And Celebrate Beethoven's Birthday with Us!

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Beethoven Festival/Park City Chamber Music Society
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The Beethoven Festival Continues its Concerts both Live and Online, and Sharing Great Performances.

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CELEBRATING BEETHOVEN's Birthday and the wonderful treasure of classical music.
BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL MISSION: Preserving and promoting the performance and enjoyment of LIVE classical music performance for everyone.

INTIMATE Concerts are fantastic, vibrant and totally engaging. You our audience, and the Festival outstanding artists experience so much great music together. The Beethoven Festival concerts are once-in-a-lifetime experiences for us all.

As we look back on this year, we were thrilled to be able to bring live music to our audiences yet again. Great artists, to name just a few, included world renowned, award-winning artists violinist Stephanie Chase,  pianists Michael Gurt and John Novacek and world famous violist Paul Neubauer with pianist Gloria Chien. Beloved charter members of the Festival roster, pianist Doris Stevenson and cellist Jeffrey Solow, joined clarinetist and Festival Artist in Residence Russell Harlow and violist and Festival founder Leslie Harlow in concerts. Harpsichordist and pianist Pamela Palmer Jones presented a delightful program that included emerging excellent young artist, cellist Richard Jones, and pianist John Jensen and cellist Lauren Posey presented a stunning performance of the Shostakovich Cello Sonata. Violinists Donna Fairbanks and Blanka Bednarz brought their virtuoso talents in the final concert in this past summer's City Park Concert audience.

The Festival also presented and collaborated to present concerts beyond Park City, performing a number of concerts at both Libby Gardner Hall and Vieve Gore Hall in Salt Lake City and delighted with an exciting outdoor performance in Torrey, Utah.

EVERYONE loves live concerts, and the next best thing is concert recorded live. 
Beethoven Festival Online Concerts includes an exciting series of over 100 full performances available free online.
Sharing concerts recorded live: The Beethoven Festival emerged in 1984 (originally founded as the Deer Valley Chamber Music Festival) and more than half of the over 800 intimate chamber concerts have been recorded and filmed. Each week the Festival compiles and premieres these performances online for everyone to enjoy.

Each Festival concert was and is unique. The Festival brings together world-class musicians - outstanding classical soloists from all over who gather together in residence in Park City prepare programs heard nowhere else in the world. A number of those artists are no longer with us, but their legacies are preserved in Festival recordings.

For nearly 40 years, classical music lovers have continued to find their way to mountain lodges, recital halls, art galleries, churches, temples, parks and private homes to hear firsthand these artists share their magic.

There is no shortage of classical music recordings and concerts being streamed online, but the recorded live performances have that special spark. The audience is part of the experience and the artists are communicating directly with each listener.

The BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL ONLINE series already includes over 100 concerts recorded live that premiered online and remain available for anyone in the world to enjoy.

Music inspires and energizes us. As so many of us are staying home and fighting off this pandemic, concerts all over the world have been put on hold. The dream of bringing fine musicians together to recreate the treasures of classical music is being kept alive by the musicians themselves as they continue to practice and prepare, honing their skills, for the time we can perform together for live audiences again.

Thank you for your support as the Beethoven Festival continues its work.



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