In August, at Bard College, New York. The Bard Music Festival explores Mahler’s music in the context of his contemporaries.
Annual, January. Since 1982 a three-day festival has been presented each year, featuring an orchestra, chorus, and soloists drawn from the pool of area musicians, with a few nationally-known artists from other parts of the country.
In January. Includes free public concerts and symposiums.
June - August. Veneto Jazz hosted the tenth Euromeet festival this year in Veneto, Italy. Lots of big names.
July, Biennial The Festival features the London Symphony Orchestra, or LSO, with great conductors and soloists at Peabody Auditorium and the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Floria (USA).
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Annual, June The Mainly Mozart Festival, known as the Festival Binacional de Mozart in Baja California, is one of the most critically acclaimed classical music festivals in the United States and Mexico.
Annual July, Mendocino, California USA Wonderful music pours forth from this fest: orchestral and chamber, opera, jazz, and Big Band.
The Festival is an annual event in September, dedicated to providing enrichment through the presentation of fine instrumental and vocal chamber music programs in the red rock region of southeastern Utah.
Annual, September, Monterey, CA (Fabulous but noisy site - do not open at work! :) The longest running jazz festival in the world, with legendary jazz artists and up-and-coming jazz stars.
September-The Montreal Chamber Music Festival is dedicated to bringing chamber music to a broadening spectrum of people via chamber music festivals and various series of concerts and educational programs during the year.
Annual, 2 weeks in October, Nancy, France 600 musicians perform over a 2 week period at 180 concerts!
Held in the spring (late April), New Orleans, LA (USA)2002 participants: Wynton Marsalis, Huey "Piano" Smith, Lenny Kravitz, Neville Brothers, Jimmy Buffett, Melissa Etheridge, Teena Marie
August, San Jose, CA. Over 1000 performers. Free.
Hosted by the Coastal Jazz Association each September in Savannah Georgia (USA)
June through August on the Stanford University's campus.
Annual, September, Vilnius, Lithuania Bringing jazz performers together from all over Europe and the US.
Everyone should check out the website for the upcoming 2006 World Saxophone Congress in Ljubljana, Slovenia.