David Matthews David Matthews was born in London in 1943 and started composing at the age of sixteen. He read Classics at the University of Nottingham – where he has more recently been made an Honorary Doctor of Music. In music, he was mainly self-taught, though he studied privately with Anthony Milner and was greatly […]
Frans Bouwman When the young Frans Bouwman heard the Adagietto from Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony in his father’s 78 rpm recording by the Dutch conductor Willem Mengelberg and the Concertgebouw Orchestra, it led to a lifelong passion for the music of Mahler. At the age of 14, Bouwman started piano lessons and five years later […]
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Archive Colorado MahlerFest XXIX May 16 – May 22, 2016 Note: Some links below will open a PDF file. Main MahlerFest XXIX Complete Schedule Order the MahlerFest XXIX CD of Mahler-Symphony No. 7 The MahlerFest XXIX Orchestra MahlerFest XXIX Distinguished Guests The MahlerFest XXIX Symposium The MahlerFest XXIX Conducting Workshop and Master Class The MahlerFest […]
Speakers at MahlerFest Symposia David Auerbach Robert Bailey Jeremy Barham Leah Batstone Ofer Ben-Amots Wes Blomster Louise Bloomfield Frans Bouwman Jane K. Brown Jerry Bruck Steven Bruns Salvatore Calomino Jonathan Carr Aaron Cohen Alessandra Comini Peter Davison Henry-Louis de La Grange Louis Ekstein Stuart Feder Susan Filler Gerald Fox Peter Franklin Donald Fraser April Fredrick […]
JASON STARR Producer and Director Jason’s films are available on DVD and Blu-Ray from the MahlerFest store. Award-winning filmmaker Jason Starr has produced and directed over one hundred films and television programs for broadcast on PBS, A&E, Bravo, CBC, Deutsche Welle, Kultura, Mezzo TV, 3sat, Medici and many public TV stations throughout Europe and North […]
Des Knaben Wunderhorn and the German Volkslied in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Ann Schmiesing (MahlerFest XIV) In his review of the first volume of Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote in 1806, “By rights, every household in which cheerful people live should possess this book, and display it by a window, […]
MahlerFest XIV Archives The following documents are available for MahlerFest XIV – held from January 9 to January 14 in 2001. MahlerFest XIV Program Book Donald Mitchell, CBE – Keynote Address Ann Schmiesing – Des Knaben Wunderhorn and the German Volksled in the Eighteenth and Nneteenth Centuries Stan Ruttenberg – Recordings of Mahler Symphony No. 4 […]
The Twentieth Century’s Debt to Mahler: Our debt to him in the Twenty-first Donald Mitchell, CBE (Keynote: Colorado MahlerFest XIV) I am happy to make accessible to potential readers — if I have any — the text of the keynote speech I gave in January this year at the XIVth Colorado MahlerFest. I would remind […]
Cory Oldweiler, Author of “Testimony of the Senses” A classical music fan since childhood, Cory Oldweiler bought a ticket on a whim to see Gustavo Dudamel conduct Mahler’s Fifth Symphony with the New York Philharmonic in January 2009. Four months later, he nearly bankrupted himself to attend the complete Mahler cycle taking place at Carnegie […]
Stephen E. Hefling received the A. B. in music from Harvard and the Ph. D. from Yale, with a dissertation examining Mahler’s “Todtenfeier” movement from the dual perspectives of programmatic influence and compositional process as documented in Mahler’s surviving sketches and drafts. Currently Professor Emeritus of Music at Case Western Reserve University, he has also […]
Anna Stoll Knecht Currently a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford (Jesus College), Anna Stoll Knecht conducts research on Mahler’s interpretation of Wagner, both as a conductor and as a composer. Her publications include a monograph on Mahler’s Seventh Symphony (Oxford University Press, Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure & Interpretation, forthcoming); book […]
Colorado MahlerFest was honored to have both Kurt and Christa Schwertsik as distinguished guests at MahlerFest XXIX. Kurt was the visiting composer and presented at the symposium, worked with the three composition fellows and the orchestra, and attended two performances of his Nachtmusiken given by Kenneth Woods and the Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra. To commemorate Kurt’s […]
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 […]