Keystone String Fest 2024

​Student Application: Word - PDF
Principal Signature Form

Date: Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024
​Host Director
Matthew Shaffer
​Guest Conductor
Marissa Guarriello

​​​Program
Blue Fire Fiddler - Soon Hee Newbold
Barber of Seville - Gioachino Rossini,  arr. Carrie Lane Gruselle
Palladio - Karl Jenkins
Grand Central - Rick Hirsch
Jupiter - Gustav Holst, arr. Deborah Baker Monday

Festival Location
State College High School

Deadlines
Application/ Med Form/ Code of Conduct: Due by October 16, 2023
Fees and Cancellations: Due by December 15, 2023
Audition Names: A maximum of five students from each school. Names are due to Julie Renne the week before the festival.

Host Rotation
2023 - Hollidaysburg 
2024 - Park Forest
2025 - Richland/Johnstown Catholic Schools
2026 - Central Cambria
2027 - Central Mountain/Clearfield
2028 - Somerset/Windber @ Somerset
2029 - Mount Nittany (Start of Rotation)
2030 - Bellefonte
2031 - Altoona