About
The Apollo Music Festival (AMF) is a classical music festival focusing mostly on chamber music. It was founded in 2013 by pianist Garret Ross, a native of Houston. The Apollo Music Festival offers all of its concert and educational programming free to the community.<br>For more information go to: www.apollomusicfestival.org">www.apollomusicfestival.org the years since 2013, over twenty excellent musicians have performed at Apollo Music Festival concerts. These musicians are members of the Minnesota Orchestra, the Oregon Symphony, the Illinois Symphony, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Kansas City Symphony, the Britt Festival Orchestra, the Minnesota Opera, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and have taught on the faculties of the University of Minnesota, the State University of New York, Northern Kentucky University, Eastern Illinois University, Illinois State University, Lewis and Clark College, the Saint Paul Conservatory of Music, Northwestern University, New York University, Mannes School of Music, Winona State University, and Illinois Wesleyan University. They have come from Oregon, Montana, Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Illinois, New York, Germany, and of course, Minnesota. These musicians’ skills and gifts, coming from far and wide, create the excellence for which the Apollo Music Festival is known.