Major contemporary artists and composers such as Magnus Lindberg, Osvaldo Golijov, John Adams, Kaija Saariaho, Peter Sellars, Mark Morris, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, and Lynette Wallworth have played an important role in the life of the Festival, and ensembles as far flung as Venezuela???s outstanding chorus Schola Cantorum de Caracas and the Maori dance company Mau have contributed to the unique, end