Colorado Music Festival
2025 Season
The Sound of Summer in Boulder under the direction of internationally-renowned music director Peter Oundjian
Nonstop Fireworks
Count on the Festival to bring you a thrilling roster of today’s most talented musicians.
Joan Tower's World Premiere
Saxophonist Steven Banks returns to the Festival to premiere Grammy award-winning composer Joan Tower’s newest concerto Love Returns.
Ode to Joy
Experience musical masterpieces as they were meant to be heard: live, with a full, phenomenal orchestra!
The Sound of Summer
2025 Season: July 3–August 3
SOLD OUT | Family Concert: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Missing Maestro
SOLD OUT | Family Concert: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Missing Maestro
Brahms 1 + Joan Tower’s World Premiere
Brahms 1 + Joan Tower’s World Premiere
Brahms 1 + Joan Tower’s World Premiere
Brahms 1 + Joan Tower’s World Premiere
Stories & News
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Dover Quartet Settles into Chamber Music’s Top Tier
Interview by Kyle Macmillan After its sweep of all the prizes at the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition, critics regularly applauded the Dover Quartet as an emerging ensemble with abundant talent and huge potential. But what once was potential has...
Hayoung Choi: Competition Winner On Road to Success
Interview by Kyle Macmillan One often-followed path to classical-music success is the field’s network of high-profile and high-pressure international competitions, which can bring instant recognition to the winners and quickly ignite a professional career. South...
Joan Tower and the Colorado Music Festival: Making New Music Together
Interview by Kyle Macmillan Veteran American composer Joan Tower and the Colorado Music Festival are becoming quite the pair. In 2021, in what is a rare event for a living composer, the summer Festival presented a program totally devoted to her music, including the...
Around the World on Guitar: Chinese-born Xuefei Yang Takes on Famed Spanish Concerto
Interview by Kyle Macmillan The guitar is one of the newest Western instruments to arrive in China. Xuefei Yang believes it entered the country only about 100 years ago, and it took decades more for it to gain a foothold among audiences and players. “But just as...
Anne Akiko Meyers: Musical Adventurer, Champion of New Music and Living Composers
Interview by Kyle Macmillan Anne Akiko Meyers has bucked convention and embraced all things new on an ever-adventurous path that has gained her international acclaim. The 55-year-old American violinist has championed under-recognized masterworks from the past like...
Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts Statement on the Boulder Hate Crime
To our Boulder community and beyond: We are heartbroken and horrified by the recent hate crime in our beloved city. Boulder is a place that thrives on compassion, creativity, and connection—and this act of violence stands in direct opposition to everything we hold...
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Anticipating the Festival’s Future
Dear friend of the Festival, Like you, I feel a wide mix of emotions at the close of the Colorado Music Festival. There is relief, for certain — after all, making music at this high level is physical and consuming. There is sadness, as the spell of the season is...
Violinist Harumi Rhodes Discusses Gabriela Lena Frank’s World Premiere
Takács Quartet violinist Harumi Rhodes discusses Kachkaniraqmi (“I Still Exist”), a brand new concerto for string quartet and orchestra by composer Gabriela Lena Frank, commissioned by the Colorado Music Festival.