Verdi Meets Wagner by Carole Katchen

“Verdi Meets Wagner” by Carole Katchen

The two musical giants, Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi, turn 200 this year.  Season Eighteen of the Hot Springs Music Festival, Coming of Age, … More -->

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Kanade Piano Trio

Mao Omura, violin Tatsuro Terada, cello Erika Tazawa, piano The name Kanade was inspired by the Japanese verb kanade-ru, which means “to … More -->

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HSMF Oboe Mentor Michele Fiala

Michele Fiala, oboe

Michele Fiala is the Associate Professor of Oboe at Ohio University and has performed throughout the United States, Italy, England, Germany, France and Canada. Her two CDs of contemporary oboe music – The Light Wraps You and Overheard – are on the MSR Classics label. Fanfare Magazine called her playing “light, fluent, and wonderfully flexible” [...]

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Tuscan Feast and Musicale

a fundraiser benefiting the Hot Springs Music Festival Apprentice Scholarship Fund Saturday, May 11, 2013 in the beautiful Italian Garden at the home of Chris Rakhshan 210 Whispering Hills Street (see map below) wine & light hors d’oeuvres at 6pm live music in the garden at 6:30pm followed by three course Italian dinner under the [...]

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New Orchestral Venues

The Music Festival’s Season Eighteen: Coming of Age will go on as planned this summer, 2-15 June 2013, but several concerts will move to new locations due to structural concerns with the Fieldhouse.  The Festival Orchestra’s home the past 12 years, the Fieldhouse has unfortunately been deemed unsafe. The building, owned by The Arc Arkansas, [...]

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A Day at the Races

Deadline extended.  Call before noon this Tuesday, March 20 to reserve your ticket. Friday 22 March 2013 the Hot Springs Music Festival invites you to “A Day at the Races” at Oaklawn!  Call the Festival office at (501) 623-4763 to purchase. The day’s events include the first “Hot Springs Music Festival Classic” and an opportunity [...]

New ASMSA Dormitory

New ASMSA Dormitory!

All musicians at the Hot Springs Music Festival receive FREE HOUSING at the Festival Dormitory on the campus of the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts, and this year we have a brand new building! The new Student Center at the ASMSA will serve as the dormitory for the 2013 Hot Springs Music [...]

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HSMF 2013 Mentor Staff Complete

January 31, 2013 The Hot Springs Music Festival is pleased to welcome two late additions to the 2013 Artist Mentor Staff:  Flutist Nancy Stagnitta, Instructor of Flute and Chamber Music at the Interlochen Arts Academy, and Clarinetist Nathan Williams, Associate Professor of clarinet at the University of Texas at Austin. These two fine musicians and [...]