Sunday Orchestral Concerts

Sunday afternoon orchestral concerts are the signature event at the AMFS. Internationally renowned soloists and conductors perform along an orchestra made up of professional orchestral musicians and their most brilliant young-artist protégés. The performances are full of energy and passion, imbued with the freshness of youth and mountain air. Always at 4 pm, at the open-air Klein Music Tent.

July 6: Festival Orchestra: Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 with Joyce Yang
Robert Spano conductor
Joyce Yang piano
WAGNER: Prelude to Act I, from Parsifal
WAGNER: Good Friday Spell from Parsifal
THOMAS ADÈS: Inferno Suite, from Dante
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BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, op. 15

July 13: Festival Orchestra: Barnatan and Conlon with Literary Notes: Bernstein and Shostakovich
James Conlon conductor
Inon Barnatan piano
BERNSTEIN: Symphony No. 2, The Age of Anxiety, after W. H. Auden
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SHOSTAKOVICH/JAMES CONLON: Suite from Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, op. 29a

July 20: Festival Orchestra: Seong-Jin Cho Plays Mendelssohn Piano Concerto
Fabien Gabel conductor
Ana María Martínez soprano
Seong-Jin Cho piano
R. STRAUSS: Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration), op. 24
RAVEL: Shéhérazade
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MENDELSSOHN: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, op. 25
RAVEL: Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2

July 27: Festival Orchestra: Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto
Xian Zhang conductor
Tony Siqi Yun piano
JESSIE MONTGOMERY: Hymn for Everyone
PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 6 in E-flat minor, op. 111
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TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, op. 23

August 3: Conducting Academy Orchestra: Shaham Plays Bruch Violin Concerto
Robert Spano conductor
Gil Shaham violin
MISSY MAZZOLI: These Worlds in Us
BRUCH: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, op. 26
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BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique, op. 14

August 10: Festival Orchestra: Hadelich Plays Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Stéphane Denève conductor
Augustin Hadelich violin
JENNIFER HIGDON: blue cathedral
TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35
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R. STRAUSS: Eine Alpensinfonie, op. 64

August 17: Festival Orchestra: Ravel’s Boléro, Alisa Weilerstein
Ludovic Morlot conductor
Alisa Weilerstein cello
RAVEL: Une barque sur l’océan
LUTOSŁAWSKI: Cello Concerto
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DEBUSSY: Jeux
RAVEL: Boléro

August 24: Festival Orchestra: Beethoven’s “Emperor” and Holst’s “The Planets”
Robert Spano conductor
Paul-Boris Kertsman conductor
Yefim Bronfman piano
WAGNER: Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, op. 73, “Emperor”
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HOLST: The Planets, op. 32

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Friday Orchestral Concerts

Friday evening orchestral concerts feature a chamber orchestra playing exquisite works from Haydn to contemporary fare. As with Sundays, internationally renowned soloists and conductors perform along an orchestra made up of professional orchestral musicians and their most brilliant young-artist protégés. Always at 5:30 pm, at the open-air Klein Music Tent.

(Saturday) July 5: Chamber Symphony: Mendelssohn’s “Reformation” and Bruch
Marie Jacquot conductor
Stefan Jackiw violin
THOMAS ADÈS: The Origin of the Harp (US Premiere, AMFS Co-Commission)
BRUCH: Scottish Fantasy, op. 46
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MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 5 in D major, op. 107, “Reformation”

July 11: Chamber Symphony: Beethoven’s Iconic Fifth Symphony
Nicholas McGegan conductor
Paul-Boris Kertsman conductor
Demarre McGill flute
Titus Underwood oboe
Anthony McGill clarinet
Andrew Brady bassoon
MOZART: Symphony No. 31 in D major, K. 297 (K. 300a), “Paris”
JASMINE BARNES: KINSFOLKNEM (AMFS Co-Commission)
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BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67

July 18: Chamber Symphony: Elgar and Vaughan Williams
Robert Spano conductor
Zlatomir Fung cello
PURCELL/STUCKY: Funeral Music for Queen Mary
ELGAR: Cello Concerto in E minor, op. 85
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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No. 5 in D major

July 25: Chamber Symphony: Brahms’s Third Symphony, Ravel, and More
Matthias Pintscher conductor
Blake Pouliot violin
RAVEL: Mother Goose Suite
MATTHIAS PINTSCHER: Assonanza for Violin and Orchestra
RAVEL: Tzigane
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BRAHMS: Symphony No. 3 in F major, op. 90

August 1: Chamber Symphony: Ravel Piano Concerto with Lise de la Salle
Ryan Bancroft conductor
Lise de la Salle piano
GABRIELLA SMITH: Tumblebird Contrails
RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G major
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NIELSEN: Symphony No. 4, op. 29, “The Inextinguishable”

August 8: Chamber Symphony: Glover Leads Schubert’s “The Great” Symphony
Jane Glover conductor
Jeremy Denk piano
ANNA CLYNE: ATLAS, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (AMFS Co-Commission)
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SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 9 in C major, D. 944, “The Great”

August 15: Chamber Symphony: Glover Leads Schubert’s “The Great” Symphony
Vasily Petrenko conductor
Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello
PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 1 in D major, op. 25, "Classical"
SAINT-SAËNS: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, op. 33
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DEBUSSY: Deux danses
STRAVINSKY: Symphony in C

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Wednesday Orchestral Concerts

Wednesday evenings host an all-student orchestra that plays core classical repertoire led by the AMFS’s conducting students. Hear the works that have endured in our hearts for centuries, led by today’s youthful interpreters who are also the leading professional conductors of tomorrow. Tickets are $23! Always at 5:00 pm, at the open-air Klein Music Tent.

July 9: Featuring works by Carlos Simon, Mozart, and Brahms
CARLOS SIMON: Motherboxx Connection, from Tales: A Folklore Symphony
MOZART: Symphony No. 35 in D major, K. 385, “Haffner”
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BRAHMS: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, op. 68

July 16: Featuring works by Debussy and Rimsky-Korsakov
DEBUSSY: from Nocturnes
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RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade, op. 35

July 23: Featuring works by Jessie Montgomery, Mendelssohn, and Bartók
JESSIE MONTGOMERY: Coincident Dances
MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64
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BARTÓK: Concerto for Orchestra, BB 123

August 6: Featuring works by Magnus Lindberg and Beethoven
MAGNUS LINDBERG: Arena
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BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7 in A major, op. 92

August 13: Featuring works by Max Vinetz and Tchaikovsky
MAX VINETZ: Swell (World Premiere, AMFS Commission)
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TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, op. 36

August 13: Featuring works by Mendelssohn, Liszt, and Mahler
MENDELSSOHN: Selections from A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 61
LISZT: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, LW H4
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G. MAHLER: Symphony No. 4 in G major