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Man and Nature in Beethoven and Mahler by Peter Davison […]
Kenneth Woods discusses how one chord in Mahler’s epic Second […]
Join us for a complete performance of Mahler’s Das Lied von […]
Written for a 2010 Orchestra of the Swan performance of […]
Check out our YouTube channel! We release videos from each festival and have a playlist of educational videos and lectures. Here is the video of Mahler’s Second Symphony from May, 21, 2023.
Join Our Mailing List!Colorado MahlerFest News and ReviewsClick the pic to read all about itMahlerFest “Rises” with Five Landmark ConcertsMahlerFest XXXVI (2023) Review by Kelly Dean Hansen “The luminous, celestial final strains of Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony enveloped the crowd at Boulder’s Macky Auditorium on the afternoon of Sunday, May 21 in a moment of […]
Archive Colorado MahlerFest XXXI Das Lied von der Erde Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 in C, Op. 105 May 14 – May 20, 2018 Note: Some links below will open a PDF file. Links with a * point to a page not found on the MahlerFest website. Main MahlerFest XXXI Complete Schedule The MahlerFest XXXI Orchestra MahlerFest […]
If you reach this page, please visit the newest version here! MahlerFest XXXII Wednesday, May 15 – Sunday, May 19, 2019 This year’s featured work: Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major Please check back often to view our evolving plans! Chamber Concerts and recitals Symposium with leading Mahler scholars Open Rehearsals And more May 15 […]
Brennen Guillory (Tenor) Tenor and Festival Artist Brennen Guillory has become known for his powerful, dramatic voice, and thoughtful interpretations of both operatic and concert music. He has performed a number of operatic leads but it is in the concerting to the Northwest, he has appeared with companies on both coasts, performing Das Lied von […]
Ofer Ben-Amots was born in Haifa, Israel in 1955. He gave his first piano concert at age nine and at age sixteen was awarded first prize in the Chet Piano Competition. Later, following composition studies with Joseph Dorfman at Tel Aviv University, he was invited to study at the Conservatoire de Musique in Geneva, Switzerland. […]
Archive Colorado MahlerFest XXX “Unfinished / Unheard” May 15 – May 21, 2017 Dedicated to the Memory of Stan Ruttenberg Note: Some links below will open a PDF file. Links with a * point to a page not found on the MahlerFest website. Boulder Mayor and City Council Declare May 21, 2017 as Colorado MahlerFest Day […]
Donald Fraser British born, now a permanent US resident, British Academy Award winning Donald Fraser lives and works from his home outside of Chicago. Donald entered the Royal College of Music at age seventeen to study composing and conducting. His principal tutors were Sir Adrian Boult, Humphrey Searle and Alexander Goehr. He also studied with […]
Jerry Bruck Since arriving in New York in 1961—as performances of Mahler’s music in America began to gain a foothold at last—Jerry Bruck has cemented a reputation as a recording engineer specializing in classical music. Along the way he worked at radio stations in St. Louis and New York as a broadcast engineer, and became […]
Works Performed at the Colorado MahlerFest Original Works and Orchestrations by Gustav Mahler Year(s) of performance shown following title. Blumine 2006, 2019 (world premiere of new Critical Edition by Breitkopf & Härtel) Das klagende Lied (two-part version) 1991 Das klagende Lied (original three-part version) 2008 Das Lied von der Erde 1998, 2007, 2018 Das Lied von der Erde […]