2022 GUIDE TO FESTIVALS
Music Academy of the West Summer School & Festival
Music Academy of the West Summer School & Festival
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
140 fellows from multiple countries study, perform, and participate in master classes with exceptional faculty, teaching artists, and guest speakers, as well as forge close connections with community members. Fellows and alumni receive invaluable career-advancement opportunities through the Academy’s Innovation Institute and its partnerships. Signature events of the Festival for audiences will include master classes, chamber concerts by fellow and faculty ensembles and featured guest conductors, side-by-side performances, and competitive events.
LOCATION
Santa Barbara, California
WEBSITE
DATES
June 13 - August 6, 2022
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Jamie Broumas
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$10 to $100
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 805-969-8787
BOOKING CONTACTS
Jamie Broumas, chief artistic officer
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Music in the Vineyards
Music in the Vineyards
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Celebrate the 28th season of Music in the Vineyards, the nationally acclaimed chamber music festival held each summer in the Napa Valley. Each concert, set amidst a winery, barrel room, or wine cave venue, is hosted by Artistic Director Michael Adams, whose irreverent introductions and program notes are a beloved feature. The 2022 season will welcome more than 30 artists from around the world and three renowned string quartets: The Pacifica, the Escher, and, making their debut, the Maxwell Quartet from Scotland, known equally for its virtuosity in the classics and folk music from the British Isles. Also new this season is an evening of classic silent films, accompanied by newly composed music that re-creates the experience of moviegoers in the early days of cinema.
LOCATION
Wineries in Napa Valley, California
WEBSITE
DATES
August 3-21, 2022
PANDEMIC & SAFETY
ARTISTIC DIRECTORS
Michael and Daria T. Adams
GENRES
Classical • Chamber Music
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$65 to $70
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 707-258-5559
BOOKING CONTACTS
Evie Ayers, executive director
Booking cycle date range
Fall 2022 for summer 2023
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Music@Menlo
Music@Menlo
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Music@Menlo celebrates its 20th anniversary this summer with “Haydn Connections,” honoring a seminal figure in Western classical music. The festival includes eight concert programs, three artist-curated Carte Blanche Concerts, three full-evening Encounter lectures, and a host of free events including master classes and performances by the students of Music@Menlo's Chamber Music Institute. Concerts will be presented both in person and via livestream. The extensive artist roster includes festival founders David Finckel and Wu Han, pianists Michael Brown and Gilbert Kalish, violinists Bella Hristova and Arnaud Sussmann, violists Matthew Lipman and Paul Neubauer, cellists Nicholas Canellakis and Inbal Segev, the Calidore and Orion String Quartets, soprano Sasha Cooke, and tenor Nicholas Phan.
LOCATION
Atherton, California
WEBSITE
DATES
July 14 - August 6, 2022
PANDEMIC & SAFETY
ARTISTIC DIRECTORS
David Finckel and Wu Han
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$20 to $84
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 650-331-0202
BOOKING CONTACTS
Booking cycle date range
Summer/fall 2022 for summer 2023.
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National Repertory Orchestra
National Repertory Orchestra
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
The National Repertory Orchestra (NRO) is breaking barriers among performance, education, and community to develop the 21st-century classical musician. For eight weeks during the summer, audiences can enjoy the NRO’s music festival in the charming mountain town of Breckenridge, CO, and surrounding areas in the Rocky Mountains. The 2022 season will feature Music Director Michael Stern. Guest conductors include NRO Music Advisor Carl Topilow, Teddy Abrams, Nicholas McGegan, Jason Seber, Steven Schick, and Tania Miller. Guest artists are Joshua Bell, violin, and Larisa Martinez, soprano. Jamie Bernstein will also speak during the festival.
LOCATION
Breckenridge, Colorado
WEBSITE
DATES
June 25 - August 13, 2022
PANDEMIC & SAFETY
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Michael Stern
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$5 to $50
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 970-453-5825
BOOKING CONTACTS
Booking cycle date range
Autumn 2022 for summer 2023
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Norfolk Chamber Music Festival
Norfolk Chamber Music Festival
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
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 chamber 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. In addition to being featured on their own concert series, Norfolk fellows perform alongside their mentors on Norfolk's Festival Artist Series concerts.
LOCATION
Norfolk, Connecticut
WEBSITE
DATES
June 23 - August 20, 2022
PANDEMIC & SAFETY
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Melvin Chen
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$10 to $60
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 860-542-3000
BOOKING CONTACTS
James Nelson, general manaager
Booking cycle date range
Summer 2022 for summer 2023 and 2024
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Ojai Music Festival
Ojai Music Festival
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
The 75th-anniversary season features as its music director the AMOC (American Modern Opera Company), a multi-disciplinary collective of today's most inventive and adventurous musicians, singers, composers, choreographers, and dancers. The 2022 edition—June 9 to 12—reflects the openness and experimentation that are signature traits of Ojai, from Messiaen's song cycle Harawi and a Bach-inspired program to Anthony Cheung's new commission featuring works by Asian-American poets to the world premiere of Matthew Aucoin's Family Dinner, a cycle of new mini-concertos. The enchanting setting of the Ojai Valley creates a relaxed sense of community with no great divide between playing and listening. Instead, there is an informal bond that brings kindred spirits together for exploration and adventure.
LOCATION
Libbey Bowl, Ojai, California
WEBSITE
DATES
June 9-12, 2022
PANDEMIC & SAFETY
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Ara Guzelimian
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$20 to $150
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 805-646-2053
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Olshan Texas Music Festival Orchestral Institute
Olshan Texas Music Festival Orchestral Institute
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Olshan Texas Music Festival brings 80 of classical music's rising stars from around the world to Houston each June to develop skills in orchestral music, chamber music, and solo performance. Under the leadership of an exceptional performing artist/faculty, orchestra fellows perform three major orchestral programs. Additional summer institutes include: Building Your Craft (Voice), High School Jazz Institute, and Keyboard Academy
LOCATION
University of Houston, Houston, Texas
WEBSITE
DATES
June 7-25, 2022
PANDEMIC & SAFETY
GENERAL & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Alan Austin
GENRES
Classical • Jazz
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$15 to $30
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 713-743-3388
BOOKING CONTACTS
Booking cycle date range
2022 for summer 2023
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Opera in the Ozarks
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Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
OTSL's 2022 Festival Season features two beloved classics and two world premieres, in addition to two concert events:
Carmen by Georges Bizet •The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Awakenings by Tobias Picker and Aryeh Lev Stollman (world premiere) • Harvey Milk by Stewart Wallace and Michael Korie (premiere of new edition) • Center Stage Concert (a young artist showcase) • Black Music Month Concert
LOCATION
Loretto-Hilton Center, St. Louis, Missouri
WEBSITE
DATES
May 21 - June 26, 2022
PANDEMIC & SAFETY
DIRECTORS
Andrew Jorgensen, general director; James Robinson, artistic director; Daniela Candillari, principal conductor
GENRE
Opera
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$25 to $135
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 314-961-0644
BOOKING CONTACTS
SOCIAL LINKS
        
Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival
Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
The year 2022 marks the 25th season of the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, and we're celebrating! Along with 10 main-stage concerts, we are excited to also offer two free outdoor concerts. As always, Founder and Artistic Director Aloysia Friedmann is gathering the very finest chamber musicians, including Time for Three and Sempre Sister, a world premiere of a string quartet by Jake Heggie performed by the Miro Quartet, and a Big Band concert featuring a unique arrangement of Rhapsody in Blue, with pianist Jon Kimura Parker and trumpeter Jens Lindemann.
LOCATION
Orcas Island, Washington
WEBSITE
DATES
August 4-20, 2022
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Aloysia Friedmann
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$0 to $40
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 360-376-2281
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Oregon Bach Festival
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Oxford Lieder Festival
Oxford Lieder Festival
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
“Friendship in Song: An Intimate ArtSong” is a form of music-making that grew up around the piano, at social gatherings and salons, among friends. Composers were often friends with other composers, poets, and painters. Friendship is also at the heart of all Oxford Lieder does. We celebrate this more than ever this year, with a rich, fascinating and uplifting program that reveals special connections and a vibrant atmosphere of creativity in song.
LOCATION
Locations in Oxford, England, United Kingdom
WEBSITE
DATES
October 14-29, 2022
PANDEMIC & SAFETY
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Sholto Kynoch
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$0 to $55
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: +44 (0)1865 591276
BOOKING CONTACTS
Booking cycle date range
Fall 2022 for fall 2023
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Oxford Piano Festival
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The Perlman Music Program Chamber Music Workshop
The Perlman Music Program Chamber Music Workshop
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Chamber Music Workshop (CMW) continues to grow into one of the country's most prestigious summer chamber music programs. Open to violinists, violists, cellists, pianists, and ensembles, the CMW is led by an all-star artist-faculty: Molly Carr, Kirsten Docter, Joseph Kalichstein, Joel Krosnick, Laurence Lesser, Merry Peckham, Director, Itzhak Perlman, Patrick Romano, Peter Salaff, Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir, Don Weilerstein, Vivian Hornik-Weilerstein, and Areta Zhulla.
LOCATION
Shelter Island, New York
WEBSITE
DATES
May 27 - June 19, 2022
PANDEMIC & SAFETY
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Merry Peckham
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$0 to $
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 212-877-5045
BOOKING CONTACTS
Merry Peckham, director
SOCIAL LINKS
      
Prague Summer Nights Festival
Prague Summer Nights Festival
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Debuting in 2015 and hailed for its high-quality productions (Hospodá?ské noviny) and sophistication (Prague Post), 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, and even a cabaret concert. In 2022, 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.
LOCATION
Prague and Tabor, Czech Republic
WEBSITE
DATES
June 20 - July 18, 2022
PANDEMIC & SAFETY
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
John Nardolillo
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE
€20 to €50
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 703-683-6040
BOOKING CONTACTS
Booking cycle date range
Fall 2021-spring 2022 for summer 2022
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Ravenna Festival
Ravenna Festival
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
The 33rd edition of the festival travels “Between Flesh and Heaven” to reflect—on the occasion of the centenary of poet, writer, and intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini's birth—on the polarity between body and soul, human and divine, starting with the piece of the same name by Azio Corghi featured in the opening concert with Daniel Harding and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. While Riccardo Muti leads his Cherubini Orchestra in the “Roads of Friendship” concerts, guest artists include Giuseppe Gibboni, Accademia Bizantina, Jordi Savall, Gidon Kremer, Christoph Eschenbach, Ian Bostridge, Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, David Fray, Diana Krall, the Béjart Ballet, the Hofesh Shechter Company, and Giovanni Sollima and the 100 Cellos. In autumn, the festival returns with an all-Mozartian opera trilogy.
LOCATION
Locations in Ravenna, Italy
WEBSITE
DATES
June 1 - July 21, 2022
DIRECTORS
President Cristina Mazzavillani Muti; Artistic Directors Franco Masotti and Angelo Nicastro
GENRES
Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • World/Ethnic • Opera • Ballet • Contemporary Dance • Theatre • Musical Theatre • Sacred Music
TICKET PRICE RANGE
€5 to €85
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: +39 0544 249244
BOOKING CONTACTS
Booking cycle date range
Autumn 2022, at the latest, for summer 2023
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Ravinia Festival
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Rockport Chamber Music Festival
Rockport Chamber Music Festival
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Under the artistic direction of Barry Shiffman, the 2022 Rockport Chamber Music Festival celebrates live music with performances by the exhilarating violinist Ray Chen, the dynamic Dover Quartet, pianist Kirill Gerstein, the incomparable Brentano Quartet with mezzo Dawn Upshaw of “Dido Reimagined,” and much more.
LOCATION
Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, Massachusetts
WEBSITE
DATES
June 11 - August 14, 2022
PANDEMIC & SAFETY
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Barry Shiffman
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$25 to $79
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 978-546-7391
BOOKING CONTACTS
Booking cycle date range
Fall to January for following summer
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Rome Chamber Music Festival
Rome Chamber Music Festival
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
The Rome Chamber Music Festival, founded in 2003 by esteemed American violinist Robert McDuffie, is one of Rome's most anticipated cultural events. This year's concert program will feature music by Schubert, Brahms, Stravinsky, Philip Glass, and other celebrated composers. Internationally renowned artists will play alongside 35 of the world's most promising artists who have been selected to participate in the De Simone & Partners Young Artists, the RCMF's educational initiative.
LOCATION
Teatro Argentina/Teatro Conciliazione, Rome, Italy
WEBSITE
DATES
June 26-30, 2022
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Robert McDuffie
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE
€25 to €40
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: +39 347 4499174
SOCIAL LINKS
        
Round Top Music Festival
Round Top Music Festival
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
More than 90 young talented musicians will gather for six weeks of intensive training (orchestra, chamber music, and solo repertoire). Master classes (30) are open to the public, as well as the orchestra rehearsals, in an intimate beautiful chapel and in an acoustically peerless, world-class concert hall. The surrounding campus, more than 200 acres, has been generously planted with thousands of trees and bushes of various species offering shadowy picnic areas.
LOCATION
Round Top, Texas
WEBSITE
DATES
June 6 - July 17, 2022
PANDEMIC & SAFETY
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
James Dick
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$10 to $45
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 979-249-3129
BOOKING CONTACTS
Booking cycle date range
fall 2022 to summer 2023
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Salzburg Festival
Salzburg Festival
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
174 performances in 45 days in 17 venues; operas, concerts and drama.
    Opera Productions:
  • Double Bill: Béla Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle / Carl Orff: De Temporum Fine Comoedia (new production)
  • Giacomo Puccini: Il Trittico (new production)
  • Leoš Janáĉek: Kata Kabanova (new production)
  • Giuseppe Verdi: Aida (revival)
  • W.A. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (reimagined production)
  • Gioachino Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (new production)
  • Wolfgang Rihm: Jakob Lenz (concert performance)
  • Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (concert performance).
Concerts include the opening “Ouverture Spirituelle,” Vienna Philharmonic, guest orchestras, chamber concerts, “Time with Bartók,” “Homage to Wolfgang Rihm,” canto lirico, song recitals, solo recitals, “Mozart Matinées,” Mozarteum Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, Sacred Concert, Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award, and Young Singers Project.
LOCATION
Salzburg, Austria
WEBSITE
DATES
July 18 - August 31, 2022
PANDEMIC & SAFETY
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Markus Hinterhäuser
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE
€15 to €750
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: +43 (662) 8045 500
SOCIAL LINKS
        
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Highlights include:
  • Beethoven Piano Trios cycle
  • Violin recital by Leila Josefowicz
  • Piano recitals by Zoltán Fejérvári, Kirill Gerstein, Benjamin Hochman, Gilles Vonsattel, and Haochen Zhang
  • Piano-vocal recitals
  • Works by Knussen and Schoenberg conducted by John Storgårds
  • Premieres of commissioned works by Kaija Saariaho, Shulamit Ran, Detlev Glanert, and our two 2022 Young Composers
  • New Mexico premieres of works by Matthias Pintscher and Marc Neikrug; debuts by Conductor James Gaffigan, the Beijing Guitar Duo, and the Chien-Kim-Watkins Trio
  • Returns by the Dover, Escher, FLUX, and Miami string quartets.
LOCATION
Locations in Santa Fe, New Mexico
WEBSITE
DATES
July 17 - August 22, 2022
PANDEMIC & SAFETY
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Marc Neikrug
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$15 to $98
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 505-982-1890
BOOKING CONTACTS
Booking cycle date range
Winter 2021 and spring 2022 for summer 2023
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Santa Fe Desert Chorale
Caminante: Journey Through 40 Years
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The Santa Fe Opera
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Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Saratoga Performing Arts Center
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
The Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) welcomes its resident companies—New York City Ballet, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center—to Saratoga Springs, NY, June through August. The City Ballet residency is highlighted by contemporary works by Jamar Roberts, Pam Tanowitz, and Justin Peck; a program dedicated to 20th-century masters; story ballet A Midsummer Night's Dream; and a special NYCB “On and Off Stage” presentation. The Philadelphia Orchestra residency features the return of Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, soloists Yo-Yo Ma and Joshua Bell, jazz/R&B artist Ledisi, and Popular Film Nights.
LOCATION
Saratoga Springs, New York
WEBSITE
DATES
June 12 - August 21, 2022
DIRECTORS
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Philadelphia Orchestra; Jonathan Stafford and Wendy Whelan, NYC Ballet; David Finckel and Wu Han, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; Elizabeth Sobol, president and CEO of SPAC
GENRES
Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • World/Ethnic
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$25 to $145
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 518-584-9330
BOOKING CONTACTS
518-584-9330 x107
Booking cycle date range
Fall 2022 for summer 2023
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Seagle Festival
Seagle Festival
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
The 107th annual Seagle Festival Season will include productions of Hello, Dolly! by Jerry Herman, a double-bill of Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi by Puccini, Fellow Travelers by Gregory Spears and Greg Pierce, Once Upon a Mattress by Mary Rodgers, and several other concerts and events. Select events will also be live-streamed, performances and dates TBA. All performances feature the 32 emerging artists accompanied by piano
LOCATION
Schroon Lake, New York
WEBSITE
DATES
June 20 - August 21, 2022
PANDEMIC & SAFETY
DIRECTORS
Tony Kostecki, general director; Darren K. Woods, artistic director
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$25 to $50
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 518-532-7875
BOOKING CONTACTS
Booking cycle date range
fall 2022 for summer 2023
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Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival
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Solsberg Festival
Solsberg Festival
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Sol Gabetta has again successfully brought top-class musicians to the Fricktal region to celebrate chamber music with her: Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Bertrand Chamayou, or the Hagen Quartett are regular partners of hers. However, the Solsberg Festival always offers the chance to meet new chamber music partners, such as the English pianist Benjamin Grosvenor or the Israeli violinist Ilya Gringolts. We can also look forward to the substantial participation of Dmitry Smirnov, who has just won a prize at the ARD Music Competition and was until recently a student at the Basel Music Academie. In addition, we are delighted about the appearance of the French star soprano Léa Desandre, who is singing a leading role at the Zurich Opera House at the same time and is coming to Olsberg on a performance-free evening.
LOCATION
Olsberg and Rheinfelden, Switzerland; Sulzburg, Germany
WEBSITE
DATES
June 23 - July 3, 2022
PANDEMIC & SAFETY
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Sol Gabetta
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE
€28 to €85
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: +41 0900 585 887
BOOKING CONTACTS
The Solsberg Festival is organized by:
Hochrhein Musikfestival AG
Eptingerstr. 27
4052 Basel, Switzerland
Booking cycle date range
Spring 2022
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Spoleto Festival USA
Spoleto Festival USA
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
The 46th season of Spoleto Festival USA will take place May 27 to June 12, with a return to full capacity, live performances in opera, dance, theater, and music. The long-awaited world premiere of opera Omar, with music by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, will occur, and Director of Chamber Music Geoff Nuttall will again lead Spoleto's famous twice-daily chamber music concerts at the Dock Street Theater. Jazz and popular music programming punctuate the oak-lined Cistern Yard with performances by such stars as Youssou NDOUR, Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi, and The War and Treaty duo. The Festival concludes with a firework-filled Wells Fargo Festival Finale featuring Shakey Graves.
LOCATION
Charleston, South Carolina
WEBSITE
DATES
May 27 - June 12, 2022
PANDEMIC & SAFETY
DIRECTORS
John Kennedy, resident conductor & eirector of Orchestral Activities; Geoff Nuttall, director for Chamber Music; Joe Miller, director for Choral Activities; Mena Mark Hanna, general director
GENRES
Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Opera
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$25 to $200
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 843-579-3100
SOCIAL LINKS
        
Strings Music Festival
Strings Music Festival
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
The year 2022 marks the 35th annual Strings Music Festival. Under leadership of Music Director Michael Sachs, the festival has featured musicians from all 25 top U.S. orchestras. In addition to classical music, the festival continues the Strings tradition of programming contemporary artists, national touring acts, nostalgic favorites, and innovative new performers. Nearly 100 Grammy-winning artists have performed at Strings Pavilion, a 569-seat concert hall that is the centerpiece of the summer festival as well as more than 80 performances year-round.
LOCATION
Strings Pavilion, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
WEBSITE
DATES
June 25 - August 26, 2022
PANDEMIC & SAFETY
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Michael Sachs
GENRES
Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • World/Ethnic • Country • Bluegrass • Americana • Family • Comedy
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$0 to $165
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 970-879-5056 x105
BOOKING CONTACTS
Katie Carroll, director of Programs
Elissa Greene, executive director
Booking cycle date range
Summer/fall 2022 for summer 2023
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Sun Valley Music Festival
Sun Valley Music Festival
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
The largest admission-free classical music festival in the U.S., Sun Valley Music Festival presents its 38th summer season with over 14 live concerts featuring renowned guest artists, classical mainstays, and contemporary masterpieces, including works by three of the country's greatest living composers: Gabriela Lena Frank, Jessie Montgomery, and Kevin Puts. Guest artists include pianists Daniil Trifonov and George Li, violinist Leila Josefowicz, tenor Nicholas Phan, guest conductor Andy Einhorn, and the genre-defying string trio Time for Three—all in a beautiful, outdoor alpine setting.
LOCATION
Sun Valley Pavilion, Sun Valley, Idaho
WEBSITE
DATES
July 24 - August 18, 2022
PANDEMIC & SAFETY
MUSIC DIRECTOR
Alasdair Neale
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE
$0
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 208-622-5607
BOOKING CONTACTS
Deanna Harned, artistic planning director
Booking cycle date range
Fall 2022 for summer 2023 or 2024
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Tanglewood
Tanglewood
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
The 2022 Tanglewood season marks the first full season of concerts and events since 2019. Boston Symphony Orchestra Music Director Andris Nelsons leads nine programs, including the BSO’s opening week of performances, July 8-10, and he will conduct six world and American premieres, including works by Julia Adolphe, Caroline Shaw, Elizabeth Ogonek, Helen Grime, and Fazil Say. The rising talents of the Tanglewood Music Center also perform. Visiting artists, meanwhile, include pianist Paul Lewis performing all five Beethoven Piano Concertos, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, and violinists Itzhak Perlman and Joshua Bell.
LOCATION
Lenox, Massachusetts
WEBSITE
DATES
June 17 - September 4, 2022
PANDEMIC & SAFETY
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Andris Nelsons
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$15 to $132
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 888-266-1200
BOOKING CONTACTS
Booking cycle date range
Normally, the booking cycle is the preceding summer or earlier. But due to the pandemic, booking for summer 2022 took place later than usual.
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Teatro Nuovo
Teatro Nuovo
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Will Crutchfield's Teatro Nuovo presents semi-staged productions of beloved bel canto favorites and rarities in semi-staged concert form in New York City and New Jersey. This summer features performances of Bellini’s La Sonnambula and Rossini’s Maometto II, with casts that include returning favorites Teresa Castillo, Hannah Ludwig, Hans Tashjian, and Nicholas Simpson, and the debuts of Simone McIntosh and Enrique Guzman.
Crutchfield and Associate Artistic Director Jakob Lehmann share musical leadership. The company's fourth summer will again showcase the critically acclaimed Teatro Nuovo Orchestra, a hand-picked ensemble hailed as transformative (Wall Street Journal) in these American presentations of 19th-century operas on period instruments. Teatro Nuovo also offers daily vocal and instrumental concerts and a full range of master class, lecture, and panel-discussion events.
LOCATION
Lincoln Center, New York, New York; Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey
WEBSITE
DATES
July 9-14, 2022
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Will Crutchfield
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$30 to $120
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 914-251-6200
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Tsinandali Festival
Tsinandali Festival
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Kristof Barati, Renaud Capuçon, Seong Jin Cho, Alexandra Conunova, Lucas Debargue, Gil Dor, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Vilde Frang, Mao Fujita, Pablo Heras-Casado, Denis Kozhukin, Li La, Noa (Achinoam Nini), Vassily Petrenko, Julien Quentin, Kian Soltani, Lisa Batiashvili Foundation Presents, Pan-Caucasian Youth Orchestra
LOCATION
Tsinandali Estate, Georgia
WEBSITE
DATES
September 2-11, 2022
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Gianandrea Noseda
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$9 to $70
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: +995 322 25 35 81
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Verbier Festival
Verbier Festival
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Approaching its 30th anniversary in 2023 and affirming its position in the topflight of the world's classical music festivals, the Verbier Festival announces its mainstage program for 2022. Running from July 15 to 31, the Festival offers more than 60 Mainstage events, ranging from large-scale orchestral concerts and opera-in-concert form to solo recitals, chamber concerts—assembling new teams of renowned soloists and chamber specialists in its “Rencontres Inédites” series—and even a dramatic reading.
LOCATION
Locations in Verbier, Switzerland
WEBSITE
DATES
July 15-31, 2022
PANDEMIC & SAFETY
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Martin T:son Engstroem
GENRES
Classical • Jazz
TICKET PRICE RANGE
€25 to €180
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: +41 (0)848 771 882 (Monday to Friday 13:00-17:00)
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Virginia Arts Festival
Virginia Arts Festival
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
The 25th Anniversary season features the American Ballet Theatre in Don Quixote; the Nashville Ballet; Malpaso Dance Company; cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott; Broadway and television star Kristin Chenoweth and superstar Renée Fleming; Tony/Grammy/Emmy Award winner and Hamilton star Renée Elise Goldsberry; Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Olga Kern, and a full Chamber/Classical series. Also programmed are a new, fully staged production of The Sound of Music, co-presented with Virginia Opera; Béla Fleck, Shawn Colvin, The Cowboy Junkies, Rosanne Cash, James McMurtry; Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, country legend Martina McBride and pop singer/songwriter and actress Mandy Moore; Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra; Buster Williams; and one of the anchors of the Festival, the Virginia International Tattoo.
LOCATION
Southeastern Coastal Virginia: Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Newport News, Williamsburg
WEBSITE
DATES
March 25 - June 19, 2022
PANDEMIC & SAFETY
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Robert W. Cross
GENRES
Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • Chamber • Dance • Vocal • Broadway
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$25 to $125
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 757-282-2822
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Wolf Trap
Wolf Trap
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts returns to the Filene Center for summer 2022, the organization's 51st season at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts. Heralded as a one-of-a-kind cultural destination (Men's Journal), Wolf Trap's Filene Center has long been an artistic mainstay of the Washington, DC, region. The 75-plus performance season will see artists from all genres ranging from Sting, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, and A. R. Rahman to Wolf Trap Opera, the National Symphony Orchestra, and Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens. With patron, artist, and staff wellbeing a priority, Wolf Trap complies with local, state, and federal health and safety guidelines.
LOCATION
Vienna, Virginia
WEBSITE
DATES
May 28 - September 18, 2022
PANDEMIC & SAFETY
GENRES
Classical • Pop/Folk • Jazz • World/Ethnic
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$25 to $175
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 703-255-1868
BOOKING CONTACTS
Booking cycle date range
Fall 2022 for summer 2023
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