Napa, CA (August 2, 2022) – Competition Napa Valley concluded its 16th summer season season with record-setting audiences and an unprecedented 60 artistically numerous concert events, occasions and applications together with 20 admission-free concert events, and elevating $3.9 million at its Arts for All Gala headlined by multi-Grammy Award winner Trisha Yearwood.
“Our 2022 season electrified audiences with probably the most thrilling and different program we’ve introduced thus far,” mentioned Competition President & CEO Richard Walker. “The vary of music types, venues, and value choices made it attainable for everybody to benefit from the Competition.”
Highlights included:
- The world premiere of Nia Imani Franklin’s Polaris, an anthem commissioned by Competition Napa Valley to commemorate the brand new Juneteenth nationwide vacation
- Competition Orchestra Napa’s efficiency of Dvorak’s New World Symphony in opposition to a backdrop of art work created by native kids and seniors collaborating within the Competition’s How I See Music program
- The Younger Folks’s Refrain of New York Metropolis’s efficiency of Gordon Getty’s Younger America, and the West Coast premiere of California Medley that includes hits from Good Vibrations to Lodge California
- Ansel Adams: America by Dave and Chris Brubeck adopted by a efficiency by the Brubeck Brothers Quartet, as a part of the Olivia Decker Energy of Music Collection
- An modern staging of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore directed by Jean-Romain Vesperini, with Gemma New conducting Competition Orchestra Napa, starring Andriana Chuchman, Mikayla Sager and Mario Chang
- A Evening on the Ballet: From Tchaikovsky to The Rolling Stones
- World premiere of artwork songs by Jake Heggie, Jack Perla and Luna Pearl Woolf set to poetry by Lisa Delan and carried out by Alexandra Armantrading and Kevin Korth
- Performances by Joshua Bell, Larisa Martínez, Tessa Lark, Sophia Bacelar, Dmitry Masleev, Lara Downes and Peter Dugan, with conductors Constantine Orbelian and Carlo Ponti
- The Maria Manetti Shrem Daniel Brewbaker Composer Prize awarded posthumously to Daniel Brewbaker
- Style of Napa at The Meritage Resort, that includes jazz carried out by Shelly Berg and the Frost All-Stars
- Admission-free applications together with Competition Reside! with the Frost College at Competition Napa Valley and the Blackburn Music Academy, Novack Concert events for Children, and the Bouchaine Younger Artist Collection with Amaryn Olmeda, Jordan Bak and Tabea Debus
- Prizes awarded to Mikayla Sager and Mario Chang (Manetti Shrem Prize), Michelle Di Russo (Joel Revzen Conducting Fellowship), Tessa Lark (Khaledi Prize), and Lauren Scanio (Prescott Ashe Scholarship)
- Tuition-free Blackburn Music Academy and Manetti Shrem Summer season Vocal Conservatory
- AloneTogether, a multimedia exhibition created by Francisco J. Núñez and members of the Younger Folks’s Refrain of New York Metropolis, on view at The CIA at Copia by means of September 30, 2022
- Patron Experiences at Alpha Omega, Artesa, Auberge du Soleil, Bardessono, Beringer Vineyards, Cardinale, Castello di Amorosa, Charles Krug, Far Niente, 4 Seasons Napa Valley, Frank Household Vineyards, Grgich Hills Property, HALL, Harbison Property, Hess Persson Estates, Meritage Resort, Mont La Salle, Nickel & Nickel, Quintessa, Raymond Vineyards, Spring Mountain Winery, St. Supéry Property, Stull Residence, Tamber Bey Vineyards, Trinchero Napa Valley, and Wheeler Farms.
Competition Napa Valley returns for its 17th season July 14-23, 2023. Multiday Patron Expertise passes can be found by means of August 15, 2022 at a 25% financial savings. Please go to festivalnapavalley.org.
About Competition Napa Valley
Mixing the sweetness and bounty of Napa Valley with the performing arts, Competition Napa Valley gives applications that enrich the financial and cultural vitality of the area and make the humanities accessible to all. The Competition presents world-class performances staged in iconic venues and provoking academic applications supplied at Napa County faculties year-round. It’s introduced by Napa Valley Competition Affiliation, a nonprofit group ruled by a board of outstanding vintners and native leaders. Greater than 200 artists, wineries, resorts, eating places, cooks, and vintners take part annually. Go to festivalnapavalley.org.
Many thanks in your consideration of protection, and know that you simply’re invited to hitch us subsequent 12 months to have a good time our seventeenth summer season season!
