producing organization in the accompanied by piano. musicians from the New World Symphony. 907-747-6774 Adirondack region of upstate New York, and LOCATION Schroon Lake, NY LOCATION Sitka, AK SOCIAL LINKS the oldest summer vocal training program in Festival Website the U.S. The 106th annual season includes live- Festival Website streamed performances of The Island of Tulipitan DATES June 21 – August 21, 2021 DATES June 11-26, 2021 by Offenbach, Cendrillon by Massenet, The Fantasticks by Schmidt & Jones, La bohème by PANDEMIC & SAFETY Puccini, The Old Maid and the Thief by Menotti, Does this event intend to follow U.S. government and the world premiere of Harmony by Robert guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 35 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 SOLSBERG FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Sol Gabetta The Solsberg Festival is known for its high musical quality, connecting internationally known musi- GENRE Classical cians to celebrate chamber music in the unique TICKET PRICE RANGE €28 to €85 atmospheres of the sacral-baroque venues on the High Rhine in Switzerland. The festival year 2020 TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION presented us with organizational, financial, and Ticket Purchase Link artistic challenges. We are excited to be able to host +41 0900 585 887  a more usual festival this summer, held across 12 BOOKING CONTACT days instead of on the weekends of a whole month. Hochrhein Musikfestival AG Highlights this year include the Hagen Quartet’s 40th Eptingerstr. 27 anniversary; it will perform Schubert’s String Quintet. 4052 Basel  LOCATION hochrhein-musikfestival.ch Klosterkirche Olsberg and Stadtkirche Booking cycle date range:   Rheinfelden, Switzerland Spring 2021 Festival Website    SOCIAL LINKS DATES May 27 – June 6, 2021 PANDEMIC & SAFETY  Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival Does this event intend to follow U.S. government  guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes 
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2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 36 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL (cont’d)

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES May 28 – June 13, 2021 GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic BOOKING CONTACT The 45th season of Spoleto Festival USA will take Katie Carroll, director of artistic administration place May 28 to June 13, with both in-person and PANDEMIC & SAFETY TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $165 and education; Smitty Bell, production director live virtual events. Planned programming includes Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival (rentals booking) Does this event intend to follow U.S. government TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION dance, theater, and orchestral and chamber mu- Ticket Purchase Link sic, this last led and curated by Geoff Nuttall who guidelines for pandemic safety? YES Booking cycle date range: 970-879-5056 x105 Fall 2021 for summer 2022 hosts twice daily concerts at the Dock Street The- DIRECTORS ater. The St. Lawrence String Quartet will premiere John Kennedy, resident conductor & director of SOCIAL LINKS a new work by Composer-in-Residence Jessica orchestral activities; Geoff Nuttall, director for Meyer. Outside at the Cistern Yard, Jason Moran chamber music; Joe Miller, director for choral and Alicia Hall Moran will present their produc- activities; Nigel Redden, general director tion, “Two Wings: The Music of Black America in Migration,” a multifaceted musical exploration of GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz the Great Migration. But first, on May 22, there TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $200 SUN VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL will be a free, livestreamed virtual gala honoring General Director Nigel Redden, who will retire at TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY the end of this season after 30 years. Ticket Purchase Link The largest free-admission classical music festival Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival 843-579-3100 LOCATION Charleston, SC in the United States, Sun Valley Music Festival Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS presents its 37th summer season with over guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes 15 live concerts featuring classical mainstays and a special celebration honoring frontline MUSIC DIRECTOR Alasdair Neale heroes. Music Director Alasdair Neale leads the GENRE Classical Festival Orchestra in the world premiere of Jessie STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL Montgomery’s Freedom Songs with soprano Julia TICKET PRICE $0 Bullock. Additional 2021 guest artists include TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION violinists Joshua Bell and Vadim Gluzman, cellist FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Steamboat Springs, CO 208-622-5607 Alisa Weilerstein, pianist Joyce Yang, the Villalobos In addition to classical programming, the 2021 Festival Website Brothers, and conductor Jacomo Bairos. SOCIAL LINKS summer Festival continues Strings’ tradition of DATES June 26 – August 22, 2021 featuring contemporary artists, from national LOCATION Sun Valley, ID touring acts and nostalgic favorites to innovative PANDEMIC & SAFETY Festival Website new performers. More than 75 Grammy-winning Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival DATES July 26 – August 19, 2021 artists have performed at Strings Pavilion, a 569-seat Does this event intend to follow U.S. government concert hall that is the centerpiece of the summer guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Festival as well as more than 75 performances year-round. Under the direction of Music Director ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Michael Sachs Michael Sachs, the Festival has featured musicians from all 25 top U.S. orchestras.

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 37 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 TANGLEWOOD

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Andris Nelsons The 2021 Tanglewood season, July 9 through August 16, will present several major musical GENRE Classical events, including giants of the classical music field TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 minimum and beloved Tanglewood guest artists, as well as BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons, the Boston TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Symphony Orchestra, and the talented musicians Ticket Purchase Link of the Tanglewood Music Center, the BSO’s famed 888-266-1200 summer music academy. Check website for more BOOKING CONTACT information. Anthony Fogg LOCATION Lenox, MA Booking cycle date range: Festival Website Normally, the booking cycle is the preceding DATES July 9 – August 16, 2021 summer or earlier. But due to the pandemic, booking for summer 2021 took place later than PANDEMIC & SAFETY usual. Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival Does this event intend to follow U.S. government SOCIAL LINKS guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes

TEATRO NUOVO

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 25 – July 31, 2021 Will Crutchfield’s Teatro Nuovo presents Bel Canto favorites and rarities in semi-staged concert PANDEMIC & SAFETY form. The Festival will soon announce adjusted Does this event intend to follow U.S. government plans for the 2021 season amid the pandemic. guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Continuing the work of the widely heralded Bel ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Will Crutchfield Canto at Caramoor training program, Teatro Nuovo also offers daily vocal and instrumental concerts GENRE Classical and a full range of master class, lectures, and TICKET PRICE RANGE $30 to $120 panel-discussion events. The critically acclaimed Teatro Nuovo Orchestra has been hailed as TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION “transformative” in its American presentations of Ticket Purchase Link 19th-century operas on period instruments. 914-251-6200 LOCATION New York, NY SOCIAL LINKS Festival Website

2021 FESTIVALS GUIDE 38 musicalamerica.com • April 2021 TIME:SPANS

All events take place at: FESTIVAL 2021 The DiMenna Center for Classical Music Fri, Aug 20, 7:30 pm Thu, Aug 26, 7:30 pm Mary Flagler Cary Hall, 450 W 37th Street, NY, NY WET INK Ensemble Seth Parker Woods (cello) FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS • World premiere Ben Lamar Gay New Work (2021) •• Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (electronics) • US premiere (Co-commissioned by the University of Chicago) George E. Lewis Not Alone (2014–15) The Earle Brown Music Foundation is pleased • Commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Alex Mincek New Work (2021) •• Fredrick Gifford Difficult Grace (2019) Foundation Charitable Trust Mariel Roberts New Work (2021) •• Monty Adkins Winter Tendrils (2014/20) to announce TIME:SPANS 2021, scheduled from PANDEMIC & SAFETY Sam Pluta New Work (2021) •• Nathalie Joachim The Race: 1915 (2019) August 12 to 29, 2021, at The DiMenna Center for Artistic Director for TIME : SPANS is Thomas Fichter Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival Ryan Carter Default Mode Network (2019) For more information about The Earle Brown Classical Music in Manhattan. TIME:SPANS 2021 Freida Abtan My Heart Is a River (2020) Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Music Foundation Charitable Trust (EBMF) and Sat, Aug 21, 7:30pm Pierre Alexandre Tremblay will include 11 concerts, performed by some of TIME : SPANS 2021, timespans.org guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo asinglewordisnotenough 3 [invariant] (2015) the best artists and ensembles that specialize 10 Microludes for György Kurtág in new repertoire: Talea Ensemble (NYC); JACK ARTISTIC DIRECTOR a selection (2015-17) Fri, Aug 27, 7:30 pm Quartet (NYC); Seth Parker Woods (Chicago); Thomas Fichter Thu, Aug 12 to Mon, Aug 16 Erik Oña Jodeln (1996–99) • Reservations required Amy Williams Piano Portraits Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo (Pittsburgh); Spektral Anthony Cheung Portrait (Books I and II) (2019–20) • Spektral Quartet Gilles Vonsattel (piano); GENRE EMPAC Wave Field Synthesis Array Quartet (Chicago); Yarn/Wire (NYC); Wet Ink (NYC); Amy Williams Switch (2014) • Claire Chase (flute); Miranda Cuckson (violin); Classical 3D compositions by Miya Masaoka, Anthony Cheung (piano) and Alarm Will Sound (NYC). In collaboration with Nina C. Young, Bora Yoon, Pamela Z Mon, Aug 23, 7:30pm Anthony Cheung All Roads (2018) the Experimental Media and Performing Arts TICKET PRICE RANGE Anthony Cheung Elective Memory (2015) Center (EMPAC), TIME:SPANS will also present the $20 to $70 Tue, Aug 17, 7:30 pm Talea Ensemble, Tony Arnold (soprano) Anthony Cheung The Real Book of Catherine Lamb parallaxis forma (2016) Fake Tunes (2015) premieres of four pieces for the EMPAC Wave Field Laura Barger, Julia Den Boer, Sarah Hennies New Work (2021) TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Thomas Feng, Isabelle O’Connell, •• Synthesis Array. Oscar Bettison La Arqueología del Cory Smythe, Ning Yu (keyboards) Sat, Aug 28, 7:30 pm Ticket Purchase Link Neón (2021) • Taylor Brook Virtutes Occultae (2016–20) WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS FESTIVAL? •• Talea Ensemble, James Baker (conductor) 314-580-3041 Live version for six keyboards The TIME:SPANS festival is dedicated to the Tue, Aug 24, 7:30 pm Ashley Fure Feed Forward (2015) BOOKING CONTACT Anthony Cheung A line can go presentation of primarily 21st-century music. The Wed, Aug 18, 7:30 pm [email protected] Yarn/Wire anywhere (2019) • Festival is produced and presented by the Earle Andrew McIntosh Little Jimmy (2020) Matthias Pintscher Bereshit (2011–13) JACK Quartet, Tony Arnold (soprano) • Wolfgang Heiniger Neumond (2018) Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust. Artistic Amy Williams Urquintett (2020) • Booking cycle date range: • Zosha DiCastri Tachitipo (2016) Director for TIME SPANS is Thomas Fichter. For string quartet and soprano Sun, Aug 29, 7:30 pm One to two years in advance Jason Eckardt Passage (2020) • Alarm Will Sound, Alan Pierson (conductor) LOCATION SOCIAL LINKS Tyshawn Sorey For George Lewis (2019) New York, NY Thu, Aug 19, 7:30 pm Festival Website JACK Quartet Eduardo Aguilar HYPER (2021) • Khyam Allami New Work (2021) DATES • Brittany J. Green New Work (2021) • August 12-29, 2021 inti figgis-vizueta patterns in non-linear time (2021) •

A Contemporary Music Festival August 12–29, 2021 Presented by The Earle Brown TIME:SPANS Music Foundation Charitable Trust 2021

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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Fishtail, MT GENRE Classical BOOKING CONTACT Tippet Rise Art Center is presenting its 2021 Festival Website [email protected] classical music festivals and concert series online. TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $100 Two multi-day virtual festivals will be offered, in DATES January 1 – December 31, 2021 Booking cycle date range: TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Autumn 2021 for autumn 2022 April and August, featuring the premieres of more PANDEMIC & SAFETY Ticket Purchase Link than a dozen short classical music films. Festival Does this event intend to follow U.S. government +995 32 225 35 81 SOCIAL LINKS participants include flutist Claire Chase; cellists guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes Arlen Hlusko and Gabriel Gabezas; violinists Benjamin Beilman, Katie Hyun, Tessa Lark, and ARTISTIC ADVISOR Pedja Muzijevic Geneva Lewis; baritone Tyler Duncan; and pianists GENRE Classical Richard Goode, Anne-Marie McDermott, Michael Brown, Jenny Chen, and Pedja Muzijevic. A monthly TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $10 VERBIER FESTIVAL online concert series presents previously unreleased video streams of performances from past seasons, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY including pianists Jenny Chen and George Li and Ticket Purchase Link The Verbier Festival is proud to announce the Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival the JACK Quartet, and often includes live Zoom 406-328-7820 program for its 28th edition. With world-renowned Does this event intend to follow U.S. government talks among the musicians and the Art Center’s co- SOCIAL LINKS artists returning to Verbier for this special edition guidelines for pandemic safety? Under founders and artistic advisor. Admission to all online of the Festival, performing alongside Academy consideration events is free. musicians and alumni, the program presents an imaginative offering of the highest caliber, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Martin T:son Engstroem designed with solutions for a safe Festival above GENRES Classical • Jazz all. The Festival also welcomes back those artists who were celebrated in the 2020 Virtual Verbier TICKET PRICE RANGE €23 to €180 TSINANDALI FESTIVAL Festival, including Mischa Maisky, Joshua Bell, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION András Schiff, Mikhaïl Pletnev, Evgeny Kissin, and Ticket Purchase Link FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Music Director Valery Gergiev. +41 (0)848 771 882 (Monday to Friday 13:00 - Tsinandali Festival draws some of the greatest Tsinandali Estate, Kakheti, Georgia LOCATION Verbier, Switzerland 17:00) performers, conductors, composers, music Festival Website Festival Website scholars and artists from around the globe to BOOKING CONTACT DATES September 8-20, 2021 Tsinandali, Georgia. The Festival is designed to DATES July 16 – August 1, 2021 Manuel Lopez Baumann create rare opportunities for young musicians PANDEMIC & SAFETY SOCIAL LINKS from the Caucasus and the neighboring countries Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival to explore the world of music and advance their Does this event intend to follow U.S. government musical education. guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Gianandrea Noseda

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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION GENRES BOOKING CONTACT The Virginia Arts Festival has a new outdoor venue, Southeastern Coastal Virginia: Norfolk, Virginia Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Chamber • Dance [email protected] the Bank Street Stage, a large tent area with pod Beach, Portsmouth, Newport News, Williamsburg • Vocal seating offering live concerts, theater, and opera Festival Website SOCIAL LINKS throughout the spring and beyond. The Festival TICKET PRICE RANGE $35 to $125 DATES April 12 – June 30, 2021 centerpiece is The Virginia International Tattoo, a TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION magnificent spectacle of music, patriotism, and PANDEMIC & SAFETY Ticket Purchase Link international friendship, that will take place June Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival 757-282-2822 3-6, at Old Dominion University. This year promises Does this event intend to follow U.S. government to be one of the most moving ever, marking the guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes 75th anniversary of the end of World War II and honoring the courage and sacrifice of the Greatest ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Robert W. Cross Generation. Visit the website for updates. THE WALDEN SCHOOL CREATIVE MUSICIANS RETREAT

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY Walden’s Creative Musicians Retreat (June 12-20, Does this event intend to follow U.S. government FREE TO EVERYONE - JOIN US IN AUGUST! 2021) is a week-long festival for composers, im- guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes provisers, performers, electronic musicians, choral KALEIDOSCOPE OF COLORS musicians, and music teachers. All participants take ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Caroline Mallonee classes, sing in chorus, attend improvisation work- GENRES will feature pipe organs spanning three centuries of shops, hear concerts, and participate in Compos- builders, from across 14 states in the USA, played Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic • Contemporary ers Forums. Courses include electronic music, the by a diverse group of organists. Join us each Sun- • Electronic Music • Choral day night in August for virtual organ recitals of glo- Walden School Musicianship Course, and contem- TICKET PRICE $0 rious music in venues that could not all be visited in porary-topic seminars. Composer-In-Residence one night. Order your Festival Program Book from Marcos Balter will moderate Composers Forums, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION www.organhistoricalsociety.org. lead master classes, and teach privately. 415-587-8157 WORLD PREMIERE LOCATION Dublin, NH BOOKING CONTACT Festival Website of a newly commissioned work, Variations on the Seth Brenzel theme of “Nettleton,” composed by Kurt Knecht. DATES June 12-20, 2021 SOCIAL LINKS OUR SPONSORS

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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION SOCIAL LINKS 5-week program: June 26 – August 1, 2021 Does this event intend to follow U.S. government Ticket Purchase Link 3-week program: June 26 – July 18, 2021 guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes 510-841-1903 Through rigorous daily instruction, students ages ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Seth Brenzel BOOKING CONTACT 9-18 hone their musical and creative skills within a Valden Kamph, director of operations supportive community of like-minded peers and GENRES mentors, with a goal of improvising and composing Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic • Contemporary Booking cycle date range: original works. Part school, part camp, and part • Electronic Music • Choral One year in advance festival, YMP offers participants the chance to TICKET PRICE $0 experience the thrilling process of bringing new music to life by attending concerts, classes, and TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION open rehearsals. In Composers Forums students’ 415-587-8157 WOLF TRAP works are played and discussed. The summer ends BOOKING CONTACT with the popular Choral Concert. Seth Brenzel FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Vienna, VA Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts is Festival Website LOCATION Dublin, NH SOCIAL LINKS set to celebrate 50 years of the Filene Center and Festival Website DATES June 18 – September 24, 2021 performances at Wolf Trap National Park for the DATES June 26 – August 1, 2021 Performing Arts. Heralded as a “one-of-a-kind PANDEMIC & SAFETY cultural destination,” Wolf Trap’s Filene Center has Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival long been an artistic mainstay of the Washington, Does this event intend to follow U.S. government DC, region. Plans for summer 2021 are being guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes finalized and will begin to be announced in April GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic WEST EDGE OPERA 2021. With patron, artist, and staff well-being in mind, Wolf Trap’s 50th-anniversary season will TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $175 follow local, state, and federal health and safety FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS PANDEMIC & SAFETY guidelines. Wolf Trap is also proud to host Ellen TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION A live, outdoor, socially distanced opera festival Pandemic policies and procedures for this festival Reid SOUNDWALK, April 6 through September Ticket Purchase Link nestled in the golden hills east of San Francisco, Does this event intend to follow U.S. government 6, 2021, a free immersive experience that brings 877-WOLFTRAP West Edge this season offers Katya Kabanova by guidelines for pandemic safety? Yes together music, nature, and technology in Leos Janâček; Elizabeth Cree by Kevin Puts and Mark BOOKING CONTACT celebration of returning to Wolf Trap National Park Campbell; and Eliogabalo by Francesco Cavalli. DIRECTOR Mark Streshinsky Sara Beesley for the Performing Arts. LOCATION Orinda, CA (east of San Francisco) GENRE Opera Booking cycle date range: Fall 2021 for summer 2022 Festival Website TICKET PRICE RANGE $19 to $140 DATES July 24 – August 8, 2021 SOCIAL LINKS

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