About the Festival
The Greenwich Music Festival is a performance company committed to both classic and new works. Every spring the festival produces a week-long series of public performances, including staged work, chamber music concerts, lectures and educational outreach programs. The festival begins when performers and artists from around the world arrive in Greenwich to spend a month living and working in the community. For the artists, this residency is an opportunity to explore new repertoire and collaborations. Rehearsals are opened to the public and local students participate as interns, assistants and stage crew.
The festival was founded in 2004 by conductor Robert Ainsley, stage director Ted Huffman and the festival’s first Board Chairman, Patricia Chadwick. The festival quickly gained popular support and critical praise (see Press Page), leading to New Yorker to declare, “A green shoot of music culture has sprouted in the hedge-fund capital of the world.”
Outreach
The Festival has one of the most unique outreach programs in the country, shaped by the conviction that a student who has the opportunity to participate in classical music at a high level will benefit more than one who passively listens to an outreach concert. Read more…
Board & Staff
Board Chairman
Neil Bouknight
Patricia Chadwick*
Bea Crumbine
Bobbi Eggers
Marcia Clay Hamilton
Irene Kerr
Roger Lourie
Susan Morris
Kevin Ryan
Artistic Director
Ted Huffman*
Principal Conductor
Robert Ainsley*
Executive Director
Amy Buckley
Treasurer
Veronica Walsh-Snow