Music Academy of the West’s 75th-Anniversary Summer Season: Eight Weeks of Live Events in Scenic Santa Barbara (June 15–Aug 6)
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·Sō Percussion, Augustin Hadelich, Jessie Montgomery & Susanna Phillips are in residence
·Sasha Cooke & Isabel Leonard make special appearances
·Teddy Abrams, Stéphane Denève, Hannu Lintu, Larry Rachleff & Speranza Scappucci lead AFO
·Daniela Candillari conducts fully staged production of Eugene Onegin
·James Darrah directs Hahn Hall 1922-2022: An Original Cabaret
·New commissions from Tom Cipullo, Molly Joyce & Robyn Cee Kay Jacob receive world premieres
·Fast Pitch awards foster innovation & entrepreneurship
(May 2022)— The Music Academy of the West celebrates its milestone 75th anniversary season with eight weeks of live events at its picturesque Miraflores campus and throughout scenic Santa Barbara, California this summer (June 15–Aug 6). Featured artists include Augustin Hadelich, Susanna Phillips, Sō Percussion and composers Tom Cipullo, Robyn Cee Kay Jacob, Molly Joyce and Jessie Montgomery, who will all be in residence; Sasha Cooke, who makes a special appearance; and Isabel Leonard, who headlines the anniversary signature benefit concert. Known for their infectious energy, this season’s Academy Festival Orchestra concerts are led by Teddy Abrams, Musical America’s 2022 “Conductor of the Year”; three-time Diapason d’Or-winner Stéphane Denève; Hannu Lintu, making his festival debut; returning favorite Larry Rachleff, who helms the annual Community Concert; and Speranza Scappucci, who draws the entire summer season to a close. New Principal Opera Conductor Daniela Candillari takes the podium for a fully staged production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and visionary Creative Producer of Special Projects James Darrah directs the world premiere presentation of Hahn Hall 1922-2022, an original new cabaret event. New commissions from Cipullo, Joyce and Jacob also receive world premieres, and the return of the Innovation Institute’s Fast Pitch awards underscores the Academy’s commitment to innovation, entrepreneurship and expert mentoring. Presenting the Academy’s talented young fellows and outstanding faculty artists in a wealth of chamber concerts, public masterclasses and competitions under the galvanizing leadership of President & CEO Scott Reed, the landmark anniversary season sees the annual Summer School and Festival back at full strength for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
Mosher Guest Artists-in-Residence: Sō Percussion, Hadelich, Phillips & Montgomery
The Academy hosts four world-class Mosher Guest Artists in residencies that combine public performances and masterclasses with private lessons for fellows. Sō Percussion, the percussion quartet known for its “exhilarating blend of precision and anarchy, rigor and bedlam” (New Yorker), joins Academy fellows for the world premiere of a new Music Academy of the West commission from Composer-in-Residence Robyn Cee Kay Jacob, who has been called “a talented composer … of the most remarkably individual music I have ever encountered” (Louder Than War), alongside 21st-century works by Angélica Negrón, Kendall Williams and ensemble member Jason Treuting (July 9). In the x2 series, which pairs fellows and teaching artists in side-by-side chamber concerts, Grammy-winning violinist Augustin Hadelich, Musical America’s 2018 “Instrumentalist of the Year,” performs Ravel’s Second Violin Sonata on a program with Loeffler’s Trio for Oboe, Viola and Piano and Dvořák’s beloved quintet, “The American” (July 12). Susanna Phillips, a 2002 and 2003 alumna who went on to win the Metropolitan Opera’s 2010 Beverly Sills Artist Award, returns for a vocal recital with the Academy’s Director of Music, John Churchwell, at the piano (July 25). Academy fellows perform a program of chamber music by Jessie Montgomery, with the composer in attendance (Aug 4). Currently serving as Composer-in-Residence of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Montgomery is a laureate of both the Sphinx Medal of Excellence and the ASCAP Foundation’s Leonard Bernstein Award, and her “personal yet widely resonant music” is helping to paint “a new portrait of American sound” (New York Times).
Special guest appearances: Leonard & Cooke
Two further special appearances enrich the Academy’s 2022 guest star lineup. The 75th-anniversary signature benefit event features Academy alumnae Isabel Leonard, the two-time Grammy-winning mezzo-soprano featured in no fewer than three Metropolitan Opera productions this season, and Georgian pianist Nino Sanikidze, Head Coach of LA Opera’s Young Artist Program, in a performance under the stars. The festive evening also sees Leonard receive the Distinguished Alumni Award, the Academy’s highest honor (June 18). Next, in the x2 series, Lehrer Vocal Institute visiting artist Sasha Cooke – another two-time Grammy-winning mezzo-soprano, whose performances offer “equal parts poise, radiance and elegant directness” (Opera News) – joins Chuchwell for the world premiere of a new Music Academy of the West commission from Composer-in-Residence Tom Cipullo, “one of New York’s favorite song composers” (New Yorker). This shares the program with Academy fellows’ accounts of Brahms’s First Piano Trio and Debussy’s Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp (June 28).
Composers-in-Residence Cipullo & Joyce; plus Muhly
Two more composers will also be in residence this summer, as featured in the Academy fellows’ Showcase Series, which spotlights the music of Composers-in-Residence Tom Cipullo (July 1) and Molly Joyce (July 20) respectively. The winner of a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship, Cipullo (also featured on June 28) impressed the American Academy of Art and Letters with the “inexhaustible imagination, wit, expressive range and originality” of his music, while Joyce, whose work explores disability as a creative source, has been hailed as one of the “most versatile, prolific and intriguing composers working under the vast new-music dome” (Washington Post). The program dedicated to her music will feature the world premiere of her new composition for solo voice, toy organ and string quartet. Composer Nico Muhly, the recipient of commissions from the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall and others, will also attend the festival, presiding over the performance of his chamber work No Uncertain Terms (July 19) and giving a solo piano masterclass.
Academy Festival Orchestra: Rachleff, Abrams, Lintu, Denève & Scappucci
Introducing some of the world’s foremost conductors to the next generation of artists, the Academy Festival Orchestra concerts represent a highlight of the festival each year. Returning favorite Larry Rachleff, Professor of Orchestral Conducting at Rice University and “a take-charge maestro who invests everything he conducts with deep musical understanding” (Chicago Tribune), leads this summer’s annual Community Concert at the Santa Barbara Bowl, with a program of Prokofiev and Márquez that opens with Beethoven’s iconic Fifth Symphony (June 25). Next, Teddy Abrams, now in his eighth season as Music Director of the Louisville Orchestra and just named Musical America’s 2022 “Conductor of the Year,” pairs new works by himself and by Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw with 20th-century classics by Prokofiev and Milhaud (July 11). A rising star in the firmament of brilliant Finnish conductors, Finnish National Opera Chief Conductor Hannu Lintu makes his highly anticipated Academy debut with The Oceanides by his compatriot Sibelius followed by Mahler’s “Titan” Symphony (July 2). Stéphane Denève, who serves as Music Director of both the Brussels Philharmonic and St. Louis Symphony as well as Principal Guest Conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, takes the podium for Rachmaninoff, Guillaume Connesson and Ravel’s second Daphnis et Chloé Suite (July 30). Finally, 1996 Academy alumna Speranza Scappucci, who looks forward to making her Metropolitan Opera debut next season after making history as the first female Italian conductor at La Scala, leads the season-closing concert: a program of Rossini, Respighi and more (Aug 6).
Opera & more: Eugene Onegin, original cabaret & opening night concert
Marking the highpoint of the Lehrer Vocal Institute’s summer, fully staged opera returns to the Granada Theatre with a new production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. Anchored by the Academy Festival Orchestra, this features the Lehrer Vocal Institute fellows in an original staging by Peter Kazaras, Director of Opera UCLA, under the leadership of Daniela Candillari (July 15 & 17). Now in her inaugural season as the Academy’s Principal Opera Conductor, it was Candillari who led its West Coast premiere of Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain in 2019. Also newly appointed as Principal Conductor of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice earlier this season.
The Lehrer Vocal Institute also presents the Opening Night concert, when vocal fellows will perform their favorite arias and songs (June 16) and the premiere presentation of Hahn Hall 1922-2022: An Original Cabaret, an evening of music theater that transports audiences to 1922 in an original story inspired by Berlin cabaret culture in the Weimar Republic (July 28). Collaboratively created by Grammy-winning music director Craig Terry and Princess Grace Award-winning director James Darrah, the Academy’s Creative Producer of Special Projects, the production takes full advantage of the Hahn Hall’s newly enhanced video and lighting technology. Darrah, the visionary director behind 2019’s Cold Mountain, who recently inaugurated a new position as Artistic Director and Chief Creative Officer of Long Beach Opera, has been credited with “expanding the boundaries of the operatic form” (Wall Street Journal).
Fast Pitch Awards: inspiring new innovation
The 2022 festival marks the return of the Fast Pitch competition (July 22). Designed by the Academy’s trailblazing Innovation Institute to inspire new enterprises in classical performance, presentation and audience development, the awards give fellows the opportunity to pitch entrepreneurial ideas for cash prizes, mentorship and support in bringing those ideas to fruition. By providing access to technology, media training and expert mentors, the competition nurtures experimentation and risk-taking, fueling future disruptors of the music industry.
London Symphony Orchestra musicians in residence
Five members of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) will be in residence to coach and audition orchestral fellows for the chance to perform in London this fall with the legendary British orchestra and its Principal Guest Conductor, Gianandrea Noseda. This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity concludes the Academy’s momentous four-season LSO partnership, which reached new heights in March when the entire orchestra traveled to Santa Barbara to perform three sold-out programs under the leadership of its Music Director, Sir Simon Rattle.
Young people’s choral concert: Sing! & Young People’s Chorus of New York City
Four years ago, the Academy launched Sing!, its free, after-school choral program for local elementary students. This summer, the Music Academy Sing! Children’s Chorus joins forces with the YPC National Lab and Studio of the Young People’s Chorus of New York City (YPC) under the direction of MacArthur award-winning YPC founder Francisco J. Nuñez for a young musicians’ and conductors’ workshop, culminating in a special joint performance in Hahn Hall (July 23).
Competitions, chamber concerts, masterclasses and more
One of the most popular events of the summer season, the Marilyn Horne Song Competition (Aug 3) is a showcase for Academy singers and vocal pianists, who compete for a cash prize and the opportunity to premiere a new commission from current Composer-in-Residence Tom Cipullo in 2023. Chosen by jury, past winners include John Osborn (1997), Susanna Phillips (2002, 2003), Isabel Leonard (2005) and Nadine Sierra (2007). Likewise, the Academy’s Solo Piano Competition (June 24) and Duo competition (Aug 1) both see instrumental fellows compete for cash prizes and the chance to premiere new commissions from Juno nominee Stewart Goodyear and Pulitzer Prize finalist Christopher Cerrone, respectively.
As in previous years, the summer season offers a wealth of chamber concerts. As the result of a new chamber curriculum that pairs Academy artists with fellows for intensive coaching sessions, there will be five programs of new music and favorite masterworks in the intimate x2 series. In addition to the concerts featuring Sasha Cooke (June 28), Augustin Hadelich (July 12) and Nico Muhly (July 19), series highlights include a performance of Mendelssohn’s Octet featuring the longtime festival favorite, the Takács Quartet, the first string quartet to be inducted into the Gramophone Hall of Fame (June 23). Academy fellows also collaborate on a special performance with another festival favorite Jeremy Denk, one of America’s foremost pianists, whose string of honors includes the Avery Fisher Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship (June 30).
The public masterclass is one of the hallmarks of the Music Academy experience. All fellows participate in the Music Academy’s extensive masterclass program, which is designed to complement individual private instruction. Over the course of the eight-week festival, more than 70 public masterclasses will be presented by faculty and guest artists in voice, solo piano, and the instrumental series. All masterclasses are open to the public, offering a unique behind-the-scenes look at the musical teaching process at its most dynamic and intimate.
Venues
The Music Academy of the West’s fellows, faculty and guest artists perform at its scenic ocean-side campus and in venues throughout Santa Barbara, including the historic 1,500-seat Granada Theatre and the recently renovated 600-seat Lobero Theatre. Known as Miraflores, the Academy’s nine-acre campus was originally the estate of John Percival Jefferson. Its spectacular grounds and gardens create a serene place for visitors to stroll and relax before performances in the intimate Hahn Hall, which the Santa Barbara Independent calls an “ultra-luxurious jewel-box venue,” and the Los Angeles Times describes as the “centerpiece of the West Coast’s elite summer music academy, hidden away in a plush neighborhood of Montecito, a block from a glorious coastline. … With 350 seats, it is perfect for chamber music and recitals. The acoustics are unobtrusive; nothing gets between music and the ear.” Additional campus venues include Lehmann Hall, named for founder Lotte Lehmann, and Weinman Hall, a performance space decorated in Andalusian style, for masterclasses.
Lodging, dining and ticket information
Santa Barbara is an easy day trip from Los Angeles, and a memorable destination for travelers seeking cultural offerings in scenic settings. For tickets and further information for all Music Academy of the West events, call the Ticket Office at 805-969-8787, email [email protected], or visit online at www.musicacademy.org. To request a brochure, email [email protected] or write to the Music Academy of the West, 1070 Fairway Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.
About the Music Academy of the West
Music Academy of the West is a performance-based training center and incubator that empowers musicians to impact society positively. The Academy welcomes everyone from across all generations, cultures and backgrounds to experience the transformative power of music. Based in Santa Barbara, California, the Academy presents the preeminent full-scholarship Summer School and Festival for classically trained fellows ages 18 to 34. The fellows study and perform with more than 50 exceptional faculty and teaching artists, while forging close connections with the local community. The Academy’s commitment to long-term collaborations and exchanges with leading orchestras and opera companies results in unparalleled mentorship and career-advancing prospects. The Innovation Institute spearheads entrepreneurial training and ventures through seminars, residencies and the Alumni Enterprise Awards, substantial grants given annually for a wide range of creative projects. Launched in 2018, Sing! – a free, after-school choral program for local elementary students – inspires personal growth and expression. For more information, visit musicacademy.org.
The Mosher Guest Artist concerts are generously supported by the Samuel B. and Margaret C. Mosher Foundation. A new multimillion dollar endowment from Shirley and Seymour Lehrer and the entire Lehrer family supports the Academy’s training program for voice and vocal piano. The Community Concert and all 4,500 tickets to the performance are subsidized with a gift in remembrance of Léni Fé Bland.
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Music Academy of the West
75th Anniversary Season
2022 Summer Festival: June 15–Aug 6
Santa Barbara, CA
Festival highlights “at a glance”
June 15: Takács Quartet in concert
June 16: Lehrer Vocal Institute: Opening Night
June 18: 75th Anniversary signature benefit: Isabel Leonard & Nino Sanikidze
June 23: x2 series: Mendelssohn’s Octet with Takács Quartet
June 24: Solo piano competition
June 25: Academy Festival Orchestra community concert: Larry Rachleff conducts Beethoven’s Fifth
June 27: Showcase series: Faculty Artists concert
June 28: x2 series: Brahms, Debussy & Cipullo with visiting artist Sasha Cooke
June 30: Special event: Jeremy Denk (with Academy fellows)
July 1: Showcase series: The music of Tom Cipullo (with Academy fellows)
July 2: Academy Festival Orchestra: Hannu Lintu conducts Mahler’s “Titan”
July 4: Showcase series: chamber music
July 5: x2 series: Vivaldi’s Concerto in G minor
July 7: Showcase series: Faculty Artists concert
July 9: Mosher Guest Artists concert: Sō Percussion (with Academy fellows)
July 11: Academy Festival Orchestra: Teddy Abrams conducts Prokofiev’s “Classical”
July 12: x2 series: Dvořák’s Quintet “The American” with Mosher Guest Artist Augustin Hadelich
July 15 & 17: Lehrer Vocal Institute: Daniela Candillari conducts Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
July 19: x2 series: Martinů’s La revue de cuisine
July 20: Showcase series: The music of Molly Joyce (with Academy fellows)
July 22: Fast Pitch competition
July 23: Special event: Sing! & YPC National concert
July 25: Mosher Guest Artists concert: Susanna Phillips (with John Churchwell)
July 26: x2 series: Arensky’s String Quartet No. 2
July 28: Lehrer Vocal Institute: James Darrah directs Hahn Hall 1922-2022: An Original Cabaret
July 30: Academy Festival Orchestra: Stéphane Denève conducts Daphnis et Chloé
Aug 1: Duo competition: Academy fellows
Aug 2: x2 series: Schubert’s String Quintet in C
Aug 3: Lehrer Vocal Institute series: Marilyn Horne Song Competition
Aug 4: Mosher Guest Artists concert: Jessie Montgomery (with Academy fellows)
Aug 6: Academy Festival Orchestra: Speranza Scappucci conducts Respighi’s The Pines of Rome
Chronological listing of events
Mon, June 13
The Met: Live in HD, encore screening of Brett Dean’s Hamlet, starring Brenda Rae (Hahn, 6pm)
Wed, June 15
Takács Quartet in concert (Hahn, 7:30pm)
Thurs, June 16
Chamber Music masterclass: Takács Quartet (Lehmann, 3:30pm)
Lehrer Vocal Institute series: Opening Night introducing Academy fellows (Hahn, 7:30pm)
Fri, June 17
Showcase series: Solo Piano (Hahn, 7:30pm)
Sat, June 18
75th Anniversary Signature Benefit: Isabel Leonard & Nino Sanikidze (Miraflores, 5pm)
Mon, June 20
Clarinet masterclass: Richie Hawley (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Flute masterclass: Jim Walker (Lehmann, 3:30pm)
Showcase series: String Quartet Seminar (Hahn, 7:30pm)
Tues, June 21
Violin masterclass: Jorja Fleezanis (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Double bass masterclass: Nico Abondolo (Weinman, 3:30pm)
Wed, June 22
Lehrer Vocal Institute masterclass series: Sasha Cooke (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Trombone & tuba masterclass: Mark H. Lawrence (Weinman, 3:30pm)
Thurs, June 23
Percussion masterclass: Joseph Pereira (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Trumpet masterclass: Barbara Butler, Charlie Geyer (Weinman, 1:30pm)
Bassoon masterclass: Dennis Michel (Lehmann, 3:30pm)
x2 series: Mendelssohn’s Octet, Takács Quartet (Lobero, 7:30pm)
Fri, June 24
Viola masterclass: Cynthia Phelps (Lehmann, 1:30pm)
Solo piano competition (Hahn, 4pm)
Sat, June 25
AFO community concert: Larry Rachleff conducts Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 (Santa Barbara Bowl, 7:30pm)
Mon, June 27
Collaborative masterclass: Jonathan Feldman (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Flute masterclass: Timothy Day (Lehmann, 3:30pm)
Showcase series: Faculty Artists concert (Hahn, 7:30pm)
Tues, June 28
Violin masterclass: Frank Almond (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Double bass masterclass: Nico Abondolo (Weinman, 3:30pm)
x2 series: Brahms, Debussy & Cipullo with visiting artist Sasha Cooke (Lobero, 7:30pm)
Wed, June 29
Lehrer Vocal Institute masterclass series: Bill Schuman (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Horn masterclass: Julie Landsman (Weinman, 3:30pm)
Chamber night: Academy fellows (Lehmann, 7:30pm)
Thurs, June 30
Clarinet masterclass: Richie Hawley (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Trumpet masterclass: Barbara Butler & Charlie Geyer (Weinman, 1:30pm)
Cello masterclass: Alan Stepansky (Lehmann, 3:30pm)
Special event: Jeremy Denk & Academy fellows (Hahn, 7:30pm)
Fri, July 1
Solo piano masterclass series: Jeremy Denk (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Oboe masterclass: Eugene Izotov (Lehmann, 3:30pm)
Showcase series: The music of Tom Cipullo, Academy fellows (Hahn, 7:30pm)
Sat, July 2
AFO series: Hannu Lintu conducts Mahler’s “Titan” (Granada, 7:30pm)
Mon, July 4
Showcase series: chamber music, collaborative piano fellows (Hahn, 3:30pm)
Tues, July 5
Violin masterclass: Rainer Honeck (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Harp masterclass: JoAnn Turovsky (Lehmann, 3:30pm)
x2 series: Vivaldi’s Concerto in G minor (Lobero, 7:30pm)
Wed, July 6
Lehrer Vocal Institute masterclass series: John Churchwell (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Horn masterclass: Julie Landsman (Weinman, 3:30pm)
Chamber night: Academy fellows (Lehmann, 7:30pm)
Thurs, July 7
Percussion masterclass: Mosher Guest Artists Sō Percussion (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Bassoon masterclass: Dennis Michel (Lehmann, 3:30pm)
Showcase series: Faculty Artists concert (Hahn, 7:30pm)
Fri, July 8
Solo piano masterclass series: Jeremy Denk (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Viola masterclass: Richard O’Neill (Lehmann, 3:30pm)
Picnic concert series: Academy fellows (Hahn, 7:30pm)
Sat, July 9
Mosher Guest Artists concert series: Sō Percussion & Academy fellows (Hahn, 7:30pm)
Mon, July 11
Collaborative piano masterclass: Jonathan Feldman (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Trombone & tuba masterclass: Mark H. Lawrence (Weinman, 3:30pm)
AFO series: Teddy Abrams conducts Prokofiev’s “Classical” Symphony (Hahn, 7:30pm)
Tues, July 12
Cello masterclass: David Geber (Lehmann, 1:30pm)
Double bass masterclass: Nico Abondolo (Weinman, 3:30pm)
x2 series: Dvořák’s Quintet, “The American” (Lobero, 7:30pm)
Wed, July 13
Violin masterclass: Mosher Guest Artist Augustin Hadelich (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Horn masterclass: Julie Landsman (Weinman, 3:30pm)
Thurs, July 14
Percussion masterclass: Michael Werner (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Bassoon masterclass: Benjamin Kamins (Lehmann, 3:30pm)
Picnic concert series: Academy fellows (Hahn, 7:30pm)
Fri, July 15
Oboe masterclass: Eugene Izotov (Lehmann, 3:30pm)
Lehrer Vocal Institute series: Daniela Candillari conducts Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (Granada, 7:30pm)
Sat, July 16
Chamber night: Academy fellows (Lehmann, 7:30pm)
Sun, July 17
Lehrer Vocal Institute series: Daniela Candillari conducts Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (Granada, 2:30pm)
Mon, July 18
Collaborative piano masterclass: Jonathan Feldman (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Flute masterclass: Timothy Day (Lehmann, 3:30pm)
Tues, July 19
Violin masterclass: Sibbi Bernhardsson (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Viola masterclass: Karen Dreyfus (Lehmann, 3:30pm)
x2 series: Martinů’s La revue de cuisine (Lobero, 7:30pm)
Wed, July 20
Lehrer Vocal Institute masterclass: Margo Garrett (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Solo piano masterclass series: Nico Muhly (Hahn, 3:30pm)
Trombone & tuba masterclass: Nitzan Haroz (Weinman, 3:30pm)
Showcase series: The music of Molly Joyce, Academy fellows (Hahn, 7:30pm)
Thurs, July 21
Clarinet masterclass: Richie Hawley (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Trumpet masterclass: Paul Merkelo (Weinman, 1:30pm)
Cello masterclass: Alan Stepansky (Lehmann, 3:30pm)
Chamber night: Academy fellows (Lehmann, 7:30pm)
Fri, July 22
Solo piano masterclass series: Conor Hanick (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Fast Pitch competition: Academy fellows (Lehmann, 3:30pm)
Picnic concert series: Academy fellows (Hahn, 7:30pm)
Sat, July 23
Special Event: Sing! & YPC National concert (7:30pm)
Mon, July 25
Collaborative piano masterclass: Jonathan Feldman (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Flute masterclass: Timothy Day (Lehmann, 3:30pm)
Mosher Guest Artists concert series: Susanna Phillips & John Churchwell (Hahn, 7:30pm)
Tues, July 26
Violin masterclass: Martin Beaver (Lehmann, 1:30pm)
Double bass masterclass: Nico Abondolo (Weinman, 3:30pm)
x2 series: Arensky’s String Quartet No. 2 (Lobero, 7:30pm)
Wed, July 27
Viola masterclass: Karen Dreyfus (Lehmann, 1:30pm)
Horn masterclass: Julie Landsman (Weinman, 3:30pm)
Chamber night: Academy fellows (Lehmann, 7:30pm)
Thurs, July 28
Trombone & tuba masterclass: Weston Sprott (Weinman, 1:30pm)
Cello masterclass: David Geber (Lehmann, 3:30pm)
Lehrer Vocal Institute series: James Darrah directs Hahn 1922-2022: An Original Cabaret (Hahn, 7:30pm)
Fri, July 29
Lehrer Vocal Institute masterclass series: Susanna Phillips (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Oboe masterclass: Eugene Izotov (Lehmann, 3:30pm)
Picnic concert series: Academy fellows (Hahn, 7:30pm)
Sat, July 30
AFO series: Stéphane Denève conducts Daphnis et Chloé (Granada Theatre, 7:30pm)
Mon, Aug 1
Clarinet masterclass: Richie Hawley (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Chamber Music masterclass: Mosher Guest Artist Jessie Montgomery (Lehmann, 3:30pm)
Duo competition: Academy fellows (Hahn, 7:30pm)
Tues, Aug 2
Violin masterclass: Glenn Dicterow (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Harp masterclass: JoAnn Turovsky (Lehmann, 3:30pm)
x2 series: Schubert’s String Quintet in C (Lobero, 7:30pm)
Wed, Aug 3
Lehrer Vocal Institute series: Marilyn Horne Song Competition (Hahn, noon)
Violin masterclass: Phil Setzer (Lehmann, 1:30pm)
Thurs, Aug 4
Percussion masterclass: Michael Werner (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Trumpet masterclass: Paul Merkelo (Weinman, 1:30pm)
Bassoon masterclass: Benjamin Kamins (Lehmann, 3:30pm)
Mosher Guest Artists concert series: Jessie Montgomery & Academy fellows (Hahn, 7:30pm)
Fri, Aug 5
Solo Piano masterclass series: Conor Hanick (Hahn, 1:30pm)
Lehrer Vocal Institute masterclass: Martin Katz, 75th Anniversary legacy (Lehmann, 1:30pm)
Oboe masterclass: Eugene Izotov (Lehmann, 3:30pm)
Picnic concert series: Academy fellows (Hahn, 7:30pm)
Sat, Aug 6
AFO concert series: Speranza Scappucci conducts Respighi’s The Pines of Rome (Granada, 7:30pm)
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