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The 2022 festival season feels like a joyous welcome home party after so long. Masks on or off, audiences and artists are lining up for live and in-person musical and terpsichorean performances in picturesque settings around the world, in vineyards, mountains, valleys, lakeshores, and amphitheaters historic and modern.

As usual, we’ve packed the Guide with the essentials, including dates, geographic and venue information, ticket prices and purchase links, pandemic safety links as needed, artistic directors, performers, web addresses, and social media links galore. Personally, we’ve already got one foot out the door, heading to the mountains, valleys, and any place in between for some serious music-making and listening. Hope you are too.

It is our pleasure to help you enjoy another summer season of music.

Amidst San Diego's ocean backdrop, La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest is a nationally recognized chamber music festival established by the local community in 1986. Each August, SummerFest assembles an outstanding roster of renowned musicians to perform a rich variety of presentations, and carries forward a legacy of commissioning new works.

The TIME:SPANS festival is dedicated to the presentation of primarily twenty-first century music. The festival is produced and presented by the Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust. Artistic Director for TIME SPANS is Thomas Fichter.

The Bethlehem Bach Festival is America's oldest Bach festival. The Mass in B Minor remains our centerpiece, performed by the 95-voice professional-quality volunteer choir, professional Bach Festival Orchestra, and world-renowned soloists under the direction of Greg Funfgeld, completing his 39-year tenure in 2022.

The Boston Early Music Festival offers GRAMMY Award-winning Baroque opera and is North America's premier Festival for Early Music.

500 years of music on period and modern instruments. BBF has commissioned new work, presented women and minority composers of yore and today, and has presented Impressionist, Expressionist, and Surrealist compositions on turn-of-the-century period instruments. J.S. Bach is contextualized by programs that explore music across time and across cultures.

An integral part of the organization's mission is to preserve and celebrate the life and music of John Coltrane in his hometown of High Point, NC. Importantly, this mission includes the enrichment of lives through jazz and other musical genres.

EMF's young artists, teaching artist faculty, and featured guests present concerts, master classes, and events each summer in Greensboro, NC—with three symphony orchestras, two chamber music series, and recitals, workshops, and special events, the Festival covers remarkable territory in five short weeks.

Presented biennially over three weeks in April and May, The Gilmore Piano Festival in Kalamazoo, MI, is recognized as America's most prestigious piano music festival and showcases some of the most notable and accomplished pianists in the world, along with artists just emerging on the international stage.

Ranked as a Top 10 Classical Music Festival by The New York Times, the Grand Teton Music Festival unites the country's best musicians for 8 weeks of symphonic and chamber music. Acclaimed Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles leads the festival, with the world's most talented soloists and conductors.

Join our season to perform online.

Concerts all the year—open your art to the world.

The Mann Center for the Performing Arts has served for many decades as Philadelphia's premier outdoor performing arts summer festival, presenting a wide array of cultural programming and popular events.

Music at the Anthology (MATA) is an incubator for adventurous emerging artists experimenting with composition, multimedia, collaborative performance art, and every imaginable sound in between. Founded in 1996, MATA has since developed into New York City's leading new music festival.

This 78-year-old school for conductors carries on the traditions started by founder Pierre Monteux, currently with only the third Music Director, Michael Jinbo, and all conductors must also play in the orchestra, thus learning from both sides of the podium.

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.

Grammy-winning Oregon Bach Festival has presented world-class music for more than five decades. Drawing audience and artists from all corners of the globe, and set against a beautiful backdrop of Oregon's natural landscape, OBF is a destination for music lovers of all kinds.

Set in an historic city and a prestigious seat of learning, the Oxford Piano Festival combines a world-class concert series with acclaimed pianists and a program of master classes for a dozen talented young participants drawn from across the globe, observed by a large contingent of piano enthusiasts.

America's oldest music festival, Ravinia presents a range of events, including the annual summer residency of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, as well as chamber music, jazz, country, and R&B, and popular artists. Ravinia's Steans Music Institute is the onsite conservatory for young professionals from around the world.

The Santa Fe Desert Chorale's annual summer festival, which features multiple concert programs, is one of the largest in the country. Our professional vocalists come to Santa Fe from all over the nation to perform as both exceptional ensemble singers and incredible soloists.

At the Santa Fe Opera, the show begins long before the first downbeat. Come early for a tailgate picnic in the parking lot and enjoy a performance presented in a dramatic outdoor theater with stunning views of the surrounding mountain landscape and colorful sunsets.

At the intersection of harmony, humanity, and nature, the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival gathers internationally-recognized artists and inquisitive audiences to celebrate the life and joy of great music.

Set on a 12,500-acre ranch against Montana's Beartooth Mountains, Tippet Rise Art Center hosts classical and contemporary music performances and exhibits large-scale, outdoor sculptures. Tippet Rise is anchored in the belief that art, music, architecture, and nature are intrinsic to the human experience, each making the others more resonant.

Fayetteville, Bentonvolle, and additional venues across northwest Arkansas

Aspen, Colorado

North Adams, Massachusetts

Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York

Camden, Maine

Multiple indoor and outdoor venues in Bergen, Norway

Locations in Berkeley and San Francisco, California

Lenox, Massachusetts; Sonoma, California; Saratoga Springs, New York; Barcelona, Spain

Locations in Great Barrington and Pittsfield, Massachusetts; and Chatham, New York

France: Besançon, Lons-le-Saunier, Dole, Luxeuil-les-Bains, Pontarlier

Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

Brunswick, Maine

Vail, Colorado

Bridgehampton and Water Mill, New York

Jacksonville, Oregon

Santa Cruz, California

Katonah, New York

Carmel-by-the-Sea, California

Carson City, Nevada—indoor and outdoor venues

Central City Opera House, Central City, Colorado

Locations in Portland and Beaverton, Oregon

Chautauqua, New York

Music Institute of Chicago, Evanston, Illinois

Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati, Ohio

Chautauqua Auditorium, Boulder, Colorado

Cork City & County, Ireland

Crested Butte and Gunnison, Colorado

Park City, Utah

Blank Performing Arts Center, Indianola, Iowa

Dresden, Germany

Drottningholm, Sweden

Old City of Dubrovnik, Croatia

Paris, France

Vác and Esztergom, Hungary

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Santander, Cantabria, Spain

Aix-en-Provence, France

Thiré (Vendée, France)

Aix-en-Provence, France

Various location in Granada, Spain

Various locations in Napa Valley, California

Cooperstown, New York

Online

Grafenegg Castle, Grafenegg, Austria

St. Michael's College, Colchester, Vermont

Gstaad, Saanenland, Switzerland

Halle (Saale), Germany

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

To be determined

Various locations in Istanbul, Turkey

Locations in Bad Kissingen, Germany

Lakefield, Ontario, Canada

Lake George, New York

Locations in Lucerne, Switzerland

Del Mar, California

Marlboro, Vermont

San Francisco, California

Columbia, Missouri

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Germany: Moritzburg, Meißen, Dresden

Móstoles, Madrid, Spain

Santa Barbara, California

Wineries in Napa Valley, California

Atherton, California

Breckenridge, Colorado

Norfolk, Connecticut

Libbey Bowl, Ojai, California

University of Houston, Houston, Texas

Loretto-Hilton Center, St. Louis, Missouri

Orcas Island, Washington

Locations in Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Shelter Island, New York

Prague and Tabor, Czech Republic

Locations in Ravenna, Italy

Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, Massachusetts

Teatro Argentina/Teatro Conciliazione, Rome, Italy

Round Top, Texas

Salzburg, Austria

Locations in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Saratoga Springs, New York

Schroon Lake, New York

Olsberg and Rheinfelden, Switzerland; Sulzburg, Germany

Charleston, South Carolina

Strings Pavilion, Steamboat Springs, Colorado

Sun Valley Pavilion, Sun Valley, Idaho

Lenox, Massachusetts

Lincoln Center, New York, New York; Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey

Tsinandali Estate, Georgia

Locations in Verbier, Switzerland

Southeastern Coastal Virginia: Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Newport News, Williamsburg

Vienna, Virginia