Ilumina
| Ilumina Festival | |
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| Genre | Chamber music, classical music |
| Location(s) | São Bento do Sapucaí, Brazil |
| Years active | 2015-present |
| Founded by | Jennifer Stumm |
| Website | |
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The Ilumina Festival is an annual chamber music festival held in Brazil.
The festival combines the objective of producing high-end classical music with a deep-rooted social mission. Professional soloists from multiple nationalities converge in a secluded venue in rural Brazil, where they commune and collaborate with a selected group of outstanding young local talents at the start of their professional careers.
Through a series of rehearsals, workshops, and masterclasses, all musicians prepare, together, for a set of concerts, open to the public and free of charge, aimed at bringing chamber music to audiences that would have otherwise limited access to it. Both soloists and fellows feed off each other’s input, and the experience provides a sizeable professional boost for alumni’s careers.
The festival operates on a non-profit basis and relies on donors, sponsors and supporters for financial viability.
Founded by American violist and artistic director Jennifer Stumm, the festival held its first edition in the city of São Bento do Sapucaí, in January 2015.
Invited soloists for the first edition included Cristian Budu, Joseph Conyers, Giovanni Gnocchi, Esther Hoppe and Alexandra Soumm.
Concerts were held in São Bento do Sapucaí and Campos do Jordão and included works by Thomas Adès, Anton Arensky, Marcos Balter, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Johannes Brahms, Osvaldo Golijov, Gioachino Rossini, Franz Schubert, Bright Sheng, Dmitri Shostakovich, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Heitor Villa-Lobos.
Alumni from the first edition went on to new professional jobs in classical music, and to be accepted into some of the world’s leading conservatories and music programs.
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