Sewanee Summer Music Festival

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is a place to grow musically and personally, to learn and perform in close company with an outstanding artist-faculty. Here on our mountain talented young musicians find an ideal place to develop all facets of their artistry. A summer at Sewanee is transformative.

Sewanee Friends,

Yesterday Paul York informed me that our dear friend and colleague Peter Spurbeck has suffered a stroke. He is hospitalized in Memphis where he has had surgery and remains in a coma in the ICU. Ann, Sam, and the rest of the family are there with him. The family has set up a caringbridge web page, below, where you may post messages for them. Pete and Ann graced Sewanee with their presence for many years, as teachers, mentors, and friends. I know we all hold them in our hearts at this difficult time.

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/peterspurbeck

2012 Cumberland Orchestra Conductors

Perry Holbrook Jason Seber

Octavio Mas-Arocas

Clarinet Faculty Announcement!

Ramon Wodkowski

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Justin O’Dell will be unable to participate in the SSMF this year. In his place, we are pleased to announce the appointment of Ramon Wodkowski as the 2012 Artist-Faculty in Clarinet.

Announcing our Artists in Residence for the SSMF 2012!

So Percussion

They will be joining us in Sewanee from July 10-12 where they will perform a concert, conduct master classes, work with ensembles, and share their wealth of knowledge and experience with our students!

Since coming together at the Yale School of Music in 1999, So Percussion has been creating music that is at turns raucous and touching, barbarous and heartfelt. Realizing that percussion instruments can communicate all the extremes of emotion and musical possibility, it has not been an easy music to define. Called “astonishing and entrancing” by Billboard Magazine, “brilliant” by the New York Times, the Brooklyn based quartet’s innovative work with today’s most exciting composers and their own original music has quickly helped them forge a unique and diverse career.

http://sopercussion.com/

We are delighted to announce the repertoire for the Sewanee Summer Music Festival!!!!

Kenneth Kiesler: Week 1
La Forza del Destino- Giuseppe Verdi
Roman Festivals- Ottorino Respighi

Larry Rachleff: Week 2
Chants d’Auvergne- Joseph Canteloube (featuring soprano Susan Lorette Dunn)
Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2- Maurice Ravel

Courtney Lewis: Week 3
Suite from Henry V- William Walton
Romeo et Juliette- Hector Berlioz

Victor Yampolsky: Week 4
Symphony No. 5- Sergei Prokofiev

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2012 Sewanee Symphony Conductors

Kenneth Kiesler Larry Rachleff

Courtney Lewis Victor Yampolsky

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