SUMMER 2017 JUNE 21–AUGUST 20 PROGRAMS OF STUDY ORCHESTRA/INSTRUMENTAL
• Strings, Winds, Brass, Percussion, Harp • Center for Orchestral Leadership
CHAMBER MUSIC • Center for Advanced Quartet Studies • Finckel-Wu Han Chamber Music Studio • Brass Quintet Studies • Aspen Chamber Music ASPEN OPERA CENTER
• Voice
• Opera Coaching
SOLO PIANO COLLABORATIVE PIANO ASPEN CONDUCTING ACADEMY SUSAN AND FORD SCHUMANN CENTER FOR COMPOSITION STUDIES ASPEN CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE CLASSICAL GUITAR
APPLICATION DEADLINES Program-specific, ranging from October 21, 2016, through January 2, 2017. Visit www.aspenmusicfestival.com for full details and to apply.
“Aspen’s like nowhere else in the world. Every summer I would come out on the other side certainly feeling like a different musician, but also like a different person.”
SCHOOL SNAPSHOT
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TALENTED STUDENTS
$
2.6 million
IN FINANCIAL AID PROVIDED
– SIMONE PORTER, AMFS ALUMNA
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE More than $2.6 million in financial assistance is available. More than two-thirds of the Aspen Music Festival and School’s 600 students receive scholarship, and more than half of those awards provide 100% assistance with tuition as well as room and board.
*open to all ages
and
43
42%
were returning students
STATES
3
75 million
CAMPUS
22
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COUNTRIES
$
STATE-OF-THE-ART
Average age
TOP REASONS STUDENTS SAY THEY CHOSE TO ATTEND THE AMFS
• Th e opportunity to study with and/or perform alongside our world class artist-faculty • Th e amount of financial aid offered • Th e opportunity to participate in a high-level program of study
SUMMER 2017 LEARN MORE AND APPLY www.aspenmusicfestival.com FOLLOW THE AMFS
IN ASPEN JUNE 21–AUGUST 20
Music Director Robert Spano President and CEO Alan Fletcher Vice President and Dean of Students Jennifer Johnston
ARTIST-FACULTY VOICE Vinson Cole *Renée Fleming, artist-in-residence Elizabeth Hynes Stephen King W. Stephen Smith
ABOUT THE
ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL
PHOTOS ALEX IRVIN AND ELLE LOGAN
The Aspen Music Festival and School (AMFS) is the country’s premier summer music festival, offering a combination of intensive one-onone instruction and professional performance experience. Each student coming to Aspen steps into an extraordinary musical world of unparalleled depth and breadth, with five orchestras, opera, a robust offering of chamber music studies, master classes, lectures, and more. Along with private instruction, many students rehearse and perform major orchestral repertoire sideby-side with their teachers and/or with principal players from major orchestras, including those of New York, Los Angeles, St. Louis, San Francisco, Cleveland, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Orchestras perform weekly or accompany one of two
professional operatic productions. Soloists and conductors vary by week and are among the world’s most revered classical musicians. The AMFS is open to musicians of any age and at any stage of their career. However, the intensity of the professional performance schedule and the exacting standards of quality make it most appropriate for the serious, dedicated musician. Students in all programs can attend more than 300 performances, master classes, lectures, and panels; and, as part of the AMFS community, they make connections that can last a lifetime. Join Aspen for its sixty-ninth season, and experience what has made the Aspen Music Festival and School a place of artistic and personal transformation since 1949.
ASPEN OPERA CENTER Edward Berkeley, director Elizabeth Buccheri, head of music *Renée Fleming, artist-in-residence William Billingham Garnett Bruce Brian DeMaris Timothy Long Kenneth Merrill Jeanne Slater Mary Duncan Steidl Diane Zola SOLO PIANO Hung-Kuan Chen Yoheved Kaplinsky Julian Martin Anton Nel Ann Schein Rita Sloan Arie Vardi Virginia Weckstrom Vivian Hornik Weilerstein Wu Han COLLABORATIVE PIANO Rita Sloan, director VIOLIN *Renata Arado *Sibbi Bernhardsson *Laurie Carney *Laura Park Chen Robert Chen *David Coucheron *Ellen dePasquale *Simin Ganatra David Halen *Robert Hanford Cornelia Heard Paul Kantor
Masao Kawasaki Alexander Kerr Espen Lilleslåtten Robert Lipsett *Robert McDuffie Sylvia Rosenberg Naoko Tanaka Bing Wang Donald Weilerstein *Peter Winograd VIOLA *Daniel Avshalomov Heidi Castleman Choong-Jin Chang Victoria Chiang James Dunham *Beth Guterman Chu Masao Kawasaki *Masumi Per Rostad Sabina Thatcher *Thomas Turner Stephen Wyrczynski CELLO Richard L. Aaron Darrett Adkins David Finckel Desmond Hoebig Eric Kim Michael Mermagen Brinton Smith *Brandon Vamos DOUBLE BASS Bruce Bransby Christopher Hanulik Albert Laszlo Edgar Meyer FLUTE Nadine Asin Mark Sparks, leave of absence OBOE Elaine Douvas Richard Woodhams CLARINET Michael Rusinek Joaquin Valdepeñas
BASSOON Nancy Goeres Per Hannevold FRENCH HORN Andrew Bain Eric Reed David Wakefield John Zirbel TRUMPET Karin Bliznik Kevin Cobb Louis Hanzlik Raymond Mase BASS TROMBONE John D. Rojak TENOR TROMBONE Per Brevig Michael Powell TUBA Warren Deck PERCUSSION Jonathan Haas David Herbert Douglas Howard Joseph Pereira Edward Stephan Thomas Stubbs Mark Yancich Cynthia Yeh
CENTER FOR ADVANCED QUARTET STUDIES Pacifica Quartet Takács Quartet American String Quartet James Dunham Sylvia Rosenberg Donald Weilerstein LUTHIER Joan Balter ASPEN CONDUCTING ACADEMY Robert Spano, director Asadour Santourian, program administrator Mark Stringer, visiting faculty Larry Rachleff, visiting faculty Markus Stenz, visiting faculty SUSAN AND FORD SCHUMANN CENTER FOR COMPOSITION STUDIES Stephen Hartke, composerin-residence Christopher Theofanidis, composer-in-residence
HARP Nancy Allen Anneleen Lenaerts CLASSICAL GUITAR Sharon Isbin, director ASPEN CHAMBER MUSIC Darrett Adkins Per Hannevold Cornelia Heard Rita Sloan A student performs alongside AMFS artistfaculty member David Halen, concertmaster of the St. Louis Symphony.
ASPEN CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE Sydney Hodkinson, conductor Donald Crockett, conductor Timothy Weiss, conductor ENSEMBLE-IN-RESIDENCE American Brass Quintet American String Quartet Pacifica Quartet Takács Quartet ARTIST-FACULTY EMERITUS Adele Addison, voice Robert Biddlecome, trombone Bonita Boyd, flute Earl Carlyss, Center for Advanced Quartet Studies, violin Gabriel Chodos, piano Carole Cowan, violin Michael Czaijkowski, composition John Graham, viola William Grubb, cello Irene Gubrud, voice
Thomas Haines, film scoring and audio recording Alan Harris, cello Jennifer John, violin Joseph Kalichstein, piano Catharine Carroll Lees, viola Eugene Levinson, bass Jorge Mester, music director Theodore Oien, clarinet Antoinette Perry, piano Sylvia Plyler, AOC Louis Ranger, trumpet Christopher Rouse, composition Dennis Smylie, bass clarinet Paul Sperry, voice Viviane Thomas, voice George Tsontakis, composition Martin Verdrager, theory Dick Waller, clarinet Won Bin Yim, violin * Asterisk indicates that the artist-faculty member does not teach privately.