Festival Series History
2011-2012
Turtle Island Quartet
New York Voices
Toledo Symphony with BGSU Wind Symphony
Christopher O'Riley
Alarm Will Sound
2010-2011
Branford Marsalis
Empire Brass with Elizabeth von Trapp
Robert Levin
Selections from Porgy & Bess
River North Dance Chicago
2009–2010
Sphinx Chamber Orchestra
NEXUS
Handel’s Messiah
Barry Douglas
Chanticleer
2008–2009
Regina Carter
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra
Leon Botstein, conductor
Danielle De Niese
Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
2007–2008
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Chamber Ensemble
Edgar Meyer, bass,
Mike Marshall, mandolin
Imani Winds
Naoko Takada, marimba
Dianne Reeves, jazz vocalist
Gabriela Montero, piano
2006–2007
Tiempo Libre
The 5 Browns
Pacifica String Quartet
P.D.Q. Bach—The Jekyll and Hide Tour
Boston Brass
Measha Bruggergosman
2005–2006
River City Brass Band
Cantus
Time for Three
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
I MUSICI
The Kenny Barron Quartet
2004–2005
Tokyo String Quartet
Alexander Fiterstein
Ethos Percussion
Jane Ira Bloom
Sir James Galway
Hugh Smith
2003–2004
Ballet Hispanico
Takacs String Quartet
The Waverly Consort
Midori
Imani Winds
Lang Lang
2002–2003
The Canadian Brass
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
eighth blackbird
Les Violons du Roy
Jane Monheit
2001–2002
Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Peter Sparling Dance Company
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra with
Kyoko Takezawa
Sergio and Odair Assad
Regina Carter
2000–2001
Ray Brown Trio
Eroica Trio
André Watts
David Daniels
Emmanuel Pahud
Pilobolus
1999–2000
The Ying Quartet
The Parsons Dance Company
The Vienna Choir Boys
Yo-Yo Ma
Empire Brass
1998–1999
Bang on a Can All-Stars
Nokuthula Ngwenyama
Dawn Upshaw
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Gene Harris
1997–1998
Turtle Island String Quartet
Joshua Redman Trio
Pieces of 8
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra with Emanuel Ax
Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble
1996–1997
Sharon Isbin
Quartetto Gelato
Marilyn Horne
Eddie Daniels
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Gil Shaham and Orli Shaham
1995–1996
Ying String Quartet
London Brass
Chanticleer
David Parsons Dance Company
Prague Chamber Orchestra with
Simoni Pedroni
Arturo Sandoval and the Jazz Arts Group
1994–1995
Empire Brass
The King’s Singers
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Cleo Laine and the
John Dankworth Group
Shanghai Quartet and Eugenia Zukerman
1993–1994
The Netherlands Wind Ensemble
Tafelmusik
The Chieftains
Marian McPartland
1992–1993
The Billy Taylor Trio with
Turtle Island String Quartet
American Indian Dance Theatre
Malcolm Dalglish and
The American Boychoir
Kodo
1991–1992
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
The Guildhall String Ensemble with Michala Petri
The Martha Graham Dance Company
I Fiamminghi (The Belgian Chamber Orchestra) with Eduardo Fernandez
Swingle Singers
1990–1991
Joe Williams
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Vienna Choir Boys
Summit Brass with Doc Severinsen
Joseph Holmes Dance Theatre
1989–1990
P.D.Q. Bach
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra with John Adams, conductor
Jazz Arts Group
Erick Hawkins
The King’s Singers
1988–1989
Christopher Parkening
Jubal Trio
George Shearing
Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble
Chanticleer
1987–1988
Richard Stoltzman
Theater Chamber Players
of the Kennedy Center
The Waverly Consort
The Modern Jazz Quartet
Pilobolus
1986–1987
Joffrey II Dancers
Boys Choir of Harlem
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
1985–1986
Beaux Arts Trio
Susan Starr
The Bach Aria Group
1984–1985
Harmonie Wind Ensemble
Julian Bream
Romanian National Choir
Munich Chamber Orchestra
Concert Royal, New York Baroque
Dance Company
1983–1984
The Vienna Choir Boys
Murray Perahia
New World String Quartet
Phillip Jones Brass Ensemble
1982–1983
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Sandra Warfield and James McCracken
Mark Peskanov
Ivan Moravec
Janos Starker
Byron Janis
1981–1982
Pinchas Zukerman
Jorge Bolet
Nathaniel Rosen
Elly Ameling
André Watts and Charles Treger
1980–1981
Alicia de Larrocha
Maureen Forrester
Jean-Pierre Rampal
Alexis Weissenberg
Yo-Yo Ma