CC Summer Music Festival 2023 Program: June 4-23 by coloradocollege

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JUNE 4-23, 2023

susan grace, music director

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FESTIVAL ARTISTS CONCERT

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7

7:30 p.m., Packard Hall

Gabrieli Canzon primi toni a 8

O Magnum mysterium

Canzon septimi toni

Fuchs Quiet in the Land

Kernis Mozart En Route (or, A Little Traveling Music)

Holst Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity from The Planets, Op. 32, arr. for woodwind quintet

Dohnányi Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 1

FESTIVAL ARTISTS CONCERT

SATURDAY, JUNE 10

7:30 p.m., Packard Hall

Lovelock Trio for trumpet, horn, piano

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

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

Shostakovich Adagio from The Limpid Stream, Op. 39 for piano and bass trombone

Schoenfield Café Music

susan grace

music director, piano

virginia barron associate director, viola

scott yoo conductor

JUNE 4-23, 2023

FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA CONCERT

Scott Yoo, conducting

TUESDAY, JUNE 13

7:30 p.m., Celeste Theatre

Cornerstone Arts Center

Beethoven Leonore Overture III, Op. 72

Nielsen Concerto for flute and orchestra

Alice Dade, flute

Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

CHILDREN’S ORCHESTRA CONCERT

Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf

THURSDAY, JUNE 15

9 and 11 a.m.

Celeste Theatre

Cornerstone Arts Center Free ticketed event

FESTIVAL ARTISTS

PRE-CONCERT RECITAL

THURSDAY, JUNE 15

6:15 p.m., Packard Hall, free event

Heggie Camille Claudel: Into the Fire

Featuring Jennifer DeDominici, mezzo-soprano

FESTIVAL ARTISTS CONCERT

THURSDAY, JUNE 15

7:30 p.m., Packard Hall

Dvořák Serenade in D minor, Op. 44

Doppler Andante et Rondo, Op. 25 for 2 flutes and piano

Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time

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Pre-Concert Lecture at 6:15 p.m. in Packard Hall Room 9 Pre-Concert Lecture at 6:15 p.m. in CAC Screening Room Graphic by Sienna Busby

STUDENT CONCERTO READINGS

SATURDAY, JUNE 17

2 p.m. Celeste Theatre

Cornerstone Arts Center

Free event

FESTIVAL ARTISTS CONCERT

MONDAY, JUNE 19

7:30 p.m., Packard Hall

Bolcom Virtuosity Rag for brass quintet

Schmitt Á tour d’anches, Op. 97, for winds and piano

Ginastera Impresiones de la Puna for flute and string quartet

Schulhoff Five Pieces for string quartet

Vaughan Williams Piano Quintet in C minor

FESTIVAL ARTISTS PRE-CONCERT RECITAL

THURSDAY, JUNE 22

6:15 p.m., Packard Hall, free event

Brass Through the Ages with Kevin Cobb, Michael Thornton, John Rojak and Festival Fellows

FESTIVAL ARTISTS CONCERT

THURSDAY, JUNE 22

7:30 p.m., Packard Hall

Duruflé Prélude, Récitatif et Variations, Op. 3

Simon be still and know

Gipps Sea-weed Song, Op. 12C

Threnody, Op. 74

Novacek Intoxication from Four Rags for violin and piano

Schubert Octet in F Major, D. 803-Op. Post. 166

FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA CONCERT

Scott Yoo, conducting

FRIDAY, JUNE 23

7:30 p.m., Celeste Theatre

Cornerstone Arts Center

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17

Liszt Totentanz (Dance of the Dead)

Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue

John Novacek, piano

MUSIC AT MIDDAY

FESTIVAL FELLOW CONCERTS

12:15 P.M.

PACKARD HALL FREE

• Monday, June 12

• Wednesday, June 14

• Friday, June 16

• Monday, June 19

• Wednesday, June 21

• Thursday, June 22

• Friday, June 23

Artwork on cover and throughout:

Laura BenAmots, “Un-QUIET SKIES”

Pre-Concert Lecture at 6:15 p.m. in Packard Hall Room 9 Pre-Concert Lecture at 6:15 p.m. in CAC Screening Room

JUNE 4-23, 2023

susan grace, music director

virginia barron, associate director

CONTRIBUTORS

The following very special friends have contributed to the 2023 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 to 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

Carlton Gamer

Michael D. Grace

Jeffrey Haney

Richard and Sandra Hilt

Perrotti-Holmes Music Fellowship

Katherine Loo

Tom and Pam Sanny

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 39th 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 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.

Jeffrey W. Haney in memory of Nancy Ekberg

Nancy R. Hochman

Sally and Michael Keating

Gary and Anne Bradley

Timothy Fuller in memory of Kalah Powers Fuller

Robert D. Lee and Susan Ashley

Esther R. Redmount and Harry White

Dr. Cynthia Rose

Margaret Satterfield in memory of Kathryn Rubin

Judith B. Sellers in memory of Dr. Buz Sellers

Daniel J. Tynan in memory of Nancy Brooks Ekberg

Webb Family Fund of Pikes Peak Community Foundation in memory of Barbara Webb

Kathleen Yasumura in memory of Kathryn Rubin

$2,500-$3,999 - DO

Nasit Ari and Libby Rittenberg

Curtis and Avis Cook

Benjamin J. Harvey and Lauren Ciborowski

Arthur W. Porter

Constance E. Raub

Michele Strub-Heer and Jordan Strub

Pamela Marsh

Becky and Jon Medved

Janice Saffir and Paul Stephens

Peggy Shivers

$1,000-$1,499 -

Susan Bernstein

Guy and Virginia Cresap

Michael L. Edmonds

MI

Carol Anne Freeman and Nicholas Wilson

Samuel and Mary Alice Hall

Michael J. Healy

Stefan Hersh

Lisa B. Hughes and Barry Sarchett

Helene Knapp

Rex W. Kramer

Jonathan Lee and Peggy Berg

Lorna A. Lynn and Harold Palevsky

Jim and Lee Ringe

Nancy K. Roeder in memory of Prof. Emeritus David William Roeder

Tom and Pam Sanny

Jeffrey Schmoyer

Karen and Charles Walter

$10,000

AND MORETHE GOLDEN BATON

Arthur and Elizabeth Aikin

Bain Family Foundation - Norton Bain, Jeffrey Bain, and Anat Moskowitz

Colorado College Cultural Attractions Fund

Michael and Susan Grace

Richard L. and Sandra Hilt

John and Laurel Watkins

Therese and Daryll Thatcher

UC Health Children’s Hospital Colorado

$1,500-$2,499 - RE

Bee Vradenburg Foundation

Ann S. Brosh

Laurent A. Carrier

Carlton Gamer

Kimberly Gunderson

Phillip and Keiko Ying

$500-$999 - FA

Richard C. Bradley

Pamela Dymek

Paul Feil

Dr. Susan Rae Jensen

Thomas Mauch

Douglas and Nancy Norberg

Frances Pilch

$4,000-$9.999 MUSIC DIRECTOR AND CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE

Dr. Kathleen Ricker

John D. Rojak

Sandra Tiemens

Suzanne and Robert Smith

Daryll Stevens and Geoffrey Ames

Barbara M. Wilcox

Diane R. Williams

$100-$499

Susanne Anselmi

Phillip Baldwin

- SO

Ofer Ben-Amots and Ronit Even-Or

Camilla and Joel Bonzo

Susan L. Buell

Stormy and Shane Burns

Charles and Helena Cabell

Bonnie and Thomas R. Clark in honor of Susan and Michael Grace

Kathleen Fox Collins

Stephanie DiCenzo and Kent Borges

Christopher Duff

Evelyn Epperson

Hillary Fowler

Elaine E. Freed in memory of Nancy Ekberg

Barbara A. Gazibara in memory of Donald Gazibara

Gene and Jolinda Grace

Edie Greene and Alan Siegel

Cheryl Hayman

Louise Hunter

Rodney James

Jane and Ross Jacobsen

Donald P. and Gwen Jenkins in honor of Martha Booth

Julie Jones-Eddy and John Eddy

Jan Keder

Carolyn Keenan

Meg and Phillip Kendall

John Kinney

Elizabeth Leslie

Inna Malyshev

Marianna P. McJimsey in memory of Robert McJimsey

Mary McKinley

Annette Megneys

James Mitchell

Lisa Noll and Eric Leonard

Christopher J. and Linda O’Shea

Elisabeth Rebman

Helen and Horst Richardson

Blair and Joan Sawyer

Alan Schwartzman and Jennifer Shallenberger

Mark Seelye

Janet and Larry Sims

Ann H. Van Horn and Douglas G. Monroy

Mark Warshaw

David A. Watts

Elizabeth Wieland

Bert Wong

David Ying and Elinor Katherine Freer

$1-$99

Colette DeGrasse

Nicole de Naray

Cindy Donovan

Daisy Farrales

Daphne Gebauer

Sharon L. Grady

Lauren Grandisar

Petrice Grandison

Kathleen Hindmarch

Mira Larson

Susan Lauther

Dorothy Lee

Aline Lo

Suzanne MacAulay

Jill and Peter Margolin

Colin McLaughlin

Peter Michelin

Harold Miller

Gisele Miyamoto

John Moyer

Carolyn Pace

Jonathan Phillips

Martha Rapp

David and Barbara St. Andre

Sylvia Strickland

Robert Swaim

Nancy K. Taylor

Jean and Mark Truty

Sergei Vassiliev

Betty Virag

Marian Avoy

Laurie Beattie

DeeAnn Brown

Sheila Bukowski

Donald Clarke

Barbara Colvin

Charles D. Warren

Carolyn Williams

Lynne Williams

Nancy Winkle

Cultural Attractions Fund THE BLUE STAR GROUP

SHIVERS FUND AT

FOUNDATIONS AND FUNDS

The Bain Family Foundation

Colorado College Cultural Attractions Fund

Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund

Ida Boatwright Hutchison Memorial Fund

The Norberg Family Foundation

The Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving

Shivers Fund at Pikes Peak Library District

Schwartzman and Shallenberger Family Charitable Giving Fund

Strub Heer Foundation of the Pikes Peak Community Foundation

Summation Wealth Group

Webb Family Fund of Pikes Peak Community Foundation

SUPPORTING RADIO STATIONS

KCME

CPR

American Public Media’s “Performance Today”

WINE DONATIONS

Susan Ashley and Robert Lee

Lauren Ciborowski and Ben Harvey

Avis and Curtis Cook

Timothy Fuller

Susan and Michael Grace

Peggy McKinley, Coaltrain Fine Wines

Esther Redmount and Harry White

Daniel Tynan

Ann Van Horn and Doug Monroy

SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Nasit Ari

Bernie Brink

Lauren Ciborowski

Timothy Fuller

Michael Grace

Susan Grace

Jon Medved

Libby Rittenberg

Sandra Tiemens

Ann Van Horn

FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

Scott Yoo, conducting

ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR

Elias Miller, Albany, NY, University for Music, Vienna

Sponsored by Sandra & Richard Hilt

VIOLIN

Theo Bockhorst, St. Louis, MO, Cleveland Institute of Music

VIOLA

Yu-Hsuan Chen, Tainan, Taiwan, San Francisco Conservatory of Music

CELLO

Ethan Blake, Colorado Springs, CO, University of Colorado Boulder

Sponsored by Lisa B. Hughes & Barry Sarchett and Phillip & Keiko Ying

William Cayanan, San Leandro, CA, Indiana University

Jacobs School of Music

Sponsored by Lorna Lynn & Harold Palevsky and Carol Anne Freeman & Nicholas Wilson

Christopher Chan, Toronto, Ontario, University of Michigan

Sponsored by Sandra & Richard Hilt

BASS

Bailey Amspoker, Denver, CO, Indiana University

Jacobs School of Music

Sponsored by Sandra & Richard Hilt

Jane Hanneman, Oak Park, IL, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

Sponsored by Sandra & Richard Hilt

*Kevin Cobb

TROMBONE

Ben Jalensky, Kenosha, WI, Eastman School of Music

Sponsored by Sandra & Richard Hilt

Theo Swanson, Granite Falls, MN, The Juilliard School

Sponsored by the Katherine Loo Endowment Fund

TUBA

**Joseph Boylan, Colorado Springs, CO

PIANO

Jasmin Abdunazarova, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Lynn Conservatory of Music

Sponsored by Lauren Ciborowski & Ben Harvey

Alexander Jurak, Long Island, NY, Manhattan School of Music Precollege

PERCUSSION

**Robert Jurkscheit, Colorado Springs, CO

**Albert Ortega, Colorado Springs, CO

**Staci Toma, Colorado Springs, CO

**Aaron Turner, Colorado Springs, CO

*festival faculty

**guest musician

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7

7:30 p.m., Packard Hall

Canzon primi toni a 8

GIOVANNI GABRIELI

O Magnum mysterium (1553-1612)

Canzon septimi toni

Stefan Hersh, violin; Laura Frautschi, violin; Virginia Barron, viola; David Ying, cello

Kevin Cobb, trumpet; *Jafet Diaz Martin, trumpet; Michael Thornton, horn; John Rojak, bass trombone

Quiet in the Land KENNETH FUCHS (b. 1956)

Alice Dade, flute; Jon Manasse, clarinet; Robert Walters, English horn

Toby Appel, viola; David Ying, cello

Mozart En Route (or, A Little Traveling Music)

Mark Fewer, violin; Phillip Ying, viola; David Ying, cello

Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity from The Planets, Op. 23 for woodwind quintet . . .

Alice Dade, flute; Robert Walters, oboe; Jon Manasse, clarinet

Michael Kroth, bassoon; Michael Thornton, horn

Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 1

AARON JAY KERNIS (b. 1960)

GUSTAV HOLST (1874-1934)

arr. David Bussick

ERNÖ DOHNÁNYI Allegretto (1877-1960)

Scherzo. Allegro vivace Adagio, quasi andante

Finale. Allegro animato

*festival fellow

Steven Beck, piano; Laura Frautschi, violin; Mark Fewer, violin

Phillip Ying, viola; David Ying, cello

This concert is sponsored by Timothy Fuller, in memory of Kayla Powers Fuller.

Jon Manasse is the Tom & Pam Sanny Endowed Faculty Artist.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 10

7:30 p.m., Packard Hall

Trio for trumpet, horn, and piano

WILLIAM LOVELOCK

Preludio. Allegro vigoroso (1899-1986)

Romanza. Andante tranquilo

Finale Fugato. Allegro vigoroso

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

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

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

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

YORK BOWEN (1884-1961)

BENJAMIN BRITTEN

Twelve variations and fugue on an epigram of Kodály (1913-1976)

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

Adagio from The Limpid Stream, Op. 39 for piano and bass trombone

John Rojak, bass trombone; Steven Beck, piano

Café Music

DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975)

trans. Harri Miettunen

Allegro con fuoco (b. 1947)

Rubato; Andante moderato

Presto

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

*festival fellow

This concert is sponsored by Daniel Tynan, in memory of Nancy Brooks Ekberg.

Music Director and Faculty Artist Susan Grace is sponsored by the Bain Family Foundation.

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PAUL SCHOENFIELD

TUESDAY, JUNE 13

7:30 p.m., Celeste Theatre

Scott Yoo, conducting

Leonore Overture III, Op. 72

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)

Concerto for flute and orchestra CARL AUGUST NIELSEN

Allegro moderato (1865-1931)

Allegretto, un poco

Alice Dade, flute

— INTERMISSION — Please join us in the Main Space for catwalk capers.

Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

JOHANNES BRAHMS

Allegro non troppo (1833-1897)

Andante moderato

Allegro giocoso

Allegro energico e passionato

The audience is cordially invited to a post-concert celebration in the Main Space featuring the Ricky Sweum Jazz Quartet.

This concert is sponsored by Arthur & Elizabeth Aikin.

Conductor and Faculty Artist Scott Yoo is the Michael D. Grace Endowed Faculty Artist.

Food generously donated by Joseph Coleman and Blue Star Group.

FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA CONCERT

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Wine generously donated by Curtis and Avis Cook, Timothy Fuller, Michael and Susan Grace, Ben Harvey and Lauren Ciborowski, Robert Lee and Susan Ashley, Peggy McKinley (owner, Coaltrain Fine Wines), Doug Monroy and Ann Van Horn, Daniel Tynan, Harry White and Esther Redmount.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 15

9 a.m. and 11 a.m., Celeste Theatre

*Elias Miller, conducting **Virginia Barron, narrating

Featuring artwork by Linda Sagastume’s students from Bemis School of Art

Peter and the Wolf

(1891-1953)

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

**festival faculty

Join us for a presentation by the Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center (recommended for ages 7+) and a screening of Suzie Templeton’s “Peter and the Wolf” short film following the performance.

This concert is sponsored by Children’s Hospital Colorado; Webb Family Fund of Pikes Peak Community Foundation; Bee Vradenburg Foundation

Fellow Conductor Elias Miller is sponsred by Richard & Sandra Hilt

12 FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA CHILDREN’S CONCERT

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SERGEI PROKOFIEV

WEBB FAMILY

FUND

CHILDREN’S CONCERT

The SMF Festival Orchestra brings Prokofiev’s symphonic fairy tale to life, accompanied by artwork created by students from Bemis School of Art.

9 and 11 a.m. Colorado College Celeste Theatre

Arts Center

Peter

and the Wolf

Free BEMIS SCHOOL OF ART

Cornerstone

825 N. Cascade Ave.

THURSDAY, JUNE 15

6:15 p.m., Packard Hall

Camille Claudel: Into the Fire

Prelude: Awakening (b. 1961)

1. Rodin

2. La Valse

3. Shakuntala

4. La Petite Châtelaine

5. The Gossips

6. L’Âge mûr

7. Epilogue: Jessie Lipscomb visits Camille Claudel, Montdevergues Asylum, 1929

***Jennifer DeDominici, mezzo-soprano

Andrew Wan, violin; Stefan Hersh, violin; Phillip Ying, viola; David Ying, cello

***guest artist

Please enjoy the wine bar in the Packard Courtyard between concerts.

Program Note: The life of the brilliant French sculptor Camille Claudel (1864-1943) was little known prior to the landmark film about her life, released in 1988. She was a creative genius at a time when a woman was rarely taken seriously on her own, and usually only in connection with a man. For Claudel, that was Rodin: her mentor, teacher and lover. Their stormy romance, warring egos, clashing genius, her bold life choices, his broken promises, and the mental illness that would lead to her 30-year confinement in a remote asylumthese are all part of her tragic story. But only part. For there are her sculptures: sublime, beautiful, inspired, aching-dancing and singing to us through time. This cycle takes place the day Camille is to be taken to the asylum. As dawn breaks, she awakens and addresses six of her landmark sculptures; each gives voice to part of her story. The Epilogue is based on a faded photograph taken in 1929 at the Montdevergues Asylum, 16 years into Camille’s confinement, when she was visited by Jessie Lipscomb, her friend from happier student days. It is the last evidence we have of the great artist whose work is now on permanent display at the Rodin Museum in Paris. Some of Gene Scheer’s poetry for the cycle is drawn from Claudel’s letters and journals, including the first line of the cycle. Much of the cycle’s melodic material is based on the music of that setting. The cycle is tonally based with a strong, rhythmic sense of dance throughout, especially an undercurrent of 3/4 time. Debussy’s G minor String Quartet holds the strongest influence over the vocabulary of the cycle: the composer was a close friend of Claudel and kept a copy of her sculpture La Valse on his mantle.

The cycle was composed for Joyce DiDonato and the Alexander String Quartet in celebration of the quartet’s 30th anniversary. It was commissioned by San Francisco Performances (Ruth Felt, President) with generous support from Linda and Stuart Nelson. The first performance took place at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco on February 4, 2012.

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HEGGIE

This free concert is sponsored by the estate of Miriam Bolner. Wine generously donated by Curtis and Avis Cook, Timothy Fuller, Michael and Susan Grace, Ben Harvey and Lauren Ciborowski, Robert Lee and Susan Ashley, Peggy McKinley (owner, Coaltrain Fine Wines), Doug Monroy and Ann Van Horn, Daniel Tynan, Harry White and Esther Redmount.

Claudel’s La Valse (The Waltz) was conceived between 1889 and 1893 and coincides with a period of intense production and the artist’s passionate relationship with Auguste Rodin.

Last night, I went to sleep completely naked. I pretended you were holding me

But I woke alone again

Everything burned away

In the cruel morning light.

Was I dreaming that you loved me

Though you left me far behind?

Someone’s there

Hidden in the shadows

You don’t want me to see You don’t want me to find

In the clay

I search with my fingers

To uncover something true Rodin! Rodin!

Was there ever a time

You wanted me to find you?

There’s a secret I have traced In your eyes, your brow, your hair. Others think they see you

But, we both know, you’re not there.

In the clay

I search with my fingers

To uncover something true Rodin! Rodin!

Was there ever a time

You wanted me to find you?

Rodin?

The light of day will fade And shadows will descend No breath can last forever

No heartbreak truly mend

Again, again ...

Console my eyes with beauty

Allow me to forget That every dance of love Is mingled with regret

Take me

One step closer One step back

One step spins

One step hovers

Take me!

Take me to the place for unrepentant lovers!

Is it in the spirit?

Is it in the flesh?

Where do I abide?

Console

Oh console my eyes with beauty

Allow me to forget That every dance of love Is mingled with regret ...

“Shakuntala! Shakuntala!”

He called my name in a whisper

He called my name in a cry

Before I was a mother

Before I met the king

Before he made his promise

Before I wore his ring

Before I was forgotten

Begging my forgiveness

After wasting many years

Wishing to reclaim me

Kneeling at my feet

He reaches to embrace me

Will the circle again be complete?

I lean and let him hold me

His lips familiar yet estranged

Sakuntala, first crafted in a plaster by Camille Claudel in 1886, is based on the Sanskrit play Shakuntala by Hindu poet Kālidāsa. The piece represents a cursed love, depicted through the bodies that are embracing passionately but barely touching.

Abandoned and ignored

Before I was denied

All that I adored

I did not know who I was.

“Shakuntala! Shakuntala!”

After he had learned the truth

After all his tears

I forgive him utterly

But in doing so have I changed?

“Shakuntala! Shakuntala!”

I hear your whispers

Your cries

Oh, I want to take you back, my love, But who I was has died!

1. Rodin 2. La Valse 3. Shakuntala Mask of Camille Claudel, one of the first portraits Auguste Rodin created of his young pupil and mistress, ca. 1895. © Photographic agency of musée Rodin / Jérome Manoukian © musée Camille Claudel / Marco Illuminati © musée Camille Claudel / Marco Illuminati

plaster version at the Paris Salon in 1895.

4.

Hello, my little one, La petite châtelaine

Do you know who I am?

They say I leave at night

By the window of my tower

Hanging from a red umbrella

With which I set fire to the forest

Hello, my little one, La petite châtelaine

Do you know who I am?

5.

What is in my hands?

What is in my head?

So many ideas, my mind aches. So many ideas, the earth quakes!

People at a table listen to a prayer. Three men on a high cart laugh and go to mass.

A woman crouches on a bench and cries all alone.

What does she know?

6.

Or the land you come from?

Where the earth is stained ...

I did as he said and returned you to clay.

Oh, how could I bleed such a blessing away?

Now I’m forever alone

With my children of stone.

La petite châtelaine

Can you hear my voice?

The voice of your mother?

Does she know three people sit behind a screen and whisper?

What is the secret suspended in the air? I know. I know.

The halo rusts. The light is dim. Into the fire!

Is it him? Is it him? Is it him?

The first version of The Age of Maturity dates from 1894-95 according to a letter sent by Claudel to her brother Paul in December 1893, where she calls it her “three-figure group.” Often interpreted as an autobiographical work, illustrating Rodin hesitating between his ageing mistress and his young lover, the very well-constructed sculpture above all appears as a variation on the theme of destiny.

Thank you for coming. I thought everyone had forgotten.

Thank you for remembering me.

Four children? Beautiful ... beautiful ... Off to Italy? Beautiful ... beautiful ... You will have wonderful things to eat there.

Here they are trying to poison me. (I see that they don’t. I cook for myself.)

Thank you for remembering me.

Do you remember our studio in Paris? Everything moving.

Two young women, so many ideas. Look at me now!

Oh, Jessie ... Every dream I ever had was of movement.

Touching. Breathing. Reaching. Hovering. Something always about to change ...

A photograph? Just me and you. Yes. I understand. I must be very still.

Thank you for remembering me.

L’Âge mûr (instrumental) The Gossips Possibly inspired by a scene she had observed in a railway carriage, The Gossips was exhibited in the © Photographic agency of musée Rodin / Jérome Manoukian 7. Epilogue: Jessie Lipscomb visits Camille Claudel, Montdevergues Asylum, 1929 © Photographic agency of musée Rodin / Jérome Manoukian In 1929, Claudel’s longtime friend and colleague Jessie Lipscomb, right, visited her in Montdevergues Asylum. Photo by Lipscomb’s husband, William Elborne La Petite Châtelaine Claudel created the bust of La Petite Châtelaine in 1892 at the Château de l’Islette, modeled by the 6-year-old granddaughter of the château’s owner. © Photographic agency of musée Rodin / Jérome Manoukian

THURSDAY, JUNE 15

7:30 p.m., Packard Hall

Serenade in D minor, Op. 44

Moderato quasi Marcia (1841-1904)

Menuetto: Tempo di Minuetto

Andante con moto

Finale: Allegro molto

Michael

Quartet for the End of Time

I. Liturgy of the Crystal: Very moderate, in harmonious, sparkling clouds

II. Vocalise, for the angel who announces the end of time: Robust, moderate

III. Abyss of the birds: Very slow, expressive and sad

IV. Interlude: Determined, moderate, a little lively

V. Praise to the eternity of Jesus: Infinitely slow, ecstatic

VI. Dance of fury, for seven trumpets: Deliberate, vigorous, granite-like, a little lively

VII. Jumble of the rainbow, for the angel who announces the end of time: Dreamy, almost slow

VIII. Praise to the immortality of Jesus: Extremely slow and tender, ecstatic

This concert is sponsored by Anne & Gary Bradley

Jon Manasse is the Tom & Pam Sanny Endowed Faculty Artist Music Director and Faculty Artist Susan Grace is sponsored by the Bain Family Foundation

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Robert Walters, oboe; *Cameron Stanton, oboe; Jon Manasse, clarinet; *William Foye, clarinet Kroth, bassoon; *Zachary Von Cannon, bassoon; *Erica Haas, contra bassoon Thornton, horn; *Liam McConlogue, horn; *Susannah Greenslit, horn; Mark Kosower, cello; Susan Cahill, bass Andante et Rondo, Op. 25 for 2 flutes and piano FRANZ DOPPLER (1821-1883) Elizabeth Mann, flute; Alice Dade, flute; Susan Grace, piano

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(1908-1992)

Ayano Ninomiya, violin; Jon Manasse, clarinet; Mark Kosower, cello; William Wolfram, piano *festival fellow

MONDAY, JUNE 19

7:30 p.m., Packard Hall

Virtuosity Rag for brass quintet

WILLIAM BOLCOM (b. 1938)

Kevin Cobb, trumpet; *Terri Rauschenbach, trumpet; Michael Thornton, horn *Theo Swanson, trombone; John Rojak, bass trombone

Á tour d’anches, Op. 97

FLORENT SCHMITT A courre. Assez allègre (1870-1958) Sur un rythme prévu. Très animé Nocturne-sarabande. Un peu lent Quasimodo. Avec entrain

Impresiones de la Puna for flute and string quartet

ALBERTO GINASTERA Quena. Lento (1916-1983) Canción. Moderato Danza. Animado

Elizabeth Mann, flute; Stefan Hersh, violin; Steven Rose, violin Virginia Barron, viola; Bion Tsang, cello

Five Pieces for string quartet

ERVIN SCHULHOFF

I. Alla Valse Viennese. Allegro (1894-1942)

II. Alla Serenata. Allegretto con moto

III. Alla Czeca. Molto allegro

IV. Alla Tango milonga. Andante

V. Alla Tarantella. Prestissimo con fuoco

Andrew Wan, violin; Stephen Rose, violin; Toby Appel, viola; Bion Tsang, cello

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Robert Walters, oboe; Laura Ardan, clarinet; Michael Kroth, bassoon; John Novacek, piano

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— INTERMISSION —

Andante

Fantasia (quasi variazioni): Moderato

John Novacek, piano; Steven Copes, violin; Toby Appel, viola

Bion Tsang, cello; Susan Cahill, bass

*festival fellow

This concert is sponsored by Esther Redmond & Harry White

John Novacek is the Richard & Sandra Hilt Endowed Faculty Artist

Piano Quintet in C minor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

fuoco (1872-1958)

Allegro con

PRE-CONCERT RECITAL “ALLA BREVE”

THURSDAY, JUNE 22

6:15 p.m., Packard Hall

BRASS THROUGH THE AGES

This special performance will share a history of brass instruments from inception to present. It will offer a multi-sensory experience, including performances of great brass works, theatrical elements, historical instrument demonstrations, lighting, and more as our talented fellows explore how they present and perform great works for 21st century audiences. We hope you will join us for this unique event.

Featuring

Michael Thornton, *Max Braun, *Susannah Greenslit, *Liam McConlogue, *Sophie Steger, horns

Kevin Cobb, *Jafet Diaz Martin, *Terri Rauschenbach, trumpets

*Mal Layne, *Theo Swanson, trombones

John Rojak, *Ben Jalensky, bass trombones

*festival fellow

Please enjoy the wine bar in the Packard Courtyard between concerts.

This free concert is sponsored by the estate of Miriam Bolner Wine generously donated by Curtis and Avis Cook, Timothy Fuller, Michael and Susan Grace, Ben Harvey and Lauren Ciborowski, Robert Lee and Susan Ashley, Peggy McKinley (owner, Coaltrain Fine Wines), Doug Monroy and Ann Van Horn, Daniel Tynan, Harry White and Esther Redmount.

THURSDAY, JUNE 22

7:30 p.m., Packard Hall

Prélude, Récitatif et Variations, Op. 3

Elizabeth Mann, flute; Toby Appel, viola; John Novacek, piano

be still and know

Stefan Hersh, violin; Bion Tsang, cello; Susan Grace, piano

Sea-weed Song, Op. 12C

MAURICE DURUFLÉ (1890-1974)

CARLOS SIMON (b. 1986)

RUTH GIPPS

Threnody, Op. 74 (1921-1999)

Wandering alone in churchyard, the mourner finds some consolation upon hearing the church choir singing Psalm 121: “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills.”

Robert Walters, English horn; Susan Grace, piano

Intoxication from Four Rags for violin and piano

Scott Yoo, violin; John Novacek, piano

Octet in F Major, D. 803-Op. Post. 166 . .

JOHN NOVACEK (b. 1964)

FRANZ ANTON SCHUBERT Adagio; Allegro (1797-1828)

Adagio Allegro vivace

Andante; 7 Variations

Menuetto. Allegretto Andante molto; Allegro

Laura Ardan, clarinet; Michael Kroth, bassoon; Michael Thornton, horn

Stephen Rose, violin; Steven Copes, violin; Toby Appel, viola; Bion Tsang, cello; Susan Cahill, bass

This concert is sponsored by Judith Sellers, in memory of Dr. Buz Sellers

Music Director and Faculty Artist Susan Grace is sponsored by the Bain Family Foundation John Novacek is the Richard & Sandra Hilt Endowed Faculty Artist

Conductor and Faculty Artist Scott Yoo is the Michael D. Grace Endowed Faculty Artist

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FRIDAY, JUNE 23

7:30 p.m., Celeste Theatre

Scott Yoo, conducting

Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17 PYOTR

Andante sostenuto – Allegro vivo (1840-1893)

Andantino marziale, quasi moderato

Scherzo. Allegro molto vivace

Finale. Moderato assai – Allegro vivo

Totentanz (Dance of the Dead)

— INTERMISSION — Please join us in the Main Space for catwalk capers.

Rhapsody in Blue

John Novacek, piano

This concert is sponsored by John & Laurel Watkins

John Novacek is the Richard & Sandra Hilt Endowed Faculty Artist

Conductor and Faculty Artist Scott Yoo is the Michael D. Grace Endowed Faculty Artist

Thank you for contributing to the CC Summer Music Festival’s success this season. We are grateful and look forward to seeing you for our 40th anniversary in 2024!

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ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY

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LISZT (1811-1886)

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GEORGE GERSHWIN (1898-1937)

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, 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, and the Alabama and Austin Symphonies. Fall 2023 performances include Colorado College, Brandeis University, UMass Amherst, and Lehigh University.

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.

Virginia Barron, associate director, viola

Violist Virginia Barron is equally adept as a chamber player, orchestral musician, and teacher. A native of Toronto, she received her training 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 over 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. An ardent chamber musician, Barron has served the Colorado College Summer Music Festival for 32 years, as performer, teacher, and associate director.

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 new 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.

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, New York, and on over 100 performances on tour.

Yoo was born in Tokyo and raised in Glastonbury, Connecticut. 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.

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 33 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 has toured for the U.S. State Department and performed at the United Nations and the White House.

Laura Ardan, clarinet

Recently retired from the Atlanta Symphony, Laura Ardan served as Principal Clarinet for 39 years, holding the endowed Robert Shaw Chair. In 2018, Ardan was awarded the Mabel Dorn Reeder Honorary Chair by the ASO. She has been a featured soloist in works by Mozart, Weber, Debussy, Copland, Bernstein, Finzi, Rossini, Shaw, and Michael Gandolfi. Always an active chamber musician, Ardan has played and recorded regularly with The Atlanta Chamber Players and The Georgian Chamber Players. She has performed with the Cleveland and Vega Quartets. While a student at the Juilliard School Ardan performed frequently with The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, was the resident clarinetist and teaching artist at the Lincoln Center Institute for four years and guest artist in “Emanuel Ax Invites...” on the Great Performers series at Lincoln Center.

Steven Beck, piano

A recent New York concert by pianist Steven Beck was described as “exemplary” and “deeply satisfying” by Anthony Tommasini in the New York Times. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where his teachers were Seymour Lipkin, Peter Serkin and Bruce Brubaker. Beck made his concerto debut with the National Symphony Orchestra, and has toured Japan as soloist with the New York Symphonic Ensemble. His annual Christmas Eve performance of Bach’s Goldberg Variations at Bargemusic has become a New York institution. He has also performed as soloist and chamber musician at Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Library of Congress, Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, and Miller Theater, as well as on WNYC. Summer appearances have been at the Aspen Music Festival and Lincoln Center Out of Doors.

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.

Kevin Cobb, trumpet

Since joining the American Brass Quintet in 1998, Kevin Cobb has established himself as one of the pre-eminent trumpet players in New York City. In addition to his chamber music expertise, Cobb is a highly sought-after orchestral player, performing regularly with the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New York City Ballet, and Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Extremely versatile, Cobb has performed in everything from Broadway shows, film scores, and TV recordings to concerts featuring Metallica, James Taylor, Peter Gabriel, and Ben Folds. Cobb’s previous teaching duties include The Juilliard School, Yale School of Music, and SUNY Stony Brook. Along with the many recordings of the ABQ, he can be heard on his solo CD, “One,” which is available on Summit Records.

Steven Copes, violin

Violinist Steven Copes leads a diverse and enthusiastic musical life as soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral leader. He joined the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra as concertmaster in 1998, and since then has led the SPCO from the first chair in many highly acclaimed, eclectic programs. He also

co-founded the Alpenglow Chamber Music Festival in Colorado, as well as Accordo, a chamber music group in the Twin Cities, now in its 12th season. A dedicated teacher, he has taught and coached at the Banff Centre in Canada, Curtis Institute of Music Summerfest, and New World Symphony in Miami, among others. Copes performs on violins made in 2014 by Brooklyn maker Samuel Zygmuntowicz, as well as an interpretation of J. Guarneri made in 2020, also by Zygmuntowicz. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with his wife Anne, two very sweet and funny daughters, Ella and Izzy, and their Bernese mountain dog pup, Coco.

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.

Mark Fewer, violin

Violinist Mark Fewer leads a multi-disciplined life in music. Violin soloist, chamber musician, orchestral leader, artistic director, conductor, arranger, teacher, jazz violinist, recording artist and occasional radio host, he has performed worldwide to great critical acclaim. He has performed around the world in halls such as Carnegie, Wigmore and Salle Pleyel, and is equally at home in recital venues such as Bartok House (Budapest) to Le Poisson Rouge (NYC) to The Forum (Taipei). Fewer’s discography includes collections of works by such varied musical voices as the baroque gypsy Giovanni Pandolfi, the American “Bad Boy of Music” George Antheil (with pianist John Novacek, it is used as soundtrack material for the cult American hit tv series “American Horror Theater – Freak Show”), jazz great Phil Dwyer Changing Seasons, a work written expressly for Fewer showcasing his unique talents in both classical and jazz idioms, (it won the Juno Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album). He has recorded the Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord Obbligato by J. S. Bach and in 2019 he released his own music written to be performed alongside Idris Goodwin’s “The Body in Crisis.”

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.

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 1985-1989 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.

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 has 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 have 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. Before 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. Kroth is principal bassoon with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra and member of the Penin-

sula Music Festival (Door County, Wisconsin). 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. Kroth has presented master classes and clinics at U.S. colleges and universities, including the Eastman School of Music, the Oberlin Conservatory, and the Interlochen Arts Academy.

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 professor of flute at the Mannes School of Music, as well as the principal flute of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Orchestra of St. Luke’s. As former principal flute of the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, Mann has performed as guest principal flute with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra during its U.S. tour with Valery Gergiev. Mann can be heard on more than 100 recordings, including two Grammy Award-winning albums with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Orchestra of St. Luke’s, plus a Pulitzer Prize-winning recording of George Perle’s woodwind quintets with the Dorian Wind Quintet.

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 concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. Venues have included Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Hollywood Bowl, Paris’s Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, London’s Wigmore Hall and Barbican, and Tokyo’s Suntory Hall. Numbering among his festival appearances: Mostly Mozart, Aspen, SummerFest La Jolla, Cape Cod, Caramoor, Colorado College, Mozaic, Ravinia, and Wolf Trap (U.S.); Scotia, Toronto Summer Music, Ottawa, and Festival of the Sound (Canada); BBC Proms (England); Braunschweig (Germany); Lucerne, Menuhin Gstaad, and Verbier (Switzerland); and Stavanger (Norway). Novacek has been showcased on the radio programs “Performance Today” (NPR), “St. Paul Sunday” and “A Prairie Home Companion.” Chamber music collaborations include Leila Josefowicz, Lynn Harrell, Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Renaud Capuçon, Truls Mørk, and Cho-Liang Lin. Novacek’s compositions and arrangements are performed by the 5 Browns, Ying Quartet, Three Tenors, Kiri Te Kanawa, and pop diva Diana Ross. His over 30 CDs are found on labels Philips, Nonesuch, Naxos, Arabesque, Warner Classics, Sony/BMG, Koch International, New World, Universal Classics, Ambassador, Pony Canyon, Four Winds, and EMI Classics. Novacek is on the piano faculty of Mannes School of Music.

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.

Stephen Rose, violin

Stephen Rose is Principal Second Violin of The Cleveland Orchestra, a position he has held since 2001. He joined the Orchestra in 1997 as a member of the first violin section. He has also been heard in solo appearances and chamber music concerts throughout North America and Europe. From 1992-96, Rose was the first violinist of the Everest Quartet, top prizewinners at the 1995 Banff International String Quartet Competition. Rose is a member of the violin faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he maintains a studio and directs the orchestral violin repertoire class. He also serves on the faculty of the Encore School for Strings, Kent/Blossom Music, The National Orches-

tral Institute and the New World Symphony. A participant at many summer music festivals, Rose frequently appears at the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego, Orcas Island (WA) Chamber Music Festival, Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Music at Gretna (PA), the Mimir Chamber Music Festival in Fort Worth, TX, the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, and the Festival der Zukunft in Switzerland. In 1994, Rose received the Masters of Music degree and Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music, where he was also named winner of the 1993 Starling Foundation Competition for Violinists. He received the Bachelor of Music degree in 1992 from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he was a winner of the school’s concerto competition.

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

Winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and Bronze Medal in the International Tchaikovsky Competition, cellist Bion Tsang has appeared with the New York, Mexico City, Moscow, Busan and Hong Kong philharmonic orchestras, the Atlanta, Pacific, Civic, American and National symphony orchestras, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the Saint Paul and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestras, and the Taiwan National Orchestra. He served as Artistic Director of the Laurel Festival of the Arts for 10 years. Tsang’s discography includes three live recordings: Beethoven: Sonatas and Variations for Cello and Piano (Artek), Brahms: Cello Sonatas and Four Hungarian Dances (Artek), and Bion Tsang & Adam Neiman: Live at Jordan Hall (BHM). Tsang’s latest album, Cantabile (Universal), with Scott Yoo and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, was released this past spring, coinciding with the premiere of PBS Great Performances Now Hear This episode “Schumann: Genius and Madness,” which features footage from the making of Cantabile. Tsang holds the Long Chair in Cello at the UT Butler School of Music and plays on a 2011 Wayne Burak cello.

Robert Walters, oboe

Robert Walters joined the Cleveland Orchestra as solo English horn in 2004. He made his concerto debut with the orchestra in 2006, performing Ned Rorem’s English Horn Concerto. Before moving to Cleveland, Walters was the solo English horn player of

the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (2000-04) and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (1997-2000). As an oboist, he performed and recorded frequently with the Philadelphia Orchestra and was active as a freelance musician in New York. Walters spent five summers with the Marlboro Music Festival and has toured as a member of Musicians from Marlboro. A fourth-generation college music professor, Walters has taught at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music since 2006 and was appointed professor of oboe and English horn in 2010. His students have secured solo positions in leading orchestras across the United States.

Andrew Wan, violin

Concertmaster of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (MSO) since 2008, Andrew Wan is also Associate Professor of Violin at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University and member of the Juno and Opus award-winning New Orford String Quartet. As a soloist, he has appeared worldwide under conductors such as Vengerov, Oundjian, Petrenko, DePreist, and Payare. His live recording of the three Saint-Saëns violin concerti with Kent Nagano and the MSO was released by Analekta in the fall of 2015 to wide critical acclaim. His next album release with Nagano and the MSO of concerti by Ginastera, Bernstein, and Moussa won the 2021 Juno Award for Best Classical Album for Large Ensemble. Wan has performed chamber music worldwide with artists such as the Juilliard Quartet, Trifonov, Repin, Ax, Shaham, Widmann, Ehnes, and Pressler. He serves as guest concertmaster for the Pittsburgh, Houston, Indianapolis, Toronto, National Arts Centre and Vancouver symphonies, and has appeared as artist and faculty at the St. Prex, Seattle, Aspen, La Jolla, Toronto Summer, Morningside Music Bridge, Olympic, and Orford Music Festivals. He recently completed recording all of the Beethoven Piano and Violin Sonatas with Charles Richard-Hamelin, winning Opus, Felix prizes as well as receiving two Juno nominations. Wan received three degrees from The Juilliard School. 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 reputation as the rare concerto soloist who is also equally versatile and adept as a recitalist, accompanist, and chamber musician. 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. Wolfram has recorded numerous titles on the Naxos label in his series of Franz Liszt Opera Transcriptions and two other chamber music titles for Naxos with violinist Philippe Quint, among others. For the Albany label, he recorded the piano concertos of Edward Collins with Marin Alsop and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. As educator and teacher, Wolfram is a long-standing member of the piano faculty of the

Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina. Recently, Wolfram was appointed to the piano faculty at Manhattan School of Music, where he also teaches chamber music and a piano seminar. Wolfram is a graduate of The Juilliard School and is a Yamaha artist.

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 ARTIST

Jennifer DeDominici, mezzo-soprano

Jennifer DeDominici is a true crossover artist, having performed major roles in opera, musical theater, concerts, and even film. She has been seen on the stages of many venues here in Colorado Springs: Francesca in Bridges of Madison County (Henry Award Winner for Outstanding Actress in a Musical), Dorabella in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins, Judy in 9 to 5, Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls, Charity in Barnum, Grace in Annie, Maria in The Sound of Music, Petra in A Little Night Music, Carmen in Carmen, Angharad in How Green Was My Valley, Hänsel in the opera Hänsel und Gretel, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Mrs. Jones in Street Scene, and Angelina in La Cenerentola. Elsewhere in the musical theater world, she has performed the iconic roles of Aldonza in Man of La Mancha, Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel, Guenevere in Camleot, Nellie Forbush in South

Pacific, and Claudia in Nine. In opera she has been in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Gounod’s Faust, Nixon in China by John Adams, among others. She worked with Tim Rice on his show for the Seabourn Cruise Line and joined a star-studded cast in a concert version of My Fair Lady featuring Emmy-award-winning Peter Scolari and Broadway artist Elena Shaddow, which played with the Milwaukee Symphony and North Carolina Symphony. Jennifer has also sung with the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs, the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, the National Repertory Orchestra, the Fresno Philharmonic, the Cleveland Pops, and the Denver Philharmonic. She was an Apprentice Artist at the Santa Fe Opera and at Anchorage Opera and has performed at Central City Opera, Indianapolis Opera, San Diego Opera, Piedmont Opera, Opera Fort Collins, Opera Theatre of the Rockies, and Opera Colorado. She is a first-place winner of the Denver Lyric Opera Guild Auditions, a NATS Singer of the Year, and a four-time Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

PROGRAM NOTES AND PRE-CONCERT LECTURES

Michael Grace has been a member of the Colorado College faculty since 1967 and is now a professor of music. In addition to his faculty appointment, he has served Colorado College as president and as dean of the Summer Session, and served as Music Department 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 FELLOWS

Jasmin Abdunzarova was born and raised in a musician’s family in Uzbekistan. She started to play the piano at age 3 and had her first recital at age 6. She’s won a number of competitions, and the Ministry of the Republic of Uzbekistan awarded her with the “Tasanno” prize. She collaborated with Turkistan orchestra, actively attended festivals such as Y.Bashmet Summer Academy and Lake Como Summer Piano Academy, and participated in masterclasses with S. Ioudenitch, W. Nabore, A. Chow, and Barry Douglas. She graduated from Uspensky School of Music, Tashkent, where she studied with R. Abdunazarov. She is a gymnastics fan.

Bailey Amspoker was born and raised in Denver and started playing bass at age 8. She has since studied with Susan Cahill, Kurt Muroki, and Rachel Calin, and attended summer festivals such as Bowdoin International Music Festival and the Perlman Music Program. She currently studies double bass performance at the Jacobs School of Music.

Hailing from Colorado Springs, cellist Ethan Blake is a recent graduate of the College of Music at CU Boulder, where he earned a Bachelor of Music studying with David Requiro. He recently completed a season with the Alabama Symphony in Birmingham, where he was a one-year member. Before that, he was the Assistant Principal Cellist of the Boulder Philharmonic and regularly performed throughout Colorado. His mentors include Matthew Zalkind and Alice Yoo.

Theo Bockhorst is a junior at the Cleveland Institute of Music where he studies with Jamie Laredo and Malcolm Lowe. A St. Louis native, he has played as soloist with many orchestras in the St. Louis area, most notably with the St. Louis Symphony on their 2017 season opener. He equally enjoys playing in orchestra, playing frequently with the Canton Symphony, and serving as Assistant Concertmaster of the Akron Symphony for the 2022-23 season.

Max Braun is a horn player and teacher pursuing his master’s degree at the University of Colorado Boulder, studying with Michael Thornton. He can be heard performing with the CU Symphony Orchestra and Wind Symphony. Braun received his bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of Michigan, where his primary instructor was Adam Unsworth. As a San Francisco native, he was immersed in an artistic community from birth and continues to appreciate all forms of art.

William Cayanan loves music. Currently the Assistant Principal Cellist of the Boise Philharmonic, Cayanan was previously the Associate Principal Cellist of the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic as well as the Assistant Principal Cellist of the Terre Haute Symphony. While pursuing graduate degrees at Indiana University, he studied cello with Eric Kim and composition with P.Q. Phan. While at IU, he appeared as a concerto soloist with the IU Baroque Orchestra. He has also performed with members of Quatuor Ebene and the Ariel String Quartet. Cayanan enjoys soup year-round.

Christopher Josin Chan, from Toronto, holds a Bachelor of Music in Performance at the University of Toronto, studying under Shauna Rolston Shaw and Joseph Johnson, and is currently pursuing his Master of Music under Richard Aaron at the University of Michigan. He has been a soloist with the

Canadian Sinfonietta and the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra and is currently a substitute cellist for the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra. Chan plays on a David Wiebe cello, generously loaned by Shaw.

Born in Montreal, Ladusa Chang-Ou recently completed her Master of Music, as well as her Master of Music in Arts, with professors Syoko Aki and Soovin Kim at the Yale School of Music. Grand Prize winner of the Canadian National Music Competition and third prize winner of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (OSM) Competition, she was invited to perform as guest soloist with professional orchestras including the Montreal Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Longueuil Symphony Orchestra, Les Violons du Roy Chamber Orchestra, and I Musici de Montréal Chamber Orchestra.

Born in Tainan, Taiwan, Yu-Hsuan Chen started to play the viola at the age of 9. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in Singapore and a master’s degree from San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Chen is a first-year DMA student at the University of Maryland, studying with Katherine Murdock and Daniel Foster. Her past teachers include Meng-Hsun Chuang, Manchin Zhang, and Dimitri Murrath.

Reina Cho, 22, is currently studying at The Juilliard School of Music with Darrett Adkins. Cho served as the co-principal of the Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra for two years. She has received awards from competitions such as Spotlight Music Award, LA Violoncello Society, and YoungArts. Cho performed in a world premiere of Paul Dooley’s Concerto Grosso for piano trio and string octet at Carnegie Hall with Trio Celeste. She has also performed at the Hollywood Bowl alongside Pink Martini. She has played in the Juilliard Orchestra as first stand under the baton of Bertrand de Billy.

Graham Cohen is a multi-instrumentalist and composer from South Orange, NJ. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in viola performance from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Toby Appel. Previously, he was a composition major at Juilliard Pre-College, where he studied with Ira Taxin. Cohen is currently a fellow with Québec’s Les Violons Du Roy as part of their inaugural Programme Émergence, and principal viola and coach for the New Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra.

Originally from the Capital Region area of New York, John Crowley recently completed his second year at the Eastman School of Music pursuing a Bachelor of Music in Viola Performance, studying with Phillip Ying. A dedicated chamber musician, Crowley regularly performs with his string quartet,

the Maple Quartet, which has been featured in Eastman Honors Chamber Music recitals. In his free time, Crowley enjoys composing, and recently had his piece, Vermont Reflections, premiered.

Jafet Díaz Martin is a Panamanian trumpet player, teacher, and arranger pursuing a master’s in music performance at Lynn University. He was a trumpet player with the Banda Sinfonica Municipal de Panama, has participated in the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Panama, and performed at the Panama Jazz Festival. In 2023, he won first prize in the NSAL Piano and Brass Duo Competition and was a finalist in the 2020 Next Generation Trumpet Competition.

William Foye, a native of Naperville, IL, completed his second year of studies with Jon Manasse at The Juilliard School. Foye has performed with the Juilliard Orchestra under conductors such as Giancarlo Guerrero and John Adams, most recently appearing in the Juilliard Opera Orchestra for a production of Puccini’s “Suor Angelica” and “Gianni Schicchi,” conducted by Daniela Candillari. Foye spent the summer of 2022 at the Brevard Music Center, studying with Mark Nuccio, Dan Gilbert, and Ben Adler.

Zac Fung is a cellist based in Rochester and Boston. Originally from Doylestown, PA, he moved to Boston at age 16 to further pursue music. He has participated in the Temple Boyer School of Music’s Youth Chamber Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Youth Orchestra, and the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. Orchestra collaborations include the Riverside Symphonia, Old York Road Symphony, Bucks County Symphony, and Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra.

Susannah Greenslit is a graduate student at the USC Thornton School of Music, where she studies with Julie Landsman. She completed her undergraduate degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Greenslit performs with the American Youth Symphony and was featured at the Bowdoin International Music Festival as their 2022 horn fellow. She is a graduate of the National Symphony Orchestra Youth Fellowship Program, where she was a recipient of the Stephens H. Brewster Award.

Erica Haas is a bassoonist from Emmaus, PA. She recently earned her master’s degree in performance from the University of North Texas in May 2023. Her primary teachers include Dr. Darrel Hale and Ms. Lynn Moncilovich. In addition to her love of performing both in orchestral and chamber music settings, Haas is a dedicated teacher, maintaining a private studio with a range of students from beginners through adult hobbyists.

Dylan Hamme, violin, studies at The Juilliard School with Areta Zhulla. An avid chamber and orchestral musician, he is in demand with ensembles including the Grammy-nominated North/South Consonance Ensemble, and has worked with acclaimed conductors including Scott Yoo, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Christian Reif, David Robertson, Xian Zhang, and Kevin John Edusei. Last summer, Hamme joined the AIMS Festival Orchestra in Graz, Austria, and the Colorado College Summer Festival Orchestra.

From Oak Park, IL, Jane Hanneman began playing double bass at the age of 9. She currently studies under Rachel Calin at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. At CCM, Hanneman is a member of the Concert Orchestra, and in 2022, she won third prize in its Undergraduate Instrumental Scholarship Competition. While in high school, Jane was a member of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras, and last summer, she attended the Eastern Music Festival.

Currently in the 2023 class at the Eastman School of Music, Arden Ingersoll has been studying bass for eight years. Originally from Medford, MA, Ingersoll has performed in various halls in the Boston area such as Jordan Hall and Symphony Hall. Arden is also a three-time finalist in the SUNY Fredonia double bass solo competition and the winner of the Tufts Youth Philharmonic Concerto competition. Arden has since performed around the U.S. and in orchestras such as the Eastman Philharmonia, the Round Top festival orchestra, and various chamber collaborations.

The youngest winner of the Virtuosi Award, Aleksandar Ivanov is passionate about the expressive possibilities of the late romantic composers. He is a student at The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Laurie Smukler. He has had solo performances with the Macedonian Philharmonic, the Danube Symphony Orchestra, and the Classic FM Radio Orchestra. He has also recorded for WRTI Radio (Live 90.1 FM), Philadelphia, PA. In 2018, at the opening of the Festival Days of Macedonian Music, Ivanov performed a newly commissioned violin concerto by his brother, Filip Ivanov.

Ben Jalensky is a bass trombonist and educator from Kenosha, WI. Jalensky completed his undergraduate degree in bass trombone performance at Oberlin Conservatory. Jalensky is currently pursuing his master’s degree at the Eastman School of Music. Jalensky currently studies with Larry Zalkind, and has studied with John Gruber, Lee Allen, and Colleen Bayoneto. Significant performances include the 2023 American Trombone Workshop with the Eastman Trombone Choir and the 2019 Oberlin Orchestra performance at Carnegie Hall. When not playing trombone, Jalensky can be found cooking or putting in work at the tennis court.

Pianist Alex Jurak began his studies at the age 4 with Robert Apostle. From 2016 to 2021 he attended the Precollege Program at the Manhattan School of Music as a piano major, studying consecutively with Yegor Shevtsov, Brandt Fredriksen, and Maria Asteriadou, and graduating from the program with honors in 2022. Additionally, from 2018 to 2020, Jurak was a private student of 12-time Grammy winning composer Thomas Z. Shepard.

Born in a small town in Texas, Joshua Kim started playing the violin at the age of 4, shortly before moving to Korea. Under professor Hyuna Kim of Yonsei University, he developed an enthusiasm for chamber music and has played in festivals such as the LG Chamber Music School, the Perlman Music Festival, and Juilliard ChamberFest. He is currently completing his undergraduate studies at Juilliard under Professor Li Lin.

New York City-based trombonist and composer Mal Layne recently graduated from Idaho State University, where she performed repeatedly as a scholarship soloist, and directed and composed music for her jazz sextet. She currently attends The Juilliard School, where she studies trombone with Joe Alessi of the New York Philharmonic. She can often be found practicing, running, rock climbing, composing, lifting weights, listening to music, or reading.

Soren Lorentzen is a Canadian violist currently entering his senior year at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, where he studies with James Dunham. After formative summers in Canada at programs such as Domaine Forget, National Arts Centre, National Youth Orchestra, and the Banff Centre, he is excited to see more of the United States this summer in beautiful Colorado.

Liam McConlogue is a French hornist from Greenbelt, MD, who recently completed his Bachelor of Music degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Richard King. He is an active freelancer in the Cleveland area where he has performed with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony as well as the Canton, Akron, and Firelands symphony orchestras. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, meditating, and juggling.

Music director of the Apollo Ensemble of Boston since 2018, Elias Miller has established a reputation as a leading young conductor and orchestra builder. Miller holds degrees from Harvard University (A.B. in Music, summa cum laude) and the University of Michigan (M.M. in Orchestral Conducting), and he completed his postgraduate studies at the University for Music and Performing Arts,

Vienna. He has worked as a cover conductor with the New York Philharmonic, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Albany Symphony.

Sophia Molina is a violinist from Miami, FL. She is currently working towards her undergraduate degree at The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Hyo Kang. In addition to her solo career, Molina is passionate about chamber music and has participated in many community events. In her free time, she enjoys bullet journaling and is a certified yoga instructor.

Daniel Moore is a violist who, after graduating from Houston’s High School for the Performing Arts, has traveled across the southern U.S. in his time in higher education, remaining an active professional orchestral musician and chamber music performer. Most recently, Moore is pursuing a doctoral degree in viola performance at the University of Colorado Boulder, while performing as a member of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic and several other orchestras on the Colorado front range. Moore is passionate about new music, and in his free time enjoys writing his own music.

Astrid Nakamura is a violinist from Toronto pursuing a Master of Music degree at Rice University on full scholarship with Kathleen Winkler. She recently completed her undergraduate degree at McGill University, where she studied with Axel Strauss. Her past summer engagements include Yellow Barn, Music Academy of the West, and the Montreal International String Quartet Association. She has performed with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, National Youth Orchestra of Canada, European Union Youth Orchestra, and more under the batons of conductors such as Rafael Payare, Marin Alsop, and Michael Tilson Thomas.

Nadira Novruzov is a sophomore at Yale University, where she studies with Ransom Wilson. She is the 2022 co-winner of Yale’s William Waite Concerto Competition and recently made her international debut playing the Reinecke Concerto with the Yale Symphony Orchestra on their Mexico spring tour. In 2020, she played principal flute on the New York Youth Symphony’s Grammy-winning album, and appeared on NPR’s From the Top, show #389. At Yale, she is a history major and a managing editor of the Yale Herald, the university’s second-largest publication.

Violinist Julianne Oh, a native of the San Francisco Bay area, served as concertmaster of the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra with which she made her solo debut at the age of 13. An avid chamber musician, she has played in many string and wind ensembles and was a member of the Advanced Piano Trio Program at the Cleveland Institute of

Music, where she just completed her master’s degree. Her major teachers include Cho-Liang Lin, Jessica Lee, and Philip Setzer.

Born in Vancouver, Canada, Hannah Park began her music studies at the age of 7. Since then, she has won multiple prizes from the Vancouver Kiwanis Music Festival and Richmond Music Festival, and she has represented her province for the Performing Arts Competition in Canada. In 2021, Hannah graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music with honors and has recently received her master’s degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Terri Rauschenbach is a Stamps Scholar studying with Craig Morris at the Frost School of Music. She has performed with the Frost Symphony Orchestra and Palm Beach Symphony under Maestro Gerard Schwarz, and she spent two summers studying with Chris Gekker at the Eastern Music Festival. Originally from Dallas, Rauschenbach began studying the trumpet at age 12 with Dr. Jared Hunt. She enjoys vegan cooking, reading, and spending time with her cat, Pickle.

San Rim is a 23-year-old cellist pursuing his undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto with Professor Joseph Johnson. He has participated in the National Youth Orchestra of Canada in 2017 and 2018. Thanks to these opportunities, he has been able to perform in various concert halls in Germany, Scotland, and Canada as an orchestral musician. In his spare time, Rim enjoys working at Milou, a French bistro in the heart of downtown Toronto, to support his studies and career. Rim plays a Giulio Degani cello from 1911 on loan from a generous private benefactor.

River Sawchyn is a violinist from Winnipeg, Canada. He attends the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings in Macon, GA, where he studies with Amy Schwartz-Moretti, Robert McDuffie, and David Kim. Sawchyn is a passionate chamber and orchestral musician and is also busy writing music and studying composition at the Townsend School of Music with Christopher Schmitz. Sawchyn appreciates music in all forms and enjoys performing in a wide range of venues.

Evan Schnurr is a Pennsylvania native who recently completed his masters at the University of Texas at Austin. Also an alumnus of Oberlin Conservatory, his principal teachers include Jonathan Gunn, Richard Hawkins, and Charles Salinger. Schnurr is an active freelancer and educator in the Central Texas area, and has previously been a fellow at the Texas Music Festival and the National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute. An enthusiastic chamber musician and champion of living composers, Schnurr has recorded and performed several new works for KMFA Classical 89.5 in Austin.

Born and raised in Queens, NY, Daniel Simmons is a sophomore in the Columbia University - Juilliard School Program. A graduate of The Juilliard Pre-College, Simmons has participated in many music programs including the Heifetz International Institute of Music, the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America, and Boston University Tanglewood Institute. He has performed in world-renowned venues including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Dimenna Center, the Kimmel Center, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In his free time, Simmons enjoys running.

Cameron Slaton, from Franklin, OH, is a student of Katherine Needleman and Philippe Tondre at the Curtis Institute of Music. He has also studied with Richard Woodhams, Robert Walters, Elizabeth Koch Tiscione, Toyin Spellman-Diaz, and Mark McEwen while at Curtis and at the New England Conservatory.

Sophie Steger is a horn player based in Boston, MA. She graduated with her master’s degree from New England Conservatory this spring, where she studied with Rachel Childers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She is an active freelancer in New England and is the current Principal Horn of the New Hampshire Philharmonic Orchestra. A Chicago native, Sophie completed her undergraduate studies at Northwestern University in 2020.

Flutist Maya Stock is currently pursuing her Bachelor of Music at the Eastman School of Music, studying with Bonita Boyd. She is from San Anselmo, CA, and previously studied with Sonora Slocum. Stock attended the 2020 Curtis Summerfest and the 2021 Tanglewood Young Artist Program. She was a winner of the 2020 Khuner Young Artists Concerto Competition and the 2019 Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition.

Sam Sun, a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, graduated summa cum laude with a double degree in applied music and music education from Pepperdine University. At Pepperdine, he was a winner of the Thomas Osborne Concerto Competition and a Chloe Ross Endowed Scholar. He has served as concertmaster, principal violist, and assistant student conductor of the Pepperdine Orchestra. Sun has worked with notable artists such as Alexander Treger, Midori, and the Rolston Quartet.

Theodore Swanson is a tenor trombonist at The Juilliard School, where he studies with Mr. Joseph Alessi. In 2021, he attended the NSO’s Summer Music Institute, where he placed runner up in the College Concerto Competition, and he was a fellow at the Music Academy of the West in their 2022

season. In addition to playing in the Juilliard Orchestra, he has played in the Apex Ensemble, and will be a fellow at the 2023 Pacific Music Festival this July.

Oliver Talukder, a 21-year-old oboist from Chicago, is a highly driven musician who is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree at Curtis Institute of Music, where he is in his fourth year of study. Outside of his musical pursuits, Talukder enjoys partaking in the Aerial Arts, developing his vocal expertise, and cultivating meaningful relationships. With a passion for music and a range of interests, Talukder is poised to make a name for himself in the music and entertainment industry.

This spring, Eric Vasquez completed his undergraduate degree in cello at the University of Colorado Boulder, graduating with highest honors. Under the tutelage of David Requiro during his undergraduate career, Vasquez’s previous teachers include Dr. Dmitri Atapine and Dr. Eileen Brownell. Last summer, Vasquez attended the RRM Young Artist Seminar on scholarship, during which he studied with Si-Yan Darren Li. In addition to cello, Vasquez enjoys playing tennis and piano, and spending time with family.

Violinist Miriam Viazmenski is a sophomore at Yale majoring in applied mathematics. On campus, she is a principal player in the Yale Symphony Orchestra and studies with Kyung Yu. Viazmenski previously studied with Syoko Aki and, as an NEC preparatory student, with Kristopher Tong. Having also attended the Aspen and Bowdoin festivals, Viazmenski is excited to be returning to Colorado College for her third summer. She loves to hike, dance, and cook.

Zachary VonCannon is a current undergraduate student at The Juilliard School, studying bassoon with Kim Laskowski. Originally from Charlotte, NC, VonCannon studied with Lori Tiberio, former bassoonist and contrabassoonist with the Charlotte Symphony. He has had the tremendous honor of participating in renowned summer music festivals such as the Brevard Music Center Summer Institute and Festival and, most recently, the Aspen Music Festival and School.

Eliza Willett, age 20, has been studying violin since age 2. Willett grew up in Virginia Beach and is now an official substitute violinist for the Virginia Symphony. Currently, Willett studies at the Lynn Conservatory under the tutelage of Elmar Oliveira. Willett spent her previous summer at the Aspen Music festival studying under Robert Chen. She plays on a 2011 Feng Jiang passed down to her from her previous teacher, Yun Zhang.

Anne-Marie Wnek, 19, from Germantown, MD, studies at the Eastman School of Music with Robin Scott. She made her solo orchestral debut at age 9, has since won numerous competitions, and subs with New World Symphony. She has performed as a soloist at such venues as Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, attended Aspen Music Festival last summer, and performed in a benefit concert with Hilary Hahn. Wnek has worked with such teachers as Midori, Ida Kavafian, and Donald Weilerstein.

Anthony Wu is an 18-year-old pianist from Columbia, MO. He is a first-year bachelor’s student at the Manhattan School of Music, where he studies under William Wolfram. In the past, he has performed as a soloist with the 2021 Eastern Music Festival Young Artists Orchestra, as well as the 2020 and 2022 Odyssey Chamber Orchestras. In addition to the piano, Wu also plays the trumpet, on which he is a four-year Missouri “All-Stater.”

Madeleine Zarry is a 23-year-old violinist from Toronto, Ontario. In May 2023, Zarry completed her undergraduate degree from Oberlin Conservatory under the tutelage of William van der Sloot. Zarry was a member of the 2017 and 2019 National Youth Orchestra of Canada and was the recipient of NYO’s 2020 Award of Excellence. In 2022, Zarry was awarded associate concertmaster for Oberlin’s 2022 United Nations tour to Carnegie Hall, as well as Concertmaster for Oberlin’s 2023 Carnegie Hall performance of Nathaniel Dett’s The Ordering of Moses.

2023 Festival celebrates using “Un-QUIET SKIES”

by artist Laura BenAmots

View the Un-QUIET SKIES series by scanning the QR code to visit Laura BenAmots’ website, www.benamotsart.com/unquiet-skies.php

About her series, BenAmots writes: “Unquiet Skies is from a series of metaphoric sky paintings expressing hope, beauty, challenge and courage in honor of the authentic self with colors that exalt and abstract the rainbow flag.”

New York-born painter Laura BenAmots, spent her formative years in the Middle East and has lived in Colorado since 1998. She is dedicated to Art as a vehicle for social change and is the recipient of numerous awards recognizing her work with emerging artists and serving the underprivileged. BenAmots has built her life and career around creating a gentler world full of art. She served as Gallery Director at Pikes Peak Community College for eight years, and she continues to teach as full-time faculty. Her career has included a range of national and international solo, juried, and invitational exhibits and honors. Two books have been published about her work: Battle Portraits: Wounded Lions Wounded Lambs (published and distributed by the BAC Art Book Project, www.battleportraits.com) and Eros On Canvas: The erotic paintings of Laura BenAmots (co-published by Last Gasp Press in San Francisco and the Smokemuse Press in Colorado). Of her artist journey, BenAmots says, “The disparate experiences of my life shape my art as I search for belonging and solitude. Time passes and I have found great freedom in the eclectic visual voices discovered in the search.” She is affected by events. Struggle of the immigrants in detention on the border has influenced her work (Exo-Sanctuaries & Freedom Skies) and life. The Iraq and Afghanistan Wars inspired her Battle Portraits project. Much of her recent work was deeply impacted by her 2016 pilgrimage to Standing Rock, including Whispering Bones, Dancing Waters, Talking Skies, Sacred Grounds, Stream of Consciousness and, most recently, Prayer Pieces & Toaster Ovens. She is a member of the Rough Ruby Arts Collective international activist women artist group. She was a featured artist in the national online journal, Collateral, because of her extensive works honoring the struggles of veterans with PTSD, and she was selected for inclusion in the 2014 International Contemporary Artists Exhibit in Assisi, Italy.

MUSIC FESTIVAL STAFF

Susan Grace, music director

Virginia Barron, associate director

Ann Van Horn, assistant director

Ella Neurohr, assistant to the assistant director

Liz Manring, music events coordinator

Shane Groothof, music production coordinator

Justin Maike, music technical director

Jordan Bates, festival intern

Sienna Busby, festival intern

Forrest Tucker, festival intern

SPECIAL THANKS TO

Laura BenAmots, artist

Linda Sagastume, instructor, Bemis School of Art

Michelle Smith, volunteer, Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center

Joseph Coleman, owner, The Blue Star Group

Peggy McKinley, owner, Coaltrain Fine Wines

Mike Grace, Grace Design

Libby Rittenberg and Nasit Ari, proofreader and friend of SMF

Lauren Ciborowski, alumni advisor

Lisa Gregory, music office coordinator

Brenda Soto, assistant vice president, College Events

Allison Pacheco, assistant director, Conference and Chapel Events

Don Herbst, assistant director of campus planning/scheduling

Paul Martin, technical director, Department of Theatre and Dance

Kris Higginbotham, events coordinator, Support Services

Richard Belton, lead events setup, Support Services

Chris Rodriguez, events setup staff, Support Services

Jay Jeanneret, director, Sodexo at Colorado College

Todd Woodward, vice president of strategic communications and marketing

Stephanie Wurtz, associate vice president for communications

Naomi Trujillo, senior project manager

Megan Clancy, senior writer and editor

Julia Fennell, copy editor

Miriam Roth, internal communications manager

Lonnie Timmons III, photographer and photo editor

25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION EVENTS:

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Embedded in the heart and soul of the bustling Ivywild School since it opened, Ivywild Kitchen is a local eatery with a focus on straight-up comfort food.

THE BLUE STAR GROUP

Blue Star Group has a passion for excellence, delivering an unparalleled guest experience through outstanding cuisine paired with exceptional hospitality and heartfelt connections. BSG purchased and developed the Ivywild School, adding Principal’s Office, Decent Pizza Company, Ivywild Kitchen, and Lazo Empanadas. BSG is also the parent company of Stellina Pizza Cafe and La’au’s Taco Shop.

BEMIS SCHOOL OF ART

Whatever your artistic interest, age or skill level, we have classes to drive your passions at the Fine Arts Center’s Bemis School of Art.

Experienced artists and art instructors, large studios, and limited class size create a motivational and supportive environment to explore and develop your talents.

fac.coloradocollege.edu/art-school

Visit us at the corner of Willamette Ave. and Prospect St. in the heart of historic Mid Shooks Run Neighborhood

Cornerstone Arts Center. 830 N. Tejon St.

Located behind the

Colorado College

ppld.org/summer-adventure June 1-July 31

The Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center is one of very few sanctuaries in the United States that has been certified by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).

With this title we are able to go beyond education and into application. CWWC actively participates in the Species Survival Program by providing a home to Mexican Grey Wolves and Swift Foxes. We also practice conservation in the sanctuary’s daily life by using environmentally friendly ink, biodegradable trash bags, participating in recycling programs, and “adopting” Twin Rocks Road to keep it trash free.

The Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center isn’t just about SAYING, it’s about DOING!

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40 TUITION FREE! A classical, liberal arts education for developing lifelong learners. Upper School students take part in our awardwinning string orchestra from sixth to twelfth grade. The daily Lower School music classes utilize the Kodály concept where students develop a love for music through the singing of folk songs. Our music classes culminate at Fine Arts Nights, an opportunity for both orchestras and fifth grade choir to perform for family and friends. Now enrolling for the 2023-24 school year JOIN OUR COMMUNITY! 1702 N. Murray Boulevard, Colorado Springs, CO 80915 Where excellence meets beauty K - 1 2 C h a r t e r P u b l i c S c h o o l i n C o l o r a d o S p r i n g s maclarenschool.org ~ ~ ~ ~

FALL 2023

TUESDAY, OCT. 24

7 PM, PACKARD HALL

ESCHER STRING QUARTET

‘eloquent, full-blooded playing... The four players offer a beautiful blend of individuality and accord’ (BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE)

SPRING 2024

TUESDAY, MAY 7

7 PM, PACKARD HALL

‘Diamond-hard brilliance, uncommonly poetic depths … breathtaking in precision, dexterity and unanimity of attack.

Stunning.’ (LOS ANGELES TIMES)

COLORADO COLLEGE

Looking ahead to the 2023-24 INTERMEZZO SEASON in advance of the 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CC SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL!

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Adam Barnett-Hart, violin Aaron Boyd, violin Pierre Lapointe, viola Brook Speltz, cello Laura Frautschi, violin Kristina Reiko Cooper, cello John Novacek, piano

INTERSECTION

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