Opening Night with Meechot Marrero

Sun Valley Pavilion 300 Dollar Rd, Sun Valley, Idaho, United States

The Festivalā€™s 40th Season opens with a fanfare written by the composer Timothy Higgins especially for this occasion! Then soprano Meechot Marrero returns to Sun Valley to sing a few of her favorite ariasā€“fans may remember her passionate performance in the Festivalā€™s gala concert, Carmina Burana, in 2022. The concert closes with Prokofievā€™s Classical Symphony. Prokofiev himself gave it the nickname, as he intended to write a symphony in the classical style, while ā€œabsorbing things from what was new in music.ā€ Itā€™s a delightful, sunny piece, and one of the most-performed works of the 20th century.

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Piazzolla’s Four Seasons and Mozart’s “Linz” Symphony

Sun Valley Pavilion 300 Dollar Rd, Sun Valley, Idaho, United States

The Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla, most famous for his tangos, composed The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires in the late 1960s. Festival Assistant Concertmaster Juliana Athayde will take the lead on these four lovely pieces that quote and improvise on Vivaldiā€™s masterpiece. Following, Associate Conductor Stephanie Childress returns to the podium to lead Mozartā€™s ā€œLinzā€ symphony. On the way from Vienna to Salzburg, Austria, Mozart stopped to visit a friend in Linz, only to learn that said friend had committed him to performing a symphony there in four days. The only problem was that he didnā€™t have a symphony with him. So, being Mozart, he wrote one. Itā€™s brilliant, of course!

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Upbeat with Alasdair: Meet the Artists: Andy Akiho and Jeffrey Zeigler

The Community Library, John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall 415 Spruce Avenue, Ketchum, ID, United States

Back in 2021, the Music Festival commissioned composer Andy Akiho, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and multiple GRAMMYā“‡ nominee, to write a concerto for Jeffrey Zeigler, former cellist of the Kronos Quartet. Join Music Director Alasdair Neale and these two artists as they discuss the creative process, ahead of the world premiere of the piece on August 2. This event will also be livestreamed on svmusicfestival.org.

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Meechot Marrero and Festival Musicians play Schubert

Sun Valley Pavilion 300 Dollar Rd, Sun Valley, Idaho, United States

Schubert wrote ā€œThe Shepherd on the Rockā€ as a favor for a friendā€“a sopranoā€“who asked for a piece that would allow her to express a wide range of emotions. Meechot Marrero will sing the vocal part, accompanied by piano and clarinet, with the latter sometimes imitating and other times enhancing her voice. Schubertā€™s Trout Quintet is one of his most beloved chamber works, and for good reasonā€“itā€™s full of cheerful, beautiful, and catchy melodies.

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