Under Artistic Director Kenneth Woods, The Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra draws together young professionals, conservatory and university students, and advanced amateurs under the leadership of an inspiring team of Festival Artists – principals, tutors, and mentors – to create an ensemble that blends aspiration and inspiration.
The following list will include all of the Festival Artists as well as symposium speakers and soloists for MahlerFest XXXV soon.
Festival Artist April Fredrick is a soprano with a passion for nuance and text which gets to the heart of Read more
Christopher Gunning is a prolific British composer with a passion for writing large-scale symphonic works, more intimate concert pieces, and Read more
Festival Artist Daniel Kelly, a native of Charleston, SC, is associate professor of trumpet at Texas A&M University-Commerce. He joined Read more
Festival Artist Daniel Silver, professor of clarinet at CU, is a versatile performer and teacher whose career encompasses a full Read more
Hailed for his “wonderfully warm, pliant, spontaneous playing” by the Washington Post, award winning pianist David Korevaar is in demand Read more
Highlights: Philippe in Don Carlos (Hamburgische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper am Rhein). Prince Gremin in Eugene Onegin (San Francisco Opera, The Read more
Hailed by the New York Times as possessing “rich tone and deft technique,” Hannah Porter Occeña is Assistant Professor of Read more
Pianist and Festival Artist Jennifer Hayghe is an Associate Professor of Piano in the Roser Piano and Keyboard Area at Read more
International pianist and educator Jeremy Reger maintains an active performing, teaching, and coaching career. During the summer of 2020 he Read more
Festival Artist Karen Bentley Pollick joined the Paul Dresher Electro-Acoustic Ensemble in 1999 and champions a wide range of solo Read more
Dr. Lauren Spaulding, under the alias of @MonochromeViola, has established herself as a rising genre-defying soloist and chamber musician through Read more
LEAH BATSTONE is a musicologist specializing in the music and philosophical worlds of Gustav Mahler, the transnational culture of the Read more
Festival Artist Lucas Borges is an Assistant Professor of Trombone at Ohio University (OU) and is a Conn-Selmer Performing Artist. Read more
Festival Artist Lydia Van Dreel, Professor of Horn at the University of Oregon, joined the faculty in 2006. Prior to Read more
Mario Rivera is a Honduran-born first-year Viola Fellow at the New World Symphony. Prior to joining NWS, he was Read more
Returning Festival Artist, Stacey Rishoi has received critical acclaim on concert stages across the U.S. for the beauty and power Read more
It is no coincidence for Michael Baker to end up as a career musician as he was surrounded by all Read more
Winner of the Audience Prize at the Leeds Conductors’ Competition for his “electric conducting”, MahlerFest Fellow and Assistant Conductor Michael Read more
Cellist Parry Karp is Artist-in Residence and Professor of Chamber Music and Cello, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he Read more
Peter Franklin retired as Professor of Music at the University of Oxford in 2014; he remains an Emeritus Fellow of Read more
Nick Pfefferkorn was born in Leipzig in 1976. At the age of 7, he took up playing the trombone and Read more
Violinist and Festival Artist Suzanne Casey studied as a young musician at the Hereford Cathedral School, and while there was a Read more
Festival Artist and The Indianapolis Quartet first violinist, Zachary DePue has established himself in concert venues around the world delivering Read more