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2012 Concert
Dates: August 24, 25, 30, 31, and September
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Download Press Release for 2012 Season:
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Download Press Release for Aug. 24th & 25th Concerts:
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Download Press Release for Aug. 30th Concert:
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Download Press Release for Aug. 31st & Sept. 1st
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Download Press Release for Sept. 7th & 8th
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Download Press Release for NACAP:
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Grand
Canyon Music Festival 29th season from August 24, 2012,
to September 8, 2012, with weekend and mid-week concerts in Grand
Canyon National Park. The Festival will also conduct its education
outreach programs, NACAP and School of Rock, to Grand Canyon School
and to Native American reservation schools.
Grand Canyon Music Festival is an annual three-week series of
concerts held in Grand Canyon National Park that emphasizes the
broad diversity of chamber music, focuses on programming and presentation
excellence, and celebrates the environment of this majestic World
Heritage Site. Musicians of national and international standing
are drawn to the Festival because of the high quality of musicianship,
the sophistication of its leadership, and the inspiration of the
Canyon itself.
Founded in 1983, the Grand Canyon Music Festival brings world-renowned
artists to Arizona for performances, outreach, and education
programs in rural and underserved Arizona communities, at affordable
admission prices.
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Since 1984, the Festival has served Native American communities
within the state, including the Navajo, Hopi, Havasupai, and Pima
Indian Reservations, the Heard Museum, and Scottsdale Community
College. A two-time recipient of the ASCAP-Chamber Music America
Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music, the GCMF
has been
recognized as an innovator in programming and education outreach,
receiving the 2010 Governor's Arts Award for Arts in Education.
The Grand Canyon Music Festival receives support from the National
Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Western State Arts Federation (WESTAF),
the Flinn Foundation, Chamber Music
America, the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, and the Arizona
Commission on the Arts. The Grand Canyon Music Festival attracts
artists of international acclaim, including Pulitzer Prize winning
composers like William Bolcom and Paul Moravec, the Festival's 2004
composer-in-residence. Festival performances are heard nationwide
on National Public Radio's "Performance Today"and statewide
on KNAU, Flagstaff , and KBAQ, Phoenix. The Grand Canyon Music Festival
has been featured the on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition"and "All
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2012 Press
Releases