Reviews - Eastern Music Festival - 6/30 - 8/2/08

6/30 - 8/2. $. 336/272-0160, 866/579-TIXX(8499), or http://www.EasternMusicFestival.org/

• JR EMF Closes 47th Season with Heroic Program (Xavier Phillips, cello, Gerard Schwarz, conductor) 8/2/08

• PP EMF: Concerto Competition Winners — Two (Holly Jenkens, violin, Hayato Tanaka, trumpet, Hana Huber, piano, Chelsea Tipton II & Jose-Luis Novo, conductors) 8/1/08

• PP EMF: Concerto Competition Winners - One (Marley Eder, flute, Julian Schwartz, cello, Chien-Lin Lu, Piano, Jose-Luis Novo & Chelsea Tipton II, conductors) 7/31/08

• JR Superb Soloist Plus Great Brass Section Highlight EMF Concert (Elmar Oliveira, violin, Jorge Mester, conductor) 7/26/08

• JWL EMF Hosts Awadagin Pratt (Young Artists Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz, conductor) 7/25/08

• TL EMF: Two Griegs, a Mahler, and a Full House (William Wolfram, piano, Gerard Schwarz, conductor) 7/19/08

• PP EMF: Splashes of Orchestral Color and a Hidden Gem (Ani Kavafian, violin, with the EMF Student Orchestra, Jose-Luis Novo, conductor) 7/18/08

• WTW EMF's Young Artists Orchestra: Divine Mozart with an Enigma (Jon Manasse, clarinet, Jorge Mester, conductor) 7/17/08

• TL EMF: Chamber Music at Guilford College (Ann Choomack, flute, Jamie Hofman, viola, R. Meredith Johnson, bass, Jenny Grégoire, violin, Diana Tsaliovich, violin, Jennifer Puckett, viola, Marta Simidtchieva, cello, Shawn Weil, violin, Neal Cary, cello, & Yoshikazu Nagai, piano) 7/15/08

• WTW EMF: Chamber Music at Reynolda House (Ann Choomack, flute & piccolo, Jamie Hoffman, viola, R. Meredith Johnson, double-bass, Gideon Rubin, piano, Yoshikazu Nagai, piano, Shawn Weil, violin, & Neal Cary, cello) 7/13/08

• WTW Eastern Music Festival Orchestra: Powerful Performance Caps Fine All-Russian Program (with Gerard Schwarz, Music Director & Cecile Licad, piano) 7/12/08

• PP EMF: Shostakovich Symphony No. 11, & Bonus Cecile Licad Master Class (with David Lockington, conductor, & with Christopher Olka, tuba; and with student pianists Fang-Wei Hsu, Robin Jenkens, & Irina Arbatskaya in the class, conducted by Cecile Licad) 7/11/08

• WTW EMF's Young Artists Orchestra (with José-Luis Novo, conductor & Jeffrey Multer, violin) 7/10/08

• JR The Dazzling Virtuosity of Cellist Matt Haimovitz (with Geoff Burleson, piano) 7/9/08

• JR Eastern Music Festival: Big Name Draws Packed House (with David Lockington, conductor & Miodori, violin) 7/5/08

• PP Independence Day at the Eastern Music Festival: An Evening Concert, & An Afternoon Master Class (with David Lockington, conductor, & with Christiana Dahl, piano, and José-Luis Novo, conductor; and with student violinists Sophie Pariot & Holly Jenkens in the class, conducted by Midori) 7/4/08