February 23rd, 2012

Section Violin Opening

The Breckenridge Music Festival is holding auditions for SECTION VIOLIN for the 2012 summer festival season.

Audition Requirements

Solo of choice
Orchestral excerpts:
Mozart Symphony 39 – 4th mvmt. (standard excerpts)
Brahms Symphony No. 2 – 2nd mvmt. (standard excerpts)
Schumann Symphony No. 2 – Scherzo: beginning to Trio and Coda
Strauss Don Juan – 1st page
Chamber music – a recording of a performance, if available

Send resume and CD or tape by March 23, 2012 to:
Michael G. Koscso
BMF Personnel Manager
185 North Chestnut St.
Kent, OH 44240
Please send signature NOT required

February 14th, 2012

Lighten Up! The BMF Cabaret Concert

August 8, 2012
7:30 pmto9:30 pm

Songs about love and all the crazy things it makes us do, this show is designed to keep you laughing all night long. Featuring vocalists Megan Van De Hey, Margie Lamb, Chris Boeckx and Jeffery Atherton with the BMF House Band Trio.

Songs from Anything Goes – Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes – Little Shop of  Horrors – Avenue Q – And the World Goes Round – Anything Goes – Spamalot – Little Shop of Horrors – Songs for a New World – Closer Than Ever – The Last Five Years – I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change

programming subject to change

February 14th, 2012

Beethoven & Brahms: Festival Tuesday Series

August 7, 2012
7:30 pmto9:30 pm

Beethoven & Brahms: Program

Beethoven Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 20 for Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, Violin, Viola, Cello and Double-bass Kenneth Krause, Miles Maner, Jeremy Blanden, Susan Pardue, David Rosen, David Kahn, horn TBA
Brahms String Sextet in B-flat Major, Op. 18 for two Violins, two Violas, two Cellos Nathan Olson, Kathryn Hatmaker, violins; Zsche-Chuang Wong, Matthew Carrington, violas; Elizabeth Beilman, Rebecca Gilmore, cellos

programming subject to change

February 13th, 2012

Summit Daily News Article: Players spent time in Summit schools this past week

When a group of friends who play stringed instruments gathers, it’s only a matter of time before someone pulls out a book of string quartets, and an afternoon or evening of musical enjoyment is underway.


The Breckenridge Music Festival and Summit Music and Arts welcomes newly appointed co-concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and BMF Concertmaster Nathan Olson to this Sunday’s concert, String Quartet. Olson brings guest cellist Ian Jones to join violinist Meghan Jones and viola player Matthew Carrington.

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February 13th, 2012

In Sync: The Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra and the National Repertory Orchestra Joint Concert

July 28, 2012
7:30 pmto9:30 pm
7:30 pmto9:30 pm

In Sync: Program

Stravinsky Le sacre du printemps Carl Topilow, conductor
Respighi Fountains of Rome Gerhardt Zimmermann, conductor
Respighi Pines of Rome Gerhardt Zimmermann, conductor

programming subject to change

February 13th, 2012

Opening Night: All-Tchaikovsky: Festival Orchestra Series

July 19, 2012
7:30 pmto9:30 pm

All-Tchaikovsky: Program

Tchaikovsky Polonaise from Eugen Onegin Festival Orchestra, Gerhardt Zimmermann, conductor
  Concerto for Piano No. 1, in B-flat with Panayis Lyras, piano
  Andante Cantabile  
  Suite from Sleeping Beauty  

programming subject to change

February 10th, 2012

Summit Daily News Article: Music in the Schools happens today

Music in the Schools is Breckenridge Music Festival’s arts education outreach program for the children and youth living in Summit and neighboring counties. It is a critical part of the Breckenridge Music Festival’s mission and an important service to the community. Arts education teaches creative, innovative thinking and collaborative skills, as well as measurably increasing academic success, and positively impacting careers…

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