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2022 US Summer Festival Highlights

Aug. 08, 2022

Music festivals across the United States have been offering an outstanding array of opera, orchestral, and chamber music performances, including several noteworthy premieres. A selective list of some of these performances follow: 

Ad Astra Music Festival
Gregory Spears and Kathryn Walat's opera Paul's Case was performed at the Ad Astra Music Festival on July 23. 

(“And he bows, how is that?” from Paul's Case/Gregory Spears and Kathryn Walat/
UrbanArias & American Modern Ensemble/Robert Wood, conductor)

Aspen Music Festival
Aspen's 2022 season includes a variety of orchestral, chamber, and vocal music concerts including: 

June 14  Gustav Mahler, Songs performed by Michelle De Young, mezzo-soprano and Jeremy Reger, piano
July 1 Grażyna Bacewicz, Music for Strings, Trumpet and Percussion & George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue
July 9  Grażyna Bacewicz, Quartet for Four Violins
July 10  Shelley Washington, Both (World Premiere)
July 19  Valentin Silvestrov, Five Pieces for Violin and Piano
July 31  Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 1 in D major
August 4  Kurt Weill, "Lonely House" from Street Scene performed by Lawrence Brownlee, tenor and Myra Huang, piano
August 5  Andrew Norman, Try & Kurt Weill, Symphony No. 2
August 9  Kurt Weill, "Youkali" from Marie Galante performed by Nicholas Phan, tenor and Myra Huang, piano
August 12  Gustav Mahler, Songs of a Wayfarer
August 13  Toru Takemitsu, Hika
August 15  Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor
August 18  W.A. Mozart, Don Giovanni
August 19, György Ligeti, Concert Românesc
August 20, Gustav Mahler, Songs performed by Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS singers

Bang on a Can: LOUD Weekend 2022
Presented by Bang on a Can and Mass MoCA, LOUD Weekend 2022 (July 28-30) was "a fully loaded eclectic super-mix of minimal, experimental and electronic music" that included a performance of Morton Feldman's Triadic Memories by pianist Marilyn Nonken and works by PSNY composer, Phil Kline.

Bowdoin International Music Festival
July 9, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Cello Concerto in C Major, Op. 37
July 9, Agata Zubel, Mono-Drum
July 11, Pierre Jalbert, Piano Trio No. 1
July 12, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Piano Quintet in E Major, Op. 15
July 16, Zoltán Kodály, Duo for violin and cello

Caramoor
On July 31, Avi Stein led The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra in a concert performance of G.F. Handel's Theodora featuring a star-studded cast of soloists.

Chamber Music Northwest
July 6, Thomas Adès, Arcadiana, Op. 12
July 10-11, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Piano Quintet in E Major, Op. 15
July 24-25, György Ligeti, Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet
July 27, Vijay Iyer, Song for Flint


(The Danish String Quartet performs Thomas Adès's Arcadiana)

Chautauqua Institution
July 19, Victoria Borisova-Ollas, Kingdom of Silence
July 21, Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 1
July 22, W.A. Mozart, Don Giovanni
July 25, The Music School Festival Orchestra joined forces with the School of Dance to perform Who Cares?, a ballet with music by George Gershwin, choreographed by George Balanchine.
August 4, Renowned mezzo-soprano Susan Graham performs songs and arias by W.A. Mozart, George Gershwin and others

Des Moines Metro Opera
Michael Ellis Ingram conducted and Tazewell Thompson directed an exciting new production of The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, July 3-24.

Grand Teton Music Festival
Sir Donald Runnicles led the Festival Orchestra and soloists Heidi Stober and Tamara Mumford in a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in C minor "Resurrection" on July 29. Eun Sun Kim leads the orchestra in George Gershwin's An American in Paris on August 12-13
July 4 Capathia Jenkins & the Festival Orchestra perform George Gershwin's  "Strike Up the Band"
July 17 Pianist Inon Barnatan performs Thomas Adès's Blanca Variations
July 29 Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 2 in C minor "Resurrection"
August 12-13 George Gershwin, An American in Paris

La Jolla Society Summerfest
July 29  Grażyna Bacewicz, Quartet for Four Violins
August 14  Alban Berg, Piano Sonata, Op. 1
August 18  Anthony Roth Costanzo performs "Synergy: An Evening of Kurt Weill", a new semi-staged celebration of Kurt Weill's extraordinary body of work, directed by Zack Winokur

Marlboro Music Festival
August 12 George Benjamin and Martin Crimp, Into the Little Hill

Music Academy of the West 
Pianist Conor Hanick and percussionist Michael Werner perform Christopher Cerrone's Don't Look Down

August 2 Christopher Cerrone, Don't Look Down

(Conor Hanick and Sandbox Percussion perform Christopher Cerrone's Don't Look Down)

Ojai Music Festival 
June 9 Kate Soper, The Rose Once Blown 
June 10 Anthony Cheung, the echoing of tenses (World Premiere)

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
July 20 Oliver Knussen, Requiem
August 11 Leila Josefowicz performs Matthias Pintscher's La Linea Evocativa: A Drawing for Violin Solo



(Leila Josefowicz performs Matthias Pintscher's La Linea Evocativa: A Drawing for Violin Solo
- begins at 29:54)

Santa Fe Opera
July 1-August 27 Georges Bizet, Carmen

Staunton Music Festival
August 14 Gustav Mahler, Kindertotenlieder
August 17  Stefan Heucke, Concerto Grosso for two orchestras (World Premiere)

Tanglewood Festival
July 17 Fazil Say, Phoenix (Anka Kusu) (US Premiere)
July 21 Pierre Jalbert, Crossings
July 31 Jörg Widmann, Oktett; Toru Takemitsu, Rocking Mirror Daybreak
July 31 Paul Hindemith, Symphonic Metamorphosis 
August 4 Alvin Singleton, Again; Oliver Knussen, Requiem: Songs for Sue;
Thomas Adès, Mazurkas, Op. 27
August 5 Katherine Balch, Kalesa Ed Kaluca, for doublebass septet
August 7 Thomas Adès, Shanty – Over the Sea
August 8 George Benjamin, Lessons in Love and Violence (US Premiere)


TIME:SPANS
August 13 Arnold Schoenberg, Kammersymphonie No. 1, Op. 9
August 16 Erin Gee, Mouthpiece XI, featuring the composer as soloist
August 17 Vijay Iyer, Torque
August 27 Katherine Balch, drip music (World Premiere of the arrangement for nonet, 2021)

Yellow Barn
July 8 Jörg Widmann, Und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind… (And they all lived happily ever after…) from Es war einmal… (Once upon a time…); Valentin Silvestrov, Postludium No. 2
July 14 George Benjamin, Upon Silence; Toru Takemitsu, Rain Spell; Valentin Silvestrov, Postludium No. 1 “DSCH” for soprano, violin, cello, and piano
July 16 Alban Berg, Sieben fühe lieder 
July 21 Toru Takemitsu, Um eIII (Toward the Sea III)
July 22 Friedrich Cerha, Acht Sätze nach Hölderlin-Fragmenten (Eight movements based on fragments by Hölderlin)
August 2 Lei Liang, Lakescape III for two violas
August 3 Jörg Widmann, Schwester Tod, Unterweltszene aus Babylon (Underworld scene from Babylon), arranged for soprano, cello, and keyboard instruments (2021); György Ligeti, String Quartet No. 2
August 4 Valentin Silvestrov, Stile Lieder; Jörg Widmann, Einsam will ich untergehn (Alone I want to perish) from Das heiße Herz (The Fiery Heart)
August 6 Toshio Hosokawa, Renka III (Love Song); Lei Liang Trans; George Gershwin, "Our Love is Here to Stay"


(Percussionist Steven Schick performs Lei Liang's Trans)

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