Eastern Music Festival’s 48th Season Runs June 27-Aug. 1

The Eastern Music Festival’s 48th season will be presented June 27-Aug. 1, with concerts featuring internationally acclaimed guest artists on Guilford’s campus.

More than 90 events are scheduled, with performances by Avery Fischer Award winning violinists Sarah Chang and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, internationally acclaimed pianists Peter Serkin and Horacio Gutiérrez and popular cellist Xavier Phillips.  Gerard Schwarz returns as renowned music director.

The popular Saturday Festival Orchestra season opens July 4 in a performance featuring Serkin playing Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1, Scriabin’s The Poem of Ecstasy; Symphony No. 4 and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Eastern Overture -- all in concert with EMF’s own faculty orchestra.

Other classical programming includes the Young Artists Orchestras performing favorites such as Copland’s El Salon Mexico and Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 in C minor every Thursday and Friday evening at Dana Auditorium and the Carnegie Chamber Series Tuesdays in Hege Library.

For more information, visit www.easternmusicfestival.org.

June 15, 2009