LANCASTER FESTIVAL
PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR
Gary Sheldon has served as principal conductor and artistic director of the Lancaster Festival in Ohio since 1988. The Festival's annual composer symposia have featured residencies by William Bolcom, Leslie Burrs, Michael Daugherty, Gary William Friedman, Kirke Meachem, Rodion Shchedrin, Augusta Read Thomas and Joan Tower. Guest artists have included the Eroica Trio, the Kalichstein-Laredo- Robinson Trio, the Chicago Brass Quintet, the LancasterChorale, BalletMet dancers, Opera Columbus singers, Veronika String Quartet, Olga Kern, Jon Kimura Parker, Anton Kuerti, Dorothy Papadakos, Alexander Shtarkman, Zina Schiff and Richard Stoltzman.
At right, Gary Sheldon conducting the Lancaster Festival Orchestra with Camille Miller, violinist and Wilkes Young Artist Fellow
LANCASTER FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
The Lancaster Festival Orchestra is comprised of 65 professional musicians from around the U.S. and abroad. The Orchestra's pops series at Ohio University in Lancaster has presented Aretha Franklin, Arturo Sandoval, Amy Grant, Sybarite 5, Vince Gill, Kansas, The Band Perry, Don Felder, The Three Tenors, Ben Vereen, Tony Randall, Kenny Loggins, Kathy Mattea, Roberta Flack, The Pointer Sisters, the Manhattan Transfer and Martina McBride.
With over 50 events, concerts, art exhibitions and activities for children and families each summer - most offered free to the community - the Lancaster Festival has been recognized for its extraordinary contribution to the arts in central Ohio. In 2010, both Maestro Sheldon and the Lancaster Festival Orchestra won The American Prize in separate categories and were recognized by the awards committee for recorded performances of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony and the music of William Bolcom, "excellently prepared interpretively and very well executed", ranking the ensemble as "among the finest professional orchestras in the country"
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