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The Eastern Festival of Music is a summer music festival in Greensboro, North Carolina, presenting a five-week season of orchestral and chamber concerts alongside intensive training for young musicians aged 14 to 24. Founded in 2025, it presented its first season in 2026 on the Guilford College campus, continuing the concept Sheldon Morgenstern established there in 1961. Gerard Schwarz is the Music Director and Barbara Morgenstern is the Executive Director.

How to refer to us

First mention: the Eastern Festival of Music Thereafter: EFM, or the festival music director: Gerard Schwarz

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Photography

Faculty and artist portraits may be available upon request. Performance and season photography is available on request.

Media contact

Barbara Morgenstern, Executive Director

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Gerard Schwarz in a white tuxedo conducting the Eastern Festival Orchestra
An orchestra performing on stage with a woman in a floral dress playing the violin and Ho-Yin Kwok conducting.
Randall Weiss and other artist-faculty playing violins during a performance, seated in a row, with music stands in front of them, focused on their music.
Orchestra performing on stage, Gerard Schwarz conducting and leading, musicians playing string and percussion instruments, audience in foreground.
The Eastern Festival Orchestra performing on stage with a conductor, in a concert hall filled with audience.
The Eastern Festival Orchestra performing on stage, with musicians playing violins, cellos, and double basses, conducted by a person in a white suit.