Under the artistic direction of David Finckel and Wu Han, Music@Menlo is a three-week Bay Area festival comprising concerts, artist-curated recitals, lectures, a training institute, and free public events. For its 18th season, "Haydn Connections," Music@Menlo celebrates the father of the Classical style, and explores the composer's life, music, and legacy. The festival presents over 50 events on its three stages in Atherton and Menlo Park with a stellar line up of 48 reknowned artists.

The National Repertory Orchestra (NRO) is breaking barriers among performance, education, and the community to develop the 21st-century classical musician. This year, the NRO celebrates its 60th-anniversary diamond concert season along with A Lifetime of Music under the baton of Music Director Carl Topilow. The eight-week festival includes two performances weekly at the Riverwalk Center just below the picturesque mountain landscape of Breckenridge, CO. Guest conductors include Teddy Abrams, Michael Stern, Joshua Weilerstein, and Marcelo Lehninger. Season highlights showcase Russian composers; "Fabulously French" works by Berlioz, Debussy, and Ravel; works by Barber, Beethoven, Brahms, Copland, Elgar, Mahler, Florence Pryce, John Williams and many more round out a loaded schedule of repertoire.

Continuing a 100-plus year musical tradition, the Yale School of Music's Norfolk Chamber Music Festival is a leader in the study and performance of chamber music. Each summer the Festival offers stellar concerts performed by acclaimed musicians from across the globe. Simultaneously, Norfolk offers three fully funded (tuition, housing, and meals) programs, each featuring intensive study with Festival artists and weekly performance opportunities. Norfolk's stunning grounds in the rolling hills of northwestern Connecticut combined with focused training by some of the world's greatest chamber artists offers fellows a pivotal and unforgettable experience.

In a continuation of WinterFest 2020's celebration of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, Off the Hook Arts presents SummerFest 2020, surveying the rich themes of Beethoven, transcendence, and healing over seven exhilarating concert series performances, two outstanding jazz concerts, and the eclectic, four-part "Dynamics" series of inspiring musical talks and performances, all featuring Off the Hook Arts' roster of world-class artists.

The 74th Festival with Music Director Matthias Pintscher will highlight progressive and forward-thinking composers of our generation while paying homage to early classical roots. Featuring a vast array of composers from the past six centuries, the program will connect the traditional with the contemporary, from Pierre Boulez, Olga Neuwirth and Pintscher.

Libbey Bowl, Ojai CA

June 11 - June 14, 2020

Chad Smith

Classical

$20 to $150

Telephone: 805-646-2053

        

Olshan Texas Music Festival brings 80of Classical music's rising stars from around the world to Houston each June to develop skills in orchestral, chamber music, and solo performance. Under the leadership of an exceptional performing artist/faculty, Orchestra Fellows perform four major orchestral programs. Conductors: Hans Graf, Franz Anton Krager, Gerard Schwarz. Soloists: Andrew Staupe, piano; Winner, Mitchell Young Artist Competition; Houston Symphony Chorus; vocal soloists TBA.

Additional summer institutes include: Building Your Craft (Voice), Middle and High School Jazz Institute.

OTSL's 2020 Festival Season features three all-new productions and the world premiere of Tobias Picker and Aryeh Lev Stollman's Awakenings. The season also includes Bizet's iconic Carmen, Strauss' effervescent Die Fledermaus, Floyd's powerful parable Susannah, and the annual Center Stage concert, highlighting the talents of OTSL's highly selective young artist programs.

Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival's 23rd Season brings a diverse lineup of artists and a wealth of musical moments featuring ten main-stage concerts, free pre-concert talks, a Children's Concert, and Open Rehearsals. Artistic Director and violinist-violist Aloysia Friedmann is joined by internationally acclaimed performers the Montrose Trio, the Kostov-Valkov Duo, violinists Daniel Ching, William Fedkenheuer, Jeffrey Thayer, and Sandy Yamamoto, violist Toby Hoffman, flutist Sandy Hughes, and pianist Jon Kimura Parker amongst others for this exciting island festival—Classical Music with a View.

Guest conductors Julian Wachner, Eric Jacobsen, and Miguel Harth-Bedoya, lead three Bach choral masterworks: Mass in B minor, St. John Passion, and St. Matthew Passion.

It is a particular joy to see alumni of the Festival return for a special concert on August 2. Collectively, they will traverse five of Beethoven's most varied sonatas as a prelude to Paul Lewis's performance of two titled sonatas and the Diabelli Variations later that evening. Distinguished guests making their festival debuts are Nelson Freire performing Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Oxford Philharmonic; pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja in the opening concert on 1 August; and new-music champion Alain Lefèvre. We look forward to seeing old friends Nikolai Lugansky and Richard Goode, while our master class series will include Vanessa Latarche, Yoheved Kaplinsky, and Menahem Pressler, the lifetime president of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra.

Led by esteemed cellist and teacher Merry Peckham, PMP's Chamber Music Workshop (CMW) continues to grow into one of the country's most prestigious summer chamber music programs. The workshop invites young artists ages 18 and up to devote three weeks to studying masterworks of the chamber repertoire with an exceptional roster of artist-faculty in Shelter Island, NY. Intensive rehearsals and coachings, absorbing master classes, late night sight-reading sessions and a marathon final concert weekend are all much-loved hallmarks of the workshop. Since 2003, the program has truly become a cherished place to hear today's most gifted young chamber musicians on Long Island's East End.

Open to violinists, violists, cellists, pianists, and ensembles, the CMW is led by an all-star artist-faculty: Kirsten Docter, Joseph Kalichstein, Joel Krosnick, Laurence Lesser, Merry Peckham, Director, Itzhak Perlman, Patrick Romano, Peter Salaff, Roger Tapping, Don Weilerstein, Vivian Hornik-Weilerstein, and Areta Zhulla.

Highlights include:

Playboy Jazz Festival returns to kick off the Bowl season with an all-star lineup, including St. Paul and The Broken Bones • Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science • Musiq Soulchild • The Crosscurrents Trio with Dave Holland, Zakir Hussain & Chris Potter • The Isley Brothers featuring Ronald and Ernie Isley • Artemis with Renee Rosnes • Anat Cohen • Ingrid Jensen • Allison Miller • Noriko Ueda and Nicole Glover • Femi Kuti & The Positive Force • Cimafunk • Mr. Sipp •The Mississippi Blues Child • Lean on Me: José James Celebrates Bill Withers • Incognito • Azar Lawrence with the Azar Lawrence Experience • and more

Classical Movements' Prague Summer Nights: Young Artists Music Festival (PSN) affords aspiring young professionals in the world of opera and orchestra the opportunity to perform in some of Europe's most historic venues and offers fully staged opera productions, orchestral performances, chamber music concerts, an opera scenes program, voice and concerto competitions, and even a cabaret concert. In 2020, PSN is proud to return to the historic Estates Theater, located in the heart of one of Europe's most beautiful and historic cities, Prague. Fully staged performances of Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro, with orchestra, will be presented on the stage of the Estates with professional sets and historic costumes from the National Theater.

The main theme of this year's Festival is "Sweet color of the Oriental sapphire," a quote from Dante's Commedia. The poet's idea of the East shared many traits of Byzantine Ravenna: It is likely that, when Dante described the sky, he had the starry mosaics of the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in mind. So whilst this year's theme revels in Ravenna's history, it will be matched by a more disturbing image, which marks a distance to that fabulous East. The Festival also looks at the threats Dante's Earthly Paradise is now witnessing as environmentalism becomes one of our greatest challenges. The 2020 program opens with Koyaanisqatsi, accompanied live by the Philip Glass Ensemble. This year's events also include the acclaimed production Carmina Burana by Fura dels Baus. Riccardo Muti leads two concerts with his Cherubini Orchestra, Valery Gergiev conducts a double event with the Mariinsky Orchestra, and Ivan Fischer leads the Budapest Festival Orchestra. The 100Cellos celebrate their instrument for a week of events.

The Festival returns for its second run in 2020, featuring soloists such as Sir András Schiff, The King's Singers, Maria João Pires, Leonidas Kavakos, Truls Mørk and Nelson Freire. This year's orchestras are Israel Philharmonic Orchestra with Lahav Shani, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with Manfred Honeck, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra with Yuri Temirkanov and Philharmonia.

Under the artistic direction of Barry Shiffman, the 2020 Rockport Chamber Music Festival celebrates the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven. From his Ninth Symphony with the jubilant "Ode to Joy" chorus opening the season to his groundbreaking final Quartet (Op. 131) closing the Festival Annex, audiences will hear Beethoven's genius through world-class performances of his sonatas, trios, quartets, and more. If that wasn't enough, the Festival also brings works from Vivaldi and Bach to Brahms and Liszt to intriguing new commissions. The Festival brings performances by such world-class artists as the Brentano Quartet, Miro Quartet, A Far Cry, pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, the Dover Quartet with pianist George Li, and much more.

2020 celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Round Top Festival and the 250th anniversary of L. van Beethoven's birth. All orchestral programs include at least one of his works and works by Shostakovich, Mussorgski-Ravel, Franck, Stravinsky, Dvorak and Ravel. Chamber music programs are mixing Beethoven and contemporary works. Click for full schedule.

Handel's Messiah staged by Robert Wilson; Strauss's Elektra; Mozart's Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflöte; Puccini's Tosca; Donizetti's Don Pasquale; Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov; Verdi's I vespri siciliani; Luigi Nono's Intolleranza 1960; Morton Feldman's Neither; public master class with Christa Ludwig. Singers include Cecilia Bartoli, Anna Netrebko, Javier Camarena, Ilda Abdrazakov, and others of equal calibre. Conductors will be Franz Welser-Möst, Joanna Mallwitz, Teodor Currentzis, Ingo Mettzmacher, Andris Nelsons, Riccardo Muti, Christian Thielemann, Gustavo Dudamel, and others. The Wiener Philharmoniker is the resident orchestra, and many guest orchestras will be participating as well.

Pianist Richard Goode returns for the first time in years to give a solo recital; violinist Leila Josefowicz makes her Festival debut playing Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time with pianist Gilles Vonsattel, cellist Peter Wiley, and clarinetist Ricardo Morales. Also featured: the newly formed Chien-Kim-Watkins Trio; the Dover and Escher string quartets in octets by Mendelssohn and Enescu; conductor James Gaffigan; piano-vocal recitals by mezzo-sopranos Michelle DeYoung and Sasha Cooke, tenor Paul Groves, pianist Pei-Yao Wang; debuts by countertenor Jakub Józef.

The all-professional Santa Fe Desert Chorale presents the 2020 summer festival of 11 concerts of three distinct programs under the unifying theme Unlikely Partners. The individual programs are titled "The Jew and the Gentile: Salamone Rossi and Claudio Monteverdi," "Roaring '20s," and "East Meets West." For the latter program, the Chorale will premiere a commissioned work for mixed chorus and tabla by its first female Composer-in-Residence in over a decade, Reena Esmail. Two vocal chamber music programs have been added to the program on Friday, July 17 and Friday, August 7, 2020.

The Winter Festival, Nochebuena, opens on December 12 and runs through December 22, 2020.

The Sarasota Music Festival is a magical combination of 40 acclaimed faculty artists performing intriguing and dazzling pieces with 60 students from around the country. Led by Music Director Jeffrey Kahane, the participants (ages 18-30) perform chamber music together and alongside the faculty. This year's concerts include an evening of Baroque music, Appalachian Spring and Milhaud Creation of the World led by Mr. Kahane from the piano, Mozart Symphony No. 39 conducted by Larry Rachleff, and more. Soloists include violinist Angelo Xiang Yu and pianist Vijay Venkatesh. Other highlights: a new work commissioned by the Festival for the ensemble YMusic and Jeffrey Kahane; open master classes and rehearsals. The large faculty is comprised of some of the world's finest musicians.

The Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) welcomes resident companies New York City Ballet, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) for the 2020 classical season. City Ballet's residency (July 14-18): the complete Swan Lake; Merce Cunningham's Summerspace; works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins; new pieces by Lauren Lovette and Justin Peck; New York City Ballet Orchestra led by Music Director Andrew Litton. The Philadelphia Orchestra under Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin (August 5-22): Beethoven's complete symphonic cycle in dialogue with newly commissioned works by Gabriela Lena Frank, Jessica Hunt, Carlos Simon, and Iman Habibi over four consecutive nights; Porgy and Bess with soprano Angel Blue and conductor Marin Alsop; Kevin Puts's Triple Concerto with Beethoven's Triple Concerto on back-to-back nights. Conductors Stéphane Denève and Louis Langrée and pianist Jonathan Biss also appear. The CMS (August 9-25): repertoire by Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart; Joan Tower and Amy Beach. Co-Artistic Directors David Finckel and Wu Han in residence all three weekends; performances by the Calidore String Quartet, cellist Inbal Segev, and violinist Francisco Fullana.

The 105th annual 2020 Seagle Music Colony Season includes Die Fledermaus by J. Strauss July 8-11, Cendrillon by Massenet July 22-25, Harmony (World Premiere) by Banks & Carl August 5-8, and Hello, Dolly! by Herman August 19-22

All mainstage performances feature the 32 Seagle Music Colony 2020 emerging artists accompanied by two pianos.

From June 14-121, 2020, the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival will once again bring unparalleled musical excellence to the Harrisonburg community for the 28th year.

Each week in June you can experience formal concerts against the spellbinding backdrop of Southeast Alaska, plus special events such as a boat cruise or all-you-can-eat crab feed, informal concerts in cafe settings, outdoor concerts, and opportunities to meet the artists.

Featured artists for 2020 include cellist Zuill Bailey, violinists Nikita Borisevich and Helen Kim, pianists Yuliya Gorenman, Natasha Paremski, and Awadagin Pratt, and much more.

Spoleto Festival USA's 44th season features more than 150 performances in opera, dance, theater, and music of all kinds, from choral, symphonic, and chamber to bluegrass and jazz. Highlights: the world premiere of a commissioned opera from Rhiannon Giddens titled Omar conducted byJohn Kennedy; Beethoven's Ninth Symphony led by Ruth Reinhardt with the Westminster Choirand Charleston Symphony Orchestra Chorus; Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Holst's The Planets in a program with Rhapsodic Overture from Charleston-born composer Edmund Thornton Jenkins; a recomposed rendition of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons from Max Richter; a screening of Jordan Peele's thriller Get Out with live orchestra performing the score by Michael Abels, who conducts; chamber music programs directed by Geoff Nuttall include the St. Lawrence String Quartet, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, composer-in-residence Jessica Meyer, and many more.

Under the direction of Music Director Michael Sachs, the festival in its 33 years has featured musicians from all 25 top U.S. orchestras. This season features principal players and concertmasters sharing the stage during an eight-week season featuring 13 classical performances. The festival continues Strings' tradition of featuring contemporary artists, from national touring acts and nostalgic favorites to innovative new performers. More than 70 Grammy-winning artists have performed at Strings Pavilion, a 500-seat concert hall that is the centerpiece of the summer festival as well as more than 75 performances year-round.

The 36th Sun Valley Music Festival commemorates the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth with orchestral performances, chamber music recitals, and guest lectures, all free to the public. On opening night, pianist Orion Weiss performs Beethoven's Emperor Concerto, followed by his Piano Sonata No. 23, Appassionata, on July 30. Highlights include performances by pianist Daniil Trifonov and violinist Leila Josefowicz; Kevin Puts's new triple concerto, a Festival co-commission, with the string trio Time for Three. Some orchestral programs juxtapose the old and the new, such as Jennifer Higdon's blue cathedral with Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, or Missy Mazzoli's These Worlds in Us with Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3, or Debussy's La Mer alongside Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. Amarillo Symphony Music Director Jacomo Bairos conducts a pops concert with The Villalobos Brothers; Alasdair Neale leads Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique to close the season.

The 2020 Tanglewood season presents several major musical events, including an Andris Nelsons-led performance of Act III of Tannhäuser, Paul Lewis performing all five Beethoven piano concertos, a weekend-long celebration of Isaac Stern on the 100th anniversary of his birth, a Boston Pops presentation of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back under the direction of Keith Lockhart, "Film Night" hosted by John Williams, Thomas Adès directing the 2020 Festival of Contemporary Music, and a Popular Artist series with Ringo Starr, Trey Anastasio, Brandi Carlile, the Mavericks with Los Lobos, Judy Collins and Arlo Guthrie, Patti LaBelle, James Taylor, and John Legend. Alongside these programs taking place in the Koussevitzky Music Shed will be intimate chamber music and recital concerts in Ozawa Hall and engaging and thought-provoking activities in the Linde Center, which opened to great popular and critical acclaim in 2019. Giants of the classical music field and beloved Tanglewood guest artists Emanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Pamela Frank, Susan Graham, Leonidas Kavakos, Midori, Yo-Yo Ma, and Gil Shaham perform alongside 22 artists making their Tanglewood debuts, as well as the talented musicians of the Tanglewood Music Center, the BSO's famed summer music academy, which presents free and discounted concerts all summer long.

Will Crutchfield's Teatro Nuovo presents semi-staged productions of Rossini's Maometto Secondo and the American premiere of Il Vero Omaggio at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall in Manhattan. Aleks Romano, Alina Tamborini, Hannah Ludwig, Enrique Guzmán, Hans Tashjian, and other rising, young, Bel Canto talents star in these performances following weeks of intensive training led by Crutchfield.

Crutchfield and Associate Artistic Director Jakob Lehmann share musical leadership. In the company's third summer, it will again showcase the critically-acclaimed Teatro Nuovo Orchestra, a hand-picked ensemble hailed as "transformative" (The Wall Street Journal) in these American presentations of 19th century operas on period instruments.

Teatro Nuovo continues the work of the widely-heralded Bel Canto at Caramoor training program. Its festival also offers additional daily vocal and instrumental concerts and a full range of master class, lecture, and panel-discussion events.

March 31, 7 pm, Arnold Kats State Concert Hall, Novosibirsk. Trans-Siberian premieres The Guardian-Angel. Arvo Pärt: Symphony No. 4, Los Angeles; Passacaglia for Violin and Orchestra; La Sindone for Violin and Orchestra (world premiere); Brahms Symphony No. 1. Andres Mustonen (conductor), Vadim Repin

For soloists, the glittering array includes pianists Behzod Abduraimov, Leif Ove Andsnes (who also conducts) and Fazil Say, violinists Vilde Frang and Joshua Bell, violist Lawrence Power and conductors Gábor Takács-Nagy and Pablo Heras-Casado.

The Verbier Festival, now in its 27th year, returns for 17 days of concerts, masterclasses, talks and education events in the picturesque setting of the Swiss Alps (July 17-August 2). 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven, and the Festival pays tribute to him with his works, influences and those he has inspired. More than 90 world-class artists come together for over 60 mainstage concerts across the Festival.

The Festival's key mission is to encourage encounters between great musicians and young aspiring artists from around the world. Audiences witness these unique encounters and partnerships through the Festival's programme of concerts set in the unrivalled surroundings of Verbier, with its two main venues, the Salle des Combins and Église de Verbier. The 2020 programme includes over 90 leading international artists who will perform solo, chamber and orchestral concerts alongside the next generation of artists in the Verbier Festival Academy, Verbier Festival Orchestra and Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra. Succeeding the celebrations of its quarter century, the 2019 edition resulted in positive revenue and ticket sales, despite another major event taking place during the same time (Feast of Winegrowers). The Festival continues to reinforce its place in the cultural landscape as an unmissable event for audiences worldwide.

Alongside the big names such as Evgeny Kissin, Mischa Maisky, Denis Matsuev, Mikhail Pletnev and Pinchas Zukerman, legends of classical music are making their long-awaited return to the Festival after more than five years of absence: Martha Argerich, Nelson Freire, Stephen Kovacevich and René Pape.

In its 24th season, Virginia Arts Festival will light up stages throughout Coastal Virginia in spring 2020, with spectacular performances of world-renowned artists. Classical music fans can enjoy a celebration of the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven, when Virginia Symphony Orchestra performs Beethoven's towering Ninth Symphony, in concerts featuring pianist Olga Kern and conductor JoAnn Falletta. There's a marvelous mix of musical styles, with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and Britain's Kingdom Choir, banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck, rejoining the Flecktones for a 30th anniversary show, and the always-amazing public radio hit Live From Here, featuring Chris Thile and a lineup of great guests.

This season's festival highlights include John Legend, India's A.R. RAHMAN, Train, Steve Martin and Martin Short, The Avett Brothers, Steely Dan with special guest Steve Winwood, Barenaked Ladies "Last Summer on Earth Tour," David Gray plus a Wolf Trap exclusive performance by Brandi Carlile with the National Symphony Orchestra with special guest Tanya Tucker. Indie bands include The Head and the Heart, Andrew Bird and Calexico and Iron & Wine, The National, and The Decemberists. Latin music artists appearing include Pitbull, Ruben Blades and Fonseca & Andrés Cepeda in addition to classical hip-hop duo Black Violin, and English progressive rock band King Crimson and more.

Wolf Trap Opera's summer season features Puccini's La bohème at the Filene Center, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers. The National Symphony Orchestra's (NSO) concerts at Wolf Trap include Star Spangled Symphony featuring pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet performing Gershwin's Piano Concerto, plus The Planets: An HD Odyssey, and family film nights, including Star Wars: A New Hope in Concert, and The Princess Bride in Concert.