World renowned conductor Lorin Maazel, and his wife, Dietlinde Turban-Maazel, will inaugurate a new, annual music festival on their 550-acre property in Castleton, Virginia (Rappahannock County) in July 2009. The festival starts the week after Maestro Maazel’s final concerts as music director of the New York Philharmonic. To help launch the fundraising campaign for the Castleton Festival, the Oscar/Tony/Grammy/Pulitzer Prize-win...

As a thank you to the Rappahannock community and as a preview of next summer’s Castleton Festival, The Châteauville Foundation is delighted to present a free, public screening of its recent production of The Beggar’s Opera on Saturday evening, September 27, 2008 in Washington, VA. Projected on a large, outdoor screen, the showing will begin shortly after nightfall ( 7:30pm ), on the hillside lawn behind the County...

An Afternoon of Vocal Favorites: Broadway, Opera & Song Sunday, March 9, at 4pm, at the Sperryville School House. The Châteauville Foundation is pleased to announce a special event we are co-presenting with Headwaters, the Rappahannock County Public Education Foundation. On Sunday afternoon, March 9, at 4pm, at the Sperryville School House, the young artists of our 2008 Castleton Residency will offer a concert of to ben...

The Brooklyn Youth Chorus have generously agreed to add a second performance in Castleton on Sunday, December 9, as the response to our original invitation has been exceptionally strong. The additional program will begin at 12 noon and last about one hour. All places for the 3:00pm concert have been filled, but places are still available for the added show at 12 noon. Please contact the Foundation office via reserve@chateauville...

We are pleased to announce that Nathan Gunn has re-scheduled his recital, originally planned as our season opener, for Sunday, October 21. He will sing a program of Mozart & Schubert, followed by several sets of American songs, from Charles Ives to Tom Waits. Please see the Event page for full details. The Châteauville Foundation is also delighted to confirm two other forthcoming events, a concert by the young, highly tale...