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Aspen of the Peak by Gayla Gaines
FESTIVAL ARTISTS CONCERT
TUESDAY, JUNE 9
7 p.m., Packard Hall
Pre-Concert Lecture
5:45 p.m., Packard Hall Room 9
Françaix Sérénade for 12 instruments
Loeffler L’Étang (The Pond) from Deux Rhapsodies
Mozart Quartet in D Major for flute, violin, viola and cello, K V 285
Fauré Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 115
FESTIVAL ARTISTS CONCERT
SATURDAY, JUNE 13
7 p.m., Packard Hall
Mozart Overture to The Magic Flute for brass quintet
Dutilleux Sarabande et Cortège
Alwyn Suite for oboe and harp
Clarke Midsummer Moon
Coleman Selections from Portraits of Langston
Ashley Cornelius, poet
Spohr Octet in E Major, Op. 32
MUSIC AT MIDDAY
susan grace music director, piano
scott yoo conductor, violin
JUNE 6-26, 2026
FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA CONCERT
Scott Yoo, conducting
TUESDAY, JUNE 16
7 p.m., Richard F. Celeste Theatre
Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center
Copland Appalachian Spring
Pre-Concert Lecture
5:45 p.m. Cornerstone Arts Center Screening Room
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622
Jon Manasse, clarinet
Sibelius Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43
MUSIC AND ART TALK
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17
1:45 p.m., Agents of Care Hall, FAC Free
Exploring the life and works of abstract artist Charles Bunnell
Presenter: Pat Musick, artist and educator
CHILDREN’S ORCHESTRA CONCERT
• Monday, June 15
• Wednesday, June 17
• Friday, June 19
• Monday, June 22
• Wednesday, June 24
• Thursday, June 25
• Friday, June 26
Free 12:15 P.M. PACKARD HALL
THURSDAY, JUNE 18
9 and 11 a.m.
Richard F. Celeste Theatre
Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center
Free ticketed event
Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf with guest artist
Bill Bowers, mime; Virginia Barron, narrator; and Bemis student artwork
FESTIVAL ARTISTS
PRE-CONCERT RECITAL
THURSDAY, JUNE 18
5:45 p.m., Packard Hall, free
Piano Extravaganza
Join pianists William Wolfram, John Novacek, Susan Grace and Festival Fellows for performances with not just two hands, but with four, six, and maybe even eight!
Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center, free
FACULTY/FELLOW CONCERT AT FIRST CONGREGATIONAL
SUNDAY, JUNE 21
4 p.m., First Congregational Church, 20 E. St. Vrain St., Colorado Springs, free
FESTIVAL ARTISTS CONCERT
MONDAY, JUNE 22
7 p.m., Packard Hall
Pre-Concert Lecture
5:45 p.m., Packard Hall Room 9
Sacco Quintet, Movement II: Little Suite of Miniatures
Barker An Linne Ghlas (Grey-green Estuary)
Wu Mass Transit (Colorado premiere)
Arnold Oboe Quartet, Op. 61
Khachaturian Trio for clarinet, violin and piano
NIGHT CAP
MUSIC AND WINE PAIRING
MONDAY, JUNE 22
Post-concert, Evergreen Restaurant
FESTIVAL ARTISTS
PRE-CONCERT RECITAL
THURSDAY, JUNE 25
5:45 p.m., Packard Hall, free
Steve Barta Trio
FESTIVAL ARTISTS
CONCERT
THURSDAY, JUNE 25
7 p.m., Packard Hall
Fine Partita for wind quintet
Blacher Divertimento for trumpet, trombone and piano
Hale Colored Glass (world premiere)
Commissioned by the CC Summer Music Festival Arensky Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 32
FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA CONCERT
Scott Yoo, conducting
FRIDAY, JUNE 26
7 p.m., Richard F. Celeste Theatre
Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center
Pre-Concert Lecture
5:45 p.m. Cornerstone Arts Center Screening Room
Wu Continental Express (Colorado premiere)
Sam Wu, conducting Glazunov Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82
Ayano Ninomiya, violin
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, Op. 35
Artwork on cover and details throughout: Charles Bunnell, Untitled, 1959 From the collection of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College. 2015.20.10
JUNE 6-26, 2026
susan grace, music director
scott yoo, conductor, violin
CONTRIBUTORS
The following very special friends have contributed to the 2026 Summer Music Festival. Thanks to the generosity of these individuals, many deserving and talented young musicians attend this extraordinary program. To continue the Summer Music Festival and to maintain the highest standards of artistic excellence, the support of new friends is a continuing and vitally important goal. If you are interested in helping support the Summer Music Festival through annual giving or our endowment campaign, or if you would like to have your name placed on the Summer Music Festival mailing list, please contact Ann Van Horn, assistant director, at (719) 389-6552.
ENDOWMENT CAMPAIGN GIFTS
37th Street Foundation
Laurent Carrier
Carlton Gamer
Michael Grace
Jeffrey Haney
Sandra and Richard Hilt
Katherine Loo
Perrotti-Holmes Music Fellowship
Pam and Tom Sanny
$10,000 AND MORE THE GOLDEN BATON
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Aikin, Jr.
Colorado College Cultural Attractions Fund
Bain Family Foundation
Susan and Michael Grace
Jeffrey Haney in memory of Peter Rowen Haney
Colorado College established its first summer music program in the late 1880s. Since then, many brilliant performers and gifted student musicians have been summer guests of the college.
Now in its 42nd year, the present Summer Music Festival was founded in 1984 by John Giordano, conductor and music director of the Fort Worth Symphony; Elmer Peterson, dean of the CC Summer Session; and Michael Grace, chair of the music department and the first festival director. In 1987, Susan Grace, artist-in-residence at Colorado College, took over the director’s duties. Outstanding young musicians from around the world spend three weeks working closely with world-renowned faculty coaches in small
Sandra Hilt in memory of Richard Hilt
Laurel and John Watkins
$7,000-$9,999 MUSIC DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE
Susan Ashley and Robert Lee
Timothy Fuller in memory of Kalah Powers Fuller
Daniel Tynan in memory of Nancy Ekberg Tynan
Esther Redmount and Harry White
$4,000-$6,999 CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE
Anne and Gary Bradley
Paul Condit
Dr. Paul Alan Feil
Margaret Satterfield in memory of Kathryn Rubin
Judith Sellers in memory of Dr. Buz Sellers
Kathleen Yasumura in memory of Kathryn Rubin
$2,500-$3,999 - DO
Susan Chamberlain and John Chalik
Lauren Ciborowski and Benjamin Harvey
Colorado College Music Department
Curtis Cook in memory of Avis Cook
El Pomar Foundation
Jan and Peter Fairchild
Carol Anne Freeman and Nicolas Wilson
Dr. Susan Rae Jensen Scholarship Award Fund
Becky and Jon Medved
groups, attending orchestra rehearsals and master classes, taking private lessons, and presenting concerts in the community and at CC. These talented festival fellows perform in both orchestra and chamber music programs.
The mission of the Colorado College Summer Music Festival is to provide the highest-caliber inclusive educational experience for pre-professional musicians, connecting them with pre-eminent performance faculty as they prepare to launch rewarding careers, while simultaneously providing vibrant and diverse concerts celebrating legacy, contemporary, and underrepresented classical music, thereby enriching the community of the Pikes Peak region.
Art Porter in memory of Judy Lewallen
Constance Raub
Libby Rittenberg and Nasit Ari
Michele Strub-Heer and Jordan Strub
Pam and Tom Sanny
Darryl and Terry Thatcher in memory of Rex Kramer
$1,500-$2,499 - RE
Peggy Berg and Jonathan Lee
Laurent Carrier
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Marcia Dobson and John Riker
Elaine Freed in memory of Carlton Gamer
Nancy Hochman in memory of Bill Hochman
Ida Boatwright Hutchinson Memorial Fund
Lorna Lynn and Harold Palevsky in honor of Susan and Michael Grace
Pam and Stephen Marsh
Helen and Horst Richardson in memory of Joseph Pickle
Nancy Roeder in memory of Prof. Emeritus
David William Roeder
Jan Saffir and Paul Stephens
$1,000-$1,499 - MI
Carolyn and Toby Appel
Deborah Brewer and Jeffrey Schmoyer
Ginny and Guy Cresap
Nicole de Naray in memory of Helene Knapp
Jan Erickson and Jon Thomas
Michael Healy
Lisa B. Hughes and Barry Sarchett
Cultural Attractions Fund
Elizabeth Leslie in memory of Helene L. Knapp for the Memorial Scholarship Fund
Nita and Lawrence Propp
Kathleen Ricker
Lee and Jim Ringe
Shivers Fund at the Pikes Peak Library District
Christine and Mike Siddoway
Suzanne and Robert Smith
Claire Taber
Karen and Charles Walter
Keiko and Phil Ying in honor of Susan Grace
$500-$999 - FA
Anonymous
Anonymous
Sally and Caleb Cramer
Jane and Leo Ehrhard
Herman Goellnitz
Jolinda Grace
Deborah Harris and Shahid A. Rahman
Louise and Jim Hunter
Carol Keenan
Mari Ann and Stephen Keithahn in honor of Maestro Scott Yoo
Corinne Scheiner and David Weiss
Edie Greene and Alan Siegel
Phil Kendall
Marianna McJimsey in memory of Robert McJimsey
Nancy and Doug Norberg
Ruth Olson
John Orsborn
Frances Pilch
Kait Mahony and John Rojak
Darryl Stevens and Jeffrey Ames
Jodi and Max Taylor in memory of Joseph Pickle
Elizabeth Wieland
SHIVERS FUND AT
Barbara and Joe Wilcox
Diane Williams
$100-$499 - SO
Susanne Anselmi
Jacquie Baldwin
Philip Baldwin
Edison Barber
Nancy Barron
Barbara Bates
Laurie Beattie
Schon Beechler
DeeAnn Brown
Helen Brown
Judith and William Brown
Judy Brown
Inger and Anthony Bull
Stormy and Shane Burns
Chuck Cabell
Lynn Cassel and Andrew Koss
Bonnie and Tom Clark in honor of Susan Grace
LeAnna Dabler
Marie Daniels
Mark Dempsey
Stephanie DiCenzo and Kent Borges
Chris Duff
Hillary Fowler
Barbara Gazibara
Gwen and Don Jenkins
Roslyn Haddock
Cheryl Hayman
Jane Hilberry
Robin Izer and Izzy Moreno
Ross Jacobsen
Margaret Knight
Bob LaMont
Suzanne MacAulay
Inna Malyshev in memory of Glenn Brooks
Mary McKinley
Annette Megneys
Ken Miller
Philip Neale
Lisa Noll and Eric Leonard
Chris O’Shea in memory of Linda O’Shea and Mark Seelye
Elisabeth Rebman
Peter Scanlon
Susan and Daniel Schnee
Eve and David Sckolnik
Jenny Shallenberger and Alan Schwartzman
Karen Shapiro
Tomoko Shiotsu
Janet Sims
Ann Van Horn and Douglas Monroy
Mark Warshaw in memory of William Hochman
Judy and Charles Warren in memory of Helene Knapp
Maggie Walsh
Bert Wong
Eugene Zazzaro
$1-$99 - LA
Nancy Anderson
Fawn and John Bell
Terry Bitzel
Ella Boyd Brocker
Sally Conover
Tracy Dunning and Eric Sondermann in memory of Joseph Pickle
Vivian Edelson
Stefan Erickson
Jennifer Friend in memory of Dustie & Kevin Flynn
Lori Gamble
Michelle and Karl Greis
Jeanette Gregg and Alan Hassebrock
Lisa Hickey
Kathleen Hindmarch
Carole and Tom Huber
Richard Joy
Mary Kelley
Emily and Stephen Kim
Liz Manring and Claire Dahl
Judith and Keith Marcantel
Anne Maverick
FOUNDATIONS AND FUNDS
The Bain Family Foundation
Ida Boatwright Hutchinson Memorial Fund
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Colorado College Attractions Fund
Dr. Susan Rae Jensen Scholarship Award Fund
El Pomar Foundation
Helene J. Knapp Memorial Scholarship Fund
Medved Family Charitable Fund
The Norberg Family Foundation
Purple Mountain Group at Morgan Stanley
Shivers Fund at the Pikes Peak
Library District
Summation Wealth Group
Michael Melinger
Wynn Miller
Thomas Mourar
John Moyer
Jill Mulrooney
Skip and Cathy Mundy
Margaret Oliver
WINE DONATIONS
Susan Ashley and Robert D. Lee
Lauren Ciborowski and Ben Harvey
Timothy Fuller
Michael Grace
Lisa B. Hughes and Barry Sarchett
Jacqueline Lundquist and Richard Celeste
Peggy McKinley
Jon and Becky Medved
Esther Redmount and Harry White
Sandra Tiemens
Ann Van Horn and Douglas Monroy
Mark Smith
Barbara St. Andre
Sergei Vassiliev
Mike Verbeten
Nancy Wilson
Natalie Wirt
Will Wright
SUPPORTING RADIO STATIONS
American Public Media’s “Performance Today”
SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Nasit Ari
Lauren Ciborowski
Timothy Fuller
Michael Grace
Susan Grace
Jon Medved
Libby Rittenberg
Sandra Tiemens
Ann Van Horn
VIOLIN
Ian Barnett, Miami, FL, Princeton University
Sponsored by Nancy Hochman
Amelia Cannavo, Barnegat Light, NJ, New England Conservatory
Sponsored by Laurent Carrier
Tzu-Ting Chen, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, New England Conservatory
Sponsored by Horst and Helen Richardson, and Toby and Carolyn Appel
Dexter Doris, Hartsdale, NY, The Juilliard School
Sponsored by Terry and Darryl Thatcher
Brandon Garza, San Antonio, TX, The University of Texas at Austin
FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Scott Yoo, conducting
ASSISTANT CONDUCTORS
Sam Wu, Melbourne, Australia, Rice University Shepherd School of Music
Sponsored by John and Laurel Watkins
Elias Gilbert, Santa Cruz, CA, Peabody Conservatory
Sponsored by Margaret Satterfield, and Kathleen Yasumura
VIOLA
Katherine Chernyak, Windsor, Ontario, Bard College Conservatory of Music
Sponsored by Peter and Jan Fairchild
Aliza Creel, Middlebury, CT, The Juilliard School
Sponsored by Michael Healy, and Elizabeth Leslie
Daniel De La Cruz, Laguna Niguel, CA, New England Conservatory
Sponsored by Paul Condit
Lucy Gelber, Atlanta, GA, The Glenn Gould School
Sponsored by Paul Stephens and Jan Saffir
Lou Jantzen, Greenville, NC, The Juilliard School
Sponsored by Daniel Tynan
Sponsored by Nancy Roeder, and Guy and Ginny Cresap
Dylan Hansen Hamme, Leonia, NJ, The Juilliard School
Sponsored by Sandra Hilt
Theresa Katz, Philadelphia, PA, New England Conservatory
Sponsored by Nicholas Wilson and Carol Anne Freeman
Samantha Kramer, West Hartford, CT, Oberlin Conservatory
Sponsored by Phillip and Keiko Ying, and Jonathan Lee and Peggy Berg
Anna Linder, Westerville, OH, University of Michigan
Sponsored by Daniel Tynan
Liliana Mahave, Toronto, Ontario, Eastman School of Music
Sponsored by Nicole de Naray and Claire Taber
Beatrix Cecilia Martin, Columbus, OH, Manhattan School of Music
Sponsored by Elaine Freed
Rachel Leigh McClellan, Good Hope, GA, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
Sponsored by Paul Condit
Katharine Nelson, Flossmoor, IL, University of Colorado Boulder
Sponsored by Art Porter
Daniel Xu, St. Louis, MO, Brown University
Sponsored by Robert Lee and Susan Ashley
*Hazel Keithahn, Columbia, MO
*Yurie Mitsuhashi, Colorado Springs, CO
*Cecilia Vallejos Ybarra, Colorado Springs, CO
*Elisa Wicks, Colorado Springs, CO
Katherine Soyoung Park, Boston, MA, Eastman School of Music
Sponsored by Dr. Paul Feil
Hideaki Shiotsu, Mercer Island, WA, Eastman School of Music
Sponsored by Tom and Pam Sanny, and Harold Palevsky and Lorna Lynn
*Joshua Head, Colorado Springs, CO
CELLO
Tatum Hodgson, Sierra Madre, CA, Rice University Shepherd School of Music
Sponsored by Curtis Cook
Elliott Kim, Los Altos, CA, Princeton University
Sponsored by Barry Sarchett and Lisa B. Hughes, and Robert and Suzanne Smith
Cole Leonard, Gravette, AR, University of Southern California Thornton School of Music
Sponsored by Jeffrey Haney
Gabriella McClellan, Athens, GA, University of Georgia
Sponsored by Sandra Hilt
Karim Maggio, Herndon VA, The Juilliard School
Sponsored by John Chalik and Susan Chamberlain
Maggie Slap, West Hartford, CT, Eastman School of Music
Sponsored by Robert Lee and Susan Ashley
Samuel Sykes, Dubuque, IA, Rice University Shepherd School of Music
Sponsored by Jeffrey Schmoyer and Deborah Brewer, and Lawrence and Nita Propp
BASS
Moa Glimberg, Arlöv, Sweden, The Juilliard School
Sponsored by Sandra Hilt
Paul Gong, Irvine, CA, The Juilliard School
Sponsored by Timothy Fuller
Logan Jeonghoo Lee, Chandler, AZ, Yale University
Sponsored by Kathleen Yasumura
FLUTE
Hanna Noh, Pyeongtaek, South Korea, University of Missouri
Sponsored by William Holmes, Perrotti-Holmes Music Fellowship
Dennis Papazyan, Los Angeles, CA, University of Southern California Thornton School of Music
Sponsored by Stephen and Pam Marsh
*Allison Gioscia, Colorado Springs, CO
OBOE
Bridget Nance, Rochester, NY, Rice University Shepherd School of Music
Sponsored by Jordan Strub and Michelle Strub-Herr
Will Simpfendorfer, Colorado Springs, CO, The Juilliard School
Sponsored by Jon and Becky Medved
CLARINET
Elias Gilbert, Santa Cruz, CA, Peabody Conservatory
Sponsored by Margaret Satterfield, and Kathleen Yasumura
Colin Miller, Nashville, TN, University of Wyoming
Sponsored by Dr. Paul Feil
BASSOON
Katherine Dahn, Tecumseh, MI, Michigan State University
Sponsored by Harry White and Esther Redmount
Faith Weigand, Racine, WI, Eastman School of Music
Sponsored by Margaret Satterfield
HORN
Nathan Bonin, Longmont, CO, University of Colorado Boulder
Sponsored by Jon and Becky Medved, and John Riker and Marcia Dobson
Grace Doerr, Plainwell, MI, Temple University
Sponsored by William Holmes
Bradley Greathouse, St. Peters, MO, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Sponsored by Katherine Loo, and Charles and Karen Walter
Hayden Joyce, Middlebury, IN, The Colburn School
Sponsored by Nasit Ari and Libby Rittenberg, and Art Porter
TRUMPET
Sydney Hoehl, Litchfield, IL, University of Colorado Boulder
Sponsored by Constance Raub
Henry Lesser, Suwanee, GA, University of Colorado Boulder
Sponsored by Jim and Lee Ringe, and Curtis Cook
*Evan Marsh, Colorado Springs, CO
TROMBONE
Eric Grant Hayes, Sachse, TX, Baylor University
Sponsored by Tom and Pam Sanny
Amaan Syed, Austin, TX, The Juilliard School
Sponsored by Jon Thomas and Jan Erickson, and Peggy Shivers
BASS TROMBONE
Jordan Tolleson, Wichita Falls, TX, Oklahoma State University
Sponsored by Mike and Christine Siddoway, and Kathleen Ricker
TUBA
*Joseph Boylan, Colorado Springs, CO
PIANO
Jordan Manasse, New York City, NY, Northwestern University
Sponsored by Benjamin Harvey and Lauren Ciborowski
Guoanni Qin, Guangzhou, China, Cleveland Institute of Music
Sponsored by Nasit Ari and Libby Rittenberg
Kevin Takeda, New York City, NY, Cleveland Institute of Music
Sponsored by the Dr. Susan Rae Jensen Scholarship Award
TIMPANI
*Alberto Ortega, Colorado Springs, CO
PERCUSSION
*Dick Carpenter, Colorado Springs, CO
*Nicholas Finley, Colorado Springs, CO
*Robert Jurkscheit, Colorado Springs, CO
*Nathaniel Knitter, Colorado Springs, CO
*Aaron Turner, Colorado Springs, CO
HARP
*Jenna Hunt, Colorado Springs, CO
*guest musician
Sérénade for 12 instruments
TUESDAY, JUNE 9
7 p.m., Packard Hall
Vif (1912-1997)
Andantino con moto
Un poco allegretto
Vivace
Elizabeth Mann, flute; Erin Hannigan, oboe; Jon Manasse, clarinet; Michael Kroth, bassoon
Michael Thornton, horn; Louis Hanzlik, trumpet; John Rojak, trombone
Laura Frautschi, violin; Stefan Hersh, violin; Toby Appel, viola
David Ying, cello; Susan Cahill, bass
From Deux Rhapsodies
L’Étang (The Pond) (1861-1935)
Erin Hannigan, oboe; Toby Appel, viola; John Novacek, piano
Quartet in D Major for flute, violin, viola and cello, K V 285
W. A. MOZART
Allegro (1756-1791)
Adagio; Rondeau
Elizabeth Mann, flute
Andrew Wan, violin; Phillip Ying, viola; David Ying, cello
Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 115
GABRIEL FAURÉ
Allegro moderato (1845-1924)
Allegro vivo
Andante moderato
Allegro molto
John Novacek, piano
Andrew Wan, violin; Laura Frautschi, violin
Phillip Ying, viola; Bion Tsang, cello
This concert is sponsored by Judith Sellers in memory of Dr. Buz Sellers
Toby Appel is the Michael D. Grace Endowed Faculty Artist
Laura Frautschi is the Tom and Pam Sanny Endowed Faculty Artist
John Novacek is the Richard and Sandra Hilt Endowed Faculty Artist
Travel with host SCOTT YOO, conductor and violinist, in this special mini-series taking viewers on a voyage of musical discovery for aficionados and neophytes alike. Each episode reveals the creative process behind a diverse range of classical music in both historic and modern-day periods . Season 7 explores the lives and works of Johannes Brahms and Scott Joplin, two celebrated composers whose careers did not go as planned, alongside the music scene of two major musical epicenters: Istanbul and Iceland. Join Yoo as he journeys across Germany to find a window into Brahms’ inner life; as he travels back in time to experience the music, movies and style of the ragtime era; as he discovers the art, food, traditions, and fusion of cultures that shape the music of today’s Istanbul; and as he explores how Iceland’s unique landscape and culture combine to create a musical hotbed . Plus, CC Summer Music Festival Artists featured this season include pianist JOHN NOVACEK and flutist ALICE DADE . SEASON 7 IS OUT
Overture to The Magic Flute for brass quintet
SATURDAY, JUNE 13
7 p.m., Packard Hall
Louis Hanzlik, trumpet; *Henry Lesser, trumpet
Michael Thornton, horn; *Amaan Syed, trombone; John Rojak, bass trombone
Sarabande et Cortège
Michael Kroth, bassoon; Susan Grace, piano
(1756-1791)
arr. John Wasson
Suite for oboe and harp
Minuet: Moderato (1905-1985)
Valse Miniature: Allegro grazioso
Jig: Allegro molto
Midsummer Moon
Erin Hannigan, oboe; **Jenna Hunt, harp
CLARKE (1886-1979)
Scott Yoo, violin; Susan Grace, piano
From Portraits of Langston
Prelude: Helen Keller (b. 1970)
Le Grand Duc Mambo
Silver Rain
Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret
**Ashley Cornelius, poet
Elizabeth Mann, flute; Jon Manasse, clarinet; Susan Grace, piano
VALERIE COLEMAN
Octet in E Major, Op. 32
LOUIS SPOHR
Adagio; Allegro (1784-1859)
Menuetto: Allegro
Andante con variazioni: Tema di Händel
Finale: Allegretto
*festival fellow **guest artist
This concert is sponsored by Gary and Anne Bradley.
Music Director Susan Grace is sponsored by the Bain Family Foundation. Conductor and Faculty Artist Scott Yoo is sponsored by Arthur and Elizabeth Aikin. Toby Appel is the Michael D. Grace Endowed Faculty Artist. Laura Frautschi is the Tom and Pam Sanny Endowed Faculty Artist.
Jon Manasse, clarinet; Michael Thornton, horn; *Grace Doerr, horn
Andrew Wan, violin; Phillip Ying, viola; Toby Appel, viola
David Ying, cello; Susan Cahill, bass
Scott Yoo, conducting
TUESDAY, JUNE 16
7 p.m., Celeste Theatre
Appalachian Spring
(A Ballet for Martha) (1900-1990)
Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622
Allegro (1756-1791)
Adagio
Rondo-Allegro
Jon Manasse, clarinet
— INTERMISSION —
Please join us in the Main Space for catwalk capers.
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43
JEAN SIBELIUS
Allegretto (1865-1957)
Tempo andante, ma rubato
Vivacissimo
Finale-Allegro moderato
The audience is cordially invited to a post-concert celebration in the Main Space featuring LOOK’EE HERE! blues and jazz trio.
This concert is sponsored by members of the Haney family in memory of Peter Rowen Haney.
Conductor and Faculty Artist Scott Yoo is sponsored by Arthur and Elizabeth Aikin.
Music ART TALK at the fac
Exploring the life and works of abstract painter, printmaker and muralist Charles Bunnell
Wednesday, June 17
1:45 p.m. Agents of Care Hall, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College
3 RSVP requested. Scan or visit fac.coloradocollege.edu/events
Walk over from Packard Hall right after Music at Midday!
A dedicated artist and colorful character, Charlie Bunnell was a close friend of fellow student Archie Musick (father of speaker Pat Musick) at the 1920s Broadmoor Art Academy and its successor, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center . Bunnell relentlessly pursued his artistic vision through many approaches; his early drawing and painting skills carry his work from Impressionism, through representational Regionalism, Cubism, and his mature abstractions . Bunnell’s 1959 Untitled will be available for Talk patrons to view in the Gathering Place: Permanent Collection Reinstallation, located in the FAC’s First Floor Galleries, on the day of the event . To see the piece on the way to the Talk, guests should walk with the group coming from Packard Hall following Music at Midday . Patrons who miss seeing the work beforehand will also have an opportunity to view it afterward .
PRESENTER: PAT MUSICK artist and educator
Colorado Springs native Pat Musick has been immersed in regional cultural and natural history and the arts, starting with a ceramist mother and painter father . At Reed College, she encountered historical calligraphy; during graduate research on the lettering in early Irish manuscripts in London and Dublin, she was introduced to enameling and continues to pursue this medium of fire, metal, and glass. She teaches enameling and calligraphy at Bemis School of Art and has taught art, design, and art appreciation at numerous schools and colleges . Her public art commissions include murals in two Colorado universities . Pat has served as artist-in-residence in two national parks, interim director of a folklife center, and recently as a guest curator for the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center’s Gathering Place exhibition, focusing on the early history of the Center . She enjoys playing recorder with Colorado College’s Collegium Musicum and Consort .
Artwork by Linda Sagastume’s students from the FAC’s Bemis School of Art
Peter and the Wolf
Each character of this tale is represented by a corresponding instrument in the orchestra:
The bird by a flute
The duck by an oboe
The cat by a clarinet playing staccato in a low register
The grandfather by a bassoon
The wolf by three horns
Peter by the string quartet
The forest rangers by the kettle drums and bass drum
*festival fellow
**guest artist
Assistant Conductor and Composer Sam Wu is sponsored by John and Laurel Watkins.
Assistant Conductor Elias Gilbert is sponsored by Margaret Satterfield and Kathleen Yasumura.
This concert is sponsored by Children’s Hospital Colorado and El Pomar Foundation.
THURSDAY, JUNE 18 5:45 p.m., Packard Hall
Piano Extravaganza
Festival Artists William Wolfram, John Novacek, Susan Grace
Festival Fellows Jordan Manasse, Kevin Takeda, Guoanni Quin
Rondó Bermudez
JOHN NOVACEK (b. 1964)
John Novacek
Liebesträume No. 3
FRANZ LISZT (1811-1886)
William Wolfram
Libertango for piano 4-hands
Guoanni Qin; Kevin Takeda
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA (1921-1992)
Two pieces for piano 6-hands
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF Waltz (1873-1943)
Romance
Susan Grace; William Wolfram; John Novacek
Quodlibet on American folk tunes for 2 pianos, 8-hands
INGOLF DAHL “The Fancy Blue Devil’s Breakdown” (1912-1970)
William Wolfram; Jordan Manasse John Novacek; Guoanni Qin
Please enjoy the wine bar in the Packard Courtyard between concerts.
This free concert is sponsored by the Miriam Bolner estate
Music Director and Pianist Susan Grace is sponsored by the Bain Family Foundation
John Novacek is the Richard and Sandra Hilt Endowed Faculty Artist
Sonata for trumpet, horn and trombone
THURSDAY, JUNE 18
7 p.m., Packard Hall
POULENC
Allegro moderato: Grazioso (1899-1963)
Andante: Très lent
Rondeau: Anime
Cinq Pièces en trio
Jean Laurenz, trumpet; Michael Thornton, horn; John Rojak, trombone
IBERT
Allegro vivo (1890-1962)
Andantino
Allegro assai
Andante
Allegro quasi marziale
Laura Griffiths, oboe; Alan Kay, clarinet; Michael Kroth, bassoon
Trio for flute, bassoon and piano
Alice Dade, flute; Michael Kroth, bassoon; John Novacek, piano
Kicho for double bass and piano
Susan Cahill, double bass; John Novacek, piano
Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4
Ayano Ninomiya, violin; Laura Frautschi, violin
Toby Appel, viola; Phillip Ying, viola
Bion Tsang, cello; David Ying, cello
COREA (1941-2021)
PIAZZOLLA (1921-1992)
SCHOENBERG (1874-1951)
After Richard Dehmel’s poem Verklärte Nacht from Weib und Welt (Woman and World)
This concert is sponsored by Esther Redmount and Harry White
Toby Appel is the Michael D. Grace Endowed Faculty Artist
John Novacek is the Richard and Sandra Hilt Endowed Faculty Artist
Laura Frautschi is the Tom and Pam Sanny Endowed Faculty Artist
FACULTY/FELLOW CONCERT at First Congregational Church
SUNDAY, JUNE 21 4 p.m.
20 E. St. Vrain St. Colorado Springs
Free! No tickets required
Quintet, Movement II: Little Suite of Miniatures
MONDAY, JUNE 22
7 p.m., Packard Hall
STEVEN CHRISTOPHER SACCO
Air: Allegretto (b. 1965)
Presto brillante
Andante
Largo Presto
Jean Laurenz, trumpet; *Sydney Hoehl, trumpet
David Alexander, horn; *Eric Grant Hayes, trombone; John Rojak, bass trombone
An Linne Ghlas (Grey-green Estuary)
Alice Dade, flute; Bion Tsang, cello
Mass Transit (Colorado premiere)
BARKER (b. 1965)
SAM WU
network architecture (b. 1995) garden city airport express night skyline interchange station
Susan Grace, piano
Scott Yoo, violin; Stefan Hersh, violin; Toby Appel, viola; Bion Tsang, cello
Oboe Quartet, Op. 61 .
MALCOLM ARNOLD
Allegro non troppo (1921-2006)
Allegretto Vivace con brio
Laura Griffiths, oboe
Stefan Hersh, violin; Toby Appel, viola; Mark Kosower, cello
Trio for clarinet, violin and piano
ARAM KHACHATURIAN
Andante con dolore, con molto espressione (1903-1978)
Allegro
Moderato
*festival fellow
Alan Kay, clarinet; Ayano Ninomiya, violin; William Wolfram, piano
This concert is sponsored by Timothy Fuller in memory of Kalah Powers Fuller
Music Director and Pianist Susan Grace is sponsored by the Bain Family Foundation
Conductor and Faculty Artist Scott Yoo is sponsored by Arthur and Elizabeth Aikin
Assistant Conductor and Composer Sam Wu is sponsored by John and Laurel Watkins
Toby Appel is the Michael D. Grace Endowed Faculty Artist
JENNIFER
N MUSIC AND WINE PAIRING
I GHT CAP
Add this event onto your season ticket package or your single concert ticket and join us for an exclusive “Night Cap” following Monday’s Festival Artists Concert.
Lauren Ciborowski and Benjamin Harvey, both CC alums and longtime Festival supporters, will host this unique event that blends musical insight into the evening’s concert program with thoughtfullypaired wine tastings, to be held at Evergreen Restaurant behind the Colorado College Spencer Center.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 25
5:45 p.m., Packard Hall
STEVE BARTA TRIO
Music to be announced from the stage
Steve Barta is a Grammy nominee, pianist, composer, arranger, educator, and author whose widely-acclaimed original works and recordings proudly reflect his primary influences of Brazilian, jazz and classical music. He has performed as a solo artist, with jazz ensembles, and with symphony orchestras.
As a member of Herbie Mann and Jasil Brazz featuring Steve Barta, he recorded the 1995 album “Blue River,” a collection of Barta’s own Brazilian-style compositions. His Grammy nomination came in 2013 for “Jumpin’ Jazz Kids,” an original storyline and collection of compositions written for jazz ensemble and orchestra along with co-writer Mark Oblinger. Most recently, he collaborated with flutist Hubert Laws and guitarist Lee Trees to record his latest work, “Ascended.”
GRANDE ORQUESTA NAVARRE, ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR THIS RECITAL, HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL 2027.
Please enjoy the wine bar in the Packard Courtyard between concerts.
This free concert is sponsored by Robert Lee and Susan Ashley
Partita for wind quintet
THURSDAY, JUNE 25
7 p.m., Packard Hall
Introduction and Theme: Allegro moderato (1914-1962)
Variation: Poco vivace
Interlude: Adagio
Gigue: Allegro
Coda: Lento assai
Alice Dade, flute; Marion Arthur Kuszyk, oboe; Alan Kay, clarinet
Michael Kroth, bassoon; David Alexander, horn
Divertimento for trumpet, trombone and piano .
Allegro (1903-1975)
Andantino
Presto
Moderato
Allegretto
Ohne Bezeichnung
Presto
Jean Laurenz, trumpet; John Rojak, trombone; Susan Grace, piano
Colored Glass (world premiere)
GRACE HALE
Refract (b. 1998)
Prisma
Mirage
Chroma
Susan Grace and William Wolfram, pianos
Alice Dade, flute; Alan Kay, clarinet
Scott Yoo, violin; Stefan Hersh, violin; Toby Appel, viola
Commissioned by the Colorado College Summer Music Festival and supported by the Carlton Gamer Endowed Fund for Advancement of Musical Thinking
— INTERMISSION —
Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 32
Allegro moderato
Scherzo: Allegro molto
Elegia: Adagio
Finale: Allegro non troppo
*festival fellow **guest artist
This concert is sponsored by the 37th Street Foundation and the Dr. Frank E. Kirby II, class of 1950, Concert Endowment
Conductor and Faculty Artist Scott Yoo is sponsored by Arthur and Elizabeth Aikin Music Director and Pianist Susan Grace is sponsored by the Bain Family Foundation Toby Appel is the Michael D. Grace Endowed Faculty Artist
ANTON ARENSKY
(1861-1906)
William Wolfram, piano; Ayano Ninomiya, violin; Mark Kosower, cello
Continental Express (Colorado premiere)
Scott Yoo, conducting
*Sam Wu, conducting
FRIDAY, JUNE 26
7 p.m., Celeste Theatre
SAM WU
Origin City-Rocky Mountains-Mojave Desert-Terminus City (b. 1995)
Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82
ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV Moderato (1865-1936)
Andante sostenuto Allegro
Scheherazade, Op. 35
Ayano Ninomiya, violin
— INTERMISSION — Please join us in the Main Space for catwalk capers.
The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship (1844-1908) Largo e maestoso. Allegro non troppo
The Legend of the Kalendar Prince Lento. Andantino. Allegro molto. Con moto
The Young Prince and Princess Andantino quasi allegretto. Pochissimo più mosso. Come prima. Pochissimo più animato Festival at Baghdad. The Sea. Ship Breaks upon a Cliff Surmounted by a Bronze Horseman Allegro molto. Vivo. Allegro non troppo maestoso.
*festival fellow
This concert is sponsored by Daniel Tynan in memory of Nancy Ekberg Tynan.
Conductor and Faculty Artist Scott Yoo is sponsored by Arthur and Elizabeth Aikin. Assistant Conductor and Composer Sam Wu is sponsored by John and Laurel Watkins.
Thank you for contributing to a very successful 42nd season! We are grateful and look forward to seeing you in 2027.
FESTIVAL ARTISTS
Susan Grace, music director, piano
Grammy-nominated pianist and Steinway Artist Susan Grace has performed solo and chamber recitals, and has appeared as soloist with orchestras in the United States, Europe, the former Soviet Union, Korea, India, and China. She has also performed in the Aspekte Festival in Salzburg, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s new-music series Engine 408, Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the Grand Teton Festival, the Cape Cod Music Festival, Festival Mozaic, the Hear Now Music Festival in Los Angeles, Concordia Chamber Players, Music at Oxford, and the Helmsley Festival in England. She is a member of Quattro Mani, an internationally acclaimed two-piano ensemble with New York pianist Steven Beck. Recent performances include CUNY Graduate Center, Bargemusic, National Sawdust, Subculture, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Klavierhaus and Steinway Hall in New York, UMass Amherst, La Labortoire Cambridge, Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, Colorado College, Brandeis University, UMass Amherst, Lehigh University, and the Alabama and Austin Symphonies.
Grace has recorded for Bridge Records, the Belgium National Radio, WFMT in Chicago, the Society of Composers, Wilson Audio, Klavier International, and Klavier Music Productions. Her recording on the Bridge label of Stefan Wolpe’s violin and piano music was listed in the London Sunday Times as one of the top 10 contemporary recordings and was included on the Fanfare “Critics Want List.” Bridge Records recently released two new CDs by Quattro Mani, one featuring American composer Fred Lerdahl and another including American and European composers called Hallelujah Junction
Grace is associate chair, artist-in-residence, and senior lecturer in music at Colorado College. Grace was awarded the 2020 Gresham Riley Award, the Alumni Association’s highest honor for service to Colorado College, and the 2023 Jane Cauvel Cultivating Collaboration and Community Presidential Leadership Award. She was awarded the Christine S. Johnson Professorship of Music from 2014-16. In June 2014, Mayor Steve Bach and the City of Colorado Springs presented Grace with the Spirit of the Springs award for her work with the Colorado College Summer Music Festival. Grace was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Small Ensemble Performance category.
Scott Yoo, conductor, violin
Scott Yoo has served as the chief conductor and artistic director of the Mexico City Philharmonic since 2016. Since 2004, he has served as music director of Festival Mozaic, an orchestral and chamber music festival in the Central Coast of California. Yoo is also the Host and Executive Producer of the PBS series “Now Hear This,” the first show about classical music on American prime time TV since 1967. “Now Hear This” received an Emmy nomination in 2021.
Yoo has conducted the Colorado, Dallas, Indianapolis, Minnesota, New World, San Francisco, and Utah Symphonies, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in their Elliott Carter Festival and in his Carnegie Hall debut. In Europe, he conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, Britten Sinfonia, L’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, and the Estonian National Symphony. In Asia, Yoo has led the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo and the Seoul Philharmonic and Busan Philharmonic in Korea. His discography includes over 20 recordings on Bridge, Naxos, New World, and Sony Classical.
A proponent of the music of our time, Yoo has premiered 76 works by 39 composers. With the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, Yoo recorded Mark O’Connor’s American Seasons for Sony Classical; John Harbison’s chamber orchestra works with soprano Dawn Upshaw for Bridge Records, nominated for a National Public Radio Performance Today Award; and song cycles of Earl Kim with sopranos Benita Valente and Karol Bennett for New World, named a Critics Choice by the New York Times. Other recording projects include complete orchestral works of Earl Kim with the RTE National Orchestra of Ireland for Naxos; the works of Carter, Lieberson, and Ruders; and the cycle of Mozart Piano Concertos.
After beginning his musical studies at age 3, Yoo performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Boston Symphony at age 12. He received First Prize in the 1988 Josef Gingold International Violin Competition, the 1989 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and the 1994 Avery Fisher Career Grant. In 1993, Yoo founded the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, conducting the ensemble in its subscription series at Jordan Hall in Boston and the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy, NY, and on more than 100 performances on tour.
Yoo was born in Tokyo and raised in Glastonbury, CT. He studied violin with Roman Totenberg, Albert Markov, Paul Kantor, and Dorothy DeLay, and conducting with Michael Gilbert and Michael Tilson Thomas. He has been the conductor of the Colorado College Music Festival since 2002, and the founder of the Medellín Festicámara, a chamber music program that brings together world-class artists with underprivileged young musicians. He attended Harvard University, where he received a bachelor’s degree. In 2021, he received an honorary doctorate degree from Colorado College.
David Alexander, horn
David Alexander currently serves as acting principal horn of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Previously acting associate principal in the same orchestra, he has also held positions in the Metropolitan Opera and New World Symphony. He has appeared at Carnegie Hall with the Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble and toured in China with Juilliard’s Kovner Wind Quintet. He has focused on contemporary music at the Yellow Barn Music Festival, specialized in historically informed performance at the French baroque festival, Dans le Jardins de William Christie, and most recently collaborated with the indie rock band WHY? in Cincinnati’s Talk Low Music Festival. Alexander performed as a Fellow at the Colorado College Summer Music Festival, Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme, Music Academy of the West, and Bowdoin International Music Festival. Alexander has served on the adjunct faculty of the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music since 2024. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Juilliard School, where he was a proud recipient of the Kovner Fellowship.
Toby Appel, viola
Toby Appel performs throughout North and South America, Europe, and the Far East as soloist and chamber musician. He is a former member of Tashi, and the Lenox and Audubon Quartets. He began training at age 13 at the Curtis Institute with Max Aronoff. He has been on the faculty at The Juilliard School for more than 35 years and held professorships at SUNY, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, University of New Mexico, Rutgers University, Carnegie Mellon, and Yale. Appel is a winner of Young Concert Artists International. He is a frequent commentator for National Public Radio’s “Performance Today.” He has toured for the U.S. State Department and performed at the United Nations and at the White House. Chamber music and recital recordings can be heard on the Columbia, Delos, Desto, Koch International, Opus 1, and Musical Heritage Society labels.
Susan Cahill, bass
Susan Cahill is associate professor of bass at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music and a Colorado Symphony Orchestra bassist. Before joining the Colorado Symphony, where she has held section as well as acting assistant positions, Cahill was principal bass of the Louisiana Philharmonic in New Orleans. She has performed as soloist at the BASS2010 double bass convention in Berlin, Germany, and has had numerous solo performances in Colorado. In addition to performing with Extasis, she enjoys performing and touring with her sister, Beth Cahill, a singer-songwriter. Together they have performed at Swallow Hill in Denver, as well as various other venues in the West and throughout Canada. With the wildly popular band Boulder Acoustic Society, Cahill made her recording debut as a cellist on their release titled “8th Color.” Cahill performs on an instrument made by Giuseppe Santori of Turin, dated 1823.
Alice Dade, flute
Alice Dade enjoys a career of great variety, including concerto and chamber music appearances, recording projects, television appearances, and guest principal performances. As a soloist, Dade is an award-winner of the Olga Koussevitsky Wind Competition of the Musicians Club of New York and the New York Flute Club Competition. Dade can be heard on Deutsche Grammophon as acting principal flute of the Swedish Radio and Arte Verum as flutist and piccolo of the Swedish Chamber Ensemble with soloist Barbara Hendricks. Her first solo album, “Living Music,” was recorded at Skywalker Sound and released in February 2018 on Naxos. Dade joined the faculty at the University of Missouri School of Music in 2011. She is a Powell Artist and plays a handmade 14K Powell Flute with a platinum headjoint.
Laura Frautschi, violin
Violinist Laura Frautschi has established a reputation as a versatile musician with a strong commitment to contemporary as well as classical repertoire. She regularly performs as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and Asia, and collaborates frequently with living composers. She has given world premieres of violin concerti by leading American composers Lee Hyla and Augusta Read Thomas. Her chamber music activities include appearances at the Caramoor International Festival, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wellesley Composer Conference, Moab, and St. Bart’s Music Festivals. In addition, she has appeared as concertmaster of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the New York City Opera Orchestra, and tours internationally as a concertmaster of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Frautschi studied applied mathematics at Harvard College and violin performance with Robert Mann at The Juilliard School.
Laura Griffiths, oboe
Laura Griffiths is a principal oboe with San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. Previously, she was a principal oboe for Cleveland Orchestra from 2003 to 2005, an associate principal oboe of San Francisco Symphony from 2002 to 2003, and a principal oboe of Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra from 1994 to 2002. She has been a guest principal oboe with Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. During the summer, she is a principal oboe for Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego, a position she has held since 1999. Ms. Griffiths is a graduate of Eastman School of Music, where she was a student of Richard Killmer.
Erin Hannigan, oboe
Oboist Erin Hannigan is the newly appointed Professor of Oboe at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, a position she will begin in 2025-26. She has been the principal oboist of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra since 2001 and, before coming to Dallas, she was
a member of the Rochester Philharmonic. Hannigan has been a member of the Southern Methodist University faculty since 2002, where she is adjunct associate professor of oboe. She was previously a faculty member at the Eastman School of Music as instructor of Baroque oboe from 1996 to 2001. She has performed and taught at numerous summer festivals. In 2018, Hannigan received the prestigious Ford Musician Award for Excellence in Community Service from the League of American Orchestras for her annual Concert for Kindness, which has raised over $450,000 for animal rescue organizations.
Louis Hanzlik, trumpet
Louis Hanzlik is an internationally recognized, Grammy Award-winning trumpeter, chamber musician, and educator. A dedicated educator, Hanzlik serves as Professor of Trumpet, Department Head of Music, and occupies the Alice Murray Heilig Music Chair at the University of Connecticut. From 2013 to 2023, Hanzlik served on the trumpet and chamber music faculties of The Juilliard School and the Aspen Music Festival & School. A trumpeter of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra for nearly two decades, Hanzlik contributed to the shaping of the ensemble’s creative vision as the ensemble’s Artistic Director of Programming. In 2019, Orpheus won their third Grammy Award for their collaboration with the Wayne Shorter Quartet on Emanon. Beyond Orpheus, Hanzlik frequently performs with the world’s premier chamber ensembles, including the Australian Chamber Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Orchestra of St. Luke’s.
Stefan Hersh, violin
Violinist Stefan Hersh enjoys a varied career, equally at home as a chamber musician, soloist, orchestral musician, and teacher. Hersh is currently the artistic director of Guarneri Hall NFP and serves on the faculty of the Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He is known nationally as a guest artist, teacher, lecturer, and performer. Hersh moved to Chicago in 1995 from Minneapolis, where he was principal second violin with the Minnesota Orchestra. He was the second violinist of the Chicago String Quartet, and a member of the Chicago Chamber Musicians until 2000. Hersh was associate professor at DePaul University from 1995-2003. Hersh was concertmaster of the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra from 19851989 and founded several chamber music series in the San Francisco area in the 1980s. In 1989, he joined the Vancouver Symphony as assistant concertmaster, where he remained until joining the Minnesota Orchestra in 1991.
Alan Kay, clarinet
Praised by the New York Times for his “spellbinding” performances and “infectious enthusiasm and panache,” Alan R. Kay is Principal Clarinetist and a former Artistic Director of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and serves as Principal Clarinet with New York’s Riverside Symphony
and Little Orchestra Society. Recently, anonymous donors established the Alan R. Kay Music Scholarship in perpetuity at The Juilliard School, where he has taught for more than 40 years. A founding member of the Windscape Quintet, he is a regular guest in chamber music venues throughout the world. Also a conductor, Kay studied conducting at Juilliard with the late Otto-Werner Mueller and has led orchestras and chamber ensembles at Juilliard, Stony Brook and in the New York City area. He currently serves as Executive Director of the Stony Brook (University) Symphony Orchestra, which he conducts regularly.
Mark Kosower, cello
A modern player with a “signature sound” and distinctive style of playing, cellist Mark Kosower embodies the concept of the complete musician performing as a concerto soloist with symphony orchestras, in solo recitals, and as a much-admired and sought-after chamber musician. He is principal cello of the Cleveland Orchestra and a scholar and teacher of cello. During the Coronavirus pandemic, Kosower performed two livestreams of the complete Bach Cello Suites from Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland to raise money for COVID-19 victims. Other activities during the pandemic included live and recorded chamber music performances for the North Shore Chamber Music Festival’s “Onstage/Offstage” series and for the Seattle Chamber Music Society. An active educator, Kosower teaches a series of master classes at Hidden Valley Music Seminars in Carmel, California each summer.
Michael Kroth, bassoon
Michael Kroth is professor of bassoon and associate dean for undergraduate studies at the Michigan State University College of Music. Kroth has earned a reputation as an excellent solo, chamber and orchestral musician, having performed in recitals and concerts throughout the United States, Europe, Colombia and China. Prior to his appointment at MSU, Kroth was principal bassoon with the South Dakota Symphony and Dakota Wind Quintet. He has also held positions as principal bassoonist with the Air Force Academy Band and the Colorado Springs Symphony Orchestra. Currently, Kroth is principal bassoon with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra and member of the Peninsula Music Festival (Door County, WI). He has performed frequently with the Cleveland Orchestra, and toured as substitute second bassoon on the Cleveland Orchestra European Tour and Vienna Residency in 2011. He received degrees in bassoon performance from Ithaca College and Temple University in Philadelphia. His major teachers include Edward Gobrecht, Bernard Garfield and Ryohei Nakagawa.
Marion Arthur Kuszyk, oboe
Marion Arthur Kuszyk joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Associate Principal Oboe at the Hollywood Bowl in August 1995. She is originally from the metropolitan Washington, DC, area and received her Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin Conservatory and her Master of Music
degree from the Eastman School of Music. Prior to joining the LA Phil, Kuszyk was a member of the Kansas City Symphony for five years (Associate Principal Oboe and Acting Principal Oboe) and taught oboe at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. She has made concerto appearances with the LA Phil, the National Symphony, the Kansas City Camerata, and the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra. In addition, she has performed as guest principal oboe with the Boston Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Kuszyk teaches at the USC Thornton School of Music. She served on the faculty at the Sarasota Music Festival in Florida and the National Orchestral Institute in Maryland.
Jean Laurenz, trumpet
Jean Laurenz, Assistant Professor of Trumpet at UW-Madison, is an eclectic musician who loves variety and collaboration. She primarily performs with Seraph Brass and the Wisconsin Brass Quintet. A soloist and chamber musician, Laurenz has enjoyed appearances with artists including Adele, The Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, and The Boston Pops. Also a passionate vocalist and stage performer, Laurenz builds multi-layered interdisciplinary projects which combine theater, singing, trumpet, visual arts, and storytelling. Most recently, she produced an award winning film and multimedia work, DESCENDED. She has also toured Europe with Lucerne Festival’s dance and theatrical production of Divamania. You can hear her on albums including Azul, with Yo-Yo Ma and The Knights, and in DESCENDED released through Bright Shiny Things.
Jon Manasse, clarinet
Among the most distinguished classical artists of his generation, clarinetist Jon Manasse is internationally recognized for his inspiring artistry, uniquely glorious sound, and charismatic performing style. Manasse’s solo appearances include New York City performances at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall. Manasse is also principal clarinetist of the American Ballet Theater Orchestra and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. In 2008, he was appointed principal clarinetist and ensemble member of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in New York City. Manasse was a top prize winner in the 36th International Competition for Clarinet in Munich and the youngest winner of the International Clarinet Society Competition. He is an official performing artist of both the Buffet Crampon Co. and Vandoren. Manasse is on the faculties of The Juilliard School, The Lynn Conservatory, and The Mannes School of Music.
Elizabeth Mann, flute
Elizabeth Mann is a featured performer in concert halls throughout the United States, Europe, and the Far East. She is the principal flutist of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the St. Luke’s Chamber ensemble, and is a member of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Mann has been a featured performer at various festivals including the, Santa Fe Chamber
Festival the Lochenhaus Festival in Austria, Caramoor International Music Festival, the Moab Music Festival and principal flute for the Mostly Mozart Festival. She has been principal flute of the Santa Fe Opera, flutist of the Dorian Wind Quintet, played principal flute with the Minnesota Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony, and performed with the Boston Symphony and the New York Philharmonic. She can be heard on over 100 recordings. Most recently she released a CD with harpist Deborah Hoffman, titled “Reflections” of Chopin transcriptions, receiving critical acclaim. Mann also teaches seminars at Juilliard.
Ayano Ninomiya, violin
Winner of numerous prizes including the Walter Naumburg International Competition, Tibor Varga International Competition, Astral Artists National Auditions, Young Performers Career Advancement, and Lili Boulanger awards, Ninomlya has performed with orchestras across the U.S., Switzerland, Bulgaria, and most recently in Carnegie Hall. She has performed at the Marlboro, Ravinia, Moab, Bowdoin, Kingston, Adams (New Zealand), Canberra International (Australia), and Prussia Cove (England) festivals. She has been featured on Musicians from Marlboro tours in the U.S. and France, and gave a TEDx talk in 2012 at the University of Tokyo. She was first violinist of the Ying Quartet and was Associate Professor at the Eastman School of Music until 2015, when she joined the violin faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music.
John Novacek, piano
Grammy-nominated pianist John Novacek regularly tours the Americas, Europe, and Asia as solo recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist; in the latter capacity he has presented more than 30 concerti with dozens of orchestras. Novacek’s major American performances have been heard in New York City’s Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall, Washington’s The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Chicago’s Symphony Center and Los Angeles’ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Hollywood Bowl and Royce Hall, while international venues include Paris’ Theatre des Champs-Elysées, Salle Gaveau and Musée du Louvre, London’s Wigmore Hall and Barbican Centre, and most of the major concert halls of Japan. He is a frequent guest artist at festivals, here and abroad. Often heard on radio broadcasts worldwide, Novacek has appeared on NPR’s “Performance Today,” “St. Paul Sunday” and, as both featured guest composer/performer, on “A Prairie Home Companion” with Garrison Keillor. Novacek tours widely as a member of Intersection, a piano trio that includes violinist Laura Frautschi and cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper. His original compositions have been widely performed and recorded by major international soloists and ensembles. He has recorded more than 35 CDs, encompassing solo and chamber music by most major composers and many original scores. Novacek is a Steinway Artist.
John Rojak, bass trombone
John Rojak became a member of the American Brass Quintet in 1991, joining their residencies at The Juilliard School and the Aspen Music Festival. He is bass trombonist of the New York Pops, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Iris Orchestra, Stamford Symphony, and Little Orchestra Society. Rojak has performed and recorded with the New York Philharmonic, Orpheus, and Solisti New York, and performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and Boston Symphony. His Broadway shows include “Les Miserables,” “Sugar Babies,” and “The Producers.” Rojak has performed with Metallica, Peter Gabriel, and Styx, as well as for Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis. Solo CDs include “Rojak Rocks” on Navona, “The Romantic Bass Trombone” on MMC, “Bass Hits, The Bass Trombone Concerti of Eric Ewazen” on Albany Records, and “The Essential Rochut” on Belle Records. Rojak has given master classes throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, Australia, Brazil, and Mexico. He also serves on the faculties of The Juilliard School and the Aspen Music Festival and School.
Michael Thornton, horn
Michael Thornton enjoys a distinguished and varied career as an orchestral performer, chamber musician, soloist, and pedagogue. Thornton has performed on six continents with acclaimed ensembles and has presented master classes at prestigious musical institutions. Thornton holds concurrent appointments as principal horn of both the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Colorado Symphony. He joined the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in 2017 and joined the Colorado Symphony Orchestra during the 1997 season. Before joining the CSO, he left his studies at The Juilliard School to become the principal horn of the Honolulu Symphony. In 1999, Thornton was appointed to the faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder, where he serves as the associate professor of horn. Thornton has twice received the Marinus Smith Award, which is bestowed upon CU Boulder teachers who have made significant contributions to their students’ development.
Bion Tsang, cello
Cellist Bion Tsang has been internationally recognized as one of the outstanding instrumentalists of his generation: among his many honors are an Avery Fisher Career Grant, an MEF Career Grant and the Bronze Medal in the IX International Tchaikovsky Competition. Tsang earned a Grammy nomination for his performance on the PBS special A Company of Voices: Conspirare in Concert (Harmonia Mundi). Tsang has appeared as soloist with such orchestras as the New York, Mexico City, Moscow, Busan and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestras, the National, American, Pacific, Delaware and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras, the Saint Paul and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestras, the Louisville Orchestra and the Taiwan National Orchestra. Tsang resides in Austin, TX, where he is Division Head of Strings and holds the Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Chair in Cello at the Sarah and Ernest
Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin. He was the recipient of the Texas Exes Teaching Award after just his first year of service and soon after was named “Instrumentalist of the Year” by the Austin Critics Table.
Andrew Wan, violin
Andrew Wan was named concertmaster of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (OSM) in 2008. As soloist, he has performed worldwide under conductors such as Rafael Payare, Kent Nagano, Maxim Vengerov, Vasily Petrenko, Bernard Labadie, Carlo Rizzi, Peter Oundjian, Xian Zhang, Michael Stern and James DePreist. He has played chamber music with artists such as the Juilliard Quartet, Vadim Repin, Marc-André Hamelin, Daniil Trifonov, Menahem Pressler, Jörg Widmann, Emanuel Ax, Johannes Moser, Arabella Steinbacher, James Ehnes, and Gil Shaham as a frequent artist at the Seattle Chamber Music, La Jolla Summerfest, Ottawa Chamberfest, Toronto Summer Music, Orford Musique, St. Prex, Colorado College and Olympic festivals. Wan performs regularly as guest concertmaster for the Pittsburgh, Houston, Indianapolis, National Arts Centre, Toronto and Vancouver Symphony orchestras. Wan enjoys a collaborative relationship with Canadian pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin, silver medalist of the 17th Chopin International Piano Competition, with whom he has recorded all 10 Beethoven sonatas for piano and violin. Wan graduated from The Juilliard School with Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, and Artist Diploma degrees. He is currently a member of the New Orford String Quartet, Associate Professor of Violin at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, and Artistic Director of the Prince Edward County Chamber Music Festival. Wan performs on a 1744 Michel’Angelo Bergonzi violin, and gratefully acknowledges its loan from the David Sela Collection. He also enjoys the use of an 1860 Dominique Peccatte bow from Canimex.
William Wolfram, piano
American pianist William Wolfram was a silver medalist at both the William Kapell and the Naumburg International Piano Competitions and a bronze medalist at the prestigious Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow. Wolfram has appeared with many of the greatest orchestras of the world and has developed a special reputation as the rare concerto soloist who is also equally versatile and adept as a recitalist, accompanist and chamber musician. In all of these genres, he is highly sought after for his special focus on the music of Franz Liszt and Beethoven and is a special champion for the music of modernist 20th century American composers. His concerto debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony under the baton of Leonard Slatkin was the first in a long succession of appearances and career relationships with numerous American conductors and orchestras. As an educator and teacher, Wolfram is the head of the Piano Department at the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina. Most recently, Wolfram has been appointed to the Piano Faculty at the Manhattan School of Music, where he teaches chamber music and piano seminar. A graduate of The Juilliard School, Wolfram has two grown daughters. He resides in New York City with his wife.
David Ying, cello
David Ying is well known to concert audiences as the cellist of the Grammy Award-winning Ying Quartet. With the quartet, he has performed worldwide in celebrated music venues from Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House. Ying first pursued chamber music avidly as a teenaged student at the Eastman School of Music with his piano trio, which was awarded first prize at the Coleman Chamber Music Competition. Later, he would also win the Naumburg Chamber Music Award, this time with the Ying Quartet. Ying is also highly regarded as an individual artist, having won prizes in the Naumburg Cello Competition and in the Washington International Competition. Ying serves on the cello and chamber music faculty at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he and Elinor reside with their two children.
Phillip Ying, viola
Phillip Ying, as violist of the Ying Quartet, has performed across the United States, Europe and Asia. He has won the Naumburg Award for Chamber Music, has won a Grammy for a collaborative recording with the Turtle Island String Quartet, and has been nominated three additional times, most recently for a collaborative album with pianist Billy Childs. Ying is an associate professor of chamber music and viola at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. From 2001-2008, he was named, with the Ying Quartet, Blodgett Ensemble in Residence at Harvard University. Additionally, he served a six-year term as president of Chamber Music America, a national service organization for chamber music ensembles, presenters, and artist managers, and has been published by Chamber Music magazine.
GUEST COMPOSERS
Grace Hale is an American composer of both film and classical concert music. Her contemporary classical works often draw on the filmic tradition. By integrating storytelling, visual arts, stage directions, or multimedia in her concert music, Hale strives to create multidisciplinary immersive experiences that invoke listeners’ imaginations. In 2018, Hale was recognized as the first prize recipient of the Colorado Collegiate Composition Competition with her piece Rhapsody on a Cityscape for British Brass Band. She also holds an honorable mention in the 2017 International Summer Academy of Music’s Joseph Dorfman Memorial Competition with her solo piano work The Vagabond. Her published music includes two piano solos, A Wayward Leaf (2022) and Thorne Miniatures (2020), that were published by the CCC Music Company. Among notable large ensemble performances, Hale collaborated with mandolinist Sierra Hull on an orchestral arrangement of her song “Sunday,” which was performed by the Portland Chamber Orchestra and the Walla Walla Symphony, conducted by Jaacov Bergman in 2019. Hale received her Master of Music in Composition at the University of Michigan in 2023 and her Bachelor of Arts in Music from Colorado College in 2020. She studied composition under Michael Daugherty, Kristy Kuster, Ofer BenAmots, and David Tcimpidis.
Sam Wu’s music “abounds in delicate colours, wisps of sound and sylvan textures” (Gramophone). Many of his works center around extra-musical themes: architecture and urban planning, climate science, and the search for exoplanets that harbor life. Invited to residencies at Zion National Park and the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, winner of an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and the New York Youth Symphony’s Jon Deak First Music Commission, Wu also received Harvard’s Robert Levin Prize and Juilliard’s Palmer Dixon Prize. Wu’s collaborations span five continents: the orchestras of Philadelphia, Minnesota, Columbus, Melbourne, Tasmania, Macao, and Shanghai, Carnegie Hall, New York City Ballet, Sydney International Piano Competition, National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, the Lontano, Parker, Argus, ETHEL, and icarus Quartets, conductors Osmo Vänskä, Marin Alsop, Cristian Macelaru, and Miguel Harth-Bedoya, and sheng virtuoso Wu Wei. From Melbourne, Australia, Wu holds degrees from Harvard, Juilliard, and Rice. His mentors include Tan Dun, Gabriela Lena Frank, Scott Yoo, and Anthony Brandt.
.GUEST ARTISTS
Hailed by critics as the most accomplished and renowned mime of his generation, Bill Bowers performs and teaches the art of physical storytelling throughout the world. An award-winning actor, Bowers has also performed in all 50 United States and Puerto Rico appearing on the stages of Broadway, The Kennedy Center, The White House, Steppenwolf, and the New York International Fringe Festival. He has also portrayed the great silent clowns: Charlie Chaplin in the world premiere of Little Tramp, Pierrot in the world premiere of Beethoven N Pierrot, and Petruchka with The Colorado Symphony. He has previously performed at the Colorado College Summer Music Festival Children’s Orchestra Concerts in 2011 and 2013. A passionate student and educator, Bowers studied with the legendary Marcel Marceau and currently serves on the faculties of New York University, Stella Adler Conservatory, and William Esper Studios. He is also a Visiting Professor at Williams College. He holds an MFA from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, and an Honorary PhD from Rocky Mountain College in Billings, MT.
Ashley Cornelius is an award-winning spoken word poet and community leader whose work amplifies identity, social change, and joy. As the first Black Poet Laureate of the Pikes Peak Region and an LPC, she reimagines poetry as a tool for healing, activism, and collective liberation. Cornelius loves the stage and believes poetry becomes transformative in the performance. Her work has been featured in galleries, conferences, documentaries, and special events statewide, nationally, and internationally. Cornelius is the author of “Translations of the Soul”, her debut poetry collection covering eight years of poetry. A two-time TEDx speaker, she has opened for former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, performed for Juneteenth activist Opal Lee, and was commissioned for a James Turrell Skyspace installation. Beyond the stage, she collaborates with businesses, nonprofits, and organizations to integrate poetry in innovative ways through
keynotes, training, and workshops. Cornelius is the creator of Destination Rest, The Pikes Peak Poetry Summit, The Joy Line, and she is the Co-Director of Poetry719, a grassroots Black-led poetry group in Colorado Springs, lifting the voices of marginalized communities through art and poetry events.
Jenna Hunt is a Colorado-based harpist recognized for her versatility and intense musical interpretation. She holds degrees in jazz performance and harp performance from the University of Northern Colorado and the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music. A finalist in Lamont’s concerto competition, she performed the final movement of Ginastera’s Harp Concerto and has studied with Ann Marie Liss, Courtney Hershey-Bress, Grace Browning, and Kathy Bundock-Moore. Hunt performs regularly with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Springs Philharmonic, and Chamber Orchestra of the Springs. Recent highlights include a featured performance of Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro at the 2025 Colorado College Summer Music Festival Faculty Artists series and the Colorado premiere of Michael Gryc’s Spring Rain for Harp and Wind Ensemble with the Colorado Wind Ensemble.
Robert Jurkscheit is a longstanding musician of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic and Chamber Orchestra of the Springs, with his interest in xylophone dating back to 1976 when he was 15 years old. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in music from Boston University, Jurkscheit relocated to Colorado Springs in 1984 to accept a position with the Philharmonic. Additionally, he has also performed with The National Repertory Orchestra and the Portland (Maine) Symphony. He is currently on the faculty of Red Rocks Community College and UCCS.
Aaron Turner is an active percussionist, educator, and composer in Colorado Springs. He currently teaches percussion at Colorado State University-Pueblo. Turner has performed with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, United States Air Force Academy Band, and Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra. He is the co-leader of a flute and marimba duo, the Timberline Players. He has published original compositions and arrangements with C. Alan Publications and Permus Publications. Turner holds a Bachelor of Music from Lawrence University in percussion performance and a Master of Music from the University of North Texas in percussion performance with an emphasis in jazz studies
PROGRAM NOTES AND PRE-CONCERT LECTURES
Michael Grace is professor emeritus in music at Colorado College. He retired in 2023 after serving as a member of the Colorado College faculty since 1967. In addition to his faculty appointment, he served Colorado College as president and as dean of the Summer Session, and as Music Depart-
ment chair for 25 years, ending in 2007. He was also a founding director of the Colorado College Summer Music Festival (1984) and the Collegium Musicum (1968). Under his direction, the Collegium Musicum has toured Austria, China, the Czech Republic, Germany, and Italy. As a music historian, his research has included investigations in the 17th century oratorio, performance practices in the Renaissance and, most recently, the relationship between piano music and painting. He has toured with his wife, concert pianist Susan Grace, to present lecture/concerts of piano music inspired by visual art works. His teaching has focused on music history courses for music majors, as well as topics courses on Mozart, American music, 20th century music, and interdisciplinary courses in Renaissance culture.
FESTIVAL SUPPORT
Virginia Barron serves the CC Summer Music Festival as its director of children’s programs, following more than 30 years with the Festival as performer, teacher, and associate director. A native of Toronto, she received her training in viola at the Manhattan School of Music; her principal teachers were Lillian Fuchs, Kim Kashkashian, and Paul Armin. Barron was a regular substitute player with the Chicago Symphony for more than 20 years and went on six international tours with the orchestra, playing under such conductors as Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Bernard Haitink, and Riccardo Muti. Other orchestras she has played with include Toronto Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Lyric Opera Orchestra, and the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra. In 2014, Barron co-founded Buffalo String Works, an El Sistema-inspired program that offers free music instruction to underserved children on Buffalo’s West Side. Although she retired as the executive director in 2019, BSW continues to thrive. It now serves over 100 children in their facilities overlooking the Niagara River. Barron and her husband currently enjoy playing concerts in hospitals and retirement residences in the Buffalo area, accompanied by their golden retriever, Archie, a therapy dog extraordinaire.
Patti Kroth is in her first year as associate director of the Colorado College Summer Music Festival. She is the coordinator and founding director of adult instrumental ensembles (formerly New Horizons Ensembles) at the Michigan State University (MSU) Community Music School (CMS), where she also conducts one of the concert bands. She previously served as associate director of the CMS and continues to teach clarinet there. In addition, she teaches clarinet at the University of Olivet. An experienced educator and conductor, Kroth has taught instrumental music at all levels in New York, Colorado, South Dakota, and most recently in East Lansing, Michigan. Her school bands have earned numerous awards, and she has served as a mentor to MSU music education students in the classroom. She is a frequent presenter at the Michigan Music Conference and was named Band Director of the Year in 2023 by the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association’s District 8. Kroth is an active guest conductor and clinician, working with school and adult ensembles throughout Michigan, and previously in New York, Pennsylvania, and
Georgia. Prior to her move to Michigan, she taught music education at Augustana College and served as interim director of instrumental ensembles and clarinet instructor at the University of Sioux Falls. As a performer, Kroth has appeared with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra, the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra, the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, and the Dakota Wind Quintet. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Ithaca College and a Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music. She resides in Okemos, Mich., with her husband, Michael.
FESTIVAL FELLOWS
21-year-old violinist Ian Barnett is a native of Miami, FL. He is a National Young Arts Merit winner, as well as a semi-finalist of the prestigious Sphinx Competition. Barnett has performed as a soloist with the Greater Miami Youth Symphony, the New World Symphony and the Princeton University Orchestra. He studies physics and music at Princeton University. Apart from the violin, he is an avid composer and enjoys playing tennis during his free time.
Nathan Bonin is from Longmont, CO, and is currently pursuing a bachelor’s in French horn performance at the University of Colorado Boulder. He serves as the second horn in the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra and has performed as a substitute musician with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Bonin is also a member of The Bar Before woodwind quintet, which was a finalist in the 2026 MTNA Chamber Music Competition and a semifinalist in the 2026 Coltman Chamber Music Competition.
Amelia Cannavo is a violinist from Barnegat Light, NJ, currently completing her bachelor’s degree at the New England Conservatory with Ayano Ninomiya. Cannavo is a passionate chamber musician, having attended festivals such as the Garth Newel Emerging Artist Program, Bowdoin International Music Festival, and Madeline Island Chamber Music Fellowship Program. In her free time, Cannavo enjoys reading and going on long walks while listening to music.
Tzu-Ting Chen is a violinist from Kaohsiung, Taiwan. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the New England Conservatory, where she studies with Ayano Ninomiya. She has participated in festivals including the Taipei Music Academy and Festival, Encore Chamber Music Institute, and Bowdoin International Music Festival. She also served as an intern with the Taiwan Philharmonic (National Symphony Orchestra). She enjoys collaborating with fellow musicians and sharing meaningful musical experiences with audiences.
Katherine Chernyak is a Canadian violist and violinist with passions in chamber music, orchestra, solo, and teaching. A graduate of Bard College and Conservatory, she has been principal viola of the Conservatory Orchestra, concertmaster of the Bard Baroque Ensemble, and a member of the East West Ensemble, joining them on their tour to China. She was a finalist in this year’s Lowell Orchestra Competition and Eastern Connecticut Symphony Competition. Chernyak studies with Luosha Fang and Melissa Reardon.
Aliza Creel, from Middlebury, CT, is pursuing her bachelor’s in viola at the Juilliard School under Carol Rodland. She is an alumnus of the Perlman Music Program, and was principal violist of the 2022 US National Youth Orchestra. She recently returned as part of the 2025 NYO-USA All-Stars Orchestra alongside soloist Yuja Wang at Carnegie Hall. She is thrilled to return to Colorado College Summer Music Festival as a Festival Mozaic Young Artist.
Katherine Grace Dahn, a bassoonist from Tecumseh, MI, is an active performer in orchestral, chamber, and solo music. Dahn’s love for music began early in life and led her to attend the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp for four summers. She continued her involvement with Blue Lake, serving on the staff as a unit counselor, cabin counselor, and bassoon sectional instructor for Camp Bernstein. Dahn is currently pursuing dual degrees at Michigan State University: a Bachelor of Music in bassoon performance and a Bachelor of Science in neuroscience.
Daniel De La Cruz, from Laguna Niguel, CA, is a second-year violist at the New England Conservatory of Music, studying with Nick Cords. He has held principal and leadership roles with the NEC Symphony Orchestra and Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra and performed with the National Youth Orchestra of the USA (NYO-USA). His chamber music training includes masterclasses and coachings with the Consone Quartet, Kim Kashkashian, and members of the Borromeo Quartet.
Grace Doerr is a freelance musician and educator based in Philadelphia and Michigan. She has performed as guest principal with the Southwest Michigan Symphony and as a section substitute with the West Michigan Symphony, Battle Creek Symphony Orchestra, and the Lansing Symphony Orchestra. In 2024, she won the Frizelle Orchestral Excerpt Competition and studied in Norway with Frøydis Ree Wekre. She studied with Randy Gardner and holds degrees from Temple University and Western Michigan University.
Dexter Doris is a 21-year-old violinist from New York. At the age of 13, he was admitted into Juilliard’s Pre-College to study with Ann Setzer. During this time, he soloed with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sound Symphony of Long Island, and the Massapequa Philharmonic in concerti by Vieuxtemps, Saint-Saens, and Mozart. Doris is a 2022 YoungArts winner, a 2023 guest artist on NPR’s From the Top: Show #430, and has given public performances at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Zankel Hall. Doris also studies historical chamber repertoire with fortepiano from the 19th century.
Brandon Garza is pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree in violin performance at the University of Texas at Austin’s Butler School of Music, studying with Brian Lewis. He has been a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival (2024), Taipei Music Academy and Festival, and has served as the Concertmaster of the University of Texas Chamber Orchestra.
Lucy Gelber is an Atlanta-based violist. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music and an Artist Diploma from the Glenn Gould School. Her principal teachers have been Steven Dann and Masumi Rostad. A member of the Atlanta Opera Orchestra, she often performs with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Ballet, and the Huntsville Symphony. Gelber has appeared as a soloist with the Eastman Philharmonia and the Eastman Chorale.
Elias Gilbert is a clarinetist and conductor from Santa Cruz, CA. He recently received a Master of Music from Peabody Conservatory, studying with Alexander Fiterstein and serving as music director of the Johns Hopkins Medical Orchestra. Gilbert received a Bachelor of Science in computer science and mathematics in 2024 from Yale University, where he was assistant conductor of the Yale Symphony and head conductor of the Davenport Pops Orchestra.
From Malmö, Sweden, double bassist Moa Glimberg is pursuing her master’s degree at The Juilliard School, studying with NY Philharmonic Orchestra principal bassist Timothy Cobb. She graduated in 2025 from the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings, where she studied with Jeffrey Turner and Daniel Tosky. Glimberg is a performer and composer of multiple genres, and she was a winner of the 2024 Brevard Music Center concerto competition.
Growing up in Irvine, CA, Paul Gong is a sophomore at The Juilliard School, pursuing a bachelor’s degree in double bass performance under the tutelage of Timothy Cobb. He has performed with the Juilliard Orchestra, Colorado College Summer Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, and the New
York String Orchestra Seminar. Aside from practicing, Gong enjoys listening to music of all genres, playing video games, and discovering new food spots in the Upper West Side.
Bradley Greathouse is a musician from St. Peters, MO, passionate about inspiring joy through music. He is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in horn performance at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and expects to graduate in 2027. He previously earned his Master of Music from UNL in 2024 and his Bachelor of Arts in music from Truman State University in Kirksville, MO.
Dylan Hansen Hamme won Juilliard’s 2024 Ligeti Violin Concerto Competition and performed as soloist at Alice Tully Hall with Juilliard Orchestra, conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky. He won the 2025 Waldo Mayo Violin Competition and subsequently performed Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with orchestra, conducted by Constantine Kitsopoulos. In November, Hamme won third prize at the 2025 Joseph Bologne International Violin Competition. He is currently pursuing his Master of Music degree at Juilliard as a student of Catherine Cho.
Eric Grant Hayes, a trombonist from Sachse, TX, is currently pursuing his Master of Music in performance at Baylor University, where he also earned his bachelor’s in music education. Throughout his studies, Hayes has performed and toured with the Baylor Wind Ensemble, Symphony Orchestra, and Jazz Ensemble, as well as in various pit orchestras on campus. Hayes remains actively involved musically in the Waco area, performing with the Waco Jazz Orchestra and his local church orchestra.
Cellist Tatum Hodgson recently graduated with her Master of Music degree in cello performance from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, where she studied with Desmond Hoebig and Valentin Radutiu. As a performer, Hodgson has attended music festivals across the United States and internationally on full fellowship, including the Aspen Music Festival and School; the Britt Festival Orchestra; and the AIMS Opera Orchestra in Graz, Austria.
Sydney Hoehl is a versatile musician experienced in orchestral, wind band, chamber, and jazz styles. Hoehl recently graduated with her master’s in trumpet performance from the University of Colorado Boulder. She is an active freelancer and teacher in the Colorado Front Range and substitutes with multiple regional orchestras. Hoehl earned her bachelor’s from the University of Oregon. She is originally from Litchfield, IL, and in her free time enjoys traveling, hiking, yoga, and skiing.
Hailing from Greenville, NC, Lou Jantzen is a violist in the Master of Music program at The Juilliard School, where he studies under the tutelage of Professor Hsin-Yun Huang, and holds a Morse Teaching Artist Fellowship. He has performed in venues across East Asia, Europe, and North America, including Taipei’s National Concert Hall, France’s Château de Fontainebleau, and New York City’s Alice Tully and Carnegie Halls. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in astrophysics and applied mathematics.
Hayden Joyce is from Middlebury, IN, and studies at The Colburn School with Andrew Bain. Joyce previously studied with David Griffin of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He was a YoungArts fellow in 2024 and has performed in many halls around the world, including the Gewandhaus and the Musikverien. When he was young, Joyce lived in Colorado Springs, and he is grateful to have the opportunity to return to share his music and continue growing as a musician.
Theresa Katz studies with Nicholas Kitchen at the New England Conservatory. She made her debut with the Lower Merion Symphony in 2016 and has since won prizes in the Diablo Symphony Concerto Competition, Enkor International Music Competition, NOLA Chamberfest Competition, and was a finalist in the Eastern Connecticut Symphony concerto competition. She has worked with composers such as Caroline Shaw and Kevin Puts, and has played in masterclasses for the Calidore, Escher, and Aizuri Quartets.
Cellist Elliott Kim is from Los Altos, CA, majoring in computer science with minors in finance and cello performance at Princeton University. Kim is a student of Julia Lichten at the Manhattan School of Music, and in recent summers, he attended NYOUSA, the Chamber Seminar at Heifetz, and Bowdoin under Paul Katz. In his free time, he enjoys finding great spots to eat, playing spikeball with his friends, and reading.
Samantha Kramer is a violinist currently pursuing a Bachelor of Music in violin performance at Oberlin Conservatory, where she studies with Amy Lee. A native of West Hartford, CT, Kramer began studying the violin at age 5 under Teri Einfeldt at the Hartt School of Music. In past summers, she has attended Greenwood Music Camp, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, the Sarasota Music Festival, and Madeline Island Chamber Music, all of which have fostered her love for violin and chamber music.
Born in South Korea and raised in Chandler, AZ, Logan Jeonghoo Lee is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the Yale School of Music under the tutelage of Donald Plama. His previous instructors include Dan Swaim and Edwin Barker. After participating in the Colorado College Summer Music Festival this summer, Lee will continue to make music in Germany through the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival program.
Cellist Cole Leonard is pursuing a Graduate Certificate at the University of Southern California with Ralph Kirshbaum. He holds a Master of Music from USC and a bachelor’s from the Eastman School of Music. A recipient of the Glenn and Frances Harris Cello Prize, Leonard has performed in masterclasses for Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Zlatomir Fung. His versatile career encompasses teaching students, orchestral coaching, chamber music, and international festival appearances.
Henry Lesser is currently pursuing a master’s in trumpet performance at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is originally from Forsyth County, GA, and earned a music education degree from the University of North Texas, where he performed with the Lone Star Wind Orchestra and the North Texas Wind Symphony.
Violinist Anna Linder is an accomplished chamber musician and prizewinner at national and international chamber music competitions. She has performed in residencies with ensembles including the Calidore String Quartet, Dover Quartet, St. Lawrence Quartet and others. As a soloist, she has worked with performers such as Augustin Hadelich, Stella Chen, and Jinjoo Cho. Festival appearances include Music at Menlo, Sarasota Music Festival, and Bowdoin International. Linder has recently studied with Danielle Belen and Ryan Meehan.
Karim Maggio is a cellist from Herndon, VA. Currently, he is pursuing his master’s degree at The Juilliard School with Natasha Brofsky. Previously, he studied with Melissa Kraut at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Maggio was previously a member of the Canton Symphony Orchestra and is currently a substitute musician with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra and the New World Symphony. In his free time, he enjoys cooking, baking, and going on road trips.
Liliana Mahave is a 22-year-old violinist from Toronto, Ontario. She moved to Rochester, NY, in 2022 to pursue a bachelor’s in violin performance at the Eastman School of Music. As well as serving as concertmaster of the Eastman Philharmonia, Mahave earned a certificate in Baroque Performance Practice at Eastman, and enjoyed being the co-leader
of Eastman’s baroque ensemble, Collegium Musicum. Mahave has a passion for chamber music, music education, and Classical music accessibility. In her spare time, she loves cooking, playing the piano, running, and camping trips. She is delighted to be a returning CC Summer Music Festival Fellow.
Pianist Jordan Manasse began studying with Marina Obukovsky at the School For Strings at 4 years old. He’s been featured on NPR’s From The Top, and has performed at Merkin Hall and Weill Recital Hall. He recently performed in a masterclass for Jerome Lowenthal, professor at The Juilliard School. Manasse graduated from the highly competitive Fiorello H. Laguardia High School for Performing Arts and is continuing his studies at Northwestern University, studying piano performance and journalism.
Beatrix Cecilia Martin is a 22-year-old violinist from Columbus, OH, currently studying with Patinka Kopec at Manhattan School of Music. She is an avid chamber musician and orchestral player, and she has performed under the batons of Leonard Slatkin, Michael Stern, Mei-Ann Chen, and many other prolific conductors. Martin is returning for her third summer at the Colorado College Summer Music Festival and has attended other festivals such as National Repertory Orchestra, Bowdoin International Music Festival, and Heifetz International Music Institute.
Gabriella McClellan is a first-year master’s student at the University of Georgia, pursuing a degree in cello performance under the instruction of James Kim. In 2025, she was the first-prize winner of the AMC Scholarship competition. She won both the UGA Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition and the MasterWorks Festival Concerto Competition in 2023. She has performed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and has served as principal cellist in the CCSMF Orchestra and the ARCO Chamber Orchestra, among others.
Rachel Leigh McClellan, from Good Hope, GA, is pursuing a doctorate in violin performance at the Jacobs School of Music, under the tutelage of Simin Ganatra. She holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Georgia’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music and a Master of Music from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She was the first-prize winner of the 2026 Indianapolis Matinee Musicale Collegiate Scholarship Competition, and a prize winner in the 2022 Leopold Auer International Violin and String Quartet Competition.
Colin Miller is a clarinetist from Nashville, TN. He is currently a junior music performance major at the University of Wyoming. Miller has previously served as the principal clarinetist of the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra and Wind Symphony. Currently, he serves as the principal clarinetist of the
University of Wyoming Symphony Orchestra and Wind Symphony. He also performs regularly with both the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra and the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra. In his free time, Miller loves to bake, play video games, and play with his 3 dogs: Kenai, Kona, and Siku.
An expressive and intentional musician, Bridget Nance is passionate about connecting with audiences through orchestral, chamber, and solo performance. She has performed on oboe and English horn with orchestras across the U.S., including the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. Nance is entering the second year of her master’s at Rice University, where she studies with Erin Hannigan.
Born and raised in Flossmoor, IL, Katharine Nelson is a master’s student at University of Colorado Boulder College of Music, studying violin with Harumi Rhodes and Edward Dusinberre. Nelson won first prize in CU Boulder’s Ekstrand Memorial Graduate Student Competition and second prize in the National Federation of Music Clubs Student Collegiate Biennial Competition in 2025. Outside of school, she organizes benefit concerts for homeless and women’s shelters, and she enjoys hiking.
Hanna Noh from South Korea is pursuing a Master of Music degree at the University of Missouri School of Music, where she is a teaching assistant and member of the New Music Ensemble. Noh earned her Bachelor of Music degree from West Virginia University with Nina Assimakopoulos, receiving a full scholarship. She performed as a soloist with the WVU Symphony Orchestra after winning the young artist competition. Noh enjoys indoor climbing and badminton in her free time.
Dennis Papazyan is a Los Angeles native and currently a junior at the USC Thornton School of Music, studying with professors Catherine Karoly and Sarah Jackson, and with Jim Walker independently. He loves performing and was a member of the Colburn School’s Youth Orchestra and was principal flute of their Sinfonietta. He currently plays in ensembles at the Thornton School, such as the Thornton Symphony and Chamber Orchestra (including various principal positions), and plans to pursue a career in chamber and orchestral performance. Papazyan is also a composer and enjoys scoring student films at USC.
Katherine Soyoung Park is a violist based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Her musical journey began at the age of 6, when she taught herself to play violin using a CD tutorial. She later joined Heryeon Kim’s studio, an extension of the Park-Na studio. In 2017, Park auditioned for the violin program at the St.
Petersburg Conservatory’s Special Music School, where she caught the attention of viola instructor Anna Vainshtein. Park switched to viola and never looked back. Park previously attended the Ascent Music Festival and the Bowdoin International Music Festival. She is currently studying at the Eastman School of Music with Masumi Rostad. She plays exclusively on instruments made by Juliano Na.
Guoanni (Annie) Qin is a pianist pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance with Kathryn Brown at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She holds a Master of Music from The Juilliard School and a Bachelor of Music from Oberlin Conservatory. Qin has won top prizes in the Oberlin Concerto Competition and Rudolf Serkin Scholarship Competition. She has performed Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with orchestras, and her recording was broadcast on WQXR. She is also an active educator and collaborative pianist.
A native of Mercer Island, WA, Hideaki Shiotsu’s passion for music started when he heard his brother and his friends play chamber music. Shiotsu has attended the Heifetz, Music@Menlo, Sarasota, Bowdoin International, and Pacific Music festivals and the New York String Orchestra Seminar. He has also performed chamber music alongside esteemed artists such as Yura Lee and Benjamin Beilman, and he is a substitute violist for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Currently, he is a student of Masumi Per Rostad at the Eastman School of Music.
Will Simpfendorfer, 20, is a sophomore at The Juilliard School, studying with Elaine Douvas. A native of Colorado Springs, he previously studied at Interlochen Arts Academy and Lewis-Palmer High School. Simpfendorfer has held principal roles with the Juilliard Orchestra, the Aspen Music Festival, and the National Orchestral Institute. In 2024, he won the Jan and Beattie Wood Concerto Competition, performing Strauss’s Oboe Concerto with the Brevard Music Center Orchestra.
Maggie Slap is a 21-year-old cellist from West Hartford, CT. She graduated with her bachelor’s degree in cello performance from the Eastman School of Music in May. At Eastman, Slap served as a principal of the Eastman Philharmonia and was an avid chamber musician, playing in the Honors Chamber Recital with her piano trio. In her free time, she loves running, camping, hiking, and spending time with animals, including her cat, Jamie.
Amaan Syed is from Austin, TX, and will be a senior at The Juilliard School next year. He is currently studying under Joe Alessi and plans to graduate in 2027.
Samuel Sykes began studying the cello at age 3 in Dubuque, IA. He was named a National YoungArts winner, won first prize in several competitions across the country, and performed as a soloist with the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in New York. Previously a member of the Canton Symphony Orchestra, he is a substitute with the Houston Symphony and has been a section member of the North Carolina Symphony. Sykes graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a master’s degree from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music.
Kevin Takeda, 27, is currently a doctoral student at the Cleveland Institute of Music studying with Gabriela Montero. He holds a Master of Music degree from the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Wha Kyung Byun and was a recipient of the Dean’s Scholarship. He completed a Bachelor of Music degree at The Juilliard School, where his teachers were Matti Raekallio and Orli Shaham. At Juilliard, he was a recipient of both the Kamiya Sisters Piano Scholarship and the Alan D. Marks Center Scholarship. He is also a Music Academy of the West alumnus.
Bass trombonist Jordan Tolleson is an undergraduate studying music performance at Oklahoma State University under Paul Compton and Elizabeth Toles. Tolleson has earned recognition in several national solo competitions, including the Big 12 Trombone Solo Competition and the American Trombone Workshop National Solo Competition. She has served as both a multi-season lab orchestra fellow at Maestro Miguel Harth-Bedoya’s Conducting Institute in Fort Worth, TX, and an apprentice musician with her hometown’s Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra.
Faith Weigand is a bassoonist from Racine, WI, and has been playing the bassoon for four years. She is a rising sophomore at the Eastman School of Music, where she studies with Kim Laskowski. She has previously performed concertos with the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra and Waukesha Area Symphonic Band, and she has performed professionally in various orchestras in the area, including the Racine Symphony Orchestra. Outside of music, Weigand enjoys hiking and oil painting.
Fellow Assistant Conductor Sam Wu is under “Guest Composers.”
Daniel Xu, from St. Louis, MO, graduated this year from Brown University with degrees in music and chemistry, and he will begin his pursuit of a PhD in chemistry this fall. At Brown, he studied with Lois Finkel and was concertmaster and concerto competition winner of the Brown University Orchestra. He also performed with ensembles such as the Brown University Chorus and the Falmouth Chorale.
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Linda Sagastume, instructor, Bemis School of Art
Peggy McKinley, owner, Coaltrain Fine Wines
Crystal Kiernan, owner, Evergreen COS
Mike Grace, Grace Design
Tom Kimmell, Tom Kimmell Photography
Frances Huntington, patron services manager, Fine Arts Center
Libby Rittenberg and Nasit Ari, proofreader and friend of SMF
Lauren Ciborowski, arts writer, friend, and promoter of SMF
Benjamin Harvey, friend of SMF and wine host
Lisa Gregory, music office coordinator
Sarah Pont, music events coordinator
Ryan Seward, music librarian and Seay Library manager
Dave Dymek, music circulation coordinator
Brenda Soto, assistant vice president for college events
Kris Higginbotham, events coordinator
Richard Belton, lead events setup
CC Events and Summer Conferences staff
Jill Carlson, catering, Bon Appétit at Colorado College
Jay Jeanneret, director, Sodexo at Colorado College
Carla Bamesberger, advancement communications asst. director
MUSIC FESTIVAL STAFF
Susan Grace, music director
Patti Kroth, associate director
Virginia Barron, director of children’s programs
Ann Van Horn, assistant director
Jordan Peeler, patron management assistant
Liz Manring, communications assistant
Shane Groothof, music production coordinator
Schylar Woods, music technical director
Kelly Robinson, music library fellow
Serena Nguyen, festival intern
Hazel Keithahn, festival intern
Massimo Flumian, festival intern
Kwon Lazarus, festival intern
Sofía Dale, festival intern
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BEMIS SCHOOL OF ART
Linda Sagastume Children’s Orchestra Concert art class instructor
For the Love of Music • thomas wilson, music director
A Season of Stories
Our 43rd season is inspired by the power of musical storytelling –with concerts connected to powerful poetry and literature.
Music is capable of many things: providing a transformative emotional experience, serving as a means of cultural exchange, or simply expressing beauty through form, harmony, and melody.
But perhaps most of all, music has the ability to tell stories.
This 2026-27 season is a collection of music that either tells stories, or is inspired by stories. In particular, every concert on the season contains some connection to noteworthy poetry or literature.
You’ll find historical masters alongside the living greats; music that challenges alongside music that comforts; pieces that are intimate and pieces that are strident and bold. It’s a season that strives to be for everyone, but that always – in typical Chamber Orchestra of the Springs fashion – seeks that less-traveled road and that colorful corner not-yet explored.
ORGAN SPECTACULAR XI
Sun, Sept. 20 - 2:30PM • First UMC
The Organ Spectacular returns with four incredible Colorado organists: Joseph Galema, Eric Wicks, Zahari Metchkov and Cindy Lindeen-Martin. Featuring the largest musical instrument in Colorado Springs –the “king of instruments” – we continue our exploration of one of the most fascinating and colorful corners of the classical music world.
HEART OF LIFE
Sat, Jan. 30 - 7:30PM • Sun, Jan. 31 - 2:30PM
Ent Center • Shockley Zalabak Theater
The winner of our 2025 Emerging Soloist Competition takes the stage for one of the most blisteringly virtuosic pieces in the piano repertoire. Nothing short of Beethoven’s best overture will do to open the concert, and we’ll close with the music of Emilie Mayer –frequently called the “female Beethoven” for her depth of Romantic feeling and lyricism.
UNTOLD STORIES
Sat, Oct. 10 - 7:30PM • Sat, Oct. 11 - 2:30PM Ent Center • Chapman Recital Hall
If two is company and three is a crowd, what do you call a concert with 10 soloists? It’s nothing short of an extravaganza. Half of the soloists will share the stage for Valentini’s famous concerto grosso. The other soloists will feature in Valerie Coleman’s Phenomenal Women
LISTEN AND STAY
Sat, Mar. 20 - 7:30PM • Sun, Mar. 21 - 2:30PM
First United Methodist Church
We return to First UMC for a weekend of songs and stories, joined by the incomparable Colorado Springs Chorale. Rutter’s Magnificat is a sacred celebration of the Virgin Mary with a Latin American twist. Then, the poetry of Tennyson and Goethe will serve as the launching point for an expedition into the heart of the human spirit.
SPEAK TO ME IN SILENCE
Sat, Nov. 7 - 7:30PM • Sun, Nov. 8 - 2:30PM Ent Center • Chapman Recital Hall
The silence we leave behind and the words we wish we’d spoken – Anna Clyne’s Within Her Arms is a mournful, deeply personal elegy for strings. The journey continues through the sparkling soundscapes of Nicky Sohn’s guitar concerto, and concludes with the harmonic perfection of Mozart.
STRONG AT THE BROKEN PLACES
Sat, May 1 - 7:30PM • Sun, May 2 - 2:30PM
Ent Center • Chapman Recital Hall
One of America’s greatest living composers joins historical giants in our season finale – Mazzoli’s These Worlds In Us takes inspiration from the poetry of James Tate. Considerably older verses underpin Finzi’s melancholy memorial for his brother and teacher, before we close with the Haydn “London” symphonies.
Your unforgettable journey into the world of gastronomic and aesthetic pleasure.
LUNCH Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
DINNER Tuesday-Sunday: 5 - 9 p.m.
BRUNCH Sunday: 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Monday: Closed
830 N Tejon St. #110 (Behind CC Spencer Center)
KATARINA string quartet
Grand Prize winner of the 2025 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, the Katarina String Quartet has quickly distinguished itself as one of North America’s most compelling young ensembles. The tightly-knit and community focused
Graduate Resident String Quartet at The Juilliard School, where they explore all chamber music, from contemporary and
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7
7 p.m. Packard Hall
Gathering Place Permanent Collection Reinstallation
First Floor Galleries
Featuring both beloved highlights and rarely exhibited pieces, Gathering Place offers an immersive experience that encourages reflection, invites new perspectives, and asks: How do you experience place?
For the first time since 2018, all four permanent collection galleries located on the first floor in the Loo Family Wing have been transformed, bringing together rarely exhibited works alongside familiar pieces to create new conversations about place, identity, and belonging.
As you move through the galleries, you’ll encounter four distinct but interconnected perspectives:
Where Am I When I Am Here? interrogates how landscapes are represented and whose voices are centered in these depictions.
Cultural Ecotone traces the Fine Arts Center’s own evolution as a cultural meeting place — a site of convergence where avantgarde and Southwest arts have intersected since the early 20th century.
Sacred Expressions Across Cultures explores the cross-cultural aesthetics that emerged from the meeting of Indigenous Pueblo and Hispanic traditions.
Movement represents contemporary artistic practices connected to themes of movement, identity, ecology, and cultural exchange.
Between the galleries, the Strait Corridor offers space to pause and reflect. Here you’ll find seating, books provided by Colorado College’s Tutt Library, videos where each curator introduces their gallery’s themes, and key works.
Guest curators include Cassandra Atencio, artist, elder, and member of the Southern Ute Tribe; James M. Córdova, santero and Associate Professor of Art History, Latin American Art at the University of Colorado, Boulder; Josh T Franco, artist and art historian; and Pat Musick, artist and educator. Together, they present art not as isolated objects but as living dialogue — cultural memory that continues evolving, just as this place continues welcoming new voices into its ongoing story.
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Support for Gathering Place is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art and The Margaret L. Lane Fund.
WHERE ART COMESAlive
Benny Benack III performs with Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents “Great American Crooners” for the Artist Series.
