13th Annual St. Augustine Music Festival

The St. Augustine Music Festival is the largest, FREE classical music festival in the USA. Over six days during the last two weeks in June, audiences enjoy world-class musicians from the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra joining internationally known guest artists to perform in the acoustically splendid St. Augustine Cathedral Basilica. Programs bring audiences everything from Bach to Stravinksy, intimate solo recitals, chamber music ensembles, and full orchestral works… plus world-premier presentations of new works. Thanks to donations and sponsorships, the concerts are open to the public with no paid admission ticket required. All concerts begin at 7:30 p.m.

Featuring:

Thursday, June 20 – SIMPLE BEAUTY

Join us for Simple Beauty, the opening theme of the 13th Annual St. Augustine Music Festival, featuring the clean simplicity of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the beautiful melodies and harmonies of Franz Schubert. Selected works of music include Mozart’s Violin Concerto No.5 in A major, K.219 and Schubert’s Symphony No.5.

Friday, June 21 – PERCUSSION FEST

(Program to be announced)

Saturday, June 22 – HOPE, JOY, AND LOVE

With a theme of Hope, Joy, and Love, we will open the first Saturday evening of the 13th Annual St. Augustine Music Festival with Mozart’s String Quintet No.3 in C major, K.515 and later Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op.4, which is based on a poem by Richard Dehmel about a woman who changes from despair to hope, from grief to joy, through an act of love.

Thursday, June 27 – A MUSICAL PARTY WITH FRIENDS

On the second Thursday evening performance of our 13th Annual St. Augustine Music Festival, we present a theme of A Musical Party With Friends featuring Mozart’s Quintet for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon in E flat major, K.452 as well as Mahler’s piano Quartet in A minor, and Beethoven’s Septet in E flat major, Op.20 for clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello, and bass.

Friday, June 28 – PIANO EXTRAVAGANZA

For our second Friday evening performance of the 13th Annual St. Augustine Music Festival, we present a piano solo by Scott Watkins as well as music by Schubert, Hanson, and Liszt’s “St. Francis Walking on the Waves” and “Transcendental Etude No.9.”

Saturday, June 29 – AROUND THE WORLD

For the closing performance of the 13th Annual St. Augustine Music Festival, we present a theme of Around the World featuring “An English Suite” by Sir Charles Hubert Parry, Barber’s “Adagio for Strings” in Memory of SAMF violist Colin Kiely, and music by Shostakovich and Carl Nielsen.