Wintergreen Summer Music Festival

Wow. Apparently focusing on the first year of my Masters program meant abandoning this blog. There is so much to mention, but I'm diving in with my current whereabouts - the Wintergreem Summer Music Festival.

Nestled in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia, Wintergreen is an all-year resort town that hosts a month-long music festival during the summer. (The Blue Ridge mountains are beautiful. I hope to post a few of the various views we have just in walking distance.)

The festival includes an academy for music students. Those of us composers here have the pleasure of experiencing a month of concerts, masterclasses, interaction with musicians, and numerous opportunities to present ourselves through our music. Most importantly, we will have some of our music performed by the academy musicians later this month - July 20th. It promises to be a great concert and worthwhile for anyone in the Charlottesville area.

We've only been here two days but the opportunities have been priceless, notably a masterclass with Judith Shatin and a talk given by Michael White, two amazing composers.

Wintergreen is such an idyllic place to compose, learn, and find inspiration. I hope to share more of this as the days go by. And maybe when I get back I can summarize the first year of grad school too...