Summer Music Festival 2024 by coloradocollege

COLORADO COLLEGE

JUNE 2-21, 2024

susan grace, music director

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... to bringing the finest chamber & orchestra music to Colorado Springs. Thank you for 40 fantastic years!

FESTIVAL ARTISTS CONCERT

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5

7 p.m., Packard Hall

Pre-Concert Lecture

5:45 p.m.

Packard Hall Room 9

Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major, BWV 1049

Hindemith 4 Stücke for bassoon and cello (arr. trombone)

Saint-Saëns Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 65

Mozart Quintet for piano and winds in E-flat Major, K. 452

FESTIVAL ARTISTS

CONCERT

SATURDAY, JUNE 8

7 p.m.

Packard Hall

Bernofsky Trio for trumpet, horn, and trombone

Thomas Rumi Settings for violin and cello

Ben-Amots Echoes of Wilderness for woodwind quintet and percussion

Beach Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 67

Pre-Concert Lecture, 5:45 p.m.

Cornerstone Arts Center Screening Room

Stravinsky Pétrouchka (1947 version)

FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA CONCERT

Scott Yoo, conducting TUESDAY, JUNE 11

7 p.m., Richard F.

Celeste Theatre

Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64

Scott Yoo, violin

Rossini Guillaume Tell (William Tell): Overture

susan grace music director, piano

virginia barron associate director, viola

scott yoo conductor

JUNE 2-21, 2024

12:15 P.M. PACKARD HALL MUSIC AT MIDDAY

Monday, June 10

Wednesday, June 12

Friday, June 14

Monday, June 17

Wednesday, June 19

Thursday, June 20

Friday, June 21

Free concerts

MUSIC AND ART TALK

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12

11 a.m., Agents of Care Hall

Colorado College Fine Arts Center

Free with RSVP at fac.coloradocollege.edu/events

Exploring Ethel Magafan and the Broadmoor Art Academy

Presenter: Pat Musick

Music by the 2024 Festival Fellows begins at 11, Art Talk follows at 11:15

CHILDREN’S ORCHESTRA CONCERT

THURSDAY, JUNE 13

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

Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center

Free ticketed event

Saint-Saëns The Carnival of the Animals with the Colorado Ballet Society

FESTIVAL ARTISTS

PRE-CONCERT RECITAL

THURSDAY, JUNE 13

5:45 p.m., Packard Hall, free

Schumann Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17

William Wolfram, piano

COLORADO COLLEGE

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FESTIVAL ARTISTS

CONCERT

THURSDAY, JUNE 13

7 p.m., Packard Hall

Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1

Corigliano Voyage for flute and string quintet

Martinů La Revue de Cuisine (The Kitchen Review) Bruch String Octet in B-flat Major, Op. posth.

150TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

FRIDAY, JUNE 14

7 p.m., First Congregational Church 20 East St. Vrain Street, free, donations accepted

Celebrating 150 years of the founding of Colorado College and the First Congregational Church, featuring Festival Artists and Fellows. Reception follows in the Founder’s Room.

FELLOW CONCERTO READINGS

SATURDAY, JUNE 15

2 p.m., Richard F. Celeste Theatre

Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center, free

FESTIVAL

ARTISTS

CONCERT

MONDAY, JUNE 17

7 p.m., Packard Hall

Pre-Concert Lecture

5:45 p.m., Packard Hall Room 9

Villa-Lobos Chôros No. 4 for three horns and trombone

Montgomery Strum for string quartet

Ewazen Pastorale for trumpet, trombone, and piano

Kapustin Trio for flute, cello, and piano, Op. 86

Farrenc Nonetto in E-flat Major, Op. 38

FESTIVAL ARTISTS

PRE-CONCERT RECITAL

THURSDAY, JUNE 20

5:45 p.m., Packard Hall, free

Larsen Four on the Floor

Bunch We’d Better Call for Backup

Kenny Sonata for bass trombone Schoenfield Sonatina for flute, clarinet, and piano

FESTIVAL ARTISTS

CONCERT

THURSDAY, JUNE 20

7 p.m., Packard Hall

Schubert Auf dem Strom (On the river), Op. post. 119 (Ludwig Rellstab)

Debussy Rhapsodie for English horn and string quartet

Bunch The Viola Burns Longer: Four Vignettes for solo viola, piano, and string quartet (2024; World Premiere) Brahms Zwei Gesänge, Op. 91 for baritone, viola, and piano Arensky String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 35 for violin, viola, and two cellos

Pre-Concert Lecture, 5:45 p.m. Cornerstone Arts Center Screening Room

FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA CONCERT

Scott Yoo, conducting

FRIDAY, JUNE 21

7 p.m., Richard F. Celeste Theatre

Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center

Hale The Night Within Us, Filled With Stars (World Premiere)

Robert Walters, oboe; Caroline Becker, oboe

Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 Choral Annamarie Zmolek, soprano; Stephanie Brink, mezzo-soprano; John Lindsay, tenor; Brian Major, baritone; and the Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble, Deborah Teske, director

Artwork on cover and throughout:

Ethel Magafan, Meadows in the Valley unknown date, oil and tempera on untempered masonite panel

MUST SEE SHOWS VIRTUOSIC MUSIC EXPERIENCES YOUR DESTINATION FOR ENTCENTERFORTHEARTS.ORG

JUNE 2-21, 2024

susan grace, music director

virginia barron, associate director

CONTRIBUTORS

The following very special friends have contributed to the 2024 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

Laurent Carrier

Carlton Gamer

Michael D. Grace

Jeffrey Haney

Richard and Sandra Hilt

Perrotti-Holmes Music Fellowship

Katherine Loo

Tom and Pam Sanny

$10,000 AND MORE THE GOLDEN BATON

Arthur and Elizabeth Aikin

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

The Colorado College Cultural Attractions Funds

Michael and Susan Grace

Sandra Hilt in memory of Richard L. Hilt

John and Laurel Watkins

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 40th 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

$7,000-$9,999 MUSIC DIRECTOR CIRCLE

Susan Ashley and Robert D. Lee

Colorado Creative Industries

Timothy Fuller in memory of Kalah Powers Fuller

Esther Redmount and Harry White in honor of Susan and Michael Grace

$4000-$6,999 CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE

Gary and Anne Bradley

Laurent Carrier

El Pomar Foundation

Inasmuch Foundation

Jon and Becky Medved

Margaret Satterfield in memory of Kathryn Rubin

Judith Sellers in memory of Dr. Buz Sellers

Purple Mountain Group at Morgan Stanley

Daniel Tynan in memory of Nancy Brooks Ekberg

Kathleen Yasumura in memory of Kathryn Rubin

$2,500-$3,999 - DO

John Chalik and Susan Chamberlain

Lauren Ciborowski and Benjamin Harvey

Curtis and Avis Cook

Elaine Freed in memory of Carlton Gamer and Nancy Ekberg Tynan

Art W. Porter in memory of Judy Lewallen

Constance W. Raub

Libby Rittenberg and Nasit Ari

Tom and Pam Sanny

Michele Strub-Heer and Jordan Strub

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.

Summation Wealth Group

Darryl and Terry Thatcher

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

Children’s Hospital Colorado

$1,500-$2,499 - RE

Carol Anne Freeman and Nicholas Wilson

Jeffrey W. Haney

Nancy Hochman in memory of Bill Hochman

Pam and Stephen Marsh

Jan Saffir and Paul Stephens

Peggy Shivers

Suzanne and Robert Smith

Claire Taber

$1,000-$1,499 - MI

Anonymous

Toby Appel and Carolyn Meyer

Ida Boatwright Hutchison Memorial Fund

Guy and Virginia Cresap

Tom and Tania Cronin

Nicole de Naray

Jan Erickson and Jon Thomas

Peter and Jan Fairchild in memory of Nancy Ekberg Tynan

Michael Healy

Stefan Hersh

Lisa B. Hughes and Barry Sarchett

Dr. Susan R. Jensen and Tom Trainer

Helene Knapp in memory of Lucille Lynne

Rex W. Kramer

Jonathan Lee and Peggy Berg

Dr. Lorna A. Lynn and Dr. Harold Ingram Palevsky in honor of Susan and Michael Grace

Horst and Helen Richardson

Jim and Lee Ringe

Cultural Attractions Fund

Nancy Roeder in memory of Prof. Emeritus

David William Roeder

Jeffrey Schmoyer

Herman and Tang-lin Teo Tiemens

Julia and Alexei Viazmenski

Charles and Karen Walter

$500-$999 - FA

Anonymous

Tim Bardwell

Brooke Bower in memory of Richard Nehring

Chuck and Hallie Cabell

Pam and Chet Dymek

Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation

William Holmes

Jim and Louise Hunter

Jan Keder

Marinna McJimsey

Douglas and Nancy Norberg

John Orsborn in memory of JoAnn (Jo) Orsborn

Warren and Verna Peterson

Dr. Frances Pilch

Elisabeth Rebman

Kathleen Ricker

Daryll Stevens and Geoffrey Ames in memory of Carlton Gamer

Frances and Bill Tutt

Joseph and Barbara Wilcox

Diane Williams

Phillip and Keiko Ying

$100-$499 - SO

Susanne Anselmi

Philip Baldwin

Barbara Bates

Ofer Ben-Amots and Ronit Even-Or

DeeAnn Brown

SHIVERS FUND AT

Helen Brown

Stormy and Shane Burns

Bonnie and Thomas Clark in honor of Susan and Michael Grace

Caleb Cramer

Stephanie DiCenzo and Kent Borges

Cynthia and Chris Duff

Evelyn Epperson

Barbara Gazibara in memory of Donald Gazibara

Judy Gerber

Jolinda Grace

Edie Greene and Alan Siegel

Cheryl Hayman

Ross Jacobsen

Don and Gwen Jenkins

Carol Keenan

Pat and Paul Kule

Elizabeth and Michael Leslie

Inna Malyshev in memory of Carlton Gamer

Debra Marshall

Thomas Mauch

Mary McKinley

Laurel McLeod and Jim Allen in memory of Carlton Gamer

Annette Megneys

Lisa Noll and Eric Leonard

Chris and Linda O’Shea

Daniel and Susan Schnee in memory of our parents

David and Eve Sckolnik

Mark Seelye

Jenny Shallenberger and Alan Schwartzman

Janet Sims

David and Barbara St. Andre

Chris and Michael Tessarowicz

Ann Van Horn and Douglas Monroy in honor of Susan Grace

Mark Warshaw

Elizabeth Wieland

Bert Wong

$1-$99

Marian Avoy

Peg Bacon

Edison Barber

Cecelia Barrocas

Laurie Beattie

Linda Beidleman

Danielle Bijlsma

Pamela Bland

Jennifer Boylan

Lynn Cassel and Andrew Koss

Steven Chapman

Cindy Donovan

Siri Anna Everett

Jennifer Friend

Lauren Gradisar

Brett Gray

Alan Hassebrock and Jeannette Gregg

Richard Hickey and Lisa Tormoen Hickey

Robin Izer

Ana Lisa Johnson

Lauren Jordan

Bob LaMont

Patricia Lanigan

Suzanne MacAulay and Allan Lazrus

Karen Lentz

Liz Manring and Claire Dahl

Harold (Wynn) Miller

Gisele Miyamoto

John Moyer

Kalyn Phelps

Ron and Karen Rubin

Jeffrey Sexton

Cris Stoddard

Sergei Vassiliev

Betty Virag

Judy and Charles Warren

Jaclyn Weems

Nancy Wilson

Elizabeth Workman

FOUNDATIONS AND FUNDS

The Bain Family Foundation

Ida Boatwright Hutchison Memorial Fund

Colorado College Cultural Attractions Fund

Colorado Creative Industries

El Pomar Foundation

Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund

Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation

Inasmuch Foundation

The Norberg Family Foundation

The Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving

Schwartzman and Shallenberger Family Charitable Giving Fund

Shivers Fund at Pikes Peak Library District

Strub Heer Fund of Pikes Peak Community Foundation

Summation Wealth Group

Tiemens Fund of Pikes Peak

Community Foundation

Webb Family Fund of Pikes Peak Community Foundation

SUPPORTING RADIO STATIONS

KCME

KRCC

CPR

American Public Media’s “Performance Today”

WINE DONATIONS

Susan Ashley and Robert Lee

Lauren Ciborowski and Benjamin Harvey

Avis and Curtis Cook

Timothy Fuller

Peggy McKinley (Coaltrain Fine Wines)

Jon and Becky Medved

Susan and Michael Grace

Esther Redmount and Harry White

Libby Rittenberg and Nasit Ari

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

VIOLIN

Arayana Carr-Mal, Sunderland, MA, Cleveland Institute of Music

Sponsored by Susan Ashley and Robert Lee

Isabel Chen, Northbrook, IL, Eastman School of Music

Sponsored by Elaine Freed; Jim and Lee Ringe

Diana Dawydchak, Toronto, Ontario, University of Southern California

Sponsored by Libby Rittenberg and Nasit Ari

Dylan Hamme, Leonia, NJ, The Juilliard School

Sponsored by Sandra Hilt

Aleksandar Ivanov, Skopje, North Macedonia, The Juilliard School

FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

Scott Yoo, conducting

ASSISTANT CONDUCTORS

Elias Miller, Albany, NY, University for Music and Performing Arts, Vienna

Sponsored by the Perrotti-Holmes Music Fellowship

Dylan Hamme, Leonia, NJ, The Juilliard School

Sponsored by Sandra Hilt

VIOLA

Zachary Hamilton, Evanston, IL, University of California

Santa Barbara

Sponsored by Sandra Hilt

Zoey Ma, Ellicott City, MD, Rice University

Sponsored by Toby Appel and Carolyn Meyer; Ida Boatright Hutchison Memorial Fund

Gracie McFalls, Los Angeles, CA, Oberlin Conservatory

Sponsored by Esther Redmount and Harry White

Nicolo Moulthrop, Shaker Heights, OH, The Ohio State University

Sponsored by Virginia and Guy Cresap; Anonymous

Sundoo “Syara” Robert, Pittsford, NY, University of Ottawa

Sponsored by Susan Ashley and Robert Lee

Daniel Simmons, Laurelton, NY, Columbia University–Juilliard School

Sponsored by Peggy Shivers and Helene Knapp

Nina Weber, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Indiana University

Sponsored by Suzanne and Robert Smith; Nicole de Naray

*Joshua Head, Colorado Springs, CO

CELLO

Ethan Blake, Colorado Springs, CO, Eastman School of Music

Sponsored by Sandra Hilt

Zac Fung, Doylestown, PA, New England Conservatory

Sponsored by Daniel Tynan; Peter and Jan Fairchild

Colin Hill, Fairfax, VA, Rice University

Sponsored by Jan Erikson and Jon Thomas; Charles and Karen Walter

Shoshanah Israilevich, Los Angeles, CA, Cleveland Institute of Music

Sponsored by Susan Ashley and Robert Lee

Felix Kim, Bothell, WA, Eastman School of Music

PIANO

Jasmin Abdunazarova, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Lynn Conservatory of Music

— INTERMISSION —

AMY BEACH Adagio; Allegro moderato (1867-1944) Adagio espressivo Allegro agitato; Adagio come prima; Presto

William Wolfram, piano

Ayano Ninomiya, violin; Laura Frautschi, violin

Phillip Ying, viola; David Ying, cello

**guest artist and SMF fellow alum

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

Jon Manasse is the Tom & Pam Sanny Endowed Faculty Artist

Laura Frautschi is the Michael D. Grace Endowed Faculty Artist

Pétrouchka (1947 version)

Yoo, conducting

TUESDAY, JUNE 11

7 p.m., Celeste Theatre

IGOR STRAVINSKY

First Part: The Shrove-tide Fair (1882-1971)

Second Part: Pétrouchka

Third Part: The Blackamoor

Fourth Part: The Shrove-tide Fair and the Death of Pétrouchka

— INTERMISSION —

Please join us in the Main Space for catwalk capers.

Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64

Allegro molto appassionato (1809-1847) Andante

Allegretto non troppo; Allegro molto vivace

Guillaume Tell (William Tell): Overture

The audience is cordially invited to a post-concert celebration in the Main Space featuring LOOK’EE HERE! blues and jazz trio. This concert is supported by a grant from the Inasmuch Foundation Conductor and Faculty Artist Scott Yoo is sponsored by Michael D. Grace

ROSSINI (1792-1868)

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Scott Yoo, violin

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Music ART TALK at the fac

Wednesday, June 12

PRESENTER: PAT MUSICK FAC visiting artist

As high school students in Denver in the 1920s, twins Ethel and Jenne Magafan knew they wanted to be artists. Apprentices to artist Frank Mechau, they also studied at one of the premier art schools in the nation in the 1930s, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. This talk explores Ethel’s work and life as well as the significance of the art school here.

Colorado Springs native Pat Musick grew up surrounded by the art practices of her parents and their artist friends, many from her father’s years at the Broadmoor Art Academy/Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center school. Ethel Magafan was among Archie Musick’s lifelong friends from those years. Decades later, Ethel and her family traveled from Woodstock, NY, to spend summers camping and sketching in the Colorado mountains, often joined by the Musick family. These trips provided source material for Ethel’s works such as Meadow in the Mountains

During her M.Phil work at the Central School of Art and Design in London, England researching early Irish manuscripts, Pat Musick began working in large-scale enameling (glass fused to metal). She has taught art and art appreciation for many years, served as artist-in-residence in two national parks, exhibited widely, and carried out numerous public and private commissions. She currently teaches at Bemis School of Art, freelances in diverse areas, and celebrates the legacy of the Fine Arts Center school and its artists.

a.m. - Music by SMF Fellows 11:15 a.m. - Art Talk Agents of Care Hall, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College RSVP at fac.coloradocollege.edu/events

Exploring

and the Broadmoor Art

Ethel Magafan

Academy

Walk over to Packard Hall right after the talk for Music at Midday!

CHILDREN’S ORCHESTRA CONCERT

Carnival Animals

OF THE

BY CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS

FREE TICKETED EVENT! TWO PERFORMANCES: 9 AM & 11 AM

THURSDAY, JUNE 13

CELESTE THEATRE

Animal images by pch. vector on Freepik

ART

FEATURING OUR FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA WITH THE COLORADO BALLET SOCIETY, PLUS ARTWORK BY BEMIS SCHOOL OF

STUDENTS AND THE WISHING STAR FARM ANIMAL CARNIVAL!

BEMIS SCHOOL OF ART

WiSHING ST R FARM

THURSDAY, JUNE 13

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

*Elias Miller and *Dylan Hamme, conducting featuring Colorado Ballet Society

Artwork by Bemis School of Art students

*Ryan Aguilar, piano; *Jasmin Abdunazarova, piano Virginia Barron, host and narrator

The Carnival of the Animals

Introduction (1835-1921)

The Lion

Rooster and Hens

The Donkeys of the Wild

The Tortoise

Elephants

Kangaroos

Aquarium

Personages with Long Ears

The Cuckoo

Birds

Pianists

Fossils

The Swan Finale

*festival fellow

Following the concert, enjoy the Wishing Star Farm Animal Carnival and more family activities!

This concert is sponsored by Children’s Hospital Colorado and Webb Family Fund of Pikes Peak Community Foundation.

Fellow Conductor Elias Miller is sponsored by the Perrotti-Holmes Music Fellowship.

Fellow Conductor Dylan Hamme is sponsored by Sandra Hilt.

17 FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA CHILDREN’S CONCERT

WEBB FAMILY FUND

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS

Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17

THURSDAY, JUNE 13

5:45 p.m., Packard Hall

Durchaus phantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen (1810-1856)

Mäßig - Durchaus energisch

Langsam getragen - Durchweg leise zu halten

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

18 PRE-CONCERT RECITAL “ALLA BREVE”

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ROBERT SCHUMANN William Wolfram, piano This free concert is sponsored by the estate of Miriam Bolner.

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1 .

THURSDAY, JUNE 13

7 p.m., Packard Hall

VILLA-LOBOS

Introduction (Embolada) (1887-1959)

*Ethan Blake, *Jooahn Yoo, *Abigail Leidy, Bion Tsang, *Zac Fung

*Shoshanah Israilevich, *Colin Hill, David Ying, *Felix Kim, cellos

Voyage for flute and string quintet

JOHN CORIGLIANO

Andante sostenuto (b. 1938) arr. Clare Hoffman

Alice Dade, flute

Ayano Ninomiya, violin; Stefan Hersh, violin

Toby Appel, viola; David Ying, cello; Susan Cahill, bass

La Revue de Cuisine (The Kitchen Review)

BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ

Prologue – Allegretto (Marche) (1890-1959)

Tango – Lento

Charleston – poco a poco allegro

Final – Tempo di marcia

Jon Manasse, clarinet; Michael Kroth, bassoon; Kevin Cobb, trumpet

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

String Octet in B-flat Major, Op. posth.

MAX BRUCH

Allegro moderato (1838-1920)

Adagio

Allegro molto

*festival fellow

Andrew Wan, violin; *Sophia Molina, violin

Ayano Ninomiya, violin; *Aleksander Ivanov, violin

Phillip Ying, viola; *Gracie McFalls, viola

David Ying, cello; Susan Cahill, bass

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

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

19 FACULTY ARTISTS CONCERT

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Chôros No. 4 for three horns and trombone

MONDAY, JUNE 17

7 p.m., Packard Hall

Michael Thornton, *Christine Ott, *Christian León, horns

John Rojak, trombone

HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS (1887-1959)

Strum for string quartet

(b. 1981)

Stephen Rose, violin; Steven Copes, violin

Toby Appel, viola; Bion Tsang, cello

Pastorale for trumpet, trombone, and piano

EWAZEN Andante con moto (b. 1954)

Kevin Cobb, trumpet; John Rojak, trombone

Susan Grace, piano

Trio for flute, cello, and piano, Op. 86 NIKOLAI KAPUSTIN Allegro molto (1937-2020) Andante Allegro giocoso

Julie Thornton, flute; Bion Tsang, cello

John Novacek, piano

INTERMISSION —

20 FACULTY ARTISTS CONCERT

JESSIE MONTGOMERY ERIC

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Nonetto in E-flat Major, Op. 38

Adagio; Allegro (1804-1875) Andante con moto; Allegretto Scherzo – vivace Scherzo vivace

*festival fellow **guest artist and SMF fellow alum

This concert is sponsored by Esther Redmount and Harry White Music Director and Faculty Artist Susan Grace is sponsored by the Bain Family Foundation John Novacek is the Richard & Sandra Hilt Endowed Faculty Artist LOUISE FARRENC Andrew Wan, violin; Virginia Barron, viola; **William Cayanan, cello; Susan Cahill, bass Alice Dade, flute; Robert Walters, oboe; Richard Hawkins, clarinet Michael Kroth, bassoon; Michael Thornton, horn

This new season’s four episodes explore themes and stories of gifted young artists, virtuosos, and even Yoo’s own experiences as a composer . SEASON 5 IS OUT NOW!

Travel with host SCOTT YOO, conductor and violinist, in this special mini-series taking viewers on a voyage of musical discovery for aficionados and neophytes alike. Each episode reveals the creative process behind a diverse range of classical music in both historic and modern-day periods

Learn more at pbs.org/gperf

Four on the Floor

THURSDAY, JUNE 20 5:45 p.m., Packard Hall

Steven Copes, violin; Mark Kosower, cello

Susan Cahill, bass; John Novacek, piano

We’d Better Call for Backup

Sonata for bass trombone

First Movement

Toby Appel, viola; **Kenji Bunch, viola

Sonatina for flute, clarinet, and piano

Charleston – Molto Adagio, flessible

Hunter’s Rag

Jig - Presto

**guest artist

John Rojak, bass trombone

Alice Dade, flute; Richard Hawkins, clarinet

John Novacek, piano

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

This free concert is sponsored by the estate of Miriam Bolner.

John Novacek is the Richard & Sandra Hilt Endowed Faculty Artist.

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LIBBY LARSEN (b. 1950)

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KENJI BUNCH (b. 1973)

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JOHN KENNY (b. 1957)

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PAUL SCHOENFIELD (b. 1947)

Auf dem Strom (On the river), Op. post. 119 (Ludwig Rellstab) .

**Annamarie Zmolek, soprano

Michael Thornton, horn; Susan Grace, piano

Rhapsodie for English horn and string quartet .

THURSDAY, JUNE 20

7 p.m., Packard Hall

SCHUBERT (1797-1828)

DEBUSSY (1862-1918) arr. Cliff Colnot

Robert Walters, English horn

Stephen Rose, violin; Stefan Hersh, violin

Virginia Barron, viola; Bion Tsang, cello

The Viola Burns Longer: Four Vignettes for solo viola, piano, and string quartet .

KENJI BUNCH (2024; World Premiere) (b. 1973)

I. Glow

II. Flicker

III. Smolder

IV. Blaze

Toby Appel, viola; John Novacek, piano

Stephen Rose, violin; Steven Copes, violin

**Kenji Bunch, viola; Mark Kosower, cello

Kenji Bunch’s The Viola Burns Longer was commissioned by the Colorado College Summer Music Festival in celebration of the 40th anniversary . This commission is supported by John and Laurel Watkins and Arthur and Elizabeth Aikin .

— INTERMISSION —

Zwei Gesänge, Op. 91 for baritone, viola, and piano

JOHANNES BRAHMS

Gestillte Sehnsucht (Stilled Longing)(Friedrich Rückert) (1833-1897) Geistliches Wiegenlied (Sacred Lullaby)(Lope de Vega/Emanuel Geibel)

**Brian Major, baritone

Toby Appel, viola

Susan Grace, piano

24 FACULTY ARTISTS CONCERT

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String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 35 for violin, viola, and two cellos .

Moderato (1861-1906)

Variations on a theme by Peter Tchaikovsky

Finale – Andante sostenuto

**guest artist

This concert is sponsored by Daniel Tynan, in memory of Nancy Brooks Ekberg John Novacek is the Richard & Sandra Hilt Endowed Faculty Artist Music Director and Faculty Artist Susan Grace is sponsored by the Bain Family Foundation

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ANTON ARENSKY Steven Copes, violin; Toby Appel, viola Mark Kosower, cello; Bion Tsang, cello

FRIDAY, JUNE 21

7 p.m., Celeste Theatre

Scott Yoo, conducting

The Night Within Us, Filled With Stars (2023; World Premiere)

I. Now Then (b.

Robert Walters, oboe; *Caroline Becker, oboe

Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 Choral

VAN BEETHOVEN

Allegro ma non troppo e un poco maestoso (1770-1827)

Molto vivace

Adagio molto e cantabile; Andante moderato

Finale - Presto; Allegro ma non troppo

Presto; Vivace; Presto; Adagio cantabile; Presto; Allegro assai; Presto; Allegro assai; Presto; Recitativo; Allegro assai; Allegro assai vivace; Andante maestoso; Adagio ma non troppo ma divoto

Allegro energico e sempre ben marcato

Allegro ma non tanto; poco adagio

Poco allegro, stringendo il tempo, sempre piu Allegro

Presto; Maestoso; Prestissimo

*festival fellow

Annamarie Zmolek, soprano

Stephanie Brink, mezzo-soprano

John Lindsay, tenor

Brian Major, baritone

Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble

Deborah Jenkins Teske, director

This concert is supported by a Merit Grant from the El Pomar Foundation.

Conductor and Faculty Artist Scott Yoo is sponsored by Michael D. Grace. Composer Grace Hale is sponsored by Susan Grace.

Thank you for contributing to a very successful 40th Anniversary Season! We are grateful and look forward to seeing you in 2025.

26 FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA CONCERT

GRACE HALE 1998) LUDWIG

TEXT FOR BEETHOVEN’S SYMPHONY NO. 9

from Friedrich Schiller (1759-1809), An die Freude (Ode to Joy), 1785*

German original

O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!

Sondern laßt uns angenehmere anstimmen und freudenvollere.

Freude! Freude!

Freude, schöner Götterfunken

Tochter aus Elysium, Wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmlische, dein Heiligtum!

Deine Zauber binden wieder

Was die Mode streng geteilt; Alle Menschen werden Brüder, Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt .

Wem der große Wurf gelungen, Eines Freundes Freund zu sein; Wer ein holdes Weib errungen,

Mische seinen Jubel ein!

Ja, wer auch nur eine Seele

Sein nennt auf dem Erdenrund!

Und wer’s nie gekonnt, der stehle

Weinend sich aus diesem Bund!

Freude trinken alle Wesen

An den Brüsten der Natur; Alle Guten, alle Bösen

Folgen ihrer Rosenspur .

Küsse gab sie uns und Reben, Einen Freund, geprüft im Tod; Wollust ward dem Wurm gegeben, Und der Cherub steht vor Gott.

Froh, wie seine Sonnen fliegen

Durch des Himmels prächt’gen Plan, Laufet, Brüder, eure Bahn, Freudig, wie ein Held zum Siegen.

Seid umschlungen, Millionen!

Diesen Kuß der ganzen Welt!

Brüder, über’m Sternenzelt

Muß ein lieber Vater wohnen .

Ihr stürzt nieder, Millionen?

Ahnest du den Schöpfer, Welt?

Such’ ihn über’m Sternenzelt!

Über Sternen muß er wohnen .

[Finale repeats the words:]

Seid umschlungen, Millionen!

Diesen Kuß der ganzen Welt!

Brüder, über’m Sternenzelt

Muß ein lieber Vater wohnen .

Seid umschlungen,

Diesen Kuß der ganzen Welt!

Freude, schöner Götterfunken

Tochter aus Elysium, Freude, schöner Götterfunken

*German text in italics is not from Schiller’s poem .

English translation

Oh friends, not these tunes! Rather let us sing more cheerful and more joyful ones.

Joy! Joy!

Joy, beautiful spark of the gods, Daughter of Elysium , We come, touched with fire, to the portal of your radiant shrine, . Your sweet magic frees all others, Held in Custom’s rigid rings .

All men become brothers, In the haven of your wings . Whoever succeeds in the great attempt

To be a friend of a friend, Whoever has won a lovely wife, Let him add his jubilation!

Yes, whoever calls even one soul

His own on the earth’s globe!

And who never has, let him steal, Weeping, away from this group

All creatures drink joy

At the breasts of nature; All the good, all the evil

Follow her roses’ trail . Kisses gave she us, and wine, A friend, proven unto death; Pleasure was to the worm granted, And the cherub stands before God.

Glad, as his suns fly

Through the Heavens’ glorious plan, Run, brothers, your race, Joyful, as a hero to victory .

Be embraced, you millions! This kiss for the whole world! Brothers, beyond the star-canopy

Must a loving Father dwell .

Do you bow down, you millions?

Do you sense the Creator, world?

Seek Him beyond the star-canopy! Beyond the stars must He dwell

[Finale repeats the words:]

Be embraced, ye millions! This kiss for the whole world! Brothers, beyond the star-canopy

Must a loving Father dwell . Be embraced, This kiss for the whole world!

Joy, beautiful spark of the gods, Daughter of Elysium, Joy, beautiful spark of the gods

FESTIVAL ARTISTS

Susan Grace, music director, piano

Grammy-nominated pianist and Steinway Artist Susan Grace has performed solo and chamber recitals, and has appeared as soloist with orchestras in the United States, Europe, the former Soviet Union, Korea, India, and China. She has also performed in the Aspekte Festival in Salzburg, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s new-music series Engine 408, Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the Grand Teton Festival, the Cape Cod Music Festival, Festival Mozaic, the Hear Now Music Festival in Los Angeles, Concordia Chamber Players, Music at Oxford, and the Helmsley Festival in England. She is a member of Quattro Mani, an internationally acclaimed two-piano ensemble with New York pianist Steven Beck. Recent performances include CUNY Graduate Center, Bargemusic, National Sawdust, Subculture, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Klavierhaus and Steinway Hall in New York, UMass Amherst, La Labortoire Cambridge, Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, Colorado College, Brandeis University, UMass Amherst, Lehigh University, and the Alabama and Austin Symphonies.

Grace has recorded for Bridge Records, the Belgium National Radio, WFMT in Chicago, the Society of Composers, Wilson Audio, Klavier International, and Klavier Music Productions. Her recording on the Bridge label of Stefan Wolpe’s violin and piano music was listed in the London Sunday Times as one of the top 10 contemporary recordings and was included on the Fanfare “Critics Want List.” Bridge Records recently released two new CDs by Quattro Mani, one featuring American composer Fred Lerdahl and another including American and European composers called Hallelujah Junction

Grace is associate chair, artist-in-residence, and senior lecturer in music at Colorado College. Grace was awarded the 2020 Gresham Riley Award, the Alumni Association’s highest honor for service to Colorado College, and the 2023 Jane Cauvel Cultivating Collaboration and Community Presidential Leadership Award. She was awarded the Christine S. Johnson Professorship of Music from 2014-16. In June 2014, Mayor Steve Bach and the city of Colorado Springs presented Grace with the Spirit of the Springs award for her work with the Colorado College Summer Music Festival. Grace was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Small Ensemble Performance category.

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.

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.

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.

Richard Hawkins, clarinet

Richard Hawkins made his solo debut at the Kennedy Center with Mstislav Rostropovich and the National Symphony Orchestra in 1992. He has since given more than 50 performances of featured clarinet works with orchestra. Hawkins’ first teaching position, at the Interlochen Arts Academy, launched a new career direction in 1993: a dedication to educating the world’s finest young clarinetists. He has simultaneously led an active performing career and pursued his passion for instrument design. Hawkins performed for five seasons as principal clarinet of the Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra and served as artist faculty at the Hot Springs Music Festival each June from 1997-07. His work in the arenas of contemporary, chamber, and orchestral music have included performances with the Bogota Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Tucson Winter Music Festival, and Medellín Festicámara, as well as recitals and masterclasses throughout the United States and Europe. Hawkins designed instruments for the G. Leblanc Corporation and developed his own line of clarinet mouthpieces that have become some of the most widely favored products in the industry. Hawkins proudly performs on the Backun MOBA clarinet made of cocobolo with an R Model Richard Hawkins mouthpiece and Légère Signature reed.

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 performed two livestreams of the complete Bach Cello Suites from Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland to raise money for COVID-19 victims. Other activities during the pandemic included live and recorded chamber music performances for the North Shore Chamber Music Festival’s “Onstage/Offstage” series and for the Seattle Chamber Music Society. An active educator, Kosower teaches a series of master classes at Hidden Valley Music Seminars in Carmel, California each summer.

Michael Kroth, bassoon

Michael Kroth is professor of bassoon and associate dean for undergraduate studies at the Michigan State University College of Music. 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 Peninsula 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.

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 Orchestral 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.

Jack Sutte, trumpet

Jack Sutte started Suzuki violin at the age of 3, and while his initial brass interest lay in French horn, Sutte chose trumpet after his father showed him his collegiate, music education, Conn Connstellation trumpet. He attended the Curtis Institute of Music (BM) and the Juilliard School (MM) where he studied with Frank Kaderabek and Raymond Mase, respectively. Sutte made his international solo debut with the Orquesta Sinfónica U.N. Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina with the Hummel and Telemann Concertos, and later performed Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile, Argentina. Following his Master of Music degree at Juilliard, Jack was appointed Principal Trumpet with The Bergen Philharmonic, and shortly thereafter, was appointed Second Trumpet of The Cleveland Orchestra by Christoph von Dohnányi. Sutte teaches at the Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music. He is a founding member of the Factory Seconds Brass Trio and is striving to learn the sonata canon written for trumpet and piano.

Julie Duncan Thornton plays flute and piccolo with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. During her tenure with the Colorado Symphony, Thornton has become one of the most sought after orchestral piccolo players in the country. She has performed extensively with the New York Philharmonic, the St. Louis Symphony, the Oregon Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra and the Houston Symphony. She has recent-

ly been a featured flute performer and teacher for Festicamara in Medellin, Colombia and Festival International de Inverno de Campos do Jordao in Brazil. A native of Mercer Island, WA, Thornton holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Northwestern University. She has also completed her course work towards a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Rice University. Thornton has held the position of lecturer in flute at Colorado State University and is currently instructor of flute at the Lamont School of Music.

Michael Thornton, horn

Michael Thornton enjoys a distinguished and varied career as an orchestral performer, chamber musician, soloist, and pedagogue. Thornton has performed on six continents with acclaimed ensembles and has presented master classes at prestigious musical institutions. Thornton holds concurrent appointments as principal horn of both the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Colorado Symphony. He joined the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in 2017 and joined the Colorado Symphony Orchestra during the 1997 season. Before joining the CSO, he left his studies at The Juilliard School to become the principal horn of the Honolulu Symphony. In 1999, Thornton was appointed to the faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder, where he serves as the associate professor of horn. Thornton has twice received the Marinus Smith Award, which is bestowed upon CU Boulder teachers who have made significant contributions to their students’ development.

Bion Tsang, cello

Cellist Bion Tsang has been internationally recognized as one of the outstanding instrumentalists of his generation: among his many honors are an Avery Fisher Career Grant, an MEF Career Grant and the Bronze Medal in the IX International Tchaikovsky Competition. Tsang earned a Grammy nomination for his performance on the PBS special A Company of Voices: Conspirare in Concert (Harmonia Mundi). Tsang has appeared as soloist with such orchestras as the New York, Mexico City, Moscow, Busan and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestras, the National, American, Pacific, Delaware and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras, the Saint Paul and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestras, the Louisville Orchestra and the Taiwan National Orchestra. Tsang resides in Austin, TX, where he is Division Head of Strings and holds the Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Chair in Cello at the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin. He was the recipient of the Texas Exes Teaching Award after just his first year of service and soon after was named “Instrumentalist of the Year” by the Austin Critics Table.

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. Wal-

ters 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 special reputation as the rare concerto soloist who is also equally versatile and adept as a recitalist, accompanist and chamber musician. In all of these genres, he is highly sought after for his special focus on the music of Franz Liszt and Beethoven and is a special champion for the music of modernist 20th century American composers. His concerto debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony under the baton of Leonard Slatkin was the first in a long succession of appearances and career relationships with numerous American conductors and orchestras. As an educator and teacher, Wolfram is the head of the Piano Department at the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina. Most recently, Wolfram has been appointed to the Piano Faculty at the Manhattan School of Music where he teaches chamber music and piano seminar. He is a regular featured guest at the Colorado College Music Festival. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Wolfram has two grown daughters. He resides in New York City with his wife.

David Ying, cello

David Ying is well known to concert audiences as the cellist of the Grammy Award-winning Ying Quartet. With the quartet, he has performed worldwide in celebrated music venues from Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House. Ying first pursued chamber music avidly as a teenaged student at the Eastman School of Music with his piano trio, which was awarded first prize at the Coleman Chamber Music Competition. Later, he would also win the Naumburg Chamber Music Award, this time with the Ying Quartet. Ying is also highly regarded as an individual artist, having won prizes in the Naumburg Cello Competition and in the Washington International Competition. Ying serves on the cello and chamber music faculty at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he and Elinor reside with their two children.

Phillip Ying, viola

Phillip Ying, as violist of the Ying Quartet, has performed across the United States, Europe and Asia. He has won the Naumburg Award for Chamber Music, has won a Grammy for a collaborative recording with the Turtle Island String Quartet, and has been nominated three additional times, most recently for a collaborative album with pianist Billy Childs. Ying is an associate professor of chamber music and viola at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. From 2001-2008, he was named, with the Ying Quartet, Blodgett Ensemble in Residence at Harvard University. Additionally, he served a six-year term as president of Chamber Music America, a national service organization for chamber music ensembles, presenters, and artist managers, and has been published by Chamber Music magazine.

GUEST COMPOSERS

Kenji Bunch, composer and violist, uses his work as a composer and performer to look for commonalities between musical traditions, for understandings that transcend cultural or generational barriers, and for empathic connections with his listeners. Bunch draws on vernacular musical traditions, his interest in history, the natural world, and his classical training to create new concert music with a unique personal vocabulary that appeals to performers, audiences, and critics alike. Bunch maintains an active performing career, and is widely recognized for performing his own groundbreaking works for viola. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Bunch left New York City after 22 memorable years to return to his native Portland, Oregon, where he currently serves as Artistic Director of new music group Fear No Music, and teaches at Portland State University, Reed College, and for the Portland Youth Philharmonic.

Grace Hale is an American composer of both film and classical concert music. In 2018, she was recognized as the first prize recipient of the Colorado Collegiate Composition Competition with her piece Rhapsody on a Cityscape for British Brass Band. She also holds an honorable mention in the 2017 International Summer Academy of Music’s

Joseph Dorfman Memorial Competition with her solo piano work

The Vagabond. Among notable large ensemble performances, Hale collaborated with mandolinist Sierra Hull on an orchestral arrangement of her song “Sunday,” which was performed by the Portland Chamber Orchestra and the Walla Walla Symphony, conducted by Jaacov Bergman, in 2019. Hale’s latest commissions include a concert work for the New York Youth Symphony premiering in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage in March 2024. She received her Master of Music in composition at the University of Michigan in 2023 and her Bachelor of Arts in music from Colorado College in 2020. She studied composition under Michael Daugherty, Kristy Kuster, Ofer Ben-Amots, and David Tcimpidis.

GUEST ARTISTS

Stephanie Brink, contralto, is a Colorado native who began her vocal career in the jazz and music theatre realms. Notable roles include Lucy Van Pelt in You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown!, Amy in Sondheim’s Company, and Liza in Weill’s Lady in the Dark. Following her undergraduate study at Colorado College, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in music, she made her operatic debut with Opera Theatre of the Rockies as the Second Nursemaid in Kurt Weill’s Street Scene. After completing her Master of Music degree in vocal performance at the University of Arizona, she was called back to perform the role of Dritte Dame in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, a role she later revived in New York City with Mark Oswald’s Summer Opera Experience. Brink is a member of the performance faculty at Colorado College and is a voice student of renowned soprano Martile Rowland.

Originally from San Leandro, CA, William Cayanan enjoys a career as a cellist and composer and makes beats when he can. He is currently the principal cello of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, the principal cello of the Bay Philharmonic, and the assistant principal cello of the Boise Philharmonic. Previously, he has held title chairs in the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic as well as the Terre Haute Symphony. While pursuing graduate degrees at Indiana University, he studied cello with Eric Kim and composition with P.Q. Phan. At IU, he appeared as a concerto soloist with the IU Baroque Orchestra. Cayanan completed his undergraduate studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying with Richard Weiss and Melissa Kraut, while earning a minor in composition with Keith Fitch.

A native of Denver, Justin Douté attended the Denver School of the Arts for Music and the Manhattan School of Music. While an undergraduate, he overcame three leukemia diagnoses and later completed his bachelor’s in music performance at the University of North Florida. He went on to complete a master’s degree in percussion performance from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. His awards include winning the Aspen School of Music Solo Percussion Competition, the Denver Philharmonic’s Concerto Competition, and the Manhattan School of Music’s Concerto Competition. Most recently he claimed Gold Medal and Grand Prize at Young Texas Artist Music Competition. He currently performs with the Texas Medical Center Orchestra and is

a substitute player for the Abilene Philharmonic, the Orlando (FL) Philharmonic, and the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra. With pianist Yukino Miyake, he commissions and performs new music for piano and percussion in a the duo titled “JUKINO.”

American tenor John Robert Lindsey has praised for his “clarion tone” and “blazing tenor” by Opera News. Recent roles include Froh in Das Rheingold with Arizona Opera; Števa in Janáček’s Jenůfa with Pacific Opera Victoria; Jonathan Dale in Silent Night with Michigan Opera Theatre, Austin Opera, and Minnesota Opera; The Prince in Rusalka with Madison Opera; and Ben Marco in The Manchurian Candidate with Austin Opera. On the concert stage, he has been heard in Verdi’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, and Aldridge’s Parables. He currently serves on the voice faculty at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

Charismatic baritone Brian Major consistently garners praise from critics, celebrated for his enchanting “velvety voice” and commanding stage presence. Major’s 2023-2024 season sees his return to the Metropolitan Opera covering the role of Malcolm X in X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X. Last season, he made a role debut as Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff with Maryland Lyric Opera and made a significant impact at The Metropolitan Opera, making his house debut as Baron Douphol in La traviata and covering Benny “Kid” Paret in Champion and Scarpia in Tosca with The Santa Fe Opera. In addition to his operatic accomplishments, Major is an accomplished recitalist and concert artist. He has served as the baritone soloist in Handel’s Messiah, Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, and Mendelssohn’s Elijah to name a few. Major holds degrees from Morehouse College, Boston University, and Michigan State University.

Eric Wicks serves as organist at the First Lutheran Church in downtown Colorado Springs. He received his master’s degree in organ performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with Todd Wilson. He also studied harpsichord with Janina Ceaser, piano with Olga Radosavljevich, eurhythmics with David Brown, and early music performance with Ross Duffin. While in Cleveland, Wicks joined his spouse, Elisa, in performing baroque programs at the Cleveland Museum of Art and in-house concerts at the home of Phillip Cucchiara, a harpsichord builder. He is currently the Colorado College Music Department’s organ instructor and Shove Chapel organist.

Born and raised in Colorado, Annamarie Zmolek, soprano, got her start singing at church and school. She studied voice at the Eastman School of Music, where she was exposed to the wide world of classical music, from early styles to current composers. She sang her first operatic roles and learned her music theory and history. Highlights include singing Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the orchestra, and performing the Beggar Woman in Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd. She completed her master’s degree at Rice University. She performed

the role of Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni under the baton of Richard Bado. She is an active teacher and performer in Houston and beyond, performing in operas and oratorios.

Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble (CVAE) was founded in 1992. Under the direction of Deborah Jenkins Teske, the Ensemble has garnered praise for “flawless sound” and “courageous programming,” and been hailed as “a hidden gem in the middle of Colorado.” Now celebrating 30 years of steadfast commitment to artistic excellence and community involvement, CVAE believes that art thrives where it is planted. CVAE’s annual concert series features traditional works and new music sourced from all over the world. Programming is carefully crafted and highly varied, designed to create memorable experiences for audiences. While a cappella singing is at the heart of CVAE’s identity, collaborations have brought opportunities to explore a broader repertoire. Vital partnerships with the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs, Parish House Baroque, and the Colorado College Summer Music Festival have allowed for performance of such diverse works as Brahms’ A German Requiem, Menotti’s The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore. and Stravinsky’s Les Noces. Other important collaborators have included the Green Box Arts Festival, Ormao Dance Company, Colorado Springs Children’s Chorale, The Denver Brass, and The Colorado Ballet Society.

PROGRAM NOTES AND PRE-CONCERT LECTURES

Michael Grace is professor emeritus in music at Colorado College. He retired in 2023 after serving as a member of the Colorado College faculty since 1967. In addition to his faculty appointment, he served Colorado College as president and as dean of the Summer Session, and as Music 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 Abdunazarova was born and raised in a musician’s family in Uzbekistan where she started to play the piano at age 3 and had her first recital at age 6. She won a number of competitions, and the ministry of Republic of Uzbekistan awarded her with the “Tasanno” prize. Abdunazarova collaborated with the “Turkistan” orchestra in Tashkent; actively attended festivals such as Y. Bashmet, Lake Como Piano Academy, Colorado College Summer Music Festival, Eastern Music Festival; participated in masterclasses; and studied with S. Ioudenitch, W.

Wolfram, W. Nabore, A. Chow, and B. Douglas. She is a rhythmic gymnastics fan.

Born in Fullerton, CA, Ryan Aguilar began his formal music studies with percussion at the Boston Conservatory, studying with Nancy Zeltsman. He started to play the piano at age of 20, studying secondary piano as a required course of Boston Conservatory. After a year of exploring this new instrument, he decided to pursue and dedicate all of his focus to piano, working with teacher Dr. Jonathan Bass. Currently he is pursuing his Bachelor of Music at Lynn Conservatory, in the studio of Dr. Roberta Rust. In his free time, Aguilar enjoys running marathons and fresh water fishing.

Bailey Amspoker was born and raised in Denver and started playing bass at the age of 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.

Caroline Becker is a fourth-year oboist at the Oberlin Conservatory, studying under Robert Walters. At Oberlin, she has served as principal oboist of the Oberlin Orchestra, Contemporary Music Ensemble, Oberlin Chamber Orchestra, and Oberlin Sinfonietta. She has played in masterclasses for William Welter, Jonathan Blumenfeld, Eugene Izotov, Elaine Douvas, Erin Hannigan, and Cassie Pilgrim. She has had secondary studies with Corbin Stair of the Cleveland Orchestra and Nicholas Stovall of the National Symphony Orchestra.

Hailing from Colorado Springs, cellist Ethan Blake has performed as an orchestral, solo, and chamber musician throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is the former assistant principal cellist of the Boulder Philharmonic, and he has also performed with the Colorado Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, and Alabama Symphony, where he was a one-year member during their 2022-23 season. Blake is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the Eastman School of Music, where he studies with David Ying.

Arayana Carr-Mal is from Sunderland, MA. She graduated in May 2024 from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied violin with Jessica Lee and Philip Setzer. She spent her high school years studying with Soovin Kim and Robyn Bollinger at New England Conservatory prep and playing in the BPYO. She has attended festivals like Aspen Music Festival and Bowdoin International Music Festival. She has served as concertmaster and assistant concertmaster of CIM’s orchestra. In 2019, she won the Rhodes Concerto Competition and performed with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra.

Isabel Chen is currently pursuing a bachelor’s in violin performance at the Eastman School of Music under Robin Scott. She grew up learning violin and piano at the Music Institute of Chicago and later devoted full focus towards the violin at the Academy, a pre-conservatory program. She was invited to perform at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie, both as a soloist and a collaborator alongside her former professor, Oleh Krysa, and recently attended the Fellowship Program at Madeline Island Chamber Music.

When Emily Claman first started the flute at age 11, she had no idea that it would soon become one of her biggest passions and ultimate career path. With a focus on solo, chamber, and orchestral playing, she has traveled across the United States and to other countries such as Canada, France, and Italy to share her music with respected colleagues and professionals. Claman received her bachelor’s degree in music performance at DePaul University, where she studied under Mark Sparks, and her master’s degree at the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with the renowned Bonita Boyd.

Originally from Ellicott City, MD, bass trombonist Griffin Cutaiar received his bachelor’s degree from the Juilliard School, studying with Blair Bollinger. Cutaiar is currently pursuing his master’s degree at the Juilliard School studying with John Rojak. He has performed with the Jacksonville Symphony, Princeton Symphony Orchestra, Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra, and more. He can be heard on the Juilliard Trombone Choir album “Holiday Classics” directed by Joseph Alessi.

Toronto-born violinist Diana Dawydchak, versatile in classical, pop, fiddle genres, has performed across Canada, America and Europe. She holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Southern California, and Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Toronto. She has earned numerous accolades, including the Felix Galimir Award for Chamber Excellence, and Canadian Open Fiddle Champion. Dawydchak has worked with Midori, Stefan Jackiw and Ani Kavafian, and is grateful to her teachers Lina Bahn, Tim Ying and Margot Jewell.

Chris Dechant is a clarinetist pursuing his undergraduate studies at the Juilliard School. Dechant has made appearances with the National Youth Orchestra, New York Youth Symphony, Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra, and the Juilliard Orchestra along with various chamber programs such as Juilliard’s Chamberfest. Dechant recently placed as a finalist in the Matthew Ruggiero Woodwind Competition. This summer, after attending the Colorado College Music Festival, he will join the Aspen Music Festival as an E-flat clarinet fellowship recipient. His teachers include Jon Manasse and Sam Bourtis.

A native of Naperville, IL, William Foye is entering his fourth year of undergraduate studies at The Juilliard School in New York City, where he studies clarinet with Jon Manasse. As a member of the Juilliard Orchestra, Foye has worked with conductors such as John Adams, Mei-Ann Chen, Giancarlo Guerrero, Bertrand de Billy, and Ken-David Masur. Outside of music, Foye is an avid sports fan, especially of the Chicago Cubs.

Zac Fung is a cellist currently based in Boston. Originally from Doylestown, PA, he moved to Boston at age 16 to further pursue music. There, he participated in NEC Prep, the Boston Symphony Youth Orchestra, and the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. Fung has had solo performances with the Riverside Symphonia, Old York Road Symphony, Bucks County Symphony, the Colorado College Summer Music Festival Orchestra and Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. He currently attends the New England Conservatory and studies with Yeesun Kim.

Erica Haas is a bassoonist from Emmaus, PA. She earned her master’s degree in performance from the University of North Texas in May of 2023. Her primary teachers include Dr. Darrel Hale and Ms. Lynn Moncilovich. Most recently, she has performed with the Central Pennsylvania Symphony for its 2023-2024 season and freelanced throughout Pennsylvania. Haas is also a full-time reedmaker and private bassoon teacher.

Zachary Hamilton is a freelance violist, recording artist, and music educator in Southern California. In addition to serving in the viola section of New West Symphony, Hamilton is an avid folk musician, playing fiddle in the Celtic band The Waymarkers and leading the viola section of the Folk Orchestra of Santa Barbara. His recent EP “You’re My Favorite” features minimalist classical music, and his master’s thesis focused on the implementation of hip hop on string instruments.

Violinist Dylan Hamme studies with Areta Zhulla at Juilliard as recipient of the Dorothy Delay scholarship. He is in demand with ensembles including 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 Ken-David Masur. This year, he joins the CC Summer Music Festival as both a violin and assistant conductor fellow and, in July, the string quartet residency at European American Musical Alliance.

Oboist Haley Hoffman currently studies with Eugene Izotov at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she is earning her Advanced Certificate degree. In the bay area, Haley has performed as a guest musician with the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Ballet, Berkeley Symphony and Modesto Symphony. In the summers of 2022 and 2023, Hoffman earned an oboe fellowship at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, CA.

Shoshanah Israilevich is a Russian-American cellist from Los Angeles. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music, she studied under Mark Kosower and Richard Weiss. She has performed in Los Angeles and Chicago, as well as overseas in Uruguay and Argentina. Israilevich works as a studio musician, most recently recording at Warner Bros. Studios for a song by Imagine Dragons. In her free time, she enjoys exploring coffee shops.

The youngest recipient of the Virtuosi Award, Aleksandar Ivanov seamlessly blends expressive musicality and technical prowess across concertos, chamber music, and orchestral pieces. His true passion lies in the emotive realm of late Romantic composers. Awarded a full scholarship for his master’s studies at The Juilliard School under Laurie Smukler, he joined the first violin section of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in 2024, marking a new chapter in his musical journey.

Colin Hill is a senior cellist studying with Desmond Hoebig at Rice University. He has participated in the summer festivals of Aspen, Music Academy of the West, Heifetz, and National Youth Orchestra. He has been awarded prizes at the Mika Hasler, MTNA southeast, and Young-Arts competitions. He recently performed in the Houston Symphony Orchestra.

Born and raised in Clearwater, FL, Nicholas Ivy just completed his second year at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he is a horn student of Jeffrey Lang and Jennifer Montone and is the Alice Madge and William J. Middleton Fellow.

Katya Jarmulowicz is a recent graduate of St. Olaf College, where she earned her Bachelor of Music degree in horn performance. There, she studied with Dr. Jenna McBride-Harris, participated in various chamber ensembles, and was principal horn of the St. Olaf Orchestra. She is from St. Anthony Village, MN, and began playing horn at the age of 10. In the most recent summers, she attended Eastern Music Festival and the Chautauqua Summer Institute.

Emma Johnson, a Colorado Springs native, is a recent graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music. She has performed as a soloist with orchestras throughout Colorado and has won numerous regional and national competition awards. At the collegiate level, she has held principal positions with the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Chautauqua Music School Festival orchestras. Johnson has also enjoyed performing with the Cleveland Pops, Firelands Symphony and the Aspen Music School Festival orchestras.

Felix Kim is a native of Bothell, WA. At age 14, he debuted with the Cascade Symphony, performed on Seattle’s KING 5 New Day Northwest and Classic KING FM 98.1 Northwest Focus Live. A 2024 MTNA national finalist, Kim has attended the Sarasota and Bowdoin International Music Festivals and played in masterclasses for Steven Isserlis, Bion Tsang, and Sheku Kanneh-Mason, among many others. Currently, he is a student of Steven Doane at the Eastman School of Music.

Abigail Leidy, a cellist from Fredericksburg, VA, received her Bachelor of Music degree in cello performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. This fall, she will begin her master’s degree in cello performance at the Yale School of Music. Leidy received several scholarships in support of her studies. She recently won first prize in the 2024 Nancy F. Walker Memorial Scholarship Competition. She also founded the UC Cello Society, where she organized masterclasses and assisted in commissioning works for cello.

Christian León is a horn player from Manassas Park, VA, attending the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. Previous summer festivals he has attended include the National Youth Orchestra and Kinhaven Music School. Although he started on horn in fifth grade, he didn’t start taking lessons until his junior year of high school.

Rumeng Liao received her Master of Music in violin performance from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Oleg Krysa. She is currently pursuing her DMA in violin performance and Literature under the tutelage of Robin Scott and holds a teaching assistantship. She has played in the Eastman Philharmonic Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and Idaho State Civic Symphony. Liao was named winner of both the 2018 Idaho Falls Symphony Young Artist and 2016 Idaho State Civic Symphony Young Artist competitions. In 2022, she was invited as a fellow in the Music Academy of the West.

Originally from Ellicott City, Maryland, Zoey Ma is entering her senior year at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, studying with Ivo van der Werff. She has received additional instruction from Marvin Moon and Rebecca Henry. Ma has participated in music festivals such as the Sarasota Music Festival, Taipei Music Academy and Festival, and the Bowdoin International Music Festival.

Bassoonist Derek Marcum was born and raised in Houston. He just completed his master’s degree at Baylor University under Dr. Ann Shoemaker, where he was a concerto competition finalist and Semper Pro Musica chamber competition winner. Prior to Baylor, he studied with George

Sakakeeny at the Eastman School of Music. Recently, Derek has served as second bassoonist of the Waco Symphony Orchestra and performed at Carnegie Hall as a member of the Capricho Quintet.

Cecilia Martin is a 20-year-old violinist from Columbus, OH, who currently studies with Patinka Kopec at the Manhattan School of Music. She has previously attended the Starling Project at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Martin has a passion for chamber music and has been studying in chamber groups since she was 11, and recently participated in the Robert Mann String Quartet Institute.

Gracie McFalls studies under Peter Slowik at the Oberlin Conservatory. McFalls has participated in Oberlin’s Advanced String Quartet Seminar, performed at Carnegie Hall for a collaboration concert with the United Nations, and has frequently served in principal positions in the Oberlin Orchestras. Outside of Oberlin, McFalls has served as a substitute violist for the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and is an alum of both the Bowdoin International Music Festival and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute.

Kurt Melendy is a third-year DMA candidate and former teaching assistant at the University of Colorado Boulder. He currently freelances in orchestral and chamber ensembles in Colorado and Wyoming. He is strongly self-motivated and has gained the respect of the staff and his colleagues throughout his enrollment at CU Boulder. Melendy aspires to become a professor, performer, and scholar. Additionally, he enjoys weightlifting and composing in his free time.

Jacob Merrill is a freelance trumpeter from Norman, OK, and also holds the position of associate principal trumpet with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic and the Fountain City Brass Band. Merrill also keeps himself busy by playing with his dog named Chief, looking for a new book to read, or cheering on the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Violinist Aria Messina, 20, is currently majoring in violin performance at Oberlin Conservatory under the instruction of David Bowlin. Originally from Chicago, she has been on tours to the Philippines, Greece, San Marino, Italy, and Hawaii. In December 2022, Aria traveled to Carnegie Hall with the Oberlin Orchestra to perform for the United Nations Gala concert. In her free time, she enjoys reading and building puzzles.

Music director of The Apollo Ensemble of Boston since 2018 and principal conductor at Upbeat New Hampshire since 2022, Elias Miller has established a reputation as a leading young conductor and orchestra builder. Miller has worked as a cover conductor with the Minnesota Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Nashville Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and more. He holds degrees from Harvard University and the University of Michigan and completed his postgraduate studies at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

Sophia Molina is a violinist from Miami who began her musical studies at the age of 4. Throughout her musical career, she has performed as a soloist with multiple orchestras and has received several awards at both national and international levels. Molina is currently in her third year of undergraduate studies at the Juilliard School, studying under Hyo Kang. She previously studied with Miclen LaiPang and Charles Castleman, and she graduated high school at New World School of the Arts, where she was concertmaster for three years.

Nicolo Moulthrop grew up in Shaker Heights, OH, near Cleveland. He graduated from Shaker Heights High School and is currently at The Ohio State University studying viola performance and biochemistry. Moulthrop is the principal violist of the OSU Symphony Orchestra and previously a member of the Kaboom Collective Studio Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra. Moulthrop has been playing viola for about two years after switching from violin, which he played since age 6. In his free time, he plays a lot of piano and is a rock climber.

Christine Ott, born in Rochester NY, is in her fifth year of undergraduate studies at the Curtis Institute of Music with Jennifer Montone and Jeffery Lang. She began her musical journey at age 4 with piano lessons and switched to horn at age 9. Apart from music, Ott enjoys nature, going to the gym, and good food.

Julie Park is a versatile flutist who enjoys performing and teaching equally. Originally from Seoul, South Korea, Park’s musical experiences range from solo and large ensemble performing to teaching students of varied ages and abilities. Park is an alumna of the Interlochen Arts Academy and holds a bachelor’s degree in flute performance from The Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Last May, she earned her master’s degree at the Manhattan School of Music as a student of Linda Chesis.

Ethan Pound is a trombonist, educator, and composer from Baltimore. He was brought up in Peabody’s El-Sistema-Inspired “Tuned-In” Program and attended the Baltimore School for the Arts before getting his bachelor’s degree in trombone performance at Oberlin Conservatory. Notable performances include Oberlin’s Danenberg Honors Recital, the 2019 Jazz Informance with the U.S. Department of Education, and the 2022 United Nations Gala. In his free time, he loves to read various religious texts and arrange Mongolian music.

Matteo Prevosto-Riou is a freshman in double bass performance at the Jacobs School of Music studying with Kurt Muroki. Originally from Paris, France, he studied with Norma Carreno and Vincent Pasquier at the City Conservatory of Paris. He attended the Mirecourt orchestral festival several times in France.

Terri Rauschenbach is second trumpet with the Palm Beach Symphony and the Florida Grand Opera. She earned her bachelor’s degree as a Stamps Scholar at the Frost School of Music, where she studied under Craig Morris and Gerard Schwarz. Originally from Dallas, Rauschenbach began playing the trumpet at age 12 with Dr. Jared Hunt. She enjoys vegan cooking, reading, and spending time with her cat, Pickle.

Sundoo “Syara” Robert, violist and composer, began her musical training at age 15. She made her solo debut twice with the UTA Symphony Orchestra and the UNT String Institute. Robert has spent many summers at music at Domaine Forget and Orford Music Academy and has previously held fellowship positions at the Colorado College Summer Music Festival, PRISMA and Toronto Summer Music. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Texas at Arlington and an Artist Diploma from the Conservatoire de Montrèal. She is currently pursuing a Graduate Diploma at the University of Ottawa under the tutelage of Michael Van der Sloot.

Daniel Simmons, a junior in the Columbia University-Juilliard School Program, is majoring in economics and viola performance. He has attended many music programs including the Colorado College Summer Music Festival, Heifetz International Institute of Music, National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America, Curtis Summerfest, and Tanglewood. In 2023, Simmons attended the Conservatoire Americain in Fontainebleau, France, where he won Third Prize in the Prix Ravel. He is principal violist of the Columbia University Orchestra. He currently studies with Paul Neubauer and Steven Tenenbom.

Amaan Syed is from Austin, TX, and will be a sophomore at The Juilliard School. He is currently studying trombone under Joe Alessi and plans to graduate in 2027. Amaan is a recipient of the highly prestigious Kovner Fellowship and a four-time TMEA All-Stater.

Miriam Viazmenski is a violinist and biochemistry major at Yale University. She studies privately with Kyung Yu and is currently the concertmaster of the Yale Symphony Orchestra. Her teachers have included Syoko Aki and Kristopher Tong, and she is very excited to be returning to Colorado College this summer. Outside of music, Viazmenski works in a lab studying RNA at the Yale Medical School, leads a student-run biotech company, and loves to cook.

A native of St. John’s, Newfoundland, Nina Weber is pursuing an Artist Diploma at Indiana University studying with Stephen Wyrczynski and Atar Arad. Summer festivals have included Domaine Forget, the National Repertory Orchestra and National Youth Orchestra of Canada, both as a principal violist. This summer, she will be attending the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival. Weber holds a master’s degree from Indiana University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of British Columbia.

Anne-Marie Wnek is a junior at the Eastman School of Music studying with Robin Scott. Since beginning her violin studies at the Peabody Preparatory, she has won first prize in numerous competitions, made her solo orchestral debut at the age of 9, and appeared as a soloist at such venues as Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. She has worked with Midori, Ida Kavafian, and Donald Weilerstein, among others. Last fall, Wnek’s trio received honors at Eastman.

Anthony Wu is a 19-year-old pianist from Columbia, MO. He is a second-year bachelor’s student at the Manhattan School of Music, where he studies under renowned concert artist and SMF faculty William Wolfram. This is his second year at the CC Summer Music Festival; in previous summers, Wu has also attended the Bowdoin Music Festival and performed as a soloist with the Eastern Music Festival Young Artists Orchestra. He is also an avid runner and roller skater.

Jooahn Yoo is a 21-year-old rising senior studying at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance under Dr. Amir Eldan. Originally from Edison, NJ, Yoo has been playing cello for 11 years and previously studied with Dr. Mira Kang. He is a regular substitute cellist at the Ann Arbor Symphony and has attended the Meadowmount School of Music and Chautauqua Music festivals.

Nayoung Sarah Yoo began her journey of orchestral music with the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra. In 2019, Yoo debuted as a soloist with the St. Charles Community College Symphony. The following year, she won the University City Symphony Concerto Competition, and she was selected as an ACA Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and School in 2023. Yoo holds a bachelor’s degree under the guidance of Glenn Dicterow at USC Thornton School of Music.

Madeleine Zarry is a 24-year-old violinist from Toronto, Ontario. She completed a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College and Conservatory, with a minor in cognitive science. Zarry has spent many summers training at world renowned summer festivals including CCSMF, National Repertory Orchestra, Orford Music and NYO Canada, where she was the 2020 winner of the Award of Excellence prize. She is currently pursuing an Advanced Musical Studies certificate at Carnegie Mellon University, where she serves as CMU Phil’s Concertmaster. In her free time, she loves to run around and play with her four rescues.

Celebrating Magafan’s Meadows in the Valley and the Arts at CC

The Summer Music Festival is pleased to feature Meadows in the Valley by artist Ethel Magafan to celebrate 40 years of bringing chamber and orchestra music to Colorado College and the Pikes Peak Community.

The unique painting on the front of our program is part of the permanent collection of works in O Beautiful! Shifting Landscapes of the Pikes Peak Region at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College. This piece perfectly suits the mood of our Festival: this majestic mountain view provides an epic backdrop to the beautiful sounds that have been filling the summer air here for decades. Like the Broadmoor Art Academy and now the Fine Arts Center, all past and present iterations of the Colorado College Summer Music Festival have greatly contributed to the cultural landscape of the college and our community.

Magafan, the daughter of a Greek immigrant father and Polish mother, was born Aug. 10, 1916, in Chicago, IL. Raised in Colorado Springs, she was exposed to the work of Matisse, Picasso and Cézanne by her high school art teacher, Helen Perry, who herself had been a student at The Art Institute of Chicago. Ethel and twin sister Jenne studied composition, color, mural designing and painting at Mechau’s School of Art in downtown Denver in 1933-34. In the summer of 1934 and for a time in 1936 they apprenticed with Frank Mechau at his studio in Redstone, CO. Ethel worked as a fashion artist at a department store in Denver until she could enroll in the Broadmoor Art Academy (now the Fine Arts Center), where the twins studied with Mechau, Boardman Robinson, and Peppino Mangravite. Ethel and Jenne became widely known for their murals painted during the Depression. Ethel’s first government commission was to produce a painting for the U.S. Post Office in Auburn, NE. Other paintings commissioned by the U.S. government hang in the U.S. Senate Chamber, the Social Security Building, the Recorder Deeds Building in Washington D.C., and in U.S. Post Offices in Denver, CO, Wynne, AR, and Mudill, OK.

As noted by the Fine Arts Center: “The natural landscape of spacious skies, amber waves of grain, and purple mountains majesty of which Katharine Lee Bates wrote, and would later become the famous anthem America the Beautiful, provided ample inspiration to late 19th and early 20th century painters. By the early 20th century, Colorado Springs was a popular tourist destination and a celebrated place for healing. Known as ‘Little London’ largely due to significant British financial backing, this nickname also represents a desire for the city to create a cultural landscape mimicking established cosmopolitan cities. The Broadmoor Art Academy was born in 1919 from these expressed ideals and soon attracted students from across the country to immerse themselves in the landscape. The Broadmoor Art Academy shifted in name and facility to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center in 1936, but the ongoing commitment to art education remained a pillar of the institution. ... As Colorado Springs continues to grow, so does the importance of a strong cultural identity. We are proud to have been an early and ongoing participant in this endeavor and strive to embrace the many avenues toward a doubly inclusive and dynamic FAC for all.”

SPECIAL THANKS TO

Pat Musick, visiting artist, Bemis School of Art

Linda Sagastume, instructor, Bemis School of Art

Jean Truty, data and stewardship specialist, Fine Arts Center

Frances Huntington, patron services manager, Fine Arts Center

Jon Adams, tickets, Fine Arts Center and SMF

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

Jenna Hunt, music events coordinator

Brenda Soto, assistant vice president for college events

Rotimi Ariyo, director, summer conferences and community events

Don Herbst, assistant director of campus planning/scheduling

Paul Martin, technical director, Department of Theatre and Dance

Kris Higginbotham, events coordinator

Richard Belton, lead events setup

Chris Rodriguez, events setup staff

Jay Jeanneret, director, Sodexo at Colorado College

Noel Dolan, creative director

Jamie Cotten, photographer and photo editor

Alexa Gromko, director of external relations and editorial content

Miriam Roth, internal communications manager

Owen Craft, graphic designer

Mark Lee, director of web UX and digital strategy

MUSIC FESTIVAL STAFF

Susan Grace, music director

Virginia Barron, associate director

Ann Van Horn, assistant director

Karen Britton, assistant to the assistant director

Liz Manring, print design and publicity

Shane Groothof, music production coordinator

Ian Day, assistant production coordinator

Justin Maike, music technical director

Jordan Bates, festival assistant

Sienna Busby, fall festival intern

Oliver Goslin, festival intern

Neo Li, festival intern

Serena Nguyen, festival intern

Forrest Tucker, fall festival intern

Pang Pongsirirushakun, festival videographer

Orlando Monroy, video editing

41 BEMIS SCHOOL OF ART Whatever your artistic interest and whatever your age or skill level, we have classes to drive your passions at the Fine Arts Center’s Bemis School of Art, a year-round facility. Experienced artists and art instructors and limited class size create a motivational and supportive environment to explore your creative potential. Art is self-care. artschool.csfineartscenter.org Deborah Jenkins Teske, conductor 2024-2025 Concert Season Save the Dates! Season Premiere Friday, Oct 11 ~ 7:30 pm St. Mary’s Cathedral Wintersong Saturday. Dec. 14~ 7:30 pm Sunday. Dec. 15 ~ 4:00 pm Shove Chapel Colorado College Taylor Memorial Concert Sunday, February 16 ~ 3 pm Grace & St Stephen’s Episcopal Church More details and events to be announced soon www cvae org

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH’s present building on the corner of St. Vrain and N. Tejon was completed in 1889 at an estimated cost of $40,000. Its design is in the Richardsonian Romanesque style and it is constructed of Colorado Wall Mountain Tuft (rhyolite) quarried near Castle Rock. The architect was Henry Rutgers Marshall of New York, an acclaimed student of Henry Hobson Richardson, and there is only one other church known to have been designed by him: Arlington Avenue Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, NY (1905). The first service in the current building was led by James Gregg on July 21, 1889, and the new building soon became a landmark in Colorado Springs.

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IS CELEBRATING 150 YEARS! Upcoming events and activities

June 23: Outdoor Worship & Block Party

June 28: Deadline for Hymn Writing (writing new hymns that reflect who we are as a community and selecting one to be our Sesquicentennial Hymn)

July 28: Pageant Review Performance

Aug. 18: All-Church Picnic in the Meadow

Sept. 8: Olde-Fashioned Ice-Cream Social

Oct. 26: 150th Anniversary Banquet

Fall: Panel of Past Council Moderators

September/October: Downtown Banners

Fall: Church Tours

All year: FCUCC Factoids by Gail Rutherford

And check out weekly interviews with members of the church on YouTube:

“Surely few churches there are with so many pillars. The many pillars in our portico seem suggestive of the spiritual life of the church within, its strength, its dignity, its peace.”

–Dr. James Gregg, October 1914

Learn more at www.fcucc.org

Congratulations to First Congregational Church and to Colorado College CELEBRATING 150 YEARS

Thefounding and beginning of Colorado College and the First Congregational Church are inextricably linked .

In 1874, Congregational minister Thomas Nelson Haskell, presented a proposal to the Conference of Colorado Congregational Churches to establish a Christian college in Colorado . On Feb . 17, 1874, with approval of a charter by a Board of Trustees, together they founded, and in a fashion similar to other colleges in the United States, The Colorado College .

With funding and gifts of land from William Jackson Palmer, and money from the Congregational Church in New England, the Reverend Jonathan Edwards, Pastor at the First Congregational Church lead the formation of classes downtown in buildings located in what is now Acacia Park

The Colorado College Summer Music Festival is proud to be celebrating 40 seasons and honored to be part of the college’s SESQUICENTENNIAL, presenting concerts to the community in celebration of our joint anniversaries.

A year later Rev. James G. Doughtery became the head of the new college, publishing its first catalog. Reverend Edward Payson Tenney, urging the college to become nondenominational, created the college’s present campus, and constructed its first building, Cutler Hall .

OF THE FOUNDING OF COLORADO COLLEGE AND THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Featuring the Festival Artists & Fellows 7 PM FRIDAY, JUNE 14 20 E. Saint Vrain St. Reception following in the Founder’s Room FREE! No tickets required Donations gratefully accepted

CONCERT IN CELEBRATION OF 150 YEARS

SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL

TOGETHER SESQUICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 8-11 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2

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Boris and Alin Allakhverdyan

47 Friday, July 12, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. Ent Center for the Arts at UCCS Chapman Foundations Recital Hall Experience the unparalleled talents of Boris and Alin Allakhverdyan. Boris, current principal clarinetist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, will mesmerize alongside his wife, Alin, a renowned concert pianist.

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