MahlerFest XXXI
Monday, May 14 – Sunday, May 20, 2018
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 in C, Op. 105
Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Brennen Guillory – Tenor
Stacey Rishoi – Mezzo-soprano
May 14 – Monday
7:00pm – 10:00pm – Open Rehearsal – Macky Auditorium, CU Campus
May 15 – Tuesday
12:00pm – 1:00pm – Folk Chamber Music – Canyon Theater – Main Boulder Public Library
Part of the library’s 3rd Tuesday Lunchtime Concert Series
- Colorado MahlerFest Festival musicians Jesse Jones and Craig Butterfield
- Click HERE for concert information and musician bios
- Click HERE to visit the Boulder Public Library Concert Series website
- This is a free event
6:00pm – 10:00pm – Open Rehearsal – Macky Auditorium, CU Campus
May 16 – Wednesday
7:30pm – Chamber Concert I – Dairy Center for the Arts
- Click HERE for the bios of the musicians
- Richard Strauss – Sextet from Capriccio, Op. 85
- John McCabe – “Pilgrim” for String Sextet
- Johannes Brahms – Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115
- Daniel Silver (Clarinet)
- Jorja Fleezanis (Violin I) – Karen Bentley Pollick (Violin II)
- Erika Eckert (Viola I) – Lauren Spaulding (Viola II)
- Parry Karp (Violoncello I)
- Andrew Brown (Violoncello II in the Strauss)
- Kenneth Woods (Violoncello II in the McCabe)
- Reserved Seat Tickets are $24 (adult), $18 (senior) and $10 (student) and are available from the Dairy Box Office. Click HERE to order.
May 17 – Thursday
1:30pm – 3:30pm – Conducting Master Class – Atonement Lutheran Church
- Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (chamber version by Arnold Schoenberg and Rainer Riehn, 1983)
- Click HERE to read about the 2018 MahlerFest Conducting Fellowship and the three conducting fellows.
- This is a free event
7:00pm – 10:00pm – Open Rehearsal – Macky Auditorium, CU Campus
May 18 – Friday
2:00pm – Chamber Concert II – The Academy Chapel
- Click HERE for the bios of the musicians
- George Enescu – Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano in A minor, Op. 25
- Jesse Jones – Phantasma for Solo Cello (2011)
- Alexander Zemlinsky – Three Pieces for Cello and Piano
- Johannes Brahms – Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano in F major, Op. 99
- Karen Bentley Pollick (Violin)
- Parry Karp (Violoncello)
- Jennifer Hayghe (Piano)
- This is a free event
4:45pm – 5:30pm – Group Dinner – Taj (Indian Buffet) – 2630 W Baseline Rd, Boulder, CO
6:00pm – 10:00pm – Open Dress Rehearsal – Macky Auditorium, CU Campus
May 19 – Saturday
9:00am – 3:30pm – Symposium – Room C199, Imig Building, CU Campus
- Stephen E. Hefling – Case Western Reserve University (Emeritus)
- “’The most personal thing I have yet created’: Mahler’s Lied von der Erde”
- Ofer Ben-Amots – Chair, Department of Music – Colorado College
- “Time Formation in Mahler’s Compositional Technique”
- Kenneth Woods – Artistic Director and Conductor, Colorado MahlerFest
- “Conducting Mahler and Sibelius”
- Jack Sheinbaum – Lamont School of Music – University of Denver
- “Suspension, Fulfillment, and Fin de Siècle Orchestral Timbre in Das Lied von der Erde”
- David Auerbach – President, Colorado MahlerFest
- “Sibelius and His Seventh Symphony”
- Juha V. Mäkikalli – Honorary Consul of Finland, Colorado
- “Sibelius and His Importance to the Finnish People – Historical and Modern”
- Panel Discussion
- Presentation Order subject to change.
- This is a free event – Lunch: $15.00 (tickets available at the symposium)
6:30pm – Pre-concert Lecture and
7:30pm – Orchestral Concert – Macky Auditorium, CU Campus
- The Stan Ruttenberg Memorial Concert
- Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 105
- Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
- Stacey Rishoi – Mezzo-soprano, Brennen Guillory – Tenor
- Kenneth Woods conducting the Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra
- Seats are reserved and are $20, $35 or $48. Click HERE to purchase tickets.
May 20 – Sunday
10:00am – 11:30 am – Group Brunch – Chautauqua Dining Hall – Baseline Rd & 9th St, Boulder
2:30pm – Pre-concert Lecture and
3:30pm – Orchestral Concert – Macky Auditorium, CU Campus
- Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 105
- Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
- Stacey Rishoi – Mezzo-soprano, Brennen Guillory – Tenor
- Kenneth Woods conducting the Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra
- Seats are reserved and are $20, $35 or $48. Click HERE to purchase tickets.