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Year 2006 (August) 

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1 August 2006
4.00pm
Overture Le Carnaval romain

Aspen Music Festival 2006
Benedict Music Tent, Aspen, Colorado, USA
American Academy of Conducting Orchestra
conductor: the Low Strings Competition Winner
1 August 2006
8.00pm

Read a review of this performance by John Ahouse
Symphonie funèbre et triomphale Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, CA, USA
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Granada Hills High School Highlander Marching Band
Pacific Chorale
conductor: Bramwell Tovey
2 August 2006
12.45-1.45pm
Symphonie fantastique

Lunch time free concert
The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
conductor: Stéphane Denève
2 August 2006
7.30pm
Overture to Benvenuto Cellini Main Amphitheater, Saratoga Performing Arts center, Saratoga, USA
The Philadelphia Orchestra
conductor: Charles Dutoit
3 August 2006
8.00pm

Read a review of this performance by John Ahouse
Symphonie funèbre et triomphale Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, CA, USA
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Granada Hills High School Highlander Marching Band
Pacific Chorale
conductor: Bramwell Tovey
3 August 2006
7.30pm
Symphonie fantastique

Colorado Music Festival 2006
“Fantastique Finale!”
Chautauqua Auditorium, Boulder, USA
Colorado Music Festival Orchestra
conductor: Michael Christie
4 August 2006
6.30pm

The concert was recorded
for broadcast
Cléopâtre



Grant Park Music Festival
Orchestra Hall, Symphony Center, Chicago, USA
Grant Park Orchestra
conductor: Carlos Kalmar
Jennifer Larmore (mezzo-soprano)
4 August 2006
7.00pm

Live broadcast on BBC Radio 3
Symphonie fantastique


BBC Proms 2006
Royal Albert Hall, London, UK
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
conductor: Stéphane Denève
4 August 2006
7.30pm
Symphonie fantastique

Colorado Music Festival 2006
“Fantastique Finale!”
Chautauqua Auditorium, Boulder, USA
Colorado Music Festival Orchestra
conductor: Michael Christie
5 August 2006
7.30pm

The concert was recorded
for broadcast
Cléopâtre



Grant Park Music Festival
Orchestra Hall, Symphony Center, Chicago, USA
Grant Park Orchestra
conductor: Carlos Kalmar
Jennifer Larmore (mezzo-soprano)
6 August 2006
7.00pm
Symphonie fantastique

Blossom Festival
Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH, USA
The Cleveland Orchestra
conductor: Pinchas Steinberg
12 August 2006
5.30pm
La Marseillaise
Symphonie Funèbre et Triomphale

Pre-Festival concert
Concert of the Académie du Festival Berlioz


Festival Berlioz 2006
Les Halles and on the streets of La Côte Saint André, France
Professeurs de l’Académie Carpe Diem et de l’Académie En.V.I /
Elèves des académies / Société Philharmonique,
école de musique et Chorale Chante Bièvre de La Côte-Saint-André
conductor: Eric Villevière

Following the composer’s wish, the first movement of the Symphonie Funèbre was given in the streets of La Côte Saint André
12 August 2006
8.30pm
Overture to Benvenuto Cellini Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Orch conductor: Isaac Karabtchevsky
13 August 2006
5.00pm
Organ music  (unspecified) Abbatiale, Guîtres, France
Joris Sauquet (organ)
13 August 2006
8.00pm
Marche hongroise (from La Damnation de Faust) Rathausplatz, Korneuburg, Austria
Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich
conductor: Andrés Orozco-Estrada
16 August 2006
7.30pm
Marche funèbre pour la dernière scène d’Hamlet

(from Tristia)
Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern, Konzertsaal, Lucerne, Switzerland
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
conductor: Claudio Abbado
chorus master: Roberto Gabbiani
16 August 2006
9.00pm
Les Troyens  (excerpts):

Chasse royale et orage
Pantomime
Ballet music

Festival Berlioz 2006
Château Louis XI, La Côte Saint André, France 
Orchestre Symphonique du Festival Berlioz
conductor: Eric Villevière
17 August 2006
12.45pm
Les Nuits d’été (excerpts:) 

Le Spectre de la Rose
Sur les Lagunes
Absence
Holy Trinity Church, Dartford, Kent, UK
Ian Wilson-Pope (Bass-Baritone)
Kanae Sutcliffe (piano)
17 August 2006
7.00pm
Marche hongroise (from La Damnation de Faust)

arr. Clark McAlister

Free summer concert
Shute Park, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
Oregon Symphonic Band
conductor: Michael Burch-Pesses
17 August 2006
7.30pm
Les Nuits d’été

Rencontres musicales des Neuf Fontaines
– Concert 4
Église, Salau, France
Muriel Ferraro (mezzo-soprano)
(probably with piano accompaniment)
17 August 2006
8.15pm
Overture to Benvenuto Cellini Chautauqua Institution Amphitheater, Chautauqua, USA
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Enrique Arturo Diemecke
17 August 2006
9.00pm
Les Nuits d’été 

Malta Arts Festival – Summer 2006
Temi Zammit Hall, Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta, Malta
Sophia Grech (mezzo-soprano)
Eleonora Bekova (piano)
18 August 2006
2.30pm
Works unspecified



Edinburgh International Festival Fringe
St Andrew’s & St George’s Church, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Triplicity:
Frances Cooper (soprano)
Anne Lewis (mezzo-soprano)
Colin Dundas (piano)
19 August 2006
7.30pm
Overture to Béatrice et Bénédict

“Je vais le voir...”
(from Béatrice et Bénédict)

Merola Grand Finale
annual concert, San Francisco Opera summer training programme
War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, USA
San Francisco Opera Orchestra
conductor: Richard Buckley
Soprano Andriana Chuchman (soprano)
19 August 2006
8.00pm

pre-concert talk by
Alan Walker at 7.00pm
L’Enfance du Christ (excerpts)



Bard Music Festival
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
American Symphony Orchestra
Bard Festival Chorale
conductor: Leon Botstein
chorus master: James Bagwell
19 August 2006
9.00pm
Te Deum




Festival Berlioz
Château Louis XI, La Côte Saint André, France
Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine
Dumka Chorus
conductor: Mykola Dyadura
chorus master: Evgeny Savchouk
Igor Borko (tenor)
21 August 2006
7.30pm

Live broadcast on BBC Radio 3 
and BBC TV Four
Overture to Les Francs-Juges



BBC Proms 2006
Royal Albert Hall, London, UK
London Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Sir Colin Davis
23 August 2006
9.00pm
Harold en Italie


Festival Berlioz 2006
Château Louis XI, La Côte Saint André, France
Orchestre National de Lyon
conductor: Jun Märkl
Antoine Tamestit (viola)
24 August 2006
9.00pm
Les Nuits d’été
Rêverie et Caprice


Festival Berlioz 2006
Château Louis XI, La Côte Saint André, France
Orchestre des Pays de Savoie
conductor: Graziella Contratto
Marie Devellereau (soprano)
violin soloist (not announced)
26 August 2006
5.00pm
Hélène
Nuit paisible et sereine
(from Béatrice et Bénedict)


Festival Berlioz 2006
Eglise de Châtenay, Châtenay, France
Ensemble Vocal Berlioz
Sophie calmel-Elcourt (soprano)
Sabine Hwang (mezzo-soprano)
Laurent Touche (piano)
26 August 2006
9.00pm
Ouverture Le Carnaval romain
Cléopâtre
Chasse Royale et orage
(Les Troyens)
Symphonie fantastique

Festival Berlioz 2006
Château Louis XI, La Côte Saint André, France
Orchestre Symphonique de Saint-Etienne
conductor: Laurent Campellone
Béatrice Uria-Monzon (mezzo-soprano)
26 August 2006
9.00pm
Symphonie fantastique


Festival Internacional de Santander
Palacio de festivales, Sala Argenta, Santander, Spain
Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse
conductor: Tugan Sokhiev
26 August 2006 Les Nuits d’été
Rêverie et Caprice


Les Estivales du château
Cour d’honneur du château, Chambéry, France
Orchestre des Pays de Savoie
conductor: Graziella Contratto
Marie Devellereau (soprano)
violin soloist was not announced
27 August 2006
2.30pm
Overture Le Corsaire Kyoto Concert Hall, Main Hall, Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Naoto Otomo
27 August 2006
4.00pm
Melodies (unspecified)

Festival Berlioz 2006
Eglise de La Frette, La Frette, France
Caroline Sageman (piano)
Jean Ferrandis (flute)
28 August 2006
2.30pm
Rêverie et Caprice


Festival de La Chaise-Dieu
Abbatiale, La Chaise-Dieu, France
Orchestre des Pays de Savoie
conductor: Graziella Contratto
violin soloist was not announced
31 August 2006
7.00pm
Overture Le Carnaval romain Suntory Hall, Main Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Jun-ichi Hirokami

July 2006   September 2006

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