Festival Amadeus

Festival Amadeus is celebrating 15 seasons as Montana’s only week-long chamber and orchestra classical music festival with a beautiful makeover and new name! Don’t miss this summer’s extraordinary artists and exciting performances with internationally acclaimed soloists and the Festival Amadeus Orchestra!

TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2022 ORCHESTRA 1 – 7:30pm
Night Bird and Prague
Opening orchestra night featuring erhu virtuoso, Song Yun, new works by visiting composers Mark Armanini and Rita Ueda, plus Mozart’s Prague Symphony. Ueda Let us not be the reason someone out there is praying for peace.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2022 CHAMBER 1 – 7:30pm
Cultural Crossings
New Music* by Andre, Armanini and Ueda for Chinese erhu, flute and harp chamber concert featuring Water Dragon Tune, an evocative setting of ancient Chinese nature poems with projections and narrator.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2022 ORCHESTRA 2 – 7:30pm
Flute, Harp and the Clock
Mozart’s orchestra masterpiece Concerto for Flute and Harp, Joseph Haydn’s tuneful Symphony No. 101 in D and and the evocative work for strings by Rita Ueda ice melting…trickling slowly…

THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2022 CHAMBER 2  – 7:30pm
SAINT JOHN PAUL’S II CATHOLIC CHURCH – 195 COVERDELL ROAD, BIGFORK, MT
Due Virtuosi
Experience works for cello and piano by Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy and Schumann performed by Robert DeMaine and Peter Takács, acclaimed artists of the highest musical caliber!

FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2022 CHAMBER 2 – 7:30pm
WHITEFISH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER – 127 SPOKANE AVE, WHITEFISH MT
Due Virtuosi
Experience works for cello and piano by Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy and Schumann performed by Robert DeMaine and Peter Takács, acclaimed artists of the highest musical caliber!

SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 2022 ORCHESTRA 3 – 7:30pm
Beethoven’s Piano and Schumann
The Festival Amadeus Orchestra presents Beethoven’s lyrical Piano Concerto No. 4 with pianist Peter Takács and Schumann’s final Symphony No. 4..

SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 2022 ORCHESTRA 4 – 7:30pm
Festival Finale
Robert deMaine is the featured soloist in John Zoltek’s thrilling concerto Through Tamarack and Pine plus Beethoven’s fateful Symphony No. 5 in c minor. A dynamic festival finale concert!