“Festival Finale: Mahler’s Fifth Symphony” Stan Ruttenberg Memorial Concert at Macky Saturday, August 28, 2021 | 7PM, Pre-concert talk at 6PM | $5-45 Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant Street, Boulder Masks are required at all indoor events. SAWYERS Symphony No. 5 (2021) – WORLD PREMIERE MAHLER Symphony No. 5 (1902) The Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra […]
Symposium at the Bar* Saturday, August 28, 2021 | 9:30AM – 3:30PM | FREE License No. 1, 2115 13th Street (under Hotel Boulderado), Boulder Masks are required at all indoor events. Registration, Streaming, & Lunch This is a free event and no reservations are required. Reservations were available but that system is now closed. We […]
“Decadence and Debauchery: Music of the Roaring 20s” – Chamber Orchestra at the Bandshell Friday, August 27, 2021 | 8PM | FREE Boulder Bandshell, 1212 Canyon Boulevard, Boulder This is a free event and no reservations are required. JOPLIN/Arr. SCHULLER Maple Leaf Rag (1899) SCHULHOFF Suite for Chamber Orchestra, Op. 37 (1921) EUROPE/Arr. SCHULLER Castle House […]
“Mahler’s Heirs” – Chamber Music at the Academy* Thursday, August 26, 2021 | 4PM | FREE Chapel Hall, The Academy, 970 Aurora Avenue (entrance on 10th Street), Boulder Masks are required at all indoor events. This event will also require proof of vaccination. “Proof” may be the actual card, the Colorado Digital ID or a […]
Click on the logos in the map for more information about each location. The Academy 970 Aurora Avenue, Boulder, CO 80302 Free parking on neighborhood streets but please pay attention to the signs. Enter by walking up the driveway on 10th, just south of Aurora Ave. Boulder’s Huntington Bandshell 1212 Canyon Boulevard, […]
Hailed “a violinist like no other” (The New York Times) and “a master of the Khachaturian violin concerto” (Austin Chronicle), Jessica Mathaes enjoys an international career as a soloist, recording artist, educator and concertmaster. As a guest concertmaster, Mathaes has lead the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. She has also been engaged […]
“Mahler’s Titan” & “On Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer” – Jason Starr Movies at the Boe Wednesday, August 25, 2021 | 4PM (times added as needed) | $5-14 The Boedecker Theater at the Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder Masks are required at all indoor events. Jason Starr has become widely […]
“Mahler’s Contemporaries” – Chamber Music at the Dairy* Tuesday, August 24, 2021 | 7PM| $5-22 Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder Masks are required at all indoor events. ZEMLINKSY Sonata for Cello and Piano (1894) KORNGOLD Suite from “Much Ado about Nothing,” Op. 11, for Violin and Piano (1919) KAHN Trio […]
Festival Artist Lucas Borges is an Assistant Professor of Trombone at Ohio University (OU) and is a Conn-Selmer Performing Artist. He holds a Doctoral degree from the University of North Texas (UNT), Master’s degree from Indiana University and a Bachelor’s degree from Universidade de Brasilia (Brazil). Before his appointment at OU, Dr. Borges served as a teaching […]
Festival Artist Daniel Kelly, a native of Charleston, SC, is associate professor of trumpet at Texas A&M University-Commerce. He joined the A&M-Commerce faculty in the fall of 2010 after serving on the faculty of Indiana State University and the University of Southern Mississippi. Dr. Kelly is a member of the Dallas Winds (formerly the Dallas […]
Philip Sawyers’s works have been performed and broadcast in many countries worldwide including USA, Canada, Spain, Austria, Czech Republic, France and UK. Music-web International described the Nimbus Alliance CD of Sawyers’s orchestral work as “music of instant appeal and enduring quality”. Robert Matthew-Walker writing in Classical Source described the premiere of the second symphony by […]
Dr. Lauren Spaulding, under the alias of @MonochromeViola, has established herself as a rising genre-defying soloist and chamber musician through her “anonymous practice blog” on Instagram. As a lover of learning, Spaulding has sought a variety of mentorship and has worked intensively under the tutelage of Professor Peter Slowik at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, […]
Winner of the Audience Prize at the Leeds Conductors’ Competition for his “electric conducting”, MahlerFest Fellow and Assistant Conductor Michael Karcher-Young combines an innate musicianship with a visceral presence on the podium, and is a passionate advocate for classical music in today’s world. Michael is Artistic Director and co-founder of the Beethoven Orchestra for Humanity, […]
Festival Artist Karen Bentley Pollick joined the Paul Dresher Electro-Acoustic Ensemble in 1999 and champions a wide range of solo repertoire and styles on violin, viola, piano and Norwegian hardangerfele. A native of Palo Alto, California, she studied with Camilla Wicks in San Francisco, and with Yuval Yaron, Josef Gingold and Rostislav Dubinsky at Indiana […]