Nearly 3,000 student musicians from 12 states to perform
INDIANAPOLIS, IN — Tickets and performance schedules are now available for the Music for All National Festival, presented by Yamaha, which will bring outstanding
student musicians from around the country to Indianapolis March 4-6, 2010. The festival comprises the National Concert Band Festival, Sandy Feldstein
National Percussion Festival and three national honor ensembles: the Honor Band of America, the Jazz Band of America, and the Honor Orchestra
of America.
Festival Ensembles
High school and middle school concert bands and percussion ensembles were selected by recorded audition to perform in concert at Clowes
Memorial Hall and Warren Performing Arts Center, be evaluated by master music educators and participate in master classes and special events.
Ticket information for the concert band festival is available at www.musicforall.org. The festival concerts at Warren Performing Arts
Center are free to the public. A schedule of each ensemble's performance is available at www.musicforall.org.
Honor Ensembles
The Honor Band of America, the Jazz Band of America and the Honor Orchestra of America will feature nearly 200 of the top student
musicians in the country in concert — all selected after individual, recorded auditions. The Jazz Band of America, conducted by Dr. Lou
Fischer and with celebrated guest artist Wayne Bergeron on trumpet, performs at Clowes Memorial Hall on Friday, March 5, at 8:30 p.m.;
tickets are $15. The Honor Band of America, conducted by H. Robert Reynolds, performs at Clowes Memorial Hall on Saturday, March 6, at 8
p.m.; tickets are $33, $26 and $20. Tickets for events at Clowes Memorial Hall are available from the Clowes box office and Ticketmaster.
The Honor Orchestra of America, conducted by Anthony Maiello, will perform in two evenings of shared concerts with the Indianapolis
Symphony Orchestra at Hilbert Circle Theatre, at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 5 and 6. Orchestra tickets are available through the
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and include both the 7 p.m. concert featuring the Honor Orchestra of America and the evening's ISO
performance of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto.
About the Music for All National Festival
In addition to performing, the nearly 3,000 student musicians — representing 27 ensembles from 12 states — will participate in clinics
and master classes, special sessions and social events and enjoy performances by their peers. Larry Livingston, the 2010 Honor Orchestra
of America musical director and a longtime faculty member of the MFA National Festival, now in its 19th year, says that the festival
participants' experience of performing with other committed musicians in first-class concert halls is uniquely life-changing. "It lifts their
sense of what they've accomplished and inspires them to go further," he said.
For more information, visit
www.musicforall.org or call 800-848-BAND (2263).
Music for All (MFA) is one of
the nation's largest and most influential organizations in support of active music-making. Headquartered in
Indianapolis, MFA uniquely combines regional and national music-event programming with awareness campaigns and advocacy aimed at expanding
access to music in schools and communities, including significant support of the IPS music education programs. A 501(c)(3) not-for-profit
educational organization, MFA's programs include 25-plus annual events, including the Music for All National Festival, the Music for All Summer
Symposium, the Bands of America Grand National marching band championships and Regional marching band championships across the
country. Learn more at www.musicforall.org.
Text and image courtesy of Music For All.
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