Clear Creek Music Festival
Clear Creek Music Festival
July 8-July 23, 2024
Halfway, Oregon
Set in the rustic beauty and pristine air of Pine Valley in eastern Oregon, the Clear Creek Music Festival provides the serious student of voice, piano, cello, and music composition with two weeks of intensive study with master faculty. A daily schedule of instruction, practice, rehearsal, and repertoire is enhanced by yoga and recreation in the mountains.
Home base for the Festival is the historic Mehlhorn Farm, with lodging at the Pine Valley Lodge in the center of rustic Halfway, Oregon.
Concerts take place before enthusiastic audiences in the Pine Valley Presbyterian Church, a venue with excellent acoustics. Informal evenings of music-making at the Mehlhorn Farm provide an opportunity to try out new repertoire, and faculty and students can “let their hair down” performing light and popular music during events at the Halfway Main Street Stage. Students also may perform offertory music for the area churches. Enrollment limited to 15 students and the communal atmosphere of the festival assure interaction with all faculty and personal attention to the specific needs of each student.
Come join us in making music
“on the wild side” of Oregon!
Festival Administration
Dr. Sheila M. Allen, Artistic Director
Cynthia Thayer, Business Administrator
Cornucopia Arts Council, Administrative Sponsor
Partner
Festival Faculty
Gregory Allen, piano
David Yeomans, piano
George Work, violoncello
Sheila Allen, voice
Blaise Ferrandino, composition
John Mueter, coach, collaborative pianist
Lauren White Escalante, youth education, Clear Creek
Kids
The Clear Creek Music Festival has been supported by grants from the Leo Adler Foundation, the Baker County Cultural Coalition, and the Miller Foundation.
2015 Concert Dates
Sunday, July 12 7:00 p.m.
Opening Faculty Concert
Friday, July 17 7:00 p.m.
Students and Faculty
Friday, July 24 7:00 p.m.
Final Gala Concert
Students, Faculty,
Clear Creek Kids,
Festival/Community
Chorus
All concerts held at
Pine Valley
Presbyterian Church
Informal Soirée for Festival participants and Donors Tuesday, July 14
Study
Advance your knowledge of repertoire and performance skills guided by outstanding, caring faculty. Hear the faculty in concert. Focus mind and body with yoga and outdoor adventures. Integrate your experience of nature, poetry, music, art, and the creative process as the Romantics did. Discover your unique self in a place uniquely its own.
Live
Enjoy life as a festival community at the comfortable, centrally located Pine Valley Lodge and the historic Mehlhorn Century Farm, built by one of the early settlers of Pine Valley. Enjoy communal meals consistently rated 10 on a scale of six! Be awed by stars undimmed by city lights.
Explore
Hike and ride the trails in the area where “Paint Your Wagon” was filmed, boat the rapids of the Snake River, explore gold rush miners’ cabins in Cornucopia, walk the wagon ruts of the Oregon Trail and visit the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. Discover the charming town of Halfway........... “between Heaven and Hell’s Canyon.”
Perform
Perform in public recitals. Join in concert with faculty. Interact with local musicians. Try new repertoire and compositions in informal readings and musicales at the Mehlhorn Farm. Show your popular side at the Main Street Stage.
Clear Creek Music Festival
If you look deep enough you will see music;
the heart of nature being everywhere music.
~~Thomas Carlyle
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