Brennen Guillory (Tenor) Tenor Brennen Guillory has become known for his powerful, dramatic voice and thoughtful interpretations of both operatic and concert music. Radiating both “immense power and tender intimacy” he has performed a number of operatic leads, but it is in the concert hall that he has focused his efforts since he became a […]
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 […]
2017 Visiting Composer David Matthews and his brother Colin played a […]
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 himmlische Leben (The Heavenly Life) from Symphony No. 4 (arr. Woods) 2024 Das irdische Leben (The Earthly Life) from Des Knaben Wunderhorn […]
Stan Ruttenberg March 12, 1926 – February 12, 2017 Longtime Boulder resident Stan Ruttenberg died Sunday, February 12, 2017 at Balfour Senior Living in Louisville. He was 90.. Stan was born on Mar 12, 1926 in St. Paul, Minnesota, to Edward Ruttenberg and Goldene (Moss) Ruttenberg, where the extended family was living after prior generations […]
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, […]