Other great festivals
Festival de Lanaudière 12 June – 4 August The Montreal Symphony and the Orchestre Métropolitain are in residence at this festival in scenic Joliet, Quebec. Kent Nagano conducts the former ensemble in Mahler’s Third Symphony.
Tel: 800-561-4343
Web: lanaudiere.org/en
Grant Park Music Festival
12 June – 17 August
Music director Carlos Kalmar leads this ten-week season with a healthy mix of off-the-beaten-track repertoire, set in the Frank Gehry-designed pavilion at Chicago’s Millennium Park.
Tel: 312-742-7638
Web: www.grantparkmusicfestival.com Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival 15-23 June
Among the noted headliners of this Detroitarea festival is the Emerson String Quartet, which presents a six-concert cycle of Beethoven’s 16 string quartets.
Tel: 248-559-2097
Web: www.greatlakeschambermusic.com Off the Hook Arts Festival
17 June – 12 July
Themes of perception and illusion are the focus of this unusual festival in Fort Collins, CO. Look for ghostly works by Saariaho, Haydn and Beethoven, and an exploration of the New York sound, as manifest in works by Gershwin, Kern, Copland and Bruce Adolphe.
Tel: 970-305-2261
Web: offthehookarts.org
Chamber Music Northwest
24 June – 28 July
This Portland, Oregon, festival includes a special focus on the clarinet, performances of Mozart’s Don Giovanni by New York’s Heartbeat Opera, and appearances by the Dover Quartet and pianist Jeffrey Kahane. Tel: 503-294-6400
Web: cmnw.org