2010 Music Festival:
January 18-24, 2010
Exploring the Art of Music in Film & Concert

Artistic Director - Paul Chihara, named Composer of The Year by the Classical Recording Foundation for 2008, is a prize winning and two- time Emmy nominated composer of concert works and scores for over 100 motion pictures and television series. His concert works have been performed in most major cities and arts centers in the U.S. and Europe.
Associate Director- Greg MacGillivray, a two-time Academy-award-nominated American IMAX film director and cinematorgrapher.
Featured Ensemble - Claremont Trio, First winners of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award and the only piano trio ever to win the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, they are widely regarded as the premier piano trio of their generation.
Artists- Maria Bachmann. Among Ms. Bachmann’s numerous competition victories are First Prizes at the Fritz Kreisler Competition in Vienna, the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York and the Pro Musicis Foundation Award. These distinctions were followed by acclaimed debuts with the St. Louis Symphony under Leonard Slatkin, the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center with Robert Spano and with Marin Alsop conducting the Pacific Symphony in Los Angeles.
Claire Chase-Declared “indefatigable” by Time Out Chicago, flutist Claire Chase is First Prize Winner of the 2008 Concert Artists Guild Competition.  A passionate performer, leader and innovator, she creatively links traditional, contemporary and experimental music with program choices that range from Bach and Brahms to Boulez, Saariaho, Zorn and beyond.
Donald Crockett, Composer -Donald Crockett was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006, and has also received the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a commission from the Barlow Endowment, an Artist Fellowship from the California Arts Council, an Aaron Copland Award and the first Sylvia Goldstein Award from the Copland House, a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, as well as many other grants and commissions.

Claremont Trio