2008
EMERGING
ARTISTS
PROGRAM

The Mendocino Music Festival will be offering young musicians full scholarships for its 2008 season. Scholarships are available for twelve (12) string players, and are limited to serious musicians between the ages of 16 and 25. The program includes an intensive chamber music course as well as participation in the Festival Orchestra in the company of professional musicians from the Bay Area, local artists and soloists of national and international renown. The two and a half (2½) week Festival takes place in one of the most spectacular spots on the Northern California coast.

After the opening orchestra concert on Saturday, July 12th and a Children’s Matinee on Sunday, July 13th, participants in the program will have an entire week of concentrated coaching on at least two works of chamber music selected by the directors and the participants together that will culminate in an Emerging Artists performance on Sunday, July 20th at 2:00 pm in the Festival Performance Tent. Participants will rehearse and perform with the Festival Orchestra the following week, with a final performance on the evening of Saturday, July 26 at 8:00 pm. Host families will provide students with lodging and breakfast. A stipend of $100 will be provided to each student for lunches. In addition to substantial morning snacks available on rehearsal days at the Festival tent, there will be some group dinners, but students are expected to provide for the rest of their meals. In general, host families will offer kitchen privileges. Students will also receive complimentary tickets to Festival concerts when available. Application deadline is Friday, March 28, 2008. A $100 processing fee will be required for those accepted into the program. Check should be made payable to: Mendocino Music Festival. To apply to the Mendocino Music Festival's Emerging Artists Program please:

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Program Director and Cellist Julie Feldman has resumed her long term position with the former San Jose Symphony, now Symphony Silicon Valley, as well as frequently freelancing with many Bay Area groups since returning from a sabbatical year teaching at Mannes College of Music. She was a member for many years of the New York Chamber Soloists, touring in Europe as well as the U.S., and continues to work with a number of east coast ensembles. She has been director of chamber music at Marin Academy for 13 years, and has a private teaching studio in Berkeley.

Program Director and Violinist Christina Mok, an established soloist, concertmaster, and chamber musician, maintains a very busy concert schedule. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London on full scholarship under Yfrah Neaman and later with Rodney Friend. While at the Guildhall, she was honored with a British Council Fellowship. She is the winner of numerous competitions including the BBC Young Artists' Forum Audition, the Sutton Chamber Music Competition, the Warshaw Violin Competition, the Korean Association Scholarship, and was named Young Promising Performer of the Year by the Seoul Arts Center in 1997. Ms. Mok has given solo and chamber recitals in Japan, England, Norway, the U.S. and Korea, performed for the BBC and Korean Broadcasting Service and was featured in prestigious festivals such as the Evian Festival in France and the BBC Proms in London. She appeared as a soloist with the Russian Federal Symphony Orchestra at Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow during the city's 850th anniversary celebration. Ms. Mok has also performed as a soloist with the Janacek Philharmonic in Czech Republic, the Stockton Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Silicon Valley and the Pacific Chamber Symphony in California, and the Suwon Philharmonic and the Seoul Symphony Orchestra in Korea, among others. She is an avid chamber musician and a founding member of the Laurel Ensemble. Ms. Mok is currently the Concertmaster of the Stockton Symphony and the Associate Concertmaster of the Symphony Silicon Valley. She is an active guest concertmaster and has led many orchestras in California.