Sewanee Music Center

Congratulations to SSMF viola faculty Sheldon Person and his wife who welcomed their baby Alexander this week! What a brilliant addition to the SSMF family!

We are thrilled to announce some orchestral highlights for our 2023 season!
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The Sewanee Symphony and Cumberland Orchestra will be performing some very exciting repertoire, including Mahler Symphony #1, Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, Mason's Joyous Trilogy, Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis, and so many others!
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Stay tuned for more exciting announcements about SSMF 2023!
And don't forget, you can apply for free through December 31st with code 03GIFT2023: https://app.getacceptd.com/sewanee

APPLY TO SSMF FOR FREE THIS MONTH!!!
Start your application now: https://app.getacceptd.com/sewanee
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Now through 11:59pm central time on December 31st, waive your application fee to SSMF 2023 by using the code 03GIFT2023 when you submit your application.

So grateful for our wonderful resident conductor Gene Moon! The OK students are in for a real treat. Hope some of them can join us this summer!!!

Gene Moon is returning to OkMEA after serving as the orchestra conductor for the virtual All-State experience in 2021. Dr. Moon is the Director of Orchestra Studies and Opera Theatre at California Baptist University.

Register today: https://okmea.org/conferences/january-conference/

A huge thank you for all the support from our donors!!!! YOU ARE THE REASON WE MADE OUR GOAL!

isn't over yet! Thanks to your support we're well on our way to our goal of unlocking our matching donation of $5,000, but we still need your help to cross that finish line. Please give now at the link below to help us support young musicians from all over the world.
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Support the Sewanee Music Center: https://www.givecampus.com/campaigns/6182/donations/new

Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor we are matching all gifts up to $5,000 today. Help us break $10,000 this by clicking this link: https://www.givecampus.com/campaigns/6182/donations/new

Today is ! Click the link below to participate and support the Sewanee Music Center! No donation is too small or too large, and we appreciate your support more than we can say.
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Donate to SMC here: https://www.givecampus.com/campaigns/6182/donations/new

TOMORROW IS THE DAY TO GIVE!
We are inspired by the generations of young musicians who have started their careers in Sewanee. The Music Center has been a destination for students from across the world for well over 60 years. We are forever grateful for your support, thank you in advance for Choosing the Sewanee Music Center on Giving Tuesday! Link and QR code will be available tomorrow!

Congratulations to OperaFest alumni, Christian Simmons, winner of the The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition Utah District and Audience Choice Award!

We are thankful for our community of alumni! You are our inspiration and our success. We love bringing more young musicians into this community every year to inspire, learn from, and connect with each other!

We are so thankful for our dedicated staff and leadership who work tirelessly to plan and put on our programs. We appreciate you!

We are so thankful for our campus community in Sewanee! A big thank you to the teams at Print Services, the SPO, Conference Services, University Development, the Dean’s Office, the Finance Department, and everyone else we work with on campus all year round to make our events successful. We couldn’t do it without you!

We are thankful for our world-class, loyal, talented, funny, diligent, and one-of-a-kind faculty! You make this festival possible, and we could not more proud of our Sewanee Music Center family.
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Learn more about our faculty on our website: https://ssmf.sewanee.edu/people/faculty/

Our String Academy application is officially open!
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String Academy is an incredible opportunity for string players ages 12-14 to spend two weeks improving their musicianship with likeminded young musicians and our world-class faculty like program director Veronica Jackson.
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Learn more and apply at our website: https://ssmf.sewanee.edu/string-academy-2/

Just a reminder that Giving Tuesday is around the corner! We will send out more information in the next few days about our exciting initiative that we are dedicating to this season of giving. Thank you again to all who support SMC and the arts!

Just a reminder that Giving Tuesday is around the corner! We will send out more information in the next few days about our exciting initiative that we are dedicating to this season of giving. Thank you again to all who support SMC and the arts!

We’re happy to support the Monteagle-Sewanee Rotary Club’s Pancake Breakfast and prize drawing which supports many organizations and groups on the area! If you’re in Sewanee and you like pancakes or just supporting a good cause you should stop by!

The excitement starts for the Pancake Breakfast! Share the fun

YAP Tracker :: OperaFest Sewanee 2023: Deadline January 27!

Today is the perfect day to start your OperaFest application!

YAP Tracker :: OperaFest Sewanee 2023: Deadline January 27! OperaFest, a 4-week opportunity, offers private coaching, masterclasses with internationally renowned faculty, various performance opportunities, and workshops exploring professional learning. Our program focuses on our three artistic pillars: creation, collaboration, and mentorship. OperaFest provi...

Our team is out engaging with Sewanee’s campus community today! If you’re in Sewanee please stop by our table in McClurg and learn about what we do as well as some volunteer and employment opportunities!
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Buy tickets – Vienna Boys Choir — Performing Arts Series – All Saints' Chapel, Tue Oct 25, 2022 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

The Sewanee Music Center is proud to present the Vienna Boys Choir as part of our Performing Arts Series! They will be performing their program "Together" in All Saints' Chapel at 7pm next Tuesday, October 25th.
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Tickets cost $20 and can be purchased at the link below, in person at our office, or at the door of the concert.
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If you are a student or employee at the University of the South, you can get a free ticket with your valid Sewanee ID!
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Purchase tickets in person in Guerry 129 M-F, 11am-1pm or 2-4pm.

Buy tickets – Vienna Boys Choir — Performing Arts Series – All Saints' Chapel, Tue Oct 25, 2022 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Vienna Boys Choir — Performing Arts Series – All Saints' Chapel, Tue Oct 25, 2022 - The illustrious group of child musicians has been delighting music lovers across the globe for six centuries with their purity of tone, distinctive charm and diverse repertoire which includes everything from medi...

This huge week of big announcements has been building up to this moment: applications to the 2023 Sewanee Music Festival Instrumental, Composition, and OperaFest programs are now all open!
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Apply now at app.getacceptd.com/sewanee
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Gene Moon Donna Shin Brittany Kotheimer MacWilliams Hillary Herndon Philippe Chao Nermis Mieses Gabriel Beavers Carl Rath Josh Bynum Eric Bubacz Amy I-Lin Cheng Chad Burrow Gaye LeBlanc Laura Brooks Rice PJ Hansen Dugg McDonough Jorge Variego Phillip O'Banion Natasha Farny Caroline Kinsey John Kilkenny

As our final conductor this summer, we welcome back Robert Moody to lead the Sewanee Symphony! A local favorite, Moody is the Music Director of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. To learn more about Robert Moody visit his website: http://robertmoodymusic.com/biography/
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We could not be more excited for this lineup of talented conductors, and we can't wait to hear the music they make with our Festival participants this summer!

Applications open - 2023 Sewanee Summer Music Festival - https://mailchi.mp/sewanee.edu/applications-are-now-open-for-summer-15924681

Especially exciting for our University community, Tiffany Lu will be our week 3 conductor of the Cumberland Orchestra! Tiffany Lu is the newly-appointed Assistant Professor and Director of the University of Florida Symphony Orchestra. Prior to this appointment, Lu served as the Director of the University of the South's Sewanee Symphony Orchestra.
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Learn more about Tiffany Lu on her website: https://www.tslu.net/about

We're back with another conductor announcement! We're welcoming David Alexander Rahbee to the mountain to work with the Sewanee Symphony Orchestra during week 3! Rahbee is currently Senior Artist in Residence at the University of Washington School of Music in Seattle, where he is director of orchestral activities and chair of orchestral conducting.
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Learn more about David Alexander Rahbee on his website: https://www.davidrahbee.com/

We are proud to announce that Jeffrey Grogan will be directing the Cumberland Orchestra during week 2 of SSMF this summer! Grogan is currently Director of Orchestral Activities and Professor of Music at the Wanda L. Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City University and Artistic Director of the Oklahoma Youth Orchestras.
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To learn more about Jeffrey Grogan, visit his website: http://www.jeffreygrogan.com/

This summer we welcome back Janna Hymes to the Sewanee Symphony podium! Hymes, who is currently the Artistic Director of Indiana’s Carmel Symphony Orchestra, will lead the Sewanee Symphony during week 2!
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Learn more about Janna Hymes on her website: https://jannahymes.com/artist.php?view=bio

We are delighted to announce our next conductor for the 2023 season! German conductor Christian Reif will be starting off the summer leading the Sewanee Symphony Orchestra. Reif is an in-demand conductor all around the world and has worked with ensembles including symphonies of San Francisco, Houston, Dallas, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
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Learn more about Christian Reif on his website: https://www.christianreif.eu/

Today we are thrilled to begin announcing our 2023 conductor lineup!
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Longtime conducting faculty Gene Moon will be returning this summer to lead the Cumberland Orchestra during weeks 1 and 4. Dr. Moon is currently the Director of Orchestral Studies at California Baptist University. We can always count on Dr. Moon to lead the orchestra in an exciting and high caliber performance!
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Stay tuned throughout the week to learn who else will be coming to the Mountain this summer!

We have been working on something big and the time has finally come to introduce you to our new look! We are changing our name to the Sewanee Music Center! Don't worry; we are still running all of our regular programming, but we've grown beyond just the summer, and beyond one single program. The Sewanee Music Center is home to the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, OperaFest Sewanee, the Sewanee String Academy, and the University Performing Arts Series.
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While incorporating abstract letters invoking the shape of an "S" for Sewanee and a "C" for Center, the new logo also references the stunning winding roads and hills of our beloved mountain.
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We love our new look, and we hope you do too!

Bravo Mastra JoAnn Falletta

The New York Concert Review was at the BPO Carnegie Hall concert honoring Lukas [email protected] 100. Here’s a sample of what they said:

“It was wonderful to see a packed hall even in spite of the bad weather, with a large number of BPO supporters festooned with BPO face masks and many young people. Those in attendance were rewarded with the experience of hearing a world-class orchestra, led by a conductor who rates as one the all-time greats, playing the music of an authentic musical genius. Maybe this concert is a step in “righting the wrong” of this country’s relative neglect of Foss, who is every bit the national treasure that Copland and Bernstein are – a voice of optimism, idealism, and great expanses. “

Read the full review at https://nyconcertreview.com/reviews/trinity-church-wall-street-and-opus-3-artists-present-lukas-foss-centennial-celebration-in-review/

Big things are coming next week, so stay tuned!