Georgetown Festival of the Arts

Festival Schedule

Artistic Director

Performers

Welcome to the 2010 Festival of the Arts
Aaron Copland in Georgetown

May 29 and June 3- June 6, 2010

Artistic Director

Ellsworth Peterson, Artistic Director of the festival, is professor emeritus at Southwestern University, where he presented Brown Symposia on the music of Mahler, Britten, Shostakovich and Messiaen, and on the classical music of Thailand.

He has served as Artistic Director of the five previous Festivals of the Arts:

Handel in Georgetown (2005) ,
Haydn in Georgetown (2006),
Schubert in Georgetown (2007),
Mendelssohn in Georgetown (2008) and
Dvořák in Georgetown (2009).

Paloma Mayorga, is a student at Southwestern University, majoring in art. It was her design of the image of Aaron Copland (based on on a photograph used by permission of the MacDowell Colony) that was chosen for this web site, the Festival Program, the Festival brochure and other promotional materials for this Festival. Last year it was her design of the image of Dvořák that was chosen for the 2009 web site, the Festival Program, the Festival brochure and other promotional materials for the 2009 Festival.

Megan McCarty who serves as administrative assistant to the Festival, graduated from Southwestern University with her B.M. in Music Literature, magna cum laude, with Honors in Music in May 2009. She presented a shortened version of her Honor's Thesis,"Franz Liszt's Settings of Poems by Victor Hugo: A Previously Unrecognized Song Cycle" at the Southwest Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society in October 2009 and curated an exhibit titled"Inspired by Bilitis: The Women of Pierre Louÿs' Future Society" in conjunction with Southwestern's Bilitis, Revisited concerts during January and February 2010. She continues to work as Dr. John Michael Cooper's research assistant and will be his co-author on the Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music which will be part of a series published by Scarecrow Press, upcoming publication in 2013. Megan will be attending graduate school at Boston University in Fall 2010.

FESTIVAL DATES

Aaron Copland in Georgetown

Saturday, May 29,
and Thursday June 3 through
Sunday June 6, 2010

Art on the Square
Will take place
on October 16 & 17, 2010

Georgetown Festival of the Arts
P.O. Box 846
Georgetown, TX 78627

Tel 512.639.0433

E-mail info@gtownfestival.org