for his TV special Music and the Mountains, which aired the following year on ABC. Multiple artist-faculty members have also recorded albums while in Aspen, including the Emerson String Quartet, which recorded the Shostakovich: The String Quartets 5-disc set from AMFS venue Harris Concert Hall and won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Classical Album. Music Directors 1954: William Steinberg 1955: Hans Schweiger 1956–1961: Izler Solomon 1962: Walter Susskind 1963: Szymon Goldberg 1964–1968: Walter Susskind 1970–1990: Jorge Mester 1991–1997: Lawrence Foster 1998–2009: David Zinman 2012–Present: Robert Spano Educational programs The Aspen Music Festival and School offers young musicians a choice of the following programs of study: Orchestra/Instrumental Strings, Winds, Brass, Percussion, Harp Center for Orchestral Leadership Chamber Music Center for Advanced Quartet Studies American Brass Quintet Seminar @Aspen Aspen Chamber Music Aspen Opera Center Voice Opera Coaching Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS (Beginning 2020) Voice Opera Coaching Seraphic Fire Professional Choral Institute Solo Piano Collaborative Piano Aspen Conducting Academy Susan and Ford Schumann Center for Composition Studies Aspen Contemporary Ensemble Classical Guitar Facilities The Benedict Music Tent, which opened in 2000, is the Festival's primary concert venue and seats 2050. The tent replaced an earlier tent designed by Herbert Bayer, which in 1965 replaced the original smaller tent designed by Eero Saarinen. Concerts are held in the Benedict Music Tent on a nearly daily basis during the summer, and seating on the lawn just outside the Tent, where many choose to picnic during events, is always free. The design has open sides; the curving roof is made of Teflon-coated fiberglass, a hard material also used by the Denver International Airport. The 500-seat Joan and Irving Harris Concert Hall is located next door to the Benedict Music Tent, and was opened in 1993 at a cost of $7 million. The Wheeler Opera House—a Victorian-era venue owned by the City of Aspen—is the home to Aspen Opera Center productions in the summer and the AMFS's Metropolitan Opera Live in HD screenings in the winter. In 2016, the AMFS completed its $75 million, 105,000-square-foot Matthew and Carolyn Bucksbaum Campus, which serves as the center of its teaching activities. The campus, located two miles from downtown Aspen, sits on a 38-acre site that is shared between the AMFS in the summer and Aspen Country Day School during the academic year. Designed by architect Harry Teague, who also designed the AMFS's Harris Concert Hall and