Inaugural Season

Classics in the Blue Ridge

May 30 – June 9, 2013

Floyd, Virginia Serving New River Valley and neighboring communities, Roanoke Valley, and communities along the Blue Ridge

David Stewart Wiley Artistic Director and Conductor

Jennifer Brooke Executive Director

Linda Fallon Board President

Website: VirginiasBlueRidgeMusicFestival.org

In Memory of Grandma Grace

In Memory of Neil McDade

In Memory of Marian and Al Albee

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Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival: – features an Academy of talented and aspiring pre-professional instrumentalists who study and perform with highly skilled professional musicians – leading to a wide array of exciting musical offerings for the public in a variety of Floyd area venues, and – seeks to broaden our region’s musical richness and make classical music and a blend of regional styles affordable and available in our community – in a relaxed, informal atmosphere.

Concert Information & Etiquette for Everyone’s Enjoyment Please turn off all Cell Phones, Alarms, and Candy Wrappers now. Latecomers will be seated between musical selections at the discretion of the ushers. If you have an emergency and need to leave the venue, please do so quietly Audio and Video recording are absolutely forbidden without prior permission of Festival Management. Still pictures are permitted discreetly during applause only – NO flash ever. Children age 6 and older accompanied by an adult are welcome at all performances. Children of all ages are welcome at rehearsals and family concerts. We are happy you are here with us – enjoy the performance and please introduce yourselves to those around you before and after the event. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dear Music Lovers,

Officers Welcome to the inaugural season of Virginia's Blue Ridge Music Festival, Linda Fallon centered in beautiful Floyd County. We anticipate a dynamic and exciting President eleven days of orchestral concerts, intimate chamber music, and other Barbara von Claparede diverse musical experiences. Vice President Lynn Carden Our 2013 Festival features highly talented young artists – supported by Treasurer extraordinary, experienced professional musicians who both perform with David Wiley, Sr. and serve as mentors to these rising stars. Some will perform Concerto Secretary movements on June 5th and 8th.

Directors As you can see from the programs listed later, the music will be diverse – Ed Fallon Beethoven, Dvorak, Mozart, Elgar, Midkiff – some pieces connecting with our mountain heritage – and there are programs for every music lover. Tom Freudenthal The broad array of music will be performed in some grand sites, as well as Bill Gardner warm and intimate settings. Ginny Gardner Marie Henry While you are in the area, we hope you will experience Floyd as many Steven R. Lawrence locals do: where sustainable living is valued, and where the music, visual, craft, and movement arts are cherished. And where the physical beauty of C.W. Markham III the landscape, the unique galleries, shops, and local restaurants, and the David Oakes sustaining traditions of our heritage music create a special atmosphere in Natasha Shishkevish which our Festival can thrive. Sandra R. Smith Clemens von Claparede We feel privileged to work with extraordinary musicians, an engaged Board and impressive group of volunteers, and a community that has opened its Randall A. Wells hearts, homes, and financial resources to the Music Festival. Mary Wiley

We are grateful to our sponsors, donors, partners, and volunteers, and invite you to consider sending a donation – to help make this collaborative undertaking sustainable. We hope you will immerse yourself in the varied opportunities available in this unique and exciting musical adventure!

Sincerely,

David Stewart Wiley Linda Fallon Artistic Director and Conductor Board President

220 Parkway Lane South, Suite 3, Floyd, VA 24091 540-267-4221 • [email protected] • www.VirginiasBlueRidgeMusicFestival.org

Floyd Community Center for the Arts, Inc. dba The Jacksonville Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and serves as the nonprofit sponsor for Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival. Tax ID# 54-1750001 Donations for the Festival are tax deductible as allowed by law. Sage Wright Flute 2013 Festival Rocky Mount, VA Symphony Julee Hickcox Principal

Orchestra Viola Anne Friend Bernard Di Gregorio Vienna, VA Violin Principal

David Park Piccolo Co-Concertmaster Noah Hock Julee Hickcox

Akemi Takayama Johanna Beaver Oboe Co-Concertmaster Samuel Kephart William Parrish Wendy Rawls Principal Associate Concertmaster Elias Latto Winston-Salem, NC Julia Perry Elise Blake Charlottesville, VA Principal Second Emi Mizobuchi Chapel Hill, NC Clarinet Andrew Emmett Cello Carmen Eby Martin Irving Principal Sarah Kapps James Glazebrook Principal Maria Ortiz-Laboy San Juan, PR Geronimo Oyenard Kelley Mikkelson Lee Seidner George Figueroa Miriam Liske-Doorandish Centreville, VA Eggleston, VA Richard Downs Bassoon & Veronica Parrales Contrabassoon Michael Divino New York, NY Waldorf, MD Cynthia Cioffari Bass Principal Mallory Hayes Whispering Pines, NC John Smith Ryan Fox Principal Newark, OH Jie Hyue Kim Daejeon, South Korea Christopher Ewan Tony Nesta Union, KY Shuran Liu Shanghai

Snow Shen Guiyang, China -12-

Horn Tuba Production Support Wallace Easter Michael Minor Grant Ellis, Operations Principal Burke, VA Julee Hickcox, Personnel Contractor

Dakota Corbliss John Smith, Librarian Virginia Beach, VA Timpani Lynn Bernhardt Academy Director Kristen Fowler Principal Wallace Easter Poquoson, VA

Liz Remchuk Percussion Executive Director Poquoson, VA Al Wojtera Jennifer Brooke Principal Rebecca Soltesz Phoenix, AZ Rob Sanderl

The principal musicians listed Trumpet Piano comprise the Music Festival Judith Saxton Academy Faculty. Peter Marshall Principal Principal For the Academy Fellows, the

Nathan Forrest city/state or country where Jane Yu Crew, VA they grew up is shown. Cape Town, South Africa

Mollie Foster Winston-Salem, NC Soloist

Jeff Midkiff Jason Grimes Mandolin & Composer Greensboro, NC

Marisa Youngs Cochranton, PA

Sumner Williams Tuxedo, NC

Trombone Jay Crone Principal

Steven Eckert Roanoke, VA

Jacquelene Falcon Tampa, FL -13- MAP & DIRECTIONS

Center of Town Venue Addresses: Artisan Market 201 S Locust St Bell Gallery 112 N Locust St Chamber of Commerce 201 E Main St Dogtown-Sun Music 302 S Locust St Farmer’s Market 201 S Locust St Floyd Country Store 206 S Locust St Jeanie O’Neill Gallery 111 E Main St Mitchell Music Co 401 S Locust St Natasha’s 227 N Locust St Presbyterian Church 169 Newtown Rd The Station 203 S Locust St Zion Lutheran 635 Needmore Ln

FIC -- Festival Information Center -- Ticket & Concert Info DURING FESTIVAL -- in Chamber of Commerce (end of Village Green) Mon–Fri 12–5 pm & in The Station (Locust St) Fri 5–8 pm, Sat- Sun 12–5 pm.

Directions from the Center of Town -- Floyd’s Only Traffic Light -- To:

Floyd EcoVillage: From Floyd’s traffic light, head north on E Main St (Rt 221N) for 1.1 mi; turn R on Franklin Pike; go 1.2 mi and turn R on EcoVillage Trail; follow signs. For MapQuest and GPS systems, use the address ‘718 Franklin Pike, Floyd, VA’ to locate the turn onto EcoVillage Trail.

Floyd Elementary School is located at ‘531 Oak Hill Dr, Floyd, VA’. From Floyd’s traffic light, go 0.3 mi on E Main St (221 N); turn R on Barberry Rd and go 0.1 mi; turn R on Woods Gap Rd and go 0.2 mi; turn left on Oak Hill Dr and go 0.2 mi to the school.

Floyd County High School is at ‘721 Baker St, Floyd, VA’. From Floyd’s traffic light, go 0.2 mi on South Locust St (Rt 8 S); turn L on Baker St and go about a half mile to the high school straight ahead.

Chateau Morrisette Winery is located at ‘287 Winery Rd, Floyd, VA’. From Floyd’s traffic light, go 5.9 miles on Rt 8 S (South Locust St); follow signs to turn onto the Blue Ridge Parkway going south; go 6.6 mi on the Parkway and turn R onto Black Ridge Rd; take immediate left onto Winery Rd and go 0.3 mi to Winery.

The Jacksonville Center for the Arts, at ‘220 Parkway Lane S, Floyd, VA’, is just 0.5 mi south of Floyd’s traffic light on Rt 8 S (South Locust St).

The June Bug Center, at ‘251 Parkway Lane South, Floyd, VA’, is just 0.5 mi south of Floyd’s traffic light on Rt 8 S (South Locust St). -14- OVERVIEW of Tuesday, June 4 9:00 – 10:15 am $11 ($14 at door) Music Festival Performances Conducting & Leadership Master Class by David Stewart Wiley - Floyd EcoVillage & Master Classes See the Maestro up close.

Friday, May 31 Chamber Ensemble Concerts $8 ($10 at door) Performed by Academy Fellows 1:30 – 3:00 pm String, Wind, Brass Fellows Free 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Natasha’s Market Café In separate Master Classes - EcoVillage Beethoven String Trios, Beethoven Serenade for flute,

5:00 pm Mike Mitchell: Heritage Music Master violin & viola, Bartok Duets for Two Violins, Handel Class Dogtown-Sun Music Hall Free Passacaglia, and more 4:00 – 5:00 pm Chateau Morrisette Winery 6:30 pm Artisan Market, Informal Concert Free Debussy Golliwags Cakewalk, Haydn Divertimento No.

1, Mozart Variations on Twinkle, and more 7:20 pm S. Locust St, Brass Fanfare Free 6:30 – 7:30 pm The Jacksonville Center 7:30 pm Hotel Floyd Outside, Brass Ensembles Free Reinecke Wind Octet, Handel March and Gavotte, Moszkowski Suite, Op. 7, Muszynski Trumpet Trio, Saturday, June 1 and more 11:45 am Farmer’s Market, Woodwind Quartet Free Wednesday, June 5 6:00 pm Reception follows $20 ($23 at door) 10:00 am – 3:00 pm Self-guided Artisan Trail Free Gala Opening Night: “Baroque Fireworks” Mini-tours. See ad earlier in Festival Program. Festival Baroque Orchestra David Stewart Wiley, Conductor 6:30 pm $11 ($14 at door) Floyd EcoVillage – Celebration Hall “Movements from Nine Concertos” Bach Double Violin Concerto, Vivaldi “Summer”, Handel Academy Fellows accompanied by piano Water Music -- full Program on page 17. Floyd EcoVillage Tchaikovsky (violin), Debussy (clarinet), Barnes (tuba), Sunday, June 2 Chopin (piano) , Lalo (violin), von Weber (bassoon), Williams (oboe), Gliere (horn), Ravel (violin) 6:00 pm $17 ($20 at door) -- full Program on page 23. “Dvorak in America” Festival Symphony Orchestra Thursday, June 6 David Stewart Wiley, Conductor 3:30 – 4:30 pm $11 ($14 at door) per family Jeff Midkiff, mandolin & composer Floyd Elementary School, Pre-concert talk at 5 pm Family Concert Dvorak Symphony No, 9, Midkiff Mandolin Concerto, Festival Faculty & David Stewart Wiley Brown Fanfare for Floyd -- full Program on page 18. “Classical Meets Jazz in the Mountains” The June Bug Center Monday, June 3 Hosted by Maestro Wiley, this exciting one hour special family concert should appeal to children of all 9:00 – 10:15 am $11 ($14 at door) ages. Price set to attract as many families as possible! Conducting & Leadership Master Class by David Stewart Wiley - Floyd EcoVillage Joplin The Entertainer, Bolling Suite No.1 for Flute & See the Maestro up close. Jazz Piano Trio, Wiley Concentric Circles, Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue finale, plus more– full program on 10:30 am David Oakes: Improvisation Class Free page 24. Floyd EcoVillage

1:30 – 3:00 pm String, Wind, Brass Fellows Free in separate Performance Classes – EcoVillage -15- 6:30 pm ADDED CONCERT Donations Welcome Chamber Ensemble Concert The full repertoire for many of the Academy Fellows performances is listed on the Concert Floyd EcoVillage – Celebration Hall Program page indicated above; repertoire Beethoven Piano Quintet, Beethoven String Trios and for all performances are listed on the Serenade for flute, violin & viola, Bartok Duets for Two Daily Schedule starting on page 26. Violins, Handel Passacaglia, and more

Friday, June 7 5:00 pm Informal Ensemble Concert Donation PLUS -- all rehearsals and similar events Dogtown-Sun Music Hall are open to the public – see Daily

6:30 pm Artisan Market, Informal Concert Free Schedule starting on page 26 for times and locations, and page 14 for Map and 7:30 pm S. Locust St, brief Brass Fanfare Free Directions.

Saturday, June 8

2:00 pm $11 ($14 at door) Consider getting a Festival Pass Chamber Ensemble Final Concert to ALL Concerts and Events – low price, Academy Fellows and Faculty preferred seating & other great benefits – Floyd EcoVillage – Celebration Hall even if you can’t attend some concerts! Mendelssohn Octet for Strings (Academy Fellows) Schubert Quintet (Faculty strings & piano) -- full program on page 25. Get Festival Passes & Tickets

6:00 pm $17 ($20 at door) -- By credit card over the phone: “Concerto Competition Winners – PLUS ” 540.745.2784 (Jacksonville Center) Festival Symphony Orchestra -- By cash or check: at The Jacksonville David Stewart Wiley, Conductor Center in Floyd Floyd County High School, Pre-concert talk at 5 pm Academy Fellows debut in favorite concertos by Dvorak -- Online with credit card: Click (cello), Mozart (clarinet), Haydn (trumpet) -- plus Faure “Concerts” on website Pavane, Sibelius Finlandia, Brahms Hungarian Dance, Mozart Overture -- full Program on page 19. VirginiasBlueRidgeMusicFestival.org Sunday, June 9 Additional information at 540.267.4221 3:00 pm $17 ($20 at door) “Beethoven & Elgar Close the Festival” or VirginiasBlueRidgeMusicFestival.org Festival Symphony Orchestra David Stewart Wiley, Conductor Floyd County High School, Pre-concert talk at 2 pm Festival venues are disability accessible Beethoven Symphony No 5 & Elgar “Enigma” Artists and repertoire subject to change Variations -- full Program on page 20.

Student Tickets are HALF price.

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Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival FESTIVAL GALA OPENING

Saturday, June 1 6 pm Floyd EcoVillage-Celebration Hall & Lake Pavilion

“Baroque Fireworks” Festival Baroque Orchestra David Park & Akemi Takayama, violins David Stewart Wiley, conductor

Part 1: Celebration Hall

Vivaldi “Summer” from The Four Seasons Akemi Takayama and String Ensemble

J.S. Bach Concerto in D for Two Violins and Orchestra David Park & Akemi Takayama I. Vivace II. Largo III. Allegro

Intermission

Part II: Outside at adjacent Lake Pavilion (weather permitting)

J.S. Bach Orchestra Suite (Overture) No 3 in D I. Overture II. Air III. Gavotte I & II IV. Gigue

G.F. Handel Selections To Be Announced from Water Music and Music for The Royal Fireworks Festival Baroque Orchestra

Reception Following

See Program Notes on page 21; the Program will last about an hour and a half.

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Sunday, June 2 6 pm Floyd Elementary School 5 pm Pre-concert Talk

“Dvorak in America” Festival Symphony Orchestra Jeff Midkiff, mandolin & composer Steven E. Brown, composer David Stewart Wiley, conductor

Steven E. Brown Fanfare for Floyd (Premiere)

Midkiff A Visit from the Muse for Strings and Mandolin Jeff Midkiff, mandolin

Midkiff Concerto for Mandolin & Orchestra “From the Blue Ridge” (2011) I. Allegro II. Slow III. Allegro

Intermission

Dvorak Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” I. Adagio/Allegro molto (“Journey through America”) II. Largo (“Goin’ Home”) III. Scherzo. (Hiawatha’s Dance) IV. Allegro. (The Journey Back)

See Program Notes on page 21; the Program will last about an hour and 45 minutes.

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Saturday, June 8 6 pm Floyd County High School Gym (new) 5 pm Pre-concert Talk

“Concerto Competition Winners – PLUS” Festival Symphony Orchestra David Stewart Wiley, conductor

Mozart – Overture to “The Marriage of Figaro”

Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, 1st movement Maria Ortiz-Laboy, clarinet

Faure Pavane, Op. 50

Haydn Trumpet Concerto, 1st movement Allegro Marisa Youngs, trumpet

Intermission

Brahms Hungarian Dance #5 in G minor

Dvorak Cello Concerto, 1st movement Miriam Liske-Doorandish, cello

Sibelius Finlandia “Finland Awakes”

See Program Notes on page 22; the Program will last about an hour and a half.

Miriam Liske-Doorandish is from Eggleston, VA, and began her cello studies at the age of two. Miriam has broad experience with solo, chamber, and orchestra performance, and enjoys many genres of music. She has attended several music festivals, appeared on NPR radio, and won several competitions. In the fall she plans to continue her cellistic studies at the Royal College of Music in London. Maria Ortiz-Laboy is currently pursuing her Master of Music degree in clarinet performance from the University of Akron. Maria has played principal clarinet in orchestras and bands both in Puerto Rico where she was born and in the United States. She has won the James Tannenbaum Memor- ial Scholarship. After graduating from Akron, Maria plans to pursue a DMA in Clarinet Performance. Marisa Youngs is a recent graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) with a degree in Music Education. She has served as principal trumpet of numerous orchestras and ensembles, including the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra, and has won the IUP Concerto Competition. In the fall, Marisa will begin her Master's Degree in Trumpet Performance at Boston University

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Sunday, June 9 3 pm Floyd County High School Gym (new) 2 pm Pre-concert Talk

“Beethoven’s Fifth and Elgar Variations” Festival Symphony Orchestra David Stewart Wiley, conductor

Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor I. Allegro con Brio II. Andante con Moto III. Allegro (Scherzo) without pause to: IV. Finale: Allegro

Intermission

Elgar Variations on an Original Theme “Enigma” 1. Theme: The composer’s beloved wife – C. Alice Elgar (?) 2. A pianist friend Hew Stewart-Powell 3. Richard Townsend, a bass singer 4. William Baker, a country squire 5. Richard Arnold, raconteur & wit 6. Isabel Fitton, viola student of the composer 7. Arthur Griffith – architect full of surprises 8. Winifred Norberg – secretary to the orchestra 9. “Nimrod” variation – conversation about Beethoven with musicologist August Jaeger 10. Dorabella Penny – close friend 11. Bulldog Dan saved from drowning 12. Basil Nevinson, cellist 13. Unknown lady on a sea voyage, unlucky 13 14. Finale – autobiographical to composer?

See Program Notes on page 22; the Program will last about an hour and a half.

-20- Musical Reflections by David Stewart Wiley voice. The final magic touch in the boisterous close is the surprise last chord that fades to silence. Was the composer suggesting that the work of American composers was just June 1, 6:00 pm Festival Baroque Orchestra Concert beginning, that there was exciting growth and musical dialogue to come in the years ahead?

J.S. Bach Double Violin Concerto Written Concerto for Mandolin & Orchestra (2011, Festival between 1717 and 1723 when he was the Premiere) Jeff Midkiff, composer & mandolin As Jeff Kapellmeister at the court of Anhalt-Köthen, writes about his music: “My love for playing the mandolin, and Germany, the Concerto for 2 Violins, Strings and a lifetime of doing so, began to take on new meaning and Continuo in D Minor, BWV 1043, is perhaps one of the most motivation just a few years ago. After decades of performing as famous works by the great Baroque master of counterpoint a professional clarinetist in numerous orchestral concerts, I felt and fugal imitation. In addition to the two soloists, both of a deep-seated desire to bring my favorite instrument in line equal stature, the double concerto is scored for small string with those experiences. My excitement and motivation for this orchestra with basso continuo, with the two solo violins taking piece started with the idea that I could bring my most natural the lead. The concerto comprises three distinct movements, companion to the symphonic stage -- two seemingly different with a total duration of about 20 minutes: Vivace, Largo, and worlds together. I hope you enjoy the fusion of these the third movement Allegro. complementary musical worlds. J.S. Bach Orchestral Overture (Suite) No. 3 in D, BWV 1068, “The commission for the piece came from David Stewart Wiley is a multiple movement composition for strings, winds, and the RSO in November of 2010, and it was then that the trumpets and timpani, likely written in Leipzig before 1723 as a falling leaves drew the opening musical scene. The first of three series of splendid dances that follow a “French” overture. It movements (Allegro) begins with the mandolin on swirling includes the lovely “Air on a G string” often performed as a sixteenth notes, setting the stage for excitement and separate gem on its own. anticipation, as does the entire movement. Indeed, our Blue Ridge’s beauty and importance to me would form the piece. G.F. Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks and Water The first movement ends quickly, there is a final unexpected A royal “water party” occurred in 1715 for King George Music fade with a long held single note in the clarinets -- an echo of II of England on the Thames, and George Frederick Handel was the diminuendo ending of the great Dvorak symphony also commissioned to compose festive outdoor music for the King’s heard on tonight's program. party. The King liked it so much that perhaps it is no accident that the German-born composer received his pension later the “The lyrical and slow second movement draws on more typical same year. Years later, in 1749, the King commissioned music and familiar bluegrass melodies. Having grown up in Roanoke, for the Royal Fireworks, and between 50 and 100 instruments moved away, and returned, I wanted the concerto to echo the participated. The rehearsal drew an audience of 12,000 and emotions associated with home, and with coming home to created a traffic jam that tied up London Bridge for hours. We Roanoke. To get there, I looked to the Blue Ridge Mountains expect we will do the same for Route 8 at the traffic light in and the Roanoke Valley. “Wildwood Flower” by the Carter Floyd on June 1. Family and Bill Monroe’s “Roanoke” are my thematic inspirations, along with Dvorak's own "Goin' Home" theme. A June 2, 6:00 pm Festival Orchestra Concert haunting fiddle tune from the mandolin (accompanied by the oboe) paints a picture of longing before the journey is complete. Dvorak Symphony No. 9 “From the “The final movement is an upbeat, improvisational and New World” The great Bohemian dynamic affair. It draws strongly upon jazz and bluegrass master Antonin Dvorak came to New themes in a series of ideas in a ‘controlled jam session’ with York City in 1892 to become director of one idea smoothly leading to another. With each turn, the the National Conservatory of Music, at orchestra has a virtuosic role to play, with percussion and the request of wealthy philanthropist mandolin setting the course. Following a traditional bluegrass Jeannette Thurber. He immersed section, we hear an extended cadenza for mandolin and violin, himself in composing, teaching and and the full orchestra joins for a funky mixed-meter blues riff. conducting. It was in his first year in Another brief mandolin cadenza serves as the final bridge to NY that he composed what is his arguably his most recognized the concerto's bright, and up-tempo conclusion.” – JM (More work, his Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”. Dvorak had about Jeff Midkiff can be found in the Background section.) read Longfellow’s “The Song of Hiawatha” in a Czech translation, and remarked that the symphony’s third Fanfare For Floyd (premiere) Steven E. Brown “The movement scherzo was “suggested by the scene at the feast in fanfare is a short celebratory piece contrasting the fanfare Hiawatha where the Indians dance.” Much has been written flourishes in the brass with a long-line, flowing melody for the and discussed about this great work, with the African-American strings and woodwinds, and will be over before you know it, so influences of “Swing Low” tune in the first movement. The listen carefully!” – SB Steven Brown was born in Seattle and second movement largo features the great solo for English Horn “Goin’ Home” which reminded the composer of Burleigh’s -21- raised in California; he came to Southwest Virginia after retiring Elgar Variations on an Original from the Navy following a 21-year career (not in music). He is Theme “Enigma” Op 36 presently Music Director for WVTF Public Radio and Main This great work by Sir Edward Elgar Classical Host, Choir Director for Our Saviour Lutheran Church propelled the formerly provincial composer in Christiansburg, and an Associate Conductor of the Blacksburg from the west of England to international Community Band, which has premiered many of his works. He fame. This tour de force for symphony has appeared onstage as Tevye in Fiddler, Henry Higgins in My orchestra is a masterful blending of the Fair Lady, and most recently as Captain Hook in Peter Pan. He theme and variations form (see Beethoven 5, 2nd movement) with a set of charming musical portraits of family loves music, old movies, and his wife, six kids, and three and friends. The initials Elgar gave to the movements in the score are granddaughters. easily decoded to reveal his wife and friends’ identities, and I have listed the cast of characters on the program page above. The “Enigma” theme has many possible origins, including (most June 8, 6:00 pm Festival Orchestra Concert compellingly) a modified “Auld Lang Syne” and the composer, a famous prankster, never fully revealed its origin even as he went to his grave. But, gentle reader, I give you a hint...happy wife, happy W.A. Mozart Overture to “The Marriage of Figaro” It’s life. The famous Nimrod variation, one of the most beautiful pieces fast, it’s bubbly, it’s short, and Herr Mozart never really uses composed in Western music, was inspired by a conversation with these great themes again after the Overture. Jaeger about the slow movements of Beethoven. It has the poignancy of a farewell smiling under tears, as we say goodbye after a meeting of Jean Sibelius Finlandia, Op. 26 Surely the composer’s great friends and new colleagues after 10 days in our beloved ecstatic fellow Finnish citizens heard this as a patriotic call of Virginia’s Blue Ridge. It is not an accident that I paired the Elgar work solidarity against cruel Russian domination. The chorale, first with the great Beethoven Fifth Symphony, with the most famous uttered fervently in the winds and later taken up by the strings, musical motif of all time. became the patriotic hymn “God of all the Nations”. Through this music, Finland Awakes!

Gabriel Faure Pavane, Op. 50 Faure’s 1887 Pavane, a slow and stately dance dating back at least to the 16th century

Renaissance, ushered in a rebirth of French musical culture in its era. We follow the perfect balance of the flute line under plucked strings as it weaves its way throughout the orchestra. We hear the link back to the era of Lully, Rameau, and the Couperins.

June 9, 3:00 pm Festival Orchestra Concert

Beethoven Symphony No. 5 A simple musical motif – three eighth notes followed by a long quarter note – changed the classical symphony forever. Hundreds of books have been written on “The Fifth.” Its greatness survives and even thrives 200 years later with the Walter Murphy Band’s disco version. With supreme mastery of classical form, Beethoven unifies the four movement symphony using this rhythmic motif – from the opening Allegro con brio (with life, liveliness) to the elegant second movement variations, to the driving third movment scherzo. Beethoven defies convention and gives us a “window” backwards in time in the symphony. The Fifth remains revolutionary, shocking, noble, gritty, frantic, and even at times terrifying. Witness the hushed build from PPP (inaudible whisper) to FF (thunder) in the timpani and strings leading without pause into the exhuberant finale. There is much to discover anew each time we perform and witness this landmark symphony. It is so worth the wait for the finale contra bassoon, three trombones, and the piccolo, who await their respective moments of glory.

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Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival

Wednesday, June 5 6:30 pm Floyd EcoVillage-Celebration Hall

Academy Fellows Perform Concerto Movements with Piano Accompaniment Peter Marshall, piano

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) Violin Concerto III. Finale Sage Wright, violin

Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) Bassoon Concerto in F major, Op. 75 III. Rondo Ryan Fox, bassoon

John Williams (b. 1932) Oboe Concerto I. Allegro Julia Perry, oboe

Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956) Horn Concerto III. Moderato - Allegro vivace Dakota Corbliss, horn

Fryderyk Chopin (1810 - 1849) Ballade No. 3 in A flat Major, Op. 47 Jane Yu, piano Intermission Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937) Tzigane Snow Shen, violin

Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918) Premiere Rhapsodie Lee Seidner, clarinet

James Barnes (b. 1949) Concerto for Tuba III. Finale Michael Minor, tuba

Edouard Lalo (1823-1892) Symphonie Espagnole, Op. 21 First Movement Jie Hyue Kim, violin

The Program will last about an hour and a half.

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Thursday, June 6 3:30 – 4:30 pm The June Bug Center

Family Concert -- “Classical Meets Jazz in the Mountains” Julee Hickcox, flute John Smith, bass Lynn Bernhardt, percussion David Stewart Wiley, piano Other special guests

How is a baroque bass line similar to a “walking bass” line in Ragtime, modern Jazz, or Bluegrass? How do contemporary composers use classical traditions to provide excitement, structure, and innovation? This one hour program for listeners ages two to 102 explores such questions in a fun way. From Joplin to Bolling and Gershwin and more, this is a program designed to delight and inspire. Come meet the performers -- See and hear the instruments up close at the June Bug Center.

Program to include:

Scott Joplin The Entertainer & other Rags

Claude Bolling Suite No.1 for Flute & Jazz Piano Trio 1. Baroque and Blue 2. Javanaise 3. Fugue 4. Irlandaise 5. Veloce

David Stewart Wiley Leaping the Blue Ridge & Concentric Circles

George Gershwin/Arr. Wiley finale from Rhapsody in Blue (1924)

The Program will last about an hour.

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Saturday, June 8 2:00 pm Floyd EcoVillage

Chamber Ensemble Final Concert David Park, violin Bernard Di Gregorio, viola Sarah Kapps, cello John Smith, bass Peter Marshall, piano Academy String Fellows

Felix Mendelssohn Octet for Strings I. Allegro moderato ma con fuoco II. Andante III. Allegro leggierissimo IV. Presto

Intermission

Franz Schubert Piano Quintet in A Major D. 667 “Trout” (Faculty strings & piano) I. Allegro vivace II. Andante III. Scherzo IV. Finale

The Program will last about an hour and forty five minutes.

-25- Daily Schedule of Festival Activities (as of May 16th)

This section provides the detailed schedule of Festival activities – rehearsals, master classes, sectionals, concerts, etc. – by day and time, indicating who is involved, the activity, and location (the Map on page 14 pinpoints locations). The few activities NOT open to the public are: the initial gathering and orientation on May 30, and daily morning breakfasts at EcoVillage. The locations of a number of rehearsals have yet to be scheduled. This schedule will be updated periodically and the UPDATED DAILY SCHEDULE will be posted on the Website (click “Concerts”), just below the printable FESTIVAL OVERVIEW near the beginning of the “Concerts” page. Any changes to the Schedule must be communicated clearly to Festival musicians, AS WELL AS to audiences through the website and posted at the Festival Information Center (see p. 14). Boldface means tickets required

Thursday, May 30 (by invitation only, not open to the public) 1:00 – 1:30 All Academy Fellows and Mentors arrive and check in EcoVillage 1:45 – 3:45 Meet Host Families and get settled in housing 4:00 – 5:15 Welcome music & Orientation (Fellows, Mentors, Board) EcoVillage 5:30 – 7:00 Dinner (Fellows, Mentors, Board, invitees) EcoVillage

Friday, May 31 7:45 - 9:00 Light exercise/breakfast/announcements/planning (Fellows and Mentors) EcoVillage 10:00 – 12:30 Festival Orchestra Rehearse Sunday 6 pm Concert Repertoire EcoVillage 1:30 – 3:00 String Fellows Master Class - A Takayama, P Marshall EcoVillage – Celebration Hall 1:30 – 3:00 Wind Fellows Master Class - C Cioffari EcoVillage – meeting room 1:30 – 3:00 Brass Fellows Master Class - J Crone, W Easter EcoVillage – meeting room 3:00 – 5:00 String Fellow Ensembles Rehearse Tues 11:30 am concert Natasha’s Market Café Wind Fellows Rehearse for Sat 11:45 am Farmer’s Market Dogtown-Sun Music Hall Brass Fellows Rehearse 6:30, 7:20 & 7:30 programs Hotel Floyd Amphitheater 5:00 – 6:00 Fellows Heritage Music Master Class – M Mitchell Dogtown-Sun Music Hall 6:30 – 7:00 Brass Ensemble Informal Concert: Floyd Artisan Market Handel March and Gavotte, Reiche Sonata No. 1, Gabrieli Canzona per sonare No. 4, Pezel Sonata No. 2 7:20 – 7:25 Trumpet Fellows Trumpet Fanfare – To be announced On South Locust Street 7:30 – 7:45 Brass Fellows Informal Concert: Hotel Floyd Amphitheater Dukas Fanfare from La Peri, Strauss Radetzky March, Sousa Washington Post March 7:45 on All join in Friday Night Jamboree Floyd Country Store

Saturday, June 1 7:45 - 9:00 Light exercise/breakfast/announcements/planning (Fellows and Mentors) EcoVillage 9:30 – 11:30 String Fellows sectional With DSW & string principals to work EcoVillage-Celebration Hall on June 1 & 2 concert repertoire 9:30 – 11:30 Brass Fellows sectional With Brass Principals: lessons, practice, EcoVillage-meeting room Ensembles, June 1 & 2 concert repertoire 9:30 – 11:30 Wind Fellows sectional With Wind Principals: lessons, practice, EcoVillage-meeting room Ensembles, June 1 & 2 concert repertoire 11:45 – 12:30 Wind Fellows Informal Concert: Farmer’s Market Haydn London Trios, Agay Five Easy Dances, Farkas Antique Dances, Haydn Divertimento -26-

1:30 – 4:00 Festival Orchestra Dress Rehearse for 6 pm Gala Concert: EcoVillage: 1:30 - 2:15 Chamber Orchestra String faculty/piano for Bach Double/Vivaldi EcoVillage - Celebration Hall 1:30 - 2:15 Academy Fellows Practice, ensembles 2:30 - 4:00 Baroque Orchestra including Bach Overture/Handel Royal Fireworks & - adjacent Lake Pavilion String & some Wind/Brass Fellows Water Music 6:00 – 7:30 Festival Orchestra Gala Concert: EcoVillage: 6:00 – 6:40 Chamber Orchestra Bach Double Violin Concerto EcoVillage - Celebration Hall Vivaldi “Summer” from Four Seasons 6:55 – 7:30 Baroque Orchestra including Bach Orchestra Suite (Overture) – adjacent Lake Pavilion (outside) String & some Wind/Brass Fellows Handel Royal Fireworks & Water Music 7:30 - Festival Participants & Audience Reception EcoVillage

Sunday, June 2 7:45 - 9:00 Light exercise/breakfast/announcements/planning (Fellows and Mentors) EcoVillage 10:00 – 12:30 Festival Orchestra + Jeff Midkiff Dress Rehearse for Sunday 6 pm Concert Floyd Elementary School Gym 1:30 – 3:30 Fellows and Faculty Lessons, ensemble & sectional rehearsals To be scheduled 5:00 – 5:30 David Wiley & Jeff Midkiff Pre-concert talk Floyd Elementary School Gym 6:00 – 7:45 Festival Orchestra Concert: Floyd Elementary School Gym Steven Brown Fanfare for Floyd Midkiff A Visit from the Muse Midkiff Mandolin Concerto “From the Blue Ridge” Dvorak Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”

Monday, June 3 7:45 - 9:00 Light exercise/breakfast/announcements/planning (Fellows and Mentors) EcoVillage – Celebration Hall 9:00 – 10:15 String Fellows Conducting & Leadership Master Class EcoVillage-Celebration Hall by David Stewart Wiley 10:30 – 11:30 All Fellows Improvisation Class – David Oakes EcoVillage 1:30 – 3:00 String Fellows Performance Class - David Park EcoVillage - Celebration Hall 1:30 – 3:00 Wind/brass Fellows Performance Class – J Saxton EcoVillage rooms 3:00 – 5:00 Fellows and Faculty Lessons, ensemble & sectional rehearsals To be scheduled 3:00 – 5:00 Fellows in Concert Rehearse Thur 6:30 pm concert w piano EcoVillage- Celebration Hall 3:00 – 5:00 Wind Fellows Rehearse Tues 4 pm Winery concert Dogtown-Sun Music Hall 3:00 – 5:00 Fellows in Concert Rehearse Tues 6:30 JAX concert (except Jacksonville Center for the Arts Reinecke Wind Octet)

Tuesday, June 4 7:45 - 9:00 Light exercise/breakfast/announcements/planning (Fellows and Mentors) EcoVillage 9:00 – 10:15 Wind & Brass Fellows Conducting & Leadership Master Class EcoVillage-Celebration Hall by David Stewart Wiley 10:30 – noon 10:30 –Miriam (cello); 11:10 – Marisa (trumpet), 11:30-Maria (clarinet) EcoVillage-Celebration Hall Soloists for June 8 Concerto Night concert – work with Wiley at piano 10:30 – 11:30 Fellows Lessons/practice To be scheduled 11:30 – 12:30 Wind & String Fellows Chamber Ensemble Concert: Natasha’s Market Cafe Beethoven String Trios, Op. 9, Beethoven “Eyeglasses Obligato” Beethoven Serenade for flute, violin & viola Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia Bartok Duets for two violins 1:00 – 3:00 String Fellows Rehearse Mendelssohn Octet for Strings Natasha’s Market Cafe 1:00 – 3:00 Wind Fellows Rehearse Reinecke Octet for Winds Floyd Country Store 4:00 – 5:00 Wind Fellows Chamber Ensemble Concert: Chateau Morrisette Winery Grainger Walking Tune, Debussy Golliwags Cakewalk, Curtis Three Traditional Spirituals, Haydn Divertimento No. 1, Mozart Variations on Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star 3:00 – 5:00 Faculty strings/piano Rehearse Schubert Quintet, Op. 114 EcoVillage-Celebration Hall 6:30 – 7:30 Fellows in Concert Chamber Ensemble Concert: Jacksonville Center for the Arts Saxton Tribute to Maleah, Muszynski Trumpet Trio, Handel March and Gavotte, Moszkowski Suite Op. 71, Reinecke Octet, Op. 216 I. Allegro moderato II. Scherzo III. Adagio ma non troppo IV. Finale – Allegro molto e grazioso

Wednesday, June 5 7:45 - 9:00 Light exercise/breakfast/announcements/planning (Fellows and Mentors) EcoVillage 10:00 – 3:00 Musicians and Public Self-Guided Artisan Trail Mini-tours (see ad) 1:30 – 3:30 Wed. Eve Concerto Concerto Dress rehearsal for evening EcoVillage - Celebration Hall Performers Concert with Peter Marshall 1:30 – 3:15 Wind Fellows Rehearse Fri 5 pm & 6:30 pm concerts Dogtown-Sun Music Hall 1:30 – 5:00 Fellows and Faculty Lessons, ensemble & sectional rehearsals To be scheduled 3:30 – 5:30 Faculty strings/piano Rehearse Schubert Quintet, Op. 114 EcoVillage-Celebration Hall 6:30 – 8:00 Rising Stars Concerto performances -- with piano EcoVillage - Celebration Hall String/wind/brass/piano accompaniment by Peter Marshall Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto – Sage wright von Weber - Bassoon Concerto – Ryan Fox Wlliams - Oboe Concerto – Julia Perry Gliere - Horn Concerto – Dakota Corbliss Chopin - Ballade No. 3 – Jane Yu, piano Ravel - Tzigane – Snow Shen, violin Debussy - Premiere Rhapsodie – Lee Seidner, clarinet Barnes - Concerto for Tuba – Michael Minor Lalo - Symphonie Espagnole – Jie Hyue Kim, violin

Thursday, June 6 7:45 - 9:00 Light exercise/breakfast/announcements/planning (Fellows and Mentors) EcoVillage 10:00 – 12:30 Academy Fellows primarily Work on Beethoven 5, Elgar Enigma, Floyd Elementary School Gym Finlandia, and orchestral concerto accompaniments without soloists 1:00 – 3:30 Fellows and Faculty Lessons, ensemble & sectional rehearsals To be scheduled 1:00 – 3:00 Academy String Octet Rehearse Mendelssohn Octet for Strings Natasha’s Market Cafe 1:00 – 3:00 Wind/Brass Sectional June 8 & 9 concert repertoire EcoVillage-Celebration Hall 1:30 – 3:00 Concert performers Dress rehearse for 3:30 Family Concert The June Bug Center 3:30 – 4:30 Concert performers Family Concert hosted by David Stewart The June Bug Center Wiley “Classical Meets Jazz in the Mountains” Hickcox, Smith, Bernhardt, Wiley Joplin The Entertainer, Bolling Suite No.1 for Flute & Jazz Piano Trio, Wiley Concentric Circles, Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue finale, plus More 6:30 – 8:00 Academy Fellows Ensembles New Added Concert (donations welcome) EcoVillage-Celebration Hall Beethoven String Trios, Op. 9, Beethoven Serenade for flute, violin & viola, Beethoven “Eyeglasses Obligato”, Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia, Bartok Duets for two violins, Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Quintet, Op. 16 I. Grave – Allegro, ma non troppo II. Andante cantabile III. Rondo – Allegro, ma non troppo

Friday, June 7 7:45 - 9:00 Light exercise/breakfast/announcements/planning (Fellows and Mentors) EcoVillage 10:00 – 12:30 Festival Orchestra Read through music for both Sat & Sun Floyd High School New Gym Concerts, with soloists 2:00 – 4:00 String Fellows Dress rehearse Sat 2 pm concert w piano The June Bug Center for Mendelssohn String Octet 2:00 – 4:00 Faculty strings/piano Rehearse Schubert Quintet, Op. 114 EcoVillage-Celebration Hall 5:00 – 5:45 Wind Fellows Informal Concert (Donation welcome) Dogtown – Sun Music Hall Grainger Walking Tune, Debussy Golliwags Cakewalk, Curtis Three Traditional Spirituals, Haydn Divertimento No.1, Devienne Trio in F Op. 75, Joplin The Entertainer 6:30 – 7:00 Wind Fellows Informal Concert (Donation welcome) Floyd Artisan Market Grieg Morning Mood, Mozart Five Divertimenti K. 229, Devienne Trio in F Op. 75, Joplin The Entertainer, Schickele Dances for 2 clarinets and bassoon, Herbert March of the Toys 7:30 – 7:35 Trumpet Fellows Trumpet Fanfares – To be announced On South Locust Street 7:30 on Join in Friday Night Jamboree Individual Fellows perhaps perform Floyd Country Store approx. 9 pm

Saturday, June 8 7:45 - 9:00 Light exercise/breakfast/announcements/planning (Fellows and Mentors) EcoVillage 10:00 – 12:30 Festival Orchestra Rehearse Sat. 6 pm Concert: Floyd High School New Gym Dvorak, Mozart, Haydn concertos, then Sibelius, Brahms, Mozart, Faure 2:00 – 3:30 String Fellows and Faculty Final Chamber Ensemble Concert EcoVillage - Celebration Hall Mendelssohn Octet for Strings (string Fellows) Schubert Piano Quintet in A Major “Trout” (Faculty strings & piano) 5:00 – 5:30 David Wiley & concerto soloists Pre-concert talk Floyd High School New Gym 6:00 – 7:30 Festival Orchestra Concert: Floyd High School New Gym Mozart Overture to “The Marriage of Figaro” Mozart Clarinet Concerto - Maria Ortiz-Laboy Faure Pavane, Op. 50 Haydn Trumpet Concerto - Marisa Youngs Brahms Hungarian Dance #5 in G minor Dvorak Cello Concerto - Miriam Liske-Doorandish Sibelius Finlandia “Finland Awakes” Sunday, June 9 7:45 - 9:00 Light exercise/breakfast/announcements/planning (Fellows and Mentors) EcoVillage 10:00 – 12:30 Festival Orchestra Rehearse 3 pm Concert: Elgar, Beethoven 5 Floyd High School New Gym 2:00 – 2:30 David Wiley & Lynn Bernhardt Pre-concert talk Floyd High School New Gym 3:00 – 4:30 Festival Orchestra Final Concert: Floyd High School New Gym Beethoven Fifth Symphony Elgar “Enigma” Variations 5:00 – 6:30 Farewell Reception (Musicians, Board, Host Families) Natasha’s Market Cafe

NOTE: Academy Fellows may be inspired to give impromptu performances at various restaurants and other businesses around Town during the Festival – and are encouraged to do so (but must ask permission from the manager).

Bernadette Peters, Bruce Hornsby, Jennifer Holliday, Marvin Background of Principal Hamlisch, Mercedes Ellington, Lou Rawls, Doc Severinsen, Aaron Neville, Michael McDonald, Art Garfunkel, the Pointer Sisters, Ben Musicians/ Soloist Vereen, Kool & the Gang, Cirque, Jeans n’ Classics, Boz Skaggs, Billy Ocean, K.C. & the Sunshine Band, The Moscow Ballet, and Sounds David Stewart Wiley, Artistic Director & Conductor of Blackness. Wiley website: www.davidstewartwiley.com of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival, serves concurrently as Music Director & Conductor of New York’s Long Island Philharmonic and Virginia’s Roanoke Symphony Orchestra David H. Park, Co-Concertmaster, ‘a soloist with (RSO.com). Active as a guest conductor, pianist, arranger and film extraordinary artistic gifts’ (Salt Lake Tribune), ‘that commands composer, Wiley has guest conducted acclaimed symphonies respect’ (Le Journal Sud Ouest), started playing the violin at the including Boston, Buffalo, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Milwaukee, age of five in Seoul, Korea. Park has studied with two of the most Indianapolis, Minnesota, Saint Louis, Atlanta, Oregon, Honolulu, distinguished pedagogues, Josef Gingold and Dorothy Delay. He and Utah, among many others in 35 U.S. states. Wiley’s music received his Bachelor of Music at the University of Indiana and career has taken him to dozens of countries in Europe, Asia, and Master of Music at the Juilliard School. At the age of 14, he was Africa. He has previously served as Assistant Conductor of the one of the youngest students of the legendary Jascha Heifetz. Minnesota Orchestra and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Among his diverse activities, he created and leads an acclaimed Park maintains a balance between his engagements as soloist with event with business executives and musicians together on stage orchestras throughout the world and his recital and chamber titled “Conducting Change” which helps executives to model music activities. Park appeared as a soloist with the Utah leadership skills in a fun and engaging atmosphere. Symphony, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the New York Festival Orchestra, the Korean Chamber Orchestra, Aspen Music 2012 saw the international release of the film “Lake Effects” Festival Orchestra, the Daegu Symphony, the Inchon Symphony starring Jane Seymour, featuring a symphonic soundtrack played and the Santa Ana Symphony. Park has given recitals in many of by the RSO conducted by David Stewart Wiley with new original the world's great concert halls including Carnegie Weill Hall and music by Boyle and Wiley. In the fall of 2012, Wiley hosted another Alice Tully Hall in New York, Salle Pleyel in Paris, and Sejong Music trip to Europe culminating with a performance at the Liszt Center in Seoul. Park has also performed on national television and Academy in Budapest. radio broadcasts in the United States, France, Hong Kong and Korea. Recently, he has been featured on CBS 2 News and FOX 13 David’s U.S. Summer Music Festival conducting appearances News, as well as Sirius XM National Radio hour-long program of include Aspen, Brevard, The Music Academy of the West, live performance and interview on Bach Sonatas and Partitas. Tanglewood, Park City, Minnesota Orchestra Summerfest, Furthermore, Park has participated as both soloist and chamber Indianapolis Symphony on the Prairie, and many others. From musician in music festivals of Aspen, Santa Barbara, Vienna, and 1999 until 2006, Wiley was the Artistic Director & Conductor of the Aix-en-Provence. Wintergreen Summer Music Festival, where he founded the Festival Orchestra and Academy. His seven years at Wintergreen as Some of Park's highlights include his first return to Seoul, Korea, artistic director and conductor were a time of remarkable artistic performing the Lalo Symphonie Espagnole with the Seoul and financial growth for WPA, where he programmed and led over Philharmonic. Park made his New York debut performing Vivaldi's 100 performances of symphony, jazz, chamber music, and Four Seasons in Carnegie Weill Hall. Also, making his debut in Aix- educational concerts. en-Provence Music Festival, he performed both solo and chamber music in collaboration with Augustin Dumay which was Wiley's CDs include an album of French cello concerti with Zuill broadcasted nationally by France Musique, the premier classical Bailey & the Roanoke Symphony on Delos International, radio station in France. In a highly anticipated Cultural Exchange Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 "Choral", American Piano Concertos Gala Concert, Park soloed with the Pyongyang State Orchestra of with Norman Krieger on Artisie 4, "David Wiley & Friends: Classical North Korea. Recently, he performed with Roanoke Symphony, Jazz", "American Trumpet Concertos" with the Slovak Radio Crown City Symphony, Pan-Asia Symphony Orchestra in Hong Symphony and Paul Neebe, and violin/piano duo CD "Preludes & Kong, and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra as a Guest Concertmaster. Lullabies" with Akemi Takayama. Furthermore, Park was invited to give a recital for the Musique au Wiley holds a Doctor and Master of Music in Conducting from Coeur du Medoc concert series in Bordeaux, France. He has Indiana University, a degree in Piano Performance with honors presented rare series of concerts pairing Stradivari and Guarneri from the New England Conservatory of Music, and a degree in del Gesu violins with critical acclaim. In 2012, Park will make his Religion, summa cum laude, from Tufts University. Wiley was debut at the Merkin Hall in New York soloing with the Ureuk honored by the NAACP as Citizen of the Year in the Arts, and he is Symphony Orchestra. a recipient of the Perry F. Kendig Prize for service to the arts. Park is a Professor of Violin at the University of Utah. In 2005, Park As a solo pianist, Wiley has performed with numerous major held a position of Distinguished Artist at the University of orchestras throughout the United States including Minnesota, California Santa Barbara. He has served on the jury of the Irving M. Indianapolis, Oregon, Honolulu, Wheeling, and at the Aspen, Garth Klein International Competition in San Francisco. As a Newel, Wintergreen, and Prince Albert (Hawaii) summer festivals. concertmaster, he has worked with Leonard Slatkin, Myung Whun He has also appeared as a jazz pianist in Boston's Symphony Hall Chung, Joseph Silverstein, John Williams, Keith Lockhart, Robert and in recital appearances throughout the U.S. as well as in China, Mann, and Reinhart Goeble of Antiqua Cologne. Russia, Romania, Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, and Bulgaria. In 2011, Park’s passion for Bordeaux wines culminated in his Wiley collaborates with a diversity of well-known solo artists and induction as Commandeur d’Honneur for an exclusive wine society groups in the Classical and Pops world, including Billy Joel, Sir in Bordeaux, France, Commanderie du Bontemps de Medoc et des James Galway, Jessye Norman, Midori, Lynn Harrell, John Williams, Graves Sauternes et Barsac. Some of its distinguished members Andre Watts, Jon Nakamatsu, Eiji Oue, Norman Krieger, Zuill are Prince Philip, Queen Paola of Belgium, Placido Domingo, Bailey, Giora Schmidt, Christian Zacharias, Orly Shaham, Ben Kingsley, and Hugh Grant. Akemi Takayama, Co-Concertmaster, has served as the Institute. Please visit www.eliseblakeviolin.com for more concertmaster of the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra since information. 2004. Ms. Takayama appears regularly as soloist and concertmaster of the RSO, and Williamsburg Symphonia as well as an active chamber musician and associate professor at Bernard Di Gregorio, Principal Viola, holds the position the Shenandoah University Conservatory of Music where she holds of Principal Viola with the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra and the Victor Brown Endowed Chair. She was also invited to teach at Violist of the Montclaire String Quartet, the resident ensemble of Oberlin College throughout the Fall of 2012. Ms. Takayama was a the West Virginia Symphony. Along with his symphonic and member of the internationally renowned Audubon Quartet for quartet responsibilities, he also holds the position of Artist-in- fourteen years while the group toured regionally and Residence with the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Through nationally. Her recordings with the Audubon Quartet include four this program he teaches classes of string playing pedagogue in the CDs, all available on the Centaur and Composers Recordings labels. public schools around Charleston, WV. Not only is he a strong believer of music being part of the public school curriculum, his Born to musical parents in Tokyo, Japan, Takayama began her career is also a result of such a program during his upbringing in violin studies with her mother at the age of three. Her professional the Boston, Massachusetts, area. violin career began in Japan at the age of 15. She has performed throughout Japan, France, and the U.S., including appearances Being active as a performer takes him to many different areas of with the Shinsei-Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Toho School of the country. In the summer months he is a member of the New Music Orchestra, and on a "FM Recital" broadcast throughout Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra and he has also been a Japan on NHK Radio. She also has performed with the Tokyo member of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Di Gregorio has Metropolitan Orchestra, the Yomiuri Philharmonic Orchestra, performed with the Columbus (Ohio) Symphony, and he has been Music at Gretna, and with the New World Symphony Orchestra. the Assistant Principal Viola with the Wintergreen Music Festival. Her solo performances in the U.S. have included radio and TV Other local orchestral engagements have included Principal Violist appearances in the greater Cleveland area and with the Cleveland with the Seneca Chamber Orchestra and the Ohio Valley Orchestra Institute of Music Symphony Orchestra, the Grand Junction in Gallipolis, Ohio. Orchestra, and the University of Wyoming Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Di Gregorio has appeared as a soloist with the Roanoke (VA) Symphony Orchestra, where he was Principal Viola for over 20 Akemi Takayama's recent solo performances with orchestras years. As a recitalist he has performed on Kanawha Forum Recital include Daugherty’s Fire and Blood and Ladder to the Moon, series in Charleston, the Hollins College Artist Series, and various Mendelssohn's Double Concerto, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, Pärt’s other venues in his home area. He has also performed as guest Fratres, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, and Brahms’s Double artist with the Montclaire String Quartet in the past and each Concerto for violin and cello, Mozart’s Violin Concerto, Bach summer is part of the New Hampshire Music Festival Chamber Concerto, Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, and Roskott's Violin Music Series. Concerto. She has performed at and served on the faculties of the Chautauqua Institute in New York, the Idyllwild School of the Arts As a composer, his Symphony for String Orchestra was premiered in California, the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina, by the Seneca Chamber Orchestra in May 2003, and “Scenes From Shenandoah Performs in Virginia and at Virginia Tech. During her the Old Country” for Cello and Piano, written for and performed by graduate studies, Akemi was a teaching assistant to the his wife, Andrea Di Gregorio of the Montclaire String Quartet, was renowned Donald Weilerstein at the Cleveland Institute of Music, premiered in Charleston and also performed in the New where she earned both an Artist Diploma and a Master of Music Hampshire Music Festival Chamber Series in 2009. degree. Previously, she studied with Toshiya Eto and Ryosaku Mr. Di Gregorio maintains his own private studio at home with Kubota at the renowned Toho School of Music in Tokyo, where she students of violin and viola. Working with the West Virginia Youth earned her bachelor degree in music performance. She also Symphony as a sectional instructor and chamber music coach is studied with Brian Hanly at the University of Wyoming where she also part of his schedule. earned her professional studies degree. Ms. Takayama won a position in the prestigious Marlboro Music Festival and the Isaac He has studied at the New England Conservatory of Music and Stern Music Workshop. The late Isaac Stern said of Ms. Takayama holds a diploma in viola performance from the Longy School of "she is a true musician and will always bring credit to any group Music in Cambridge, Mass. where his principal instructor was that she works with." George Neikrug. Ms. Takayama plays a J.B. Ceruti violin from Cremona, Italy, made in 1805. Sarah Kapps, Principal Cello, and native Philadelphian has an active and diverse musical background that has taken her across much of the globe as soloist, chamber musician and Elise Blake, Principal Second Violin, is a versatile and orchestral member. She was a founding member of the Denali experienced performer of chamber, solo, and orchestral String Quartet and later came to serve on the faculty at The repertoire. Her performing has taken her to many exciting venues University of Texas. including Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York and the Palais de la Musique et des Congrès at the Strasbourg International In summers, she has been a long-time member of the Wintergreen Music Festival. After completing her Masters of Music degree at Festival Orchestra and Academy faculty. She has also taught at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, Elise Oklahoma Baptist University, the Pan-American Music Festival and relocated to Virginia in late 2007. She performs regularly with the at St. Joseph’s University. In her various positions as a cello Roanoke Symphony, Virginia Symphony, Richmond Symphony, instructor, she has also been able to make arts advocacy an Opera Roanoke, and the Wintergreen Performing Arts Festival important part of her educating endeavors. Since 2004, she has Orchestra. Elise currently serves on the faculty of Mary Baldwin successfully tricked more than one thousand young people into College in Staunton, VA, and was the recipient of a 2013 enjoying Mozart operas! Fellowship in Violin Pedagogy from the Heifetz International Music Current appointments include performing with and serving on the Virginia. She has also been on the faculty at UNCG Summer Music Artistic board of Bent Frequency, an avant garde performance Camp, Lutheran Summer Music Program and New England Music ensemble; and cellist of the newly forming Amalgamas Quartet. Camp. Sarah Kapps holds degrees from The Manhattan School of Music Previously, Ms. Eby was on the faculty at Otterbein College in and The Mannes College of Music, and has studied with Paul Westerville, Ohio, and has been an active clinician and educator in Tobias and Peter Wiley of the Guarneri Quartet. She lives in the Central Ohio region. She holds her MM in clarinet Atlanta with her husband, pianist Peter Marshall. performance from Ohio State University and her BA in Music Education from Luther College. Her principal teachers have included Dr. Michael Chesher and James Pyne. John Smith, Principal Bass, performs regularly with numerous professional orchestras including the Roanoke Symphony, where he is Associate Principal Bass. He also performs , teaches bassoon at with Opera Roanoke and the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra, and Cynthia Cioffari, Principal Bassoon The University of Akron and is a member of the Solaris Wind serves as librarian of the RSO. A Professor of Double Bass at Quintet. She is also contrabassoonist/section bassoonist of the Roanoke College and Liberty University, Mr. Smith serves as an Columbus Symphony Orchestra and principal bassoonist with the active clinician and instructor for the region. He has toured Wintergreen (VA) Summer Music Festival Orchestra. She has Germany, France, Italy, and Switzerland with orchestra. He performed with the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, ProMusica received his B.M. from George Mason University and his Artist Chamber Orchestra, Southwest Virginia Chamber Orchestra, Diploma studies at the Boston Conservatory. Toledo Symphony, West Virginia Symphony, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra, Columbus Light Opera, Broadway Across America-Columbus and the Winds of , was born in Singapore and Julee Hickcox, Principal Flute Wintergreen. spent her formative years in Hong Kong. She moved to the United States with her family at an early age and attended the North Prior to joining the faculty at The University of Akron, Ms. Cioffari Carolina School of the Arts, where she studied flute with Philip held adjunct positions at Capital University, Otterbein College and Dunigan. Ms. Hickcox is a member of the Roanoke Symphony Denison University. She has also taught at the University of Orchestra, the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra, and Opera Alabama, Heidelberg College and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. Ms. Roanoke. Her mentors include contemporary piccolo masters Cioffari has appeared as a soloist or ensemble member at the Jeffery Zook, Clement Barone, Jan Gippo, and Laurie Sokoloff. Ms. International Double Reed Society Convention, National Flute Hickcox currently maintains a full flute & piccolo studio in Association Convention, International Clarinet Association Roanoke, Virginia, and serves as orchestra contractor for the RSO. Conference, Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic and at the International Horn Symposium in Cape Town, South Africa. In

1983, she was a finalist in the International Double Reed Society's William Parrish, Principal Oboe, lives in Lynchburg, VA Gillet Young Artist Competition at Tallahassee, Florida. and is currently principal oboe with the Roanoke Symphony Cynthia Cioffari can be heard on CD with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Opera Roanoke and Opera on the James as well as a Orchestra (“CSO Showcase” and “Live at Carnegie Hall”), with the member of the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra. He is an adjunct Bowling Green State University New Music Festival and with the music faculty member at Lynchburg College, Sweet Briar College Bexley Chamber Ensemble. Recent premiere performances for her and Washington and Lee University. Bill served as the Associate include “Petite Suite” for oboe and bassoon by James Geiger, Director of Pre-College at the Juilliard School for ten years and has “Breve Dúo Latino” for flute and bassoon by Richard Cioffari, played with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New Jersey “Nocturne #1, Opus 529” for Chamber Ensemble by Stan Smith Symphony, San Francisco Symphony and Honolulu Symphony and “Variations on a Theme of Grieg” for woodwind quintet by Orchestra. Mr. Parrish received his BFA in oboe from Carnegie- Richard Cioffari. She holds a bachelor's degree in music Mellon University, his M.M. from The University of the Arts in performance from Bowling Green State University and a master's Philadelphia and an Artist’s Diploma in oboe performance from the degree in woodwinds from the University of Michigan. Her Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He was a prize winner in teachers have included L. Hugh Cooper, Robert J. Moore and the 1988 Lucarelli Oboe International Solo competition at Carnegie Russell Hinkle. Prof. Cioffari is listed in “Who’s Who in America.” Hall in New York City. Bill’s principal oboe teachers include Robert Bloom, Harry Sargous, John Ferrillo and Elaine Douvas. Mr. Parrish maintains a vibrant and successful private oboe studio in , a western New York Lynchburg and is co-facilitator and guest teaching artist at the Wallace Easter, Principal Horn native, began study of the horn at age nine and received early Charleston Oboe Camp in Charleston, SC. instruction from Lowell Shaw, hornist with the Buffalo Philharmonic and noted composer of music for the horn. While attending the Oberlin Conservatory of Music he studied under , is a freelance artist in the Carmen Eby, Principal Clarinet Robert Fries, who came to Oberlin from the Philadelphia Piedmont Triad region and frequently performs with the Orchestra. Mr. Easter’s graduate work at the Catholic University of Greensboro and Winston-Salem Symphonies. She is currently America included horn study with Joseph Singer of the New York principal clarinet with the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonic. Mr. Easter began his professional performing career Opera Roanoke. with the United States Marine Band, “The President’s Own” in Ms. Eby is adjunct professor of clarinet at Guilford College in Washington, D. C. As a member of the Marine Band, he toured the Greensboro, North Carolina. Additionally, she maintains a private United States and performed frequently at the White House. lesson studio in Greensboro and is the director of instrumental In 1981, Mr. Easter joined the faculty of the Music Department at music at St. Pius X Catholic School. Ms. Eby gives clinics and Virginia Tech and the Roanoke Symphony as principal horn. His master classes throughout the Piedmont Triad Region as well as academic duties at Tech include teaching the horn studio, the working regularly with the Roanoke Youth Symphony Orchestra in University Horn Ensemble and music theory. Mr. Easter has been a featured soloist with orchestras in the mid-Atlantic region and Festival Orchestra, the orchestra in residence at the Wintergreen has also performed in recital and at professional conferences and Performing Arts Festival. He also performs with the Shenandoah music festivals in the United States, Europe and Africa. He has Valley Bach Festival Orchestra in Harrisonburg, Virginia. served as host for regional horn workshops at Virginia Tech. Other As a trombone and euphonium soloist Crone has appeared with professional activities include residencies as artist/faculty for the bands from California, Virginia and other states, in addition to Virginia Governor’s School for the Arts, Skyline Brass Music many performances as a featured soloist in concerts in the United Festival, Roanoke Youth Symphony Summer Institute, and the Blue Kingdom. In 2011 he performed recitals in Bristol and Ipswich, Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan. He is frequently asked to give England that featured the music of Philip Wilby and the world master class presentations at music schools and festivals. Recent premier of a new work for trombone and organ, Chaconne master classes have covered a wide geographic area from the Piangendo, by James Sochinski. A frequent collaborator with his National Music Camp at Interlochen, MI, to the STTEP Music Virginia Tech composition colleagues, Crone performed Ico School in Pretoria, South Africa. He has also been principal horn Bukvic’s Derelicts of Time for trombone and multimedia at the of the Wintergreen Summer Music Festival since June 2000. He 2010 MusicAcoustica Festival in Beijing, China in addition to has written and has been interviewed for articles in the Horn Call, contemporary music festivals in New York City, New York, the official publication of the International Horn Society. Mr. Cincinnati, Ohio, and Kansas City, Kansas in 2008 and 2009. In Easter is featured on the most recent CD releases of the Hornists’ 2006 he premiered James Sochinski's Fantasie-Variations on a Nest. The album titled The Fripperies is frequently heard on Dowland Ayre for trombone and band with the CSU Fresno Alumni National Public Radio affiliates. The most recent release from the Wind Ensemble during their tour of England under the direction of Hornists’ Nest titled “…ipperies” came out in June 2009, featuring Dr. Lawrence Sutherland. Crone is also a regular chamber music more original music for horns by Lowell Shaw. Besides Mr. Easter, performer and has been featured at many conferences and this latest CD features the talents of Jeffrey Snedeker, Calvin festivals, including the Eastern Trombone Workshop, Southeast Smith, Timothy Schwartz and Wallace Easter III. Regional Horn Workshop, Wintergreen Performing Arts Festival, and the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival, in addition to performances with the Kandinsky Trio and the Audubon , University of North Judith Saxton, Principal Trumpet Quartet. He has performed as a trombone and euphonium soloist Carolina School of the Arts Artist Faculty and Brass Coordinator, and collaborative pianist in recitals in California, Virginia, West performs internationally in the orchestral, solo and chamber Virginia, South Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, among others. realms. She is principal of the New York Women’s Ensemble, whose Carnegie Hall debut orchestra concert received critical A unique aspect of Mr. Crone's musical career has been his dual acclaim in a NY Times Review. Recently, she was guest principal role as both a trombonist/euphoniumist and pianist. He has been a with the St. Louis Symphony and her ITG cd Concert and Contest collaborative pianist in voice and instrumental recitals throughout Pieces for Trumpet was issued free worldwide. She is on Eastern the United States, most recently performing with Ronald Barron, Music Festival Faculty and is Principal and soloist with the former principal trombone of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival. As a sought-after Conn-Selmer Tim Smith, second trombone of the Buffalo Philharmonic soloist/clinician she averages ten concerts and clinics each Orchestra, Harold Van Schaik, bass trombone of the Florida season. She concertizes actively with UNCSA colleagues Timothy Orchestra, Wallace Easter, principal horn of the Roanoke Olsen in their trumpet/organ duo, and with Allison Gagnon, piano. Symphony Orchestra, Brian Kiser, principal tuba of the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, John McGinnis, bass trombone of the For several season she was principal and soloist with the Hong Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, and Donna Parkes, principal Kong Philharmonic, Chicago Chamber Orchestra, and Illinois trombone of the Louisville Orchestra. Symphony and with Wichita and Key West/South Florida Symphonies concurrently. She performed with Chicago, Grant Originally from California, Crone received degrees from the Park, Sydney (Australia), Harrisburg and Milwaukee Symphonies. University of Southern California, Yale University, and California Chamber credits include the Southeast Chamber Brass, CSO, State University at Fresno. As a trombonist, he has studied with Wichita, Sierra and UNCSA brass quintets, Chicago Chamber Terry Cravens, John Swallow, Larry Sutherland, Byron Peebles, Musicians, Tromba Mundi, Millar and Monarch Brass ensembles. Ralph Sauer, and David Taylor. His piano teachers included Kevin She recorded for Crystal, Koss, Proto, Novitas, MSR and Moravian FitzGerald, Elizabeth Sawyer-Parisot, and the late Philip Music Foundation. She was tenured Associate Professor at Wichita Lorenz. Before coming to Virginia Tech Crone was a visiting State University and taught at Hong Kong Academy for Performing assistant professor of music at Humboldt State University in Arts, Illinois Wesleyan and Northeastern Illinois Universities and Arcata, California. Lieksa Brass Week, Finland.

Saxton’s teachers include Vincent Cichowicz, Arnold Jacobs, , is an associate William Scarlett, Susan Slaughter and Michael Galloway. Her Lynn Bernhardt, Principal Timpani member of the percussion section of the Metropolitan Opera degrees are from Mansfield and Northwestern Universities. Board Orchestra. He performs with other musical organizations in the affiliations include ITG, National Trumpet Competition and the New York metropolitan area, including the New York City Opera International Women's Brass Conference. Orchestra, the Opera Orchestra of New York, and the Long Island Philharmonic. Mr. Bernhardt has also performed with the American Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Lukes, the , is associate professor and Jay Crone, Principal Trombone Bard Festival Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. He is the head of the Department of Music, joined the Virginia Tech music Principal Timpanist and Percussionist of the Wintergreen Festival faculty in 1994. Mr. Crone has performed as a trombonist and Orchestra in Wintergreen, Virginia. euphoniumist with many symphony orchestras and bands throughout the United States, including the Roanoke (VA) Symphony Orchestra and the Fresno (CA) Philharmonic , is Chair of the Music Orchestra. He is currently the Principal Trombone of the Roanoke Al Wojtera, Principal Percussion Department at Radford University. He has served as the Director of Symphony Orchestra, Opera Roanoke, and the Wintergreen Percussion Studies, directs the RU Percussion Ensemble, teaches Even as he was immersing himself in the classical repertoire, he studio percussion, percussion methods, jazz history, and hosts the continued to gain attention as a mandolin and fiddle player. RU Percussion Symposium. Mr. Wojtera is an active percussionist By the time he graduated he had his sights firmly set on a musical in solo recitals, small chamber ensembles, the Roanoke Symphony, career, and in 1981 Midkiff began studies at Virginia Tech, Opera Roanoke, Wintergreen Festival Orchestra, regional jazz eventually earning a degree in music education and performance. ensembles and touring show productions, and has served as Yet even as he was immersing himself in the classical repertoire, conductor for RU productions of the Nutcracker. He is a frequent he continued to gain attention as a mandolin and fiddle player adjudicator and clinician throughout the Tri-State area, and is the with the McPeak Brothers, a widely respected bluegrass group Southwest Regional Representative for the Virginia Chapter of the with whom he made his first serious recording in 1982 (five Percussive Arts Society. He earned his BME from Central selections from that album are included on Rebel Records’ McPeak Connecticut State University and his MM from Northwestern Brothers: Classic Bluegrass CD). University. In 1983 he joined the Lonesome River Band, which would

eventually become one of bluegrass’s most acclaimed groups. For Peter Marshall, Principal Piano is one of the more the next five years, as he completed his education and started versatile musicians in the Atlanta area. He performs on piano, working as a music instructor, he performed with the LRB, harpsichord and organ in a variety of settings. He has appeared as recording two albums with the group, including its self-titled Rebel a soloist with major orchestras in Atlanta, Washington, D. C. Records debut in 1987. Shortly after that, he enrolled in graduate (National Symphony), Richmond, Norfolk (Virginia Symphony), school at Northern Illinois University, earning his Master’s degree Buffalo, and Columbus (Ohio), as well as with the chamber groups in clarinet at the end of the decade—but though the move meant Hesperus and Folger Consort, and has given solo recitals in the leaving the LRB, he continued to perform with an Illinois bluegrass United States and abroad. band, Bluegrass Express. Marshall holds the Hugh and Jessie Hogson Keyboard Chair at the During the early part of the 1990s, Jeff lived in Florida and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and performs numerous concerts performed clarinet with the Naples Philharmonic and later moved with the ASO throughout the year. He was featured in Manuel de to northern Virginia area to be an orchestra director in the Fairfax Falla’s Concerto for Harpsichord with the ASO at the Ojai Festival in County schools. “I went a good five years without opening my 2006, and was the organ soloist in Janacek’s “Glagolitic” Mass at mandolin case,” he notes, “and as a full-time teacher in northern Carnegie Hall in 2010. He has been a guest in three Wintergreen Virginia, I wasn’t playing much clarinet, either.” An appearance Festivals: as a pianist in 2008, accompanying Christopher Pulgram with the Annapolis Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in recital, and in various chamber and solo works; as a reawakened his passion for the latter, and in 1995 he moved to harpsichordist in 2010, in concerto, chamber, and solo the Chicago area to revive his performance career — on the appearances; and as an organist in 2012, in solo recital, concerto, clarinet only, he thought, but ultimately on the mandolin and and chamber music appearances. fiddle, too. Busy as a clarinetist with area ensembles and as a youth orchestra conductor and educator, he was drafted in 1998 Active as an accompanist and coach in Atlanta since 1993, by The Schankman Twins, a California-based bluegrass duo now Marshall is in frequent demand as a pianist in vocal and signed to Rounder Records. instrumental recitals, and has appeared with Bent Frequency, Sonic Generator, and the Southeastern Festival of Song. “All of a sudden I was getting these ideas for tunes, and as soon as I started getting creative, I thought, I need to start recording.”He Dr. Marshall joined the faculty of the Georgia State University in was writing a lot, too. “All of a sudden I was getting these ideas for 2001. He had chaired the organ department at the Catholic tunes, and as soon as I started getting creative, I thought, I need to University of America from 1984 to 1993, having previously taught start recording.” He has appeared (several times) with the at Duke University and served as its Chapel Organist. He holds Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra on mandolin, and likewise in the degrees from Oberlin College and Yale University and studied at Roanoke Symphony Orchestra's clarinet section since 1980. In the Musikhochschule Lübeck as a Fulbright Scholar. 2006, Jeff moved back to his hometown of Roanoke, Virginia. Jeff is an orchestra director in the Roanoke City Schools. Jeff Midkiff, Mandolin and Composer -- “I feel at home Jeff Midkiff's concerto for mandolin and orchestra, “From the Blue in the Blue Ridge Mountains playing fiddle tunes,” Jeff Midkiff Ridge,” was composed in 2011 as a commission from Music says, “but then again, I feel at home in a professional orchestra as Director David Stewart Wiley and the Roanoke Symphony well.” A mandolinist and fiddler raised on Bluegrass and a Orchestra. The first performance was opening night of the professional clarinetist, Jeff Midkiff is an outstanding musician who Roanoke Symphony Orchestra's Fall 2011 season, and was feels comfortable in more than one setting—musically and immediately hailed as an exciting and necessary addition to the personally. concerto repertoire for mandolin and orchestra, and received standing ovations. Since its premiere, three major U.S. orchestras Jeff grew up where Bluegrass and traditional string band music have scheduled performances in the 2012-2013 season, in addition thrived. Given his first mandolin at the age of 7 by a neighbor to the upcoming June 2nd performance at Virginia’s Blue Ridge (Sherman Poff, to whose memory Partners In Time is dedicated), Music Festival. he moved quickly into the world of fiddlers’ conventions and contests, winning his first mandolin competition before reaching his teens. As he grew older, he added the fiddle to his instrumental arsenal and joined the New Grass Revue—yet at the same time, he took up the clarinet and began to perform with his high school’s symphonic band. Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival gratefully Your Gifts Make a Difference acknowledges the donations and sponsorships In our inaugural year, we are hard at work fund- made by the following individuals and raising, researching grant opportunities, and businesses during the past year (as of May 9, seeking individuals, businesses, and foundations 2013). Your generous support is vital to our that would like to partner with us in making our continued growth and success. Festival financially sustainable for many years. If the Festival has meant something to you and the Diamond Circle ($3,000 and up) community, please consider becoming a part of Anonymous our Festival by making a donation or becoming a Mary & David Wiley business sponsor. Platinum Circle ($2,000 to $2,999) There are many good reasons to Support the Music Linda & Ed Fallon, in memory of Marian and Al Albee Festival Gold Circle ($1,500 to $1,999)  A recent major study by the nonprofit Americans for Clemens & Barbara von Claparede-Crola the Arts concluded that communities that invest in Marjory & Randall Wells the arts reap the benefits of economic growth and a quality of life that positions those communities to Silver Circle ($1,000 to $1,499) better compete in our 21st century economy. Deborah & Joe Baum  By creating jobs and promoting tourism, the arts Dan & Debi Drysdale industry strengthens area businesses and Bill & Ginny Gardner generates revenues for our local governments and Christopher Robinson & Mary Anne Mullins the Commonwealth Arts events in Virginia Dwight & Patricia Shelor produced an estimated $200 million in local Benefactor ($500 to $999) spending in 2012. Dr. Robin Bagby  If you are a local business, you may see increased Bank of Floyd, Orchestra Principal Sponsor patronage and revenue from the influx of Festival Susanne Becker attendees – some new to the area – who may be Myra Conner seeking out restaurants, lodging, and various goods Don & Glenda George and services. Griffith Lumber Company  The arts play a key role in building & revitalizing Marie Henry & Martin “Jack” Lester our rural communities and enhancing our quality Kominsky Family, in memory of Grandma Grace of life – in Floyd County as well as the region. Natural Woodworking Co.  The arts are essential to the intellectual and creative Sydney & Paul Nordt growth of our children & teenagers by boosting David Oakes student achievement and helping students learn Judy O'Brien & John & Kalin Hanson critical-thinking skills. StellarOne  Showing your support for this annual Music Festival Strathmore Capital Advisors, Inc. from its beginning helps bring significant long-term benefits to Floyd and the region. Patron ($250 to $499)  And it is really special to have great classical music in Animal Care Center of Floyd, Inc., Soloist Sponsor our own back yard! Bell Gallery & Garden, Chamber Ensemble Sponsor Lloyd K. Blevins Checks can be mailed to: Blue Ridge Restaurant, Inc. VBRMF 220 Parkway Lane South, Suite 3 Clark Gas & Oil, Inc., Orchestra Principal Sponsor Floyd, VA 24091 Rhonda & Michael Daiber Dogtown Pizza or donate securely online by credit card at: Floyd Express Market Floyd Pharmacy VirginiasBlueRidgeMusicFestival.org Richard & Diane Giessler Olin & Gayle Griffin Oddfellas Cantina Kerry & Gloria Hilton Martha Perry Mary Ann Hinshelwood Dr. Scott & Kristin Raber David & Gaynell Larsen Deborah Rivero Peter Manus & Susan Schiro Eleanor Roe Paul & Erika Marer Robert & Shirley Sparrow Richard Burian & Anne McNabb Pat & Tom Spino-Freudenthal James Newlin & Silvie Granatelli Sheila & Maury Strauss Pine Tavern Restaurant Allan & Pam Sundberg Rotary Club of Floyd, Scholarship Sutphin Insurance Company, Scholarship Seven Springs Farm, Scholarship Jim & Meredith Tompkins Stone, Houston and Associates Charles & Katherine Wiley Elizabeth B. Stucki Wills Ridge Supply Troika Contemporary Crafts Joe Giacobello & Anne Wilmot Gibby & Buz Waitzkin Jeanne M. Woods WinterSun, Scholarship Victor & Jane Zitta Sustainer ($100 to $249) Friend (up to $99) Anonymous Anonymous Ambrosia Farm B & B, Scholarship Lynn Andrus Dr. Robin Bagby Jayn Avery Sage & Lenore Bassett Debra L. Bullard Kamala Bauers Candace Coffin Brooke Family Collins Chiropractic Lynn Carden William & Hilda Collins Judith Cline June Damanti Rev. Alex & Sheila Darby Diane Davidson Davis Insurance Agency Carolyn Deck Edward Jones, Scholarship Ruth Dragus Donia Eley John & Lorraine Dunn Farmers Supply Corp of Floyd Ralph Edwards Fred & Ann First Gene & Dorothy Egger Floyd Country Store Tom & Linda Farris Floyd County Historical Society, Scholarship Floyd Country Store French Family Dentistry, Scholarship Carol Fiore John & Betty Getgood Rima Forrest Stephen & Nicolin Grieco Susan Goranson Robert & Linda Habermann Bob & Rosemary Goss C. W. Harman & Son Karin & Kurt Grosshans Polly Hieser Harvest Moon Food Store Highland Hardwoods, LLC Gunther & Vivian Hauk James W. Shortt & Associates, Scholarship Gunther & Hetty Hoyt Janet & Jim Johnson Mary Jane Huber David Lander & Susan Icove Invision Judy & Ward Lowrance J. O'Neill Originals Steven R. Lawrence & C.W. Markham III Thomas & Margaret Keller Heinke McDade, in memory of Neil McDade Dr. Gary Kuiken Mickey G's Bistro & Pizza John & Dorothy LaFlamme Mike & Conni Mitchell John Marty Montgomery Sanitation Services, Inc., Scholarship Mountain Song Inn, LLC Virginia Neukirch Judy & Bill Nye Linda Osborne David Stewart Wiley for donating many of his Mary Papadopoulos artistic services. Phoenix Hardwoods, Inc. Pamela Pinto-Sessions * indicates Board Members below Linda Burian Plaut Lynn Andrus Dennis & Suzie Ross Amy Avery-Grubel Virginia M. Savage Kamala Bauers Judith Shrum Bill Bell Slaughters Supermarket Bell Gallery & Garden Margaret A. Smith Black Water Loft Jennifer Spoon Jackie Blount Spencer & Ann Taylor Bright Farm Time Travelers Frozen Yogurt Daniel Brooke Mark & Terry Vaughn Hannah, Ellen & Heidi Brooke Vernon Glenn Painting Jennifer Brooke* Cathryne Whitten Laurel Brooke Suzanne Brooks Corporate Sponsors: Laure Cantrell The Jacksonville Center for the Arts Lynn Carden* Floyd EcoVillage Debbie Carter Citizens Chamber of Commerce Bank of Floyd Chateau Morrisette Winery Griffith Lumber Co. Lee Chichester Natasha’s Market Café Citizens Natural Woodworking Co. Ed Cohn StellarOne Grace Cox Strathmore Capital Advisors Hunter Crawford Additional support provided by National Endowment Marie Daniel for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts Dogtown Pizza through the Jacksonville Center Dan Drysdale Ed Fallon* Linda Fallon*

Carol Fiore Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival gratefully Fred First acknowledges the In-Kind contributions made Floyd Artisan Trail by the following individuals and businesses Floyd Country Store during the past year (as of May 9, 2013). Your FC High School Madrigal Singers generous support is vital to our continued Floyd County Schools success and helps keep our costs to a Floyd EcoVillage minimum. Tom Freudenthal* Bill Gardner* Ginny Gardner* ‘Beyond the Call’ special thanks to: Jack Wall and Grateful Bread Kamala Bauers for hosting the Music Festival at the Paul Harris beautiful Floyd EcoVillage; John McEnhill and The Marie Henry* Jacksonville Center for serving as our nonprofit Maggie Hessinger sponsor and our nonprofit advisor; Natasha Hotel Floyd Shiskevish and Natasha’s Market Café for providing Jacksonville Center pro bono delicious delicacies for many of our June Bug Center concerts and events; Paul Harris and Citizens for Tom Klingelhofer developing the foundation of our website; and Heather Krantz MaryBeth Lanier Leah Marer Wiley Steven R. Lawrence* Mary Wiley* Virginia Lepley Wordsprint Printer Miriam Liske-Doorandish Zion Lutheran Church Chris Lucas Chris Luster Host Families – housing Faculty and Fellows C.W. Markham III* during the Music Festival: John McEnhill Cheri Baker Mellea Mead Joe & Deborah Baum Mickey G's Bistro & Pizza Susanne Becker & Stephen Haskill Les Moore Jennifer Brooke Mike Mitchell * Michael & Rhonda Daiber Mitchell Music Co. Linda & Ed Fallon Mary Anne Mullins Earl & Jackie Frith Natasha’s Market Café Bill & Ginny Gardner Rob Neukirch Don & Glenda George Virginia Neukirch Gayle & Olin Griffin David Oakes* Susan Icove & David Lander Jeanie O’Neill Gallery Al & Wanda Ingle-Stevens Rodney Overstreet Skip King Beth Pline Dottie & John Laflamme Presbyterian Church of Floyd MaryBeth Lanier Abbie Priest Ward & Judy Lowrance Colleen Redman Jeanie O'Neill Red Rooster Coffee Roaster Susan Osborne, Mars Waddail & Pailla Willis Rite Print Shoppe Brian & Theresa Palmer Christopher Robinson Margie Redditt Beth Sagebiel Christopher Robinson & Mary Anne Mullins School House Fabrics Jeri & Jonathan Rogers Rebecca Shannon Meredith Simmons & Jim Tompkins Pat Sharkey Bob & Shirley Sparrow Aaron Shelor Bill & Barbara Spillman Elizabeth Shelor Stella Trudell & Lanny Bean Natasha Shishkevish* Barbara & Clemens von Claparede Zoie Sickey Jack Wall & Kamala Bauers Sign-a-Rama Gibby & Buz Waitzkin Sandra R. Smith* Joyce & Barry Walters Jennifer Spoon Marjory & Randall Wells Subway Mary & David Wiley Sue’s Flower Shop Richard & Shelley Wimmer Susan Sutterer Janice Yearout-Patton & Michael Patton Lisa Thompson Jenny Traynham We deeply regret if we have inadvertently omitted Barbara von Claparede* anyone, or attributed your name incorrectly. Clemens von Claparede* Please let us know if we have. Your contribution is Sally Walker nonetheless appreciated. Jack Wall Brad Warstler Randall A. Wells* VirginiasBlueRidgeMusicFestival.org David Wiley, Sr* 540.267.4221 David Stewart Wiley* [email protected] Thank You, Business Sponsors! Lodging Ambrosia Farm B&B (10%), 271 Cox Store Rd 745-6363 Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival gratefully Hotel Floyd, 120 Wilson St 745-6080 acknowledges all of the businesses below who Mountain Song Inn, 319 Mystic Ln, Willis 789-3000 are supporting the Festival. We ask you to thank Medical & Health them as well -- with your patronage. Animal Care Center of Floyd, 846 Webb’s Mill 745-2004 Collins Chiropractic Clinic, 246 Parkview Rd 745-6494 Dr Garry Kuiken, 249 Franklin Pike 745-5700 Directory of Business Sponsors Floyd Pharmacy (5%) , 709 E Main St 745-2177 (as of May 9, 2013) French Family Dentistry, 201 E Main St 745- 4902 Eating Places InVision, 29 W Main St, Christiansburg 381-2020 Black Water Loft, 117 S Locust St 745-5638 Hardware – Building Supplies Blue Ridge Restaurant (see next page) 745-2147 CW Harman Build Supply, 2894 Floyd Hwy S 745-2252 Chateau Morrisette Winery (see next page) 593-2865 Farmers Supply, 1 E Main St 745-4455 Dogtown Pizza (see next page) 745-6836 Griffith Lumber (10%), 1399 Franklin Pike 276-930-2727 Floyd Country Store (see next page) 745-4563 Highland Hardwoods, 105 E Main St 745-6233 Floyd Xpress Market (see next page) 745-4900 Wills Ridge Supply, 202 Lumber Ln 745-2044 Grateful Bread, Old Hensley Rd 558-9395 Goods & Services Harvest Moon (see next page) 745-4366 Bright Farm, 794 Spangler Mill Rd 745-5790 Mickey G’s Bistro/Pizza (see next page) 745-2208 Chamber of Commerce, 201 E Main St 745-4407 Natasha’s Market Café (see next page) 745-2450 Citizens, 220 Webb’s Mill Rd 745-2111 Oddfellas Cantina (see next page) 745-3463 Clark Gas & Oil, 413 E Main St 745-2323 Pine Tavern Restaurant (see next page) 745-4482 Floyd County History Museum, 217 N Locust St 745-3247 Red Rooster Coffee Roaster, 117 S Locust St 745-7337 (call for info on self-guided historical walking tour in Floyd) Slaughters Supermarket, 536 Floyd Hwy S 745-2908 Montgomery Sanitation, Fairview St, C’burg 382-2205 Subway (see next page) 745-7827 Rite Print Shoppe, 126 N Locust St 745-3616 Time Travelers Frozen Yogurt, Village Green- 201 E MainSt Rotary Club of Floyd [email protected] Financial – Insurance - Legal Seven Springs Farm, 426 Jerry Ln, Check 651-3228 Bank of Floyd, 101 Jacksonville Circle 745-4191 Sue’s Flower Shop, 115 Sweeney St 745-4928 Davis Nationwide Insurance, 118 N Locust St 745-4127 Vernon Glenn Painting 250-1035 Edward Jones Investments, 112 W Main St 745-6851 Virginia Mountain Land, virginiamountainland.com 745-2322 James W Shortt & Assoc., 108 S Locust 745-3131 WinterSun (20%), 302 S Locust St 745-7880 StellarOne, 680 E Main St 745-8870 Wordsprint Printer, 225 Industrial Dr, C’burg 382-9111 Stone Houston, Village Green - 201 E Main St 745-3574 Strathmore Capital Advisors, Charlotte, NC 704-364-4241 All addresses are Floyd, VA unless otherwise indicated. Sutphin Insurance, 3235 Christiansburg Pike 392-8089 Boldface means the business offers discounts -- shown in parentheses -- to Festival Fellows & Faculty, and usually Arts - Crafts – Boutique - Wood Working Festival Pass holders as well. For restaurants, the discount Bell Gallery & Garden, 112 N Locust St 745-4494 is usually just on food – see Restaurant Guide next page. Floyd Artisan Trail, 203 S Locust St 230-7955 Contact business for details. Floyd EcoVillage, 718 Franklin Pike 745-4434 Jacksonville Center, 220 Parkway Ln S 745-2784 Jeanie O’Neill Gallery Boutique, 109 E Main St 745-4327 June Bug Center, 251 Parkway Ln S 745-6550 Mitchell Music Co, 401 S Locust St 745-6872 Natural Woodworking Co, 1527 Franklin Pike 745-2665 Phoenix Hardwoods, 2540 Floyd Hwy N 745-6403 School House Fabrics, 220 N Locust St 745-4561 Troika: Contemporary Crafts, 203 S Locust St 745-8764

GUIDE to Restaurant Sponsors – See Ads on Next Pages

During the Music Festival, the restaurants below provide the indicated discounts to Festival Pass holders and Festival Musicians with ID

Blue Ridge Restaurant 7 am – 8 pm every day, except No discount 113 East Main St 745-2147 Sun: 8 am – 4 pm

Chateau Morrisette Winery Wi-Fi Wed – Thur: 11 am – 2 pm 10% off 287 Winery Rd 593-2865 Fri – Sat: 11 am – 8 pm Sun: 11 am – 3 pm

Dogtown Pizza Wi-FI Lunch: Fri-Sat: 11 am – 2:30 pm 10% discount on food 207 South Locust St 745-6836 Dinner: Wed-Thur: 5 pm - midnight Fri-Sat-Sun: 4 pm - midnight

Floyd Country Store Wi-Fi Mon & Thur: 10 am – 5 pm 10% discount on food 206 South Locust St 745-4563 Fri: 10 am – 10:30 pm Sat: 10 am – 6 pm; Sun: 12 – 5 pm

Floyd Xpress Market Sun – Thu: 5:30 am – 11 pm No discount 609 E Main St 745-4900 Fri – Sat: 5:30 am – 12 pm

Harvest Moon Wi-Fi Mon – Sat: 9am – 6:30 pm 15% discount (same 227 North Locust St 745-4366 Sun: noon – 6 pm as member discount)

Mickey G's Bistro Wi-Fi Mon: 11 am – 8 pm; Wed-Thur: 11 am – 9 pm 10% discount on food 113 Parkview Rd NE 745-2208 Fri-Sat: 11 am – 10 pm; Sun: 12 noon – 8 pm

Natasha's Market Café Wi-Fi Lunch: Tues – Sat: 11 am – 3 pm 10% discount on food 227 N Locust St 745-2450 Sun Brunch: 10:30 am – 2 pm (40% for Fellows) Dinner: Tues, Thur: 5:30 – 8 pm Fri, Sat: 5:30 – 9 pm

Oddfellas Cantina Wi-Fi Lunch: Wed – Sat: 11 am – 2:30 pm 10% discount on food 110 N Locust Street 745-3463 Sun: 10 am – 3 pm Dinner: Wed, Thur, Sun: 5 – 9 pm Fri – Sat: 5 – 9:30 pm

Pine Tavern Restaurant Wi-Fi Fri: 4:30 – 9:30; Sat: noon - 9:30 pm No discount 611 Floyd Hwy N 745-4482 Sun: 11 am - 8 pm

Subway Wi-Fi Mon-Thur: 7am–9:30pm; Fri: 7am – 10pm 10% discount cards 805 E Main St 745-7827 Sat: 8am – 10pm; Sun: 8am – 9:30pm for Fellows/Faculty

Please note: Virginia Beverage Control laws prohibit percentage discounts on alcoholic beverages. As a courtesy, please remember that your gratuity should be based on the original amount before the discount. Always call ahead to confirm hours of operation. Oddfella’s Cantina and Tapas Conscious comfort food with an Appalachian Latino twist! 110 N Locust St, Floyd, VA 540-745-3463 www.oddfellascantina.com

Natasha’s

OPEN FOR LUNCH: TUES-SAT 11-3

OPEN FOR DINNER:

TUESDAY 5:30-8

THURSDAY SOUL FOOD NIGHT 5:30-8

FRI-SAT 5:30-9

OPEN FOR BRUNCH:

SUNDAY 10:30-2:00

ABOVE HARVEST MOON FOOD STORE

Natasha’s Market Café Is proud to be a sponsor of (540)745-2450 Virginia’s Blue Ridge

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Chef Natasha Shishkevish WWW.NATASHASMARKETCAFE.COM

Floyd Xpress Market “Convenient & Friendly”

609 E Main St (221N), Floyd, VA 540-745-4900

Deli – Home Cooking - Lunch Breakfast from 5:30 am Grocery – Gas – Propane Ice Cream OPEN Sun – Thurs 5:30 am – 11 pm Fri - Sat 5:30 am – 12 pm

Serving Floyd since 1927 Traditional Blue Ridge Mountain Cuisine Please visit us while visiting Floyd and experience “mighty” fine dining! On 221 North 1.6 miles from “THE LIGHT’ in the center of Floyd. 611 Floyd Highway North 540-745-4482 Thepinetaven.com 207 S Locust St, Floyd, VA 745-6836

Lunch: Fri-Sat: 11 am – 2:30 pm Dinner: Wed-Thur: 5 pm – midnight Fri-Sat-Sun: 4 pm - midnight