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Grace-St. Luke's Episcopal Church
1720 Peabody, Memphis, TN 38104
June 17-20, 2026

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Concerts are each evening Wednesday through Saturday at 7:00 and on Friday and Saturday afternoons at 3:00. The Belvedere Festival is produced by Luna Nova Music (www.lunanova.org) for the purpose of featuring masterworks of the 20th and 21st centuries as wsell as new works by young, aspiring composers. It features twenty performers from Memphis and around the country. Composers included in this year's festival are Bach, Vaughan-Williams, Martinu, Finzi, and many others.

2026 Composition Contest Winners
1st Prize
Haibei Chen,The Juilliard School
Duo (violin, piano)

2nd Prize
Thomas Edgar
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
The Gyroid (violin, piano)

3rd Prize
Amirhossein Zeinali
University of Utah
Swan Song (cello, piano)

2026 Pipe Organ Composition Contest
Winner is Innocent Okechukwu
Nunc Dimittis for Solo Organ




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Luna Nova Music
1794 Carr Avenue
Memphis, TN 38104 • 901-493-0958

lunanovamusic@gmail.com
(www.lunanova.org)