Bravo! VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL

P.O. Box 2270, Vail, Colorado 81658
Phone: 970.827.5700 - Fax: 970.827.5707

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 7, 2001

THE VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL CELEBRATES ITS FOURTEENTH SEASON

Vail, Co.- The glorious sounds of orchestral and chamber music will fill the Rocky Mountain air once again from June 27 through August 5, 2001 as the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival celebrates its Fourteenth Season. This year's theme "2001: A Musical Odyssey - Masters from the Past and Present" marks the beginning of a new millennium of music and exploring the legacies of many great composers. Over 60 concerts performed by over 40 acclaimed soloists, ensembles and three resident orchestras - the Dallas Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic and Colorado Symphony Orchestras - will be held at the newly remodeled Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater/Vilar Pavilion in Vail, the Vilar Center for the Arts in Beaver Creek and additional lodges and residences throughout the Vail Valley.

The Colorado Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Marin Alsop will open the Festival on June 27 at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater/Vilar Pavilion. The romantic inaugural program features the Festival's former Artistic Director and renowned violinist Ida Kavafian performing Dvorak's Romance in F Minor. The symphony will also perform a pops concert with Judy Collins and help the Vail Valley celebrate Independence Day with two free patriotic concerts on July 1 in Beaver Creek and July 4 in Vail with a narration by Jack Kemp.

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra will perform six exhilarating concerts, including an evening with Arlo Guthrie and one free family concert from July 6 through July 15, 2001. Highlights will include performances of full, rich orchestral works such as Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra and Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Titan and solo performances by pianists André Watts, Anne-Marie McDermott and Jonathan Biss and violinist Kurt Nikkanen. The Symphony's conductor Andrew Litton will be performing Shostakovich's Concerto No. 2 in F Major in the closing concert on July 15.

Artistic Director Christopher Seaman and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra return to perform seven concerts in its 10th year with the Festival, including four classical concerts, two pops concerts and one free family concert. Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers returns to the Festival on July 20 to perform Tchaikovsky's Concerto in D Minor. Other highlights of the residency include incomparable performances of Beethoven's Concerto No 4 in G Major with pianist John Browning and powerful performances of Mussorgksy's Pictures of an Exhibition and Bartók's The Miraculous Mandolin. Pianist Valentina Lisitsa also returns to the Festival with a performance of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini for Piano and Orchestra. The Rochester Philharmonic will also perform a pops concert featuring ever favorite "Bravo Broadway", and one family concert led by Maestro Jeff Tyzik.

The Festival's distinguished Chamber Music series which will feature a Commission Premiere by the Festival's Composer-in-Residence Elizabeth Brown, Due for Violin and Viola, which will be performed by the husband and wife team of Roberto Diaz and Elissa Lee Koljonen. Ms. Brown will perform her own piece, Acadia, with the Festival's Artistic Director and flutist Eugenia Zukerman on July 19. The series will also include the popular All Baroque Evening along with beautiful performances by violinists Anne Akiko Meyers, Kerry McDermott and Chee Yun, and the Festival's Ensemble-in-Residence the Avalon String Quartet.

A distinguished flutist and "CBS Sunday Morning" cultural commentator, Ms. Zukerman is in her fourth season as Artistic Director with the Festival after performing as a guest soloist for several seasons.

Tickets for the Fourteenth Season can be purchased in May, 2001 and most range in price from $10-$40 and go on sale May, 2001. For a ticket brochure, complete schedule or for more information regarding Season Fourteen of the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, please call the Festival offices at 970-827-5700 or visit www.vailmusicfestival.org.

Source: Vail Music Festival

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