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Brahms 4 with Pianist Stewart Goodyear

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door Time: 6:45 PM Conductor: David DanzmayrGuest Artist: Stewart Goodyear, piano“It is as though one lay in springtime among the blossoming flowers, and joy and sorrow filled one’s soul in turn,” said Clara Schumann upon hearing the beginning of Brahms’ Fourth Symphony. Guest conductor David Danzmayr leads this transcendent symphony as well as Saint-Saëns’ dazzlingly energetic Second […]

$48 – $75

Juilliard String Quartet

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door Time: 6:45 PM Guest Artists: Juilliard String QuartetThe Robert Mann Chamber Music Series continues with a performance by the Juilliard String Quartet, of which Mann was the founding first violinist, and which The Boston Globe has called “the most important American quartet in history.” The ensemble performs two major works by French composers: Ravel’s only […]

$48 – $75

Olga Kern + Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door Time: 6:45 PM Conductor:Ludovic MorlotGuest Artist: Olga Kern, piano“Whatever it is — call it star quality —” claims the Washington Post, “music likes Kern the way the camera liked Garbo.” Olga Kern puts that electrifying technique to work in not one but two dynamic pieces: the most popular of Haydn’s concertos for keyboard and Shostakovich’s […]

$48 – $75

Olga Kern + Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door Time: 5:45 PM Conductor:Ludovic MorlotGuest Artist: Olga Kern, piano“Whatever it is — call it star quality —” claims the Washington Post, “music likes Kern the way the camera liked Garbo.” Olga Kern puts that electrifying technique to work in not one but two dynamic pieces: the most popular of Haydn’s concertos for keyboard and Shostakovich’s […]

$48 – $75

Conrad Tao Performs Mozart

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door Time: 5:45 PM Conductor:Ludovic MorlotGuest Artist: Conrad Tao, pianoIn this stunning all-Mozart program, the “energetic and engaging” Ludovic Morlot (Daily Telegraph) conducts the composer’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, an urgent and intensely expressive masterpiece which explores the anguish and triumph of the human spirit. Celebrated pianist Conrad Tao, “an explosive force” with “a […]

$48 – $75

St. Lawrence String Quartet: Debussy, Haydn, and John Adams

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door Time: 6:45 PM Guest Artists: St. Lawrence String Quartet The Robert Mann Chamber Music Series continues with a performance by the St. Lawrence String Quartet, an ensemble known for “not only virtuosity, intelligence, and imagination but also extraordinary passion” (New York Times). The Quartet — once guided and coached by Mann himself — performs works by […]

$48 – $75

Beethoven Op. 131 + Hannah Lash’s World Premiere

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door Time: 6:45 PM Conductor: Peter OundjianGuest Artist: Ji Su Jung, marimbaThis Beethoven-infused program opens with a world premiere commissioned by the Festival and composed by the “striking and resourceful” Hannah Lash (New York Times); her new Forestallings is directly inspired by Beethoven’s Second Symphony. Continuing our look at Beethoven through another lens, we also experience Music […]

$48 – $75

Kaleidoscope: Muhly, Tower, and Bolcom

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door Time: 6:45 PM Guest Artists: Colorado Music Festival Orchestra strings, and percussionChristopher Taylor, pianoJi Su Jung, marimba“I get excited every time I think about it,” says Music Director Peter Oundjian about this playful, exploratory Kaleidoscope event. “I just want to sit in that audience!” Stuffed from start to finish with bold musical color and moments […]

$48 – $75

Joan Tower: Made in America + World Premiere

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Doors Time 5:45 PM Conductor: Peter OundjianGuest Artists: Alisa Weilerstein, celloJoan Tower, composerThis all-Joan-Tower program includes the landmark premiere of a brand new cello concerto by the legendary composer; this concerto was commissioned by the Festival and written for cellist Alisa Weilerstein, who performs it here. “ and the cello seem simply to be one and the […]

$48 – $75

Beethoven Quintet and Septet

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door Time: 6:45 PM Guest Artists: Colorado Music Festival Orchestra MembersThis week’s installation of the Robert Mann Chamber Music Series explores two pieces by Beethoven including his most popular composition during his lifetime, his Septet. Both of the spirited, jocular works on this program were penned at a time when Beethoven was “a young giant exulting […]

$48 – $75

Hadelich Plays Beethoven’s Violin Concerto

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Doors: 6:45 PM Conductor: Peter OundjianGuest Artist: Augustin Hadelich, violin Artist-in-ResidenceDelight in Beethoven’s only violin concerto, a vivacious and melodic treasure that Music Director Peter Oundjian calls “the pinnacle of all violin concertos.” This masterpiece requires as skilled a musician as the Grammy-winning Augustin Hadelich, an artist of “scarcely believable commitment” (New York Times); this concert is […]

$48 – $75

Hadelich Plays Beethoven’s Violin Concerto

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door Time: 5:45 PM Conductor: Peter OundjianGuest Artist: Augustin Hadelich, violin Artist-in-ResidenceDelight in Beethoven’s only violin concerto, a vivacious and melodic treasure that Music Director Peter Oundjian calls “the pinnacle of all violin concertos.” This masterpiece requires as skilled a musician as the Grammy-winning Augustin Hadelich, an artist of “scarcely believable commitment” (New York Times); this concert […]

$48 – $75

Copland’s Lincoln Portrait

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door Time: 5:45 PM Conductor: Peter OundjianGuest Artists: Steven Banks, saxophone Chris Christoffersen, narrator This program begins and ends with Aaron Copland: first, his brassy and familiar Fanfare for the Common Man; finally, his reverent portrait of Abraham Lincoln, featuring text from Lincoln’s speeches narrated by Chris Christoffersen. Brilliant saxophonist Steven Banks brings his “pristine clarity” and “emotional heat” […]

$48 – $75

Brooklyn Rider

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door Time: 6:45 PM Showtime: 7:30 PM Guest Artists Brooklyn Rider The Festival welcomes Brooklyn Rider, “four classical musicians performing with the energy of young rock stars jamming on their guitars” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) to the Robert Mann Chamber Music Series. In this fresh and inventive program, Brooklyn Rider contrasts Franz Schubert’s lauded “Death and the […]

$48 – $75

Beethoven’s Eroica + Joel Thompson’s World Premiere

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door Time: 6:45 PM Conductor: Peter Oundjian Guest Artists: Dr. Eddie Glaude, narratorJoel Thompson, composerIn a world premiere commissioned by the Festival, composer Joel Thompson shines a light on American writer and activist James Baldwin, weaving selections of Baldwin’s own words into a musical profile on one of the most powerful Black voices of his generation. Later: Beethoven […]

$48 – $75

Festival Finale: Beethoven 5

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door Time: 6:45 PM Showtime: 7:30 PM Conductor: Peter OundjianThe 2021 Festival Finale showcases all the sections of the orchestra, beginning with a canzon for brass and ending with Beethoven’s unforgettable Fifth Symphony. With its iconic four-note opening and its ascent from darkness to light, the Fifth is perhaps, as novelist E.M. Forster described it, “the […]

$48 – $75

Colorado Music Festival | Takács Quartet Plays John Adams’ Absolute Jest

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Thursday, June 30Doors: 7:00 PMConcert: 7:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 - $72.00 Concert Member)* Conductor: Peter Oundjian Guest Artists: Takács Quartet Music Director Peter Oundjian opens the 2022 Festival season with special guests: Boulder’s own Takács Quartet. This Grammy Award-winning quartet joins the orchestra for John Adams’ Absolute Jest, which samples, twists, and […]

$25 – $75

Colorado Music Festival | Takács Quartet Plays John Adams’ Absolute Jest

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Friday, July 1Doors: 6:00 PMConcert: 6:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 - $72.00 Concert Member)* Conductor: Peter Oundjian Guest Artists: Takács Quartet Music Director Peter Oundjian opens the 2022 Festival season with special guests: Boulder’s own Takács Quartet. This Grammy Award-winning quartet joins the orchestra for John Adams’ Absolute Jest, which samples, twists, and builds […]

$25 – $75

Colorado Music Festival | Family Concert: Tubby the Tuba

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Sunday, July 3Doors: 10:30 AMConcert: 11:00 AMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $10.00* Conductor: Maurice Cohn Guest Artists: Really Inventive Stuff Vaudeville-inspired musical storytellers Really Inventive Stuff uses comedy, props, and interaction to refresh beloved musical classics and enchant audiences of all ages. Their imaginative Tubby the Tuba follows “the adventures of a red polka-dot yo-yo, a dapper bullfrog puppet, […]

$10

Colorado Music Festival | Takács Quartet

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Tuesday, July 5Doors: 7:00 PMConcert: 7:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $62.00 ($22.00 - $62.00 Concert Member)* Guest Artists: Takács Quartet, artists-in-residence Grammy Award-winning Takács (pronounced Takach) Quartet is world renowned for their “chamber music playing of overwhelming intensity” (The Guardian). The Boulder-based ensemble opens the 2022 Robert Mann Chamber Music Series with Haydn and Dvořák’s final […]

$25 – $65

Colorado Music Festival | Jan Lisiecki Plays Beethoven’s Piano Concertos 1 & 3

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Thursday, July 7Doors: 7:00 PMConcert: 7:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $80.00 ($22.00 - $77.00 Concert Member) Conductor:Peter Oundjian Guest Artist:Jan Lisiecki, piano Music Director Peter Oundjian begins a cycle of all five of Beethoven’s piano concertos, each performed by the award-winning Jan Lisiecki, whom Oundjian calls “one of the greatest piano talents of all time.” […]

$25 – $80

Colorado Music Festival | Jan Lisiecki Plays Beethoven’s Piano Concertos 2 & 4

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Friday, July 8Doors: 6:00 PMConcert: 6:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 - $72.00 Concert Members)* Conductor:Peter Oundjian Guest Artist:Jan Lisiecki, piano After an engaging overture by Vaughan Williams, Music Director Peter Oundjian continues a cycle of all five of Beethoven’s piano concertos, each performed by the award-winning Jan Lisiecki. Beethoven wrote his Second Piano […]

$25 – $75

Colorado Music Festival | Jan Lisiecki Plays Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Sunday, July 10Doors: 6:00 PMConcert: 6:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $80.00 ($22.00 - $77.00 Concert Member)* Conductor:Peter Oundjian Guest Artist:Jan Lisiecki, piano The Festival and Music Director Peter Oundjian continue a cycle of all five of Beethoven’s piano concertos, each performed by the award-winning Jan Lisiecki. The Fifth and final, best known as the “Emperor” Concerto, […]

$25 – $80

Colorado Music Festival | Attacca Quartet

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Tuesday, July 12Doors: 7:00 PMConcert: 7:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $65.00 ($22.00 - $62.00 Concert Member)* Guest Artists: Attacca Quartet “I like to think of as collectors of joy,” says their cellist, Andrew Yee. New York’s Grammy Award-winning Attacca (pronounced ah-TAK-ah) Quartet “believes in and celebrates” music of the 20th and 21st centuries; in this performance, […]

$25 – $65

Colorado Music Festival | John Adams + Timo Andres’ World Premiere

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Thursday, July 14Doors: 7:00 PMConcert: 7:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 - $75.00 Concert Member)* Conductors:Peter OundjianJohn Adams Guest Artists: Samuel Adams Tessa Lark, violin Timothy McAllister, saxophone The legendary John Adams, 2022 composer-in-residence and co-curator of this week’s programs, shares the podium with Music Director Peter Oundjian in this can’t-miss concert, beginning with a […]

$25 – $75

Colorado Music Festival | Kaleidoscope: Road Movies

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Friday, July 15Doors: 7:00 PMConcert: 7:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 - $72.00 Concert Member)* Guest Artists:Timo Andres, pianoTessa Lark, violin Timothy McAllister, saxophoneMembers of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra Now in its second year, Kaleidoscope brings back and builds upon the theatrical elements that audiences loved: lighting, cinematography, a hint of stage magic, and […]

$25 – $75

Colorado Music Festival | Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Sunday, July 17Doors: 6:00 PMConcert: 6:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 -  $72.00 Concert Member)* Conductor:Peter OundjianJohn Adams Guest Artist:Jeremy Denk, piano The Festival’s focus on today’s music continues as world-renowned conductor and Festival composer-in-residence/co-curator John Adams takes the podium to lead his off-beat and grooving Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? with […]

$25 – $75

Colorado Music Festival | Flavors of Russia: Tchaikovsky, Glinka & Borodin

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Tuesday, July 19Doors: 7:00 PMConcert: 7:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $65.00 ($22.00 - $62.00 Concert Member)* Guest Artists: Members of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra The Festival continues its Robert Mann Chamber Series, named for a beloved educator, composer, and founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet. Tchaikovsky spent some of his happiest days in Florence, […]

$25 – $65

Colorado Music Festival | Sibelius’ Second Symphony + Violinist Randall Goosby

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Thursday, July 21Doors: 7:00 PMConcert: 7:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 - $72.00 Concert Member)* Conductor:Ryan Bancroft Guest Artist:Randall Goosby, violin “ Goosby plays like an angel with nothing to prove,” claims the L.A. Times. The youngest recipient ever to win the Sphinx Concerto Competition and an artist dedicated to the dynamic music of Black […]

$25 – $75

Colorado Music Festival | Sibelius’ Second Symphony + Violinist Randall Goosby

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Friday, July 22Doors: 6:00 PMConcert: 6:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 - $72.00 Concert Member)* Conductor:Ryan Bancroft Guest Artist:Randall Goosby, violin “ Goosby plays like an angel with nothing to prove,” claims the L.A. Times.  The youngest recipient ever to win the Sphinx Concerto Competition and an artist dedicated to the dynamic music of Black […]

$25 – $75

Colorado Music Festival | Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Sunday, July 24Doors: 6:00 PMConcert: 6:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 - $72.00 Concert Member)*  Conductor:Ryan Bancroft Guest Artist:Albert Cano Smit, piano “If you want to hear perfection, this is it,” says Music Director Peter Oundjian of Mozart’s final concerto, performed here by rising star pianist Albert Cano Smit, winner of the 2019 Young Concert […]

$25 – $75

Colorado Music Festival | Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Tuesday, July 26Doors: 7:00 PMConcert: 7:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $65.00 ($22.00 - $62.00 Concert Member)*  Guest Artists: Members of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra This installment of the Robert Mann Chamber Series begins with Mozart’s jaunty First Flute Quartet, followed by the brief but profound Movement for String Trio by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. Dvořák’s complex Terzetto […]

$25 – $65

Colorado Music Festival | Prokofiev 5 + Gabriela Montero Plays Tchaikovsky

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Thursday, July 28Doors: 7:00 PMConcert: 7:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 - $72.00 Concert Member)*  Conductor:Jean-Marie Zeitouni Guest Artist:Gabriela Montero, piano Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto might never have seen the light of day — the pianist for whom it was written initially declared it “absolutely unplayable.” Luckily Tchaikovsky ignored this criticism, published his concerto, […]

$25 – $75

Colorado Music Festival | Prokofiev 5 + Gabriela Montero Plays Tchaikovsky

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Friday, July 29 Doors: 6:00 PM Concert: 6:30 PM Chautauqua Auditorium Tickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 - $72.00 Concert Member)* Conductor: Jean-Marie Zeitouni Guest Artist: Gabriela Montero, piano Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto might never have seen the light of day — the pianist for whom it was written initially declared it “absolutely unplayable.” Luckily Tchaikovsky […]

$25 – $75

Colorado Music Festival | A Midsummer Night’s Dream with John de Lancie

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Sunday, July 31Doors: 6:00 PMConcert: 6:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 - $72.00 Concert Member)* Conductor:Jean-Marie Zeitouni Guest Artists:Jennifer Bird-Arvidsson, soprano John de Lancie, actor Marnie Mosiman, actor Abigail Nims, mezzo soprano Principal Guest Conductor Jean-Marie Zeitouni conducts a special Midsummer Night’s Dream. This performance pairs Mendelssohn’s lush score, which includes the instantly recognizable […]

$25 – $75

Colorado Music Festival | Danish String Quartet

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Tuesday, August 2Doors: 7:00 PMConcert: 7:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $65.00 ($22.00 - $62.00 Concert Member)* Guest Artists: Danish String Quartet “They could be grounded in their tone or mystical. They allowed time to stand still, and they could assume the pose of excitingly aggressive rockers. They did it all,” says The Los Angeles Times […]

$25 – $65

Colorado Music Festival | Stravinsky’s Firebird + Clarinet Star Anthony McGill

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Thursday, August 4Doors: 7:00 PMConcert: 7:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 - $72.00 Concert Member)* Conductor:Peter Oundjian Guest Artists:Wang Jie, composerAnthony McGill, clarinet The New York Times has praised clarinetist Anthony McGill for “his trademark brilliance, penetrating sound and rich character”; McGill’s musical charisma is a perfect match for Weber’s First Clarinet Concerto, which […]

$25 – $75

Colorado Music Festival | Mahler’s Fifth Symphony

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Sunday, August 7Doors: 6:00 PMConcert: 6:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 - $72.00 Concert Member)* Conductor: Peter Oundjian Leave it to Mahler to give us harrowing funeral marches shot through with blinding rays of hope. That is his epic Fifth Symphony: a masterpiece which, while not expressly telling a story, still whispers Mahler’s secrets […]

$25 – $75

Joshua Bell + Mussorgsky’s Pictures

Chautauqua Community House 301 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder, CO, United States

Doors: 7:00 PM Showtime: 7:30 PM Artists: Peter Oundjian, conductor Joshua Bell, violin 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 seductive” of […]

$18 – $80

Joshua Bell + Mussorgsky’s Pictures

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Doors: 6:00 PM Concert: 6:30 PM Artists: Peter Oundjian, conductor Joshua Bell, violin In his first appearances as 2023 artist-in-residence, the one and only Joshua Bell performs Bruch’s Violin Concerto. The great 19th century violinist Joseph Joachim, to whom the composer dedicated this masterpiece, considered this concerto to be “the richest, most seductive” of all […]

$18 – $80

Family Concert: Peter and the Wolf + Goodnight Moon

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Doors: 10:00 AM Concert: 10:30 AM Artists: Kalena Bovell, conductor Jennifer Bird-Arvidsson, soprano Janae Burris, narrator 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 […]

$10

Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 & Symphony No. 3

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Doors: 7:00 PM Concert: 7:30 PM Artists: Peter Oundjian, conductor Nicolai Lugansky, piano   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 celebrating […]

$18 – $75

Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 & Symphony No. 3

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Doors: 6:00 PM Concert: 6:30 PM Artists: Peter Oundjian, conductor Nicolai Lugansky, piano   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 celebrating […]

$18 – $75

Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 4 & Symphonic Dances

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Doors: 6:00 PM Concert: 6:30 PM Artists: Peter Oundjian, conductor Nicolai Lugansky, piano 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 Rachmaninoff interpreter Nicolai Lugansky […]

$18 – $75

JACK Quartet: New York Stories

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Doors: 7:00 PM Concert: 7:30 PM Artists: 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 program, “Two masters of New York's […]

$18 – $65

John Corigliano: Living Legend

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Doors: 7:00 PM Concert: 7:30 PM Artists: Peter Oundjian, conductor Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano Timothy McAllister, saxophone John Corigliano, composer 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 […]

$18 – $75

JFK: The Last Speech – World Premiere

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Doors: 6:00 PM Concert: 6:30 PM Artists: Peter Oundjian, conductor Janice Chandler-Eteme, soprano  Eric Owens, narrator Adolphus Hailstork, composer   “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: […]

$18 – $75

Brentano String Quartet

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Doors: 7:00 PM Concert: 7:30 PM Artists: 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 chamber gem of character and complexity. Two touching […]

$18 – $65

Michael Christie Conducts Tchaikovsky 4

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Doors: 7:00 PM Concert: 7:30 PM Artists: Michael Christie, conductor and Music Director Emeritus Michelle Cann, piano “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 […]

$18 – $75

Michael Christie Conducts Tchaikovsky 4

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Doors: 6:00 PM Concert: 6:30 PM Artists: Michael Christie, conductor and Music Director Emeritus Michelle Cann, piano   “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 […]

$18 – $75

All Mozart: “Linz” & Violin Concerto No. 3

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Doors: 6:00 PM Concert: 6:30 PM Artists: François López-Ferrer, conductor Grace Park, violin   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, different and exhilarating” (San […]

$18 – $75

Brahms, Britten & Poulenc

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Doors: 7:00 PM Concert: 7:30 PM Artists:  Members of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra 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 […]

$18 – $65

Brahms 2 + Shostakovich

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Doors: 7:00 PM Concert: 7:30 PM Artists: Eun Sun Kim, conductor Johannes Moser, cello   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 […]

$18 – $75

Brahms 2 + Shostakovich

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Doors: 6:00 PM Concert: 6:30 PM Artists: Eun Sun Kim, conductor Johannes Moser, cello   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 […]

$18 – $75

Schumann’s Piano Concerto

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Doors: 6:00 PM Concert: 6:30 PM Artists: Hannu Lintu, conductor Lise de la Salle, piano Internationally renowned guest conductor Hannu Lintu joins the Festival for a program beginning with the “concerto for birds and orchestra” Cantus Arcticus by Lintu’s countryman, Finland’s Einojuhani Rautavaara. One of Schumann’s most enduring works is his Piano Concerto, which creates […]

$18 – $75

Beethoven, Debussy & Dvorák

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Doors: 7:00 PM Concert: 7:30 PM Artists:  Colorado Music Festival Orchestra Members   The final concert of the 2023 Robert Mann Chamber Music Series highlights the Festival’s own musicians. Though it was composed on the early side of his career, Beethoven’s energetic String Trio in C Minor gives a decisive glimpse into the intensity of […]

$18 – $65

Joshua Bell + Debussy’s La Mer – SOLD OUT!

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Doors: 6:45 PM Concert: 7:30 PM Artists: Peter Oundjian, conductor Joshua Bell, violin  In the first evening of a two-part preview performance, 2023 Artist-in-Residence Joshua Bell performs selections from Elements, an unparalleled work for violin and orchestra in five movements, each written by a different acclaimed composer. In this concert, Bell performs the first three […]

$18 – $80

Joshua Bell + Mahler 1 – LOW TICKET ALERT

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Doors: 5:45 PM Concert: 6:30 PM Artists: Peter Oundjian, conductor Joshua Bell, violin Music Director Peter Oundjian and the Festival are pulling out all the stops for an unforgettable season finale. In the second evening of a two-part preview performance, 2023 Artist-in-Residence Joshua Bell performs selections from Elements, an unparalleled work for violin and orchestra […]

$18 – $80

Alisa Weilerstein Plays Dvořák’s Cello Concerto

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door time: 6:00 PM Show time: 6:30 PM   The 2024 Festival season opens with the much-anticipated return of Alisa Weilerstein, whose music “emerges with sunlit clarity” (The Guardian); here Weilerstein performs one of the most breathtaking works for cello. Later: Mendelssohn could not shake the “festive air” of Italy while composing his Fourth Symphony, […]

$18 – $80

Family Concert: Green Eggs and Ham

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door time: 10:00 AM Show time: 10:30 AM   Do you like Green Eggs and Ham? Musical storytellers Really Inventive Stuff return by popular demand, this time with their fully-staged adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ beloved children’s classic featuring Sam-I-Am. This engaging Family Concert also includes a musical twist on three of Aesop’s most familiar fables: […]

$18 – $80

Alisa Weilerstein Plays Dvořák’s Cello Concerto

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door time: 6:00 PM Show time: 6:30 PM   The 2024 Festival season opens with the much-anticipated return of Alisa Weilerstein, whose music “emerges with sunlit clarity” (The Guardian); here Weilerstein performs one of the most breathtaking works for cello. Later: Mendelssohn could not shake the “festive air” of Italy while composing his Fourth Symphony, […]

$18 – $80

Dohnányi, Beethoven & Schumann

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door time: 7:00 PM Show time: 7:30 PM   The 2024 Robert Mann Chamber Music Series begins with a spotlight on the Festival’s own musicians. Dohnányi’s sextet brings together piano, string trio, clarinet, and horn, an uncommon combination which the composer uses to mischievous effect. Beethoven’s brief “Eyeglasses Duo” is so called for a friendly […]

$18 – $70

Rite of Spring & Gluzman Plays Prokofiev

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door time: 7:00 PM Show time: 7:30 PM   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 […]

$18 – $80

Rite of Spring & Gluzman Plays Prokofiev

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door time: 6:00 PM Show time: 6:30 PM   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 […]

$18 – $80

Bruckner Bicentennial: Symphony No. 4

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door time: 6:00 PM Show time: 6:30 PM   “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 […]

$18 – $80

Schubert’s Strings & Nielsen’s Winds

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door time: 7:00 PM Show time: 7:30 PM   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 […]

$18 – $70

Olga Kern & Grieg’s Peer Gynt

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door time: 7:00 PM Show time: 7:30 PM   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 […]

$20 – $85

Olga Kern & Grieg’s Peer Gynt

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door time: 6:00 PM Show time: 6:30 PM   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 […]

$20 – $85

Gabriela Lena Frank’s World Premiere

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door time: 6:00 PM Show time: 6:30 PM   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 […]

$18 – $80

Haydn, Debussy & Mendelssohn

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door time: 7:00 PM Show time: 7:30 PM   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 […]

$18 – $70

Awadagin Pratt + Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door time: 7:00 PM Show time: 7:30 PM   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 […]

$18 – $80

Awadagin Pratt + Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door time: 6:00 PM Show time: 6:30 PM   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 […]

$18 – $80

Mozart: Duo Pianos, Haffner & A Little Night Music

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door time: 6:00 PM Show time: 6:30 PM   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 […]

$18 – $80

Danish String Quartet

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door time: 7:00 PM Show time: 7:30 PM   “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 […]

$18 – $70

Augustin Hadelich & Dvořák 7

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door time: 7:00 PM Show time: 7:30 PM   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 […]

$20 – $85

Augustin Hadelich & Dvořák 7

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door time: 6:00 PM Show time: 6:30 PM   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 […]

$20 – $85

Mahler 4 & Ravel’s Shéhérazade

Chautauqua Auditorium 100 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, CO, United States

Door time: 6:00 PM Show time: 6:30 PM   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, […]

$18 – $80

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