Encore: Gates Mills Music & Ideas Festival

Home is not a single address—it is a collection of sounds, stories, and shared moments. Wherever we gather to create and listen, it becomes home. ENCORE’s 2026 Music & Ideas Festival opens the summer season under the open sky at the Grove with the full artist-teacher string ensemble in a concert inspired by our theme, HOME. Drawing on folk traditions and voices from East to West, this program traces music shaped by place, memory, and movement—from Elgar and Barber to Greek dances, Thracian airs, minimalist stillness, and a fiery Misirlou finale.