Free Piano Master Class by Jeremy Denk
This season, the Festival is thrilled to collaborate with Jacksonville University for a series of three Master Classes with our Festival artists. A free public master class taught by one of America’s foremost pianists, Jeremy Denk, will take place on February 24, 2025, from 10 AM – 12 PM.
Free Strings Master Class by Takács Quartet
This season, the Festival is thrilled to collaborate with Jacksonville University for a series of three Master Classes with our Festival artists. A free public master class taught by the world-renowned Takács Quartet will take place on February 10, 2025, from 4-6PM.
Free Classical Guitar Master Class by Sharon Isbin
This season, the Festival is thrilled to collaborate with Jacksonville University for a series of three Masterclasses with our Festival artists. A free public masterclass taught by GRAMMY Award-Winning guitarist Sharon Isbin will take place on Saturday, January 18, 2025 from 1-3PM.
Mark O’Connor’s An Appalachian Christmas featuring Maggie O’Connor
Legendary Grammy Award-winning composer and fiddler Mark O’Connor has created arrangements of Christmas classics and fashions a wondrous mixture of both instrumental and vocal music in bluegrass and other American music genres. Concertgoers are treated to fresh takes on traditional Christmas songs.
Mark O’Connor’s An Appalachian Christmas featuring Maggie O’Connor
Legendary Grammy Award-winning composer and fiddler Mark O’Connor has created arrangements of Christmas classics and fashions a wondrous mixture of both instrumental and vocal music in bluegrass and other American music genres. Concertgoers are treated to fresh takes on traditional Christmas songs.
Festival Finale: Christopher Rex String Seminar, The American String Quartet & Beth Newdome Fellows
AICMF’s 24th season comes to an exciting end with our annual Christopher Rex String Seminar, bringing together two rising star young quartets- our Beth Newdome Fellows- with the distinguished American String Quartet for a week of coachings, community outreach activities, and public concerts.
Beethoven & Beer with The American String Quartet
Internationally recognized as one of the world’s finest quartets, the American String Quartet has spent decades honing the luxurious sound for which it is famous. The Quartet celebrated its 45th anniversary in 2019, and, in its years of touring, has performed in all fifty states and has appeared in the most important concert halls worldwide.
The Rites of Spring
Celebrate the arrival of Spring with two monumental works in this unique program- Beethoven’s glorious “Spring Sonata” and Stravinsky’s earth-shaking “Rite of Spring” with Festival favorites David (violin) & Julie (piano) Coucheron and Elizabeth Pridgen, pianist.
Family Concert: Musical Animals
Designed for young audiences but perfect for music lovers of any age, our annual Family Concert this year features the delightful “Carnival of the Animals” and “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” performed by pianists Julie Coucheron & William Ransom, violist Yinzi Kong, and narrated by the Island’s favorite actor, Frank O’Donnell.
The Kruger Brothers
Hear melodies and stories woven into an exceptional musical experience by the brothers Jens and Uwe Kruger alongside their musical partner Joel Landsberg.