Colorado Music Festival
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Thursday June 29 7:30pm MDT
Joshua Bell + Mussorgsky’s Pictures
In his first appearances as 2023 artist-in-residence, the one and only Joshua Bell performs Bruch’s First Violin Concerto. The great 19th century violinist Joseph Joachim, to whom the composer dedicated this masterpiece, considered this concerto to be “the richest, most......More
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Friday June 30 6:30pm MDT
Joshua Bell + Mussorgsky’s Pictures
In his first appearances as 2023 artist-in-residence, the one and only Joshua Bell performs Bruch’s First Violin Concerto. The great 19th century violinist Joseph Joachim, to whom the composer dedicated this masterpiece, considered this concerto to be “the richest, most......More
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Sunday July 2 10:30am - 11:15am MDT
Family Concert: Peter and the Wolf + Goodnight Moon
What do you get when you mix a boy, a duck, a cat, a wolf — and an orchestra? You get Peter and the Wolf, Prokofiev’s beloved symphonic fairytale that uses the playful story of a wolf on the prowl to introduce young listeners to the instruments of the orchestra. Enterta......More
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Thursday July 6 7:30pm MDT
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 & Symphony No. 3
Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto is famous for being one of the most fiendishly difficult pieces ever composed for the instrument. Pianist Nicolai Lugansky, one of the preeminent Rachmaninoff interpreters of our time, performs here as part of his global tour celebrat......More
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Friday July 7 6:30pm MDT
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 & Symphony No. 3
Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto is famous for being one of the most fiendishly difficult pieces ever composed for the instrument. Pianist Nicolai Lugansky, one of the preeminent Rachmaninoff interpreters of our time, performs here as part of his global tour celebrat......More
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Sunday July 9 6:30pm MDT
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 4 & Symphonic Dances
In our second program celebrating the music Rachmaninoff wrote while living in America, the Orchestra performs his final composition: Symphonic Dances, a three-movement suite featuring a frantic dance, a restless waltz, and a final flourish of triumph. Lauded Rachmanino......More
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Tuesday July 11 7:30pm MDT
JACK Quartet: New York Stories
The 2023 Robert Mann Chamber Series opens with the esteemed JACK Quartet. Hailed by The New York Times as “our leading new-music foursome,” the JACK Quartet maintains an unwavering commitment to giving voice to underheard composers. In the quartet’s New York Stories pro......More
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Thursday July 13 7:30pm MDT
John Corigliano: Living Legend
The Festival is honored to welcome none other than Pulitzer Prize-winning John Corigliano as 2023 composer-in-residence. Conducted by Music Director Peter Oundjian, this retrospective program examines three stages of Corigliano’s vast career, beginning with his pastoral......More
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Sunday July 16 6:30pm MDT
JFK: The Last Speech - World Premiere
“Our national strength matters,” said President John F. Kennedy, “but the spirit which informs and controls our strength matters just as much.” This line and others appear in the libretto of the world premiere symphony JFK: The Last Speech, inspired by the celebration o......More
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Tuesday July 18 7:30pm MDT
Brentano String Quartet
The 2023 Robert Mann Chamber Series continues with the “wonderful, selfless music-making” (The Times, London) of the Brentano String Quartet, Ensemble-in-Residence at the Yale School of Music. The program opens with Mozart’s intriguing “Hoffmeister” String Quartet, a ch......More
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Thursday July 20 7:30pm MDT
Michael Christie Conducts Tchaikovsky 4
“Fate, that fatal force” is the driving theme of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony, with one of the most brilliant and virtuosic finales in all of music Music Director Emeritus Michael Christie returns to conduct this mighty symphony. 2022 Sphinx Medal of Excellence recipie......More
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Friday July 21 6:30pm MDT
Michael Christie Conducts Tchaikovsky 4
“Fate, that fatal force” is the driving theme of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony, with one of the most brilliant and virtuosic finales in all of music Music Director Emeritus Michael Christie returns to conduct this mighty symphony. 2022 Sphinx Medal of Excellence recipie......More
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Sunday July 23 6:30pm MDT
All Mozart: “Linz” & Violin Concerto No. 3
This concert was created with Mozart fans in mind! Guest conductor François López-Ferrer begins with the delightful overture to Mozart’s tongue-in-cheek opera Impresario, followed by his ornate and impressive Third Violin Concerto, performed here by the “fresh, differen......More
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Tuesday July 25 7:30pm MDT
Brahms, Britten & Poulenc
The Robert Mann Chamber Music Series continues by highlighting musicians from the Festival’s own ranks. Britten’s Phantasy Quartet begins with a march and proceeds with lively pastoral charm. Poulenc is a composer known for his aesthetic of irrepressible good humor he c......More
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Thursday July 27 7:30pm MDT
Brahms 2 + Shostakovich
Despite the distant threat of rain – “the necessary shadow,” as the composer called it – Brahms’ Second Symphony is a sunny and idyllic work beloved for its rambunctious joy and its balance with that hint of cloud. Eun Sun Kim, a conductor of “assured technical command,......More
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