Postcard from Sun Valley: Sun Valley Music Festival Featured in "The Strad"

“The Sun Valley Music Festival is a unique experience where visitors can hear free concerts performed by first-rate musicians in a beautiful setting,” reports Emma Baker, editor from The Strad, who visited the festival this past summer. That setting is in Sun Valley, central Idaho, 130 miles north of the border with Nevada, and about 5,945 feet above sea level.

The festival is in its 41st season, and for 31 years it has been in the hands of its music director, the globetrotting Alasdair Neale. The Sun Valley Music Festival orchestra is made up of top players and section principals from major U.S. ensembles, such as the Buffalo and Rochester philharmonics, and the Colorado, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Seattle symphonies, among others. Most return year after year.

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