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A playlist of music to accompany the 2016-17 teacher guide for Savannah Music Festival's third season of Musical Explorers.

A playlist of music to accompany the 2016-17 teacher guide for Savannah Music Festival's third season of Musical Explorers.

A playlist of music to accompany the 2016-17 teacher guide for Savannah Music Festival's third season of Musical Explorers.

A playlist of music to accompany the 2016-17 teacher guide for Savannah Music Festival's third season of Musical Explorers.

A playlist of music to accompany the 2016-17 teacher guide for Savannah Music Festival's third season of Musical Explorers.

A playlist of music to accompany the 2016-17 teacher guide for Savannah Music Festival's third season of Musical Explorers.

A playlist of music to accompany the 2016-17 teacher guide for Savannah Music Festival's third season of Musical Explorers.

A playlist of music to accompany the 2016-17 teacher guide for Savannah Music Festival's third season of Musical Explorers.

A playlist of music to accompany the 2016-17 teacher guide for Savannah Music Festival's third season of Musical Explorers.

A playlist of music to accompany the 2016-17 teacher guide for Savannah Music Festival's third season of Musical Explorers.

A playlist of music to accompany the 2016-17 teacher guide for Savannah Music Festival's third season of Musical Explorers.

A playlist of music to accompany the 2016-17 teacher guide for Savannah Music Festival's third season of Musical Explorers.

A playlist of music to accompany the 2016-17 teacher guide for Savannah Music Festival's third season of Musical Explorers.

A playlist of music to accompany the 2016-17 teacher guide for Savannah Music Festival's third season of Musical Explorers.

A playlist of music to accompany the 2016-17 teacher guide for Savannah Music Festival's third season of Musical Explorers.

The flamenco guitarist Vicente Amigo, from Seville, Spain, has called his engagement with his instrument "beloved torture." You can imagine why when you hear him play: he reachers for depth of expression within ultimate precision, and sometimes at breathtaking speed. In this episode, we listen to Vicente Amigo's Savannah debut. Part one of two.

She's been called the finest jazz singer to emerge in this century, with a voice often compared to Sarah Vaughan. She draws from a range of sources, and she collects songs like some people collect coins. In March of 2016, we brought Cecile McLorin Salvant for a return appearance at our festival along with the impeccable Aaron Diehl Trio. This is part two of two.

At our 2016 festival, the Danish String Quartet made their debut appearance with three separate concert performances and a master class for young string players. They played with the Swedish trio Vasen, as part of the Daniel Hope & Friends chamber music series, and on their own independent chamber music program. In this episode, we listen to them play Mozart's String Quintet in C minor, K. 406 wit...

The very finest musicians always seem to effortlessly deliver jazz standards and originals to audiences, making it clear that a great artist can also be an entertainer. Such is the case with the 70-year old Jamaican pianist Monty Alexander, who grew up in Kingston, where performances by Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole left a strong impression on him as a youngster. In March of 2016, we presented...

Since her breakout win at the Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition at the age of 21 in 2010, Cecile McLorin Salvant has emerged as one of the great jazz singers of the past 40 years. In style and voice, she has been compared with Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, all of whom she lists as influences. She was joined by the impeccable Aaron Diehl, featuring Diehl...

Nearly every year during the Savannah Music Festival, a highlight of our Swing Central Jazz high school jazz band workshop and competition is a jam session featuring the faculty and clinicians in attendance. The event typically serves as a wrap party, and a house band occupies the bandstand while inviting guest musicians on stage throughout the program. The 2016 late night jam was led by trombonis...

When tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander made his debut recording as a leader in 1992 at the age of 25, many jazz writers dubbed him a "young lion" and a musician on his way up. That was nearly 25 years and more than 20 years ago. In the spring of 2016, Alexander brought his longtime quartet to SMF featuring the now 80-year old pianist Harold Mabern, along with bassist John Webber and drummer Joe Far...

As an anthropologist of traditional songwriting, Rhiannon Giddens aims to take listeners on a journey of American roots music. She earned her college degree at Oberlin and trained to be an opera singer, but the North Carolina native sings blues, folk, field hollers and other styles of Americana music with deeply felt authenticity. In this episode, we hear a portion of her 2016 Savannah Music Festi...

In anticipation of SMF’s 25th Anniversary Season, we produced a special radio program featuring Associate Artistic Director Daniel Hope as host. The episode includes highlights from past years of SMF chamber music, with artists such as Daniel Hope, Sebastian Knauer, Anne Sofie von Otter, Mark Padmore & Kristian Bezuidenhout, the Ebene Quartet, the Emerson String Quartet, Leif Ove Andsnes and many...

In the Spring of 2016, jazz guitarist Randy Napoleon was at our festival premiering "He Said, She Said" featuring jazz singers Freddy Cole and Rene Marie. As the guitarist and musical director of Freddy Cole's group, Randy was an essential component for the project, along with rhythm section mates Quentin Baxter and Elias Bailey. Having always wanted to feature Randy as a bandleader, we asked him...