Ticket Reminder
To ensure that you receive your concert tickets on time, all tickets purchased for concerts Aug. 1-10 will not be mailed beginning July 25, but will be available for pick up at the venue box office before the concert. Tickets purchased for concerts August 11-17 will be mailed through August 1. After August 1, please plan to pick up your tickets at the venue box office before the concert.
Community Outreach Program
Endless Mountain Music Festival Drum Circle August 5, 2008 7 to 9 pm at the Hamilton Club Morris Run, PA.
Bring drums, rhythm instruments and a desire to participate. Extra drums available.
Steve Calkins from Ithaca will lead the circle.
Questions call 570-638-2295 directions: www.geocities.com/thehamiltonclub
No admission charge / donations accepted
Endless Mountain Music Festival
Announces Guest Artist Change
The Endless Mountain Music Festival has announced a change in guest artists for the August 16 and 17 concerts of the 2008 season. Scandinavian born classical guitarist Mattias Jacobsson will step in for renowned classical guitarist Sir Angel Romero, who recently injured his wrist and is unable to perform.
"It is an honor and privilege to step-in for this legendary artist." Jacobsson said. Jacobsson will perform Joaquin Rodrigo’s legendary Fantasia para un Gentilhombre and the Concierto De Aranjuez with the Festival Orchestra.
Jacobsson studied at the Malmö Academy of Music in his native Sweden with Göran Söllscher and Gunnar Spjuth, continuing his studies at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. Performing with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, The Royal Danish Opera plus recent appearances with renowned guitarist Sharon Isbin at the Aspen Music Festival and live performances on National Public Radio, Jacobsson has emerged as “one of classical music’s most engaging and personable young talents.”
Endless Mountain Music Festival Artistic Director Stephen Gunzenhauser said, “Mattias Jacobsson is a brilliant young guitarist. The intensity of his playing is magnetic, and the lyrical quality of his playing sweeps the listener off his feet. I was in touch with my friend Sharon Isbin, who just worked with Mattias at the Aspen Music Festival. We are very fortunate that he is available, and he agreed to do both concerti so there would be no change in the program”
The Endless Mountain Music Festival will light-up the Pennsylvania Wilds© August 1 -17, 2008 in Wellsboro, Mansfield, and Blossburg, PA and Corning, NY.
Now in its third season, the festival features concerts by internationally and regionally acclaimed musicians, including solo recitals, chamber music, and a 60-member festival orchestra, conducted by Maestro Gunzenhauser.
This year’s theme, Classical Latin Fiesta, blends selections from classical masters, including Tschaikovsky, Bach, Beethoven and Mozart, with the rhythms and colors of contemporary Latin American composers such as Alberto Ginastera, Joaquin Rodrigo, and Arturo Marquez. Performances will also include works by Pablo Sarasate, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Benjamin Lees, Georges Bizet, Pietro Mascagni and Henry Purcell.
The 2008 lineup of world renowned guest artists includes Mattias Jacobsson, classical guitar, Sandy Cameron, violin, The Terry Klinefelter Jazz Trio, with Terry Klinefelter, piano, Paul Klinefelter, double bass, and Barry Dove, percussion, Lori Hultgren, soprano, Rodney Mack, trumpet, Michael Sheppard, piano, Frances Tate, flute, Elizabeth Landon, flute, Gita Ladd, cello, Adam Mahonske, piano, Alexander Brash, clarinet, Odin Rathnam, viola, Stanislav Pronin, violin, and Sweet Plantain, with Romulo Benavides, violin, David Gotay, cello, Eddie Venegas, violin and trombone, and Orlando Wells, viola. The Festival will present over two weeks of concerts in diverse venues throughout the area, including Mansfield University’s Straughn Auditorium, Wellsboro’s First Presbyterian Church and the Tioga County Courthouse, to name a few. In addition, this year’s expanded schedule includes a performance in Blossburg, PA and in Corning, NY.
Weekend concerts will feature pre-concert presentations by noted hornist and Mansfield University Music Professor Rebecca Dodson-Webster, Ph.D. Concert previews will be offered an hour prior to curtain time on Aug. 2, 3, 9, 10, 16 and 17, and outline the evening’s featured compositions, composers and musicians.
A non-profit organization, the Endless Mountain Music Festival is a regional endeavor made possible through the efforts of countless community volunteers, sponsors and festival partners. Festival tickets are available by phone or online. For more information, call (570) 787-7800 or visit www.endlessmountain.net.
Liberty High School grand prize winners, pictured from left to right are: (first row) Fay Ortiz-Golden (advisor), Brittany Scott-Knecht, Krystle Gregory, Sue Vogler, Amy Coolidge, Erick Coolidge and (back row) Ryan Heatley and Mark Hamilton.
CONTEST WINNERS NAMED
Five seniors from Liberty High School were named grand prize winners of the 2008 Endless Mountain Music Festival’s (EMMF) Create a Commercial Contest at a reception held May 2 at the Tioga County Courthouse. On hand to congratulate the students were Tioga County Commissioners Mark Hamilton, Sue Vogler and Erick Coolidge.
The winning entry was created by Liberty seniors Krystle Gregory, Levi Miller, Ryan Heatley, Sarah Comstock and Brittany Scott-Knect, with advisors Fay Ortiz-Golden and Belinda Barnes. An entry by Cowanesque Valley High School seniors Houston Baker and Janna Heyler, with advisor Gail Hendershot, was named runner-up.
As part of the Festival’s Educational Outreach program, the contest was open to area students in grades 7-12. Contestants wrote, produced and directed an original video commercial for the festival’s summer concert series, incorporating the 2008 theme, Classical Latin Fiesta.
According to EMMF Educational Outreach Manager Amy Coolidge, the contest was designed to provide an opportunity for students to broaden their perspective of classical and Latin music and “…explore their creative and artistic voice.”
Winners were presented with a gift certificate to Subway, movie tickets to the Arcadia Theatre in Wellsboro, and tickets to selected Endless Mountain Music Festival concerts. Entries will be available for viewing on YouTube and this website later this month.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE WINNING VIDEOS
New Box Office Number
Thanks to EMMF gold sponsor Indigo Wireless, Endless Mountain Music Festival now has a new box office number:
570-787-7800. For all ticket information and ticket orders, call the box office on Monday-Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m..
Our original phone number, 570-662-5030 will be dedicated to general festival information and sponsorship inquiries.
A FABULOUS FEBRUARY FIESTA
An extraordinary evening. A fabulous success! With over 100 people from Tioga, Liberty, Canton, Troy, Mansfield, Morris Run, Blossburg, and Wellsboro attending, our February Fiesta raised over $2,000 for The Endless Mountain Music Festival Community Education Program. The money will be used to benefit our newly formed music academy.
The gala, held February 23rd in Wellsboro’s Deane Center, offered a mid-winter sampling of what’s to come at this year’s Endless Mountain Music Festival, “Classical Latin Fiesta”, August 1-17 in Tioga County, PA. The fun-filled evening featured a Latin meal with gourmet tapas, catered by “A Step Above”, prize drawings, and music by Sweet Plantain, a nationally recognized string quartet, playing a unique fusion of classical, Latin and jazz music.
Among the prizes given away were an eight- day vacation in a two-bedroom penthouse at the Resort on Cocoa Beach, Florida (February 2009), two tickets to the 2009 Daytona 500, including Busch and Nextel races, and two season passes to the 2008 Endless Mountain Music Festival, Aug. 1 - 17.
Congratulations to our prizewinners:
Grand Prize, Florida vacation -- George & Helen Reistad of Fallbrook, PA.
Daytona 500 Tickets - John and Sara Vogt, of Wellsboro.
EMMF Season Passes - Attorney Donald H. Blackwell, II. |
