WELCOME!

With the 2006 IU Summer Academic Session II, the IU Jacobs School of Music once again presents an array of chamber, orchestral, jazz, and outdoor band concerts, as well as an IU Opera Theater production of The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan!

This year, the festival welcomes international violin sensation and IU alumnus Joshua Bell, who will lead the first Festival Orchestra concert on June 29.

Ensembles to look forward to include the American Chamber Players, the Beaux Arts Trio with IU Distinguished Professor and international pianist Menahem Pressler, the Penderecki Quartet, the Sequenza Trio, and the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra under the direction of IU Distinguished Professor and world-renowned pedagogue and composer David N. Baker.

In addition to Bell, conductors directing the Festival Orchestra will include Leonard Slatkin and Michael Stern . Considered one of the finest orchestras in the region, the Festival Orchestra features guests, outstanding students, and distinguished faculty members of the IU School of Music.

Following last year’s extremely successful production of H.M.S. Pinafore, IU Opera Theater will mount a production of The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan. Performances for the show will be on July 28 and 29, as well as August 4 and 5, at 8:00 p.m.

Be sure to set aside three July evenings for the popular sunset Band Concerts on the MAC lawn!