Bear Valley Music Festival 2012
Carter Nice, Music Director
An Intimate Season for a Flourishing Future! Maestro Nice is bringing back our orhestra’s principal musicians to perform in 2012. A variety of selected pieces feature between 24 to 8 musicians.
Friday, July 27 7:00 pm Bear Valley School
BROADWAY BOUND! Presenting gifted up and coming future Broadway-bound singers –singing your favorites – accompanied by piano
Alicia O’Neill- a featured singer
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Saturday, July 28 9:30 am Activities at Perry Walther Lot & 10:30 am Music at Bear Valley School
KIDZ KONZERT- a Morning of Creativty & Music
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Saturday, July 28 7:00 pm Bear Valley Lodge Pool
JAZZ BY THE POOL- GRANT GEISSMAN and The Cool Man Cool Band
An evening of jazz with renowned Emmy-nominated guitarist/composer Grant Geissman and his combo
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Sunday, July 29 11:30 am – BBQ Bear Valley Mountain
12:30 pm – Concert
WESTERN BBQ & MOUNTAIN CONCERT
Great food and concert featuring the COMSTOCK COWBOYS in a spectacular mountaintop setting!
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Wednesday, August 1 7:00 pm Bear Valley Lodge
SONATAS AND SIPS!
Enjoy Nicole Darracq’s pairing of wines with Festival Orchestra musicians playing their favorite sonatas in the beautiful Cathedral Lounge
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Thursday, August 2 7:00 pm Bear Valley School
BACH TO JAZZ!
The first in our series of presentations by the Bear Valley Chamber Orchestra featuring the music of Bach, Debussy and Bolling.
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Friday, August 3 7:00 pm Bear Valley School
HORN OF PLENTY!
The Horn is featured in this concert by the Bear Valley Chamber Orchestra with works by Britten, Strauss and Schubert
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Saturday, August 4 5:00 pm Bear Valley Lodge
FESTIVAL GALA & AUCTION- Midnight in Paris!
A festive evening of FUNdraising to benefit the Bear Valley Music Festival! 
George Komsky Sings Favorites & French Love Songs
George Komsky- The Gift of a Golden Voice—By the time the Komsky family immigrated to California and settled in the East Bay; they had a three-year old child, George, born in Kiev. It was just a matter of time before young George, showed interest in music. He learned to play piano and saxophone at eight; parroted the great Pavarotti by singing opera at eleven and began formal voice training as a teenager.
When George started high school at Monte Vista in Alamo, he joined the Speech and Debate Team taking first place in the state competition in 2003 and fourth place in the Nationals. As a member of Monte Vista High School’s Chamber Choir in 2001, he performed Verdi’s Requiem at St. Paul’s Basilica in Rome. He won the Edward Barlow Scholarship for singing at the National Association of Teachers’ Bay Area Singing Competition, and gave the graduation commencement speech in 2003.
Komsky’s golden light tenor voice won him a coveted vocal scholarship to UCLA and after graduation; he toured with the prestigious Irish sensational production of Riverdance as lead soloist, sang with the Twelve Irish Tenors, and was a semi-finalist on America’s Got Talent in 2006. Judge Piers Morgan added; “he was the best male-vocalist in the show.”
A fateful introduction to one of the greatest living vocal teachers Seth Riggs, changed his life and his understanding of the Italian style of singing. It took only one lesson with Riggs to distinguish his talent and identify George as a distinct LEGGIERO TENOR, or Light Lyric Tenor as they are called – vocally suitable for Tenor roles written by Rossini, Donizetti, and Mozart. Riggs (the legendary vocal coach of Barbra Streisand, Natalie Cole, Michael Jackson and Josh Groban) predicted of Komsky, his protégé and star pupil, “George will be the next Andrea Bocelli.”
Komsky starred in Dublin Worldwide Productions the “Twelve Irish Tenors” and once again toured the US. . With an ever-expanding repertoire of PopOpera and classical music, Komsky recently sold out his first three Solo Concerts including San Francisco’s historic Herbst Theatre. The performance was peppered with arias from the BARBER OF SEVILLE and THE ELIXIR OF LOVE – along with THE PEARL FISHERS and other timeless classics.
The twenty-four year old is truly blessed with a beautiful voice and may very well be the next Andrea Bocelli. If the dedication to his music and the devotion, courage and tenacity he inherits from his parents and grandparents is a paradigm by which he structures and pursues his career, then he will be as successful as a Bocelli–and he too will reach the stars.
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Sunday, August 5 11:00 a.m. Brunch Picnic Area
12:00 p.m. Concert Bear Valley School
BRUNCH & CELEBRATION CONCERT!
A celebratory brunch and concert featuring the Bear Valley Chamber Orchestra closing the 2012 season and looking forward to a bright festival future!
Artists and schedule subject to change without notice
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Tickets available first to Festival donors and BVRI members from May 15, 2012 to June 15. Limited seating available. Please visit our website www.bearvalleymusicfestival.org now or call 209-753-2574. Donations also accepted!
www.bearvalleystarparty.com date to be determined
Annual Star Party -FREE -Dark sky viewing on huge telescopes and daytime casual astromony classes. Star Party is a Free event.
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