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INTERNATIONAL CONCERT  INDEX JUNE 2010 -DECEMBER 2010

Aspen Music Festival (14): Alsop conducts Ravel, Mahler, Stravinsky; American String Quartet plays Bartók, Schubert, Haydn; Josefowicz plays Adès, Rachleff conducts Strauss, Mozart. 22.8.2010 (HS)

Olympic Music Festival 2010 - Leclair, Kreisler, Bruch, Schubert, Schumann, and Weber : Paul Hersh, viola and piano; Mara Gearman, viola; Erin Schreiber, violin; Teddy Abrams, clarinet and piano; Olympic Music Festival, Quilcene, WA, 21.8.2010 (BJ)

Mostly Mozart(7)-Closing Concert: Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Concert Chorale of New York, Louis Langrée(conductor), Stephen Hough(piano), Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, 20-08-2010(SM)

Aspen Music Festival (12): Alisa Weilerstein and friends; Edgar Meyer, string bass, with Béla Fleck, banjo, and Zakir Hussain, tablas. 19.8.2010 (HS)

Mostly Mozart (6) - Mozart and Haydn: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC, 19.8.2010 (SM)

Salzburg Festival (5) – Prokofiev, Ivan the Terrible: Soloists, Narrators, Salzburg Festival Children’s Choir, Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Riccardo Muti (conductor). Grosses Festspielhaus, 17.8.2010 (MB)

Salzburg Festival (4) – Schubert, Die schöne Müllerin: Matthias Goerne (baritone), Christoph Eschenbach (piano). Mozarteum, 17.8.2010 (MB)

Mostly Mozart (5) – Purcell, Benjamin, Birtwistle, Bach/Berio, and Lachenmann: International Contemporary Ensemble, Pierre-Laurent Aimard (keyboards), Ludovic Morlot (conductor), Rose Theater, 16.8.2010 (BH)


Mostly Mozart Festival-(4) Mozart:
Emerson String Quartet with David Shifirin (Clarinet) Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City, 16.8.2010 (SM)

Aspen Music Festival (11): Marc-André Hamelin, Yuja Wang, Simone Dinnerstein, Stephen Hough. 15.8.2010 (HS)

Mostly Mozart Festival 2010 (3) -  Bach, Georgian Polyphony, Ligeti, Xenakis: Ars Nova Copenhagen, Paul Hillier (conductor), Ensemble Basiani, Alice Tully Hall, New York City, 13.8.2010 (BH)


Aspen Music Festival (10): Time for Three, American String Quartet, Sarah Chang and Andrew von Oeyen. 12.8.2010 (HS)

Aspen Music Festival (9):
Sarah Chang, violin; Sharon Isbin, guitar; plus a new Kevin Puts Clarinet Concerto. 8.8.2010 (HS)

Grant Park Music Festival Chicago 2010 - Opera Finales with Ryan Opera Center : Soloists, Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus, Carlos Kalmar, (conductor). Harris Theater, Chicago 7.8.2010  (JLZ)

Mostly Mozart Festival (2 ) Handel, L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato: Mark Morris Dance, Group,Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Riverside Choral Society Chamber Singers, Jane Glover (Conductor), Mark Morris (Choreographer), David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center, New York City, 5-7.8 (SM)

Ireland, Rebecca Clarke and Mendelssohn: Cook Strait Trio (Blyth Press, violin; Paul van Houte, cello; Amber Rainey, piano), The Old Library, Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand, 5.8.2010 (PSe)

Mostly Mozart Festival-(1),Stravinsky, Mozart, Beethoven : Gil Shaham (Violin), Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Pablo Heras-Cosado (Conductor), Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City 3-08-2010 (SM)

Olympic Music Festival 2010 - Haydn, Shostakovich, and Mendelssohn: Megumi Stohs and Elisa Barston, violins, Alan Iglitzin, viola, Amy Barston, cello, Natalya Ageyeva, piano; Olympic Music Festival, Quilcene, WA, 1.8.2010 (BJ)
 

Aspen Music Festival (8):  Joyce Yang plays Tchaikovsky, Sol Gabetta plays Lalo, and Mozart: Marriage of Figaro. 1.8.2010 (HS)

Aspen Music Festival (7): Michelle de Young sings Berg; James Ehnes violin recital; American Brass Quintet recital; Jane Glover conducts Beethoven. 28.7.2010 (HS)

Aspen Music Festival (6): Glass, Beethoven, Mahler; Robert McDuffie, Valeriy Sokolov, Michelle de Young, James Conlon. 25.7.2010 (HS)


Bizet, Schwarz, and Tchaikovsky:
Seattle Chamber Music Society artists, Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall, Benaroya Hall, Seattle 26.7.2010 (BJ)

Olympic Music Festival 2010 Mozart: Elisa Barston and Megumi Stohs, violins, Alan Iglitzin, viola, Amy Barston, cello; Olympic Music Festival, Quilcene, WA, 24.7.2010 (BJ)

Aspen Music Festival (5):  Rossini, Barber of Seville; master classes with Michelle de Young, James Conlon. 21.7.2010 (HS)

Varèse: (R)evolution, The Complete Works of Edgard Varèse, Part II: Anu Komsi (soprano), The Oratorio Society of New York, Kent Tritle (music director and chorus master), Alan Gilbert (conductor), Avery Fisher Hall, 20.7.2010 (BH)

Varèse: (R)evolution, The Complete Works of Edgard Varèse, Part I: Soloists, Musica Sacra, So Percussion, International Contemporary Ensemble, Steven Schick (conductor) Alice Tully Hall, 19.7.2010 (BH)

Aspen Music Festival (4): Bach, Khachaturian, Brahms, Nielsen, Grieg, Bartók; violinist Julia Fischer; conductors Emmanuel Kirvine, Michael Stern; pianist John O’Conor; flutist Maria Piccinini. 19.7.2010 (HS)

Aspen Music Festival (3): McGegan and friends do Vivaldi, Telemann, Corelli; David Finckel and Wu Han take on all five Beethoven cello sonatas.15.7.2010 (HS)

Aspen Music Festival (2):  Joshua Bell, Nicholas McGegan in Mendelssohn; Haefliger, Arming in Mozart and Mahler; Takács Quartet with Nel in Brahms; Ingrid Fliter iin Schumann and Chopin. 12.7.2010 (HS)

Festival Pontino (3) - Mozart, Bruch, Sarasate: Fabrizio von Arx (violin) Prague Sinfonia Orchestra, Conductor, Christian Benda Caetani Castle Courtyard, Sermoneta, Festival Pontino 10.07-2010

Bach, Mozart, Farr, Ysaÿe, Prokofiev, Smetana: Josef Špacek (violin), Michael Houstoun (piano), The Old Library, Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand, 9.7.2010 (PSe)

Festival Pontino (2) - Elissò Virsaladze Piano Masterclass (30.6 to 8.6. 2010) and end-of-course recital (8.7.2010) with a Franco Petracchi double bass coda. Caetani Castle, Sermoneta. Festival Pontino (JB)

“Musica Universalis”
:
Talea Ensemble, Tenri Cultural Institute, New York City, 8.7.2010 (BH)


Festival Pontino (I) Charles Rosen lecture-recital -  the last years of Beethoven and Chopin:  Caetani Castle, Sermoneta, Festival Pontino. 6.7. 2010 (JB)

Aspen Music Festival 2010 (1):
Gil Shaham, Lynn Harrell and Akira Eguchi play Brahms; Takács Quartet, minus one, performs with friends (HS)

Olympic Music Festival - Debussy, Schumann, Mozart, and Grieg:  Paul Hersh, piano; Olympic Music Festival, Quilcene, WA, 3.7.2010 (BJ)