Strings Music Festival
Strings Music Festival, in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, is a world renowned Music Festival featuring classical,jazz, blues, Americana, country and youth performances over an 8 week period every summer.
About
Strings Music Festival is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization and operates with the support of sponsors and individual donors. Strings Music Festival hosts more than 90 classical and non-classical music events the majority of which take place in eight weeks every summer from June to August. Concerts are also presented in other months of the year. The Festival includes orchestra, chamber music, contemporary music, jazz, blues, Americana, youth events, lectures, outreach performances and free events.
Strings Music Festival was founded in 1988 as Strings in the Mountains with 8 classical performances held on the deck of the Steamboat Athletic Club.[1] In 1990 the first non-classical acts Leo Kottke and Karla Bonoff were presented. In 1992 Strings erected a tent at Torian Plum property to host the festivals performances. Strings then changed from a 300 seat venue to a structure that could accommodate 500 people. In 1992 Strings Music Festival was put on the map when World Renowned conductor of the St. Louis Symphony, Leonard Slatkin, came to conduct a Chamber Orchestra.[2] CBS Morning News covered the event and gave Strings Music Festival their first national news recognition [3] In 2003 Strings purchased seven acres of land for its new home at the current location of 900 Strings Rd.[4] In 2007 The Festivals name was officially changed to Strings Music Festival, and a year later a permanent Music Pavilion was constructed. The pavilion was a 4.3 million dollar capital project and with the help of Steamboat Architectural Associates and D.L Adams Associates of Denver the project was complete in just nine months.[5][6]
Classical Music Directors
In 2009 Andrés Cárdenes and his wife Monique Mead took over as the Classic Music Directors of the festival.[7] Cárdenes studied under Josef Gingold and has over 30 years as a professional musician. In 1982 he won 2nd prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition, which helped launch his global career. Cuban-born Andrés Cárdenes has performed as a soloist with more than 100 orchestras and served as Concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for 21 seasons and as the Artistic Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Chamber Orchestra since 1999.[8] Cárdenes continues to teach and maintain a studio at the Carnegie Mellon University as well as guest teaching at the Curtis Institute, Toronto's Royal Conservatory, Shanghai Conservatory and Calgary's Mt. Royal College. He is also the President of the jury of the Stradivarius International Violin Competition.
External Links
References
- ^ Kyle MacMillan (27 June 2008) "Welcome to Steamboat's Strings" Denver Post
- ^ http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Music+Festival+Reason+to+Sample+Western+Town-a019214901
- ^ http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Music+Festival+Reason+to+Sample+Western+Town-a019214901
- ^ http://www.steamboattoday.com/news/2002/mar/09/music_to_their/
- ^ Kyle MacMillan (27 June 2008) "Welcome to Steamboat's Strings" Denver Post
- ^ http://www.steamboattoday.com/news/2008/apr/13/new_strings_pavilion_will_offer_space_keep_intimac/
- ^ http://www.americasmusicfestivals.org/strings-music-festival/
- ^ http://www.pittsburghsymphony.org/pghsymph.nsf/bios/Andr%C3%A9s+C%C3%A1rdenes
