The Mostly Mozart Festival is a summer series of concerts held at Lincoln Center in New York City

New York City

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. Currently, the artistic director is Jane Moss while the music director is Louis Langrée

Louis Langrée

Louis Langrée is a French conductor. He is the son of organist and theorist Alain Langrée. One of his sisters is an amateur cellist....

. In 2006, it celebrated its 40th anniversary and the 250th anniversary of its namesake Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

's birth. As it has done for many years, it is performing many of "Mozart's works and also a variety of musical works created after his death that were inspired and influenced by his genius".

History

Co-founded by impresario Jay K. Hoffman and William Lockwood, Midsummer Serenades - A Mozart Festival began on August 1, 1966.http://www.jaykhoffman.com/aboutus/who_we_are.htm This program, made possible by Lincoln Center's new, air-conditioned halls

Air conditioning

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, would eventually turn into what is today the Mostly Mozart Festival. On January 27, 1991, The Mozart Bicentennial at Lincoln Center opened with concerts held at Avery Fisher Hall

Avery Fisher Hall

Avery Fisher Hall is a concert hall, in New York City and is part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex. It is the home of the New York Philharmonic, with a capacity of 2,738 seats.-History:...

 and the Metropolitan Opera House

Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center)

The Metropolitan Opera House is an opera house located on Broadway at Lincoln Square in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the theater opened in 1966. It replaced the former Metropolitan Opera House at Broadway and 39th St...

. It was the world's largest and most comprehensive tribute to the life and works of Mozart. The 2009 festival will take place from July 28-August 22 at various venues around Lincoln Center.

Partial List of Past Featured Artists

• John Adams
  John Adams
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• Pierre-Laurent Aimard
  Pierre-Laurent Aimard
  Pierre-Laurent Aimard is a French pianist. He was born in Lyon, where he entered the conservatory. Later he studied with Yvonne Loriod and with Maria Curcio....
  
  
• Piotr Anderszewski
  Piotr Anderszewski
  Piotr Anderszewski is a Polish-Hungarian pianist.- Biography :Anderszewski was born in Warsaw, Poland. He attended conservatories in Lyon and Strasbourg, the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, and the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles.- Career...
  
  
• Leif Ove Andsnese
• Nicholas Angelich
  Nicholas Angelich
  Nicholas Angelich is an American pianist.Born in the United States, he began to study the piano with his mother at the age of five. He gave his first concert at the age of seven, with a chamber orchestra in the United States, when he performed Mozart's piano concerto in C major, K.467...
  
  
• Joshua Bell
  Joshua Bell
  Joshua David Bell is an American Grammy Award-winning violinist.-Childhood:Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, United States, the son of a psychologist and a therapist. Bell's father is the late Alan P...
  
  
• Jonathan Biss
  Jonathan Biss
  Jonathan Biss is an American classical pianist.Biss represents the third generation in a family of professional musicians, which includes his grandmother Raya Garbousova , as well as his parents, the Israeli-born violinist Miriam Fried and the violist Paul Biss...
  
  
• Borromeo String Quartet
  Borromeo String Quartet
  The Borromeo String Quartet is an American string quartet, in residence at the New England Conservatory since 1992. They have performed throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia, at numerous festivals and in many distinguished chamber music series...
  
  
• The Canadian Brass and Star of Indiana
• Chamber Orchestra of Europe
  Chamber Orchestra of Europe
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• Michael Collins
• Alice Coote
  Alice Coote
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• Simone Dinnerstein
  Simone Dinnerstein
  Simone Dinnerstein is an American classical pianist who became celebrated, both critically and commercially, for her self-financed recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations, released in 2007.-Education:...
  
  
• Emerson String Quartet
  Emerson String Quartet
  The Emerson String Quartet is a New York–based string quartet in residence at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Previously the Quartet was in residence at The Hartt School. Formed in 1976, they have released more than twenty albums and won nine Grammy Awards. Both violinists...
  
  
• Elin Frazier
• Claire-Marie Le Guay
  Claire-Marie Le Guay
  -Early life:Le Guay began playing piano at age 4 and entered the Paris Conservatoire at age 14, where she studied with Jacques Rouvier, Pascal Devoyon and Bruno Rigutto...
  
  
• International Contemporary Ensemble
  International Contemporary Ensemble
  The International Contemporary Ensemble is a contemporary classical music ensemble of thirty chamber musicians, including strings, woodwinds, piano, percussion, voice and composers, which enables great flexibility of programming...
  
  
• Jeffrey Kahane
  Jeffrey Kahane
  Jeffrey Alan Kahane is an American classical music pianist and conductor. He is music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.-Personal history:...
  
  
• Louis Langrée
  Louis Langrée
  Louis Langrée is a French conductor. He is the son of organist and theorist Alain Langrée. One of his sisters is an amateur cellist....
  
  
• Robert Levin
  Robert Levin
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• Yo-Yo Ma
  Yo-Yo Ma
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• Mark Morris Dance Group
• The OpenEnded Group
  The OpenEnded Group
  The OpenEnded Group is a digital art collective comprising Marc Downie, Shelley Eshkar, and Paul Kaiser. They are known for their advances in dance technology , non-photorealistic rendering, and the use of artificial intelligence in art.In dance, the OpenEnded Group has collaborated with prominent...
  
  
• Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
  Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
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• Schola Cantorum de Venezuela
  Schola Cantorum de Venezuela
  Schola Cantorum de Venezuela is one of the most important choral societies belonging to the growing choral movement in Venezuela. SCV was founded in 1967 by Alberto Grau, a Venezuelan composer and conductor born in 1937 in Barcelona, Spain...
  
  
• Yannick Nézet-Séguin
  Yannick Nézet-Séguin
  Yannick Nézet-Séguin is a French Canadian conductor. He is Music Director Designate of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and will become Music Director in 2012.-Biography:...
  
  
• Yevgeny Sudbin
  Yevgeny Sudbin
  Yevgeny Sudbin is a Russian concert pianist. He studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. After his family emigrated to Berlin when he was age 10, he won several German piano competitions, and studied at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. He was a pupil of Christopher Elton at...
  
  
• Robin Ticciati
  Robin Ticciati
  Robin Ticciati is a British conductor of Italian ancestry. His paternal grandfather was a composer and arranger. His father is a barrister, and his mother is a therapist...
  
  
• Osmo Vänskä
  Osmo Vänskä
  Osmo Antero Vänskä is a Finnish conductor, clarinetist and composer.He started his musical career as an orchestral clarinetist with the Turku Philharmonic . He then became the principal clarinet of the Helsinki Philharmonic from 1977 to 1982...
  
  
• Stefan Vladar
  Stefan Vladar
  -Biography:In 1985 Vladar won Vienna's VII Ludwig van Beethoven piano competition. In addition to his concert career he's been the Grosses Orchester Graz principal conductor since 2002 and since 2008 principal conductor of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra.-References:...
  
  
• Valentina Lisitsa
  Valentina Lisitsa
  Valentina Lisitsa is a Ukrainian-born classical pianist. Lisitsa resides in North Carolina in the USA. Her husband, Alexei Kuznetsoff, is also a pianist and her partner in a number of piano duets.- Biography :Lisitsa was born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1973...
  
  

Current Festival Orchestra Members

Violin

• Martin Agee
• Eva Burmeister
• Robert Chausow
• Katsuko Esaki
• Krista Bennion Feeney, concertmaster
• Lilit Gampel
• Michael Gillette
• Suzanne Gilman
• Conrad Harris
• Amy Kauffman
• Sophia Kessinger
• Katherine Livolsi-Landau
• Kristina Musser
• Ronald Oakland
• Michael Roth
• Deborah Wong
• Mineko Yajima, principal

Viola

• Stephanie Baer
• Shmuel Katz, principal
• Lois Martin
• Jack Rosenberg
• Veronica Salas

Cello

• Ted Ackerman
• Ilya Finkelshteyn, principal
• Ann Kim
• Alvin McCall

Double Bass

• Joseph Bongiorno
• Timothy Cobb, principal
• Judith Sugarman

Flute

• Alan Cox
• Demarre McGill, principal

Oboe

• Randall Ellis, principal
• Bethany Slater

Clarinet

• Steve Hartman
• Jon Manasse
  Jon Manasse
  Jon Manasse is an American clarinetist.Manasse studied clarinet at the Juilliard School under David Weber. He won a prize in the International Competition for Clarinet in Munich and was the youngest winner of the International Clarinet Society Competition....
  
  , principal

Bassoon

• Marc Goldberg, principal
• Tom Sefcovic

Horn

• Lawrence DiBello, principal
• Richard Hagen

Trumpet

• Neil Balm, principal
• Lee Soper

Timpani

• David Punto, principal