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Event Details

Ventura Music Festival - Festival 2008 Apassionata

Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 5:30pm
Fri, May 02, 2008 at 3:00pm
Fri, May 02, 2008 at 7:00pm
Sat, May 03, 2008 at 8:00pm
Sun, May 04, 2008 at 2:00pm
Mon, May 05, 2008 at 7:30pm
Tue, May 06, 2008 at 7:30pm
Thu, May 08, 2008 at 7:30pm
Fri, May 09, 2008 at 3:00pm
Fri, May 09, 2008 at 8:00pm
Sat, May 10, 2008 at 8:00pm

Performances scheduled at several locations throughout the county

Event Description

Ventura Music Festival presents the 2008 Apassionata Ventura Music Festival.

Opening Night Gala
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 5:30 p.m.
An elegant evening with a theme of romance and passionate abandon featuring wonderful entertainment, and fabulous food and wine.

Tea & Trumpets; Festival Brass Quintet
Friday, May 2, 2008 at 3:00 p.m.
Friday, May 9, 2008 at 3:00 p.m.
A quintessential afternoon of high tea, served with the brilliant brass of the Festival Brass Quintet lead by trumpeter Stephen Billington.

Concertante
Friday, May 2, 2008 at 7:00 p.m
“Stellar! Playing this good forces the listener to redefine his or her notions of what is great and what is merely acceptable.” — New York Sun

Giuseppe Albanese
Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.
Vendome Prize winner and Venice International Competition winner, Giuseppe Albanese returns to Ventura by popular demand.

Pink Martini
Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 2:00 p.m
Part language lesson, part old-fashioned Hollywood spectacle, the Portland, Oregon-based 'little orchestra' has become an international phenomenon.

Rising Stars
Monday, May 5, 2008 at 7:30 p.m
Sara Daneshpour won the International Russian Piano Competition, then took 2nd prize at the 2007 William Kapell International Piano Competition one month later. 17 year-old Chilean guitarist, Gonzalo Contreras was finalist in the 2006 Parkening Young Guitarist Competition and studies with Christopher Parkening at Pepperdine.

Leila Josefowicz
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
Since her Carnegie Hall debut at age 16, Josefowicz has received the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant, recorded for Phillips, Nonesuch, BBC and Warner Classics, appeared with the world's leading orchestras, been nominated for a Grammy...and is just getting warmed up.

The Concord Ensemble
Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
Earning the Grand Prize at the Early Music American/Dorian Recording Competition, and a coveted 5-star rating in Goldberg magazine for their debut recording, the Concord Ensemble brings a baroque "Battle of the Sexes" program to the San Buenaventura Mission.

Turtle Island Quartet
Friday, May 9, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.
Winner of the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Recording of the Year, Turtle Island fuses the classical quartet esthetic with contemporary American musical styles, and, honoring both, has redefined the state of the art.

Nicole Cabell and David Lomeli with the Festival Orchestra and Nuvi Mehta
Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.
“David Lomelí, is called to be one of the greatest tenor of our times. The greatest Rodolfo since Pavarotti” — The Jerusalem Post, Israel