Colorado College Summer Music Festival - Festival Artists Concerts

Now approaching its 39th season, the Colorado College Summer Music Festival is an intensive three-week program for 54 advanced student musicians, including violin, viola, cello, bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, and piano.

Festival participants work closely with the faculty, who spend many hours coaching small ensembles, private lessons, and master classes. In addition, the faculty teach sessions that are particularly valuable for pre-professional students, including courses that discuss strategies for practice, improvisation, and how to perform and relate to colleagues in chamber ensembles and orchestra. Mock auditions are also part of the curriculum, which includes information on how to prepare for orchestral auditions. Participation in the festival, both in chamber ensembles and the orchestra, offers each student the opportunity to learn and perform the best of the standard repertoire.

All students participate in a concert series including formal and informal chamber music concerts, five orchestra performances, including a free children's concert, and several off-campus outreach concerts. Six to eight students are chosen by audition for concerto readings with the orchestra in performances that are open to the public. Chamber music performances are held in Packard Hall, a modern, acoustically superb, 300-seat concert hall. The Festival Orchestra concerts are held in the Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center Richard F. Celeste Theater, a 450-seat cutting-edge "tuned" room with the latest acoustical and amplification capabilities. The Cornerstone Arts Center was built in 2008 and is a state-of-the-art multidisciplinary space designed by acclaimed architect Antoine Predock.

Five Festival Artists Concerts   

Two Festival Orchestra Concerts 

Seven Chamber Music At Midday Concerts

Children’s Orchestra Concert with Peter and the Wolf Extravaganza   

Outreach Concerts

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7 – FESTIVAL ARTISTS CONCERT

PACKARD HALL - 7:30PM

Canzon primi toni a 8 Giovanni Gabrieli

O Magnum mysterium (1553-1690)

Canzon septimi toni

Stefan Hersh, violin; Laura Frautschi, violin; Virginia Barron, viola; David Ying, cello

Kevin Cobb, trumpet; festival fellow, trumpet; Michael Thornton, horn; John Rojak, bass trombone

Quiet in the Land Kenneth Fuchs

(b. 1956)

Alice Dade, flute; Jon Manasse, clarinet; Robert Walters, English horn

Toby Appel, viola; David Ying, cello

Mozart: En Route (Or, a Little Traveling Music) Aaron Jay Kernis

(b. 1960)

Mark Fewer, violin; Phillip Ying, viola; David Ying, cello

Jupiter from The Planets arr. for woodwind quintet Gustav Holst

(1874-1934)

Alice Dade, flute; Robert Walters, oboe; Jon Manasse, clarinet

Michael Kroth, bassoon; Michael Thornton, horn

Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 1 Ernö Dohnányi

Allegro (1874-1934)

Scherzo: Allegro vivace

Adagio, quasi andante

Finale: Allegro animato

Steven Beck, piano; Laura Frautschi, violin; Mark Fewer, violin

Phillip Ying, viola; David Ying, cello 

Festival Date: June 4 - 23, 2023 

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FULL SEASON (7) Concerts

ALL FESTIVAL ARTIST CONCERTS (5)

ALL FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA CONCERTS (2)

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