The Long Beach Mozart Festival is in its 37th year and has grown into a community-wide arts organization, supported by four area churches and attracting volunteer support and enthusiastic audiences from the Long Beach and Southern California communities.

Our mission is to encourage the study and appreciation of classical music, including that of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The Festival provides performance opportunities, scholarships and encouragement to gifted young instrumental and vocal musicians.

Most Festival events are free to the public and include young artist competitions (piano, concerto and vocal), a piano recital by finalists, a vocal recital by finalists, a Sunday Morning with Mozart at area churches by Concerto finalists, and a Grand Finale Concert with the first place Concerto Competition winner performing with a professional orchestra and a Choral Concert with combined choirs from area churches and orchestra. There are also Terrace Theater Lobby performances by Competition finalists prior to the Long Beach Symphony Classics Concert in January.

The Mozart Festival has been recognized by and received a grant from the California Arts Council. On January 11, 2007, there was a very complimentary article in the Grunion Gazette entitled “Mozart’s Music Alive, Well in Long Beach”, in which it was stated that “our local volunteer-run festival dedicated to the music of Wolfgang and his contemporaries is alive and kicking, and shows no signs of slowing down.”

2007 Honorary Board members:

• Honorable Gerrie Schipske, City of Long Beach Councilwoman 
• Enrique Arturo Diemecke, Conductor Long Beach Symphony
• Steve Goodling, President Long Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau
• Randy Gordon, President Long Beach Chamber of Commerce
• Dr. Ralph S. Opacic, Principal, Orange County High School for the Arts
• Dr. Donald Para, Dean of Fine Arts at CSULB
• Dr. Connie Mayfield, Cerritos College Dean of the Arts
• Dr. Peter Knapp, Chairman of Long Beach City College, College of Arts & Radio
• The Reverend Amy Aitken, Cal Heights United Methodist Episcopal Church
• The Reverend Jerald Stinson, First Congregational Church
• The Reverend Dr. Robert S. Langworthy, Covenant Presbyterian Church
• The Reverend Marguerite Lovett, Unitarian Universalist Church of Long Beach

If you would like to contribute a tax deductible donation to the Mozart Festival, please send it to:

Long Beach Mozart Festival
5450 Atherton Street
Long Beach, CA 90815

Dr. Leland Vail, Artist Director