Amer will perform as principal clarinet of the Artosphere Festival Orchestra. The Artosphere Festival celebrates art, music, and nature with exciting performances, activities and events that the whole family can enjoy. Each year, Artosphere spotlights artists and performers from around the world who are inspired by nature and provides a creative framework for the community to discuss issues of sustainability and environmental awareness.

Returning for the eighth season to the Great Hall at Crystal Bridges, Music Director Corrado Rovaris and the Artosphere Festival Orchestra will perform Mozart's Overture to La Clemenza di Tito, his Piano Concerto No. 23 featuring Van Cliburn Competition Laureate, pianist Benedetto Lupo, and complete the performance with Mozart's Symphony No. 39. Northwest Arkansas NPR Affiliate KUAF 91.3 FM will broadcast the concert live as it is happening on a special edition of Ozarks at Large to radio listeners around region and through www.KUAF.com to classical music enthusiast around the world.

The Akron Symphony Orchestra and the inspirational voices of the Gospel Meets Symphony Choir join together to present Gospel Meets Symphony. The concert – one of Northeast Ohio’s proudest and most enduring musical traditions – features the Orchestra as well as a variety of inspirational songs performed by some of the area’s best musicians and vocalists, including the GMS 2.0 Choir, the junior gospel choir.

The Aspen Contemporary Ensemble (ACE) is in residence for the full eight weeks at the Aspen Music Festival. The octet functions as the ensemble in collaboration with the Susan and Ford Schumann Center for Composition Studies and performs music by prominent living composers and twentieth-century classics as well as new works by the Festival’s student composers.