Penny Van Horn, Board Chair of The Solti Foundation U.S. and Elizabeth Buccheri, Artistic and Awards Committee Chair, today announced the names of the recipients of the 2017 Solti Foundation Career Assistance Awards, bringing the number of such grants given by the Foundation to 55,...
Penny Van Horn, Board Chair of The Solti Foundation U.S. and Elizabeth Buccheri, Artistic and Awards Committee Chair, today announced the names of the recipients of the 2017 Solti Foundation Career Assistance Awards, bringing the number of such grants given by the Foundation to 55,...
Orange County, Calif.-based Pacific Symphony’s assistant conductor Roger Kalia and San Diego, Calif.-based Sameer Patel, associate conductor of the San Diego Symphony, are among nine conductors to have received the 2017 Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award. The Indian American conductors have both won the...
Following an intermission, the B-52s returned for another 45-minute segment with the Pacific Symphony conducted by Roger Kalia. First came “Planet Claire.” The orchestra’s brass and string sections paired well with the song’s sci-fi, synth-dominated sound and built to a fine crescendo. Read full article...
Art in the Adirondacks spent three days last week covering the seventh annual Lake George Music Festival. We attended Piano Mania at the Tannery Pond Community Center in North Creek, lunch meetings, practice sessions, a lake cruise, and the final full orchestra performance Thursday night...
The Lake George Music Festival climaxed its two-week run with a concert on Thursday, August 24th, at Lake George High School that will resonate in the minds of the hundreds of us who were there. Bravos! were shouted in waves as the audience stood, jubilant,...
At Lake George in upstate New York, the beauty of the lake and towering Adirondack Mountains transform the concert experience. Now in its eighth season, the festival performs a mix of new and experimental chamber music and traditional orchestral works. But what makes the festival...
Penny Van Horn, Board Chair of The Solti Foundation U.S. and Elizabeth Buccheri, Artistic and Awards Committee Chair, today announced the names of the eight recipients of the 2018 Solti Foundation Career Assistance Awards. The young conductors hold positions throughout the United States, with posts...
Only a baseball metaphor can begin to describe the Grand Finale performance of the 2018 Lake George Music Festival Symphony Orchestra on Friday evening, Aug. 24. What was effectively a “pick-up” symphony orchestra of outstanding musicians from around the world led by the brilliant young American...
Roger Kalia, the Festival Music Director who’d already returned home to California by Monday when I met with Alex and Barbora, emerges to my ear as the festival’s secret weapon. His enthusiasm and positivism, at least from my vantage as an observer, is unbounded. His leadership,...