Colorado Music Festival
108 FOLLOWERS
Get the latest news and stories about the Colorado Summer Classical Music Festival.
Colorado Music Festival presents a six-week summer concert season at Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder showcasing Music Director Peter Oundjian and the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra.
Colorado Music Festival
1w ago
“When you receive a gift like the Colorado Music Festival, you want to say thank you.” —Festival supporter Julie Kaewert
Julie Kaewert has been bringing her family to Colorado Music Festival concerts since her daughters were very young. “They were very special nights for us as a family,” she remembers. The Kaewerts loved to dress up and enjoy a picnic on the lawn. “And then there was the magic of the concert,” Julie recalls fondly. “Just big family memories.”
Julie’s daughters each chose instruments to study from a young age.
As much as she loves the Festival experience, Julie wanted more th ..read more
Colorado Music Festival
3w ago
OVERVIEW OF POSITIONSpecial Event Day Volunteers assist on the day of the event and help with set-up, greeting attendees, answering questions, recruiting volunteers for various programs, crowd flow management and/or tearing down tables and tents.
SPECIFIC TASKS
Set up tables and/or tents
Greet attendees and answer questions
Manage the flow of the crowd
Volunteer recruitment
Tear down tables and/or tents
Help haul boxes of wine, beer, soda, etc.
Administrative aid in submitting events to online calendars
Please note that specific tasks may change depending on the event.
TIME REQUIRED2-6 hours ..read more
Colorado Music Festival
1M ago
Story by Kyle MacMillan | Photo by Mariah Tauger
Scan the list of works by composer Gabriela Lena Frank and you won’t find any called Flute Concerto No. 2 or String Quartet No. 4. Instead, her works sport evocative titles like Requiem for a Magical America, Chronicles of the Picaflor, or Ghosts in the Dream Machine.
Put simply, the Grammy Award-nominated California composer likes to tell stories. “Abstract music — I could play it as a pianist, but I couldn’t write it,” she said in a recent interview for the Festival. “I had to have something happening that was more cinematic in my head.”  ..read more
Colorado Music Festival
3M ago
2024 Marketing & Communications Intern
DescriptionThis position works as an integral part of a three-person marketing and communications team, assisting with marketing, communications, and public relations tasks. The internship is suited for someone with a music background, social media marketing experience, and an interest in arts management.
Responsibilities
Brainstorm, implement, and create posts for CMF social media channels (Facebook and Instagram)
Assist with concert marketing activities including installing and striking signage and liaising with box office and house managemen ..read more
Colorado Music Festival
4M ago
Enter today for a chance to win the Taylor Swift Eras Tour London Experience for Four. You and three friends will see Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour at London’s iconic Wembley Stadium on Monday, August 19, 2024.
In addition to four concert tickets, you will receive:
Four nights at the five-star Grosvenor House Hotel on London’s Park Lane
Transportation to and from the concert in a limousine
$4,000 travel stipend
The Eras Tour is the sixth headlining concert tour by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. As of August 2023, it is the highest-grossing tour ever by a woman and second highe ..read more
Colorado Music Festival
5M ago
Story by Kyle MacMillan
Since appointing conductor Peter Oundjian as Music Director in 2019, the Colorado Music Festival has put a renewed focus on contemporary music, featuring esteemed figures like John Adams and John Corigliano as composers-in-residence.
In addition, it has commissioned a series of significant new works, putting an emphasis on equity and inclusion with the selection of such creative voices as Joan Tower, known for enduring works such as her Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, and Joel Thompson, a member of an informal composers group known playfully as “The Blacknificent Seven ..read more
Colorado Music Festival
5M ago
Story by Kyle MacMillan
Composer Joel Thompson had been primarily known for his vocal, choral, and operatic works, but all that changed in 2020 when the Colorado Music Festival led the commissioning of a 20-minute work for orchestra and narrator titled To Awaken the Sleeper.
Nine American orchestras signed on as co-commissioners, and an array of other symphonies, including such notables as Atlanta and London, have performed it since the Festival premiered the piece in August 2021.
Composer Joel Thompson
“It’s been a dream come true,” Thompson said from Texas, where he is composer-in-residenc ..read more
Colorado Music Festival
5M ago
Story by Kyle MacMillanPhoto by Bernard Mindich
Joan Tower called it one of the best days of her life.
She was talking about a rare event for a living composer: a concert that was completely devoted to her music. That’s what the Colorado Music Festival made happen in July 2021, with an all-Tower line-up that included the world premiere of her cello concerto A New Day.
“The whole thing was just a dream in heaven come true,” she said.
Since taking over as the Festival’s Music Director in 2019, Peter Oundjian has made commissioning new works a priority, and he believes Tower was an obvious ..read more
Colorado Music Festival
5M ago
Dear friend of the Colorado Music Festival,
Do you find that in today’s world it has become rare to find true connection with each other and the community as a whole? I certainly do, and I hope you (like me) are still feeling the magic of this year’s Festival, where nearly 16,000 music lovers gathered together to bask in joyful and inspiring music!
Today, you have the opportunity to provide this magic for our community. Your donation will help the Festival create positive impacts in our community, including:
Providing low- and no-cost tickets for youth, students, veterans, and seniors. For the ..read more
Colorado Music Festival
9M ago
Photo courtesy of the Curtis Institute of Music
Story by Kyle MacMillan
After Florence Price died in 1953, the Black composer faded into obscurity in large part because of prejudices surrounding her race and gender. But in the last decade or so, her works have experienced a meteoric renaissance that has few precedents in classical-music history.
“I’m amazed but I’m not surprised that she has caught on like wildfire,” said pianist Michelle Cann, who will appear July 20 and 21 at the Colorado Music Festival. “A great story is one thing, and she definitely has a great story, but she wouldn ..read more