Welcome to Duxbury Music Festival
5th Anniversary
An intensive program for solo and chamber instrumental performance
July 18 – August 6, 2010
Opening Orchestra Concert – July 18, 2010
Students arrive – July 21, 2010
Stephen Deitz
Festival Director
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South Shore Conservatory proudly presents the DUXBURY MUSIC FESTIVAL, a solo and chamber music program for piano, violin, cello, viola and oboe, unique to all of New England.
Founded with the knowledge that music enriches the human spirit and the belief that this enrichment endures in the lives of its participants, the Duxbury Music Festival is located in an idyllic seaside community, thirty-five miles south of Boston and twenty miles north of Cape Cod.
The Duxbury Music Festival is a 20 day intensive program for the study and performance of solo and chamber repertoire for undergraduate and graduate students and adult professionals. Festival Director, Stephen Deitz, has gathered to this historic and picturesque town a renowned faculty who offer chamber performances, as well as individual instruction and ensemble coaching.
Program Highlights
A select group of approximately 20 students will participate in multiple private lessons and intensive ensemble coachings as well as a variety of daily performance opportunities. A generous allocation of time for daily practice ensures that students will have the opportunity to reap the benefits of their lessons and coachings.
The program includes: three 1-hour private lessons, four 1-hour ensemble coachings, 5 student recitals, four faculty concerts, solo and chamber music master classes, solo and chamber ensemble competitions, a Winners Concert, generous practice time, bayside room and board, numerous pool parties and barbecues, a sailing event on Duxbury Bay and excursions to nearby Duxbury Beach.
Audiences are invited to purchase tickets for the Festival’s Opening Concert, the four faculty concerts and the Winners Concert. Performances will be held at the Conservatory’s Ellison Center for the Arts, the Duxbury Performing Arts Center and in seaside homes or other private venues.
DMF Photo Gallery
Click here to view high resolution photo highlights from our 2009 season!
Click here for results from the 2009 competitions.
| Excerpts from Solo and Chamber Music Competition Winners Concert |
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| Carmen Fantasy, Op. 45 by P. Sarasate Dasol Jeong, Violin First Place, 2009 Solo Competition |
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| Etude pour les arpeges composes by C. Debussy Siyuan Li, piano Second Place, 2009 Solo Competition |
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| Trio No. 2, Op. 77 by L. Liebermann Wendy Toh, violin, Simona Barbu, cello, Andrew Chen, piano First Place, 2009 Chamber Competition |
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| Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor, Op. 8 by D. Shostakovich Francesca Fetten, violin, Simona Barbu, cello, Karali Hunter, piano Second Place, 2009 Chamber Competition |
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| Tango by I. Stravinsky/arr. V. Babin Laura Brumbaugh, Karali Hunter, piano First Place, 2008 Chamber Competition |
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| Etude in the form of a Waltz, Op. 56, No. 6 by C. Saint-Saens Tian Lu, piano First Place, 2008 Solo Competition |
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