The University of Delaware’s Master Players Music Festival and School will present elite faculty artists and festival competition-winning student artists performing in concerts almost every night between Wednesday, July 27, and Wednesday, Aug. 3.

Tickets for the festival’s faculty artist concerts are $10 for adults and $5 for students. young artists concerts are free, but online registration is required to guarantee a seat.

Tickets will be available for purchase by cash or check at the door only, and reserved tickets are held until 15 minutes before the performance. Those tickets are released to the public at that time. Do not contact the box office to purchase tickets.

The concerts are general seating and seating is limited (only 50 tickets per concert left), so those who plan to attend are asked to register to guarantee a seat and to arrive at the hall by 6:45 to get their tickets.

Click on the links below to learn more about the program and performers for each concert and to reserve a ticket.

Summer concerts

• MPFS Solo Competition Winners Concert. Wednesday, July 27, 7 p.m., in the Gore Recital Hall of the Roselle Center for the Arts. Free. This concert will feature the young performers who have won the Master Players Festival and School's Solo Competition. Repertoire will include the third movement of Libermann’s Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, Op. 39, Rachmaninoff’s Etudestableau, Op. 39, No. 6, and Frank Proto’s Carmen Fantasy for Double Bass, among others.

• Faculty Concert III - An Enchanted Evening. Thursday, July 28, 7 p.m., in the Gore Recital Hall. Tickets $10 for adults, $5 for students. This concert will feature performances by violinists Xiang Gao and James Stern, violist Andrea Priester Houde, cellists Bo Li and Haiye Ni, clarinetist Christopher Nichols, oboist Merideth Hite, and pianists Matthew Brower, Shuhua Chen and Zhihua Tang.

• Little Masters Concert. Friday, July 29, 7 p.m., in the Gore Recital Hall. Free. This concert will feature the talented young performers of the Little Masters Division of the Master Players Festival and School (ages 10 to 15).

• Young Artist Chamber Music I. Sunday, July 31, 3 p.m., in the Gore Recital Hall. Free. This concert will feature chamber performances by the young performers of the Master Players Festival and School.

• Young Artist Chamber Music II. Sunday, July 31, 7 p.m., in the Gore Recital Hall. Free. This concert will feature chamber performances by the young performers of the Master Players Festival and School.

• Faculty Concert IV - The Art of the Sonata. Monday, Aug. 1, 7 p.m., in the Gore Recital Hall. Tickets $10 for adults, $5 for students. This concert will feature performances by violinists David Kim, Justin Chou, Qing Li, Max Zorin, and Xiang Gao, violist Sheila Browne (the newest member of the UD music department’s performance faculty), cellists Bo Li and Jeffrey Solow, clarinetist Christopher Nichols, and pianists Charles Abramovic, Matthew Brower, Zhihua Tang and Xiaoxue Sun.

• Faculty Concert V - From Crossover to Jazz. Tuesday, Aug. 2, 7 p.m., in the Gore Recital Hall. Tickets $10 for adults, $5 for students. The final faculty concert of the festival will feature crossover and jazz performances by the Master Players ensemble-in-residence 6ixwire (a duo of violinist Xiang Gao and erhu virtuoso Cathy Yang), violinist Qing Li, cellists Bo Li and Jeffrey Solow, and pianists Matthew Brower and Xiaoxue Sun, as well as a performance by the UD Faculty Jazz Ensemble including saxophone player Todd Groves, flutist Zhiyong Zhang, bassist Craig Thomas, percussionists Tom Palmer (drums) and Harvey Price (xylophone), and pianist Matthew Brower.

• Concerto Competition Winners and Festival Farewell Concert. Wednesday, Aug. 3, 7 p.m., in the Puglisi Orchestra Hall of the Roselle Center for the Arts. Tickets $10 for adults, $5 for students. This concert will feature the young performers who have won the Master Players Festival and School's Concerto Competition as well as the Festival Orchestra's performance.

Program and performers are subject to change without notice.

Free master classes and workshops

Guest artist master classes and workshops will be presented daily through Aug. 3. All are free and open to the public.

• Thursday, July 28: 4:30 p.m., Matthew Brower, Mozart sonata group workshop, Studio Theatre.

• Friday, July 29: 3:30 p.m., Xiang Gao, workshop, The Style of Mozart Concerti, Puglisi Orchestra Hall, and 4:30 p.m., Yung Chiao Wei, bass master class, Puglisi Orchestra Hall.

• Saturday, July 30: 1:30 p.m., Harvey Price jazz improv workshop, Amy E. du Pont Music Building, Room 120; 3:30 p.m., Eileen Grycky flute master class, Amy E. du Pont Music Building, Room 118; and 4:30 p.m., Merideth Hite, oboe and wind chamber music master class, Gore Recital Hall.

• Sunday, July 31: 1:30 p.m., Sheila Browne, viola sound workshop, Puglisi Orchestra Hall.

• Monday, Aug. 1: 8:30 a.m., Merideth Hite, wind warmup workshop, Puglisi Orchestra Hall, and 1:30 p.m., David Kim, violin bow techniques workshop, Puglisi Orchestra Hall, and Charles Abramovic, legato piano playing workshop, Gore Recital Hall.

• Tuesday, Aug. 2: 8:30 a.m., Merideth Hite, wind warmup workshop, Puglisi Orchestra Hall; 1:30 p.m., Craig Thomas, bass/cello jazz workshop, Amy E. du Pont Music Building, Room 118, and Qing Li, orchestra excerpts workshop, Puglisi Orchestra Hall; 2:30 p.m., Zhihua Tang, piano master class, Gore Recital Hall; and 3:30 p.m., Todd Groves, jazz improv workshop with wind players, Thompson Theatre.

• Wednesday, Aug. 3: 8:30 a.m., Merideth Hite, wind warmup workshop, Puglisi Orchestra Hall; 1:30 p.m., Max Zorin, French violin music workshop, Gore Recital Hall; and 2:30 p.m., Jeffrey Solow, cello master class, Gore Recital Hall, and Tom Palmer, jazz piano improv workshop, Amy E. du Pont Music Building, Room 118.

About the festival

After a successful first Master Players Festival in summer 2015, the second annual Master Players Festival and School is an intensive 12-day international music festival that invites world-class musicians and pedagogues to teach festival participants ages 10 and up and to perform in summer concerts that are open to the public.

Participants are learning from world-renowned faculty through private lessons, master classes, chamber music coaching sessions, orchestral studies, educational lectures and professional concerts.

The festival is presented by UD’s Master Players Concert Series and co-sponsored by Blue Resources USA.

Among the artists teaching during the festival and performing in the faculty artist concerts are David Kim, concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra; Aaron Goldman, principal flutist of the National Symphony; Katherine Needleman, principal oboist of the Baltimore Symphony; and Jeffrey Solow, cellist and president of the American Cellist Association. Go to the Artist page to see their biographies.

In addition, faculty performers also include faculty members of such prestigious institutions as the Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins University, Curtis Institute of Music, University of Maryland, Capital Normal University of China, Pennsylvania State University, Michigan State University, Temple University, University of Delaware, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, University of West Virginia, East China Normal University, Washington College, Xiamen University, Capital Normal University of China, and Louisiana State University. For a complete list of performers, visit the Artist page.