Aspen Music Festival
Each summer since 1949, the world's most accomplished and promising musicians have made a pilgrimage to Aspen.
They come not only to perform, but also to teach, to learn and to be renewed. This year, Music Director David Zinman leads 750 student musicians, as well as 200 guest artists and artist-faculty members through a glorious summer of camaraderie and music.
Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival & Institute at MASS MoCA
The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival & Institute at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art is dedicated entirely to
adventurous contemporary music. We will write it. We will perform it. We will think about it and we will talk about it. We will spend three weeks immersed
in recent music that has changed the world. Available studies include Balinese music workshops, improvisation, as well as performance coaching, master
classes, music business seminars and more. Composers will have their works performed. Players will perform publicly in ensembles sitting alongside their
teachers. There are daily performances in the museum galleries, free and open to the public. And the residency concludes with a six-hour blow-out Marathon
Concert featuring performances by the student/faculty ensembles.
Brevard Music Center
For seven weeks each summer, four hundred yound musicians, an accomplished faculty and renowned guest artists present
more than eighty concerts of great music.
Bowdoin International Music Festival
Founded in 1964, the Bowdoin International Music Festival incorporates a music school, two artists' concert series, and the
Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music during its six-week residency at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Two-hundred highly talented young performers of
graduate, college, and high school levels further their artistic development through a concentrated program of instrumental study and composition with the
festival's outstanding artist faculty, composed of many of the world's most renowned teachers and performers. Through its concert presentations, the
festival brings performers of international stature and a rich variety of musical programming to thousands of residents and summer visitors.
Domaine Forget International Festival
For over 25 years now, the Domaine Forget International Festival has reunited world-renowned musicians. The Festival has
earned an enviable reputation and has carved an important niche for itself, a privileged thoroughfare for musical traditions from all horizons. We will
celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Françoys-Bernier concert hall this summer. A special season is in store throughout the 2006 International Festival.
The construction of this unique venue, noted for its exceptional acoustics, was a turning point in our organization's history. From June 23 rd to August
26th, repertoire from the Renaissance to our era will be performed by renowned guest musicians. Soloists, chamber music, chamber and symphony orchestras,
jazz, and a few evenings of dance will be featured in addition to masterclasses and the Academy concerts. Appreciate the exceptional acoustics of the
Françoys-Bernier Hall, the beauty of the site at Domaine Forget, a rich musical season that is sure to surprise you!
Tanglewood
Today Tanglewood annually draws over 350,000 visitors. In addition to the concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, there
are weekly chamber music concerts, Prelude concerts and Open Rehearsals, the annual Festival of Contemporary Music, and almost daily concerts by the gifted
young musicians of the Tanglewood Music Center. The Boston Pops Orchestra appears annually, and in recent years the Tanglewood Jazz Festival has been added
to close the summer. The season offers not only a vast quantity of music but also a vast range of musical forms and styles, all of it presented with a
regard for artistic excellence that makes the festival unique.
The 14th World Saxophone Congress
The World Saxophone Congress is a festival gathering approximately 1000 saxophonists and other musicians from all over the
world. It is held once every three years at a different congress centre in a different country. The Congress presents an opportunity to meet saxophonists
from many countries and to listen to various concerts and performances of saxophone soloists, chamber ensembles, big bands and symphony orchestras that run
simultaneously throughout the day in different halls of the congress centre. Each of the five days is concluded by an evening concert of the orchestra and
outstanding international soloists. The Congress is also convened with the purpose of presenting the advancements of music production and distribution as
well as innovations in instrument-making and equipment. The concerts will be therefore accompanied by myriad other events running uninterruptedly on the
premises of Cankarjev dom: conferences, lectures, clinics, discussion panels, master-classes and exhibitions of instrument makers, additional equipment,
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