Press and Media

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Reviews

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2010 ARTICLES

June 2010 Our State magazine "Eastern Music Festival" by Grant Britt [Note: EMF was founded in 1961, not 1962]
June 2010 BOOM! Magazine articles "EMF: A True Labor of Love" and "Lessons Go Way Beyond the Music"

Press Releases

2010 Season

2009 Season
EMF Closes Season with Xavier Phillips and Maestro Schwarz
Final Master Classes Feature Cellist Xavier Phillips and Double Bassist Maximilian Dimoff
Sold Out Show Featuring Mike Cross Closes EMFfringe Season
EMF Brass & Percussion Ensembles to Perform During the Festival's Last Week
Horn Player John Cerminaro Cancels His Performances and Master Class at EMF
EMF's Popular Pianopalooza Returns, Closing the 2009 Friends & Great Performers Series
Concerto Competition Winners to be Showcased in Young Artists Orchestra Series' Concerts
Elderhostel Program: Lifelong Adult Learning Returns to EMF this Season
Chamber Music Series Reaches its Culmination Through an Array of Famous Works
Young Artists Perform Two Programs: Favorites by Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Britten, & Brahms
EMF and Greensboro Opera Merge in One Enchanting Evening - Both Performances Sold Out!
Enjoy an Evening in the Park with EMFfringe and The New Familiars
EMFfringe Brings Three Blues and Bluegrass Rooted Shows During its Fourth Week
Awadagin Pratt to Share the Stage with EMF Faculty in Chamber Concert
EMF Enhances Adult Learning and Gives a Treat with Carolina Band Blast!
Master Class with Remarkable Pianist Awadagin Pratt
Greensboro Mayor Yvonne Johnson Honors EMF's Music Director Gerard Schwarz
Illness Prevents Gutiérrez from Appearing at Eastern Music Festival
EMF's Exceptional Young Piano Artists Return to the Kennedy Center for the Fifth Year
Crowd Pleasers: Steep Canyon Rangers Return to the EMFfringe Stage
EMF Welcomes Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and Guest Conductor Jahja Ling
Eastern Festival Orchestra Members & Guest Harpsichordists Perform Brandenburg Concerti
Sing-Along with Dan Zanes and Friends at EMFkids!
Master Class with Famed Pianist Horacio Gutiérrez
EMF Welcomes Renowned Pianist Horacio Gutiérrez and Guest Conductor Bright Sheng
Young Artists Orchestras to Perform Russian Master Works Plus Pieces by Sheng & Poulenc
EMF Faculty and Guest Artists to Perform Brandenburg Concerti
Chamber Music Series Features Exciting Works by Bright Sheng and Others
EMF Faculty and Young Artists Collaborate in Chamber Concert at High Point University
Enjoy Two Evenings of Pops Music with EMF's Young Artists Orchestras and Chelsea Tipton II
EMF Presents the Nationally Praised Northwest Boychoir
Young Artists Orchestras to Perform Favorites by Beethoven, Mahler, Boccherini, and Bartok
Rock On at EMFfringe with The Chris Hicks Band!
Shana Banana Returns to EMFkids!
1st Week Piano and Violin Master Classes at EMF
Come Witness EMF's Dazzling Concert Organ Spectacular!
Faculty Performs a Range of Musical Periods at UNCG & Carnegie Chamber Music Series
EMF Brings Faculty Chamber Players to Reynolda House
EMF's Young Artists Sunday Piano Recitals Begin July 5th
Sarah Chang to Perform Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with Eastern Festival Orchestra
From France to Argentina: EMF's Young Artists Orchestra's Varied Opening Concert
Holy Ghost Tent Revival Kick Off 2009 EMFfringe Series
EMF's First Week Includes Steinway Piano Gala in Memory of Henry Ingram
EMF Brings its Steinway Piano Gala to Elon Univerity in Honor of George Troxler
EMF Faculty Members Open UNCG & Carnegie Chamber Music Series
EMF Presents Peter Serkin Performing Brahms Along with Rimsky-Korsakov and Scriabin
Northwest Boychoir Announces Three July Tour Concerts in North Carolina
Eastern Music Festival Announces its 2009 EMFfringe Series
The Bryan Series and EMF Present Yo-Yo Ma in Rare Speaking-Performing Event – Oct. 26
EMF Celebrates ArtBeat with its Newly Named EMFjazz&blues – MAY 6-9, 2009
Former Eastern Music Festival Concerto Competition Winner to Perform February 21, 2009
EMF Music Director Gerard Schwarz to be Recipient of 2009 First Citizen Award
EMF Releases First Schedule for 2009 Classical Season: June 27 - August 1
            Click here to download the Season Ticket Renewal Brochure (PDF - 5.6MB)
FREE Eastern Music Festival Scholarship Concert – Sunday, January 25, 2009
EMF welcomes William vonReichbauer as Director of Operations and Artistic Administration
EMF Announces 2008 Fall Fringe Lineup with Bob Margolin, Lisa Dames, and Over the Rhine

2008 Season
Concerto Competition Winners plus Gershwin and Hindemith
EMF Season Finale with Maestro Schwarz and Xavier Phillips!
SOLD OUT: "Night & Day: An Evening of 'Delovely' Music"
The Lee Boys, Carl Weathersby & Flat River Band bring Fringe series to finale
EMF Presents and Afternoon of Pianopalooza and Percussion Ensemble
Brass Spectacular to Dazzle at EMF
EMF and the Greensboro Opera Partner to Present "Night & Day: An Evening of 'Delovely' Music"
Everybodyfields, Seth Walker & Troy "Trombone" Shorty Andrews & New Orleans Ave.
EMF Presents Elmar Oliveira: First American Gold Medalist at Tckaikovsky Competition
EMF Presents Its Inaugural From the Maestro's Perspective: An Onstage Experience
Young Artists Orchestras Showcase Pianists James Giles & Awadagin Pratt
Acclaimed Pianist Awadagin Pratt/EMF Faculty Take the Chamber Music Stage
The Sensational André Watts Returns to EMF with Beloved Grieg Concerto
Go Bananas! Shana Banana to Perform at EMFkids Concert
Carolina Band Blast Promises Amateur Adults a Musical and Merry Time
EMF Presents Ani Kavafian Performing Mendelssohn / Mester, Manasse & Mozart
Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin Blues Band, The Waybacks, & Lori McKenna Rock Out EMF
An Evening with Ellis Marsalis to Jazz Up EMF Stage
The Steep Canyon Rangers & The Greencards Kick Off EMFfringe Series
Pianist Cecile Licad Featured in UNCG & Guilford College Chamber Music Series
EMF presents Russian Romantics and Rachmaninoff with Renowned Pianist Cecile Licad
Young Artist Orchestra to Showcase Prokofiev's 7th and Shostakovich's 11th
Superstar Midori Debuts with Eastern Festival Orchestra on July 5th
2008 EMF Individual Ticket announcement – May 31, 2008
2008 Piedmont Jazz & Blues Festival – April 4, 2008
2008 EMF Season Ticket Announcement – April 4, 2008
Chick Corea & Bela Fleck – February 20, 2008