Meet the Festival Fellows: eight aspiring professional musicians who receive coaching and performance opportunities through the Festival and its guest artists.
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...
Photo by Geremy Kornreich Story by Kyle MacMillan Music Director Peter Oundjian is quick to admit that he is taking something of a risk with his July 14 line-up for the 2024 Colorado Music Festival, which features no sizzling soloist but focuses instead on two calmer...