Meet the Festival Fellows: eight aspiring professional musicians who receive coaching and performance opportunities through the Festival and its guest artists.
Stella Pradeau moved to Boulder years ago to study at the University of Colorado, where she would eventually earn her Master’s degree in piano performance. She found herself swept up first as a student and then as a first-time mother to daughter Chloe. It wasn’t...
You and I have a lot in common. I bet you wish for a strong group of friends, a vibrant community, and a healthy family. If you have children like I do, I imagine you hope they will be confident, self-assured, and happy. But today’s world doesn’t make any of that...
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...
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. Watch the interview or read the...
Photograph by Jiyang Chen Photography Story by Kyle MacMillan Jessie Montgomery’s first piano concerto, which won the 2024 Grammy Award for best contemporary classical composition, ranks among the classical world’s biggest success stories of the past two years, and...