The Moab Music Festival is back for its 31st year, starting August 21st. Once again, the music will be set against the natural backdrop of Moab’s iconic red rocks and along the Colorado River. The festival began as a much smaller event than it is today, starting with just a few concerts each year, but has grown into a true musical force. The idea started when Co-Founder and Artistic Director Leslie Tomkins first visited Moab 35 years ago with Music Director Michael Barrett, himself a protégé of the great Leonard Bernstein.
“I was utterly entranced by the red rocks,” Tomkins says. “I wanted to somehow participate in and celebrate the incredible beauty of the landscape here. As a professional violist, I thought that playing music among the rocks would be the best way to do that.”
This year, concerts will be performed by fifty-three world-class musicians, performing in twenty-three concerts, in thirteen different wilderness, outdoor and historic venues—every one as breathtaking as the next. Two of this year’s fifty-three artists include Timo Andres and Pius Cheung, who will each perform world premieres of their original compositions. Andres is a prodigious pianist with a dazzling repertoire of compositions and performances.
World-class artists come to Moab, Utah each year to create the festival’s signature music in concert with the landscape.
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