From July 16-26, tour the world's classical music without leaving the beauty of San Luis Obispo County as Festival Mozaic explores how different global locations impact the classical legacy.
 
Music Director Scott Yoo was inspired by his many travels while conducting and performing across the world to explore these influences. "A specific place can have a profound influence on the music that comes out of it," says the Festival's globe-trotting Maestro. The international roster of musicians joining the Festival this summer will take us through the sonic landscapes of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Copland, Grieg, Golijov, Stravinsky and Bartók among others.
 
New this year, the Festival is introducing Notable Encounters, a series of one-hour concert formats in which the musicians add lively commentary to a 'set' of chamber music. The Encounters will take place in picturesque venues that allow audience members to enjoy a glass of wine or a meal as part of their experience. Also new this year will be the first in a series of Notable Encounter concerts at Hearst Castle.
 
The summer line-up will feature the Festival Mozaic Orchestra in an all-Mozart Concert at the Mission, in concerts of all-Bach and in Beethoven's bucolic Symphony No. 6 and Copland's idyllic Appalachian Spring, among other works. In another new event, Join the Orchestra, 50 lucky patrons will sit inside the orchestra during a dress rehearsal and experience how Scott and the musicians work together to bring this great music to the stage.
 
Other Festival events will include an outdoor pre-concert dinner in Mission Plaza, featuring a menu of delicacies from the cuisine of the Austrian Empire, prepared by Charles Myers of Big Sky Cafe, accompanied by wines of Stephen Ross Wine Cellars and Claiborne & Churchill, and a Champagne Bruch on the Plaza at the Cohan Performing Arts Center before the Grand Finale concert.