Bozeman Magazine

Come down to Town Center Park as we end the fifth annual Classical Music Festival in style with a performance from the Big Sky Festival Orchestra, with Maestro Peter Bay ! This is a free performance and what better way to listen to a world-class orchestra than outdoors in Big Sky! This performance is presented by Bozeman Deaconess Heath Services!

Appearing with the orchestra are featured soloists Rachel Barton Pine and Matt Haimovitz, performing the Brahms Double Concerto in A minor, Op. 102. The orchestra will also be performing Symphony No. 8 and the Egmont Overture, both by Beethoven.

Peter Bay is celebrating his 16th full season as Music Director and Conductor of the Austin Symphony Orchestra. Maestro Bay has appeared with seventy different orchestras including the National, Chicago, St. Louis, Houston, Dallas, Baltimore, New Mexico, New Jersey, North Carolina, Syracuse, Virginia, West Virginia, Colorado, Hawaii, Jacksonville, Richmond, Sarasota, Alabama, Arkansas, Canton, Eugene, Fort Worth, Springfield, Bochum (Germany), Carinthian (Austria), Lithuanian National, and Ecuador National Symphonies, the Minnesota and Algarve (Portugal) Orchestras, the Louisiana, Buffalo, Rhode Island, Tulsa, Fort Wayne and Reno Philharmonics, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Eastman (Argento's Postcard from Morocco) and Aspen (Moore's The Ballad of Baby Doe) Opera Theaters, and the Theater Chamber Players of the Kennedy Center. Summer music festival appearances have included Aspen (CO), Music in the Mountains (CO), Grant Park and Ravinia (IL), Round Top (TX), OK Mozart (OK) and Skaneateles (NY).

A native of Washington, DC, Mr. Bay is a graduate of the University of Maryland and the Peabody Institute of Music. In 1994, he was one of two conductors selected to participate in the Leonard Bernstein American Conductors Program. He was also the first prize winner of the 1980 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Young Conductors Competition and a prize winner of the 1987 Leopold Stokowski Competition sponsored by the American Symphony Orchestra in New York.

Park opens at 5 p.m., music starts at 6 p.m. Food and beverages from local vendors will be available. Please no glass containers or pets allowed in the park during concerts. Admission is free and suitable for all ages! Plenty of parking!