Summer Music Festival

Martin Majkut has conducted and studied music around the world, but in Oregon, he’s been known since 2010 as the adventurous, growth-oriented music director of the Rogue Valley Symphony. He also has a long-standing collaboration with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Now, he's adding another title -- music director of the Oregon Coast Music Festival. He recently shared his packed performance calendar with JPR’s Vanessa Finney.

Jacksonville, Ore., hosted a music festival long before The Britt Festival began in the 1960’s. In 1889, more than 2,500 [twenty-five hundred] people…