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Celebrating 64 Years of Inspired Music Making!

June 28 – August 2, 2025

Alumni Feature: Sophie Manoloff, ’18 Trumpet

This following is an excerpt from an interview between EMF Alumni Sophie Manoloff ‘(18 trumpet) and EMF, conducted in March 2023.  EMF: You are originally from Ohio? Sophie: Yeah, born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. EMF: What is the starting point in your life for music, and how did that evolve for you? Sophie: I […]

Eastern Music Festival Welcomes New Project Specialist

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Eastern Music Festival (EMF), Greensboro’s nationally recognized classical music festival and summer educational program, is pleased to announce the addition of Sommer Fanney as the organization’s Project Specialist.

‘Can’t wait’: With some concessions made to COVID-19, EMF Returns

Dawn Kane for News and Record/GREENSBORO — Shortly before noon on Friday, Sophia Alvini-Moore hugged her mother goodbye. They had driven on Thursday from their Delaware home to Guilford College, summer home to the Eastern Music Festival. Now, her mother was driving back. Alvini-Moore, 17, will spend five weeks studying cello with professional musicians and […]

EMF brings scaled-back summer of live music

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Dawn Kane for News and Record/ GREENSBORO — The Eastern Music Festival will return to Guilford College this summer, after the COVID-19 pandemic canceled its 2020 in-person season. It won’t be a typical summer for the festival’s 60th anniversary season of classical music. From June 26-July 31, EMF will host fewer students and faculty, smaller […]

Scaled-back EMF will return with summer of live music

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After losing its 2020 in-person summer season to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Eastern Music Festival will return to Guilford College in June — but with fewer students, faculty and live performances, smaller audiences and no guest artists.