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Colorado Music Festival, July 9-Aug. 9
Yuja Wang performs on a program centered around Samuel Barber’s Piano Concerto and Leonard Bernstein’s “Symphonic Dances from West Side Story,” July 16 and 17, at the Colorado Music Festival. Image provided by the Colorado Music Festival.
In addition to world-class programming, the Colorado Music Festival has the benefit of being right up the street from many classical music fans who live along the Front Range. The festival takes place at the always-awesome, reliably-intimate Chautauqua Auditorium, its Boulder home for more than 40 years.
Music director Peter Oundjian (who also leads the Colorado Symphony) invites his international group of best pals (who also happen to be stellar musicians) to town, and every concert feels like home.
This year, visiting ensembles include the Canadian Brass (on July 14) and the Danish String Quartet (on Aug. 4).
Soloists of note include pianist Michelle Cann, who will play a commissioned piece written by Valerie Coleman (Aug. 6 and 7); and pianist Yuja Wang, who performs in a program centered around Samuel Barber’s Piano Concerto and Leonard Bernstein’s “Symphonic Dances from West Side Story” (July 16-17).