Colorado College Summer Music Festival - Festival Artists Concerts

Now approaching its 39th season, the Colorado College Summer Music Festival is an intensive three-week program for 54 advanced student musicians, including violin, viola, cello, bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, and piano.

Festival participants work closely with the faculty, who spend many hours coaching small ensembles, private lessons, and master classes. In addition, the faculty teach sessions that are particularly valuable for pre-professional students, including courses that discuss strategies for practice, improvisation, and how to perform and relate to colleagues in chamber ensembles and orchestra. Mock auditions are also part of the curriculum, which includes information on how to prepare for orchestral auditions. Participation in the festival, both in chamber ensembles and the orchestra, offers each student the opportunity to learn and perform the best of the standard repertoire.

All students participate in a concert series including formal and informal chamber music concerts, five orchestra performances, including a free children's concert, and several off-campus outreach concerts. Six to eight students are chosen by audition for concerto readings with the orchestra in performances that are open to the public. Chamber music performances are held in Packard Hall, a modern, acoustically superb, 300-seat concert hall. The Festival Orchestra concerts are held in the Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center Richard F. Celeste Theater, a 450-seat cutting-edge "tuned" room with the latest acoustical and amplification capabilities. The Cornerstone Arts Center was built in 2008 and is a state-of-the-art multidisciplinary space designed by acclaimed architect Antoine Predock.

Five Festival Artists Concerts   

Two Festival Orchestra Concerts 

Seven Chamber Music At Midday Concerts

Children’s Orchestra Concert with Peter and the Wolf Extravaganza   

Outreach Concerts

SATURDAY, JUNE 10 – FESTIVAL ARTISTS CONCERT

PACKARD HALL – 7:30PM

Trio for trumpet, horn, and piano William Lovelock

Prelude (1899-1986)

Romanza

Finale: Fugato

Kevin Cobb, trumpet; Michael Thornton, horn; Susan Grace, piano

Fantasia (Fantasie Quartet) in E minor for 4 violas, Op. 41, No. 1 York Bowen

(1884-1961)

Toby Appel, Phillip Ying, Virginia Barron, *Daniel Moore, violas

Gemini Variations for violin, flute and piano four hands, Op. 73 Benjamin Britten

(1913-1976)

Laura Frautschi, violin; Alice Dade, flute; Steven Beck and Susan Grace, piano 4-hands

Adagio from The Limpid Stream for piano and bass trombone Dmitry Shostakovich

(1906-1975)

John Rojak, bass trombone; Steven Beck, piano

Café Music Paul

Schoenfield

Allegro con Fuoco (b. 1947)

Andante Moderato

Presto

Steven Beck, piano; Mark Fewer, violin; David Ying, cello       

Festival Date: June 4 - 23, 2023 

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FULL SEASON (7) Concerts

ALL FESTIVAL ARTIST CONCERTS (5)

ALL FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA CONCERTS (2)

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