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Updated 9/30/2022

MARLBORO MUSIC SCHOOL - MARLBORO MUSIC FESTIVAL

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    VT

Institution/Business Type: Fair / Festival

Marlboro Music is known world-wide as an institution devoted to artistic excellence and to developing new leaders who illuminate all areas of music. It is where the concept of having master artists play together with exceptional young professionals was born—initiating a dynamic, collaborative approach to learning. Under the artistic direction of pianists Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss, leading musicians spend up to seven weeks exchanging ideas and rehearsing in depth some 250 chamber music works each summer.

Since 1951, generations of the world’s most respected musicians have come together on the Potash Hill campus in the rural town of Marlboro, Vermont (population 978) to share their perspectives and learn from one another, to inspire and be inspired. Participants are drawn also by the warm, supportive family atmosphere, where musicians, staff, spouses, and children share meals, seminars, chores, social, and recreational events—creating a unique musical, human community.

After three weeks of in-depth rehearsals, a portion of the musical collaborations are shared with audiences at weekend concerts, held from mid-July to mid-August. Audiences share in a spirit of discovery, experiencing exciting young musicians and hearing insightful interpretations of chamber music masterworks and unfamiliar pieces played with great passion and joy.

Marlboro Music was founded in 1951 by Rudolf Serkin, Adolf and Hermann Busch, and Marcel, Blanche, and Louis Moyse. For over 70 years, Marlboro has had a profound influence on generations of leading chamber music artists and ensembles, recitalists, principals in the world’s major orchestras, singers,

composers, artistic directors, and teachers.

We invite you to join us at what The New Yorker magazine describes as “the classical world’s most coveted retreat.”

Find Me

Brian Potter
Job Title: Communications Director
Fax: 802-254-4307
Address:
2472 South Road
Marlboro, VT 05344

About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Fair / Festival

Legal Status:

Nonprofit - Embedded in cultural private organization

Parent Organization:

Marlboro School of Music

Year Founded:

1951

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Fair / Festival

Legal Status:

Nonprofit - Embedded in cultural private organization

Parent Organization:

Marlboro School of Music

Year Founded:

1951

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Music - General

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Performance / Concert / Reading
Seasons Active: summer
Events Per Year: 12

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • General Public
  • Families
  • Elders
  • School Groups

Languages Available:

  • English

Geographic Reach:

  • International
  • National
  • Multi-State Region
  • State
  • Multi-County Region
  • County
  • Town / City

Accessibility of Services

Accessibility of Services:

  • Access accommodations for people who use a wheelchair and have limited mobility
  • Access accommodations for people who are blind, partially sighted, and have low vision
  • Access accommodations for people who are Deaf and hard-of-hearing

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