Midsummer Mozart Festival Announces 36th Anniversary Season
Artistic Director George Cleve has announced the 2010 program for the 36th Anniversary Season of the Midsummer Mozart Festival, a San Francisco Bay Area icon and North America’s only all-Mozart festival. The Festival is proud to welcome 14-year-old piano sensation Audrey Vardanega and violin soloist Robin Hansen in Program I, and beloved pianist Seymour Lipkin and basso Jeremy Galyon in Program II. Maestro Cleve will lead the Festival Orchestra in eight Bay Area concerts, July 15-18 and July 22-25, 2010. Click here for Program
"George Cleve never fails to arrange programs that present Mozart in the best possible settings for the serious listener. This will be true for the two [2010] Festival programs he has prepared. July will never be a dull month as long as Cleve is there to see to our Mozart needs." --Stephen Smoliar, SFExaminer.com
Young Music Lovers Are Invited to Join Us at a Midsummer Mixer!
Twenty- and 30-something music lovers are invited to join us at 6:30 pm before the Friday, July 16 Festival concert in San Francisco for a special pre-concert mixer at the beautiful Michalopoulos Gallery in Hayes Valley. Concert ticket includes the mixer which features light hors d’oeuvres, wines and beer. Have a bite, meet other young music lovers and enjoy Michalopoulos' dynamic and colorful artwork. Then, enjoy the concert, just a couple of blocks away at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Please click here for more information.
Win a Wine Country Staycation Courtesy of the North Bay Bohemian!
Log on to www.bohemian.com and click "Giveaways" to enter to win a relaxing Wine Country Staycation. Enjoy one night stay for two at Westin Verasa Napa on July 17, two tickets for the July 17 Sonoma concert at Gundlach Bundschu Winery, and a bottle of award-winning wine. Good luck!
The North Bay Bohemian is a proud sponsor of the Midsummer Mozart Festival.
About the Festival
A beloved Bay Area institution, the Midsummer Mozart Festival was founded in 1974 by George Cleve and a regional consortium of classical musicians, who recognized him as one of the world's great interpreters of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Read full bio here.
Thirty-six years later, the Festival is the only music festival in North America dedicated exclusively to Mozart. Under the baton of Maestro Cleve, the Festival presents a critically-acclaimed summer concert season featuring renowned international soloists as well as distinguished local artists, with a dedication to fresh and intelligent interpretation of the work of this most enduring and universally loved composer. Our mission embraces both performances of the highest artistic excellence, and cultivation of new audiences, including young people, to assure the future appreciation of great music, and the arts.
The Festival is grateful for sustaining support from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund Grants for the Arts and Classical 102.1 KDFC-FM. 2009 season sponsors also included David W. Packard, Gundlach Bundschu Winery, and many generous individuals.
