The festival will include two weekends of concerts led by J‹rvi; a series of concerts led by his son Paavo, the music director of the Cincinnati Symphony; and a gala on June 16.
The black-tie event on June 16 will include a concert, a champagne reception, a dinner, dessert, and dancing. All three of J‹rvi's children will be in attendance: Paavo; Maarika, a flutist; and Kristjan, the founder of the Absolute Ensemble and the chief conductor of Vienna's Tonk‹nstler Orchestra.
The concerts will include Busoni's Divertimento for Flute and Orchestra, with Maarika J‹rvi as soloist; Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy; Strauss's Four Last Songs; Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring; and the world premiere of the Concerto for Violin, Clarinet, and Orchestra by Erkki-Sven T‹‹r, a classmate of Paavo J‹rvi.