MahlerVision
Check out our YouTube channel! We release videos from each festival and have a playlist of educational videos and lectures. Here is the video of Mahler’s Second Symphony from May, 21, 2023.
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Welcome
Colorado MahlerFest News & ReviewsClick the pic to read all about itWhy Colorado MahlerFest MattersBlog by Joseph Horowitz “Introducing the Meistersinger Overture at a pre-concert talk, Woods highlighted a salient feature of Wagner’s inexhaustible opera: its celebration of cultural community. And this, finally, is what the Colorado Mahlerfest is about. As with last year’s memorable […]
MahlerFest XXXII
If you reach this page, please visit the newest version here! MahlerFest XXXII Wednesday, May 15 – Sunday, May 19, 2019 This year’s featured work: Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major Please check back often to view our evolving plans! Chamber Concerts and recitals Symposium with leading Mahler scholars Open Rehearsals And more May 15 […]
Guest Profile – Ofer Ben-Amots
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. […]
Guest Profile – Donald Fraser
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 […]
Guest Profile – Jerry Bruck
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
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
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 […]
Guest Profile – Frans Bouwman
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 […]
Past Symposium Speakers
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 […]
Guest Profile – Stephen Hefling
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 […]
Guest Profile: Kurt Schwertsik- Composer
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 […]
The Complete Mahler
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 […]
Traveling to Boulder
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! In fact, the similarities to the locations in which Mahler spent his summers composing is part of why MahlerFest is here. There […]