From Classical trios by Mozart, to a chamber opera by Bright Sheng combining Chinese and Western elements, to new arrangements of works by Duke Ellington and Jefferson Airplane, in addition to performances ranging from pianist André Watts, to Imani Winds, to pipa player Wu Man, we’re reveling in everything chamber music can be! Highlights include the Beyond the Cultural Revolution series in which CMNW explores contemporary Chinese music. Other highlights: works by Jeff Scott, Andy Akiho, John Luther Adams, J. P. Redmond, Valerie Coleman, as well as Mozart, Dvořák, Beethoven, and more, and performances by Cho-Liang Lin, David Shifrin, the Dover Quartet, the Miró Quartet, and many, many more.

Portland, Oregon

June 25 - July 29, 2018

David Shifrin

Classical

$10 to $64

Telephone: 503-294-6400

Highlights of the 15th annual summer festival in Park City include: Kristin Chenoweth with the Utah Symphony performing Broadway favorites; folk-rock singer/songwriter Amos Lee and “Jessie’s Girl” Grammy Award-winning Australian vocalist Rick Springfield with the Utah Symphony; John Williams soundtracks accompanying Hollywood’s blockbuster movies; tributes to Swedish pop sensation ABBA, the music of the ‘80s, and the music of Pink Floyd with the Utah Symphony.

Disney in Concert "A Silly Symphony Celebration." Tributes to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Sondheim; the 1812 Overture featuring live cannon fire from Cannoneers of the Wasatch; four chamber orchestra programs featuring Utah Symphony principal players performing in the beautiful setting of St. Mary’s Church.

Park City, Utah: Deer Valley's Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater and St. Mary's Church

June 30 - Aug 11, 2018

Anthony Tolokan

Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz

Telephone: 801-533-6683

Blank Performing Arts Center, Indianola, Iowa

June 22 - July 15, 2018

Michael Egel

Classical • Opera

$37 to $98

Telephone: 515-961-6221

Samuel Carroll, Artistic Administrator

The Japanese master choreographer and multitalented artist Saburo Teshigawara will be staging Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera-ballet Pygmalion this summer. Cast includes Anders J. Dahlin and Kerstin Avemo. Swedish director Pia Forsgren will be creating The Siblings of Mantua, a newly written Baroque opera with some of the leading artists of the contemporary arts. "We’ve invited artists with very distinguished careers within the contemporary performing arts to create something new in our unique theatre environment," says Sofi Lerstrom, artistic and managing director.

Drottningholm, Sweden

July 28 - Sept 22, 2017

Sofi Lerström/Maria Lindal

Classical

$40 to $125

Telephone: +46 771707070

Advanced, expert training for the emerging professional and student. The EAMA—Nadia Boulanger Institute offers courses in Counterpoint, Keyboard Harmony, Score Reading, and Musical Analysis for Composers, Conductors, and Performers. Tuition Scholarships available to qualified candidates.

Intensive workshops and seminars in piano sonority, orchestration, and the art song. Resident string quartet workshops pieces. Student choir performs works written during the program. Performance opportunities at La Salle Franck of the Schola Cantorum on Paris’s lively left bank.

Paris, France

July 1 - July 29, 2018

Philip Lasser

Classical

$0 to $3450

Telephone: 646-369-0527

Spring 2018 for July 2018

The 2018 edition of Festival d’Aix will celebrate its 70th anniversary and also mark the conclusion of Bernard Foccroulle’s 11-year tenure as general manager. Among the highlights are Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos conducted by Marc Albrecht and directed by Katie Mitchell (Lise Davidsen as Ariadne, Sabine Devieilhe as Zerbinetta, and Eric Cutler as Bacchus); Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas conducted by Václav Luks and directed by Vincent Huguet (soprano Kelebogile Pearl Besong as Dido and baritone Tobias Greenhalgh as Aeneas); and Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel conducted by Kazushi Ono and directed by Mariusz Treliński (Ausrine Stundyte as Renata; Scott Hendricks as Ruprecht). The Festival will also feature the premiere of new-wave Czech composer Ondřej Adámek’s Seven Stones, an a cappella opera for four solo vocalists and a 12-member choir; the premiere of the participatory opera Orfeo & Majnun, which combines an urban parade with an outdoor opera, by Moneim Adwan, Howard Moody, and Dick van der Harst; and the revival of Simon McBurney’s celebrated 2014 staging of The Magic Flute.

Musical promenades and short baroque music concerts by the musicians and singers of Les Arts Florissants in the gardens of William Christie; concerts on the reflecting pool; great open-air baroque music concerts with Les Arts Florissants, conducted by William Christie and Paul Agnew; plus, candlelit concerts of sacred baroque music in the peaceful setting of the Thiré medieval church.

Vendée, France

Aug 25 - Sept 1, 2018

William Christie & Paul Agnew

Classical

$9 to $30

Telephone: +33 (0)2 28 85 85 70

July 20, 2018: Festival Napa Valley begins with a performance by soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor Bryan Hymel, accompanied by the Blackburn Music Academy Orchestra. Opening weekend continues with a performance by Compay Segundo, celebrating the music of Cuba, on Saturday, July 21.

Throughout the week of July 23, featured artists include Lea Solanga, Arturo Sandoval, and three winners of the most prestigious international piano competitions. On July 26, Joshua Bell returns to the festival for The Red Violin live with the Festival Orchestra NAPA, conducted by Michael Stern, to honor composer-in-residence John Corigliano during his 80th birthday year.

Closing weekend brings the Dede Wilsey Dance Gala, with American Ballet Theater principal Isabella Boylston, and a Bernstein Centennial program, with Michael Fabiano, Larisa Martínez, and the Festival Orchestra NAPA, conducted by Lawrence Foster.

Various venues across Napa Valley, California

July 20 - July 29, 2018

Richard Walker, President & CEO; Charles Letourneau, Executive Producer

Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Ethnic

$2 to $10000

Telephone: 888-337-627

Fall 2017 for Summer 2018.

The Glimmerglass Festival is a one-of-a-kind summer destination. The scenic campus lies on the shore of sparkling Otsego Lake in Cooperstown, New York, nestled between the Adirondack and Catskill mountains. Each season, the company presents new productions of opera and musical theater, accompanied by myriad concerts, lectures, and a world-premiere youth opera. As its core offerings in 2018, Glimmerglass presents new mainstage productions of Bernstein’s West Side Story, Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, and Kevin Puts’s Silent Night. Additional mainstage events include appearances by Thomas Hampson, Eric Owens, Margaret Atwood, and Bill Murray, Jan Vogler and Friends. The Festival is completed by additional concerts, cabarets and Ben Moore and Kelley Rourke’s youth opera Odyssey.

7300 State Highway 80, Cooperstown, New York

July 7 - Aug 25, 2018

Francesca Zambello, Artistic & General Director; Joseph Colaneri, Music Director

Classical

$26 to $149

Telephone: 607-547-2255

Christopher Powell, Director of Artistic Operations

We offer daytime lectures that teach the Taubman Approach and evening concerts featuring talented pianists on the idyllic campus of Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon

July 29 - Aug 4, 2018

Edna Golandsky, founder and artistic director

Classical

$15 to $25

Telephone: 877-343-3434

This year, the Grand Teton Music Festival takes inspiration from the Bernstein centenary to celebrate American music at the foot of the majestic Teton Mountains. The seven-week season kicks off with a Patriotic Pops concert on July 4. Opening week continues with concerts featuring star pianist Daniil Trifonov performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1 (July 6 & 7). Conductor Markus Stenz and violinist Leila Josefowicz appear in a performance of John Adams’s Scheherazade.2 and Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony. On July 19, Broadway sensation Audra McDonald stars in a special fundraising gala concert, and later in the week, pianist Kirill Gerstein and conductor Stéphane Denève team up for a program of Gershwin and Bernstein. Cellist Johannes Moser and Music Director Donald Runnicles lead the Festival Orchestra in a performance of Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 on July 27 & 28. Julian Rachlin doubles as soloist and conductor in a program of Mendelssohn and Mozart (August 3 & 4). On August 10 & 11, mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor makes her return in the penultimate weekend of orchestral concerts with Mahler’s Symphony No. 3. The festival closes with a concert adaptation of Bernstein’s West Side Story with full cast.

The 2018 season features two world premieres, including a string quartet by Syrian-American composer Kareem Roustom, and a piece for orchestra by Sean Shepherd (co-commissioned with the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music). Orchestral works, chamber music, lectures, and movies complete the season, with bassist Edgar Meyer, pianist Olga Kern, Canadian Brass, and Dover Quartet appearing in chamber and recital programs.

Teton Village in Jackson Hole, Wyoming

July 3 - Aug 18, 2018

Donald Runnicles

Classical

$0 to $200

Telephone: 307-733-1128

Spring 2018 for Summer 2019