Sunriver Music Festival

Name: Sunriver Music Festival
Start: 2026-08-03
End: 2026-08-20
Location: Sunriver

The 49th annual Sunriver Music Festival, a classical music event, is scheduled to take place from August 3 to August 20, 2026. Featuring performances by the professional Sunriver Festival Orchestra, the festival will highlight American composers alongside works by classical legends such as Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, and Mendelssohn. Concerts will be held in Sunriver and Bend, Oregon.

Date: Aug 3-20, 2026
Location: Sunriver

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Event summary

Highlights

Performances by the professional Sunriver Festival Orchestra
Programming features American composers and classical legends (Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn)
Family Concert: "Harry Potter & the Instruments of the Orchestra" at SHARC
Pre-concert "meet the instruments" opportunity at the Family Concert

The Sunriver Music Festival celebrates its 49th season as an annual classical music festival, running from August 3 to August 20, 2026. The festival's programming aims to create a dialogue between the greatest masterworks of the past and promising voices of today, with a special emphasis on American composers to commemorate America's 250th birthday.

Conductor Brett Mitchell will lead the professional Sunriver Festival Orchestra, opening concerts with pieces by American composers like Grammy-winner Joan Tower and William Grant Still. The schedule includes a Family Concert on August 14 at SHARC, featuring a pre-concert "meet the instruments" opportunity followed by "Harry Potter & the Instruments of the Orchestra," which uses John Williams' themes to introduce instrument sections. The festival then moves to Bend for its final concerts, including the Pops Concert on August 15 at the Tower Theatre, titled "John Williams and the American Journey," with highlights such as music from "Saving Private Ryan."

Practical details

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