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Classical Music Fesitval
 August 9-11, 2013
Center Stage at Town Center Park
Big Sky, Montana Beethoven Meets Copland....in the Mountains. Free Admission!!
We are excited to announced that musician, composer and educator Eric Funk has again signed on to be the Music/Artistic Director for the 2013 festival! Mr. Funk brings knowledge and enthusiasm that will help to move this growing festival forward!
Music starts at 6 p.m. each night! We are very pleased to announced that Mr. Peter Bay has agreed to conduct the debut of the Big Sky Festival Orchestra on Sunday, August 11, 2013! This orchestra will feature the finest players in Montana and beyond! Friday, August 9: Cassatt String Quartet (New York, NY): 7 p.m. with special guest opener Boze Bones Trombone Quartet: 6 p.m. Saturday, August 10: Florestan Trio (Portland, OR): 7 p.m. with special guest opener MSU String Camp Orchestra: 6 p.m. Sunday, August 11: Big Sky Festival Orchestra: 6 p.m. with Maestro Peter Bay Food/beverages available for purchase. Please no dogs or glass containers in the park Rain site is the Warren Miller Performing Arts Center (only if weather is terribly inclement!) Chairs, blankets, coolers permitted Please turn cell phones off and be respectful of artists and patrons Music will start at 6 p.m. each evening Relax. Listen. Enjoy!
Music/Artistic Director
Eric Funk
Eric Funk was born in Montana in 1949. He studied composition with Tomas
Svoboda, Sandor Veress, and Krzysztof Penderecki and interviewed Nadia
Boulanger in Paris (1977) specific to her composition pedagogy.
Recipient of the first Ruth Lorraine Close Fellowship for graduate study
in composition at University of Oregon (1973), Funk holds degrees from
Portland State University and is ABD in the tri-university doctoral
program (Portland State, University of Oregon, Oregon State University).
Currently on the faculty at Montana State University and the 2007
President's Excellence in Teaching Award recipient, he teaches for the
University Honors College (awarded the 2009 Distinguished Service
Award), College of Letters and Science, and for the music department
(composition, orchestration). He also serves as artistic director and
host for Montana PBS-TV "11th & Grant with Eric Funk", the Emmy
Award winning showcase for Montana musicians, all genres, now in its 6th
season. Eric Funk has composed 114 major works, one third of which were
commissions, including nine symphonies, four operas, sixteen concerti,
five string quartets, numerous large and small choral works and chamber
works.
Orchestra Conductor
 Peter Bay
Peter Bay is celebrating his 15th full season as Music Director and Conductor of the Austin Symphony Orchestra. He is also Music Director of the Hot Springs Music Festival in Arkansas, and has just completed a twenty year tenure as Music Director of the Britt Festival Orchestra in Jacksonville, Oregon. For the 2012-2013 academic year he will be a Resident Artist at Texas State University. Peter makes his debut with the Sarasota Orchestra in April 2013 and returns to the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra the following month.
Maestro Bay has appeared with sixty-five different orchestras including the National, Chicago, St. Louis, Houston, Dallas, Baltimore, New Mexico, New Jersey, North Carolina, Syracuse, Virginia, West Virginia, Colorado, Hawaii, Jacksonville, Richmond, Alabama, Arkansas, Canton, Eugene, Fort Worth, Springfield, Bochum (Germany), Carinthian (Austria), Lithuanian National, and Ecuador National Symphonies, the Minnesota and Algarve (Portugal) Orchestras, the Louisiana, Buffalo, Rhode Island, Tulsa, Fort Wayne and Reno Philharmonics, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Eastman (Argento's Postcard from Morocco) and Aspen (Moore's The Ballad of Baby Doe) Opera Theaters, and the Theater Chamber Players of the Kennedy Center. Summer music festival appearances have included Aspen (CO), Music in the Mountains (CO), Grant Park and Ravinia (IL), Round Top (TX), OK Mozart (OK) and Skaneateles (NY). Peter is the primary conductor for the ASO's performances with Ballet Austin. He made his Austin Lyric Opera debut in January 2002 with André Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire, conducted Verdi's La Traviata in November 2002, Puccini's Turandot in November 2003, and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in April 2005. Other positions held by Mr. Bay have included Music Director of the Erie Philharmonic, Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, Breckenridge Music Festival (CO) and four different conducting posts with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and the Richmond Symphony in Virginia. Bay and the Richmond Symphony recorded the US premiere performance of Britten's The Sword in the Stone for Opus One Records. His CD, Voices, featuring the percussion ensemble NEXUS and the Rochester Philharmonic, is on the Nexus CD label. In May 2013 he and the Austin Symphony Orchestra will begin a recording project of the music of Edward Burlingame Hill. A native of Washington, DC, Mr. Bay is a graduate of the University of Maryland and the Peabody Institute of Music. In 1994, he was one of two conductors selected to participate in the Leonard Bernstein American Conductors Program. He was also the first prize winner of the 1980 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Young Conductors Competition and a prize winner of the 1987 Leopold Stokowski Competition sponsored by the American Symphony Orchestra in New York.
Schedule
Friday, August 9
Cassatt String Quartet (New York, NY)
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WHO: Music in the Mountains: Freddy Pink
WHERE:
Center Stage at Town Center Park
WHEN:
July 4th, 2013
COST:
Free!
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