2010 Music Festival:
January 18-24, 2010
EXPLORING MUSIC IN FILM

from classical inspirations to modern masters

A week-long fest of concerts, receptions, lectures, meet-the-artist events and other activities guaranteed to push January right out of the post-holiday doldrums. A project of Laguna Beach Live! and the Philharmonic Society of Orange County, the Festival, now in its 8th year, mixes prominent and promising artists, mentor musicians and emerging stars, and presents these artists in charming spaces that allow the audience an unusually intimate concert experience.

The theme is the art of music in film. Chamber music pieces based on musical material originally created for screen and works by composers more frequently identified as film composers are highlighted, plus classical music that has inspired artists and filmmakers. Pushing it further, Laguna Beach-based IMAX filmmaker Greg MacGillivray has created a 13-minute film from his academy award nominated film, "The Living Sea," to be shown at each of the Festival concerts with different scores composed by three different composers played live.
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Festival Headquarters is Hotel Laguna, 425 So. Coast Hwy. The world famous Hotel Laguna has maintained the essence of early California, combined with the charm and elegance of Europe’s finest historical establishments. Concerts are held at Laguna Beach Artists' Theatre, 625 Park Avenue.

ChiharaArtistic Director Paul Chihara is a prize winning composer of major concert works and scores for over 100 motion pictures and television series. He was named the Composer of the Year by the New York Classical Recording Foundation in 2008.


GregGreg MacGillivray is a two-time Academy-award-nominated American IMAX film director and cinematographer. His film career spans more than 40 years and he has shot more 70mm film than anyone in cinema history -- more than two million feet.

trioThe Claremont Trio, regarded as the premiere piano trio of their generation, is the first winner of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award and the only piano trio ever to win the Young Concert Artists International Auditions.

mariaViolinist Maria Bachmann has won first prizes at the Fritz Kreisler Competition in Vienna and the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York. Philip Glass composed his first Sonata for Violin and Piano (2008) especially for her.

 

claire

Flutist Claire Chase is First Prize Winner of the 2008 Concert Artists Guild Competition and is rapidly becoming well known as an innovator in contemporary and experimental music.



jonHighly acclaimed New York based pianist Jon Klibonoff is a member of Trio Solisti and can be heard in numerous chamber music concerts throughout the United States.

crockettDonald 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.

 

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