The Mendocino Music Festival - Emerging Artist Program

The Mendocino Music Festival is offering young musicians full scholarships for its 2011 season. Scholarships are available for ten string players – violinists, violists and cellists – and are limited to serious musicians between the ages of 17 and 26. The program includes professional coaching in an intensive week of chamber music as well as participation in the Mendocino Music Festival Orchestra in the company of professional musicians from the Bay Area, local artists, and soloists of national and international renown. Participants will perform in a chamber music recital, a chamber orchestra concert and three orchestra concerts, each one with a different program./n/nThe Mendocino Music Festival is offering young musicians full scholarships for its 2011 season. Scholarships are available for ten string players – violinists, violists and cellists – and are limited to serious musicians between the ages of 17 and 26.



The program includes professional coaching in an intensive week of chamber music as well as participation in the Mendocino Music Festival Orchestra in the company of professional musicians from the Bay Area, local artists, and soloists of national and international renown. The two-week Festival, held from Thursday, July 7 through Saturday, July 23, 2011 is in its 25th season, takes place in one of the most spectacular spots on the northern California coast.



Participants will perform in a chamber music recital, a chamber orchestra concert and three orchestra concerts, each one with a different program. The chamber music workshop consists of one week of intensive coaching and rehearsals. Host families will provide participants with lodging, kitchen privileges, and, in some cases, breakfast. Although the MMF will provide substantial morning snacks on orchestra rehearsal days at the Festival tent, participants are expected to provide for their own meals and transportation.

About the instructors:


Cellist Julie Feldman Julie performs regularly with the Symphony Silicon Valley and free-lances with many Bay Area groups. She has been director of chamber music at the Marin Academy for 18 years as well as Branson School and has an active private teaching studio in Berkeley. For many years she was a member of the New York Chamber Soloists, touring in Europe as well as the United States, and continues to work with a number of East Coast ensembles.



Roy Malan has been the Concertmaster of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra and San Francisco Contemporary players for more than three decades. His concert tours have taken him throughout the world. He is founder and co-director or the Telluride Chamber Music Festival and teaches violin at UC Santa Cruz. He has collaborated with Olivier Messaien, Elliot Carter, John Adams and Frank Zappa, and is the author of a biography of his teacher, Efrem Zimbalist.



Susan Freier is an internationally known violinist and violist and longtime member of the Ives quartet at Stanford University, performs with the S.F. Contemporary chamber players. She earned degrees from Stanford and Eastman School of Music and was asked to join the Chester Quartet, which went on to win the Evian, Munich International, Portsmouth and Chicago Discovery competitions. She has been a participant at the Aspen Grand Teton and Newport festivals, and has recordings on a number of prestigious labels. Formerly an artist-faculty member of the Pacific Music center, she now teaches and performs at the Orfeo, Telluride, and San Diego music festivals.

More complete information about the Mendocino Music Festival is available on the website at www.mendocinomusic.com.