Known for bringing remarkable music to equally remarkable destinations, Festival Mozaic has announced its 2013 summer season, set for July 16-28. The music of Debussy, Bach, Beethoven and Brahms will meet that of new composers like Patrick Zimmerli and David Balakrishnan of the Turtle Island Quartet in such charismatic venues on California’s Central Coast as Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, Chapel Hill in wine country, Studios on the Park in Paso Robles and the state-of-the-art Christopher Cohan Center for the Performing Arts.
Led by acclaimed music director, Scott Yoo, the annual summer festival will feature players from the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Baltimore Symphony and a host of other top orchestras across the country. Guest artists include internationally-lauded soprano Ilana Davidson, pianist John Novacek and others. Additionally, the Festival Fringe series highlights classically-trained artists working across genres, including acclaimed Italy-based musical comedy team, Duo Baldo in their only U.S. appearance in 2013, as well as the large-format site-specific long harps of String Theory. Click here to download a brochure of the complete summer festival season.
Over its four decades, the festival has come to be known for presenting emerging artists early in their careers, including Richard Goode, Jeffrey Kahane, Hilary Hahn, Sir Neville Marriner, the Kronos Quartet, Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer, and the first American premiere performances of Maxim and Dmitri Shostakovich with Mstislav Rostropovich, immediately following their defection from the Soviet Union in 1981.
Individual tickets go on sale May 1. Tickets may be ordered online here or by calling (805) 781-3009 or (877) 881-8899.