2020 OMF Festival Season Brochure

ORPHEUS ACADEMY
Orpheus Academy is a scholarship-based summer immersion
program for talented young musicians age 15-25. The Academy
offers tuition-free training with internationally acclaimed
artists/teachers. Activities include concerts, recitals, orchestral
training, masterclasses, private instruction and chamber
​music for strings, winds and percussion.
Orpheus Academy offers tuition-remission scholarships to all students
accepted into the academy. This season the Academy
will offer thirty-five $2,000 scholarships totaling some $70,000: 12
for winds, one for percussion and 22 in the string area. Students
accepted into the academy will automatically receive a
scholarship which covers all academy activities including masterclasses,
orchestral training, private lessons, chamber music,
as well as free access to all festival concerts and events.
ACADEMY MUSIC DIRECTOR
Travis Hatton’s versatile conducting
career has placed him on the podium
of a broad spectrum of musical
groups in Europe and the United
States. His wide interests have led
him to work with opera companies,
orchestras, chamber groups, choruses
and bands.
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Mr. Hatton held two posts during
his five years in Europe (1992 -1997):
Conductor of the Moravian Opera
Theater (Olomouc, the Czech
Republic) and Artistic Director of
the City Opera Theater of Usti nad
Labem (also in the Czech Republic).
During this time, he also guest-conducted
orchestras in Poland, Slovakia,
and the Czech Republic.