Season Finale: Mahler 3

Sunday, August 9, 2026 | 6:30 pm America/Denver
Music Director Peter Oundjian continues his tradition of closing the Festival season with a massive Mahler symphony. Mahler referred to his sunny Third as “A Summer’s Midday Dream,” and was aware he was defying symphonic convention as he wrote it, saying, “But to write a symphony means, to me, to construct a world with all the tools of the available technique.” GRAMMY Award-winning mezzo soprano Fleur Barron, St. Martin’s Festival Singers, and the Boulder Children’s Chorale join the Festival Orchestra to give this epic symphony its voice.
$31 – $113
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Location: Chautauqua Auditorium

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Artists:
Peter Oundjian, conductor
Fleur Barron, mezzo-soprano
St. Martin’s Festival Singers
Boulder Children’s Chorale

Program:
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 3

This concert is sponsored by
DAVID BRUNEL AND STACEY STEERS



Hailed by The Times as “a knockout performer,” Singaporean-British mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron won a 2025 GRAMMY Award for Best Opera Recording for Kaija Saariaho’s Adriana Mater with the San Francisco Symphony under Esa-Pekka Salonen. Mentored by Barbara Hannigan, she performs internationally in opera, symphonic, and chamber repertoire, with recent and upcoming appearances at the Salzburg Festival, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Barbican Centre, and with leading orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

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