NYCA launches a new festival - August 4-11, 2018 NYC 

CLASSICAL BRIDGE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL ACADEMY & CONFERENCE

CONCERTS 7:30pm      MASTERCLASSES 12pm    PANELS 3pm & 6pm 

Faculty and Performing Artists: 

Alexander Buzlov cello Alexander Fiterstein clarinet Ivry Gitlis violin Phillip Kawin piano David Kim violin Alissa Margulis violin Yong Hi Moon, piano Klara Min piano Jean-Frederic Neuburger Featured Composer Gabor Takacs-Nagy conductor Eric Silberger violin Borislav Strulev cello Vyacheslav Gryaznov piano Zhenni Li piano Sirena Huang violin Milan Al-Ashhab violin Juan Carlos Fernandez-Nieto piano Spencer Myer piano Eduard Zilberkant piano& more

Panelists 

Jed Distler Between the Keys WWFM Carsten Duerer Publisher Editor PianoNews Magazine Elliott Forrest Peabody Award Winning Broadcaster/Producer WQXR Sean Hickey Vice-President Sales/Business Dev.Naxos of America David Homan Executive Dir.American-Israel Cultural Foundation Christina Jensen Publicist President of Jensen Artists Justin Kantor Co-founder Le Poisson Rouge Bob Lord CEO Parma Recordings- Named Musical America's "Key Influencers 2015" John Mauceri Conductor Bettina Mehne Co-founder Hello Stage Former artistic manager The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen Collin Rae CEO Sono Luminus Records Former Vice President of Digital Sales/Marketing Universal Music Classics Keith Sherman Publicist Keith Sherman & Associates and more 

AUGUST 4: OPENING CONCERT - Chamber Music with Ivry Gitlis

Saturday, August 4, 2018 at 7:30pm - Symphony Space, New York, NY

6pm Pre-Concert Talk - Jed Distler in conversation with legendary violinist Ivry Gitlis

- music by Claude Debussy, Sergei Prokofiev, Fritz Kreisler, Pablo de Sarasate, and Felix Mendelssohn

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AUGUST 5: 2018 NYCA Worldwide Debut Audition Winner:

Milan Al-Ashhab, Violin

Sunday, August 5, 2018 at 7.30pm- Merkin Concert Hall, New York, NY

6pm Pre-Concert Talk - Living music – how performing artists can develop new traditions-

- music by Chausson, Ravel, Ysaye, Milstein, Waxaman, Skoumal

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AUGUST 6: CHAMBER MUSIC

Stravinsky/Shostakovich/Tchaikovsky

Monday, August 6, 2018 at 7:30pm - Merkin Concert Hall, New York, NY

6pm Pre-Concert Talk - New approaches to recording, production and distribution

- music by Igor Stravinsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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AUGUST 7: CHAMBER MUSIC - with David Kim

Brahms/Schumann/Schubert

Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 7:30pm - Merkin Concert Hall, New York, NY

6pm Pre-Concert Talk - Finding an original voice as soloist

- music by Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Robert Schumann

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AUGUST 8: NEW MUSIC - FEATURING a French Composer

Jean-Frédéric Neuburger

Wednesday, August 8, 2018 at 7:30pm - Merkin Concert Hall, New York, NY

6pm Pre-Concert Talk - Interview with featured composer Jean-Frédéric Neuberger

Compositions and a World-Premiere by featured composer

Jean-Frédéric Neuburger & JS Bach Cello Suite in G with a special guest, Oscar Hawkins, dancer

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AUGUST 9: FINAL CONCERT with Festival Orchestra with Gábor Takács-Nagy -- Celebrating Bernstein at 100

Thursday, August 9, 2018 at 7:30pm- Merkin Concert Hall, New York, NY

6pm Pre-Concert Talk - Best of All Possible Worlds: Celebrating Bernstein at 100

- music by Leonard Bernstein, Igor Stravinsky, George Gershwin, and Aaron Copland

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AUGUST 10: STEINWAY HALL CONCERTS BY YOUNG MUSICIANS

Friday, August 10, 2018 at 4pm - Steinway Hall, New York, NY

Program to be announced on August 8, 2018

Free Admission