2018 GUIDE TO FESTIVALS
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Music Academy of the West Summer Festival
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WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS FESTIVAL
The Music Academy prizes and actively fosters community engagement. $10 Community Access tickets are available for all Summer Festival events, and free admission for young people ages 7 to 17 accompanied by ticketed adults.
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
The Music Academy of the West is an eight-week summer festival for 140 full scholarship fellows, 70 distinguished faculty and guest artists, and audiences in the tens of thousands. Highlights this summer include a new partnership with the London Symphony Orchestra that will bring musicians from the LSO to the festival; appearances by James Conlon, Stéphane Denève, Jeremy Denk, Gustavo Dudamel, Simon Keenlyside, the Takács Quartet, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Deborah Voigt. Some 200 public events incorporate orchestral concerts, fully staged opera, master classes in voice, orchestral instruments, and solo piano, chamber concerts, and guest artist recitals. Six composers-in-residence will coach fellows and speak about their work: Guillaume Connesson, Timothy Higgins, Hannah Lash, Elizabeth Ogonek, Caroline Shaw, and James Stephenson.
LOCATION
Santa Barbara, California
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DATES
June 18 - Aug 11, 2018
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Patrick Posey
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$10 to $100
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 805-969-8787
BOOKING CONTACTS
Patrick Posey, vice president of artistic planning and educational programs 805-695-7922
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