Music Director Peter Oundjian continues his tradition of closing the Festival season with a massive Mahler symphony. Grammy Award-winning mezzo soprano Fleur Barron and the Boulder Children’s Chorale join the Festival Orchestra to give this epic symphony its voice.
Immediately following the August 7 concert, you’re invited to a brief, interactive Q&A with Music Director Peter Oundjian and pianist Michelle Cann in Chautauqua Auditorium. Free to ticketholders.
Audiences raved about pianist Michelle Cann’s Festival debut in 2023; now Cann returns to Chautauqua to perform the world premiere of a piano concerto by esteemed composer Valerie Coleman. After intermission, Berlioz invites us on a psychedelic romp: his Symphonie Fantastique is a musical hallucination that evokes dark revels, an execution, and a visit to the underworld.
