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THE 2020 GUIDE TO SUMMER FESTIVALS
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2020 Summer Festivals
The Music Teachers National Association /
Musical America Worldwide Guide
While the 2020 Guide to Summer Festivals is packed with more than 100 festivals, this Guide is also as much an expression of hope as it is of planning in this unpredictable time.
Festivals’ status and schedules are in continual flux, as you might imagine, so this Guide accurately reflects everyone’s plans for the coming season. We urge you to check with the individual events to confirm; we will be updating these pages as we receive new information.
Musical America’s 2020 Festival Guide offers a wealth of robust programming plans and we hope to see them come to fruition.
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GUIDE TO SUMMER FESTIVALS 2020
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 Santa Fe, New Mexico
At the Santa Fe Opera, the show begins long before curtain. Opera fans come early for tailgate parties in the parking lot, preview dinners, or the prelude talks. Performances of the highest quality are presented in a dramatic theater with stunning views of the surrounding mountain landscape. |
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 The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York, New York
TIME:SPANS is dedicated primarily to the presentation of twenty-first century music. The festival is produced and presented by The Earle Brown Music Foundation (EBMF). Artistic director for TIME:SPANS is Thomas Fichter. |
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Chautauqua Auditorium, Boulder, Colorado
Colorado Music Festival is dedicated to presenting the best of classical music--the work of living composers as well as music by masters of the canon--in Boulder, Colorado's Chautauqua Auditorium, nestled at the base of the Rocky Mountains and known for its natural beauty and magnificent acoustics.
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Various location in New York, New York
Canceled. See website for more information.
IKIF participant students have the opportunity to hear their teachers in performance and can choose the teachers or teachers they wish to study with during the festival. The public can attend masterclasses and concerts as auditors. The IKIF Competition will award $10,000 plus a performance opportunity at IKIF 2021.
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| Merola Opera Program 2020 Summer Festival | |
San Francisco, California
The Merola Opera Program is widely regarded as the foremost opera training program for aspiring singers, coach accompanists, and stage directors. Merola nurtures the opera stars of tomorrow, presents operatic works that reach a diverse audience, and provides community outreach through educational programs for students and the general public.
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Hancock, Maine
Canceled. See website for more information.
77th Season of the historic school for conductors and orchestral musicians founded by French Conductor, Pierre Monteux, in Hancock, Maine.
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Inspiration Point, Eureka Springs, Arkansas
Canceled. See website for more information.
70 years of experience in running a young artist festival with over 3,000 alumni, many of whom are now singing on the best stages in the world. We are the only summer opera festival of its type in the south central states.
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Fishtail, Montana
Set on a 12,000-acre working ranch against Montana's Beartooth Mountains, Tippet Rise Art Center presents classical chamber music and recitals and exhibits large-scale, outdoor sculptures. Tippet Rise celebrates the concept that art, music, architecture, and nature are inextricably linked in the human experience, each making the others more powerful.
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Durham, North Carolina
Canceled. See website for more information.
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Fayetteville, Bentonville, Rogers, and additional venues across northwest Arkansas
Event suspended. See website for more information.
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Aspen, Colorado
Schedule shifted: two-week delay, season abridged to six weeks.
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Various locations in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
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Annandale-On-Hudson, New York
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Bayreuth, Germany
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Lenox and Boston, Massachusetts; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Barcelona, Spain
Canceled. See website for more information.
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France: Besançon, Belfort, Lons-le-Saunier, Dole
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Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
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Boston and Great Barrington, Massachusetts
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Vail, Colorado
Postponed to July 1-August 6, 2020. See website for details.
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Bridgehampton, New York
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Santa Cruz, California
Canceled. See website for more information.
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Katonah, New York
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Wien, Austria
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Carson City, Nevada
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Central City, Colorado
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Portland, Oregon
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Chautauqua, New York
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Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky
Canceled. See website for more information.
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Cork City & County, Ireland
Canceled. See website for update information.
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Crested Butte and Gunnison, Colorado
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Park City, Utah
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Indianola, Iowa
Canceled. See website for more information.
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Dresden, Germany
Canceled. See website for more information.
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Drottningholm, Sweden
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Old City of Dubrovnik, Croatia
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Paris, France
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Various locations in Greensboro, North Carolina
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Aix-en-Provence, France
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Thiré, Vendée, France
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Various locations in the Lanaudière region, Quebec, Canada
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Various location in Granada, Spain
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Various locations in Napa Valley, California
Postponed until 2021. See website for more information.
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Various locations in Kalamazoo and East Lansing, Michigan
Canceled. See website for more information.
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Cooperstown, New York
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Hayward, California
Canceled. See website for more information.
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Grafenegg, Austria
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Jackson Hole, Wyoming
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Burlington, Vermont
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Gstaad and Saanenland, Switzerland
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Hitzacker, Germany
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Suzhou, China
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Various locations in Istanbul, Turkey
Postponed to a later date. See website for details.
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Various locations in Istanbul, Turkey
Event suspended until second half of September, 2020. See website for more information.
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La Jolla, California
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Ontario, Canada
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Lake George, New York
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Various locations in Reims, France
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Various locations in Lucerne, Switzerland
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San Diego, California
Suspended. See website for more information.
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Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Columbia, Missouri
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Canceled. See website for more information.
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Dresden, Germany
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Lincoln Center, New York, New York
Canceled. See website for more information.
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Würzburg, Germany
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Santa Barbara, California
Festival postponed until July 13; Academy to begin as scheduled and online as Music Academy Remote Learning Institute.
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Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
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Napa Valley Wineries, Napa Valley, California
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Atherton, California
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Breckenridge, Colorado
Canceled. See website for more information.
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Norfolk, Connecticut
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Fort Collins, Colorado
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Ojai, California
Canceled. See website for more information.
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University of Houston, Houston, Texas
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Various locations in St. Louis, Missouri
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Orcas Island, Washington
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Eugene, Oregon
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Oxford, United Kingdom
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Shelter Island, New York
Virtual programming in 2020
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Los Angeles, California
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Prague and Tabor, Czech Republic
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Ravenna, Italy
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Riga and Jurmala, Latvia
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Rockport, Massachusetts
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Round Top, Texas
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Salzburg, Austria
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Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Various locations in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Sarasota, Florida
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Saratoga Springs, New York
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Schroon Lake, New York
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Harrisonburg, Virginia
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Sitka, Alaska
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Charleston, South Carolina
Canceled. See website for more information.
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Steamboat Springs, Colorado
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Various locations in Sun Valley, Idaho
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Lenox, Massachusetts
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Lincoln Center, New York, New York
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Various locations in Russia: Novosibirsk; Krasnoyarsk; Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk Regions; Samara; Tyumen; Tobolsk; St Petersburg; Moscow; and stops in France and Japan
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Tsinandali Estate, Kakheti, Georgia
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Various locations in Verbier, Switzerland
Canceled. See website for more information.
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Southeastern Coastal Virginia—Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Newport News, Williamsburg
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Vienna, Virginia
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