Welcoming Artistic Director Constantine Kitsopoulos and Executive Director Randy Thompson in 2013, the 2014 Festival presented the Amici New York orchestra in a series of performances which included the Festival's Opening Concert featuring pianist Jon Kimura Parker and the Overture to The Marriage of Figaro and the Piano Concerto No. 20 in d minor, K 466 of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Symphony No 1 in D Major (Titan) by Gustav Mahler, the Mahler also featuring a side-by-side performance with the newly formed OK Mozart All-State Youth orchestra.
OK Mozart continues to present a variety of performing arts, as well as a full program of related cultural events and will host this season's Festival June 6th-13th. Recorded concerts are held at the Bartlesville Community Center and St. Luke's Episcopal Church. Beginning in the final week of August, Performance Oklahoma presents concert performances from both Festivals in a multi-week broadcast series. Performance recordings were made by Tom Lazarus: http://www.classicsound.com/.
Performance Oklahoma is heard each week on Wednesday evening at 8pm and Saturday morning at 8am on Classical KUCO and Saturday evening at 8pm on Classical KWTU!