The first week of the Music Academy’s 2023 Summer Festival will have a somewhat different structure than in years past. They will begin, on Tuesday, June 13, with what they call the “Winners Festival.”

That is, a sequence of recitals by the winners of last year’s competitions — starting, at 3 p.m., with last year’s solo piano competition winner, Adria Ye, playing works by Stewart Goodyear, Johannes Brahms, and Ludwig Beethoven (the Goodyear work “Rhapsody” is a World Premiere).

That will be followed, at 5 p.m., by last year’s duo competition winners, Joshua Williams (tuba) and Yu-Ting Peng (piano), giving us works by Ludwig Beethoven, Clara Schumann, Astor Piazzolla, and Chriss Cerone (the Cerone work, “Groundswell,” is a World Premiere).

Then, at 7:30 p.m., last year’s Marilyn Horne Song Competition winners, Joanne Evans (mezzo-soprano) and Tzu Kuang Tan (piano), performing music by Annika Socolofsky, Manuel de Falla, Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, “Vagiorko ma” (Georgian folk song), Missy Mazzoli, Tom Cipullo, Marc Blitzstein, Michelle Legrand, and Mischa Spoliansky (the Cipullo work, “Aubade with a Chance of Rain,” is a World Premiere).

All recitals are in Hahn Hall.

The Music Academy’s revered quartet-in-residence, the Takács Quartet (Edward Dusinberre and Harumi Rhodes, violins; Richard O’Neill, viola; András Fejér, cello) will play a concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 14, in Hahn Hall.

The program will consist of Fanny Mendelssohn’s “String Quartet in Eb-Major, H. 277” and Franz Schubert’s “String Quartet No. 15 in G-Major, D. 887.”

As far as I can make out, the first master classes — the signature events of the summer festival — will be a chamber music class led by the Takács Quartet at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, June 16, in Lehmann Hall (main building); a clarinet class with Richie Hawley at 3 p.m. Thursday, June 16, in Hahn Hall; and a violin masterclass with Martin Beaver, at 1:30 p.m. Friday, June 16, in Lehmann Hall.

Isabel Leonard
Isabel Leonard

At 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 16, Isabel Leonard, Grammy-winning mezzo-soprano and Academy alumna, will perform a recital with pianist John Arida, in Hahn Hall.

Selections will include works by Georges Bizet, Manuel de Falla, Xavier Montsalvatge, Joaquin Turina, Carlos Gardel and Alfredo Le Pera (Arr. Paola Hermosin), Ariel Ramírez and Félix Luna (Arr. Sérgio Assad), Consuelo Velázquez, William Grant Still, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jeanine Tesori and Dick Scanlan, and Harold Arlen.

This very exciting, music-filled first week culminates at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 17, in Hahn Hall, with a special event concert, “A Tribute to Jorja Fleezanis,” in honor of the “loved and admired violin teaching artist who taught at the Music Academy for many years.”

The program has been curated to show the range and depth of “her passion, talent, and style.” It contains:

Selections from Bach’s “Cello Suite No. 1 in G-Major, BWV 1007,” by cellist Alan Stepansky; Béla Bartók’s “Romanian Folk Dances for Clarinet and Piano” by Richie Hawley (clarinet) and Conor Hanick (piano); the 2nd movement of Aaron Copland’s “Sonata for Clarinet and Piano” by Hawley and Hanick; John Adams’s “Halellujah Junction” by pianists Jeremy Denk and Conor Hanick.

Also, three songs by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, by mezzo-soprano Tivoli Treolar and pianist John Churchwell; Jean Sibelius’s “String Trio in g-minor, JS 210,” with Glenn Dicterow (violin), Karen Dreyfus (viola), and Alan Stepansky (cello); Wolfgang Mozart’s “Duo No. 1 for Violin and Viola in G-Major, K. 423,” by Martin Beaver (violin) and Richard O’Neill (viola).

Also, the Prelude from Engelbert Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel,” and a Traditional Jewish Folk Song, “Hayvaynu Shalom A’laychem,” arranged by John Shephhard, played by Julie Landsman (horn), with all horn fellows, conducted by Mark H. Lawrence.

Tickets to all these events are available in person from the Summer Festival Ticket Office, the Carsey Ticket Office, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays, June 5-Aug. 4; by phone at 805-969-8787; or visit www.musicacademy.org