The Park City International Music Festival is Utah

Utah

Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

's oldest classical music festival. Founded as the Deer Valley Music Festival in 1983, the Festival is centered around bringing renowned classical solo artists together to perform chamber music

Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...

. In addition, the Park City Music Festival sometimes includes chamber orchestra performances by the Sonolumina Chamber Orchestra, live performances with silent film, and jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 concerts. For twelve years the Festival also included the Park City Young Artist Institute, a training ground for aspiring young artists from around the world. Young Artist Institute alumni have gone on to perform in professional chamber groups and orchestras and teach, as well as forming other chamber music festivals and series. For a number of years the Festival also included the BRAVO Program for beginning and intermediate young musicians. The Park City International Music Festival has also been known as the Park City &SLC Music Festival in recent years since it expanded to perform in the Salt Lake City area as well.

Among the many artists who have performed with the Festival over the years are violinists Charles Libove, Paul Rosenthal

Paul Rosenthal

Paul Rosenthal is an American virtuoso violinist.Rosenthal has played the violin since the age of three, going on to attend the Juilliard School in New York City and the University of Southern California under acclaimed master Jascha Heifetz. Paul Rosenthal also is skilled at both the trumpet and...

, Glenn Dicterow

Glenn Dicterow

Glenn Dicterow , is an American violinist and is currently concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.Mr. Dicterow's musical gifts became apparent when, at age 11, he made his solo debut with the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra...

, Philippe Djokic

Philippe Djokic

Philippe Djokic is a Canadian violinist, conductor, and music educator of French birth. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1990.Born in Nancy, France, Djokic was the son of a Serbian father and French mother...

, Andres Cardenes

Andrés Cárdenes

Andrés Cárdenes is a Cuban-born violinist, violist, teacher, conductor, and concertmaster. He has performed and taught in a number of prominent positions, including his current distinguished professorship in violin at Carnegie Mellon University School of Music where he holds the Dorothy Richard...

, Bill Preucil, Elmar Oliveira, Oleh Krysa

Oleh Krysa

-Early life:Oleh Krysa was born in Uchanie, now Gmina Uchanie in the Lublin Voivodeship, Poland, into a family of Ukrainian aristocrats. In 1945, as a result of the so-called Operation Vistula, Oleh's family found itself in Lviv, where he grew up and spent his school years.Although none of the...

, Charles Castleman

Charles Castleman, violinist

Castleman, Charles American violinist and teacher b. Quincy, Mass.,  May 22, 1941. He began violin lessons at the age of four with Ondricek. When he was only six he appeared as a soloist with Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orch. At nine, he made his solo recital debuts at Jordan Hall in Boston and...

, Monte Belknap, Marc Djokic, Arturo Delmoni, Kerry McDermott, Joseph Silverstein

Joseph Silverstein

Joseph Silverstein is an American violinist and conductor.As a youth, Silverstein studied with his father, Bernard Silverstein, who was a public school music teacher...

, Margaret Batjer, Manuel Ramos

Manuel Ramos

Manuel Ramos, an attorney who also has taught Chicano literature courses at Metropolitan State College of Denver, is the author of several crime fiction novels...

, Timothy Baker, Linda Rosenthal

Linda Rosenthal

Linda B. Rosenthal represents District 67 as a Democrat in the New York State Assembly, which includes parts of Manhattan's Upper West Side and Clinton neighborhoods....

, violists

Viola

The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...

 Jeffrey Irvine, Paul Neubauer

Paul Neubauer

Violist Paul Neubauer was the youngest principal player for the New York Philharmonic at 21 years of age, and currently teaches at the Juilliard School, and Mannes College The New School for Music. He performs with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center...

, Sandra Robbins, Karen Ritscher

Karen Ritscher

Karen Ritscher is an American musician and academic.She is currently on faculty at the Oberlin Conservatory and has taught and performed extensively throughout the United States.Ms...

, Leslie Harlow, cellists Mark Kosower

Mark Kosower

Mark Kosower is an internationally renowned cellist. Kosower is currently Solo Cellist of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra in Germany and was Professor of Cello and Chamber Music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music from 2005-07. He studied with János Starker at Indiana University and Joel...

, Yehuda Hanani

Yehuda Hanani

Yehuda Hanani is an Israeli-American cellist. He is a Professor of Violoncello at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and an international soloist and master class teacher. Hanani studied with Leonard Rose at Juilliard and with Pablo Casals.At the age of 19, Hanani was taken...

, Fred Zlotkin, Scott Ballantyne, Evan Drachman, Denise Djokic

Denise Djokic

Denise Djokic is a gifted cellist from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the daughter of Lynn Stodola and Philippe Djokic.Cellist Denise Djokic has been praised worldwide for her sincere, powerful interpretations, and her bold command of the instrument. Instantly recognized by her "arrestingly...

, Terry King, Nathaniel Rosen

Nathaniel Rosen

Nathaniel "Nick" Rosen is an American cellist, former gold prize winner at the International Tchaikovsky Competition, and former faculty member at the USC Thornton School of Music and the Manhattan School of Music....

, Ellen Bridger, Pierre Djokic, Peter Sanders, Jeffrey Solow

Jeffrey Solow

Jeffrey Solow is an American cello virtuoso and the immediate past president of the American String Teachers Association and president of the Violoncello Society, Inc. of New York.-Biography:...

, Denise Djokic, Maureen McDermott, Ellen Bridger, pianists Gail Niwa, John Novacek, Timothy Hester, Anne-Marie McDermott, Michael Gurt, John Jensen

John Jensen

John Jensen , nicknamed Faxe, is a former Danish international footballer who is unemployed. He is known for his temper and is often outspoken in interviews. His playing career lasted over a decade, during which he played most famously for Arsenal F.C...

, Nina Lugovoy, Tatiana Tchekina, Robert Moeling, Mykola Suk

Mykola Suk

-Biography:Born in Kiev, Ukraine , into a musical family, Mykola studied at Kiev Specialized Music School and made his first public appearance at the age of eight. He later studied at Moscow Conservatory.-Pianist:...

, Doris Stevenson, Melissa Livengood, clarinet

Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...

ists Russell Harlow, Michael Webster, Lee Livengood, David Gould, flutists

Flute

The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

 Laurel Ann Maurer, Leone Buyse, Patrice Moeling, Jane Lyman, horn players Jeffry Kirschen, Peter Gordon

Peter Gordon

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, bassoon

Bassoon

The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher. Appearing in its modern form in the 19th century, the bassoon figures prominently in orchestral, concert band and chamber music literature...

ists Benjamin Kamins, Mitchell Morrison and contrabassoon

Contrabassoon

The contrabassoon, also known as the double bassoon or double-bassoon, is a larger version of the bassoon, sounding an octave lower...

ist Susan Nigro

Susan Nigro

Susan L. Nigro is an American contrabassoonist. Unlike most players of the instrument, Nigro's career is primarily as a solo recitalist and recording artist rather than an orchestral player.-Life:...

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The Festival was founded by violist Leslie Harlow and is directed by Ms. Harlow and clarinetist Russell Harlow

Russell Harlow

Russell Harlow, a clarinetist, grew up in Los Angeles and now lives in Utah. Russell is the co-director of the ] and Autumn Classics Music Festival] and runs both the Sonolumina Chamber Orchestra and the Contemporary Music Consortium of Utah...

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The Park City International Music Festival performs in Park City, Utah

Park City, Utah

Park City is a town in Summit and Wasatch counties in the U.S. state of Utah. It is considered to be part of the Wasatch Back. The city is southeast of downtown Salt Lake City and from Salt Lake City's east edge of Sugar House along Interstate 80. The population was 7,558 at the 2010 census...

, in several venues including the Park City Community Church, St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church and the Stanfield Fine Art Gallery. In Salt Lake City, the Festival performs at Libby Gardner Concert Hall on the University of Utah

University of Utah

The University of Utah, also known as the U or the U of U, is a public, coeducational research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest...

 campus and at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center

Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center

The Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center is a three-venue arts complex in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah that is home to modern dance companies, the Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation, Plan-B Theatre Company, and the Sundance Film Festival. It is part of the Salt Lake County Center for the...

. At various times the Festival also presents concerts in private homes.