Performing Mozart's Clarinet Concerto...
in the same theatre where it was premiered!
Left to right: PSN concertmaster Lauren Roth , conductor Arthur Fagen , clarinet soloist Walter Seyfarth , cellist Julia Dover , violist McKayla Talasek in Tábor
Returning to the Prague Summer Nights: Young Artists Music Festival for his fourth consecutive season, for the first time ever, Walter Seyfarth — Berliner Philharmoniker clarinetist, since 1985 — will perform Mozart 's Clarinet Concerto in A Major at the historic Estates Theatre ...the very venue Viennese clarinetist Anton Stadler premiered the piece on October 16, 1791.
2018 PSN Festival Orchestra Performs
Dvořák's Ninth, Sibelius' Second
Artistic Director John Nardolillo conducts the 2015 PSN Festival Orchestra at Estates
Also on stage at the beautifully restored Estates Theatre — the only theatre left standing where Mozart, himself, conducted — PSN Artistic Director John Nardolillo will lead the Prague Summer Nights Festival Orchestra in Dvořák 's Symphony No. 9 in E minor ("From the New World"). Meanwhile, for PSN's third straight trip to the Bohemian town of Tábor , maestro Nardolillo will conduct the orchestra in Sibelius ' Symphony No. 2 in D Major .
New Chamber Music at PSN:
World Premiere of Greg Sandow's String Quartet

In another first for the festival, Prague Summer Nights 2018 will hear the world premiere of acclaimed composer and critic Greg Sandow 's brand-new string quartet, commissioned specifically for PSN participants, care of Classical Movements ' Eric Daniel Helms New Music Program . Students will have the opportunity to work directly with the composer on both preparation and performance of his piece.
PSN 2018
LIVE AUDITION TOUR :

New York, NY
Los Angeles, CA
Chicago, IL
Phoenix, AZ
Tucson, AZ
Bloomington, IN
Ann Arbor, MI
Lexington, KY
College Park, MD

Auditions will take place in January and February . Stay tuned for dates / times .

Click here for our Yap Tracker listing.
Apply by Friday , December 15
for a reduced fee of $35 .
More Praise for PSN17:
"Seen from close up, Prague Summer Nights offers its students everything to establish itself as a formative training program for young musicians." — Alejandro Martínez, Platea Magazine
Click here to read Platea's PSN17 interview with Sherrill Milnes !
"This festival gives young musicians

the opportunity to perform...chamber

music in Suk Hall at Prague's

Rudolfinum, a song recital at Oskara

Nedbala Theater, a programme of

opera scenes at the Lichtenstein

Palace, and a cabaret in Prague's jazz

club, Reduta."



"The icing on the cake was the

performance of German

clarinetist Walter Seyfarth, a

member of the  Berliner

Philharmoniker , who played

the  Mozart concerto."

— David Peltán , Kulturne


"100 young, talented

artists from 20 nations

performed together on stage."

See for Yourself:
Watch Walter Seyfarth rehearse with the 2017 Prague Summer Nights Festival Orchestra's own clarinet section for a Slavonic Dance by Dvořák at the Divadlo Oskara Nedbala Tábor .
For full details, visit PragueSummerNights.com .
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