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Press Mentions

New York Times: A Road Trip to Sample America’s Many, Many Music Festivals 
“The players mostly hail from regional orchestras […] and they come together each summer to play with terrific commitment and no shortage of virtuosity.”

BBC Music Magazine: Musical Destinations Boulder, United States
“Jeremy Pound admires both the mountains and the plains as he explores the various delights of this year’s Colorado Music Festival.”

The Strad: Postcard from Boulder: Colorado Music Festival
“It was truly a privilege to hear the birth of a new work in such an atmosphere of warm collaboration. The capacity festival audience obviously appreciated this too, rising to its feet as one in rapturous applause.”

Musical America: A New Era for the Colorado Music Festival
“It was […] well executed by members of the CMF Orchestra, a mostly young-ish troupe that, I’m told, has a 90 percent return rate one season to the next. The potential is obvious, and audiences can be sure Oundjian will capture it in seasons to come.”

Bachtrack: Joan Tower’s new Cello Concerto defies the heavens at the Colorado Music Festival
“Through all the challenges the orchestra held fast, a dream of a partner who were as virtuosic and almost as flexible as Weilerstein herself.

Bachtrack: Lash, Puts – and Beethoven – in “Music of Today” at Colorado Music Festival
On a hot night at Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder, Peter Oundjian and the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra played it cool with new music by Hannah Lash and Kevin Puts before taking an illuminating look at Beethoven’s most iconic string quartet.

Classical Voice North America: Summer Fests: Diverse Artists, Beethoven Take Center Stage In West
Kicking off a five-year project of commissioning and presenting new works, the season will feature four world premieres […]

Press Contacts

LOCAL/COLORADO
Cindy Hohman, Marketing Director
303-665-0599 x109

NATIONAL
Kirshbaum Associates Inc.

Shirley Kirshbaum, President
Beverly Greenfield, Senior Publicist
Anastasia Arvanites, Publicity Associate
212-222-4843

 

 

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Visiting Boulder

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Festival Fellows

Meet the Festival Fellows: eight aspiring professional musicians who receive coaching and performance opportunities through the Festival and its guest artists.

Center for Musical Arts

This excellent community music school is also the educational arm of our organization.