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- [When it comes to Colorado’s world-class summer classical scene, place matters - The Denver Post](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/when-it-comes-to-colorados-world-class-summer-classical-scene-place-matters-the-denver-post/) - When it comes to Colorado’s world-class summer classical scene, place matters – The Denver Post | Colorado’s classical music scene hits its peak in summer when local music presenters hand over the spotlight to the world-class violinists, pianists, cellists and more who come to play at some of the best music fests in the country. Aspen, Vail, Boulder and Central City come alive with the sound of mountain-inspired music. But it’s
- [Colorado Music Festival celebrating 50th anniversary - CBS Colorado](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/colorado-music-festival-celebrating-50th-anniversary-cbs-colorado/) - Colorado Music Festival celebrating 50th anniversary – CBS Colorado | As Colorado turns 150 and the United States marks its 250th, Colorado Music Festival is celebrating it's 50th year. The Festival will celebrate by doing what it does best - combining major guest artists with the Colorado Festival Orchestra to create world-class classical music. "We're doing some of the most fantastic masterpieces ever written for
- [Colorado Music Festival hits 50-year milestone with star-studded summer lineup - Denver Post & Daily Camera](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/colorado-music-festival-hits-50-year-milestone-with-star-studded-summer-lineup-daily-camera-feature-article/) - Colorado Music Festival hits 50-year milestone with star-studded summer lineup – Denver Post & Daily Camera | The Boulder summer festival celebrates its 50th anniversary season at Chautauqua Auditorium with Himari, Yuja Wang, Canadian Brass, Leonard Slatkin, Mahler, Mozart and new works by contemporary composers. There are two very different ways to experience live music this summer. You could, potentially, shell out hundreds of dollars for a stadium nosebleed seat and spend
- [Colorado Music Festival's 50th Season - Denver7's Mile High Living](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/colorado-music-festivals-50th-season-denver7s-mile-high-living/) - Colorado Music Festival’s 50th Season – Denver7’s Mile High Living |
- [Thank You for the Music - Cover Article in Boulder Lifestyle](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/thank-you-for-the-music-boulder-lifestyle-article/) - Thank You for the Music – Cover Article in Boulder Lifestyle | This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Colorado Music Festival. With Music Director Peter Oundjian serving at the helm for his eighth season, the festival features a variety of talented performers such as pianist Yuja Wang, violinist Njioma Grevious, trumpeter Maximilian Morel, the Danish String Quartet, and many more. Although the stage is set
- [Diversity at the Colorado Music Festival](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/diversity-at-the-colorado-music-festival/) - Diversity at the Colorado Music Festival | [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.6″ hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.6″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.6″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]by Kyle Macmillan Across the ranks of composers, conductors, singers and instrumentalists, classical music has been dominated by white men for nearly its entire history. But with the rise of movements
- [City of Boulder Declaration: July 9, 2026 is "Colorado Music Festival Day"](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/city-of-boulder-declaration-july-9-2026-colorado-music-festival-day/) - City of Boulder Declaration: July 9, 2026 is “Colorado Music Festival Day” | We're grateful to Mayor Aaron Brockett and Boulder's City Council for recognizing this summer season's opening day - Thursday, July 9, 2026 - as "Colorado Music Festival Day"! "The City of Boulder recognizes that the arts and creativity, and organizations like Colorado Music Festival, are central to Boulder’s identity, shaping its quality of life, economic
- [Gemma New Returns to Colorado Music Festival](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/gemma-new-returns-to-colorado-music-festival/) - Gemma New Returns to Colorado Music Festival | Interview by Kyle Macmillan In recent years, as Gemma New’s profile has soared in the classical world, the genial New Zealander conductor has been on a kind of international goodwill tour, introducing herself to orchestras, opera companies and festivals. Indeed, she estimates that about half of her recent guest-conducting engagements have been debuts, including inaugural
- [Colorado Music Festival featured in "Seen and Heard International"](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/colorado-music-festival-featured-in-seen-and-heard-international/) - Colorado Music Festival featured in “Seen and Heard International” | "There are few places where you can glimpse the yellow belly of a meadow lark and marvel at the incredible form of a natural stone arch while hiking a trail towards a National Historic Landmark that offers high caliber summer concerts. This is Boulder, Colorado – the setting of the Colorado Music Festival. Against the
- [CMF named a "Top 25" Classical Music Festival by BBC Music Magazine](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/colorado-music-festival-named-a-top-25-classical-music-festival-by-bbc-music-magazine/) - CMF named a “Top 25” Classical Music Festival by BBC Music Magazine | Colorado Music Festival was recognized by BBC Music Magazine as one of the 25 best classical music festivals in the US & Canada in 2026. "The stars are aligning, insists Colorado, as its half-century edition coincides with the Center for the Musical Arts’ 30th anniversary. It’s time to be forward-looking, though, and music director Peter
- [“It’s So Special to Be Together” — Meet Stella, Festival Volunteer](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/2024-pradeau/) - A Boulder mother shares how live music and the Colorado Music Festival became part of her family’s life. She encourages all to support Colorado classical music.
- [Hayoung Choi: Competition Winner On Road to Success](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/hayoung-choi-competition-winner-on-road-to-success/) - Cellist Hayoung Choi brings her award-winning talent to Colorado, performing Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations at the Colorado Music Festival.
- [Dover Quartet Settles into Chamber Music's Top Tier](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/dover-quartet-settles-into-chamber-musics-top-tier/) - The Dover Quartet makes its debut at the Colorado Music Festival, with a program featuring the inaugural string quartets by three great composers.
- [Around the World on Guitar: Chinese-born Xuefei Yang Takes on Famed Spanish Concerto](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/around-the-world-on-guitar-chinese-born-xuefei-yang-takes-on-famed-spanish-concerto/) - Around the World on Guitar: Chinese-born Xuefei Yang Takes on Famed Spanish Concerto | Interview by Kyle Macmillan The guitar is one of the newest Western instruments to arrive in China. Xuefei Yang believes it entered the country only about 100 years ago, and it took decades more for it to gain a foothold among audiences and players. “But just as everywhere else in the world,” she said, “the
- [Joan Tower and the Colorado Music Festival: Making New Music Together](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/joan-tower-and-the-colorado-music-festival-making-new-music-together/) - Joan Tower and the Colorado Music Festival: Making New Music Together | Interview by Kyle Macmillan Veteran American composer Joan Tower and the Colorado Music Festival are becoming quite the pair. In 2021, in what is a rare event for a living composer, the summer Festival presented a program totally devoted to her music, including the world premiere of her cello concerto, A New Day, with Alisa
- [Anne Akiko Meyers: Musical Adventurer, Champion of New Music and Living Composers](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/anne-akiko-meyers-musical-adventurer-champion-of-new-music-and-living-composers/) - Anne Akiko Meyers: Musical Adventurer, Champion of New Music and Living Composers | Interview by Kyle Macmillan Anne Akiko Meyers has bucked convention and embraced all things new on an ever-adventurous path that has gained her international acclaim. The 55-year-old American violinist has championed under-recognized masterworks from the past like Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto (1939) and has premiered dozens of works by composers like Arvo Pärt and Mason
- [Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts Statement on the Boulder Hate Crime](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/colorado-music-festival-center-for-musical-arts-statement-on-the-boulder-hate-crime/) - Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts Statement on the Boulder Hate Crime | To our Boulder community and beyond: We are heartbroken and horrified by the recent hate crime in our beloved city. Boulder is a place that thrives on compassion, creativity, and connection—and this act of violence stands in direct opposition to everything we hold dear. At the Colorado Music Festival and Center for Musical Arts, we
- ["When you receive a gift, you want to say thank you."](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/kaewert-2024/) - Support classical music in Colorado with a donation to the Colorado Music Festival, and continue the tradition of introducing more families to classical music.
- [An Evening of Romance: Bruckner’s Bicentennial Celebration              ](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/2024-bruckner/) - Join us this summer, 2024, to celebrate Bruckner's Bicentennial at the Colorado Music Festival - a classical music festival in beautiful Boulder, CO.
- [Awadagin Pratt & Jessie Montgomery’s Grammy-Winning Rounds        ](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/2024-rounds/) - Jessie Montgomery’s Rounds, 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 the work’s popularity just keeps soaring. Awadagin Pratt & Jessie Montgomery’s Grammy-Winning Rounds | Summer Classical Music Festival in Boulder
- [Composer Gabriela Lena Frank: Musical Storyteller & Cultural Witness       ](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/composer-gabriela-lena-frank/) - Frank's newest work, a commission by the Festival, will draw on the South American musical idioms that have suffused many of her works.
- [July 6 & 7, 2023: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 & Symphony No. 3](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/july-6-7-2023-rachmaninoffs-piano-concerto-no-3-symphony-no-3/) - July 6 & 7, 2023: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 & Symphony No. 3 | Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30 Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) In writing his Third Piano Concerto to perform on his first American tour in 1909, Sergei Rachmaninoff produced what would become a byword for keyboard pyrotechnics in the 20th century, immortalized in Hollywood “Shine) and in practice-room lore. He dedicated it to his
- [Violinist Harumi Rhodes Discusses Gabriela Lena Frank's World Premiere](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/rhodes-frank-2024/) - 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. Violinist Harumi Rhodes Discusses Gabriela Lena Frank’s World Premiere | Summer Classical Music Festival in Boulder
- [June 29 & 30, 2023: Joshua Bell + Mussorgsky's Pictures](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/program-notes-joshua-bell-mussorgskys-pictures/) - June 29 & 30, 2023: Joshua Bell + Mussorgsky’s Pictures | “Motherboxx Connection” from Tales: A Folklore Symphony for orchestra (2021) Carlos Simon (b. 1986) For generations of Americans, comic books were the first real page-turners: exciting, cheap, and easily available at any newsstand or drugstore. But for many Black readers, the dearth of characters — and especially heroes — who looked like them kept the
- [Director of Philanthropy](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/director-of-philanthropy/) - This 2024 position works as an integral part of a three-person marketing and communications team, assisting with marketing, communications, and public relations tasks. Director of Philanthropy | Summer Classical Music Festival in Boulder
- [A Musical Journey Through Colorado](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/a-musical-journey-through-colorado/) - The Colorado Music Festival loves being part of the classical music community in our beautiful state. Check out some of our favorite local classical institutions.
- [You Play an Important Role in the Music We Make](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/2024-support/) - Support the Colorado Music Festival! Your donation allows us to bring more music to more people - in Colorado and around the world.
- [Marketing and Communications Manager](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/marketing-communications-manager/) - This 2024 position works as an integral part of a three-person marketing and communications team, assisting with marketing, communications, and public relations tasks. Marketing and Communications Manager | Summer Classical Music Festival in Boulder
- [Win the Taylor Swift Eras Tour Vancouver Experience Sweepstakes!](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/win-the-taylor-swift-eras-tour-vancouver-experience-sweepstakes/) - Enter to win tickets to Taylor Swift's Eras Tour in Vancouver, and support the Colorado Music Festival with your sweepstakes entry.
- [Anticipating the Festival's Future](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/anticipating-the-festivals-future/) - What is the future of the Colorado Music Festival, after this fantastic summer of classical music? It all depends on you! Please support the festival today!
- [July 25 & 26 2024 : Awadagin Pratt + Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/july-25-26-awadagin-pratt-rimsky-korsakovs-scheherazade/) - July 25 & 26 2024 : Awadagin Pratt + Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade | J.S. Bach, Keyboard Concerto in A major BWV 1055 As the municipal director of music in Leipzig, J.S. Bach had two chief responsibilities: overseeing music in the city’s churches and directing the Collegium Musicum, an ensemble of professional and university musicians which gave weekly concerts in coffee houses and public gardens. It was for the
- [July 30, 2024 : Danish String Quartet](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/july-30-2024-danish-string-quartet/) - July 30, 2024 : Danish String Quartet | Haydn, String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 20, No. Haydn’s Opus 20 quartets were nicknamed the “Sun,” after an illustration of a rising sun that adorned the cover of the first printed edition. Whether intended or not, the symbolism fits, signifying the rise of a new musical style and the full emergence of Haydn’s career
- [August 6, 2023: Joshua Bell + Mahler 1](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/august-6-2023-joshua-bell-mahler-1/) - August 6, 2023: Joshua Bell + Mahler 1 | The Elements Suite for Violin and Orchestra Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962) Jessie Montgomery (b. 1981) Kevin Puts (b. 1972) I'm so excited to have the opportunity to premiere my new commissions project, The Elements. The idea for this unique endeavor was born during the early moments of the pandemic, and the work consists of five
- [July 5 & 7 2024 : Alisa Weilerstein Plays Dvořák’s Cello Concerto](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/july-5-7-2024-alisa-weilerstein-plays-dvoraks-cello-concerto/) - July 5 & 7 2024 : Alisa Weilerstein Plays Dvořák’s Cello Concerto | Anna Clyne Masquerade When the BBC Proms asked the British composer Anna Clyne to write a concert opener for the festival in 2013, she found inspiration in a fabled slice of London history: the 18th century concerts held in the city’s pleasure gardens. These were leafy after-hours hot spots where commoners could rub shoulders with aristocrats,
- [July 7 2024 : Family Concert: Green Eggs and Ham](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/july-7-family-concert-green-eggs-and-ham/) - July 7 2024 : Family Concert: Green Eggs and Ham | Mikhail Glinka Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla Soon after Mikhail Glinka began work on his second opera, Ruslan and Ludmilla, a complication emerged: His librettist was killed in a duel. And it wasn’t just any librettist, but the great Russian author Alexander Pushkin, whose narrative poem of the same title had prompted the opera. Pushkin was
- [July 9 2024 : Dohnányi, Beethoven & Schumann](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/july-9-dohnanyi-beethoven-schumann/) - July 9 2024 : Dohnányi, Beethoven & Schumann | Ernst von DohnányiSextet in C Major Sometimes dubbed the “Hungarian Brahms,” Ernst von Dohnányi (1877-1960) dominated the Hungarian musical landscape between World War I and II. He served as chief conductor of the Budapest Philharmonic, music director of Hungarian Radio, and director of the Academy of Music, in addition to be a brilliant concert pianist.
- [July 11 & 12 2024 : Rite of Spring & Gluzman Plays Prokofiev](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/july-11-12-rite-of-spring-gluzman-plays-prokofiev/) - July 11 & 12 2024 : Rite of Spring & Gluzman Plays Prokofiev | John Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine Decades before John Adams was, to quote the New York Times, “our reigning master of orchestral writing,” he was emerging from the trenches of minimalism, exploring a more playful and Technicolor version of the style. An early step in his musical evolution came in 1986, when conductor Michael Tilson
- [July 14 2024 : Bruckner Bicentennial: Symphony No. 4](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/july-14-bruckner-bicentennial-symphony-no-4/) - July 14 2024 : Bruckner Bicentennial: Symphony No. 4 | Arnold Schoenberg, Verklärte Nacht (“Transfigured Night”), Op. 4 If ever there was to be theme music for turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna, Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht would surely fit the bill. The darkly romantic string sextet, later arranged for string orchestra, perfectly encapsulates the world-weary age of Freud and Klimt, Wittgenstein and Schiele. Composed at an Austrian lake resort in the summer
- [July 16 2024 : Schubert’s Strings & Nielsen’s Winds](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/july-16-schuberts-strings-nielsens-winds/) - July 16 2024 : Schubert’s Strings & Nielsen’s Winds | Carl Nielsen, Wind Quintet, Op.43 By turns vivid, languorous and lighthearted, Carl Nielsen's Wind Quintet is a treasured example of the composer’s offbeat genius. Inspiration for the piece came one evening in 1921 when the Danish composer placed a call to Christian Christiansen, a pianist friend who was rehearsing with members of the Copenhagen Wind
- [July 18 & 19 : Olga Kern & Grieg’s Peer Gynt](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/july-18-19-olga-kern-griegs-peer-gynt/) - July 18 & 19 : Olga Kern & Grieg’s Peer Gynt | Vivian Fung, Prayer The Edmonton-born, Juilliard-trained composer Vivian Fung has often followed her musical curiosity to far corners of the globe, whether traveling to Indonesia to study and absorb Balinese gamelan sounds or to southwest China to explore folk songs from its minority regions. Orchestras have responded, including those of Philadelphia, St. Paul, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver,
- [July 23 2024 : Haydn, Debussy & Mendelssohn](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/july-23-haydn-debussy-mendelssohn/) - July 23 2024 : Haydn, Debussy & Mendelssohn | Haydn, String Quartet in C major Op. 20 No. 2 With his six Opus 20 Quartets of 1772, Haydn was determined to lift the burgeoning string quartet form to new heights of sophistication and ingenuity. He was employed by Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy, head of one of the wealthiest and most powerful Hungarian noble families, and
- [July 28 2024 : Mozart - Duo Pianos, Haffner & A Little Night Music](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/july-28-mozart-duo-pianos-haffner-a-little-night-music/) - July 28 2024 : Mozart – Duo Pianos, Haffner & A Little Night Music | Mozart, Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 For all its popularity, there is no real origin story for Mozart’s Serenade No. 13 in G Major, better known as “A Little Night Music.” Why he wrote it remains a mystery, and a possible fifth movement — a minuet and trio — has long since disappeared. Its title
- [August 4 2024 : Mahler 4 & Ravel’s Shéhérazade](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/august-4-mahler-4-ravels-sheherazade/) - August 4 2024 : Mahler 4 & Ravel’s Shéhérazade | Johann Strauss, Overture to Die Fledermaus Vienna was still reeling from the "Black Friday" stock market crash of 1873 when Johann Strauss II introduced what would become his most famous operetta, Die Fledermaus (The Bat) at the Theatre an der Wien on April 5, 1874. The financial meltdown had triggered a global depression along with a
- [August 1 & 2 2024 : Augustin Hadelich & Dvořák 7](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/august-1-2-augustin-hadelich-dvorak-7/) - August 1 & 2 2024 : Augustin Hadelich & Dvořák 7 | Kevin Puts, Two Mountain Scenes (2007) Visitors to 2023 edition of the Colorado Music Festival may recall The Elements, a suite inspired by the natural world and featuring five leading American composers as contributors. Among them was Kevin Puts, whose expansive Earth and Earth (Reprise and Finale) bookended the piece. Commissioned by Joshua Bell and introduced here
- [July 21 2024 : Gabriela Lena Frank’s World Premiere](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/july-21-gabriela-lena-franks-world-premiere/) - July 21 2024 : Gabriela Lena Frank’s World Premiere | Florence Price, Adoration Since the discovery of a major cache of her works in 2009, Florence Price (1887-1953) has been the subject of a significant revival and reappraisal in concert halls around the globe. Though much interest has centered on her three surviving symphonies and several concertos, her exquisite sense of craft also permeates small-scale
- [Making Classical Music in the Denver / Boulder Area More Accessible](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/making-classical-music-in-the-denver-boulder-area-more-accessible/) - Classical music is for everyone! The Colorado Music Festival & other Front Range institutions want to make classical music more accessible to all!
- [Special Event Day Volunteer](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/special-event-volunteer/) - This 2024 intern position works as an integral part of a three-person marketing and communications team, assisting with marketing, communications, and public relations tasks. Special Event Day Volunteer | Summer Classical Music Festival in Boulder
- [2024 Marketing & Communications Intern](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/marketing-communications-intern/) - This 2024 intern position works as an integral part of a three-person marketing and communications team, assisting with marketing, communications, and public relations tasks. 2024 Marketing & Communications Intern | Summer Classical Music Festival in Boulder
- [10 Top Classical Music Festivals Around the World](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/top-classical-music-festivals-around-the-world/) - While the Colorado Music Festival is one of North America's premiere classical music festivals, here are a few others that we love from around the world.
- [Crafting the Perfect Date Night in Boulder for Colorado Music Festival Attendees](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/crafting-the-perfect-date-night-in-boulder-for-colorado-music-festival-attendees/) - Whether you're a Colorado local or a visitor, here are some ideas for a fantastic date night in Boulder for Colorado Music Festival attendees.
- [After the World Premiere: Wang Jie’s Flying on the Scaly Backs of Our Mountains](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/after-premiere-wang-jie/) - Since appointing conductor Peter Oundjian as Music Director in 2019, the Colorado Music Festival has put a renewed focus on contemporary classical music.
- [After the World Premiere: Joel Thompson’s To Awaken the Sleeper](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/after-premiere-joel-thompson/) - In 2021, the Festival gave the first performance of Joel Thompson's "To Awaken the Sleeper," inspired by the work of James Baldwin. Read about the life that powerful music has enjoyed after its world premiere. After the World Premiere: Joel Thompson’s To Awaken the Sleeper | Summer Classical Music Festival in Boulder
- [After the World Premiere: Joan Tower’s A New Day](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/after-premiere-joan-tower/) - In 2021, the Festival gave the first performance of Joan Tower's A New Day, written out of love for the composer's husband. Read about the life that wonderful music has enjoyed after its world premiere. After the World Premiere: Joan Tower’s A New Day | Summer Classical Music Festival in Boulder
- [Your Support Creates Magic in Boulder & Beyond](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/support-2023/) - The Colorado Music Festival relies on our community's love & support! Please consider donating to a classical music festival that helps put Boulder on the map!
- [The Family Concert Experience](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/family-concert-what-to-expect/) - The Family Concert Experience | The benefits of music to children are vast. Kathy Kucsan, Education Director at the Center for Musical Arts (the education arm of our Festival), shares that "Music ignites all areas of child development and skills for school readiness, including intellectual, social-emotional, motor, language, and overall literacy." Although all music is great for children, classical music
- [August 3, 2023: Joshua Bell + Debussy’s La Mer](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/august-3-2023-joshua-bell-debussys-la-mer/) - August 3, 2023: Joshua Bell + Debussy’s La Mer | The Elements Suite for Violin and Orchestra Kevin Puts (b. 1972) Jake Heggie (b. 1961) Edgar Meyer (b. 1960) I'm so excited to have the opportunity to premiere my new commissions project, The Elements. The idea for this unique endeavor was born during the early moments of the pandemic, and the work consists of five
- [John Corigliano: A Closer Look at a Legendary Composer](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/corigliano-legendary-composer/) - No American composer is more respected than John Corigliano. At age 85, he has become an important bridge to composers of earlier generations and a mentor to younger composers.
- [Composer John Corigliano: 3 Works to Explore an Epic Career](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/corigliano-3-works/) - The Colorado Music Festival pay tribute to John Corigliano, 2023 Festival composer-in-residence and one of this country’s most renowned composers.
- [Tiny Rock Concert: Saxophone Icon Timothy McAllister](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/mcallister-tiny-rock-concert/) - Enjoy this 2022 Tiny Rock Concert featuring the saxophone great himself, Timothy McAllister, one of the Festival's most popular videos of all time.
- [For Janae Burris, Narrating Peter and the Wolf is a Dream Come True](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/janae-burris-2023/) - For Janae Burris, Narrating Peter and the Wolf is a Dream Come True | Denver-based comedian, actor, and entertainer Janae Burris will narrate Peter and the Wolf at the Colorado Music Festival Family Concert on July 2, 2023. Learn why Janae is excited to bring narrate this musical storybook. Colorado Music Festival: Hi, my name is Erica Reid, I'm with the Colorado Music Festival, and I'm talking to Janae
- [Family Concert Conductor Kalena Bovell: "Come Have Fun & Leave Excited"](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/kalena-bovell-2023/) - Talented conductor Kalena Bovell will lead our 2023 Family Concert, which includes Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, Eric Whitacre's Goodnight Moon, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's "Danse Nègre," and a suite from Bizet's Carmen. Learn more about this concert and Kalena's approach to conducting.
- [Composer Jordan Holloway's New Music Celebrating Chautauqua's 125th Anniversary](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/jordan-holloway-2023/) - Jordan M. Holloway is the composer of 2023's Flatiron Escapades, which celebrates the Chautauqua Association's 125th anniversary. In this interview, Holloway discusses composition, Chautauqua Park, and the experience of giving the world premiere of a piece of his music.
- [Music Director Emeritus Michael Christie Keeps a Foot in Two Worlds](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/michael-christie-2023/) - Michael Christie returns to the Festival on July 20 & 21. Read about his career following his tenure as Music Director of the Colorado Music Festival.
- [Music Director Peter Oundjian Interviews Composer-in-Residence John Corigliano](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/corigliano-oundjian/) - Peter Oundjian sat down with 2023 Composer-in-Residence John Corigliano to discuss his composition career, his background and the music for our July 13 program.
- [Pianist Michelle Cann Champions the Music of Florence Price](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/michelle-cann-2023/) - Join us on July 30 and July 21, 2023 - Michael Christie Conducts Tchaikovsky 4, featuring pianist Michelle Cann. Learn about this incredible pianist.
- [Family-Friendly Things To Do in Boulder](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/family-friendly-things-to-do-in-boulder-colorado/) - Boulder is one of the most family-friendly cities in Colorado. Learn about things you can do with kids of all ages in this fun and vibrant city.
- [Summer Travel Tips for Visiting Boulder](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/summer-travel-tips-for-visiting-boulder/) - When planning a summer trip to Boulder, Colorado there are a few things you should know to make your trip safe and enjoyable.
- [August 1, 2023: Beethoven, Debussy & Dvořák](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/august-1-2023-beethoven-debussy-dvorak/) - August 1, 2023: Beethoven, Debussy & Dvořák | String Trio in C Minor, Op. 9, No. 3 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) When Beethoven embarked on his first chamber works, he initially avoided the string quartet, a form that Haydn and Mozart had effectively monopolized in 1790s Vienna. Instead, he offered the Opus 9 string trios, a collection that in many ways anticipates the
- [July 30, 2023: Schumann’s Piano Concerto](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/july-30-2023-schumanns-piano-concerto/) - July 30, 2023: Schumann’s Piano Concerto | Cantus Arcticus, Op. 61 (1974) Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016) Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016), often regarded as the most significant Finnish composer since Jean Sibelius, charted a long and shape-shifting compositional career. He was always a free spirit, drawn to images of angels and apparitions, while producing a steady stream of symphonies, concertos, operas, choral and instrumental works.
- [July 27 & 28, 2023: Brahms 2 + Shostakovich](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/july-27-28-2023-brahms-2-shostakovich/) - July 27 & 28, 2023: Brahms 2 + Shostakovich | The Rhapsody of Steve Jobs (2021) Mason Bates (b. 1977) In the six years since Santa Fe Opera presented the world premiere of Mason Bates’s debut opera The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs (2017), the piece has steadily gained a foothold in the modern repertory. A debut recording from Santa Fe won a Grammy Award in 2019,
- [July 25, 2023: Brahms, Britten & Poulenc](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/july-25-2023-brahms-britten-poulenc/) - July 25, 2023: Brahms, Britten & Poulenc | Phantasy Quartet for Oboe and Strings, Op. 2 Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) Years before he cemented his place in history with operas about troubled outsiders (Peter Grimes, Billy Budd) and a War Requiem steeped in pacifist ideals, Benjamin Britten was a prolific composer of instrumental music. As a 19-year-old scholarship student at London’s Royal College of
- [July 23, 2023: All Mozart: “Linz” & Violin Concerto No. 3](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/july-23-2023-all-mozart-linz-violin-concerto-no-3/) - July 23, 2023: All Mozart: “Linz” & Violin Concerto No. 3 | The Impresario Overture, K. 486 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Mozart composed the one-act Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario) for a competition organized by none other than Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II. Presented before a princely audience at Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace in February 1786, the event pitted Mozart’s German singspiel (a light opera with spoken dialogue) against an Italian
- [July 20 & 21 2023: Michael Christie Conducts Tchaikovsky 4](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/july-20-21-2023-michael-christie-conducts-tchaikovsky-4/) - July 20 & 21 2023: Michael Christie Conducts Tchaikovsky 4 | Piano Concerto in G Major Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Maurice Ravel was a master of artful contradictions — in conversation and in music. In a 1931 interview with London’s Daily Telegraph, he declared that the music of a concerto should be “lighthearted and brilliant, and not aimed at profundity or dramatic affects.” He went on to
- [July 18, 2023: Brentano String Quartet](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/july-18-2023-brentano-string-quartet/) - July 18, 2023: Brentano String Quartet | String Quartet in D Major, K.499 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Mozart’s K. 499 Quartet is subtitled the “Hoffmeister” Quartet, after his friend (and sometime publisher) Franz Hoffmeister. A more apt, descriptive title for the work might be the “Figaro” Quartet, after the extraordinary opera that Mozart composed in the same year. Like The Marriage of Figaro, the quartet
- [July 16, 2023: JFK: The Last Speech - World Premiere](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/july-16-2023-jfk-the-last-speech-world-premiere/) - July 16, 2023: JFK: The Last Speech – World Premiere | Flatiron Escapades Jordan Holloway (b. 1999) Flatiron Escapades is a musical tribute to the Colorado Chautauqua, composed in commemoration of its 125th anniversary, and is a reflection of my experiences in the park and the surrounding Flatirons. For three years, I lived very close to the Chautauqua Trailhead, embarking on myriad walks, jogs, and hikes
- [July 9, 2023: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 4 & Symphonic Dances](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/july-9-2023-rachmaninoffs-piano-concerto-no-4-symphonic-dances/) - July 9, 2023: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 4 & Symphonic Dances | Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Igor Stravinsky’s quip that Sergei Rachmaninoff “was a six-and-a-half-foot scowl” served to cement his image as a dour, taciturn spirit. But behind the statuesque bearing, severe crewcut, and somber eyes was a strain of sly wit and mischief. Nowhere is this more evident than
- [July 11, 2023: JACK Quartet: New York Stories](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/july-11-2023-jack-quartet-new-york-stories/) - July 11, 2023: JACK Quartet: New York Stories | Structures for String Quartet (1951) Morton Feldman (1926-1987) Although Morton Feldman's best-known innovation is the devising of graphical scores that permit a range of choices (of, say, pitches to be made by the performer), the present composition is not such a work. It is as fully notated as any classical quartet. In fact, it has
- [July 13, 2023: John Corigliano: Living Legend](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/july-13-2023-john-corigliano-living-legend/) - July 13, 2023: John Corigliano: Living Legend | Gazebo Dances John Corigliano (b. 1938) Gazebo Dances was originally written as a set of four-hand piano pieces dedicated to certain of my pianist friends. I later arranged the suite for orchestra and for concert band, and it is from the latter version that the title is drawn. The title, Gazebo Dances, was suggested by
- [July 2, 2023: Family Concert: Peter and the Wolf + Goodnight Moon](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/july-2-2023-family-concert-peter-and-the-wolf-goodnight-moon/) - The Family Concert at this year's Colorado Music Festival includes a selection from Carmen, “Danse Nègre”, Peter and the Wolf, and Goodnight Moon.
- [Be a Champion for Boulder's Arts, Culture & Heritage](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/boulder-arts-culture-heritage/) - The Colorado Music Festival, along with our esteemed colleagues across Boulder, is supporting the campaign to place the Arts, Culture and Heritage Tax measure on the Fall 2023 ballot in the City of Boulder.
- [Unique Things To Do in Boulder](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/unique-things-to-do-in-boulder/) - Planning a trip to Boulder but want to do something special. Check out our list of unique attractions in Boulder, Colorado
- [We Hear You! Updates to the Concert Experience for 2023](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/2023-audience-feedback/) - The 2023 music festival will be better than ever thanks to your feedback. Read on for information about Chautauqua Auditorium, dining and shuttle updates.
- [Colorado Gives Day 2022](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/colorado-gives-day-2022/) - We’re asking you to join us for Colorado Gives Day. With one gift, you support not only the world-class musicians of today but also the aspiring musicians of tomorrow.
- [Music Director Peter Oundjian Interviews Principal Oboe Olav van Hezewijk](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/principal-oboe-olav-van-hezewijk/) - Peter Oundjian sat down with Colorado Music Festival Principal Oboe Olav van Hezewijk for a fascinating discussion.
- [Music Director Peter Oundjian Interviews Principal Trumpet Jeff Work](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/principal-trumpet-jeff-work/) - Peter Oundjian interviewed Colorado Music Festival Principal Trumpet Jeff Work to discuss his career path, a few of his favorite music venues, and more.
- [Meet Harumi: An Interview Between Center Co-Founder Kathy Kucsan and Violinist Harumi Rhodes of the Takács Quartet](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/meet-harumi-an-interview-between-center-co-founder-kathy-kucsan-and-violinist-harumi-rhodes-of-the-takacs-quartet/) - Meet Harumi: An Interview Between Center Co-Founder Kathy Kucsan and Violinist Harumi Rhodes of the Takács Quartet | Harumi Rhodes is a “deeply expressive violinist” (New York Times) and a member of the world-renowned Takács Quartet, a resident ensemble at the University of Colorado Boulder. Kathy Kucsan sat down with Ms. Rhodes in early 2020 to discuss her passion for chamber music and Takács’ mentorship of the Ivalas Quartet. Kathy: Thank you for
- [Hadelich Explores New Possibilities for Performance](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/hadelich-explores-new-possibilities-for-performance/) - Hadelich Explores New Possibilities for Performance | by Marc Shulgold As the effects of the Covid-19 virus continue to alter life as we've known it, concert halls stand empty around the world, forcing touring musicians to rethink ways of sharing their artistry with audiences. World-renowned violinist Augustin Hadelich is anxious to move beyond the now-standard approach of recording a sterile Youtube video
- [Collaborating to Create a Concerto](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/collaborating-to-create-a-concerto/) - Collaborating to Create a Concerto | by Marc Shulgold For a while, a few years back, Sharon Isbin's phone began to ring with regularity – but not from scammers or nosey relatives. On the other end was Chris Brubeck, son of legendary jazz artist Dave Brubeck. And Isbin, one of the world's leading classical guitarists, welcomed each of those calls. The
- [Brooklyn Rider Rides Again](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/brooklyn-rider-rides-again/) - Brooklyn Rider Rides Again | by Marc Shulgold Brooklyn Rider. What a cool name for a string quartet. And just as the foursome chose a memorable moniker, the 15-year-old group has adopted an aggressive artistic goal. Violist Nicholas Cords sums it up succinctly: “We want to remove the barriers that some people have about new music.” Through 15 albums and
- [The Political Beethoven](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/the-political-beethoven/) - The Political Beethoven | by Marc Shulgold The world changed drastically during Beethoven's life. There were violent revolutions, the rise and fall of Napoleon, the reshaping of Europe, etc. Creative artists took notice of those changes. Some, in fact, helped spur on society's new ways of looking at their world. At the center of cultural life in Vienna stood
- [Music Director Peter Oundjian Interviews the Takács Quartet](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/music-director-peter-oundjian-interviews-the-takacs-quartet/) - Music Director Peter Oundjian Interviews the Takács Quartet | As part of the Colorado Music Festival's Virtual Festival in the summer of 2020, Boulder's renowned Takács Quartet performed at the Festival's summer home, Chautauqua Auditorium. During their visit, Festival Music Director Peter Oundjian -- who spent 14 years as a member of the Tokyo String Quartet -- spoke with Takács' Edward Dusinberre (first violin),
- [Engineering the Virtual Festival: An Interview with Michael Quam](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/engineering-the-virtual-festival-an-interview-with-michael-quam/) - Engineering the Virtual Festival: An Interview with Michael Quam | Since I began my tenure with the Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts in May of 2016, I have consistently been astonished at the incredible talent of our orchestra members as well as our Center faculty. Not only does this organization have a way of attracting top musical talent, it also attracts some of
- [Elizabeth McGuire Interviews Composer Joan Tower](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/elizabeth-mcguire-interviews-composer-joan-tower/) - Elizabeth McGuire Interviews Composer Joan Tower | Executive Director Elizabeth McGuire recently interviewed the legendary composer Joan Tower about the pandemic's effect on music, owning the idea of being a "female composer," Tower's advice for music students, and much more. Watch the interview or read the full transcription below. Elizabeth McGuire: Joan, the COVID-19 pandemic will have repercussions in the music industry,
- [Music Director Peter Oundjian Interviews Principal Trombone Donna Parkes](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/music-director-peter-oundjian-interviews-principal-trombone-donna-parkes/) - Music Director Peter Oundjian Interviews Principal Trombone Donna Parkes | Recently, Music Director Peter Oundjian sat down with Colorado Music Festival Principal Trombone Donna Parkes to discuss her fascinating career path, the teachers that most impacted her education, Australian rules football, and more. Watch the interview or read the full transcription below. How Donna Chose the Trombone Peter Oundjian: Welcome everybody. I am delighted to
- [The Evolution of the Festival Brand](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/the-evolution-of-the-festival-brand/) - The Evolution of the Festival Brand | In this post, Marketing Director Cindy Hohman takes a look back on 30+ years of Festival logos to explore where our brand came from and where it's heading next. Many of you likely remember that the Festival produced a beautiful, themed poster or art print for each summer season. The name of the Festival was
- [2021 Festival Feedback](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/2021-festival-feedback/) - “...the orchestra and guests artists [are] exceptional talents, enjoyable and mesmerizing. Peter Oundjian is so knowledgeable and shares his brilliance...”
- [Your Support Makes a Difference](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/2021-support/) - Thank you for supporting classical music and the Colorado Music Festival!
- [2022 Classical Concert Recommendations](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/2022-concert-recommendations/) - Looking for classical music concerts this summer? Choose your favorite concerts at the Colorado Music Festival summer 2022.
- [Remembering Louise Christopher](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/remembering-louise-christopher/) - Remembering Louise Christopher | [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”] Today (Monday, April 4), our offices are closed so that the staff and faculty may attend the memorial service of Louise Christopher, our beloved friend and colleague. More than 20 years ago, Louise joined the board
- [Tubas Can Sing, Too! (2022 Family Concert)](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/tubas-can-sing-too/) - Join us for our 2022 family concert, Tubas Can Sing, Too! A classical music concert for children and families in Colorado this summer.
- [Did You Know We Have a Music School?](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/did-you-know-we-have-a-music-school/) - Did You Know We Have a Music School? | At the Colorado Music Festival, we naturally stay very focused on our summer season. However, our organization is always busy thanks to our year-round community music school, the Center for Musical Arts. That's right: we have a music school! In 2010 these two organizations merged, and for the past decade we have worked alongside one
- [Voices of the Festival: Interview with Catherine Turner, Principal Horn](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/voices-of-the-festival-interview-with-catherine-turner-principal-horn/) - Voices of the Festival: Interview with Catherine Turner, Principal Horn | Catherine Turner, Principal Horn, Colorado Music Festival Orchestra The 19th Amendment celebrates its 100th birthday in 2020. In the spirit of this landmark anniversary, Executive Director Elizabeth McGuire begins a series of interviews featuring women of the Colorado Music Festival orchestra to explore their love of music, their education, their interests, and more. PART
- [Voices of the Festival: Interview with Viviana Cumplido Wilson, Principal Flute](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/voices-of-the-festival-interview-with-viviana-cumplido-wilson-principal-flute/) - Voices of the Festival: Interview with Viviana Cumplido Wilson, Principal Flute | Viviana Cumplido Wilson, Principal Flute, Colorado Music Festival Orchestra The 19th Amendment celebrates its 100th birthday in 2020. In the spirit of this landmark anniversary, Executive Director Elizabeth McGuire begins a series of interviews featuring women of the Colorado Music Festival orchestra to explore their love of music, their education, their interests, and more.
- [Stretching the Saxophone: Tim McAllister & City Noir](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/mcallister-city-noir/) - 2022 Festival audiences will hear Tim McAllister perform City Noir, a creation that John Adams wrote in 2009, prominently featuring the alto saxophone.
- [Pure Fantasy: Anthony McGill, Wang Jie, and Firebird](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/pure-fantasy/) - See Classical Clarinetist Anthony McGill in Boulder, Colorado at the Colorado Music Festival this summer, 2022.
- [Dream a Little Dream: Mendelssohn & Midsummer](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/dream-a-little-dream/) - Principal Guest Conductor Jean-Marie Zeitouni will return to the Chautauqua Auditorium stage with actor John de Lancie on July 31 for Mendelssohn and Midsummer.
- [An American Sensibility: A Profile of 2022 Composer-in-Residence John Adams](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/profile-john-adams/) - The Grammy Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams will serve as the Colorado Music Festival’s 2022 composer-in-residence and co-curator of its July 12-17 Music of Today series.
- [The Spirit of Now: Attacca Quartet](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/attacca-quartet-story/) - The Attacca Quartet makes its Colorado Music Festival debut July 12, presenting a concert of all contemporary music as part of the summer event’s Music of Today and Robert Mann Chamber Music series.
- [A Festival Within a Festival: Music of Today](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/music-of-today-story/) - This year’s edition of the Music of Today series runs July 12-17 and puts an emphasis on diversity and inclusion. It features works by more than a dozen living composers ranging from such well-established masters like Philip Glass and Osvaldo Golijov to up-and-comers Stacy Garrop and 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw to cross-genre talents like Steven Ellison aka Flying Lotus, a Los Angeles DJ and rapper.
- [COVID-19 Updates for 2022 Festival](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/covid-plan-2022/) - The Colorado Music Festival plans to operate at full capacity this summer 2022 for our classical music festival in Boulder, Colorado.
- [Interview with Composer Wang Jie](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/interview-wang-jie/) - Music Director Peter Oundjian sat down with composer Wang Jie to discuss her "Flying on the Scaly Backs of Our Mountains," a brand new piece of music which the Festival will premiere on August 4, 2022.
- [2022 Pre-Concert Improvements](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/2022-pre-concert-improvements/) - We love receiving feedback from our classical music festival attendees. We continually endeavor to improve the Festival experience in response to that feedback.
- [Tessa Lark: A Violinist Beyond Genre](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/tessa-lark-profile/) - Violinist Tessa Lark performs summer 2022 in Boulder at the Colorado Music Festival, bringing "Stradgrass" (classical and bluegrass influences) to the stage.
- [Ryan Bancroft: A Conductor Catapulted onto the World’s Stage](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/conductor-ryan-bancroft/) - Learn about classical conductor Ryan Bancroft, who will lead two programs this summer at the 2022 Colorado Music Festival.
- [Colorado Symphony Announces Peter Oundjian as Principal Conductor](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/co-symphony-oundjian/) - Music Director of the Colorado Music Festival, Peter Oundjian, was named principal conductor of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra this week!
- [How to Watch Our 2022 Season Announcement Livestream](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/2022-season-announcement/) - Did you watch our livestream announcing our Colorado Music Festival 2022 season? If not, you can check it out through the link on this page.
- [Give Music to Local Families Affected by Wildfires in Boulder County](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/marshall-fire/) - The Colorado Music Festival is supporting local families impacted by the recent fires in Boulder County. Learn how you can help.
- [Honoring a Chamber Music Giant](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/honoring-chamber-music-giant/) - Honoring a Chamber Music Giant | Nicholas Mann reflects on his father Robert Mann's legacy as the Colorado Music Festival prepares for the Robert Mann Chamber Music Series.
- [Conductor Mixes the Familiar with the Unfamiliar](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/david-danzmayr/) - Conductor Mixes the Familiar with the Unfamiliar | Steven Banks prepares to perform Alexander Glazunov’s Concerto and Jacques Ibert’s Concertino da Camera during the 2021 Colorado Music Festival.
- [2021 Concert Recommendations](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/2021-concert-recommendations/) - 2021 Concert Recommendations | Not sure which concerts to choose? Browse our season in these helpful ways: The Robert Mann Chamber Music Series July 6: String Quintets: Mozart and Brahms July 13: Juilliard String Quartet July 20: St. Lawrence String Quartet: Debussy, Haydn, and John Adams July 27: Beethoven Quintet and Septet August 3: Brooklyn Rider Go to
- [2021 Ticketing FAQ](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/2021-seating-faq/) - 2021 Ticketing FAQ | Updates & Details for 2021 Ticketing (updated June 9, 2021) New seats are available! As of June 9, seats in the first five rows of Chautauqua Auditorium are available for purchase for all Festival concerts. These seats had previously been held in order to maintain distance between the musicians and the audience, but it was
- [Performing New Music in Bold New Ways](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/bold-new-music/) - Performing New Music in Bold New Ways | Colorado Music Festival Musical Director Peter Oundjian discusses daring new takes on classical music for the Summer 2021 Music of Today series.
- [Peter Oundjian Interviews the Ivalas Quartet](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/ivalas-quartet-2020/) - Peter Oundjian Interviews the Ivalas Quartet | Colorado Music Festival Musical Director Peter Oundjian interviews the Ivalas quartet about their music and their mission. Hear them live on July 31.
- [There's an Elephant in the Room… Sort Of](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/family-concert-babar/) - There’s an Elephant in the Room… Sort Of | The Colorado Music Festival partners with Really Inventive Stuff (RIS) to present Toy Symphony and The Story of Babar at the annual Family Concert on July 3.
- [Please, No Jokes About Sax Appeal](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/steven-banks/) - Please, No Jokes About Sax Appeal | Steven Banks prepares to perform Alexander Glazunov’s Concerto and Jacques Ibert’s Concertino da Camera during the 2021 Colorado Music Festival.
- [2021 Subscriber FAQ](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/2021-subscriber-faq/) - 2021 Subscriber FAQ | Due to health and safety requirements for the 2021 Festival season, the process that Chautauqua (box office) and the Festival use to seat subscribers has changed, for this year only. Read our Frequently Asked Questions about subscriber seating below. I am vaccinated. Can I have my regular seat? Unfortunately, no. Our socially-distant seat spacing requirements
- [Cindy Hohman Interviews Brand Designer Mark Jasin](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/cindy-hohman-interviews-brand-designer-mark-jasin/) - Cindy Hohman Interviews Brand Designer Mark Jasin | Marketing Director Cindy Hohman recently interviewed creative consultant Mark Jasin about his fantastic work on the Festival's "brand refresh" and bright new logo. The Festival’s new brand rolled out across the website and marketing materials in March 2021. Watch the interview or read the full transcription below. Cindy Hohman: Alright, here we are! Hi, I
- [2021 Season Highlights](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/2021-season-highlights/) - 2021 Season Highlights | In-Person and Virtual Attendance Our full season at Chautauqua offers 17 unique programs over 21 performances, plus our annual Family Concert. Due to the success of our 2020 Virtual Festival, this season we are offering "virtual tickets" to six of our performances and the Family Concert in order to allow Festival fans from around the
- [COVID-19 Safety Plan for 2021 Festival](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/covid-safety-plan/) - COVID-19 Safety Plan for 2021 Festival | (photo by Anne Krause) We understand that health and safety are important factors for our patrons considering returning Chautauqua Auditorium for in-person concerts in the 2021 Festival season (July 1-August 7). Watch this page for updates as the Festival approaches. COVID-19 Safety Plan Guidance for safe social distancing practices will be observed closely in the
- [Postponing Our Season Announcement in Response to the Tragedy in Boulder](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/postponing-our-season-announcement-in-response-to-the-tragedy-in-boulder/) - Postponing Our Season Announcement in Response to the Tragedy in Boulder | Dear friends of the Festival, As much as the staff, board, and faculty members of the Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts are passionate about music, community is truly the heart of our most important work. We had planned to share the details of our 2021 Festival season this week. However, following the
- [Elizabeth McGuire: Updates on the 2021 Festival](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/elizabeth-mcguire-updates-on-the-2021-festival/) - Elizabeth McGuire: Updates on the 2021 Festival |
- [Beethoven for a Later Age: Peter Oundjian Interviews Edward Dusinberre](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/beethoven-for-a-later-age-peter-oundjian-interviews-edward-dusinberre/) - Beethoven for a Later Age: Peter Oundjian Interviews Edward Dusinberre | As part of the Colorado Music Festival's celebration of Beethoven's 250th birthday, Music Director Peter Oundjian sat down with author and musician Edward Dusinberre to discuss their mutual fondness for Beethoven. Ed is the first violinist of Boulder's Takács Quartet, author of the book Beethoven for a Later Age: Living with the String Quartets, and
- [Elizabeth McGuire Interviews Marketing Director Cindy Hohman](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/elizabeth-mcguire-interviews-marketing-director-cindy-hohman/) - Elizabeth McGuire Interviews Marketing Director Cindy Hohman | Executive Director Elizabeth McGuire recently interviewed Cindy Hohman, Marketing Director of the Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts, about Cindy's career path, how she found the Festival, and about the Festival's 2021 brand refresh, which Cindy managed. The Festival's new brand will roll out gradually over March; preview the new logo here: Elizabeth
- [Peter Oundjian: Updates on the 2021 Festival](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/peter-oundjian-updates-on-the-2021-festival/) - Peter Oundjian: Updates on the 2021 Festival | Watch our video or read the transcript below for a special message from Music Director Peter Oundjian regarding the 2021 Colorado Music Festival. Peter Oundjian: Hello everybody, I’m Peter Oundjian, Music Director for the Colorado Music Festival, and it gives me enormous pleasure to let you know that we will indeed be having a music
- [March Update](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/march-update/) - March Update | Dear Friends of the Festival, I am deeply saddened to witness the impact of the coronavirus on many of our own Festival musicians and peer institutions throughout the world, yet heartened to see so many individuals offering support to those impacted. Like me, many of you have undoubtedly made the decision to donate your ticket
- [April Update](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/april-update/) - April Update | As I’ve witnessed the impact of COVID-19 unfold upon our musical community worldwide, I find it most compelling to see musicians band together to support each other, share each other’s uplifting performances, and serve as beacons of happiness and compassion to one another and the world. As we approach the scheduled opening of the Colorado
- [May Update](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/may-update/) - May Update | We write to you today with the unfortunate news that the 2020 Colorado Music Festival has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Having sustained hope throughout these past months that presenting the Festival would be possible, we now accept that we are unable to ensure the health and safety of our beloved musicians, patrons,
- [A Pianist Shares the Joy of Playing](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/a-pianist-shares-the-joy-of-playing/) - A Pianist Shares the Joy of Playing | by Marc Shulgold Before we visit with this marvelous young musician, let's get a couple of things out of the way. First, how to pronounce his name: Jan Lisiecki doesn't sound anything like it looks. So, let's say it together: Yon Lih-SHETT-ski. His parents, as you might have guessed, are Polish, though his family have
- [Our Commitment to #BlackLivesMatter](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/blacklivesmatter/) - Our Commitment to #BlackLivesMatter | The Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts stands firmly with the black community against the racism, hate, and violence demonstrated by the murders of George Floyd, Breona Taylor, Ahmaud Arbury, and countless others. In light of these atrocities, we have looked deeply within ourselves and recognize that we can do more as an
- [A Violist's Fondest Wish Comes True](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/a-violists-fondest-wish-comes-true/) - A Violist’s Fondest Wish Comes True | by Marc Shulgold If at first you don't succeed, Richard O'Neill learned, just wait 15 or 16 years. That's how long it took the viola player to get a second chance to become a member of the renowned Takács Quartet. “I had auditioned back then (in 2005) when I learned there was an opening,” he
- [Take a Look Into Performers’ Hearts, Minds, and Craft This Summer](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/take-a-look-into-performers-hearts-minds-and-craft-through-the-2020-virtual-festival/) - Take a Look Into Performers’ Hearts, Minds, and Craft This Summer | by Peter Oundjian | Music Director I’m excited to give you some details about our virtual Festival this summer, but before I do I’d like to speak on the changes we are making to take action following our recent message of support for the #BlackLivesMatter movement. We recognize that black, Hispanic, indigenous, LGBTQIA+, and other
- [Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Colorado Music Festival](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-at-the-colorado-music-festival/) - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Colorado Music Festival | by Peter Oundjian | Music Director Read the Colorado Music Festival's organizational message of support for the #BlackLivesMatter movement. It is no secret to any of us that the story of this country is riddled with the murder and mistreatment of non-white races, which has resulted in gross underrepresentation of the black, Hispanic, indigenous, and LGBTQIA+ populations
- [Colorado Music Festival Celebrates the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/colorado-music-festival-celebrates-the-100th-anniversary-of-the-19th-amendment/) - Colorado Music Festival Celebrates the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment | Wang Jie, composer In 2020, the U.S. marks the landmark 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment. Over the course of the next several seasons, the Colorado Music Festival celebrates this important centennial through its “Three Generations of Women Composers” initiative, which shines a spotlight on the vibrant world of music generated by
- [Feeling Fortunate and Moving Forward](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/feeling-fortunate-and-moving-forward/) - Feeling Fortunate and Moving Forward | We are all experiencing a sense of shock over the state of the world. I sincerely hope this newsletter finds you and your loved ones safe and healthy. Here at the Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts, we certainly count ourselves and our organization as fortunate to withstand the initial impact of the
- [Behind the Scenes of Beethoven Opus 131 (arr. Peter Oundjian)](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/behind-the-scenes-of-beethoven-opus-131-arr-peter-oundjian/) - Behind the Scenes of Beethoven Opus 131 (arr. Peter Oundjian) | Once the first movement has revealed this duality to us, all in the form of a mesmerizing slow fugue, Beethoven pulls us out of the trance with an abrupt rise of a half tone, from the darkness of C sharp minor to the optimism of D major. The second movement is a celebration of all
- [Growing Up With Beethoven](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/growing-up-with-beethoven/) - Growing Up With Beethoven | Tokyo String Quartet finale from the extraordinary viola quintet, Opus 29. At the end of my chamber music career, the very last piece I ever performed with the Tokyo Quartet was Opus 131, with the exquisite Cavatina from Opus 130 as a final farewell. After more than two decades of living with the agony of
- [Welcome to the 2020 Season](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/welcome-to-the-2020-season/) - Welcome to the 2020 Season | by Peter Oundjian | Music Director Preparing for my second season with this wonderful Festival has been an enormous pleasure. The joy of joining a new community of musicians and music lovers still greets me every time I arrive back in Boulder. Now it’s met with the warmth of familiarity and tremendous respect I have
- [Permanent Section Violin(s)](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/permanent-section-violins/) - Permanent Section Violin(s) | The Colorado Music Festival features a highly professional full-sized symphony orchestra performing six week summer seasons in Boulder’s historic Chautauqua Auditorium. Following an amazing initial summer, we welcome back Maestro Peter Oundjian for his second season as Music Director, along with many other world class guest artists. CMF’s orchestra musicians come from many of the
- [Make an Impact: 3 Reasons to Give](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/make-an-impact-3-reasons-to-give/) - Make an Impact: 3 Reasons to Give | by Morgan O'Brien | Development Director “Entering business,” said another.“No,” Kennedy corrected. “You’re joining the Peace Corps.” And they did. More than two dozen members of the Amherst class of 1964 joined the Peace Corps, more than 10% of the class. They worked around the world on water projects, education, health initiatives, and more. The
- [Fall: A Period of Rebirth and Learning](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/fall-a-period-of-rebirth-and-learning/) - Fall: A Period of Rebirth and Learning | Elizabeth McGuire, Executive Director
- [Final Resonance: Reflections on a Summer of Joy](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/final-resonance-reflections-on-a-summer-of-joy/) - Final Resonance: Reflections on a Summer of Joy | by Peter Oundjian After spending a few weeks back at home in Connecticut preparing for a new season of conducting ventures, my whirlwind of a summer in Boulder really hit me last week. August was a month of transition. Even as I was driving away from Boulder, I was focused on everything I need to
- [Long-Awaited Answers to Your Most Burning Questions](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/long-awaited-answers-to-your-most-burning-questions/) - Long-Awaited Answers to Your Most Burning Questions | by Elizabeth McGuire, Executive Director Eager concertgoers making their way to the auditorium. #2: Why don’t you list all of the Chautauqua concerts on your website? Why do I receive emails from Colorado Music Festival and Chautauqua? Aren’t you the same? Colorado Music Festival and Colorado Chautauqua Association are two distinct organizations, though we have
- [Closing Out the Festival](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/closing-out-the-festival/) - Closing Out the Festival | by Peter Oundjian The final week at the Colorado Music Festival is focused around two extraordinary symphonies by two giants of the classical music world: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 on Thursday night, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 on Saturday night. Despite their clear differences in era and style, both of these pieces are cut from
- [Simplicity Is Not Always So Simple](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/simplicity-is-not-always-so-simple/) - Simplicity Is Not Always So Simple | by Marc Shulgold For Janice Chandler-Eteme, the journey to learn her solos in Mahler's mighty Symphony No. 3 has been one of months of preparation – all to fully understand two movements whose texts seem to appear simple and, in parts, almost naïve. She is listed as a mezzo for the Colorado Music Festival's season-ending
- [A Noted Scholar Looks at Beethoven](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/a-noted-scholar-looks-at-beethoven/) - A Noted Scholar Looks at Beethoven | by Marc Shugold Ask Jan Swafford about his plans for a July 31 talk at the Academy Boulder, and you'll get something akin to a shrug. “I'm ready for anything,” the renowned author, music historian and composer confessed. When pressed, he suggested that he'll probably offer some thoughts about Beethoven, who is a major presence
- [A Universe Unto Itself: Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/a-universe-unto-itself-gustav-mahlers-symphony-no-3/) - A Universe Unto Itself: Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 | by Kelly Dean Hansen “Guest blogger Kelly Dean Hansen has chosen one work from each of the six weeks of the 2019 Colorado Music Festival season to spotlight. He will be exploring these works with the aim of explaining what makes them lasting, immortal parts of the classical repertoire.” Most performances of Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony run
- [Susan Witkin of Front Range Focus Interviews Peter Oundjian](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/susan-witkin-of-front-range-focus-interviews-peter-oundjian/) - Susan Witkin of Front Range Focus Interviews Peter Oundjian | Susan Witkin: Welcome to Front Range Focus. I'm Susan Witkin. My guest today is Peter Oundjian. Peter is the music director for the Colorado Music Festival. Peter had been the artistic advisor for the Colorado Music Festival and was 14 years as music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Peter, Mazel Tov on your new
- [Breaking the Glass Ceiling](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/breaking-the-glass-ceiling/) - Breaking the Glass Ceiling | by Marc Shulgold Back in his student days at Juilliard learning to play the violin, Robert McDuffie and friends enjoyed sharing their mutual dislike for the numbingly redundant music of Philip Glass. “I was not a Glass fan,” he recalled. “None of us were. We knew all the jokes.” He then quoted one of his
- [A Triple Threat Comes to Boulder](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/a-triple-threat-comes-to-boulder/) - A Triple Threat Comes to Boulder | by Marc Shulgold One glance at the biography of Jörg Widmann may elicit a double-take. Under his name, the German musician is identified thusly: “Clarinet/Composer/Conductor.” Impressive. Not that he became those three all at once, mind you. His parents were amateur string players, but young Jörg would have none of that. “I started taking clarinet
- [Jupiter Sends His Thunderbolts: Mozart’s Final Symphony](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/jupiter-sends-his-thunderbolts-mozarts-final-symphony/) - Jupiter Sends His Thunderbolts: Mozart’s Final Symphony | by Kelly Dean Hansen Guest blogger Kelly Dean Hansen has chosen one work from each of the six weeks of the 2019 Colorado Music Festival season to spotlight. He will be exploring these works with the aim of explaining what makes them lasting, immortal parts of the classical repertoire. Leopold Mozart died in May 1787. And by
- [“Fantastic” In Every Sense: How Berlioz Burst the Boundaries](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/fantastic-in-every-sense-how-berlioz-burst-the-boundaries/) - “Fantastic” In Every Sense: How Berlioz Burst the Boundaries | by Kelly Dean Hansen The word “fantastic” has largely lost its original connotation. The true definition of the word is “imaginative or fanciful; remote from reality.” Of course, the meaning has shifted toward the informal definition, something along the lines of “extraordinarily good or attractive.” According to the manuscript, the most famous work by Hector
- [My Path to the Podium](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/my-path-to-the-podium/) - My Path to the Podium | by Peter Oundjian The dressing rooms in the Royal Albert Hall are underneath the chorus seats at the back of the stage. This makes for a unique approach to the stage for performers, a gladiator-style ascent from beneath the stage level. Last September, when I emerged onto that stage with 6,000 people in attendance for
- [You Can Call Him Jackie](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/you-can-call-him-jackie/) - You Can Call Him Jackie | by Marc Shulgold Jon Kimura Parker is one of those guys who flatly dismisses all the stuffy traditions of being a concert pianist. “I never liked the old formalities,” the Canadian-born musician said. “I walk onstage excited to play. I just love the act of sharing music with my audience. I want my performance to
- [Doubly Demanding: Brahms's Concerto for Violin and Cello](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/doubly-demanding-brahmss-concerto-for-violin-and-cello/) - Doubly Demanding: Brahms’s Concerto for Violin and Cello | by Kelly Dean Hansen, Ph.D. “Guest blogger Kelly Dean Hansen has chosen one work from each of the six weeks of the 2019 Colorado Music Festival season to spotlight. He will be exploring these works with the aim of explaining what makes them lasting, immortal parts of the classical repertoire.” “Tedious and wearisome – a really senile
- [Passionate, Not Pathetic: Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/passionate-not-pathetic-tchaikovskys-symphony-no-6/) - Passionate, Not Pathetic: Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 | by Kelly Dean Hansen, Ph.D. “Guest blogger Kelly Dean Hansen has chosen one work from each of the six weeks of the 2019 Colorado Music Festival season to spotlight. He will be exploring these works with the aim of explaining what makes them lasting, immortal parts of the classical repertoire.” To begin with, it almost certainly isn’t a
- [My Life in the Tokyo String Quartet](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/my-life-in-the-tokyo-string-quartet/) - My Life in the Tokyo String Quartet | 1978 was a distinct year of growth and transition for me. I was 22 years old and I felt I was reaching a point of potential stagnation in my playing and education as a violinist. I transferred to a different school to study with a new teacher, which brought me to come to know a
- [Concerto in “F”lux?  Gershwin and Classical/Popular Fusion](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concerto-in-flux-gershwin-and-classical-popular-fusion/) - Concerto in “F”lux? Gershwin and Classical/Popular Fusion | by Kelly Dean Hansen, PhD “Guest blogger Kelly Dean Hansen has chosen one work from each of the six weeks of the 2019 Colorado Music Festival season to spotlight. He will be exploring these works with the aim of explaining what makes them lasting, immortal parts of the classical repertoire.” George Gershwin was both a classical composer
- [Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto: A Jewel That Changed a Genre](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/mendelssohns-violin-concerto-a-jewel-that-changed-a-genre/) - Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto: A Jewel That Changed a Genre | by Kelly Dean Hansen, PhD "Guest blogger Kelly Dean Hansen has chosen one work from each of the six weeks of the 2019 Colorado Music Festival season to spotlight. He will be exploring these works with the aim of explaining what makes them lasting, immortal parts of the classical repertoire." The celebrated violinist Joseph Joachim, speaking in
- [A Family Concert With a Twist](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/a-family-concert-with-a-twist/) - A Family Concert With a Twist | By Marc Shulgold If you've seen the beloved children's classic Peter and the Wolf performed as a cutesy costumed stage show, you may want to jettison those memories, when you bring the kids to the Colorado Music Festival Family Concert in Chautauqua Auditorium on Sunday, July 7. The Festival Orchestra and an innovative duo known
- [The Nostalgia and Excitement of a Summer Music Festival](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/the-nostalgia-and-excitement-of-a-summer-music-festival/) - The Nostalgia and Excitement of a Summer Music Festival | by Peter Oundjian, Music Director I can’t wait to be in the throes of a summer festival again. It’s one of my absolute favourite things about spending a life as a classical musician, and it’s something that’s been missing from my life for too long. Summer programs and festivals have had a profound impact on
- [Sensory Friendly](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/sensory-friendly/) - Sensory Friendly | The Colorado Music Festival is proud to offer some performances designated as sensory friendly. In 2018 both the Young People's and Family Fun concerts will be sensory friendly. What makes this a sensory friendly performance? · House lights will remain on during the performance · Microphone volumes will be decreased · Staff will be easily accessible for any
- [The Woman Behind the Trombone, Principal Trombonist Donna Parkes](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/the-woman-behind-the-trombone-principal-trombonist-donna-parkes/) - The Woman Behind the Trombone, Principal Trombonist Donna Parkes | If you had the opportunity to attend a performance of John Adams’ Doctor Atomic Symphony during the 2018 season, you would remember the unrelenting, forceful trombone line Adams wrote to depict Lieutenant General Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project. The woman behind the trombone, CMF principal trombonist Donna Parkes, is a powerhouse in her
- [Peter Oundjian discusses this season's Beethoven theme ](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/beethovens-paths/) - Peter Oundjian discusses this season’s Beethoven theme | Well, I'm extremely excited about the 2019 Colorado Music Festival. It begins with a concept, really, about Beethoven and his influence on future composers. As we all know, 2020 is going to be a major anniversary of Beethoven; 250 years since his birth. And I thought wouldn't it be interesting in 2019 rather than ignoring
- [Becoming a Boulderite](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/becoming-a-boulderite/) - Becoming a Boulderite | It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that more and more people are choosing to live in Colorado every year. The appeal of urban living at the precipice of vast expanses of nature continues to spur rapid growth of mid-sized western cities. It’s a trend that shows no sign of slowing down. If you
- [Oundjian takes creative helm at Colorado Music Festival](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/oundjian-takes-creative-helm-at-colorado-music-festival/) - Oundjian takes creative helm at Colorado Music Festival | The Daily Camera celebrates the announcement of Peter Oundjian as the new Colorado Music Festival Music Director: “His wealth of performance experience, musical talent, innovative collaborations and charming personality were tools for success in reviving the once-financially unstable Toronto Symphony Orchestra and turn it into a wildly popular and thriving group that would go on
- [The King of the Cello Repertoire](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/the-king-of-the-cello-repertoire/) - The King of the Cello Repertoire | Is there any piece of music that dominates the repertoire for its instrument as much as Antonín Dvořák’s Cello Concerto? Pianists might suggest Tchaikovsky’s First Concerto, but then someone could counter that with Rachmaninoff’s Second or Beethoven’s “Emperor” or many other possibilities. No piano concerto clearly stands at the head of its class. Among other cello
- [Barber's Beautiful, Bizarre, Violin Concerto](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/oh-but-its-weird-and-its-wonderful-barbers-beautiful-bizarre-violin-concerto/) - Barber’s Beautiful, Bizarre, Violin Concerto | Yes, I did just make reference to a 1973 Elton John song to introduce a discussion of the featured concerto on Thursday’s Colorado Music Festival orchestra concert, to be performed by violinist Augustin Hadelich and conducted by Artistic Advisor Peter Oundjian. But it is apropos, as the piece indeed is both weird and wonderful. Since the following “Fresh Friday” concert includes
- [ITS Musical - music conversation small bites](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/its-musical-music-conversation-small-bites/) - ITS Musical – music conversation small bites | Pre-concert talks that will provide the audience with a fun and informative presentation on the composer and the music. All classes take place at The Academy (970 Aurora Ave, Boulder, Colorado 80302) Registration is FREE and includes refreshments and a 50% off ticket to the corresponding CMF concert. Call Today: 303.938.1920 to reserve your spot! Wednesday |

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- [Home](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/) - Join us this summer for the Colorado Music Festival, an annual classical music festival in beautiful Boulder, Colorado.
- [Robert Mann Chamber Music Series](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/festival/robert-mann-chamber-music-series/) - This series explores today’s most celebrated chamber ensembles, in the spirit of Robert Mann, legendary violinist and founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet.
- [Music of Today Series](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/festival/music-of-today-series/) - Music Director Peter Oundjian is a vocal champion for new voices in music. Discover something bold and new at our summer classical music festival in Boulder!
- [Subscriptions](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/ticket-info/subscriptions/) - Subscriptions to our summer classical music festival! Want to come to all sixteen concerts or are you interested in a series? Buy a subscription to attend.
- [Employment](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/about-the-festival/openings/) - Interested in auditioning or volunteering for the Colorado Music Festival? Learn how you can help our classical music festival this summer.
- [Subscription & Group Sales Appointment Scheduling](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/appointment/) - To speak with our Festival subscription representative, email, call, or schedule a phone, video, or in-person appointment.
- [Our Venue](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/plan-your-visit/our-venue/) - Discover Chautauqua Auditorium, the historic Boulder venue for the Colorado Music Festival.
- [Ride the FREE Hop 2 Chautauqua Shuttle](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/plan-your-visit/hop-2-chautauqua/) - The Hop 2 Chautauqua is a free shuttle service that picks up at several convenient locations and drops off on Baseline Rd. at the entrance to Chautauqua.
- [Know Before You Go](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/plan-your-visit/know-before-you-go/) - From parking and accessibility to dining options, plan for your visit to Chautauqua Auditorium, the performance home of the Colorado Music Festival.
- [Frequently Asked Questions](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/plan-your-visit/frequently-asked-questions/) - Find answers to common questions about concert tickets, venue accessibility, parking, family policies, and more in Boulder.
- [Education](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/education/) - Explore educational opportunities at the Colorado Music Festival, including workshops, rehearsals, intensives, and fellow programs that inspire musicians of all ages.
- [News](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/blog/) - Stay up to date with stories and news about the Colorado Music Festival as we prepare for our summer classical music festival.
- [Gala](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/gala/) - Save the date for our CMF/CMA gala! Join us for an evening of celebration, delectable food, and special guest artists.
- [Watch & Listen](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/watch-listen/) - Explore our collections of recorded classical music performances, interviews with classical musicians and conductors, and more.
- [Sponsors](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/support/sponsors/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Sponsors” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ collapsed=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row use_custom_gutter=”on” custom_padding_last_edited=”on|tablet” admin_label=”Sponsor Logos – Row 7″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ width=”auto” max_width=”2560px” module_alignment=”left” custom_padding=”1.5vw||0px|” custom_padding_tablet=”0px||0px|” custom_padding_phone=”” use_custom_width=”on” custom_width_px=”1175px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.6″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” header_text_align=”left” custom_margin=”|0px|24px|0px|false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”] 2026 Season The 2026 Season is dedicated to the memory of our dear friend, Ralph “Chris” Christoffersen, whose generosity, friendship, and
- [Ticketing Information](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/ticket-info/) - How, when and where to buy Colorado Music Festival Tickets, subscriptions, packages.
- [Government and Foundations](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/government-and-foundations/) - Foundations and government agencies are key partners in the Colorado Music Festival’s success, helping to sustain the Festival’s rich tradition of artistic excellence and support new ways of deepening our engagement with communities throughout the Front Range and across the country. Grants and sponsorships can provide general support or can be directed to a particular
- [Support Us](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/support/) - Support classical music in Boulder. Learn how you can give to Colorado Music Festival today.
- [Giving Circles](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/support/giving-circles/) - Join a Giving Circle and help sustain the future of live classical music.
- [Our Staff](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/about-the-festival/staff/) - Take time to get to know the staff working hard to make the Colorado Music Festival a reality every summer in beautiful Boulder.
- [Dining Options & Special Offers](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/plan-your-visit/dining-options/) - Explore top Boulder dining options before or after your Colorado Music Festival concert.
- [Peter Oundjian, Music Director](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/about-the-festival/peter-oundjian/) - The Colorado Music Festival's music director, Peter Oundjian has a multi-faceted portfolio as a conductor, violinist, professor, and artistic advisor.
- [Colorado Music Festival Orchestra](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/about-the-festival/orchestra/) - Meet our orchestra, with Peter Oundjian, Music Director; Jean-Marie Zeitouni, Principal Guest Conductor; Michael Christie, Music Director Laureate.
- [Board of Directors](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/about-the-festival/board-of-directors/) - Meet the Colorado Music Festival's Board of Directors, the team that helps bring our summer classical musical festival to life.
- [Family-Friendly Activities](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/festival/family-friendly/) - Bring the whole family to the Colorado Music Festival! We consider all of our classical concerts to be family-friendly, but here are some recommendations.
- [6 Easy Reasons to Travel to the Colorado Music Festival This Summer](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/plan-your-visit/visiting-boulder/) - Experience world-class classical music at the historic Chautauqua Auditorium. Discover why the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder is a top summer destination.
- [Press Room](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/press-room/) - Access press releases, media kits, and coverage of the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder.
- [2025 Festival Photos](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/2025-festival/) - Check out photos from the 2025 Colorado Music Festival, Colorado's premiere classical music festival bringing world-class classical musicians to Boulder every summer.
- [Orchestral Concerts](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/festival/full-orchestra/) - Thursday nights feature our full Festival orchestra, which is made up of approximately 100 musicians from some of the finest orchestras in the country.
- [Premieres](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/festival/premieres/) - This season includes world premieres by composers Timo Andres and Wang Jie and the Colorado premiere of a co-commissioned fanfare by Wynton Marsalis.
- [Open Rehearsals](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/festival/open-rehearsals/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Post Season” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text disabled_on=”on|on|on” admin_label=”Open Rehearsals TBD” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||true|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||true|false” disabled=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”]Watch this page for a list of open rehearsals for the upcoming season.[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row disabled_on=”off|off|off” admin_label=”In Season” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Open Rehearsal Schedule”
- [Behind the Music](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/behind-the-music/) - Go behind the scenes with artists and conductors at the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder, CO.
- [Special Events](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/special-events/) - The Colorado Music Festival’s special events are a critical component of our fundraising. Visit this page regularly as we announce plans for upcoming events.
- [Corporate Sponsorships](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/support/corporate-sponsorships/) - Partner with the Colorado Music Festival through corporate sponsorships and connect your brand with world-class music, arts patrons, and community impact.
- [Past Festival Seasons](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/festival/archive/) - Learn more about the many talented performances that occurred during the past few seasons of the Colorado Music Festival.
- [Join Our Postal Mail List](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/join-our-postal-mail-list/) - Get concert news and updates from Colorado Music Festival delivered straight to your mailbox.
- [Tiny Rock Concerts (2022)](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/tiny-rock-concerts/) - These pop-up concerts, performed with the flatirons of Boulder as a backdrop, provide a unique opportunity for the public to experience the world-class talent of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra and guest artists.
- [Artists-in-Residence](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/about-the-festival/artists-in-residence/) - CMF Artists-in-Residence
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- [2024 Season Slideshow](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/season-photos/) - Check out photos from our 2024 season! Musicians, patrons, and beautiful Boulder, Colorado, where our classical music festival calls home.
- [Information Form](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/information-form/) - Fill out our information form to help us keep in touch about the Colorado Music Festival.
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- [Irresistible Symphonic Masterpieces](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/festival/unmissable-symphonies/) - In 2022 we are excited to welcome our full, Mahler-sized Festival orchestra back to the Chautauqua stage in Boulder.
- [About Us](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/about-the-festival/) - Colorado Music Festival is a summer classical concert season in Boulder, showcasing Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni & the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra.
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- [While You're Here](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/plan-your-visit/while-youre-here/) - Learn more about the on-site experience at Chautaqua in Boulder, including your options for a pre-concert dinner.
- [Corporate Sponsorship](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/ways-to-give/corporate-sponsorship/) - Your business can support the Colorado Music Festival’s vision of bringing renowned artists and rising-star talent to our destination classical music festival.
- [Volunteer](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/ways-to-give/volunteer/) - Interested in ushering for our classical music festival? Or signing up for other volunteer activities? We are always looking for people who care about music.
- [Legacy Club – A Lasting Legacy](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/ways-to-give/legacy-giving/) - Each legacy gift, large or small, helps strengthen the Colorado Music Festival. Discover the many benefits and powerful stories of our Legacy Club members.
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- [Social Visitors Landing Page](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/social/) - Experience the magic of music in one of Boulder’s most iconic settings. Let us fill your summer evenings with unforgettable experiences.
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- [Plan Your visit](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/plan-your-visit/) - Plan your visit to Boulder, Colorado for the Colorado Music Festival, and partake in local adventures, culture, and delicious food.
- [Pre-Concert Talks](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/pre-concert-talks/) - We are currently working on options for you to experience pre-concert talks digitally.
- [Livestream Concerts](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/livestream-concerts/) - Livestream classical music concerts.
- [Chamber Orchestra Concerts](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/festival/chamber-orchestra-concerts/) - Experience the refined sounds of a small orchestra and chamber orchestra masterpieces at our classical music festival this summer.
- [Contact Us](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/contact/) - Contact the Colorado Music Festival's administrative office in Boulder County, Colorado.
- [Health and Safety](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/about-the-festival/health-and-safety/) - COVID-19 and health and safety updates will be published here for the Colorado Music Festival's 2022 season.
- [Giving Tuesday](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/ways-to-give/giving-tuesday/) - In 2020, the arts organizations that you love need your support more than ever. Read our story and lend your support on #GivingTuesday (December 1).
- [Festival](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/festival/)
- [Virtual Ticket: July 8 | Brahms 4 + Pianist Stewart Goodyear](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/virtual-ticket-july-8/) - Virtual Tickets are no longer available for this concert
- [Virtual Ticket: July 3 | Family Concert: The Story of Babar (free!)](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/virtual-ticket-july-3/) - Virtual Tickets are no longer available for this concert
- [Virtual Ticket: July 1 | Beethoven 7 + Augustin Hadelich](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/virtual-ticket-july-1/) - Virtual Tickets are no longer available for this concert
- [Virtual Ticket: August 5 | Beethoven’s Eroica + Joel Thompson’s World Premiere](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/virtual-ticket-august-5/) - Learn more about this concert here Virtual Tickets are $15 per concert Read our Virtual Ticket FAQs If you are planning to purchase in-person tickets to this concert, you will automatically receive a Virtual Ticket and do not need to purchase one Virtual Ticket buyers will receive a link good for unlimited views for 30
- [Virtual Ticket: July 29 | Hadelich Plays Beethoven’s Violin Concerto](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/virtual-ticket-july-29/) - Learn more about this concert here Virtual Tickets are $15 per concert Read our Virtual Ticket FAQs If you are planning to purchase in-person tickets to this concert (July 29 & 30), you will automatically receive a Virtual Ticket and do not need to purchase one Virtual Ticket buyers will receive a link good for
- [Virtual Ticket: July 22 | Beethoven Op. 131 + Hannah Lash’s World Premiere](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/virtual-ticket-july-22/) - Learn more about this concert here Virtual Tickets are $15 per concert Read our Virtual Ticket FAQs If you are planning to purchase in-person tickets to this concert, you will automatically receive a Virtual Ticket and do not need to purchase one Virtual Ticket buyers will receive a link good for unlimited views for 30
- [Virtual Ticket: July 15 | Olga Kern + Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/virtual-ticket-july-15/) - Learn more about this concert here Virtual Tickets are $15 per concert Read our Virtual Ticket FAQs If you are planning to purchase in-person tickets to this concert (July 15 & 16), you will automatically receive a Virtual Ticket and do not need to purchase one Virtual Ticket buyers will receive a link good for
- [Register for Arts in the Park: Ivalas Quartet](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/arts-in-the-park-register/) - Learn more about this concert here
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- [Golf Tournament](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/special-events/festival-golf-tournament/) - Golf Tournament at Lake Valley Golf Club Monday, September 30, 2019 11:30 am Lunch | 1:00 pm Shotgun tee off | $135/person or $500/foursome The Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts offer you an exciting fun-filled day at the Front Range’s marvelous private Lake Valley Golf Club. Following after last year’s successful tournament
- [Host a Musician](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/ways-to-give/volunteer/host-a-musician/) - Every summer residents of Boulder open their homes to approximately eighty musicians for the 6-week Festival. This tradition has forged many lasting friendships
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## Orchestra Members

- [Jason Sato](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/jason-sato/)
- [Nicolee Kuester](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/nicolee-kuester/)
- [Louis DeMartino](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/louis-demartino/) - Currently Assistant Professor of Clarinet at the University of Oregon, Staten Island native Louis DeMartino also serves as the principal clarinetist of the Salem Chamber Orchestra, Eugene’s Orchestra NEXT, principal of the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder, and bass clarinetist of the Artosphere Festival Orchestra in Fayetteville, AR. Louis has performed with the Oregon Symphony,
- [Stephen Laifer](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/stephen-laifer/)
- [Andrea Mumm Trammell](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/andrea-mumm/) - A native of New Jersey, Andrea Mumm holds the Principal Harp chair of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and is also Principal Harp for the Colorado Music Festival. Praised for her ability to “handle filigree solo passage with aplomb” and her “serene…and sweetly swoony” playing by the Charlotte Observer, Andrea is regarded as one of the
- [Mark Deatherage](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/mark-deatherage/) - Mark Deatherage joined The Phoenix Symphony as Associate Principal Viola in 2008, and as Acting Principal Viola in 2009. Born and raised in Saint Louis, Missouri, Mr. Deatherage has been professionally engaged by many orchestras in the midwest including the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2007-2008
- [Vivienne Spy](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/vivienne-spy/) - Vivienne Spy has performed as both a solo and collaborative pianist in throughout the USA and Australia. She currently plays orchestral piano with the San Antonio Symphony and is the Principal Keyboard player with the Colorado Music Festival. She enjoys all the keyboard instruments including piano harpsichord, organ and celeste but a particular favorite is
- [Carson McTeer](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/carson-mcteer/)
- [Lisa Vaupel](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/lisa-vaupel-2/)
- [Tim Ressler](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/tim-ressler-2/)
- [Caleb Christiansen](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/caleb-christiansen/)
- [Emily Houston](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/emily-houston/)
- [Eric Chi](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/eric-chi/)
- [Matt Lengas](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/matt-lengas/)
- [Jessy Je Young Kim](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/jessy-je-young-kim/)
- [Evgeny Zvonnikov](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/evgeny-zvonnikov/)
- [Helen Vassiliou](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/helen-vassiliou/)
- [Chloé Tardif](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/chloe-tardif/)
- [Sophia Stoyanovich](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/sophia-stoyanovich/)
- [Aimee Toomes Lopez](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/aimee-toomes/) - Violinist Aimee Toomes Lopez, a Washington DC native, joined the San Antonio Symphony in 2008. Prior to that she performed for four years with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. During her time with the New World Symphony, Aimee enjoyed opportunities to work with such artists as the
- [Yuqi Li](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/yuqi-li/)
- [You-xin Aaron Li](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/you-xin-aaron-li/)
- [Lenora Leggatt](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/lenora-cox-leggatt/) - Originally from Rochester, New York, Lenora Leggatt began studying violin at age 7 and made her solo debut with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra at 16. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music studying with Catherine Tait, Camilla Wicks, and Zvi Zeitlin, and Master of Music degree from the Cleveland
- [Audrey Lee](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/audrey-lee/)
- [Bradley Bascon](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/bradley-bascon/)
- [Yumi Sagiuchi Shultz](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/yumi-sagiuchi-schultz/) - Yumi Sagiuchi Shultz has been a member of the Bergen Philharmonic in Norway since 2012. She received her bachelor's degree from Northwestern University under the tutelage of Roland and Almita Vamos and attended graduate school at New England Conservatory where she studied with Kim Kashkashian. She was a New World Symphony fellow from 2009-2012 and
- [Wenmin Zhang](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/wenmin-zhang/)
- [Viviana Cumplido Wilson](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/viviana-cumplido-wilson/) - Powell Artist Viviana Cumplido Wilson has served as Principal Flute of The Phoenix Symphony since 2006, and the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder since 2010. Prior to her appointment in Phoenix, Viviana held the same position with the Tucson Symphony for three seasons. Ms. Cumplido Wilson keeps busy with an active teaching and chamber music
- [Tommy Morrison](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/tommy-morrison/)
- [Steve Hanusofski](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/steve-hanusofski/)
- [Peter Wilson](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/peter-wilson/) - Peter Wilson was born in Philadelphia, PA and began his percussion studies at the age of 6. After completing his studies with Alan Abel at Temple University, he moved to the New York City area. Since 2002 Peter has performed frequently in the US and abroad with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra,
- [Paul Macres](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/paul-macres/) - Minnesota native Paul Macres is a bassist with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. He has performed with many ensembles across the country, including the Minnesota Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Alabama Symphony Orchestra, and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Internationally, he has played guest principal bass with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra (Norway), and has toured
- [Noémie Golubovic](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/noemie-golubovic/)
- [Natalie Lee](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/natalie-lee/)
- [Morgen Johnson](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/morgen-johnson/)
- [Matt Heller](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/matt-heller/)
- [Mark Foley](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/mark-foley/) - Mark Foley is Professor of Double Bass at Wichita State University, and Principal Double Bass in the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, where he has been featured as a concerto soloist. Formerly a member of the Rochester Philharmonic, he also performs extensively as a jazz artist. Dr. Foley received his BM from the University of Minnesota, his
- [Lucie Ticho](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/lucie-ticho/)
- [Laura Dwyer](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/laura-dwyer/) - Laura Dwyer Laura Dwyer served as the Principal Flute of the Sarasota Opera Orchestra for seven seasons. She has been a member of the Santa Fe Symphony since 2000 and the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra since 2008. Laura performs regularly with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, The Palm Beach Opera, the Florida Orchestra, the Phoenix Symphony,
- [Kirby Nunez](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/kirby-nunez/)
- [Kevin Lin](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/kevin-lin/)
- [Kate Arndt](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/kate-arndt/)
- [Karl Fenner](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/karl-fenner/)
- [Juliette Kang](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/juliette-kang/)
- [Joshua Lauretig](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/joshua-lauretig/) - Joshua Lauretig, hailed for his "considerable musicianship" and "beautiful rich sound" by coolcleveland.com and “apparent virtuosity and lyricism” by the Talbot Spy, is the second oboist of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. He also serves as the second oboist of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra and has previously served as second oboe and solo English Horn
- [Joseph Petrasek](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/joseph-petrasek/) - Joseph Petrasek was appointed Principal Percussion of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in 2017. Previously, he served as Associate Principal Percussion of the Kansas City Symphony for 8 seasons, and as a percussion fellow in the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida. Joseph has appeared as Guest Principal with the San Francisco Symphony, and has
- [Jessica Petrasek](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/jessica-petrasek/)
- [Jeffrey Work](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/jeffrey-work/) - Jeffrey Work joined the Oregon Symphony as Principal Trumpet in the fall of 2006, following 13 years as an active freelance musician in the Boston area. Since 1999, he has also served as Principal Trumpet of the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder, during its six-week-long summer seasons. As an orchestral musician Work can be heard
- [Jason Robins](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/jason-robins/)
- [Gerald Wood](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/gerald-wod/)
- [Gerald Scholl](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/gerald-scholl/) - Originally from Massachusetts, Gerald Scholl received his Bachelors Degree in performance at Boston University and Masters Degree at New England Conservatory of Music studying with Tom Gauger and Vic Firth respectively. In 2003, Gerald joined the Wichita Symphony Orchestra (WSO) as Principal Timpanist/Principal Percussionist. He has also held principal positions with the Israel Chamber Orchestra, Rhode
- [Eric M. Berlin](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/eric-berlin/) - Yamaha Performing Artist Eric Berlin has made the music of our time the focus of his career. As a soloist, he has commissioned, premiered and recorded new works for trumpet from some of today’s most important composers, including Christopher Rouse, George Tsontakis, Stephen Paulus, Joseph Turrin, Anthony Plog, Eric Ewazen, and James Stephenson. Much of
- [Emily Richardson](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/emily-richardson/)
- [Elizabeth Jaffe](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/elizabeth-jaffe/) - A native of San Jose, California, violist Elizabeth Jaffe received a Bachelor’s Degree from Indiana University, a Master’s Degree from the Manhattan School of Music, and a Diplome d’Etudes Musicales from the Conservatoire Superieur de Paris. She currently serves as Principal Violist of the Reading Symphony; Associate Principal Violist of the Delaware Symphony; and as a member of the
- [Elise Haukenes](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/elise-haukenes/)
- [Derek Lockhart](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/derek-lockhart/) - Derek Lockhart enjoys a diverse musical career as a chamber musician, orchestral performer, commercial artist, and educator. His performances have been heard on five continents including his appointment as Assistant Principal Trumpet with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. During his tenure with the New World Symphony, he worked as an instructor and chamber music coach for the
- [David Morrissey](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/david-morrissey/) - David Morrissey is a California native, born and raised in Los Angeles. In 2008, he won the International Audition for the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. He began playing the cello at the age of 8, and while in high school, started taking lessons with Ronald Leonard at the University of Southern California. Enrolled in two high
- [David Crowe](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/david-crowe/)
- [Caleb Breidenbaugh](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/caleb-breidenbaugh/)
- [Bruce Owen](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/bruce-owen/) - Bruce Owen has been the assistant principal viola of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in New Orleans since 1999, after having been in the viola section as one of the founding members of the musician run orchestra. He has also performed with the Columbus, Dallas, and Baltimore Symphonies. Bruce earned his Bachelor and Master of Music
- [Bridget Pasker](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/bridget/)
- [Borys B. Smolaga](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/borys-smolaga/)
- [Austin Huntington](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/austin-huntington/)
- [Andrew Karr](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/andrew-karr/) - Andrew Karr, Adjunct Instructor of French Horn at the University of South Florida , is a member of the USF Faculty Brass Quintet. He was appointed co-principal horn of the Florida West Coast Symphony in October 2007, after performing as second horn in that orchestra since 2004. Prior to that, he was principal horn of
- [Ahra Cho](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/ahra-cho/)
- [Adam Trussell](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/adam-trussell/) - Originally from Portland, Maine, Adam Trussell now plays in the Houston Symphony as their contrabassoonist. He has held other full-time positions with the Oregon Symphony (2011-2019) and the Omaha Symphony (2005-2011). In addition to playing in orchestras, Adam loves teaching bassoon students. He's been on the faculty of many colleges and also teaches privately. He
- [Aaron Merritt](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/aaron-merritt/) - Aaron Merritt (Vocal Ensemble) has been Adjunct Professor Music Theory since 2009 and Adjunct Professor of Cello at New World School of the Arts since 2006. In addition to being an alumnus of the NWSA High School, Mr. Merritt was a fellow of the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. He
- [Valentin Ragusitu](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/valentin-ragusitu/) - Principal violist Valentin Ragusitu joined the Toledo Symphony in 1999. Mr. Ragusitu has a long and distinguished career as principal violist, soloist and chamber musician. Mr. Ragusitu began studying viola at age of 10 in his home country Romania. He received several first prize awards at the prestigious national string competitions in Romania including the
- [Tessa Gotman](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/tessa-gotman/) - Tessa Gotman, a native of St. Louis, MO, began her studies at age 5. She received her Bachelor's degree from New England Conservatory of Music in 2008 studying with Lucy Chapman. She then received a Master's degree in violin performance from Arizona State University under the instruction of Dr. Jonathan Swartz. In addition to being
- [Lisa Vaupel](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/lisa-vaupel/) - Violinist Lisa Vaupel is an accomplished ensemble player who concertizes in the United States and abroad, joining Serafin String Quartet in 2013. She has been a returning collaborative violinist at the Colorado Music Festival, (Boulder, CO), Delaware Symphony’s Champagne Chamber Series, Sequoia Chamber Workshop (Arcata, CA), Sundays at Three (Columbia, MD), The Bach Concert Series
- [Jean Posekany](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/jean-posekany/) - After studying the piano and violin for 15 years, Jean discovered her true passion for playing the double bass at the age of twenty. She was awarded a full scholarship from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where she earned her bachelor’s degree in Bass Performance. Jean continued to master her musical skills as the
- [Alice Hong](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/alice-hong/) - Currently based in Atlanta, Georgia, Alice Hong is an international award-winner both as a violinist and composer. She was included on CBC’s 2018 edition of “30 Hot Classical Musicians Under 30” and has been featured as a composer-performer in the Atlanta Symphony’s Conversation of Note series with Robert Spano. As a violinist, Alice is a
- [Dominique Corbeil](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/dominique-corbeil/) - Born in Montreal, violinist Dominique Corbeil has performed with orchestras in the U.S., Europe and Canada. She received her musical training at the University of Montreal, studying with noted violin soloist Vladimir Landsman, and at Montclair State University with Oscar Ravina of the New York Philharmonic. Currently Ms. Corbeil serves as assistant principal second violin with the
- [Karen Pommerich](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/karen-pommerich/) - During the CMF “off season” violinist Karen Pommerich resides in Jacksonville, Florida. Her orchestras include the Jacksonville Symphony and IRIS Orchestra, as well as freelance work with the Florida Orchestra, Sarasota Orchestra and Opera Tampa. She is active as an orchestral and chamber music coach for youth orchestras, performing arts schools and music camps, and
- [Jim Wallenberg](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/jim-wallenberg/) - James Wallenberg began violin at 9 years of age studying with his mother! He received his Bachelor of Music in Music Education in 1974 from Ithaca College and his Masters of Music in Violin Performance from the Yale Graduate School of Music in 1976, studying with Broadus Erle and Syoko Aki. In 1978 he joined the
- [Michael Hosford](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/michael-hosford/) - Michael Hosford is from Woodbine, Maryland. He studied at Oberlin Conservatory with trombonist/composer Raymond Premru and at Aspen Music Festival with composer Charles Jones, and later moved to New York to complete Bachelors and Masters degrees in trombone performance at the Juilliard School. Before moving to Jacksonville, he spent eleven years as a freelancer in
- [Peter Oundjian](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/peter-oundjian/)
- [Evan Kahn](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/evan-kahn/)
- [Darren Carter](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/darren-carter/)
- [DJ Cheek](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/dj-cheek/) - DJ Cheek joined the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra as Principal Viola in August 2021. In November 2023 he will make his FWSO subscription debut as soloist in Bartók’s Viola Concerto. Prior to his current appointment, DJ played Principal Viola for four seasons in the Jacksonville Symphony. In recent years he appeared as guest Principal with
- [Olav Van Hezewijk](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/olav-van-hezewijk/) - A native of Holland, Olav van Hezewijk is in his 24th year here at the Colorado Music Festival, where he has been a featured soloist on numerous occasions. He was appointed English Horn/Assistant Principal Oboe by Giora Bernstein and, in 2000, performed Arne Running's Concertino for English Horn and String Orchestra with Bernstein's successor, Michael
- [Joseph Meyer](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/orchestra_members/joseph-meyer/) - Joe Meyer, violin, is an active soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral leader who has been garnering critical acclaim throughout the country. He has been described by the San Francisco Classical Voice as “a standout player, both technically brilliant and musically innovative”. The Miami Herald has called his solo playing “exquisite”, while the New Orleans Times

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## Blocked IP

- [36.255.32.239](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/ip/36-255-32-239/)

## Venues

- [Tent to the north of Chautauqua Auditorium](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/venue/tent-to-the-north-of-chautauqua-auditorium/)
- [eTown Hall](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/venue/etown-hall/)
- [Chautauqua Auditorium](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/venue/chautauqua-auditorium/) - All Colorado Music Festival concerts are held in Boulder's beautiful and historic Chautauqua Auditorium. For information on how to get to Chautauqua, visit this page: coloradomusicfestival.org/plan-your-visit/know-before-you-go/. For a map of The Colorado Chautauqua and other information, visit www.chautauqua.com/2021/map-directions.
- [Boulder's Civic Area: Glen Huntington Band Shell](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/venue/boulders-civic-area-glen-huntington-band-shell/)
- [](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/venue/209582/)
- [Boulder JCC](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/venue/boulder-jcc/)

## Organizers

- [Create Boulder](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/organizer/create-boulder/)
- [Colorado Music Festival](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/organizer/colorado-music-festival/)

## Events

- [Himari Plays Sibelius + Tchaikovsky 5](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/himari-plays-sibelius-tchaikovsky-5/) - The 2026 Festival opens with a once-in-a-generation violinist: Himari, a 14-year-old phenomenon who has already collected substantial awards and recognition, performs Sibelius’s Concerto for Violin, full of Nordic snow and moody skies. Just as Sibelius invokes his native Finland, Tchaikovsky’s dramatic Fifth Symphony is infused with Russian colors. Composer Carter Pann also unveils a brand new piece of music to celebrate the start of the Festival season.
- ["Create Boulder Night" at eTown Hall](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/create-boulder-night-at-etown-hall/) - On July 18, Create Boulder, in association with eTown, introduces Create Boulder Nights at eTown Hall. Create Boulder Nights is a new quarterly event series, showcasing the diversity of performing arts in Boulder in a fun and exciting social setting. Enjoy Happy Hour in the eTown Café, featuring light bites from The Post while getting a preview of the music, dance, and
- [CPR Classical Night: Prokofiev, Copland, Rossini & Ravel](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/prokofiev-copland-rossini-ravel/) - Conductor Gemma New returns to lead a varied program, beginning with Prokofiev’s cheerful “Classical” Symphony, which he referred to as “a symphony as Mozart or Hayden might have written it.” Ricardo Morales joins the Festival Orchestra to perform Copland’s Clarinet Concerto — penned during a four-month tour of Latin America, the pulsing rhythms of Brazil are woven throughout Copland’s trademark jazz and lyricism. Morales continues with one of music’s finest showcases for the clarinet, Rossini’s challenging Introduction, Theme, and Variations. The program concludes with Ravel’s beloved Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) suite, where we meet Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb, Beauty and the Beast, and more.
- [Open Rehearsal](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/open-rehearsal/) - Take a peek behind the scenes to experience how Music Director Peter Oundjian and the Festival Orchestra prepare for their world-class performances. Free and open to the public. Note: Attendees are asked to be quiet during rehearsal. No talking, cell phone use or frequent movement in and out of the venue, Eating and drinking inside
- [Open Rehearsal](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/open-rehearsal-3/) - Take a peek behind the scenes to experience how Music Director Peter Oundjian and the Festival Orchestra prepare for their world-class performances. Free and open to the public. Note: Attendees are asked to be quiet during rehearsal. No talking, cell phone use or frequent movement in and out of the venue, Eating and drinking inside
- [Open Rehearsal](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/open-rehearsal-2/) - Take a peek behind the scenes to experience how Music Director Peter Oundjian and the Festival Orchestra prepare for their world-class performances. Free and open to the public. Note: Attendees are asked to be quiet during rehearsal. No talking, cell phone use or frequent movement in and out of the venue, Eating and drinking inside
- [Himari Plays Sibelius + Tchaikovsky 5](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/himari-plays-sibelius-tchaikovsky-5-2/) - The 2026 Festival opens with a once-in-a-generation violinist: Himari, a 14-year-old phenomenon who has already collected substantial awards and recognition, performs Sibelius’s Concerto for Violin, full of Nordic snow and moody skies. Just as Sibelius invokes his native Finland, Tchaikovsky’s dramatic Fifth Symphony is infused with Russian colors. Composer Carter Pann also unveils a brand new piece of music to celebrate the start of the Festival season.
- [Post-Concert Talk-Back](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/post-concert-talk-back-5/) - 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.
- [Post-Concert Talk-Back](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/post-concert-talk-back-4/) - Immediately following the July 31 concert, you’re invited to a brief, interactive Q&A with Music Director Peter Oundjian and pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii in Chautauqua Auditorium. Free to ticketholders.
- [Post-Concert Talk-Back](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/post-concert-talk-back-3/) - Immediately following the July 24 concert, you’re invited to a brief, interactive Q&A with Maestro Leonard Slatkin and violinist Njioma Grevious in Chautauqua Auditorium. Free to ticketholders.
- [Post-Concert Talk-Back](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/post-concert-talk-back-2/) - Immediately following the July 17 concert, you’re invited to a brief, interactive Q&A with Music Director Peter Oundjian and pianist Yuja Wang in Chautauqua Auditorium. Free to ticketholders.
- [Post-Concert Talk-Back](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/post-concert-talk-back/) - Immediately following the July 10 concert, you’re invited to a brief, interactive Q&A with Music Director Peter Oundjian and violinist Himari in Chautauqua Auditorium. Free to ticketholders.
- [Talk Under The Tent](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/talks-under-the-tent-2/) - Curious to hear the stories behind the fantastic music being performed at the Colorado Music Festival? Eager to meet new Festival friends who share your love of music? Your concert guide will give a 30-minute presentation and answer your questions about the selected music and guest artists. Free to ticketholders. Deborah Schmit-Lobis, Speaker - Center
- [Talk Under The Tent](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/talks-under-the-tent-3/) - Curious to hear the stories behind the fantastic music being performed at the Colorado Music Festival? Eager to meet new Festival friends who share your love of music? Your concert guide will give a 30-minute presentation and answer your questions about the selected music and guest artists. Free to ticketholders. Jordan Grantonic, Speaker, Center for
- [Talk Under The Tent](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/talks-under-the-tent/) - Curious to hear the stories behind the fantastic music being performed at the Colorado Music Festival? Eager to meet new Festival friends who share your love of music? Your concert guide will give a 30-minute presentation and answer your questions about the selected music and guest artists. Free to ticketholders. Jordan Grantonic, Speaker - Center
- [Talk Under The Tent](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/talks-under-the-tent-4/) - Curious to hear the stories behind the fantastic music being performed at the Colorado Music Festival? Eager to meet new Festival friends who share your love of music? Your concert guide will give a 30-minute presentation and answer your questions about the selected music and guest artists. Free to ticketholders. Kathryn Kucsan, PhD, Speaker -
- [Talk Under The Tent](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/talks-under-the-tent-5/) - Curious to hear the stories behind the fantastic music being performed at the Colorado Music Festival? Eager to meet new Festival friends who share your love of music? Your concert guide will give a 30-minute presentation and answer your questions about the selected music and guest artists. Free to ticketholders. Deborah Schmit-Lobis, Speaker - Center for
- [Conduct Yourself with Maestro Leonard Slatkin](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/conduct-yourself/) - Get insights about conducting from Maestro Leonard Slatkin in a hands-on workshop onstage at Chautauqua Auditorium. Most of us have watched a conductor walk onto the stage, raise a baton, and lead an orchestra through a performance. But what is actually happening on the podium? How does a conductor communicate with dozens of musicians at
- [Yuja Wang + West Side Story](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/yuja-wang-west-side-story-2/) - “Pianist Yuja Wang is a dazzler,” claims Cleveland Classical. “She has a way of dressing, of taking the stage, and of bowing that bespeaks confidence and star quality.” In her Festival debut, Wang plays Barber’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Piano Concerto, a spectacular rainbow of sound. Music Director Peter Oundjian leads Bernstein’s vibrant Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, as well as short works from Prokofiev and Saint-Saëns.
- [Yuja Wang + West Side Story](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/yuja-wang-west-side-story/) - “Pianist Yuja Wang is a dazzler,” claims Cleveland Classical. “She has a way of dressing, of taking the stage, and of bowing that bespeaks confidence and star quality.” In her Festival debut, Wang plays Barber’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Piano Concerto, a spectacular rainbow of sound. Music Director Peter Oundjian leads Bernstein’s vibrant Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, as well as short works from Prokofiev and Saint-Saëns.
- [Season Finale: Mahler 3](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/mahler-3/) - 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 and the Boulder Children’s Chorus join the Festival Orchestra to give this epic symphony its voice.
- [Free Family Concert - SOLD OUT](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/free-family-concert/) - Bring your littlest listeners to our annual Free Family Concert! We are pleased to offer this concert in Spanish and English, and at no charge, so gather the whole family to enjoy classical and popular favorites. Ideal for music lovers aged five and under. Join us after the concert for a free Family Lawn Fair featuring food trucks, live music performances, and more, in partnership with the Colorado Chautauqua Association.
- [Holst’s The Planets & A World Premiere](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/holsts-the-planets-2/) - Music Director Peter Oundjian helms one of music’s grandest spectacles: Holst’s The Planets. From the hammering “Mars, the Bringer of War” to the ethereal “Neptune, the Mystic,” this seven-planet suite lures the heavens into Chautauqua Auditorium. Electrifying pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii performs Rachmaninoff’s dreamy Second Piano Concerto. This monumental program begins with the world premiere by Leigha Amick, a composer who aims “to spark intellectual curiosity and express human experience.”
- [Holst’s The Planets & A World Premiere](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/holsts-the-planets/) - Music Director Peter Oundjian helms one of music’s grandest spectacles: Holst’s The Planets. From the hammering “Mars, the Bringer of War” to the ethereal “Neptune, the Mystic,” this seven-planet suite lures the heavens into Chautauqua Auditorium. Electrifying pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii performs Rachmaninoff’s dreamy Second Piano Concerto. This monumental program begins with the world premiere by Leigha Amick, a composer who aims “to spark intellectual curiosity and express human experience.”
- [All American: Copland, Gershwin & More](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/all-american-copland-gershwin-more/) - Six-time Grammy-winning conductor and Music Director Laureate of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Leonard Slatkin joins the Festival for a program celebrating the distinctive American sound. This spotlight on American composers begins with Aaron Copland’s Rodeo with its iconic “Hoedown,” followed by a chaconne from John Corigliano’s romantic score for the film The Red Violin. After the break: Ron Nelson’s paean to the South’s Savannah River, a haunting adagio by “unmistakably American-sounding” Cindy McTee (Washington Post), and finally George Gershwin’s jazzy symphonic poem An American in Paris.
- [All American: Copland, Gershwin & More](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/all-american-copland-gershwin-more-2/) - Six-time Grammy-winning conductor and Music Director Laureate of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Leonard Slatkin joins the Festival for a program celebrating the distinctive American sound. This spotlight on American composers begins with Aaron Copland’s Rodeo with its iconic “Hoedown,” followed by a chaconne from John Corigliano’s romantic score for the film The Red Violin. After the break: Ron Nelson’s paean to the South’s Savannah River, a haunting adagio by “unmistakably American-sounding” Cindy McTee (Washington Post), and finally George Gershwin’s jazzy symphonic poem An American in Paris.
- [Pianist Michelle Cann + Symphonie Fantastique](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/pianist-michelle-cann-symphonie-fantastique/) - 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.
- [Pianist Michelle Cann + Symphonie Fantastique](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/pianist-michelle-cann-symphonie-fantastique-2/) - 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.
- [Danish String Quartet](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/danish-string-quartet/) - “None of us have any memory of our lives without the string quartet,” claims this highly sought-after ensemble of energetic musicians who met each other at music camp as teenagers. By audience request, the Danish String Quartet returns to the Robert Mann Chamber Music Series with a delectable program including works by Mozart, Shostakovich, and Ravel.
- [Beethoven & Stravinsky](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/beethoven-stravinsky/) - The Robert Mann Chamber Music Series continues with a program featuring the Festival’s own musicians. Beethoven’s only quintet for piano and wind is rife with rhapsodic dialogue between its instruments. In Stravinsky’s bitter L’Histoire du Soldat, a WWI soldier makes a deal with the devil in order to know the future, but — after a rousing story animated by music — the cunning devil keeps the upper hand.
- [Mozart: Haffner, Night Music & More](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/mozart-haffner-night-music-more/) - Music Director Peter Oundjian begins this all-Mozart marvel with a mysterious serenade for winds, which broods before turning suddenly buoyant. At the keyboard for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 is Tony Siqi Yun, a nuanced performer who plays with “every note personalized” (Musical America). Closing this revel of Mozart’s genius is his Haffner Symphony, a staggering work of energy and invention.
- [Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/tchaikovskys-souvenir-de-florence/) - The Robert Mann Chamber Music Series continues with a world premiere by “astonishingly innovative” composer James Stephenson (Musical America); while he writes deftly “in all walks of the musical landscape,” his new quartet features trumpet and strings. Following intermission, Tchaikovsky remembers Italy — by way of Russia, of course — in an irresistible sextet for strings, his final contribution to chamber music.
- [Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/bachs-brandenburg-concertos/) - Former Colorado Symphony Music Director Jeffrey Kahane returns to the Festival stage to lead all six of Bach’s celebrated Brandenburg Concertos with the help of trumpeter Maximilian Morel. Possibly the most revered of all Baroque music, this complete set of Bach’s masterpieces should be on every music-lover’s bucket list.
- [Canadian Brass](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/canadian-brass/) - The 2026 Robert Mann Chamber Music Series opens with “one of the most popular brass ensembles in the world” (Washington Post), the Juno Award-winning quintet Canadian Brass. With a discography of over 130 albums and an extensive worldwide touring schedule, Canadian Brass is a pioneer in bringing brass music to audiences through their trademark humor, charismatic stage presence, and sparkling musicianship.
- [Anne Akiko Meyers Plays Ravel](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/anne-akiko-meyers-plays-ravel/) - There is something for everyone in these energetic concerts! Be among the first to hear a new showpiece for violin, The Pacific Has No Memory, composed by Eric Whitacre and commissioned by Latin Grammy-winning violinist Anne Akiko Meyers. Meyers, “the coolest thing to happen to the violin since Stradivari” (Denver Post), also performs Ravel’s fiery Tzigane. Music Director Peter Oundjian opens the program with Copland’s idyllic tribute to the American heartland, Appalachian Spring, and concludes with one of the most recognizable pieces of music ever written: the achingly romantic Fantasy-Overture to Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet.
- [Anne Akiko Meyers Plays Ravel](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/anne-akiko-meyers-plays-ravel-2/) - There is something for everyone in these energetic concerts! Be among the first to hear a new showpiece for violin, The Pacific Has No Memory, composed by Eric Whitacre and commissioned by Latin Grammy-winning violinist Anne Akiko Meyers. Meyers, “the coolest thing to happen to the violin since Stradivari” (Denver Post), also performs Ravel’s fiery Tzigane. Music Director Peter Oundjian opens the program with Copland’s idyllic tribute to the American heartland, Appalachian Spring, and concludes with one of the most recognizable pieces of music ever written: the achingly romantic Fantasy-Overture to Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet.
- [SOLD OUT | Family Concert: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Missing Maestro](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/family-concert-sherlock-holmes-and-the-case-of-the-missing-maestro/) - When the orchestra discovers their Maestro is nowhere to be found, they panic — until the world's greatest detective agrees to take the case! All the musicians are suspects, which means Sherlock Holmes must investigate each of the instrument families — brass, woodwinds, strings, and percussion — to deduce who is behind this mystery. Will Sherlock be able to solve the Case of the Missing Maestro? Bring the whole family to find out!
- [CPR Classical Night: Tchaikovsky & Beethoven](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/tchaikovsky-beethoven/) - Known for dominating international cello competitions, Hayoung Choi possesses a talent not to be missed; here Choi performs Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, an elegant staple of cello repertoire. Guest conductor Maurice Cohn returns to the Chautauqua stage to lead Beethoven’s classically-styled First Symphony, the symphonic debut that established the composer as the luminary we know him as today. The program opens with Respighi’s five playful attempts to transcribe the sounds of doves, cuckoos, nightingales, and more.
- [Hélène Grimaud Plays Brahms](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/helene-grimaud-plays-gershwins-piano-concerto/) - “[Hélène] Grimaud doesn't sound like most pianists,” proclaims The New Yorker, also calling her “a reinventor of phrasings” and “taker of chances;” here she opens the 2025 Festival season with Brahms’ monumental First Piano Concerto. Surrounding Brahms’ intense work are familiar showstoppers: Ravel’s famously unrelenting Boléro, a dreamy suite from the ballet Daphnis et Chloé, and fantastic musical fireworks by Stravinsky.
- [Brahms 1 + Joan Tower’s World Premiere](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/brahms-1-joan-towers-world-premiere/) - These can’t-miss concerts bring together two Festival favorites: lauded composer Joan Tower, whose concerto A New Day premiered at the Festival to rave reviews, and saxophonist Steven Banks, who stunned audiences in 2021. Now these powerhouses unite to give the world premiere of Tower’s saxophone concerto Love Returns under the baton of Music Director Peter Oundjian. After intermission, the Festival Orchestra performs Brahms’ brilliant First Symphony, which helped the composer step out of Beethoven’s shadow; critic Eduard Hanslick claimed that “...even the layman will immediately recognize it as one of the most distinctive and magnificent works of the symphonic literature.”
- [Brahms 1 + Joan Tower’s World Premiere](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/brahms-1-joan-towers-world-premiere-2/) - These can’t-miss concerts bring together two Festival favorites: lauded composer Joan Tower, whose concerto A New Day premiered at the Festival to rave reviews, and saxophonist Steven Banks, who stunned audiences in 2021. Now these powerhouses unite to give the world premiere of Tower’s saxophone concerto Love Returns under the baton of Music Director Peter Oundjian. After intermission, the Festival Orchestra performs Brahms’ brilliant First Symphony, which helped the composer step out of Beethoven’s shadow; critic Eduard Hanslick claimed that “...even the layman will immediately recognize it as one of the most distinctive and magnificent works of the symphonic literature.”
- [An Evening of Mozart](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/an-evening-of-mozart/) - The Philadelphia Inquirer calls violinist Benjamin Beilman “poised and monstrously talented;” Beilman takes the stage with Mozart’s Fifth Violin Concerto, best known for its final movement’s “Turkish” style. Guest conductor Chloé Van Soeterstède leads the Festival through this all-Mozart program, which also includes the composer’s animated Symphony No. 34 as well as overtures to two of his most popular operas, Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro.
- [Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/beethovens-piano-concerto-no-3-2/) - Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto finds the composer moving toward his own personal style, displaying what would become his hallmark drama, spirit, and agitation; pianist Yeol Eum Son brings a “fearlessly fast articulation” (The Times) to the stage. Sofia Gubaidulina’s striking “Fairytale Poem” draws inspiration from a children’s story about creativity, and its music is fittingly full of color. Guest conductor Ryan Bancroft conducts this dynamic program, which also includes Shostakovich’s Tenth; written shortly after the Soviet dictator Stalin’s death, this symphony is rife with terror, passion, and oppression — until one final, hopeful ray of light.
- [Mahler 9](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/mahler-9/) - Music Director Peter Oundjian continues his tradition of closing the Festival season with a massive Mahler symphony. Composer Alban Berg once wrote of Mahler’s Ninth, “The first movement is the greatest Mahler ever composed. It is the expression of a tremendous love for this earth, the longing to live on it peacefully and to enjoy nature to its deepest depths – before death comes.” The myriad colors of life are present in the mighty Ninth, throughout which Mahler grieves, dances, basks in sunlight, and ultimately reflects on the enormity of it all.
- [Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/beethovens-piano-concerto-no-3/) - Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto finds the composer moving toward his own personal style, displaying what would become his hallmark drama, spirit, and agitation; pianist Yeol Eum Son brings a “fearlessly fast articulation” (The Times) to the stage. Sofia Gubaidulina’s striking “Fairytale Poem” draws inspiration from a children’s story about creativity, and its music is fittingly full of color. Guest conductor Ryan Bancroft conducts this dynamic program, which also includes Shostakovich’s Tenth; written shortly after the Soviet dictator Stalin’s death, this symphony is rife with terror, passion, and oppression — until one final, hopeful ray of light.
- [Yang Plays Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/yang-plays-rodrigos-concierto-de-aranjuez/) - Classical guitarist Xuefei Yang, known for her “feisty virtuosity, impeccable technique and sensitive musicianship” (New York Times), performs Rodrigo’s florid Concierto de Aranjuez; Rodrigo set out to evoke “the fragrance of magnolias, the singing of birds, and the gushing of fountains” of a royal estate in the Spanish city of Aranjuez. Kodály’s beguiling Dances of Galánta, which adapts sprightly Hungarian folk tunes, makes an exuberant dance partner for Rodrigo’s Concierto. After intermission, Schubert breaks free of classical conventions with his light and airy Fifth Symphony.
- [Beethoven 9 + Michael Abels’ Amplify](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/beethoven-9-michael-abels-amplify/) - Possibly the single most treasured symphony ever written — especially its beloved “Ode to Joy” — Beethoven’s influential Ninth Symphony celebrates brotherhood, forgiveness, and the quest for peace. Music Director Peter Oundjian conducts this masterwork, which also welcomes to the Festival stage soprano Lauren Snouffer, mezzo-soprano Abigail Nims, tenor Issachah Savage, bass Benjamin Taylor, and St. Martin’s Chamber Choir. Composer Michael Abels’ Amplify, co-commissioned by the Festival, opens the program; on top of his Pulitzer Prize-winning compositions for opera, audiences may recognize Abels’ work from film scores such as Get Out, Us, Chevalier, and more.
- [Beethoven 9 + Michael Abels’ Amplify](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/beethoven-9-michael-abels-amplify-2/) - Possibly the single most treasured symphony ever written — especially its beloved “Ode to Joy” — Beethoven’s influential Ninth Symphony celebrates brotherhood, forgiveness, and the quest for peace. Music Director Peter Oundjian conducts this masterwork, which also welcomes to the Festival stage soprano Lauren Snouffer, mezzo-soprano Abigail Nims, tenor Issachah Savage, bass Benjamin Taylor, and St. Martin’s Chamber Choir. Composer Michael Abels’ Amplify, co-commissioned by the Festival, opens the program; on top of his Pulitzer Prize-winning compositions for opera, audiences may recognize Abels’ work from film scores such as Get Out, Us, Chevalier, and more.
- [Hélène Grimaud Plays Brahms](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/helene-grimaud-plays-gershwins-piano-concerto-2/) - “[Hélène] Grimaud doesn't sound like most pianists,” proclaims The New Yorker, also calling her “a reinventor of phrasings” and “taker of chances;” here she opens the 2025 Festival season with Brahms’ monumental First Piano Concerto. Surrounding Brahms’ intense work are familiar showstoppers: Ravel’s famously unrelenting Boléro, a dreamy suite from the ballet Daphnis et Chloé, and fantastic musical fireworks by Stravinsky.
- [Dover Quartet](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/dover-quartet/) - The Robert Mann Chamber Music Series is delighted to welcome “one of the greatest quartets of the last 100 years” (BBC Music Magazine), the Dover Quartet, Ensemble-in-Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music. Dover’s program includes Janacek’s emotionally charged “Kreutzer Sonata,” Schumann’s vigorous A-Minor Quartet, and finally Tchaikovsky’s noble First String Quartet.
- [2025 Festival Gala](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/2025-festival-gala/) - 2025 Gala: A Night of Elegance and Speakeasy Secrets Step into the Roaring Twenties—where sophistication meets mystery.
- [Mozart & Dvořák](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/mozart-dvorak/) - The Robert Mann Chamber Music Series continues with a spotlight on the Festival’s own musicians. Mozart once considered his Quintet in E-Flat for Piano and Winds “the best work I have ever written;” its sense of spontaneity is beguiling. Dvořák’s Third String Quartet was one of his most successful compositions; like much of his most popular work, Op. 97 is flavored with melodies and rhythms he heard while visiting America, including various folk tunes and Native American drumming. The program begins with Nico Muhly’s minimalist Doublespeak, which was written as a gift for composer Philip Glass’ birthday and teems with stylistic rhythms and repetitions.
- [Brentano String Quartet](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/brentano-string-quartet-2/) - By popular demand, the Brentano String Quartet — Ensemble-in-Residence at the Yale School of Music — returns to the Robert Mann Chamber Music Series. The Times (London) raves, “Balance and intonation reach an almost unearthly level of perfection, yet there's nothing inhuman about these American musicians.” Brentano’s Romantic program includes Webern’s abstract Five Movements for String Quartet, Brahms’ sunny Third String Quartet, and Schubert’s poetic A-Minor Quartet, which borrows a theme from his incidental music to the play Rosamunde.
- [Schubert, Prokofiev & Brahms](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/schubert-prokofiev-brahms/) - The 2025 Robert Mann Chamber Music Series opens with a program highlighting the Festival’s own musicians. Schubert left his String Trio in B Flat, D. 471 unfinished, but its single complete movement is a Classical jewel full of spontaneity. Prokofiev’s dizzying Quintet in G Minor was originally written as a ballet based on Parisian circus life and features aggressive and ever-changing rhythms. Brahms’ Third Piano Quartet is at times unsettled; an autobiographical work for Brahms, the music’s evolving moods reflect the composer’s own heartaches.
- [Olga Kern & Grieg’s Peer Gynt](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/olga-kern-griegs-peer-gynt-2/) - Welcome back, Festival favorite Olga Kern! Fresh off a celebration of Rachmaninoff’s 150th anniversary, Kern performs his Second Piano Concerto — a success from its inception, this memorable concerto’s themes that have been borrowed by countless films, Sinatra songs, and more. After intermission, Colorado Public Radio’s Kabin Thomas narrates the outlandish tale of Peer Gynt, a hopeless yarn-spinner who lies and sneaks his way through many misadventures and ultimately learns his lesson. Audiences will immediately recognize Grieg’s music, including the unforgettable “In the Hall of the Mountain King” and “Morning Mood.” Guest conductor Gemma New leads this crowd-pleasing program, which opens with Vivian Fung’s inspirational Prayer.
- [Olga Kern & Grieg’s Peer Gynt](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/olga-kern-griegs-peer-gynt/) - Welcome back, Festival favorite Olga Kern! Fresh off a celebration of Rachmaninoff’s 150th anniversary, Kern performs his Second Piano Concerto — a success from its inception, this memorable concerto’s themes that have been borrowed by countless films, Sinatra songs, and more. After intermission, Colorado Public Radio’s Kabin Thomas narrates the outlandish tale of Peer Gynt, a hopeless yarn-spinner who lies and sneaks his way through many misadventures and ultimately learns his lesson. Audiences will immediately recognize Grieg’s music, including the unforgettable “In the Hall of the Mountain King” and “Morning Mood.” Guest conductor Gemma New leads this crowd-pleasing program, which opens with Vivian Fung’s inspirational Prayer.
- [Gabriela Lena Frank’s World Premiere](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/gabriela-lena-franks-world-premiere/) - Be the first to experience a brand new concerto by Gabriela Lena Frank, heralded as one of the most significant women composers in history by the Washington Post. This exciting new work was commissioned by the Festival and will be performed by Boulder’s Grammy-winning Takács Quartet as ensemble-soloist alongside the Orchestra. After intermission, Joan Tower’s brilliant Concerto for Orchestra allows for great moments of individual virtuosity, but ultimately it is the entire Orchestra that shines. “I had imagined a long and large landscape that had a feeling of space and distance,” Tower says of her Concerto for Orchestra, in which the music “travels a long road.” This program celebrates three generations of women composers and opens with Florence Price’s Adoration, originally conceived for solo organ and performed here in its stunning arrangement for strings.
- [Rite of Spring & Gluzman Plays Prokofiev](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/rite-of-spring-gluzman-plays-prokofiev-2/) - Famous for inciting a riot at its 1913 premiere due to its cutting-edge compositional techniques, Stravinsky’s Rite represents “the mystery and great surge of creative power of Spring.” BBC Music Magazine has praised violinist Vadim Gluzman’s performance of Prokofiev’s acerbic Second Violin Concerto as “a thing of great beauty.” This exuberant program opens with a spirited Short Ride in a Fast Machine, of which composer John Adams asks, “You know how it is when someone asks you to ride in a terrific sports car, and then you wish you hadn’t?”
- [Rite of Spring & Gluzman Plays Prokofiev](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/rite-of-spring-gluzman-plays-prokofiev/) - Famous for inciting a riot at its 1913 premiere due to its cutting-edge compositional techniques, Stravinsky’s Rite represents “the mystery and great surge of creative power of Spring.” BBC Music Magazine has praised violinist Vadim Gluzman’s performance of Prokofiev’s acerbic Second Violin Concerto as “a thing of great beauty.” This exuberant program opens with a spirited Short Ride in a Fast Machine, of which composer John Adams asks, “You know how it is when someone asks you to ride in a terrific sports car, and then you wish you hadn’t?”
- [Bruckner Bicentennial: Symphony No. 4](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/bruckner-bicentennial-symphony-no-4/) - “Look, how brightly the universe shines! Splendour falls on everything around…” Schoenberg’s chromatic and stunningly beautiful Transfigured Night draws inspiration from a poem about a woman harboring a dark secret and the man who loves her enough to forgive her. 2024 marks Schoenberg’s 150th birthday, as well as Bruckner’s 200th; this program continues the anniversary celebrations with some of the best-loved of Bruckner’s music, his Fourth Symphony. The hunt is on in this “Romantic” Symphony, which begins with daybreak and puts the horn section to work during its lively “Hunting of the Hare.” Music Director Peter Oundjian calls this inspired concert “the most beautiful program of the summer.”
- [Schubert’s Strings & Nielsen’s Winds](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/schuberts-strings-nielsens-winds/) - The Robert Mann Chamber Music Series continues by highlighting musicians from the Festival’s own ranks. One of the most beloved works ever written for wind quintet is this music by Carl Nielsen; he composed his Wind Quintet with five friends in mind, and this warmth, as well as the personality of each instrument, shines through. Schubert’s sublime and romantic C major String Quartet is regarded as one of the greatest string quartets of any era.
- [Haydn, Debussy & Mendelssohn](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/haydn-debussy-mendelssohn/) - The Robert Mann Chamber Music Series continues with a spotlight on the Festival’s own musicians. Haydn’s String Quartets achieved a new range of expression for secular music; his String Quartet C major, Op. 20, No. 2 is a diamond from start to finish. Debussy, a master of impressionism and fantasy, creates a quintessential dreamscape in his Sonata for Flute, Harp, and Viola. Instead of treating his string octet as two individual quartets, Mendelssohn’s innovative Octet finds all eight musicians working tightly together in, as the composer requested, “symphonic orchestral style.”
- [Awadagin Pratt + Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/awadagin-pratt-rimsky-korsakovs-scheherazade/) - Celebrated pianist Awadagin Pratt makes his Festival debut with music old and new, beginning with Bach’s nimble Keyboard Concerto in A major. Pratt then performs a piece he commissioned from lauded composer Jessie Montgomery; her Rounds is inspired by an epic poem by T.S. Eliot and the opposing forces that appear in nature — “action and reaction, dark and light, stagnant and swift.” In Eastern folklore, the princess Scheherazade told the cruel Sultan 1,001 stories in order to save her own life; Rimsky-Korsakov borrows Scheherazade’s tales of royalty, festivals, sea voyages, and more in his richly orchestrated fantasy.
- [Awadagin Pratt + Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/awadagin-pratt-rimsky-korsakovs-scheherazade-2/) - Celebrated pianist Awadagin Pratt makes his Festival debut with music old and new, beginning with Bach’s nimble Keyboard Concerto in A major. Pratt then performs a piece he commissioned from lauded composer Jessie Montgomery; her Rounds is inspired by an epic poem by T.S. Eliot and the opposing forces that appear in nature — “action and reaction, dark and light, stagnant and swift.” In Eastern folklore, the princess Scheherazade told the cruel Sultan 1,001 stories in order to save her own life; Rimsky-Korsakov borrows Scheherazade’s tales of royalty, festivals, sea voyages, and more in his richly orchestrated fantasy.
- [Mozart: Duo Pianos, Haffner & A Little Night Music](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/mozart-duo-pianos-haffner-a-little-night-music/) - The Washington Post declares that twin sister pianists Christina and Michelle Naughton “have to be heard to be believed”; the Festival is honored to welcome these audience favorites for an all-Mozart program. Following the charming serenade Eine kleine Nachtmusik (“A Little Night Music”), the Naughtons perform the Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, written for Mozart to play with his beloved sister Nannerl. After intermission is Mozart’s Haffner Symphony, a staggering work of intensity and invention.
- [Danish String Quartet](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/danish-string-quartet-2/) - “Yes, playing string quartets is our job, and yes it is hard work, but we mostly do it for pleasure, like we always did,” says the Danish String Quartet, a highly sought-after ensemble of energetic musicians who met each other at music camp as teenagers. The Quartet returns to the Robert Mann Chamber Music Series with a varied program including work by Haydn, Stravinsky, and Mozart, as well as Shostakovich’s profound String Quartet No. 3 and three Irish folk melodies by Celtic harper and composer Turlough O’Carolan.
- [Augustin Hadelich & Dvořák 7](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/augustin-hadelich-dvorak-7-2/) - Augustin Hadelich, one of the greatest violinists of all time, returns to perform Tchaikovsky’s unparalleled Violin Concerto. The deeply patriotic Dvořák wished to use his music to recognize the struggle and oppression of his fellow Czechs; he wrote of this urgent Seventh Symphony, “What is in my mind is Love, God, and my Fatherland." Kevin Puts’ Two Mountain Scenes, composed “with the impressive backdrop of the Rocky Mountains in mind” and beginning with “the sonic illusion of a single trumpet reverberating across the valley,” opens this wondrous program.
- [Augustin Hadelich & Dvořák 7](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/augustin-hadelich-dvorak-7/) - Augustin Hadelich, one of the greatest violinists of all time, returns to perform Tchaikovsky’s unparalleled Violin Concerto. The deeply patriotic Dvořák wished to use his music to recognize the struggle and oppression of his fellow Czechs; he wrote of this urgent Seventh Symphony, “What is in my mind is Love, God, and my Fatherland." Kevin Puts’ Two Mountain Scenes, composed “with the impressive backdrop of the Rocky Mountains in mind” and beginning with “the sonic illusion of a single trumpet reverberating across the valley,” opens this wondrous program.
- [Mahler 4 & Ravel’s Shéhérazade](https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/mahler-4-ravels-sheherazade/) - Music Director Peter Oundjian continues his tradition of ending the season with glorious music by Mahler. The composer built his Fourth Symphony around his own song “The Heavenly Life,” which borrows text from a Bavarian folk poem. “The angelic voices gladden our senses,” the poem proclaims, “so that everything awakens for joy.” Mahler’s sunniest symphony invokes bells, harp, and woodwinds; in keeping with the lightness of the work, Mahler insisted the soprano perform “with childlike, cheerful expression;” soprano Karina Gauvin joins the Festival in this role. This final concert of the season includes Ravel’s colorful twist on the Shéhérazade tales — again featuring Gauvin’s “glowing, flexible tone” (Opera News) — and the overture to Strauss’ most famous and farcical operetta, Die Fledermaus.

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