GERARD SCHWARZ
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Eastern Music Festival




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Gerard Schwarz has been associated with the Eastern Music Festival since 2003, first serving as artistic advisor, then principal guest conductor and, since 2007, as music director. The Eastern Music Festival and School, founded in 1961 in Greensboro, North Carolina, by Sheldon Morgenstern, is an internationally-renowned classical music festival and institute for young musicians that runs for five weeks each summer with a mission to promote musical enrichment, excellence, professional collaboration, innovation, and diversity through a nationally-recognized teaching program, music festival, concerts and other programs. The institute accepts students ages 14 through 22 from around the country and the world. The EMF faculty consists of world-class performing artists selected from top orchestras and music schools nationally and internationally.
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Seattle Legacy
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On Record
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Commissioning

About Jerry

Gerard Schwarz serves as Music Director of the All-Star Orchestra and the Eastern Music Festival and joined The Frost School Of Music in fall 2019 as Distinguished Professor Of Music; Conducting And Orchestral Studies. Schwarz  completed his 26th and final season as Seattle Symphony Music Director in 2011 and now serves as its Conductor Laureate. His previous positions as Music Director include New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the New York Chamber Symphony.

Recent Projects

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Maestro Schwarz directs the United States Marine Band in an All-Star Orchestra series of three programs airing on public broadcasting stations across the nation in November. Learn more here.

Useful Links

Frost School of Music

All-Star Orchestra


Eastern Music Festival

Khan Academy

G, Schirmer, Inc.

Seattle Symphony

Contact

AOR Management, Inc.
email Jenny Rose

8VA Music Consultancy

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