Musicians From Marlboro is the touring extension of the renowned Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont. Founded in 1951 on the hilltop campus of Marlboro College, the Marlboro Music Festival brings together leading musicians from all parts of the U.S. and many foreign countries for two months each summer. Both young professionals and mature artists come to the tiny town of Marlboro to exchange ideas and explore together in depth the vast repertoire of chamber music in an informal and intimate setting. Marlboro is guided by Artistic Directors Richard Goode and Mitsuko Uchida, who both participated there early in their careers, as did many of the other distinguished senior artists who play such an important role in each summer's activities. Typically, tour groups are built around a work performed during a prior summer that Artistic Directors Goode and Uchida and their colleagues feel was so special that it should be shared with others around the country. With five days of intensive rehearsals and six to eight concerts in nine days, the tours offer the young participating artists invaluable experience and exposure – a chance to put into practice what they have gained from their summers in Vermont. For audiences, the tours provide the opportunity of hearing a wonderful mix of repertoire and discovering young artists destined to become future musical leaders.