Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Round Top Music Festival

June 3 - July 15, 2012

Festival Hill
248 Jaster Road
Round Top, TX 78954
979-249-3129
info@festivalhill.org


One of the major summer music festivals in the United States, the Round Top Music Festival celebrates its 41st year in 2012. Founded  by renowned concert pianist James Dick, it gathers more than 90 young talented young artists - accepted after auditions - for an intensive 6-week program. They are mentored and coached by more than 40 distinguished faculty members  and participate in more than 20 orchestral and chamber music concerts performed in the outstanding Festival Concert Hall (1,000 seats) built over a period of 30 years. The Texas Festival Orchestra will perform 8 concerts conducted by eight different conductors from the United States (Michael Stern, Stefan Sanders and Emilio Colon), Canada (Charles Olivieri-Munroe), France (Pascal Verrot), Austria (Christoph Campestrini), Portugal (Pedro Carneiro) and China (Perry So.)

Orchestral programs mix, as usual, the well known and not so well known repertoire and also a world premiere (Concerto for two percussionists and orchestra by Jonathan Leshnoff.)


Chamber music programs are also offering contrasted repertoires (Debussy, Spohr, Dvorak, Ligeti, Brahms, Harsanyi, Bach, Carter, Poulenc, Bartok...
Master classes are open to the public... as well as orchestra rehearsals.

Detailed programs