The MasterWorks Festival Orchestra in Rodeheavor Auditorium, June 15, 2012.

The MasterWorks Festival is a Christian classical performing arts festival. Young talents and world-class faculty join in four weeks of instruction and performances, to glorify God through the arts. Forty free public concerts are offered each season, and the first is at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Rodeheaver Auditorium in Winona Lake.

Tonight’s faculty chamber concert will feature Beethoven: Piano Trio in B-flat, Op. 11, Mozart: Piano Quartet in E-flat, K. 493 and Schubert: String Quartet No. 14, “Death and the Maiden.”

MasterWorks is an intensive four-week festival for advanced and passionate students of music, dance, and theater. Each year 250 students from around the globe participate in this unique festival that combines artistic excellence and biblically sound teaching. Students and a faculty of 90 live and work on the campus of Grace College.

Additional free MasterWorks concerts over the next four weeks, include:

• Saturday, June 15
  7:30 p.m., Rodeheaver Auditorium
  Faculty Chamber Concert
  Dvorak: Piano Trio, Op. 90, “Dumky”
  Faure: Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 45
  Haydn: String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 50, No. 1
• Sunday, June 16
  7:30 p.m., Rodeheaver Auditorium
  Faculty Recital
• Thursday, June 20
  8:15 p.m., Rodeheaver Auditorium
  Concerto Competition Finals
• Friday, June 21
  7:30 p.m., Rodeheaver Auditorium
  Philharmonic Orchestra
  Conducted by Daniel Meyer and featuring soloist Hugh Sung on piano
  Rossini: William Tell Overture
  Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
  Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
  Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43

• Saturday, June 22
  7:30 p.m., Rodeheaver Auditorium
  Festival OrchestraConducted by David Bowden
  Verdi: Overture to La forza del destino
  Mozart: Flute Concert No. 1 in G Major
  Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 “Pastoral Symphony”

• Sunday, June 23
  7:30 p.m., Rodeheaver Auditorium
  Faculty Recital

• Friday, June 28
  2:00 p.m., Location TBD
  VISP Art Song Recital

• Friday, June 28
  7:30 p.m., Rodeheaver Auditorium
  Philharmonic Orchestra
  Conducted by Darryl One and featuring soloists Karen Hill and Harry “Chip” Hill on clarinet
  Wagner: Prelude to Meistersinger
  Mendelssohn: Concert Piece No. 2, Op. 114
  Sibelius: Finlandia
  Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

• Saturday, June 29
  7:30 p.m., Rodeheaver Auditorium
  Festival Orchestra
  Conducted by Luis Haza and featuring soloists Paula Kasica- flute, Reid Messich– oboe, Wesley Nance- trumpet & Shannon Nance – violin
  Glinka: Russlan and Ludmilla Overture
  Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major
  Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor

• Sunday, June 30
  7:30 p.m., Rodeheaver Auditorium
  Faculty Recital

• Wednesday, July 3
  8:15 p.m., Rodeheaver Auditorium
  Student Honors Recital

• Thursday, July 4
  7:30 p.m., Rodeheaver Auditorium
  Festival Orchestra
  Conducted by Miriam Burns and featuring soloist Wei Yu on cello
  Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn
  Ravel: Bolero
  Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor

• Thursday, July 4
  8:00 p.m., McClain Auditorium
  MasterWorks Theatre Performance
  Under the direction of Rich Swingle
  Twelve Angry Jurors: Reginald Rose

• Friday, July 5
  8:30 p.m., Hillside Amphitheatre
  Fourth of July Pops Concert with thePhilharmonic Orchestra
  Conducted by Patrick Kavanaugh and featuring soloists Steven Condy and Robin Leigh Massie
  Smith: Star Spangled Banner
  Tchaikovsky: The Year 1812, Festival Overture
  Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever
  Others TBD

• Saturday, July 6
  3 p.m., McClain Auditorium
  MasterWorks Theatre Performance
  Under the direction of Rich Swingle
  Twelve Angry Jurors: Reginald Rose

• Saturday, July 6
  7:30 p.m., Warsaw High School Performing Arts Center
  Dance Performance
  Under the direction of Bonnie Ringleb and conducted by Anthony Spain
  Adam: Giselle
  Swerts: Klonos
  Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata, mvt. 1

• Sunday, July 7
  2 p.m., Warsaw High School Performing Arts Center
  Dance Performance
  Under the direction of Bonnie Ringleb and conducted by Anthony Spain
  Adam: Giselle
  Swerts: Klonos
  Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata, mvt. 1

• Sunday, July 7
  7:30 p.m., Rodeheaver Auditorium
  Faculty Recital

• Tuesday, July 9
  8:30 p.m., Rodeheaver Auditorium
  Honors Chamber Recital

• Wednesday, July 10
  3:30 p.m., Church of the Good Shepherd
  Wind Intensive Studies Program Recital

• Wednesday, July 10
  8:30 p.m., Philathea Little Theatre
  Vocal Intensive Studies Program
  Under the direction of Steven Condy
  Opera Scenes Performance

• Thursday, July 11
  8:30 p.m., Philathea Little Theatre
  Vocal Intensive Studies Program
  Under the direction of Steven Condy
  Opera Scenes Performance

• Friday, July 12
  2:30 p.m., Philathea Little Theatre
  Vocal Intensive Studies Program
  Under the direction of Steven Condy
  Opera Scenes Performance

• Friday, July 12
  7:30 p.m., Rodeheaver Auditorium
  Philharmonic Orchestra
  Conducted by Christopher Russell and featuring student winners of the MasterWorks Festival Concerto Competition
  Beethoven: King Stephen Overture
  Dvorak: Symphony No. 8
  Concerto Competition Winners

• Saturday, July 13
  3:30 p.m., Church of the Good Shepherd
  String Intensive Studies Program Recital

• Saturday, July 13

7:30 pm, Rodeheaver Auditorium
Festival Orchestra
Conducted by Andrew Sewelland featuring soloist Rachel Barton Pine on violin
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro Overture
Saint-Saens: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A minor
Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto No. 5, Op. 37
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique