Colorado MahlerFest Organization Staff: Ethan Hecht – Executive Director, Ethan.Hecht@MahlerFest.org, 720-310-8946 Kenneth Woods – Artistic Director and Conductor Board of Directors: Les Ronick, President James Hajost, Vice President Ron Nadel, Secretary Thomas Galligan, Treasurer Mark Bobb Jan Cartwright Ken Forestal Barry Knapp (former board president) Thomas Tape Maria Eugenia Tapia Yenlik Weiss Board of […]
Gustav Mahler was born on July 7, 1860 to a middle-class Jewish family in Kaliste, Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He received his principal musical training at the Vienna Conservatory, beginning in 1875. Mahler’s drive to compose began in his early years, but he found he could make a good living by conducting, […]
Please note that MahlerFest now has a secure online store which is complete and up-to-date (including item availability and sale prices). Click here to visit our online store. Colorado MahlerFest’s orchestral concerts have been professionally recorded since 1995 and we are proud to offer excellent digital recordings for purchase. Minimally edited, these are true […]
Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra 1988 – 2015 MahlerFest is pleased to make available a compilation of the “best of Colorado MahlerFest” from 20 years of recorded performances on one small thumb drive!* “The Complete Mahler” includes one performance of each Mahler work performed live over the years by the Colorado MahlerFest orchestra, led by Maestro Emeritus […]
January 13-18, 1998 Robert Olson, Artistic Director Lieder Recital International Symposium: Gustav Mahler’s Legacy Orchestra Concerts Summary of MahlerFest X Mahler’s composing hut at Toblach, Austrian Tyrol (now Dobbiacho, Italy), as it now stands, where he started composing his song symphony Das Lied von der Erde in the summer of 1908. According to Alma, Mahler […]
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Colorado MahlerFest is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1988 that presents an annual, weeklong festival celebrating the life and music of Austro-Bohemian romantic composer Gustav Mahler. A board of directors governs the organization, coordinates a variety of committees, and manages a small year-round staff. Staff and board work together to mount the festival as […]
Boulder, Colorado, home of the Colorado MahlerFest, is located 25 miles northwest of Denver, situated at the foot of the beautiful Rocky Mountains. Mahler himself couldn’t have asked for more inspirational scenery! And in fact, there is a mountain nearby named after Mahler. Read the story here. Sign up for our e-newsletter here. […]
Hailed by Gramophone as a “symphonic conductor of stature,” conductor, cellist, composer, rock guitarist and author Kenneth Woods has worked with the National Symphony Orchestra (USA), Royal Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia and English Chamber Orchestra. He has also appeared on the stages of some of […]