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Festival Napa Valley invites current college and recently graduated high school and college students to apply for its Youth Corps internship program — a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in performing arts production and administration during the Festival’s dynamic summer season.
The Guest Services Coordinator is responsible for selling and processing ticket orders, providing excellent customer service, and maintaining efficient box office operations. The Guest Services Coordinator serves as the primary point person for audience inquiries both on-site at concerts, via e-mail, and on the phone. The Guest Services Coordinator will be responsible for delegating incoming inquiries to the Festival team. This position offers the opportunity to dip your toe into the world of fundraising and development. Festival Napa Valley is looking to fill this position immediately.
njoy a picnic in the shade of the Charles Krug’s beautiful Great Lawn. New to Festival attendees in 2024, the Festival Napa Valley’s Culinary Garden at Charles Krug offers a variety of delicious fare from Napa Valley restaurants and artisan food purveyors.
French conductor and organist Gaétan Jarry is the founder of the Marguerite Louise ensemble, a Baroque choir and orchestra. Jarry is also one of the principal guest conductors of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera of Versailles and has a celebrated discography dedicated primarily to French Baroque repertoire.
2025 Manetti Shrem Opera Prizewinner
Born in Valencia in 1994, Marina Monzó studied flute and voice at the Conservatory of Music in Valencia. In 2016, she made her professional debut at Bilbao Opera, and in 2022, she won the Ópera XXI Award for Best Young Singer and the Ópera Actual Award for Best Young Artist.
Acclaimed by opera and concertgoers worldwide, Lester Lynch is regarded not only as a true Verdi baritone, but also as one of today’s foremost interpreters of American spirituals and contemporary opera.
Christina Maxwell is an award-winning singer and actress who has performed worldwide, including with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and at the UN. A Festival Napa Valley favorite, she is also Director at Related Companies and a passionate advocate for arts programming for children.
Festival Napa Valley opens its 19th season with a spectacular concert featuring Grammy-winning mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, violinist Tessa Lark performing Butterfly Lovers Concerto, and 2025 Joel Revzen Conducting Prizewinner Clelia Cafiero in her Festival debut.
KRISTIN MILLER
Patron Services & Festival Outreach
Harmony Zhu
Open to families with children. Adults must be accompanied by a child to attend. Admission-free.
Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “a deeply musical soul and nimble technician… with utter naturalness and probing sensitivity,” pianist Harmony Zhu has performed as a soloist with major orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
The artistic temperature is heating up as Festival Napa Valley trumpets its 19th season of sybaritic summer delights. This 14-day celebration (July 5–20) is a feast for the senses as more than 200 musicians from around the world — joining forces with top toques and storied vintners — alight at a variety of venues, five-star resorts, and exquisite vineyard estates that dot this verdant valley.
Frost School of Music, University of Miami
Timothy Conner, Associate Professor of Practice, Instrumental Performance, joined the faculty of the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami in 1995. In addition to teaching individual studio lessons, he conducts the Frost Trombone Choir, coaches chamber music, teaches courses in trombone pedagogy and literature, and serves as a faculty mentor on multiple doctoral committees.
Frost School of Music, University of Miami
Svet Stoyanov is a driving force in modern percussion who has performed more than 1,000 recitals and has presented over 200 masterclasses worldwide. Winner of the prestigious Concert Artists Guild International Competition, Stoyanov is currently an associate professor and Director of Percussion Studies at The Frost School of Music at the University of Miami.
Scott Pingel has been serving as the principal bass of the San Francisco Symphony since 2004, after having worked with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra. Pingel has served as a tenured Associate Professor of Music at the University of Michigan and is currently a faculty member of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Frost School of Music, University of Miami
Ross Harbaugh is Professor of Cello at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music. His distinguished teachers include Janos Starker and Leonard Rose in the United States and Andre Navarra at the Paris Conservatory, and chamber music study with the Juilliard Quartet. As a founding member of the New World String Quartet he won the Naumburg Prize, a Prix du Disque, and recorded 20 records and CD’s for Vox, MCI Classic and IMP Masters, and many more.
Robert Britton graduated as an Alexander Technique teacher in 1978. In addition to his private practice in San Francisco, he has taught the Alexander Technique to musicians at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music since 1984. Britton currently serves on the Board of the Alexander Technique Congress Association and is one of the directors of the Berlin AT Congress
Priscilla Lee joined the Philadelphia Orchestra as Associate Principal Cello at the start of the 2016-2017 season. A 2005 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, she began studying at age five and made her solo debut in 1998 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Described as “delightfully infectious…stunning” (Fanfare Magazine), and “fluent and limpid” (Washington Post), Japanese pianist Naoko Takao has distinguished herself as a musician of exceptional versatility. She is currently Associate Professor and Chair of Keyboard Performance at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami.
Megan Conley had a musical upbringing in Austin, Texas. She began harp lessons at the age of five. The daughter of Austin musician Danny Levin, she grew up playing music with her father and siblings in the family band. By the time she was 15 she had played on several albums of Austin musicians, including the GRAMMY® Award-winning album Los Super Seven.
Lori Wike joined the Utah Symphony as Principal Bassoon in 2005. Originally from North Carolina, she holds a Bachelor of Music degree and Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music and a Master of Arts degree from the University of California, Irvine.