Artist - Moab Music Festival

Connor is a Navajo pianist and composer known for combining his classical piano training with his Native American heritage. He made his Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 12 after winning a gold medal in the World Piano Competition. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music and the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, Connor’s solo piano music is inspired by traditional Navajo chants and songs.

He has released 5 studio albums of original pieces and piano transcriptions of Navajo music. The Navajo Piano won Best Instrumental Recording at the 16th Annual Native American Music Awards, and his piece “Beginnings” won Best New Age Song. The Navajo Piano (Revisited), features new recordings of his original 15 compositions from 2014, as well as recordings of the traditional songs they were based on. Connor’s 2020 release, Scenes from Dinétah, features piano pieces written about elements of Navajo life and culture. It was accompanied by the release of several music videos filmed on the reservation, directed by Navajo filmmaker Michael Etcitty Jr., Connor’s most recent release, Across the Desert: The Long Walk Home, stands as a musical tribute to the Navajo people’s journey through adversity and the triumphant return to their cherished ancestral lands.

Upcoming Performances:

Aug 31 – Red Cliffs I: Colorado Currents
featuring the world premiere of Connor’s MMF commissioned work

Sep 2 – Rocky Mountain Power Community Concert

Geneva is a New Zealand-born American violinist lauded for “remarkable mastery of her instrument” (CVNC) and hailed as “clearly one to watch” (Musical America). She has forged a reputation as a musician of consummate artistry whose performances speak from and to the heart. Named a BBC New Generation Artist (2022-24), Geneva is also the recipient of a 2022 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award and a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant. She was also Grand Prize winner of the 2020 Concert Artists Guild Competition, winner of the Kronberg Academy’s Prince of Hesse Prize (2021), Musical America’s New Artist of the Month (June 2021), a Performance Today Young Artist in Residence and a YCAT Concordia Artist. In August 2023, Geneva made her BBC Proms debut with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Jaime Martin; the 2023-24 season includes further performances with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and debuts with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine, Kremerata Baltica (alongside Gidon Kremer in Schnittke’s Concerto Grosso No.1), as well as the San Diego Symphony, Santa Rosa Symphony and Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco. Geneva is currently performing on a composite violin by G.B. Guadagnini, c. 1766, generously on loan from a Charitable Trust.

Upcoming Performances:

Sep 6 – Music Hike III: Living Legends

Sep 7 – The Promise of Peace

Sep 9 – Grotto III: Manouche!

Sep 9-12 – Cataract Canyon Musical Raft Trip

Winner of the 2018 Pro Musicis International Award, Catherine is an Australian flutist who has performed as recitalist and chamber musician at Carnegie Hall, Caramoor, the Chamber Music Societies of Philadelphia and Lincoln Center, Camerata Pacifica, the Við Djúpið Festival in Iceland and with the Southern Cross Soloists. She has toured internationally with the Orpheus and Australian Chamber Orchestras and been a frequent guest principal flute with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. Catherine’s Just Breathe project is a performance featuring new commissions from leading composers such as Clarice Assad, Viet Cuong, and Juhi Bansal, as well as a series of interactive performance workshops for cancer patients that explore the intersection of breath and music. Catherine is a Core-Artist of Decoda, the affiliate ensemble of Carnegie Hall and previously served as co-artistic director from 2017-2020. Committed to nurturing the next generation of young artists, Catherine currently serves on the faculties of The Colburn School and the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and is the newly appointed Director of the UCLA Gluck Fellowship program. First coming to the US as a Fulbright Scholar, she has given masterclasses and residencies at leading music schools internationally, from The Tianjin Juilliard School, to Curtis, to the Guildhall School in London. Catherine’s recent album together with pianist David Kaplan, entitled Vent, was released on the Bright Shiny Things label in September 2023. www.catherinegregory.com

Upcoming Performances:

Aug 31 – Red Cliffs I: Colorado Currents

Sep 1 – Music Hike II: Just Breath(e)

Sep 2 – Rocky Mountain Power Community Concert

Zach is a musician based in Middletown, Connecticut. His work is focused in the areas of drone, repetitive structures and noise. Collaborators and projects include Tongue Depressor, Hyperion Ensemble under the direction of Iancu Dumitrescu, Red Yellow Blue Green Black, Leila Bordreuil, Aki Onda, Arien Wilkerson, and Paul Flaherty.

Upcoming Performances:

Aug 31 – Red Cliffs I: Colorado Currents

Sep 7 – Robert Black: A Joyful Musical Life from the Bass Line

Matt is a cellist who performs regularly as a recitalist, soloist, and chamber musician. He was awarded first prize in the Washington International Competition, as well as top prizes in the Beijing International Cello Competition and the Isang Yun Competition. Matt has performed concerti with the Utah Symphony, Moscow Chamber Players, Albany Symphony, Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, and numerous North American orchestras. He has given solo recitals at the Kennedy Center, Phillips Collection, Tongyeong Arts Center, Moscow Conservatory, and Beijing Concert Hall, among others. Matt’s recently released solo album for Avie Records received critical acclaim from Gramophone, BBC, and other publications. He performs regularly at many chamber music festivals, including Marlboro Music Festival and Musicians from Marlboro tours. With his wife Alice Yoo, Matt is the Co-Artistic Director of the Denver Chamber Music Festival, a destination for world class chamber music in Colorado. He toured extensively with the Harlem Quartet and jazz legends Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, and Gary Burton. Matt is the Associate Professor of Cello at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music, and his students have established themselves on national and international concert stages.

Upcoming Performances:

Aug 28 – A Movable, Musical Feast

Aug 29 – Grotto I: 19th Century Classics

Aug 31 – Music Hike I: Mozart in the Morning

Aug 31 – Red Cliffs I: Colorado Currents

Sep 5 – Red Earth: Mid-Century Modern America

Sep 7 – Music Hike III: Unusual Quartets–Sacred and Profane

Sep 11 – Grotto III: Vienna at the Turn of the Centuries

Described by the New York Times as a “soulful soloist”, Jessica is known for her inexhaustible search for vivid music-making and exploration of sound. She is the violist of the GRAMMY award-winning Parker Quartet and has appeared at venues around the world both with the Quartet and as an individual including Carnegie Hall, 92nd Street Y, Library of Congress, Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, Musikverein, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and Seoul Arts Center, and has appeared at festivals including Edinburgh International Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, Moab Music Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, Chamberfest Cleveland, Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, Yellow Barn, Perigord Noir, Monte Carlo Spring Arts Festival, San Miguel de Allende, Istanbul’s Cemal Recit Rey, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Hitzacker, and Heidelberg String Quartet Festival. As a member of the Parker Quartet, she has recorded for ECM Records, Zig-Zag Territoires, Nimbus, and Naxos.

Jessica has held visiting teaching positions at New England Conservatory and Longy School of Music, been on faculty at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and Yellow Barn Festival, and is currently a faculty member of Harvard University’s Department of Music as Professor of the Practice in conjunction with the Parker Quartet’s appointment as Blodgett Quartet-in-Residence. Outside of music, Jessica enjoys running, practicing yoga, and hiking with her husband, violinist Daniel Chong, and their son, Cole.

Upcoming Performances:

Aug 27 – Opening Night: Celebrating 33 Years of Moab Music Festival

Aug 29 – Next Week’s Trees

Aug 30 – Lau Noah

Aug 31 – Music Hike II: Catharsis Canyon

Aug 31 – People of Earth: Latin Fusion Collective

Julia combines her American and Hungarian roots with an adventurous spirit to explore the essence of repertoire ranging from Bach to composers living today. Instinctive artistic expression, a forward-thinking attitude, a joyful physical flexibility at the instrument, and an unyielding fascination with the music she plays makes her an artist to watch.

A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London with Christopher Elton and the Mannes College of Music in New York with Richard Goode, Julia studied with Sir András Schiff at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin and studied at the Kronberg Academy where her studies were generously supported by the Henle Foundation. In 2021 she worked with Daniel Barenboim in a series of filmed masterclasses on Beethoven solo piano and string sonatas. She also delved into György Kurtág’s 8 Pieces, Op. 3 together with the composer at the Budapest Music Center.

At the invitation of Sir András Schiff, she appeared in the Building Bridges series of concerts throughout Europe in the 2022/23 season. Notable recital appearances and concerto appearances include performances with the NOSPR in Katowice, Poland, at Wigmore Hall, Beethoven Haus Bonn, Konzerthaus Berlin, at the Magyar Zene Hàz in Budapest and the Luxembourg Philharmonie. She played the Ligeti Piano Concerto in Berlin’s Boulez Saal this season with the Boulez Ensemble and Matthias Pintscher chamber music with members of Kronberg Academy including Tabea Zimmermann Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall. She recently completed a recording of the Mozart Concerti with Howard Griffiths and the Camerata Schweiz for Alpha Classics. Julia signed with record label naïve Records in 2024 to produce a series of solo recordings within the next five years. She is to debut at the Pierre Boulez Saal in 2025 and at the Casals Forum of the Kronberg Academy, in recital and four-hands collaboration with Sir András Schiff. Julia also currently serves as the assistant to the musicology program at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin.

Upcoming Performances:

Sep 5 – Red Earth: Mid-Century Modern

Sep 6 – Grotto II: J.S. Bach and Sons

Sep 8 – Floating Concert II: Red, White and Blues

Sep 11 – Grotto III: Vienna at the Turn of the Centuries

According to the Los Angeles Times, Eve “is a humane, idealistic rebel and a musical sensualist.” Her current projects include a solo piano piece about Emily Dickinson responding to Ives’ Concord Sonata for the pianist Donald Berman, a piece about water issues on the Colorado River for the Moab Music Festival, a queer exploration of 14th century composer Guillaume de Machaut’s multimedia love story, Le Voir Dit, with singer/performer Lukas Papenfusscline, a performance project around poetry by James Tate called What Are the Chances, and a piece for 24 basses in a grove of trees, composed for Robert Black and friends. Since 2001, she has been creating A Book of Days: “a grand and gradually manifesting work in progress…an eclectic and wide-open series of enticements.” (Los Angeles Times)

Upcoming Performances:

Sep 7 – Robert Black: A Joyful Musical Life from the Bass Line
featuring the world premiere of Eve’s MMF commissioned work

After early music studies while growing up in the Midwest, David studied composition with James Sellars at the University of North Texas and Hartt School of Music in Hartford, Connecticut. In the early 1980s he moved to Paris, where he now pursues a parallel career as a humorist. His “Elastic Tango” has been recorded by Ursula Oppens and Yvar Mikhashoff and choreographed by Tere O’Connor for Mikhail Baryshnikov. His electronic/spoken word piece “Mary and Ann,” based on a text by Samuel Beckett, is included in the Innova Recordings anthology Sonic Circuits VIII. His satire pieces have been published by McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, MacQueen’s Quinterly, thebigjewel.com and parisupdate.com, and in the book Quorum of One (Drake Mabry Publishing).

Upcoming Performances:

Sep 7 – Robert Black: A Joyful Musical Life from the Bass Line

Jamie is an author, narrator, director, broadcaster, and filmmaker. Her 2018 memoir, Famous Father Girl, is about growing up with composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein, and pianist and actress Felicia Montealegre in an atmosphere bursting with music, theatre and literature. Jamie has written and narrated concerts about Mozart, Aaron Copland, and Stravinsky, as well as “The Bernstein Beat,” a family concert about her father modeled after his groundbreaking Young People’s Concerts. She appears worldwide performing her own scripted narrations as well as standard concert narrations, such as Copland’s “A Lincoln Portrait” and her father’s Symphony No. 3, “Kaddish.” Jamie has produced and hosted the New York Philharmonic’s live national radio broadcasts, as well as many summer broadcasts from Tanglewood. She recently narrated the podcast “The NY Phil Story: Made in New York.” Jamie is the co-director of Crescendo: the Power of Music, an award-winning documentary film focusing on children in struggling urban communities, who participate in youth orchestra programs for social transformation. Jamie’s articles and poetry have appeared in such publications as Symphony, Town & Country, and Opera News. She also edits “Prelude, Fugue & Riffs,” a newsletter pertaining to her father’s legacy.

Upcoming Performances:

Sep 3 – Film Screening: Maestro

Sep 4 – House Benefit Concert: Bernstein, An Intimate Portrait

Upcoming Performances:

Upcoming Performances:

Upcoming Performances:

Upcoming Performances:

Upcoming Performances:

Upcoming Performances:

Upcoming Performances:

Upcoming Performances:

Upcoming Performances:

Upcoming Performances:

Contact Info

Quicklinks

Subscribe for ticket announcements