2010
EMERGING
ARTISTS
PROGRAM

FREE TO PARTICIPANTS: The Mendocino Music Festival is offering young musicians full scholarships for its 2010 season. Scholarships are available for ten string players – violinists, violists and cellists – and are limited to serious musicians between the ages of 17 and 26. The program includes professional coaching in an intensive week of chamber music as well as participation in the Mendocino Music Festival Orchestra in the company of professional musicians from the Bay Area, local artists, and soloists of national and international renown. The two-week Festival, now in its 24th season, takes place in one of the most spectacular spots on the northern California coast.

After rehearsals beginning on Friday, July 9th, the opening orchestra concert on Saturday, July 10th and a Children’s Matinee on Sunday, July 11th, participants in the program will have an entire week of concentrated coaching on at least two works of chamber music selected by the directors and the participants. The program will culminate in three Emerging Artists performances: a joint recital with other festival musicians (date still to be determined), a concert on Sunday, July 18th at 2:00 PM in the Festival Performance Tent, and another performance at a local winery. Participants will rehearse and perform with the Festival Orchestra beginning on Monday, July 19th, with a performance on Wednesday, July 21 and a final performance on the evening of Saturday, July 24th

Host families provide participants with lodging and, in some cases, breakfast. A stipend of $100 is provided to students for lunches. In addition to morning snacks available on rehearsal days at the Festival tent, there are some group dinners, however students are expected to provide most of their meals. In general, host families will offer kitchen privileges. Participants are asked to email a photo to the Festival so a photo ID can be issued that allows admission to any concert that is not sold out. Cellist Julie Feldman directs the program and is assisted by Roy Malan, violin and Jill Brindel, cello.

Application deadline: postmarked by Friday, March 21, 2010.

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Cellist Julie Feldman directs the program and is assisted by Roy Malan, violin and Jill Brindel, cello. Julie performs regularly with the Symphony Silicon Valley and free-lances with many Bay Area groups. She has been director of chamber music at the Marin Academy for 17 years as well as Branson School and has an active private teaching studio in Berkeley. For many years she was a member of the New York Chamber Soloists, touring in Europe as well as the United States, and continues to work with a number of East Coast ensembles. Six years ago she returned to the Bay Area after a one year sabbatical teaching at Mannes College of Music in New York.