Ubicación: Auditorio Chautauqua
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Más informaciónArtists:
Samuel Hollister, conductor
Really Inventive Stuff
Dr. Perla Delgado, narrator
Program:
John Williams: Liberty Fanfare
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, Second Movement
Sergei Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf (Spanish and English)
The Family Concert is sponsored by:
Samuel Hollister — a conductor, pianist, harpsichordist, composer, and theorist — believes that music tells powerful stories that can create and strengthen community. Since 2024, he has served as Assistant Conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and The Fred M. Saigh Youth Orchestra Music Director of the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra. A doctoral post-resident in orchestral conducting at the Yale School of Music, he previously served as Music Director of the Civic Orchestra of New Haven and as Director of Orchestral Activities at the University of Rhode Island. He has assisted conductors including Leonard Slatkin, Marin Alsop, Peter Oundjian, and John Storgårds. He holds master’s degrees in orchestral conducting and music theory pedagogy from Peabody and a bachelor’s in music and mathematics from Yale, and was the David Effron Conducting Fellow at Chautauqua Institution in 2024. He has conducted, performed, and studied internationally across South Africa, Spain, Mexico, Hungary, Austria, Ukraine, Bulgaria, and Canada, appearing in masterclasses with Yo-Yo Ma, Jeffrey Kahane, Awadagin Pratt, Dalia Stasevska, Larry Rachleff, Rune Bergmann, and Jonathon Heyward.
REALLY INVENTIVE STUFF Theater Company
Sara Valentine, Production Director & Designer
Michael Boudewyns, Actor & Narrator (English)
Sara Valentine and Michael Boudewyns, co-founders of Really Inventive Stuff, are thrilled to return to the Colorado Music Festival for a fifth season with their new bilingual Peter and the Wolf / Pedro y el Lobo, which debuted at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California last summer. Since 2005, Really Inventive Stuff has delighted audiences of all ages with playful, vaudeville-inspired performances across the US, Canada and internationally. Now in its 21st year, the Colorado Music Festival’s 2026 Family Concert marks their 178th performance of Peter and the Wolf.
Dr. Perla Delgado, CEO/Executive Director of I Have a Dream Foundation, joined the organization in 2020 with decades of leadership experience advocating for education equity and social justice. A Boulder native, she began working in the local community in high school and then later was employed by Emergency Family Assistance and Community Action Programs in Boulder. Perla came to IHDF from St. Edward’s University in Austin, TX, where she served as the Director and Principal Investigator of the College Assistance Migrant Program. She holds a Ph.D. in Education from Texas State University.
