Colorado MahlerFest
Robert Olson, Artistic Director
Robert Olson, Artistic Director
Colorado MahlerFest, held yearly in Boulder,
Colorado, celebrates the life, music, and times of
the great composer Gustav Mahler.
Founded in 1988 by Robert Olson,
the week-long festival incorporates concerts,
recitals, and scholarly symposia, with film,
fine art, dance, theater, and multimedia
presentations. The week's events culminate in
two orchestral performances.
MahlerFest has completed its second symphonic cycle and is now in its third cycle and entering its 23rd year, and continuing to present all of Mahler's performable compositions in this, the 150th anniversary birthday year of Gustav Mahler.
MahlerFest has completed its second symphonic cycle and is now in its third cycle and entering its 23rd year, and continuing to present all of Mahler's performable compositions in this, the 150th anniversary birthday year of Gustav Mahler.
The MahlerFest
orchestra's 100-plus musicians come together from
across the United States and other countries,
mostly on a volunteer basis, for a week of intense
music-making, drawn by their passion for Mahler's
music. Maestro Olson, currently Director of Opera
and Orchestras at the Conservatory of Music at the
University of Missouri at Kansas City, returns to
Colorado each year to lead the festival.
