FestivalsA 2015 Summer Guide
Ten Off-the- Beaten-Path Festivals (Lesser Known but Worth the Trip)
March 2015 Editor’s Note With our annual Special Report on Festivals, we continue a Musical America tradition dating back at least 50 years—perhaps longer—of reporting on the year’s upcoming festivals. It would be interesting to compare our reporting from those days with this report; many of the mature destinations—Tanglewood, Aspen, Marlboro—are still very much alive and kicking, changing with the tides but true to their core missions. Perhaps that’s because so many of the longstanding festivals double as institutes for summer study, where students learn from the pros (and vice versa) and have the opportunity to perform with them. Certainly the three mentioned above are geared that way; others, such as Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, are a teaching institute by day and a professional presenter by night. The Lucerne Festival also mixes generations and levels of accomplishment. Either way, the festival atmosphere, often accompanied by warm temperatures and cloudless skies, is much more relaxed than that of the concert hall, and the Big Name artist is far more approachable on the tennis court than in the green room. In most cases, the festivals listed in the Guide section have budgets of $1 million or more. (There are more than 1,500 in the Musical America database, so we needed a cut-off point.) But lest we miss something special in the process, Aestivals 2015 Summer Guide we called on our trusty U.S. and international contributors to find “off-the-beaten-path” festivals whose names might not be so familiar. So we have Baroque opera in the medieval walled city of Barga, Italy (Opera Barga); al fresco dance by up-and-coming troupes in the Berkshires (Inside/Outside); an expanded drumming workshop in Setúbal, F Portugal (Setúbal Music Festival); chamber music on a 17th-century estate in West Cork, Ireland (West Cork Chamber Music Festival); Shostakovich in the Saxon Mountains (International Shostakovich Days Gohrisch); Sondheim in the Catskills (Phoenicia Festival of the Voice); and my personal favorite, Buddhist monks in Norbulingka, Tibet (Shoton Festival). If you go, please be sure and send a postcard. Regards, Susan Elliott Editor, Special Reports
On the Cover: The city of Barga, Italy, site of the annual Festival Opera Barga.
2015 summer Festivals guide musicalamerica.com • March 2015 Off-the- garde works—often world premieres. Young artists are selected through audition and given the opportunity to Beaten-Path perform with guest artists from the world over. The centerpiece of the 2015 season is Catone (Cato), a “pasticcio opera” in three acts that Handel produced in 1732 for London’s King’s Theater, inserting arias by Festivals famed composers of his day such as Leonardo Leo, Antonio Vivaldi, Leonardo Vinci, Johann Adolf Hasse, The city of Barga, Italy, site of the annual opera festival. and Nicola Porpora. A wealth of vocal and instrumental Sometimes good things come recitals will round up the Baroque section, including Festival Opera Barga duets by Monteverdi, Haendel, and Bach sung by soprano Tenfrom unexpected places Barga, ITALY Roberta Invernizzi and contralto Sonia Prina. Modern June 26-July 26, 2015 music performances will revolve around Sibelius and the As a complement to the listings in our “Progetto Inaudita” (literally: Unheard-of things) project, Opera Barga is based in the medieval walled city of a series of ten premieres performed by the Ensemble annual Special Report on Summer Barga north of Lucca, nestled among the green hills of Multilaterale and led by composers Francesco Filidei and Festivals, we thought we’d focus on ten so-called ‘‘Tuscanyshire”—a local joke as many historic Franck Bedrossian. of the lesser known—but worth the mansions and farmsteads have been bought by affluent The festival is funded by the Regione Toscana Britons. The festival, too, is run by a British expat: actor- (35,000 euros), the National Ministry for Culture and the trip—festivals around the world. We put cum-stage-director Nicholas Hunt, whose parents Peter banking foundation CariLucca (25,000 euros each). A fur- out feelers to our trusty contributors, and Hunt and Gillian Armitage founded the Festival in 1967 ther 40,000 euros comes in from coproductions with the with the support of Italian-American music teacher Larry resident period band, AuserMusici. Minor, yet treasured, collectively they have come up with a Malfatti and Peter Gellhorn, then director of the BBC and contributions are offered by the City of Barga (10,000 splendid list of events that, we’d wager, Glyndebourne choruses. euros) and sundry private donors, including 5,000 euros you’ve never heard of. Italy’s Festival Opera Its main venue is the 18th-century Teatro del from crowdfunding. Total assets are estimated around at Differenti, seating 289; further venues are drawn into 180,000 euros, largely invested in productions, artists’ Barga on your regular summer itinerary? service both in Barga proper (Chiostro del Conservatorio salaries/expenses, and communication/marketing. Man- How about the Shoton Festival in Tibet? di S. Elisabetta) and in the villages of Bagnone and agement goes unpaid, save for expenses. —Carlo Vitali Or the Northern Lights Music Festival in Cutigliano. Since its inception, the Festival’s mission has been to present rare Baroque operas alongside avant- Aurora, Minnesota? Check them out….
2015 summer Festivals guide musicalamerica.com • March 2015 Off-the- Beaten-Path Ten Festivals director since 2005, and his programs can stray outside basket. Performances are from 6:15 to 7:00 p.m.; lighting the usual repertoire into intriguing esoterica. The festival is courtesy of Mother Nature; and the sunsets can be has a $560,000 annual budget—55% of it earned income spectacular. When it rains, the show always goes on, inside and 45% donated—with some support from the city and one of the dance studios. Artists are always on hand for a county of San Luis Obispo. quick Q&A after their performances. For its 45th-anniversary season, July 16-26, Festival The festival does not release the Inside/Out schedule Mozaic will be building around the theme of J.S. Bach until mid-April; dance companies that have applied to and his influence upon Western music, culminating in two participate need to be the first to know if and when they’re performances of the B minor Mass, which Yoo conducts scheduled. But Saturday night’s Inside/Outside events, The Belle Contemporary Dance Co. at Jacobs Pillow’s Chapel Hill Shandon, one of Festival Mozaic’s historic venues. from memory (July 24-25). There will be 22 events in Inside/Outside series. which are provided by the students of the Pillow, have all–including baroque and all-Mozart orchestra concerts, been announced. Festival Mozaic chamber concerts, open rehearsals, and a “fringe” series The Inside/Out Series June 27 they will perform a new work created on them San Luis Obispo, CALIFORNIA where humor, pop, folk, jazz, and the avant-garde lurk. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival by BalletX Artistic Director Matthew Neenan. July 4 and 11 July 16-26, 2015 Most enticingly, Festival Mozaic takes place in Becket, MASSACHUSSETTS will be devoted to exploring African American social dances, concert halls, historic missions, homes, and other locales June 24-August 29, 2015 from authentic jazz to hip-hop. For three Saturdays starting California Central Coast’s Festival Mozaic was originally throughout San Luis Obispo County near the Pacific August 8, students perform new works created on them by known as the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival; the new coast—a good place to be when it’s sizzling elsewhere. For many people, the Inside/Out series has provided their Broadway choreographers, directors, composers/arrangers, name reflects its expanded mosaic of music. The festival has also been latching onto the region’s first taste of concert dance—for free. Approximately and musicians. The idea is for them to experience—and for Launched in 1971, the festival experienced a newly burgeoning reputation as a wine connoisseur’s 31 performing groups, one 45-minute performance at a the public to witness—what a Broadway audition feels like. brief moment in the headlines in 1981 when Maxim destination; several local wineries offer a 20 percent time, take to the elevated stage, overlooking the verdant Curated by Festival Artistic and Executive Director Ella Shostakovich and his son Dmitri, Jr., made their first formal discount for ticket holders. It may not have a low profile Berkshires Mountains on the hallowed grounds of Jacob’s Baff, with the help of Program Coordinator Ariana Brawley, concert appearances there after defecting from the Soviet for long. —Richard S. Ginell Pillow Dance Festival, America’s oldest continually operating who sifts through approximately 250 video submissions Union three months prior––accompanied by a cellist friend dance festival. annually, the Inside/Out’s chosen groups are given an named Mstislav Rostropovich. But generally, the festival Inside/Out presents new and cutting-edge artists and honorarium to defray their expenses. has kept a fairly low profile. their work every Wednesday through Saturday evening The Inside/Out series continues Pillow founder Ted Nonetheless, it sports a very high caliber of music- outdoors before the paid Pillow event in the Ted Shawn or Shawn’s missions to promote all forms of dance, to offer making from a mix of local musicians, young graduates, Doris Duke theaters (named, respectively, for the founder insight into the creative process, and to foster the dream of and seasoned pros from major orchestras such as the Los and major funder of the Pillow). In some cases, you’ll see art for all, regardless of one’s paycheck. —Rachel Straus Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and the history in the making—many Inside/Out artists are now Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor Scott Yoo, who also plays touring the world, having gotten their start on the Pillow’s violin in the chamber ensembles, has been the music outdoor stage. You don’t need tickets—just bring a picnic
2015 summer Festivals guide musicalamerica.com • March 2015 Off-the- Beaten-Path Ten Festivals Monadnock Music Project and Odyssey Opera to attract participants from Relentless efforts by Zuponcic and local supporters Petersborough, NEW HAMPSHIRE around the country and a few international artists as well. brought funding from state government and private July 8-August 10, 2015 This year many alumni are expected to return to celebrate sources. Donations continue to pour in, enabling concerts the 50th anniversary on the weekend of July 25. The festival to be free and opera tickets to cost only $20-$25. Monadnock Music is set among the hike-worthy hills, opens on July 8 in Peterborough’s Town House, with Rose In 11 years, NLMF has developed into a major nearly sparkling lakes, and white-painted old towns of southern leading an all-Gershwin program, including the original 30-day event offering master classes, recitals, concerts for New Hampshire, an hour or two from Boston, and runs for jazz-inflected orchestration of Rhapsody in Blue created for children, lectures, chamber and orchestral performances, five weekends in July and August. Largely funded by loyal Paul Whiteman’s Band. Village concerts request a donation; and a fully staged opera whose three to four performances Chisholm High School auditorium at the Northrn Lights Music Festival. local donors (with an assist from the New Hampshire State more official events are $30 a seat, $50 for the grand are invariably sold out. Major roles are handled by young Arts Council), Monadnock, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary concert. —John Yohalem Northern Lights Music Festival professionals, and the chorus is semi-professional; everyone year, is intentionally small scale, with no single centerpiece Aurora, MINNESOTA else, including the children, is a volunteer. Members of the group or venue: music as part of a summer’s retreat in the June 28-July19, 2015 community all pitch in, whether building sets, running country rather than its principal focus. Founders James and the lights, or performing. The town provides the venues Jocelyn Bolle wanted to explore the music venues of this The city of Aurora, in northeastern Minnesota, is not a at no charge. bucolic, unfashionable region and give up-and-coming place you’d expect to encounter a lot of cultural activities. In the summer of 2013, I heard a beautiful performance artists a chance to perform for attentive audiences outside Even the movie theater closed a few years ago. Two hours of La Bohème, led by Festival Music Director Gavriel Heine the big cities. by car to the nearest big city, Duluth, and one hour from (also a conductor at the Mariinsky) and performed by The town of Peterborough is at the heart of things, the Canadian border, it is a favorite spot for hunters and young singers with a 40-member orchestra comprised of but the summer’s dozen or more events take place in other fishermen, as well as hikers on the Mesabi Trail. And for a players from 17 to 57. scenic villages as well, sited in town halls, churches, and few summer weeks, this quiet town of 1,800 is transformed Performances take place in Aurora and nearby meeting houses, generally constructed between 1790 and into a communal celebration of classical music. Chisholm, Hibbing, and Ely, in schools and historical venues, 1830—rooms whose individual acoustics suit the festival’s Northern Lights Music Festival started in 2004 as like the 105-year-old, recently restored B’nai Abraham varied fare. Programs run from recitals and chamber a two-week summer music camp for gifted children. Synagogue in Virginia. Students and faculty present a music to small orchestra concerts, from ancient music to Founder/pianist Veda Zuponcic, a professor at Rowan Fourth of July concert in the school auditorium after the contemporary, familiar to unknown, though in the past University in New Jersey who was born and raised in local parade, in which the Festival, with its own lavishly particular attention has been paid to such regional stars as Aurora, got the idea while performing at a celebration of decorated float, is an indispensable participant. This year’s Edward McDowell, Amy Beach, Charles Ives, and Gunther the city’s 100th anniversary. From the stage of the Aurora concert offers Gershwin’s American in Paris; other season Schuller as well as more usual suspects. School’s beautifully equipped Aurora School auditorium, highlights include Lehar’s Merry Widow, several tributes Gil Rose, who has led the festival since 2011, draws she got to thinking, why not use some of these magnificent to Alexander Scriabin, and a vocal workshop concert with on his winter jobs heading the Boston Modern Orchestra old 1920s school buildings in summertime and bring back scenes from Der Freischütz; Susannah; and The Marriage of some business and culture to the community? Figaro. —Maya Pritsker
2015 summer Festivals guide musicalamerica.com • March 2015 Off-the- Beaten-Path Ten Festivals The cast of Sondheim’s A Little Night Music will be led the stage with young musicians from the two local by Tony nominee Ron Raines. (Susan Powell, a former Miss music schools, and a choral concert inspired by the great America, will be Desiree, who sings “Send in the Clowns.”) earthquake of 1755 featuring Officium (one of Portugal’s Souvenir, Stephen Temperley’s funny and poignant two- best professional choirs) with the U.K.-based Pandora’s Box character play, recreates Florence Foster Jenkins, an brass ensemble and the choir of the local Conservatoire. A endearingly awful singer who used her wealth to create a new show, The Tide Suite, created through the continuing vocal career for herself. collaboration between the Conservatoire’s Contemporary Recitals of American songs—some newly composed Music Group and the special-needs school Rumo ao Sucesso and/or written for the singer—will be presented by (“Aim to Succeed”) features a guest appearance of John Local school children perform in the Setúbal Music Festival’s A concert at Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice. Frederica von Stade and Lauren Flanigan. Composers Jake annual parade. Kenny and his carnyx (2,000-year-old bronze Celtic war- Heggie, Thomas Pasatieri, and Ricky Ian Gordon will all trumpet). The school’s teachers composed the work. The Phoenicia International Festival be represented. Setúbal Music Festival The festival has a budget of approximately $200,000, of the Voice Driving is a scenic and convenient way to get to Setúbal, PORTUGAL funded by the Helen Hamlyn Trust and the local Town Hall, Phoenicia, NEW YORK Phoenicia, but in that tiny town, one can walk to the May 28-31, 2015 working in partnership. The Trust puts in $130,000 to cover July 29-August 2, 2015 seven busy venues. These range from a parish church to a all fees and expenses for the guest artists, the leaders of the covered lawn big enough for several thousand listeners and As much about social regeneration as about art, the school and community workshops that run for six months The Phoenicia Festival of the Voice is—in the words of their picnics. According to baritone Louis Otey, a festival Setúbal Music Festival was started at a time when Portugal in advance of the festival, and the part-time artistic director. a Sondheim song to be heard there this summer—a co-founder who sang small roles at the Met, the festival was negotiating an $89 billion rescue program, and the The Setúbal Municipality adds about $60,000 in kind for “weekend in the country.” And a very full weekend it is, in a budget of $90,000 comes largely from the New York State local mayor was looking for a strategy to revive her town venues, stages, transport, and promotion materials. Most Catskill State Park hamlet west of Woodstock, NY. Council on the Arts, and from several local donors (none through music. Former City of London Festival Artistic events are free, and the modest box office income of about Because this five-year-old event celebrates the voice with deep pockets). Tickets to performances, panels, and Director Ian Ritchie was brought in and he met with heads $10,000 is used to cover costs of musical instruments and both singing and speaking, there are several categories of workshops range from free to $75. —Leslie Kandell of local education and cultural institutions, social inclusion sound equipment. —Keith Clarke vocal music, as well as a theater production. This summer’s specialists, the department of youth, and the immigrant aptly named theme is, “The Diverse Voices of America.” associations to build a festival from the ground up. It was A concert staging of the opera Of Mice and Men is to be launched in 2011 with a songwriting project for primary directed by the composer, Carlyle Floyd, and Robert Manno’s schools and a drumming workshop. opera, Do Not Go Gentle—The Last Days of Dylan and The theme for 2015 is “Climate.” Highlights include Caitlin, will have its premiere, in workshop form. Elizabeth a Four Seasons project, in which Vivaldi’s Seasons are Scott will conduct the festival orchestra, created from a interwoven with Piazzolla’s, with soloist/director Hugo mix of New Jersey Festival Orchestra members and local Ticciati and the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra sharing and international musicians.
2015 summer Festivals guide musicalamerica.com • March 2015 Off-the- Beaten-Path Ten Festivals annual budget of approximately $168,000, 40 percent of Angular Lu Kang Park, and Norbulingka Park—where local which is provided by the State of Saxony, all musicians Lhamo troupes compete for a grand prize. perform for no fee, in exchange for room and board. Lhamo is sung as well as recited, often to the heavy I will never forget the sight of Gidon Kremer in his accompaniment of a choir, cymbals, and drums. The lack arrangement of Gubaidulina’s Reflections on B-A-C-H as of pitched instruments, the huge blue masks worn by rain pounded onto the tent’s plastic roof last year. Or the the actors, and the atonal-like singing and rapping are chemistry between the young pianist Anna Vinitskaya and fascinating to experience. conductor Omer Meir Wellber in a performance of Shosta- But it is the opening of Shoton that takes the center kovich’s Second Piano Concerto with the Kremerata Baltica. stage. A huge thangka of Gautama Buddha is gradually Pianist Anna Vinitskaya and conductor Omer Meir Wellber take a bow Every edition explores Shostakovich through a new unfolded down the Drepung hilltop before dawn, at the 2014 International Shostakovich Days Gohrisch festival. lens by thoughtfully integrating 20th-century and contem- The opening of the Shoton Festival in Tibet. accompanied by Buddhist chanting and ensemble playing. porary repertoire. In 2012, concerts explored Shostakovich’s At the exact moment of sunrise, the holy thangka is International Shostakovich Days Gohrisch legendary friendship with Britten, culminating in a Shoton (Sho Dun) Festival revealed in its full glory as the music reaches its climax. Gohrisch, GERMANY searing final concert with the Staatskapelle Dresden (Chinese language web site only) This is followed by a flood of some 400,000 worshippers June 19-21, 2015 under Mikhail Jurowski. This year’s program will revolve Norbulingka, TIBET from all over the world, a spectacle comparable to that of around the music of Arvo Pärt and Vsevolod Zaderatsky, a August 25-29, 2015 the Papal Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica. What’s this? A world-class Shostakovich Festival in the contemporary of Shostakovich whose persecution by the Details of this year’s program will be announced Saxon mountains? Since 2010, the annual International Soviet regime cast his works into obscurity. The Russian- Located in Norbulingka and its vicinity of Lhasa, Tibet, in early August. The festival’s official web site is not Shostakovich Days Gohrisch has been offering composer- born pianist Jascha Nemtsov will give the world premieres Shoton (Sho Dun) Festival was founded in 1913, but its consistently up and running, but keep trying. Performances focussed programs with a mix of legendary names and of three works, including the 24 Preludes and Fugues, which tradition dates back to the 11th century, when Buddhist cost 3 RMB a piece (about 50 cents), or 60RMB for an all- talented young artists. Despite its remote location, Zaderatsky wrote in the Gulag. Rarely performed works monks and believers gathered to celebrate the end of event pass. Note that non-Chinese passport holders need Gohrisch, a town 24 miles outside Dresden, goes down in by Shostakovich include his incomplete Violin Sonata of Tibetan Ramadan. (Shoton, literally translated, means to have a special permit to travel to Tibet except in groups. history as the place where Shostakovich wrote his Eighth 1945 and Six Poems by Marina Zwetajewa for Alto and “yogurt feast.”) The modern Shoton, taken over by —Rudolph Tang String Quartet—the only work he wrote outside the Chamber Orchestra Op. 143a, which Vladimir Jurowski will the municipal government of Lhasa from the religious Soviet Union. perform with Maria Gortsevskaya and the Staatskapelle authority, retains its strong sense of piety but has become The event, at least for now, mostly draws its audience Dresden. —Rebecca Schmid more accessible to the general public. It provides a from the local region, contributing to the unpretentious showcase of rarely heard Lhamo, or Tibetan opera, as well atmosphere. In the absence of a proper hall, concerts take as Buddist music and Tibetan patriotic songs. place either in a circus tent or a barn—the high quality Events take place in the shrines and parks of Lhasa— music-making outshines the need for luxury. With an Potala Palace Plaza, Drepung Monastery, Sera Monastery,
2015 summer Festivals guide musicalamerica.com • March 2015 Off-the- Beaten-Path Festivals Ten About emphasis on lesser-known works alongside more standard THE repertoire. He writes most of the comprehensive program Authors notes himself, revealing a deep knowledge and insight. This year’s highlights include a return visit from Keith Clarke is a freelance music journalist Rachel Straus, MusicalAmerica.com’s dance the Borodin Quartet, now in its 70th year, and five world and consulting editor of Classical Music critic, teaches dance history at The Juilliard premieres, including Ian Wilson’s Sonàid béaloidis played by magazine, which he edited for 21 years. He has School and writes program notes for the violinist Alina Ibragimova. Also getting first performances been the London correspondent for Musical Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Her more than America and MusicalAmerica.com since 1999. 200 articles and reviews have been published are the four winning works of the Composition Competition in a wide variety of media. She holds an MFA from Purchase College for Young Irish Composers. Richard S. Ginell is a regular contributor to Conservatory of Dance, and is working toward her PhD in Dance The Bantry House, one of the venues at the West Cork Chamber The festival takes place in a number of local venues, The Los Angeles Times and American Record Studies at London’s Roehampton University. Music Festival. notably historic Bantry House, owned by the same family Guide. His work has appeared in Gramophone, since the mid-1700s. Its wood-panelled library is the Musical America, The Chicago Tribune, The Strad, Rudolph Tang (唐若甫) is a freelance West Cork Chamber Music Festival perfect venue for chamber music, the audience crammed and others. He has written program notes for music journalist and analyst based in Shanghai. the Metropolitan Opera and others arts groups. Bantry, IRELAND in on three sides of the small platform to enjoy the great The former editor of Gramophone magazine’s Chinese edition, he is the author of Many Faces June 26 - July 4, 2015 sound and a quietly intimate atmosphere. Leslie Kandell has contributed to Musical of Musicians in China, a collection of music In the two decades since the festival’s founding, America, The New York Times, Opera News, The criticism published in 2014 by Beijing Normal University Press. One of Europe’s most beguiling festivals, the West Cork Ireland’s economy has taken an historic dive, and Humphrys American Record Guide, Berkshire Eagle, Classical Chamber Music Festival, had an unlikely start. Chamber has worked hard to keep the event afloat. It is funded by the Voice North America, and other publications. Carlo Vitali, based in Bologne, is a music critic, enthusiast/dairy farmer Francis Humphrys was irked that Arts Council of Ireland and Failte Ireland (the tourist board), columnist and essayist for Classic Voice, Classic Opera, Musica in Milan, Opernwelt, Musical he had to travel so far to hear the music he loved, so during this year’s budget coming in at $539,000. —Keith Clarke Maya Pritsker is a Russian-American the long early-morning milking sessions he dreamt up the America, and Opera Today. He has authored journalist, music critic and cultural a book on the correspondence of legendary idea of setting up an event in the coastal town of Bantry commentator. Born and educated in Moscow, castrato Farinelli (2000) and scholarly essays for Ricordi, Garland, and in a remote corner of southwest Ireland. Assisted by the she is currently based in New York, where she Cambridge University Press. Vanbrugh Quartet, he mounted the first festival in 1996, writes and lectures in Russian and in English 35 musicians giving 13 concerts and three master classes and produces a weekly arts and culture show for the Russian Television Network of America (RTN/WMNB). John Yohalem lives in New York and writes over seven days. Now, 20 years on, the festival is broadcast about opera and theater for many publications to an international radio audience of 40 million with more Rebecca Schmid is a music writer based and web sites, among them Opera News, Opera than 70 musicians giving 37 concerts and 20 master classes in Berlin. In addition to Musical America, she Today, and Parterre Box. over nine days. contributes regularly to publications such as From the start, Humphrys’s imaginative programming The New York Times, Financial Times, neue has been one of the great strengths of the festival, with an musikzeitung, and The Strad.
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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Festival Website Music Director Robert Spano will conduct Verdi’s mega-masterwork Aida and an Aspen Opera DATES July 2 - Aug 23, 2015 Theater Center double-bill featuring Christopher ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Robert Spano Theofanidis’s The Cows of Apollo or The Invention 108th Bethlehem Bach Festival of Music and a full staging of Steven Stucky’s The GENRE Classical a cherished tradition, a national treasure Classical Style (7/30, 8/1). Violinist Joshua Bell plays TICKET PRICE RANGE Free to $85 with and conducts the Aspen Chamber Symphony May 1–2 & 8–9, 2015 (8/14). Classical guitarist Sharon Isbin celebrates 25 TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Held on the beautiful campus of years at Aspen and joins guitarists Stanley Jordan Ticket Purchase Link Lehigh University in picturesque and Romero Lubambo, in a program of Latin, 970-205-5071 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Brazilian, and jazz music titled “Guitar Passions” (8/6). Also featured: violinist Jennifer Koh’s “Bridge to BOOKING CONTACT Asadour Santourian Brimming over with Beethoven” with pianist Shai Wosner (7/15), and two Booking cycle date range: Summer 2015 for festive brilliance! recitals by pianist Vladimir Feltsman. Summer 2016 –BBC Magazine LOCATION Aspen, CO Social links BACH.org
2015 summer Festivals guide musicalamerica.com • March 2015 BALTIC SEA FESTIVAL BARD SUMMERSCAPE AND BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Festival Website FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION The Richard B. Fisher Center for Magnificent symphonic music is set to dominate The annual Bard SummerScape festival expands its the Performing Arts at Bard the 13th Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm, Sweden. DATES Aug 24 - Aug 30, 2015 horizons this summer with eight weeks of music, College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Tchaikovsky, whose anniversary is one of the many ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Esa-Pekka Salonen opera, theater, dance, film, and cabaret, all keyed celebrated this year, is honored with an orchestral to the theme of “Chávez and His World.” Highlights Festival Website version of the Nutcracker performed by the Mariinsky GENRE Classical include the first fully staged American production DATES June 25 - Aug 16, 2015 Theater Orchestra with conductor Valery Gergiev. The TICKET PRICE RANGE $12.50 to $104.50 of The Wreckers, the foremost opera by Dame Ethel Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra with Kent Nagano Smyth; a revelatory and highly unusual chamber ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Leon Botstein recognizes the 150th anniversaries of Nielsen and TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!; GENRE Classical Sibelius; newer music includes the Swedish premiere Ticket Purchase Link an alfresco presentation of Everything by my side, a of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Karawane. The festival this year +46 8 784 18 00 performance-installation by Argentina’s Fernando TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $95 also recognizes the 80th anniversary of composer Rubio; Pam Tanowitz Dance with music by the FLUX Arvo Pärt. Schönberg’s Gurrelieder performed by BOOKING CONTACT Kajsa Hallhagen, Quartet; a film series entitled “Reinventing Mexico”; TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION two symphony orchestras and four choirs provides a production planner and the return of Bard’s authentic and sensationally Ticket Purchase Link grand finish to the festival week. 845-758-7900 Booking cycle date range: Fall 2015 for Summer 2017 popular Spiegeltent, hosted by Justin Vivian Bond. LOCATION Stockholm, SE: Berwaldhallen Social links and Stockholms Konserthus Social links
The mu s i c s ou nd s b e tte r 2015 Round Top Music Festival STRINGS u p he re . May 31 to July 13, 2015
(979) 249-3129 www.festivalhill.org Round Top FesTival insTiTuTe James Dick, Founder & Artistic Director Steamboat Springs, CO • stringsmusicfestival.com • 970.879.5056 facebook.com/RoundTopFestivalInstitute Twitter/Instagram: @RTFInstitute
2015 summer Festivals guide 10 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 BAY CHAMBER SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL BAY CHAMBER SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL, cont’d
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Rockport, ME BOOKING CONTACT Manuel Bagorro At once invigorating and fun, the Bay Chamber Bay Chamber Concerts & Festival Website Summer Music Festival is a five-day musical Music School extravaganza that begins on the morning of DATES Aug 19 - Aug 23, 2015 PO Box 599 Wednesday, August 19th and culminates on Sunday, Rockport, ME 04856 August 23rd. People from near and far converge ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Manuel Bagorro Booking cycle date range: Fall 2015 for Summer on the picturesque seaside village of Rockport, GENRE Classical Maine, to immerse themselves in a marvelous 2016 celebration of music and community. The busy TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $250 Social links program of concerts brims with ambitious musical programming, adventurous artistic collaboration, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION inspiring interactive learning opportunities, and Ticket Purchase Link intense community engagement. The Bay Chamber 207-236-2823 Summer Music Festival is truly a grand celebration at the height of Maine’s summer.
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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Festival Website Featured performances include the Israel Philhar- monic under Zubin Mehta in “A Different Ninth” DATES April 9 - April 10, 2015 and Mahler Symphony No. 9; Spirit Dance music ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Prof. Dr. Nike Wagner SummerFest Music Director AUGUST 5 - 28, 2015 sculpture with GöteborgsOperans Danskompanie, Cho-Liang Lin Bochumer Symphoniker, choreography by Sidi Larbi GENRE Classical Cherkaoui and Saburo Teshigawara; Noetic TICKET PRICE RANGE $14 to $140 Metamorphosis contemporary dance with live music by Szymon Brzóska; a chamber concert of TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION works by Beethoven, Mozart, and Chopin; a Ticket Purchase Link recital by pianist Sir András Schiff in music by +40 (0) 228 50201313 Mozart, Haydn, Schumann and Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations; and Nocturnes and Goethe Lieder with BOOKING CONTACT Dr. Tilman Schlömp baritone Roman Trekel and the Budapest Festival Booking cycle date range: Spring 2015 for Orchestra conducted by Iván Fischer. Autumn 2015 FOR MORE INFORMATION: 858.459.3728 · WWW.LJMS.ORG LOCATION Bonn, Germany: Beethovenhalle Social links and other locations
2015 summer Festivals guide 11 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 108TH BETHLEHEM BACH FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Bethlehem, PA: Packer Memorial Friday’s concerts include Chamber Music in the Saal, Church and Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh exploring Bach and the French influence; Bach at University; Incarnation of Our Lord Church; The 4, in which members of The Bach Choir and Bach Saal of the Moravian Museum Festival Orchestra perform Cantatas Nos. 182 and 45 and Tricia van Oers plays Vivaldi’s Concerto for Re- Festival Website corder, The Goldfinch; and, at 8 p.m., the full choir and DATES May 1-2 and 8-9, 2015 orchestra appear in Bach Cantatas BWV 172 and BWV 6, as well as a Cantata for Soprano and Bass BWV 152. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Greg Funfgeld Saturday offers Brandenburg Concerto No.1 and Or- GENRE Classical chestral Suite No. 4 and the Bach Chaconne Project, where variations on the chord progressions of Bach’s TICKET PRICE RANGE $23 to $57 Chaconne in D minor—composed by talented young musicians—are performed. The final concert is Bach’s TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION monumental Mass in B minor. Ticket Purchase Link 888-743-3100 Social links BLOSSOM MUSIC FESTIVAL—SUMMER HOME OF THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Blossom Music Center The Cleveland Orchestra plays 15 concerts during 1145 W Steels Corners Road the 2015 Blossom Music Festival season, including Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44223 the opening on July 11 with Beethoven’s Symphony Festival Website No. 9. Music Director Franz Welser-Möst leads the Blossom Festival Chorus and soloists. Other DATES July 2 - Sept 6, 2015 highlights include Nicholas McGegan conducting works by Bach, Mozart, and Haydn; Brett Mitchell ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Franz Welser-Möst with soloist James Enhes in Barber’s Violin Concerto; GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz a side-by-side performance of Bartók‘s Concerto for Orchestra with the Kent/Blossom Chamber TICKET PRICE RANGE $24 to $89 Orchestra; and Edo de Waart conducting Bruch’s TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Violin Concerto No. 1 with Gil Shaham (August 30). Ticket Purchase Link The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton 800-686-1141 Marsalis is also on tap for one concert. Social links
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CARAMOOR 2015 SUMMER SEASON CARMEL BACH FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Festival Website FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Saints Church, Carmel Mission Basilica; Pebble Caramoor is one of the more diverse presenters, The opening night concert offers Handel’sMusic Beach, CA: Church in the Forest; Monterey, CA: San DATES June 20 - Aug 2, 2015 inviting stars to perform as well as supporting up- for the Royal Fireworks, the explosive Wachet Auf Carlos Cathedral; Seaside, CA: Oldemeyer Center and-coming young artists in music of many genres. MANAGING DIRECTOR Paul Rosenblum of J.S. Bach, and Haydn’s glorious Harmoniemesse. Concerts in and around the idyllic 90-acre Caramoor Sunday’s matinee will be the Saint John Passion. On Festival Website GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz grounds in Katonah, New York, offer a magical Monday, concertmaster Peter Hanson will conduct DATES July 18 - Aug 1, 2015 experience only an hour’s car ride from New York TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $110 the Festival Orchestra string section in music from City. This summer’s highlights include French pianist Bach to Bartók. Wednesday will match the grandeur ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Paul Goodwin Hélène Grimaud as artist-in-residence; Wynton TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION of Bruckner and the colors of Stravinsky to the mag- GENRE Classical Marsalis headlining the Jazz Festival with the Jazz at Ticket Purchase Link nificent setting of the Carmel Mission Basilica, with Lincoln Center Orchestra; Lucinda Williams closing 914-232-1252 candlelight processional and displayed banners in TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $125 the American Roots Music Festival; productions of the courtyard. Also featured are all six Brandenburg BOOKING CONTACTS Ellie Gisler, Manager of Donizetti’s La Favorite and Poulenc’s Dialogues des Concertos, a new choral work by Benjamin Wallfisch TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Artistic Planning Carmélites; and the Festival Finale with the resident incorporated into the First Brandenburg Concerto, Ticket Purchase Link 831-624-1521 Orchestra of St. Luke’s under Pablo Heras-Casado. Booking cycle date range: Rolling and Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Social links LOCATION 149 Girdle Ridge Road Social links LOCATION Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA: Carmel Katonah, NY 10536 Presbyterian Church, Sunset Center Theater, All 2015 summer Festivals guide 13 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 CASTLETON FESTIVAL WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS FESTIVAL? The Castleton Festival is distinct among other festivals in the region because of its combined roles as a producing entity, a modern LOCATION performance venue, and, most importantly, 7 Castleton Meadows Lane a mentoring program for young artists and Castleton, VA 22716 theater professionals. Festival Website FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES Entering its seventh season, the 2015 Castleton founded by Lorin Maazel Festival will host over 10,000 patrons to July 2 - Aug 2, 2015 engage with the tragic tale of Roméo et Juliette, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis celebrate with the world premiere of the Dietlinde Turban Maazel American opera Scalia/Ginsburg, embark on a symphonic journey with Maestro Fabio Luisi, GENRES and bear witness to some of the greatest stars Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz of tomorrow. Joining forces for the first time, TICKET PRICE RANGE the Castleton Festival and Jazz at Lincoln Center $20 to $120 Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will introduce jazz to the repertoire. Also included: bluegrass, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION a presentation from Supreme Court Justice Ticket Purchase Link Ginsburg on “Law in Opera,” the beloved theater 866-974-0767 piece Our Town, chamber music, and a tribute performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. BOOKING CONTACTS John Harris 2015 Season July 2 - August 2 Booking cycle date range: Engage with the tragic tale of Roméo et Juliette, celebrate with the world premiere of Spring 2015 for Summer 2016 Scalia/Ginsburg, and join us as we welcome the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. This season will also include performances of the beloved Social links theatre piece, Our Town, and a tribute performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.
For the full season and ticket information visit us at www.CastletonFestival.org or call 866.974.0767.
2015 summer Festivals guide 14 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 CHAUTAUQUA MUSIC FESTIVAL CHICAGO DUO PIANO FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR(S) Timothy Muffitt, FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Festival Website At Chautauqua the programs are designed for Orchestra; Marlena Malas, Voice; John Milbauer July 10: Gala opening concert: Festival founders exceptional students from ages 17 to 25. The festival and Nicola Mellville, Piano and directors Claire Aebersold and Ralph Neiweem DATES July 10 - July 19, 2015 is akin to a professional experience and students perform Debussy’s La Mer; July 12: Piano-duo GENRE Classical ARTISTIC DIRECTOR(S) Claire Aebersold and need to be prepared to undertake the demands of transcriptions of music from Disney’s Fantasia and Ralph Neiweem the seven-week curriculum. The schools of music, TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $86 Fantasia 2000; July 14: “Duo Piano Extravaganza,” dance, theater, and art are led by professional in which various festival artists present piano- GENRE Classical TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION counterparts. duo favorites in a mixed program; July 17: Chie TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $30 716-357-6250 Tsuyki and Michael Rosenboom: The young prize- LOCATION Chautauqua, NY Social links winning duo from Hannover, Germany, perform TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Festival Website music of Liszt. 800-838-3006 DATES June 27 - Aug 18, 2015 LOCATION Nichols Concert Hall, BOOKING CONTACTS Ralph Neiweem Music Institute of Chicago; 1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, IL
CINCINNATI MAY FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Cincinnati, OH: Cincinnati Music The Festival kicks off with Haydn’s Die Schöpfung Hall, Covington, KY: Cathedral Basilica of the (The Creation) with James Conlon leading soloists, Assumption the May Festival Chorus, and the Cincinnati Festival Website Symphony. On May 23, Chorus Director Robert Porco conducts Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony, DATES May 22 - May 30, 2015 preceded by Handel’s first three Coronation Anthems, led by Porco and Youth Chorus Director ARTISTIC DIRECTOR James Conlon James Bagwell. On May 29, for Berlioz’s Requiem, GENRE Classical Conlon leads the CSO, May Festival Chorus, the Vocal Arts Ensemble, and tenor Barry Banks. On May TICKET PRICE RANGE $12 to $125 30 the program includes Shostakovich’s Symphony TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION No.13, selections from Mussorgsky’s Khovanschina, Ticket Purchase Link and Tchaikovsky’s iconic 1812 Overture. Conlon 513-381-3300 closes with the traditional rendition of the “Hallelujah” chorus from Handel’s Messiah. BOOKING CONTACTS Isaac Thompson Social links
2015 summer Festivals guide 15 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 DC JAZZ FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Washington, DC: The Hamilton The DC Jazz Festival (DCJF) returns for its 11th Live; The Yards; The Phillips Collection; Sixth & I year with more than 150 free and ticketed Historic Synagogue; many more performances and education programs in more than 60 venues across the city. The festival remains Festival Website the largest, most diverse, most truly global DATES June 10 - June 16, 2015 jazz-based festival in the nation’s capital. Artists performing jazz and its extensions in 2015 include ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Willard Jenkins AfroHORN; The Bad, plus Joshua Redman; Edmar GENRE Jazz Castañeda; Esperanza Spalding; Femi Kuti & the Positive Force; NEA Jazz Master Jack DeJohnette’s TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $450 Trio (w/ Ravi Coltrane & Matthew Garrison) and Paquito D’Rivera; John Scofield Uberjam Band; TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Marshall Keys; Sharón Clark; Snarky Puppy; Soul 800-745-3000 Rebels; Stanton Moore Trio; Gretchen Parlato/ Social links Lionel Loueke Duo; and many more.
DECODA SKIDMORE CHAMBER MUSIC INSTITUTE
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS pieces, performance experiences in traditional and The Institute will be divided into two week- community settings. long segments: 1. Development of an Internal Community 2. Engaging and Serving the External LOCATION Skidmore College, Saratoga Community. The Institute enables young musicians Springs, NY to explore leadership and community service Festival Website through the intensive study of chamber music. Under the guidance of Decoda faculty, students DATES July 12 - July 25, 2015 will learn how to engage their audiences and ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Seth Baer communities through scripted interactive chamber music performances while improving their own TICKET PRICE RANGE $2,647, tuition, room, performance and public-speaking skills. Expected and board student outcomes: improved musicianship (technical and artistic), improved ability to navigate Social links group dynamics, improved musical analysis, an understanding fundamentally of what makes a piece work, deep knowledge of at least two
2015 summer Festivals guide 16 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 DEER VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL DEER VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL, cont’d
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Park City, UT: Deer Valley Snow TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Highlights of the 12th annual Deer Valley Music Park Outdoor Amphitheater and St. Mary’s Ticket Purchase Link Festival—summer home of the Utah Symphony— Church, Salt Lake City, UT: Red Butte Gardens 801-533-6683 include Chi Ho Han performing Rachmaninoff’s Amphitheater Piano Concerto No. 2 conducted by Vladimir BOOKING CONTACT Toby Tolokan, Vice Kulenovic; chamber concerts with Utah Symphony Festival Website President of Artistic Planning Associate Conductor Rei Hotoda; the Muir and Novo DATES July 4 - Aug 14, 2015 quartets; violinist Aisslinn Nosky playing/conducting 801-869-9005 Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and works by Bach; and DIRECTOR(S) Thierry Fischer, Music Director; Booking cycle date range: Fall 2015 for violinist Stefan Milenkovich in the Bruch Violin Jerry Steichen, Principal Pops Summer 2016 Concerto. The Utah Symphony performs music from Conductor Social links Disney’s Fantasia, and guest artists include Diana TICKET PRICE RANGE $26 to $100 Krall, Kristin Chenoweth, Smokey Robinson, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, and others. A special concert will honor the Symphony’s 75th Anniversary.
DROTTNINGHOLMS SLOTTSTEATER
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS TICKET PRICE RANGE $45 to $160 An international artistic team headed by French awaken your inner artist! conductor Marc Minkowski will work together with TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Drottningholms Slottsteater for a three-year period, Ticket Purchase Link 2015-2017, to stage Mozart’s da Ponte trilogy. Le +46 771707070 Study & Perform | July 12 - 26, 2015 nozze di Figaro opens August 2. Social links SING LOCATION Drottningholm, Sweden PLAY DANCE Festival Website PAINT COOK DATES Aug 2 - Aug 16, 2015 ACT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR(S) Sofi Lerstrm, Maria Lindal LISTEN RELAX GENRE Classical Register & Ticket Info WRITE STRETCH fsaf.org |907.474.8869 WATCH
2015 summer Festivals guide 17 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 EASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Greensboro, NC Under the leadership of conductor Gerard Schwarz, we celebrate beautiful music and virtuoso Festival Website musicianship. Guest artists this summer include DATES June 27 - Aug 1, 2015 Stefan Jackiw (violin), Anne Akiko Meyers (violin), Lynn Harrell (cello), and pianists Awadagin Pratt ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Gerard Schwarz and André Watts. Weekly events include concerts in GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic the Chamber Series, the Friends & Great Performers Series, the Young Artists Series, the Festival TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $45 Orchestra Series, and the EMF Fringe Series, which this year kicks off May 26th featuring Chris Brubeck TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION and The French Connection. Past Fringe Series artists Ticket Purchase Link include the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Doc 336-274-0160 Watson, Aimee Mann, Bob Margolin, Mark O’Connor, Social links and Los Straitjackets.
ESTATE 2015
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 23 - August 8, 2015 Ballet offerings include the Pink Floyd Ballet; La rose malade, music by Gustav Mahler, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Alessio Vlad choreography by Roland Petit, costumes by Yves GENRES Opera • Dance Saint Laurent; the Corps de Ballet of the Rome Opera House in choreography by Roland Petit and TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $250 Celebrate Classical Music music by Pink Floyd; and a Robert Bolle gala. The TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION chorus and orchestra of the Rome Opera House Ticket Purchase Link LUCERNE FESTIVAL in Summer | 14 August – 13 September 2015 will perform Madama Butterfly, Turandot, and +39 06 48160255 / +39 06 4817003 LUCERNE FESTIVAL at the Piano | 21 – 29 November 2015 La bohème. Special events include Bob Dylan in LUCERNE FESTIVAL at Easter | 12 – 20 March 2016 concert, Elton John in concert, and Golgota, with BOOKING CONTACTS music by Tomás Luis de Victoria. [email protected] www.lucernefestival.ch LOCATION Rome, Italy: Baths of Caracalla Booking cycle date range: Summer 2015 for and Rome Opera House (Teatro Summer 2016 Costanzi) Social links Festival Website
2015 summer Festivals guide 18 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 EUREKA SPRINGS INTO MUSIC FESTIVAL EAMA SUMMER MUSIC PROGRAMS IN PARIS
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Eureka Springs, AR: Eureka FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Paris, France The Eureka Springs Into Music festival is designed Springs City Auditorium and other smaller venues Immersion program in fundamental crafts of to be a highly entertaining and educational week throughout the city musicianship. Taught in the legendary tradition Festival Website of classical music. While there will be two major of Nadia Boulanger, EAMA offers courses in DATES July 1 - July 31, 2015 performances at the City Auditorium, several Festival Website counterpoint, keyboard harmony, score reading, smaller venues are planned throughout the city DATES Aug 23 - Aug 30, 2015 and musical analysis for composers, conductors ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Philip Lasser to offer an intimate, up-close experience. Sara and chamber musicians. Guest artists and faculty GENRE Classical Sant’Ambrogio will be the featured solo artist. She ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Sara Sant’Ambrogio give intensive workshops and seminars: piano will be accompanied by pianist Robert Koenig. Also TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $50 sonority, orchestration, art song, choral and string SUMMER STUDY COST $3,800 scheduled to perform is the Eroica Trio. As part quartet. Resident string quartet workshops of the performance activity, Sara Sant’Ambrogio TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION pieces. Student chorale workshops works written INQUIRIES 646-369-0527 will be working with local schools for workshops Ticket Purchase Link during the program. Performance opportunities Social links in their music programs. This will be an exciting 479-253-7333 at La Salle Franck of the Schola Cantorum on opportunity for students. Paris’s lively left bank. BOOKING CONTACTS Sara Sant’Ambrogio Social links
PERFORMING ARTS AT CHAUTAUQUA Opera • Theater • Dance • Symphony Rossen Milanov, CSO Music Director Celebrating beautiful music, virtuosic musicianship and educational excellence.
North Carolina’s Musical Treasure 2015 SEASON • JUNE 27–AUGUST 30 For more information about the arts at Chautauqua, visit ciweb.org/performing-arts June 27 - August 1, 2015
CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION • CHAUTAUQUA, NEW YORK • CIWEB.ORG www.EasternMusicFestival.org
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FAIRBANKS SUMMER ARTS FESTIVAL TEATRO JUNE 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 30 COSTANZI La dama di picche FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Fairbanks and Interior Alaska:
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2015 summer Festivals guide 20 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 FESTIVAL D’AIX-EN-PROVENCE FORTE/PIANO:
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Aix-en-Provence, France: Théâtre A FESTIVAL CELEBRATING PIANOS IN HISTORY This summer will see world premiere productions of de l’Archevêché, Théâtre du Jeu de Paume, and Handel’s Alcina and Mozart’s The Abduction from the Grand Théâtre de Provence FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Seraglio, the French premiere of Jonathan Dove’s The Recitals by Alexei Lubimov and Kristian Festival Website Monster in the Maze led by Sir Simon Rattle, and a Festival Website Bezuidenhout; a reunion concert by the performers revival of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Also DATES July 2 - July 21, 2015 of “Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas On DATES Aug 5 - Aug 9, 2015 planned: Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, Stravinsky’s Period Instruments” (Malcolm Bilson, Tom Beghin, Perséphone, and the one-act a cappella opera ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Bernard Foccroulle David Breitman, Ursula Dütschler, Zvi Meniker, Bart ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Tom Beghin, van Oort, and Andrew Willis), two decades after the Malcolm Bilson, David Breitman, Penelope Svadba (Marriage), by Anna Sokolovi. There will GENRES Classical be concerts by the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, original concerts (in New York and Utrecht, 1994) Crawford, Roger Moseley, Annette Richards & Ensemble Musicatreize, Mediterranean Youth TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $300 and recording sessions (Claves Records, 1997); Andrew Willis Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, and performances by Xak Bjerken, Penelope Crawford, GENRE Classical MusicAeterna. Among the artists: singers Jane TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Liv Glaser, Tuija Hakkila, Erin Helyard, Hardy Rittner, Archibald, Paul Groves, Philippe Jaroussky, Patricia Ticket Purchase Link Anthony Romaniuk, Jiayan Sun, Miri Yampolsky, TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $25 Petibon; conductors Pablo Heras-Casado, Andrea +33 4 34 08 02 17 among others; chamber music featuring Michael TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Marcon, and Sir Simon Rattle. The European Compitello, percussion, Martha Guth, soprano; BOOKING CONTACTS Artistic Administrator: Ticket Purchase Link Academy of Music offers training to and concerts R. J. Kelley, natural horn, and Lucy Russell, violin. Alain Perroux 607-255-3065 by 250 Young Artists. Booking: Sophie Ragot Lectures, workshops, and demonstrations by leading piano scholars, builders, and technicians. Social links Booking cycle date range: Booking for Summer Festival starts in February Social links
2015 summer Festivals guide 21 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 THE GLIMMERGLASS FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Festival Website Glimmerglass’s 40th anniversary offers, in repertory, Nichols Concert Hall Mozart’s The Magic Flute; Verdi’s Macbeth, featuring DATES July 10 - Aug 23, 2015 1490 Chicago Avenue » Evanston, IL artist-in-residence Eric Owens; Vivaldi’s Cato in Utica; DIRECTOR(S) Francesca Zambello, Artistic and Bernstein’s Candide. Other mainstage events: a & General Director; Joseph concert by Owens with tenor Lawrence Brownlee; Colaneri, Music Director Chicago Duo Piano Festival ~ July 10-19, 2015 a four-decade tribute concert; master classes by Deborah Voigt and Frederica von Stade; the world GENRE Classical July 10 at 7:30 pm ~ Claire Aebersold & Ralph Neiweem ConCerts | Master Classes | leCtures | CoaChings & More Program to include Claude Debussy’s La Mer premiere of Odyssey, a children’s opera by Ben TICKET PRICE RANGE $26 to $144 Moore with libretto by Kelley Rourke; an afternoon of selected scenes that deal with law and justice, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION July 12 at 2 pm ~ Faculty Recital Special Guest Duo Tsuyuki & Rosenboom with commentary by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ticket Purchase Link July 14 at 7:30 pm ~ Faculty Extravaganza Bader Ginsburg; the traditional ShowTalk and Meet 607-547-2255 (Hannover, Germany) Me at the Pavilion series; weekly concerts at the July 17 at 7:30 pm ~ Chie Tsuyuki & Michael Rosenboom National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. BOOKING CONTACTS Gail Luna, Company Manager Program to include works by Franz Liszt Celebrating music for two pianos and piano four hands! LOCATION 7300 State Highway 80, Cooperstown, NY 13326 Social links Tickets: $30 adults | $20 Seniors | $10 Students chicagoduopianofestival.org
GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL, cont’d
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Teton Village, Jackson Hole, WY BOOKING CONTACTS Marty Camino, Artist Grand Teton Music Festival Symphony Orchestra Operations Manager concerts will include Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony Festival Website 307-732-9958 conducted by Music Director Donald Runnicles; Edo DATES July 1 - Aug 15, 2015 de Waart conducting Schubert’s Ninth Symphony Booking cycle date range: Fall/Winter 2015 for and a new piece by Aaron Jay Kernis; and Osmo ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Donald Runnicles Summer 2016 Vänskä conducting Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony. GENRE Classical Social links Soloists include violinists Mark O’Connor and James Ehnes and Uzbekistani pianist Bezhod Abduraimov. TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $55 Artists-in-residence are cellist Alisa Weilerstein and guitarist Pablo Villegas. Season 54 will kick off with TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION two stage-seating-only concerts by pianist Denis Ticket Purchase Link Kozhukhin and Broadway Star Doug LaBrecque. 307-733-1128 Music and Wine events take place in Jackson art galleries, featuring Villegas and an ensemble from the festival orchestra.
2015 summer Festivals guide 22 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 GREEN MOUNTAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL HOLLYWOOD BOWL 2015 SEASON
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION University of Vermont, LOCATION Los Angeles, CA TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION This season, Green Mountain audiences will enjoy Burlington, VT Ticket Purchase Link six concerts by the 35 distinguished faculty artists Festival Website 323-850-2000 of our summer conservatory. Artist-in-residence Festival Website DATES June 20 - Sept 27, 2015 Social links cellist Matt Haimovitz, known for his presentation DATES June 28 - July 25, 2015 of classical music in unconventional venues, will ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Gustavo Dudamel ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Kevin Lawrence discuss musical entrepreneurship, the current GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic climate of classical music, and perform on our July GENRE Classical 17 faculty concert. TICKET PRICE RANGE $1 to $143 TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $25 During our intensive four-week program of solo and chamber music study,140 string players, ages TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION 14-30, are immersed in an atmosphere of focused Ticket Purchase Link professionalism, with four hours of daily individual 802-503-1220 practice, daily chamber music rehearsals, lessons, ensemble coachings, master classes, and extensive Social links student performance opportunities in the concert hall and throughout the community.
HITZACKER SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL HITZACKER SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL, cont’d
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION VERDO Kultur- und TICKET PRICE RANGE $12 to $42 Welcome to the 70th summer festival in Hitzacker! Tagungszentrum Hitzacker (VERDO Concert Hall) For nine days today’s chamber music elite will Dr.-Helmut-Meyer-Weg 1, 29456 Hitzacker (Elbe), TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION honor our birthday, including Maurice Steger, Naoki Germany Ticket Purchase Link Kitaya, Heinz Holliger, the Ensemble Resonanz, +49 (0)5862 / 941 430 Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff, Rachel Roberts, Florian Festival Website BOOKING CONTACT Carolin Widmann Donderer, Lars Vogt, and, from the younger DATES July 25 - Aug 2, 2015 generation, the Trio Catch and the Doric String Booking cycle date range: Summer 2015 for Quartet. Serbian composer Milica Djordjevic will ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Carolin Widmann, Summer 2017 receive the annual Belmont Prize, and jazz pianist Violinist Social links Florian Weber and fortepiano expert Kristian GENRE Classical Bezuidenhout will each present recitals, as will Festival Academy’s young artists. The festival will close on August 2, as it did in 1946, with a musical and culinary birthday matinee in the middle of town and a grand orchestral concert.
2015 summer Festivals guide 23 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD INSTITUTE & FESTIVAL
® FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jerome Rose The 17th season of the International Keyboard Institute & Festival offers concerts, lectures, and GENRE Classical 2015 master classes with Founder/Director Jerome TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $20 Rose, Marc-André Hamelin, Denis Kozhukhin, Alexander Kobrin, and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, with TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION SUMMER pre-concert lectures by David Dubal. Participants Ticket Purchase Link study and interact with faculty artists, and full- 212-772-4448 FESTIVAL session attendees can compete for the MacKenzie BOOKING CONTACTS Julie Kedersha, J U N E 1 5 – AUGUST 8 Scholarship Awards, totalling $10,000. Festival Director Classical music in paradise! More than 200 performances LOCATION The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter Booking cycle date range: Fall 2015 for and events, including masterclasses, orchestra and chamber College, New York, NY Summer 2016 music concerts, and a fully staged opera, take place in Festival Website Social links venues throughout Santa Barbara, California. DATES July 18 - Aug 2, 2015 quarterpgfestival.pdf 1 9/13/2014 12:37:14 PM Please visit musicacademy.org for details
Featuring the finest of INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVALS Classical, Jazz, Chamber, Swing, Folk & String. FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Dr. Solomon Mikowsky Piano lessons and master classes with Solomon GENRE Classical C Performed by world-renowned Mikowsky, faculty concerts, chamber music, performing opportunities, excellent practice M New York musicians, Grammy TICKET PRICE RANGE N/A award winners, and some of facilities, cultural attractions, sightseeing, top- Y Oklahoma’s best artists. quality hotel accommodations. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION CM 212-666-5377 LOCATION Madrid, Spain: Forum Musikae, MY ă6 MAJOR CONCERTS Pozuelo de Alarcón Halle, BOOKING CONTACTS Solomon Mikowsky, CY ăOVER 50 FREE DAYTIME EVENTS Germany: Euro Music Festival & Artistic Director International Piano Festivals CMY FESTIVAL 2015 Academy 390 Riverside Drive, Apt. 5G, New York, NY FOR MORE INFORMATION 10025, USA; [email protected] K Festival Website JUNE 6-13 918.336.9800 DATES July 18 - Aug 7, 2015 Bartlesville, OK WWW.OKMOZART.COM
2015 summer Festivals guide 24 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 JAZZ & BEYOND: CARSON CITY MUSIC FESTIVAL LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY SUMMERFEST FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION MCASD Sherwood Auditorium, FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR David C. Bugli La Jolla Music Society SummerFest opens with Ellen Browning Scripps Park (La Speakeasy Swing Dance Party with Brass Knuckles, SummerFest Under the Stars, a free outdoor Jolla Cove), La Jolla, CA Aug. 15; Basie Birthday Big-band Bash with Mile GENRES Jazz • Ethnic concert at La Jolla Cove. A mini-festival salute to High Jazz Band, Aug. 21; History of Motown lecture- TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $35 Shostakovich offers three programs of his chamber Festival Website demo with John Shipley, date TBD; Motown music music accompanied by lectures by musicologist Dr. concert band, date TBD; Mic Gillette Band on Third TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION DATES Aug 5 - Aug 28, 2015 Richard Taruskin. Violinist Aislinn Nosky returns with Street stage, Aug. 22; Reno Jazz Orchestra at Capitol Ticket Purchase Link an all-Baroque program. The three-performance MUSIC DIRECTOR Cho-Liang Lin Amphitheater, Aug. 23 775-883-4154 series, “An Evening With ... “, will feature San Diego- GENRE Classical LOCATION Multiple locations in downtown Social links based percussionist Steve Schick, genre-defying Carson City, NV ensemble Time for Three, and Peter Serkin and TICKET PRICE RANGE $45 to $75 Julia Hsu in works for piano four-hands. This year’s Festival Website composers-in-residence—Clarice Assad, Derek TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Ticket Purchase Link DATES August 7 - 23, 2015 Bermel, Joel Hoffman, and Peter Schikele—will each present commissioned works. “Strings, 858-459-3728 Glorious Strings!” features chamber works by Bach, BOOKING CONTACTS Leah Rosenthal Tchaikovsky, Grieg, and Mozart. Booking cycle date range: Winter 2014 through February 2015 for SummerFest 2015. KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL Winter 2015 through February 2016 for FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Killington, VT SummerFest 2016. In the heart of Vermont’s Green Mountains, resident artists will work with KMF’s esteemed faculty in Festival Website Social links private lessons, small ensemble coachings, studio DATES June 27 - July 31, 2015 classes, master classes, sectionals, and score-reading sessions, in addition to having performance ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Daniel Andai opportunities. Violin faculty: Daniel Andai, Anat GENRE Classical Malkin Almani, Cyrus Forough, Zoran Jakovcic, Dawn Johnson, Nurit Pacht, Joel Pagan, David Rubinstein, TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $25 Sergiu Schwartz, Joseph Silverstein, John Vaida. Viola: Anat Malkin Almani, Amadi Azikiwe, Zoran TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Jakovcic, Dawn Johnson, Joel Pagan, David Rubin- 802-422-3300 stein. Cello: Theodore Bushholz, Cara Colon, Emilio Colon, Emmanueal Feldman, Katherine Kayaian, Ron Lowry, Andrew Mark, Eugene Osadchy. Double bass: Timothy Cobb, Pascale Delache-Feldman. Piano: Michael Bukhman, Timothy Ehlen, Yu-Chi Tai.
2015 summer Festivals guide 25 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 LES FLÂNERIES MUSICALES DE REIMS
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS TICKET PRICE RANGE $11.59 to $23.19 In a friendly and warm spirit, find the greatest performers of our time. The Festival provides TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION opportunities to discover young talents discovered Ticket Purchase Link since the turn of the 21st century. +33 (0) 892 68 36 22 LOCATION Reims, France: Various locations Social links Festival Website DATES June 18 - July 18, 2015 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jean-Philippe Collard GENRE Classical
LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL LUCERNE FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Lincoln Center, New York, NY FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Luzern, Switzerland The 2015 Festival will feature performances by Tutto nel mondo è burla (all the world’s a joke) artists from Germany, China, England, Ireland, Festival Website declares Verdi in his last opera Falstaff. But when Festival Website Russia, Japan, and the U.S. in venues across New DATES July 6 - Aug 2, 2015 was the last time you laughed in the concert hall? DATES Aug 14 - Sept 13, 2015 York City. This summer offers the North American Lucerne Festival will explore the theme of “Humor” premiere of DruidShakespeare: The History Plays; ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Nigel Redden to show how witty and entertaining so-called ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Michael Haefliger the National Ballet of China and National Ballet of GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Ethnic “serious” classics can be. Experience world-famous GENRE Classical China Symphony; Ubu Roi with Cheek by Jowl; U.S. orchestras, legendary conductors, and virtuoso premiere production of Murakami’s Kafka on the TICKET PRICE RANGE To be announced soloists, from Daniel Barenboim to Simon Rattle and TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $330 Shore; and puppet troupe the Gabriadze Theater. Christian Thielemann, from the Berlin Philharmonic Music events include Danny Elfman’s “Music from TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION to the Vienna Philharmonic. TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION the Films of Tim Burton”; Yarn/Wire performing Ticket Purchase Link Ticket Purchase Link contemporary French music; four Cleveland 212-721-6500 +41 (0)41 226 44 80 Orchestra concerts including Strauss’s rarely BOOKING CONTACTS Nigel Redden Social links performed opera Daphne; and the U.S. premiere of Harry Partch’s music theater spectacle Delusion Booking cycle date range: All year round of the Fury. Social links
2015 summer Festivals guide 26 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 MARLBORO MUSIC FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 18 - Aug 16, 2015 Led by Artistic Director Mitsuko Uchida, some of the world’s most acclaimed solo and chamber ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Mitsuko Uchida music artists and outstanding young professional GENRE Classical musicians explore chamber music with unlimited rehearsal time and in the kind of depth only TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $37.50 possible at Marlboro. Some of their discoveries are TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION shared in weekend concerts that The New York Times Ticket Purchase Link has called “extraordinary.” 215-569-4690 (until June 12); 802-254-2394 (after LOCATION On the campus of Marlboro June 22) College, Marlboro, VT BOOKING CONTACTS [email protected] Festival Website for audition information Social links
MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA SOMMERFEST
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 5 - Aug 1, 2015 The Minnesota Orchestra’s popular urban summer music festival, Sommerfest, has been a Minnesota ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Andrew Litton tradition for more than 30 years. Each summer, GENRE Classical Forte the Orchestra performs four weeks of concerts at A FESTIVAL CELEBRATING PIANOS IN HISTORY /Piano Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, featuring a variety of TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $85 programming from chamber music to symphonic TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Tom Beghin Tuija Hakkila works to opera. Ticket Purchase Link August 5–9, 2015 Kristian Bezuidenhout Alexei Lubimov LOCATION Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN 612-371-5656 Ithaca, NY Malcolm Bilson Zvi Meniker Festival Website Social links Xak Bjerken Bart van Oort David Breitman Andrew Willis www.westfield.org Penelope Crawford Miri Yampolsky 607-255-3065 Ursula Dütschler and many more Liv Glaser
2015 summer Festivals guide 27 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 MOSTLY MOZART FESTIVAL t t o c S . D . J : o t o h P FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR(S) Jane Moss, Ehrenkranz GR AND Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, now in its Artistic Director; Louis Langrée, Renée and Robert 49th season, features a wide range of classical music Belfer Music Directors ranging from baroque to contemporary styles, TETON including chamber music, opera, dance, late-night GENRE Classical recitals, and performances by the celebrated Mostly TICKET PRICE RANGE To be announced MUSIC Mozart Festival Orchestra led by Music Director Louis Langrée. George Benjamin’s acclaimed opera TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Written on Skin will receive its U.S. staged premiere Ticket Purchase Link FESTIVAL this summer, led by Alan Gilbert. Complete Festival 212-721-6500 in JACKSON HOLE schedule and details will be announced on April 8. BOOKING CONTACTS Jane Moss, Ehrenkranz LOCATION Lincoln Center, New York, NY Artistic Director COME FOR THE MOUNTAINS STAY FOR THE MUSIC Festival Website Booking cycle date range: All year round
DATES July 25 - Aug 22, 2015 Social links S E A S O N 5 4 Donald Runnicles, Music Director JULY 1-AUGUST 15, 2015 Tickets at GTMF.org / 307.733.1128
e nest musicians from around the world gather in this rare ed paradise for MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST SUMMER FESTIVAL four weeks of events that will challenge and excite your senses. FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 15 - Aug 8, 2015 The Festival presents the New York Philharmonic Each week in June you can experience in its Santa Barbara Bowl debut, as well as a new ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Patrick Posey formal concerts against the spellbind- production of Rossini’s Cinderella directed by GENRE Classical ing backdrop of Sitka Sound. Don’t miss Davie Paul, and five performances by the Academy special events like the boat cruise or all- Festival Orchestra at the historic Granada Theater. TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $120 you-can-eat crab feed, informal concerts Guests artists include conductors Larry Rachleff, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION in cafe settings, outdoor concerts, and Osmo Vänskä, Courtney Lewis, Nicholas McGegan, Ticket Purchase Link opportunities to meet the artists. and Christoph von Dohnányi; violinists Stephen 805-969-8787 Bryant, Philip Setzer, and Alexander Treger; violist Join us, and see why musicians and audi- Heidi Castleman; cellist Robert deMaine; pianist BOOKING CONTACT Patrick Posey, Vice ence members alike return to Sitka again Robert McDonald; and the Takács Quartet. Mosher President Artistic Planning/Educational Programs and again. Guest Artists include pianist Leon Fleisher and 805-695-7922 cellist Alban Gerhardt. June 5 - 28 Social links Zuill Bailey, Artistic Director LOCATION Santa Barbara, CA SitkaMusicFestival.org Festival Website 2015 summer Festivals guide 28 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 MUSIC IN THE VINEYARDS
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Festival Website Now celebrating its 21st season, the festival offers four weeks of concerts at 15 different wineries, DATES July 31 - Aug 23, 2015 where the music, the ambiance, and the wine all ARTISTIC DIRECTOR(S) Michael and Daria Adams share the stage. This summer focuses on Franz Schubert, with one of his works on all 14 programs. GENRE Classical Performers include violinists Francesca Anderegg, TICKET PRICE RANGE $50 to $55 Benny Kim, Kristin Lee, Cho-liang Lin, and Kyoko Takezawa; violists Aloysia Friedmann and Ben Ullery; TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION cellists Nick Canellakis and Zlatomir Fung; pianists Ticket Purchase Link Jon Kimura Parker, Pedja Muzijevic, and Anna 707-258-5559 Polonsky; Wasmuth Quartet, the Trio Horszowski, and the return of the acclaimed Pacifica Quartet. Get BOOKING CONTACTS your tickets early; we’ll look for you at intermission, [email protected] enjoying a glass of Napa Valley wine! Booking cycle date range: Fall 2015 for Summer 2016 LOCATION Napa Valley, CA Social links
MUSIC@MENLO $FOUFOOJBM4FBTPO
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Festival Website 7FSEJ+VMZ Music@Menlo, a leading chamber music festival, 'BMTUBGG DATES July 17 - Aug 8, 2015 this season takes a chronological journey through 5IF#BSCFSPG4FWJMMF3PTTJOJ+VMZ Schubert’s life and work in seven concert programs ARTISTIC DIRECTOR(S) David Finckel and and five Schubertiades. Joining founding Artistic Wu Han *OUPUIF8PPET4POEIFJN+VMZ"VHVTU Directors David Finckel and Wu Han will be pianists Jeffrey Kahane, Juho Pohjone, and Inon Barnatan; GENRE Classical -FT.JTÏSBCMFT4DIÚOCFSH#PVCMJM"VHVTU violinist Philip Setzer; the Escher String Quartet; and TICKET PRICE RANGE $45 to $78 the Dover Quartet. Works programmed include the Octet in F for Winds and Strings; String Quartet in A TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION minor, Rosamunde; Quartettsatz in C minor, and the Ticket Purchase Link Quintet in C for Two Violins, Viola, and Two Cellos. 650-331-0202 Pohjonen will perform the Fantasy in C, Wanderer; while Barnatan offers Imprompus Nos. 1 and 3. BOOKING CONTACTS Rachel Sokolow, Artistic Administrator LOCATION Atherton and Menlo Park, CA Social links
2015 summer Festivals guide 29 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 NORTHERN LIGHTS MUSIC FESTIVAL OK MOZART INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Festival Website FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Festival Website NLMF Opera present Lehar’s The Merry Widow, Summer 2015 offers a musical tour of Italy with starring Jasmina Halimic and Mark Womack, DATES July 1 - July 21, 2015 the Amici New York Orchestra, Chad Hoopes, guest DATES June 6 - June 13, 2015 conducted by Gavriel Heine, and directed by ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Veda Zuponcic violinist, and the OK Mozart All-State Orchestra; ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Constantine Kitsopoulos Benjamin Speirman. Festive Fourth Concert features L’Amore d’Italia Gala Masked Ball; Spencer Prentiss/ West Side Story and My Fair Lady suites for orchestra, GENRE Classical Becky Wallace Chamber Concert featuring Aeolus GENRE Classical conducted by Gavriel Heine. Winners of Concerto TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $25 Quartet and guest artists Jon Kimura Parker, piano, TICKET PRICE RANGE $15 to $55 Competition will perform with the NLMF Orchestra and Louise Owen, violin; Don Giovanni, the Canadian in two cities. Chamber music highlights include TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Brass, and Woolaroc Outdoor Concert with Amici TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Brahms Piano Quartets and tributes to Alexander Ticket Purchase Link New York Orchestra; the Grand Finale Concert with Ticket Purchase Link Scriabin throughout the festival. 218-780-2292 guest artist Jon Kimura Parker, piano, the Amici New 918-336-9800 York Orchestra, Bartlesville Choral Society, and Tulsa LOCATION Minnesota’s Mesabi Iron Range: BOOKING CONTACTS [email protected] Mesabi East School and Holy Rosary RC Church, Oratorio Chorus. Aurora; Chisholm High School Auditorium and LOCATION Bartlesville Community Center, Booking cycle date range: Summer 2015 for Washington Auditorium, Ely; Copper Top Church, Bartlesville, OK 2016 Festival Duluth; B’Nai Abraham, Virginia; Queen of Peace RC, Hoyt Lakes
34th Annual Rockport Chamber Music Festival PhiladelPhia international Music Festival June-July featuring members of The Philadelphia Orchestra Yo-Yo Ma, cello Directed by Kimberly Fisher, Emanuel Ax, piano Principal Second Violin, Philadelphia Orchestra Peter Serkin, piano June 20 - July 3, 2015 Jupiter String Quartet SUMMER Orchestra, chamber music, solo performance, audition preparation, two concerto Escher String Quartet competitions through which winners perform on-stage duo concertos with members of Anonymous 4 The Philadelphia Orchestra and as soloists with the Ocean City Pops, private lessons, master Benjamin Grosvenor, piano classes, and faculty recitals with members of The Philadelphia Orchestra, and more. Highlights Featuring Cristian Macelaru, at #SZO.BXS$PMMFHFr"MM"HFTr"DDFQUJOH"QQMJDBUJPOT5ISPVHI.BZ Conductor-in-Residence 4th Annual The Philadelphia Orchestra PhiladelphiaMusicFestival.org | 856-875-6816 Rockport Jazz Festival “...beautiful to the eye August 13-16 as well as to the ear.” THE NEW YORK TIMES rockportmusic.org :: 978.546.7391
2015 summer Festivals guide 30 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 OLSHAN TEXAS MUSIC FESTIVAL OLSHAN TEXAS MUSIC FESTIVAL, cont’d
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Moores School of Music, Cynthia TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Offering over 20 public concerts and 30 public Woods Mitchell Pavilion, Ticket Purchase Link master classes, TMF is Houston’s largest presenter University of Houston, Houston TX 713-743-3313 of classical music each June. Some 100 rising stars from around the world gather to develop skills in Festival Website BOOKING CONTACTS Alan Austin orchestral, chamber music, and solo performance. DATES June 5 - June 27, 2015 Booking cycle date range: Fall 2015 for June 2016 Under the leadership of an exceptional performing- artist faculty, Orchestra Fellows perform four major ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Alan Austin, General and Social links orchestral programs. Conductors: Josep Caballe- Artistic Director Domenech, Franz Anton Krager, Rossen Milanov, GENRE Classical Lavard Skou-Larsen. Soloists: Glenn Dicterow, violin; William VerMeulen, horn; Timothy Hester, piano; and TICKET PRICE RANGE $5 to $15 the winner of the Mitchell Young Artist Competition. Additional summer institutes: Le chiavi di bel canto, High School Piano Institute, The Informed Flutist, High School Jazz Institute.
OPERA THEATER OF SAINT LOUIS
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Festival Website Opera Theater of Saint Louis celebrates its 40th- anniversary season in 2015, with high comedy, DATES May 23 - June 28, 2015 romance, heartbreak, adventure, and powerful DIRECTOR(S) Timothy O’Leary, General 70 th Hitzacker Summer Music Festival tragedy. General Director Timothy O’Leary has Director; Stephen Lord, Music Director; James 25 July – 2 August 2015 announced the repertory for the 2015 season, which Robinson, Artistic Director Chamber music in the countryside since 1946 includes Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, Puccini’s La rondine, the American premiere of Handel’s Richard GENRE Classical Our international guests include · CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF (Violin) the Lionheart, and a new production of Tobias · RACHEL ROBERTS (Viola) · TANJA TETZLAFF (Cello) TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $129 · MAURICE STEGER (Recorder) · LARS VOGT (Piano) Picker’s saga Emmeline, as well as a new addition to · HEINZ HOLLIGER (Oboist, · THE DORIC STRING QUARTET … the OTSL season: a concert highlighting the talents TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Conductor and Composer) of the singers in the company’s renowned Gerdine Ticket Purchase Link · KRISTIAN BEZUIDENHOUT Artistic Director and Violin Young Artist Program, accompanied on stage by 314-961-0644 (Fortepiano) CAROLIN WIDMANN members of the St. Louis Symphony. Social links Information and tickets: www.musiktage-hitzacker.de LOCATION Loretto-Hilton Center, 130 Edgar
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2015 summer Festivals guide 31 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL RAVINIA FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES June 14 - Sept 12, 2015 Held on the estate-like grounds of Bryn Mawr With more than 120 events, the season features 60 College, the Festival offers young musicians ages 10 Festival Website artist debuts and 55 classical works never before DIRECTOR(S) Welz Kauffman, President & CEO; James Conlon, Music Director through the college years an opportunity to work DATES June 20 - July 3, 2015 performed at Ravinia. More than 35 programs will for up to 17 days with members of the Philadelphia feature works by new and 20th-century composers. GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic Orchestra, including many of its principals, and its ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Kimberly Fisher, Principal The not-for-profit is North America’s oldest and most Conductor-In-Residence Cristian Macelaru. Areas Second Violinist, programmatically diverse music festival, with about TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $250 Philadelphia Orchestra 65 percent of this year’s events featuring classical of focus are solo performance; symphonic winds & TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION music, including the annual summer residency concert band; orchestra; opera; ensemble; piano. GENRE Classical Ticket Purchase Link of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. About one- Included are private lessons, masterclasses, faculty 847-266-5100 recitals, music-education courses, a daily chamber TICKET PRICE RANGE N/A third of that residency will be conducted by James music program, solo performance opportunities, Conlon, who dedicates his final season as music BOOKING CONTACTS Stephen Smoot concerto competitions, daily private practice hours, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION director to recalling favorite repertoire from his off-campus outings to Philadelphia Orchestra 856-875-6816 three-decade association with the festival. Booking cycle date range: Fall 2015 for Summer 2016 concerts, and more. Applications for Music House, Social links LOCATION 200 Ravinia Park Road, Highland a separate division for college students and young Park, IL 60035 Social links professionals are due May 10, 2015. Festival Website
Chamber Music Institute
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2015 summer Festivals guide 32 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 RIGAS RITMI FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 1 - July 5, 2015 Rigas Ritmi Festival is one of the most attended and loved music festivals in Latvia, offering world- ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Maris Briezkalns famous as well as young and undiscovered artists GENRES Jazz • Ethnic on different stages throughout Rigas. Highlights for 2015 include vocalist Ester Rada, Paolo Fresu & Dan- TICKET PRICE RANGE $5 to $75 iele di Bonaventura, and the Latvian Radio Big Band TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION featuring. Allan Harris in A Tribute to Nat King Cole. Ticket Purchase Link LOCATION Rigas, Latvia: Various locations +371 67105220 [see festival map for details] BOOKING CONTACTS Maris Briezkalns, SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL SEASON 43: JULY 19 - AUGUST 24, 2015 Festival Website Artistic Director Incredible Variety. Beloved Favorites. Dazzling Discoveries. Social links
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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Shalin Liu Performance Center, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Visiting artists include Emanuel Ax, Peter Serkin, Rockport, MA Ticket Purchase Link Marc-Andre Hamelin, Benjamin Grosvenor, as well 978-546-7391 as the Jupiter, Shanghai, and Escher quartets. The Festival Website BOOKING CONTACTS David Deveau Boston Trio presents two national premieres of DATES June 5 - Aug 1, 2015 works that highlight the ocean by Sally Beamish, Booking cycle date range: Fall 2015 to early January with a multi-media display of ocean-related ARTISTIC DIRECTOR David Deveau 2016 for Summer 2016 artworks. Rising stars include violinist In Mo Yang, GENRE Classical cellist Cicely Parnas, and composer-pianist Matthew Social links Aucoin. Thematic programs include An Evening TICKET PRICE RANGE $19 to $93 of French Music and a Schubertiade with both instrumental and vocal works. Artistic Director Deveau performs in multiple collaborations, including Beethoven’s Archduke Trio and Schubert’s Piano Trio in E-flat. Also offered are open rehearsals, a master class, lectures, and family concerts.
2015 summer Festivals guide 33 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 ROUND TOP MUSIC FESTIVAL Excellence in musical training in the Nadia Boulanger tradition FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Round Top, TX: Festival Concert Saturday night Texas Festival Orchestra concerts: Hall and Edythe Bates Old Chapel June 6: Dietrich Paredes, conductor. James Dick, Festival Website piano. Gershwin Concerto in F. Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 DATES May 31 - July 12, 2015 EAMA June 13: Eiji Oue, conductor. Regis Pasquier, violin. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR James Dick Bernstein Serenade. Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 GENRE Classical June 20: Mariusz Smolij, conductor. Stefan TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $40 Milenkovich, violin. Dukas Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Chausson’s Poème. Ravel Tzigane. Berlioz Symphonie TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Fantastique Ticket Purchase Link European American Musical Alliance 979-249-3129 June 27: Perry So, conductor. Wagner Tannhäuser Overture and Bacchanale. Mahler Symphony No. 5 BOOKING CONTACTS Alain G. Declert Philip Lasser Director July 4: Christian Arming, conductor. Pavel Vinnitsky, Booking cycle date range: Summer 2015 for clarinet. Mozart The Magic Flute Overture and Summer 2017 Clarinet Concerto. Martinů Symphony No. 6 Social links COMPOSITION CONDUCTING DOUBLE VISION CHAMBER MUSIC July 11: Vladimir Kulenovich, conductor. James Dick, piano. Stravinsky Firebird Suite. Rachmaninoff Immersion Program in Paris, France Rhapsody. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. July 1-31
COMPOSITIONAL SEMINARS COUNTERPOINT GUEST ARTISTS ANALYSIS CLASSES KEYBOARD HARMONY PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES PIANO SONORITY SCORE READING MASTER CLASSES Classes at La Schola Cantorum in the heart of the Latin Quarter. Housing offered at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.
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2015 summer Festivals guide 34 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 THE SAN DIEGO MAINLY MOZART FESTIVAL THE SAN DIEGO MAINLY MOZART FESTIVAL, cont’d
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION La Jolla: The Auditorium at TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $85 Concerts with the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra, TSRI; Carlsbad: St. Elizabeth Seton Church; Michael Francis conductor, will be held on June Rancho Santa Fe: Fairbanks Ranch Country Club, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION 6, 10, 20 with repertoire by Mozart, Beethoven, Downtown San Diego: Balboa Theatre, Balboa Ticket Purchase Link Mendelssohn, and soloists pianist Jon Kimura Park: Timken Museum of Art 619-466-8742 Parker and violinists Benjamn Beilman and Simone Lamsmang. On June 13, Francis leads the MMFO Festival Website BOOKING CONTACTS Nancy Laturno Bojanic and San Diego Master Chorale in Mozart’s Mass in DATES May 8 - June 20, 2015 Booking cycle date range: Spring 2015 for Summer C minor. On June 17, concertmaster William Preucil 2016, Spring 2016 for leads the MMFO in Mozart’s Flute Concerto No. 1 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Michael Francis Summer 2017 (Jeffrey Khaner, soloist), Divertimento K. 137, and GENRE Classical Symphony No. 23; plus Vivaldi Violin Concerto for 3 Social links Violins and Violin Concerto for 4 Violins.
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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Santa Fe, NM: St. Francis TICKET PRICE RANGE $12 to $78 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival presents Auditorium in New Mexico world-renowned musicians in 42 extraordinary Museum of Art and The Lensic TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION concerts with music from Bach to Vivaldi, plus Albuquerque, NM: Simms Ticket Purchase Link celebrated contemporary composers. The New York Auditorium at Albuquerque 505-982-1890 Philharmonic’s Alan Gilbert conducts Mozart’s Gran Academy Partita on August 22 and Olivier Messiaen’s From BOOKING CONTACTS Steven Ovitsky Festival Website the Canyons to the Stars on August 23. The opening Booking cycle date range: Fall 2015 for Summer concert features works by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, DATES July 19 - Aug 24, 2015 2017 and Rossini; the closing is an All-Schubert Festival Finale. Among the noted Festival musicians are ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Marc Neikrug Social links Kirill Gerstein, Marc-André Hamelin, Anne-Marie GENRE Classical McDermott, Haochen Zhang, and the Dover, FLUX, Johannes, Miami, Miró, and Orion string quartets.
2015 summer Festivals guide 35 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 THE SANTA FE OPERA
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION The Santa Fe Opera, 301 Opera The Santa Fe Opera’s 59th festival features 37 Drive, Santa Fe, NM 87506 performances of five new productions, opening with The Daughter of the Regiment, starring Anna Festival Website Christy and Alek Shrader. Rising baritone Quinn DATES July 3 - Aug 29, 015 Kelsey makes his Santa Fe debut in the title role of Verdi’s Rigoletto and Italian conductor Jader ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Charles MacKay Bignamini makes his American debut. R. Strauss’ s GENRE Classical Salome will be presented in a production inspired Charles Dutoit James Levine by Sigmund Freud, led by David Robertson with TICKET PRICE RANGE $31 to $499 Alex Penda in the title role. La Finta Giardiniera Valery Gergiev Zubin Mehta features Heidi Stober, Susanna Phillips, and William TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Burden, with Chief Conductor Harry Bicket. Finally Ticket Purchase Link Manfred Honeck Gianandrea Noseda Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain gets its world 505-986-5900 or 800-280-4654 premiere starring Nathan Gunn; Miguel Harth- Social links blossom communication Musical excellence in the heart of the Swiss Alps Bedoya conducts.
SEAGLE MUSIC COLONY
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DIRECTOR(S) Darren K. Woods, Artistic The 2015 Seagle Music Colony centennial season Director; Tony Kostecki, includes Falstaff by Verdi, July 1-5, featuring Seagle General Director 1520 Music Colony alumnus Seth Mease Carico bass- GENRES Classical Veda Zuponcic, Artistic Director baritone in the title role; The Barber of Seville by Gavriel Heine, Music Director Rossini, July 15-18, sung in Italian with English TICKET PRICE RANGE $30 to $47.50 supertitles; Into the Woods by Sondheim, July 29-August 1; and Les Misérables by Schoenberg & TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION CHAMBER MUSIC Boublil, August 12-16. All mainstage performances Ticket Purchase Link feature the 32 Seagle Music Colony 2015 young 518-532-7875 SOLO PERFORMANCE artists accompanied by two pianos. BOOKING CONTACTS Tony Kostecki OPERA ORCHESTRA LOCATION 999 Charley Hill Road., Schroon Booking cycle date range: Fall 2015 for Lake, NY 12870 Summer 2016 ON MINNESOTA’S HISTORIC MESABI IRON RANGE Festival Website Social links July 1– July 21, 2015 | northernlightsmusic.org DATES June 20 - Aug 16, 2015
2015 summer Festivals guide 36 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 SHENANDOAH VALLEY BACH FESTIVAL IMMANUEL & HELEN OLSHAN
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Festival Website The festival’s 10 concerts include orchestral 2015 UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON | MOORES SCHOOL OF MUSIC music, choral music, chamber music, organ and DATES June 14 - June 21, 2015 harpsichord music, and a Leipzig service. Ticketed ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Kenneth Nafziger performances feature an all-Bach concert, all-Haydn FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA SERIES concert, and a mostly Gershwin concert with Porgy GENRE Classical Saturdays, 7:30 pm | Moores Opera House and Bess. Soloists are Veronica Chapman-Smith TICKET PRICE RANGE $22 to $27 June 6 (soprano), John Fulton (baritone), Joseph Gascho Franz Anton Krager, conductor (harpsichord), and several instrumentalists. Arthur TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Glenn Dicterow, violin soloist Haas (harpsichord), Martha McGaughey (viola da Ticket Purchase Link Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine gamba), and Linda Quan (violin) are the Baroque 540-432-4582 workshop faculty. Barber Violin Concerto BOOKING CONTACTS Mary Kay Adams Strauss Ein Heldenleben LOCATION Harrisonburg, VA: Lehman June 13 Auditorium (Eastern Mennonite University, 1191 Social links Park Road), First Presbyterian Church (17 Court Josep Caballé-Domenech, conductor Square) William VerMeulen, French horn soloist Verdi La forza del destino Overture DiLorenzo Phoenix SITKA SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL Prokofiev from the ballet Romeo and Juliet June 20 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION Harrigan Centennial Hall, Allen Lavard Skou Larsen, conductor Each week in June you can experience formal Hall, and various community locations in Sitka, AK Winner, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist concerts against the spellbinding backdrop of Competition Festival Website Southeast Alaska, plus special events such as a boat Beethoven Symphony No. 5 cruise or all-you-can-eat crab feed, informal concerts DATES June 3 - June 28, 2015 Stravinsky The Firebird Suite (1919) in cafe settings, outdoor concerts, and opportunities to meet the artists. Featured artists for 2015 include ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Zuill Bailey June 27 Rossen Milanov, conductor violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky, cellist Zuill Bailey, the GENRE Classical Matt Herskawitz Jazz Trio, pianists Navah Perlman Timothy Hester, piano soloist and Yuliya Gorenman, oboist Thom Moore, the TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $100 Elgar Cockaigne Overture PhotograPhy: Jeff grass Arianna String Quartet, and much more. Beethoven Concerto No. 3 TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION 907-747-6774 Schoenberg Pelleas and Melisande Social links More concerts and more information: www.tmf.uh.edu
2015 summer Festivals guide 37 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA Upcoming FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Festival Website Performances: World premiere of Paradise Interrupted, an installa- tion opera by artist, director, and designer Jennifer DATES May 22 - June 7, 2015 April 10 French Quarter Fest Wen Ma, composed by Huang Ruo and featuring DIRECTOR(S) Nigel Redden, General Director; Chinese singer Qian Yi; American premiere and Joe Miller, Director for Choral Activities; Geoff April 11-12 Pensacola Jazz Fest first performances in over 350 years of Veremonda, Nuttall, Director for Chamber Music; John l’amazzone di Aragona by Roberto Cavalli, conduct- Kennedy, Resident Conductor & Director of May 2 N.O. Jazz and Heritage Fest ed by Aaron Carpene; Bank of America Chamber Orchestral Activities Music Series with the St. Lawrence String Quartet and friends; Bach’s St. Matthew Passion featur- GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz See us live 7 Nights a week ing the Festival Orchestra and Westminster Choir; TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $100 David Lang’s little match girl passion; and orchestral A New NOLA Sound on the Steamboat Natchez works by Tan Dun, Samuel Barber, Jean Sibelius, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Toulouse Street Wharf and Michael Gordon, whose score for Bill Morrison’s Ticket Purchase Link Decasia will be performed with the film. 843-579-3100 DUKES of Dixieland LOCATION Charleston, SC Social links www.DUKESofDixieland.com (504) 299-9000 STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL, cont’d
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LOCATION 900 Strings Road, TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Under the direction of new Music Director Steamboat Springs, CO Ticket Purchase Link Michael Sachs, principal trumpet of the Cleveland 970-879-5056 Orchestra, the 2015 classical season features leading Festival Website players from U.S. orchestras in 12 performances. DATES June 15 - Aug 15, 2015 BOOKING CONTACTS Elissa Greene and Soloists include Jason Vieaux with harpist Yolanda Katie Carroll Kondonassis, Mark Nuccio on clarinet with the ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Michael Sachs Booking cycle date range: Fall 2015 for Strings Festival Orchestra, Cliburn Gold Medalist GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz Summer 2016 Olga Kern in recital, and Michael Sachs on the conductor’s podium and as a soloist. Chamber music TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $150 Social links and dance come together with the help of faculty from the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School & Camp. Non-classical artists include country’s Vince Gill, jazz trumpeter Chris Botti, country group Lonestar, and pop favorites Exile and Juice Newton.
2015 summer Festivals guide 38 musicalamerica.com • March 2015 TANGLEWOOD
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Andris Nelsons The 2015 Tanglewood season, June 19-Labor Day Weekend, boasts an abundance of musical GENRE Classical riches with concerts by the incomparable Boston TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $124 Symphony and Boston Pops orchestras, the Tanglewood Music Center, and internationally TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION acclaimed guest artists from the worlds of classical, Ticket Purchase Link jazz, the American Songbook, Broadway, pop/ 888-266-1200 rock, dance, and film, as well as performances BOOKING CONTACTs Tony Fogg spotlighting special anniversaries, thematic programming, and theatrical presentations. Booking cycle date range: Summer 2015 and earlier for Summer 2016 LOCATION Lenox, MA Social links Festival Website DATES June 19 - Aug 16, 2015
VERBIER FESTIVAL VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES July 17 - Aug 2, 2015 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS DATES April 10 - May 30, 2015 American maestro James Levine has chosen the Attacca String Quartet, performing in beautiful ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Robert W. Cross Verbier Festival for his return after eight long years ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Martin T:son Engstroem intimate settings, program includes Haydn String away from the European stage. The great maestro GENRE Classical Quartet No. 52 in E-flat, Rogerson String Quartet GENRES Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz Zubin Mehta—on the podium for the very first Fes- No. 2 (2013), Grieg String Quartet No. 1 in G minor. tival concert in July 1994—is returning for the first TICKET PRICE RANGE $42 to $212 Anonymous 4, a farewell performance. Cantus, TICKET PRICE RANGE $20 to $50 performing in two historic churches; Handel & time in seven years. The Verbier Festival Orchestra TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION Haydn Society, Ian Watson director and harpsichord, will also have the privilege of being led by Valery Ticket Purchase Link Ticket Purchase Link in historic setting of Williamsburg. Quicksilver Gergiev, Manfred Honeck, Gianandrea Noseda +41 (0) 848 771 882 877-741-2787 and—to bring the season to a fitting close—its Ensemble performing at the Williamsburg Winery. music director, Charles Dutoit. These six conductors BOOKING CONTACTS Manuel Lopez Baumann BOOKING CONTACTS Kimberly Schuette LOCATION Norfolk, Virginia Beach, and have made their mark on the Festival’s history and Williamsburg, VA Booking cycle date range: Fall 2015 for Spring 2017 no doubt they’ll add a new chapter this summer. Social links and 2018 Festival Website LOCATION Verbier, Switzerland Social links Festival Website
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