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The Mountains Are Calling by Sarah Mason-Reeder
FESTIVAL ARTISTS CONCERT
TUESDAY, JUNE 10
7 p.m., Packard Hall
Pre-Concert Lecture
5:45 p.m., Packard Hall Room 9
Bardin Sonatine en trio for brass
Roussel Duo for bassoon and double bass, L. 35
Françaix String Trio in C Major
Ravel Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet
Poulenc Sextuor for piano and winds
FESTIVAL ARTISTS
CONCERT
SATURDAY, JUNE 14
7 p.m., Packard Hall
Bach Trio Sonata from The Musical Offering, BWV 1079
Elgar Duett for trombone and double bass
Mahler Piano Quartet in A minor in one movement
Tansman Septet for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, viola and cello
Yoo Piano Quartet, Op. 1 (Colorado Premiere)
FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA CONCERT
Scott Yoo, conducting
TUESDAY, JUNE 17
7 p.m., Richard F. Celeste Theatre
Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center
Strauss Overture from Die Fledermaus
Pre-Concert Lecture
5:45 p.m. Cornerstone Arts Center Screening Room
Haydn Sinfonia concertante in B-flat Major, Op 84, Hob.I:105
Laura Frautschi, violin; Elizabeth Koch Tiscione, oboe; Michael Kroth, bassoon; David Ying, cello
Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
susan grace music director, piano
virginia barron associate director, viola scott yoo conductor
JUNE
7-27, 2025
MUSIC AT MIDDAY
12:15 P.M.
PACKARD HALL
• Monday, June 16
• Wednesday, June 18
• Friday, June 20
• Monday, June 23
• Wednesday, June 25
• Thursday, June 26
• Friday, June 27
Free
CHILDREN’S ORCHESTRA CONCERT
THURSDAY, JUNE 19
9 and 11 a.m., Richard F. Celeste Theatre
Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center Free ticketed event
L. Mozart Toy Symphony
Kapilow Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham
Michael Boudewyns and Sara Valentine, Really Inventive Stuff; Jennifer DeDominici, soprano
FESTIVAL ARTISTS
PRE-CONCERT RECITAL
THURSDAY, JUNE 19
5:45 p.m., Packard Hall, free
Featuring the music of John Novacek
Barcarolle (after Shenandoah) for piano trio
Rags for Two Jo(h)ns
Music for 8 (string octet) (Colorado Premiere*)
*Commissioned by the CC Summer Music Festival, Festival Mozaic, The Schubert Club, and the Seattle Chamber Music Society
FESTIVAL ARTISTS CONCERT
THURSDAY, JUNE 19
7 p.m., Packard Hall
Rossini Overture Barber of Seville for piano 6-hands
Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 for flute and guitar
Schulhoff Divertissement for oboe, clarinet and bassoon
Glière Suite for viola and double bass
Dohnányi Piano Sextet in C Major, Op. 37
FACULTY/FELLOW CONCERT AT FIRST CONGREGATIONAL
FRIDAY, JUNE 20
7 p.m., First Congregational Church, 20 E. St. Vrain St., Colorado Springs, free
SATURDAY, JUNE 21
2 p.m., Richard F. Celeste Theatre
Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center, free FELLOW CONCERTO READINGS
ON THE FRINGE
SUNDAY, JUNE 22
5 p.m., Richard F. Celeste Theatre
Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center
Stravinsky The Soldier’s Tale
Thomas Lindblade, director Actors: Nike Doukas, devil; Leo Marks, soldier; Jane Kaczmarek, narrator; Prentiss Benjamin, princess
Musicians: Sergei Vassiliev, clarinet; Michael Kroth, bassoon; Jean Laurenz, trumpet; John Rojak, trombone; Aaron Turner, percussion; Steven Copes, violin; Susan Cahill, bass; Scott Yoo, conducting
FESTIVAL ARTISTS
CONCERT
MONDAY, JUNE 23
7 p.m., Packard Hall
Pre-Concert Lecture
5:45 p.m., Packard Hall Room 9
Ewazen Dance for flute, horn and piano
Still Incantation and Dance for oboe and piano
Clayton Bach to Blues for solo double bass Beach Quartet for strings in one movement, Op. 89 Harbison Selections from Songs America Loves to Sing for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
Aldridge Tango for Gabriela for violin and brass ensemble
Rota Trio for clarinet, cello and piano
MUSIC AND ART TALK
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25
1:30 p.m., Agents of Care Hall
Colorado College Fine Arts Center, free
Celebrating the opening of The Many Travels of Mary Chenoweth exhibition at the Fine Arts Center.
Presenter: Alana Adams, Assistant Curator of Collections, FAC
FESTIVAL ARTISTS
PRE-CONCERT RECITAL
THURSDAY, JUNE 26
5:45 p.m., Packard Hall, free
Wind Extravaganza!
Featuring Festival Fellows and Faculty
Directed by Michael Thornton, horn
FESTIVAL ARTISTS CONCERT
THURSDAY, JUNE 26
7 p.m., Packard Hall
Bach Fantasia et Fuga in G minor, BWV 542
Tchaikovsky Herbstlied (Autumn Song) for clarinet and string quartet
Grieg Sonata for violin and piano in C minor, Op. 45
Glinka Grand Sextet in E-flat Major
FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA CONCERT
Scott Yoo, conducting
FRIDAY, JUNE 27
7 p.m., Richard F. Celeste Theatre
Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center
Dvořák Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104
Mark Kosower, cello
Shostakovich Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10
Pre-Concert Lecture
5:45 p.m. Cornerstone Arts Center Screening Room
Artwork on cover and details throughout: Mary Chenoweth, Untitled, 1977 From the collection of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College. Gift of Mary Chenoweth Estate. FA 1999.3.11
JUNE 7-27, 2025
susan grace, music director
virginia barron, associate director
scott yoo, conductor
CONTRIBUTORS
The following very special friends have contributed to the 2025 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
37th Street Foundation
Laurent Carrier
Carlton Gamer
Michael Grace
Jeffrey Haney
Sandra and Richard Hilt
Katherine Loo
Perrotti-Holmes Music Fellowship
Pam and Tom Sanny
$10,000 AND MORE THE GOLDEN BATON
Elizabeth and Arthur Aikin
Bain Family Foundation
Colorado College Cultural Attractions Fund
Susan and Michael Grace
Sandra Hilt in memory of Richard L. Hilt
Laurel and John 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 41st year, the present Summer Music Festival was founded in 1984 by John Giordano, conductor and music director of the Fort Worth Symphony; Elmer Peterson, dean of the CC Summer Session; and Michael Grace, chair of the music department and the first festival director. In 1987, Susan Grace, artist-in-residence at Colorado College, took over the director’s duties. Outstanding young musicians from around the world spend three weeks working closely with world-renowned faculty coaches in small
$7,000-$9,999 MUSIC DIRECTOR CIRCLE
Susan Ashley and Robert D. Lee
Timothy Fuller in memory of Kalah Powers Fuller
Esther Redmount and Harry White
$4,000-$6,999 CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE
Anne and Gary Bradley
Laurent Carrier
Susan Chamberlain and John Chalik
Dr. Paul Alan Feil
Jacqueline Lundquist and Dick Celeste
Becky and Jon Medved
Purple Mountain Group at Morgan Stanley
Margaret Satterfield in memory of Kathryn Rubin
Judith Sellers in memory of Dr. Buz Sellers
Daniel Tynan in memory of Nancy Ekberg Tynan
Kathleen Yasumura in memory of Kathryn Rubin
$2,500-$3,999 - DO
Bee Vradenburg Foundation
Lauren Ciborowski and Benjamin Harvey
Colorado College Music Department
Avis and Curtis Cook
Carol Freeman and Nicolas Wilson
Art Porter in memory of Judy Lewallen
Constance Raub
Libby Rittenberg and Nasit Ari
Pam and Tom Sanny
Michele Strub-Heer and Jordan Strub
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.
Darryl and Terry Thatcher
Webb Family Fund of Pikes Peak Community Foundation in memory of Barbara Webb
$1,500-$2,499 - RE
Ida Boatwright Hutchison Memorial Fund
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Ginny and Guy Cresap
Jan and Peter Fairchild
Elaine Freed in memory of Carlton Gamer
Jeff Haney
Nancy Hochman in memory of Bill Hochman
Dr. Susan Rae Jensen Scholarship Award Fund
Helene Knapp in honor of Cindy Knapp Lefton
Pamela and Stephen Marsh
Helen and Horst Richardson in memory of Bill Hochman
Nancy Roeder in memory of Prof. Emeritus
David William Roeder
Peggy Shivers
$1,000-$1,499 - MI
Carolyn and Toby Appel
Tim Bardwell
Peggy Berg and Jonathan Lee
Cindy Crater and Rex Kramer
Nicole de Naray
Jan Erickson and Jon Thomas
Michael Healy
Stefan Hersh
Lisa B. Hughes and Barry Sarchett
Lorna Lynn and Harold Palevsky
Lee and Jim Ringe
Cultural Attractions Fund
Jan Saffir and Paul Stephens
Jeffrey Schmoyer
Claire Taber
Karen and Charles Walter Keiko and Phillip Ying $500-$999 - FA
Anonymous
Anonymous
Caleb Cramer
Pam and Chet Dymek
Jane and Leo Ehrhard
Beverly Fulton
Jeanne Gignac in memory of Jan Keder
Jolinda Grace
Edie Greene and Alan Siegel
Louise and Jim Hunter
Jan Keder
Meg and Phil Kendall
Kaitlin Mahony and John Rojak
Tom Mauch
Marianna McJimsey
The Norberg Family Foundation
John Orsborn
Fran Pilch
Kathleen Ricker
Corinne Scheiner and David Weiss in honor of Susan and Michael Grace
Suzanne and Robert Smith
Daryll Stevens and Geoffrey Ames
Barbara and Joe Wilcox
Diane R. Williams $100-$499 - SO
Raghad Alwazzan and Abdulla Mizead
Susanne Anselmi
Peg Bacon and Julia Tanner
Philip Baldwin
Edison Barber
SHIVERS FUND AT
Barbara Bates
Brooke Bower
DeeAnn Brown
Helen Brown
Judy Brown
Stormy and Shane Burns
Bonnie and Thomas Clark in honor of Susan and Michael Grace
Ethne and Donald Clarke
Stephanie DiCenzo and Kent Borges
Cynthia and Chris Duff
Evelyn Epperson
Joan Ericson and James Matson
Ronit Even-Or and Ofer Ben-Amots
Jennifer Garrett and Rodney James
Barbara Gazibara
Judith Gerber
Herman Goellnitz
Kathleen and Eric Greenberg in memory of Jan Keder
Roslyn Haddock
Cheryl Hayman
Robin Izer
Ross Jacobsen
Gwen and Don Jenkins
Carol Keenan
Pat Kule and Paul Malek
Elizabeth and Michael Leslie
Inna Malyshev
Mary McKinley
Karen Mosbacher
Lisa Noll and Eric Leonard
Ruth Olson
Linda and Chris O’Shea in memory of Mark Seelye
Nancy Duncan Porter in memory of Jan Keder
Tomi-Ann Roberts
Susan and Danny Schnee
Jenny Shallenberger and Alan Schwartzman
Eve and David Sckolnik
Karen Shapiro
Barbara Simpson
Janet Sims
Chris and Michael Tessarowicz
Alice Tybout and Brian Sternthal in memory of Jan Keder
Ann Van Horn and Douglas Monroy in memory of Helene Knapp
Maggie Walsh
Michaela Ward in memory of Jan Keder
Judy and Charles Warren
Mark Warshaw in memory of Bill Hochman
Elizabeth Wieland
Joan Williams
Bert Wong
Amy Balk
Laurie Beattie
$1-$99 - LA
Linda Beidleman
Inger and Anthony Bull
M. K. Carlson
Lynn Cassel and Andrew Koss
Bayarmaa Dalkhjav
Marie Daniels
Stacey Flaten
Jennifer Friend
Melissa and Tad Foster
Ruth Garbarini
Lauren Gradisar
Jeanette Gregg and Alan Hassebrock
Lisa and Richard Hickey
Kathleen and Matt Hindmarch
Marisa Howe and Seth Webb
Susan Jefferson
Jessica Lamphere
Lynne Lange
Suzanne MacAulay
Isabelle and Steven Macdougall
Liz Manring and Claire Dahl
Laraine Martin
Jeffrey McCray
Wynn Miller
Rosalie Montgomery
Kyla Moore
John Moyer
Michelle Myers
Julie Orness
Laetitia Ouadah
FOUNDATIONS AND FUNDS
The Bain Family Foundation
The Bee Vradenburg Foundation
Ida Boatwright Hutchison Memorial Fund
Charities Aid Foundation of America
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Colorado College Cultural Attractions Fund
The Cook Family Contributors
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
GE Johnson Foundation
Dr. Susan Rae Jensen Scholarship Award Fund
The Medved Family Charitable Fund
The Norberg Family Foundation
The Pamela T. Marsh Donor Advised Fund
Purple Mountain Group at Morgan Stanley
The Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving
Schwartzman and Shallenberger Family
Charitable Giving Fund
Shivers Fund at Pikes Peak Library District
Lawrence Propp
Elisabeth Rebman
Karen and Ron Rubin
Michele Saad
Debbie Saccoliti
Meg Sedlak
Nancy Singleton
Cris Stoddard
Rita Thomas
Strub Heer Fund of Pikes Peak Community Foundation
Summation Wealth Group
Webb Family Fund of Pikes Peak Community Foundation
The Diane R Williams Annual Gift Fund
WINE DONATIONS
Susan Ashley and Robert D. Lee
Lauren Ciborowski and Benjamin Harvey
Avis and Curtis Cook
Timothy Fuller
Susan and Michael Grace
Sandra Hilt
Peggy McKinley (Coaltrain Fine Wines)
Jon and Becky Medved
Esther Redmount and Harry White
Daniel Tynan
Ann Van Horn and Douglas Monroy
Candice Tinnin
Elizabeth Anne Trinajstich
Sergei Vassiliev
Betty Virag
Sue Walker
Mitchell Webb
Nancy Wilson
Elizabeth Workman
SUPPORTING RADIO STATIONS
KCME
KRCC
CPR
American Public Media’s “Performance Today”
SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Nasit Ari
Lauren Ciborowski
Timothy Fuller
Michael Grace
Susan Grace
Jon Medved
Libby Rittenberg
Sandra Tiemens
Ann Van Horn
VIOLIN
Roger Chen, San Jose, CA, New England Conservatory of Music
Sponsored by Carol Freeman & Nick Wilson
Angelina Dong, Fair Lawn, NJ, Cleveland Institute of Music
Sponsored by Nancy Hochman
Dexter Doris, Hartsdale, NY, The Juilliard School
Sponsored by Terry & Darryl Thatcher
Dylan Hamme, Leonia, NJ, The Juilliard School
Sponsored by Sandra Hilt
Ayano Kimura, Wettingen, Switzerland, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
Sponsored by the Perotti-Holmes Music Fellowship
Liliana Mahave, Toronto, Ontario, Eastman School of Music
Sponsored by Susan Ashley & Robert Lee
Cecilia Beatrix Martin, Columbus, OH, Manhattan School of Music
Sponsored by Jacqueline Lundquist & Richard Celeste
Sophia Molina, Miami, FL, The Juilliard School
Sponsored by Laurent Carrier
Katharine Nelson, Flossmoor, IL, Indiana University
Jacobs School of Music
Sponsored by Elaine Freed
Gabriel Roth, Maplewood, NJ, Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music
Sponsored by Laurel & John Watkins
Laura Tillack, Demarest, NJ, Northwestern University
Sponsored by Pam & Stephen Marsh
Grace Weitzel, Stillwater, MN, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
Sponsored by Paul Alan Feil
Anne-Marie Wnek, Germantown, MD, Eastman School of Music
Sponsored by Michael Healy and Lisa B. Hughes & Barry Sarchett
Madeleine Zarry, Toronto, Ontario, Rice University
Shepherd School of Music
Sponsored by the Perotti-Holmes Music Fellowship
*Hazel Keithahn, Columbia, MO
*Yon Joo Lee, Colorado Springs, CO
*Cecilia Vallejos Ybarra, Colorado Springs, CO
*Elisa Wicks, Colorado Springs, CO
FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Scott Yoo, conducting
ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR
Sam Wu, Shanghai, China, Rice University Shepherd School of Music
Sponsored by Arthur & Elizabeth Aikin
VIOLA
Elizabeth Chernyak, Windsor, Ontario, Bard College Conservatory of Music
Sponsored by Jan & Peter Fairchild
Aliza Creel, Middlebury, CT, The Juilliard School
Sponsored by Sandra Hilt
Ludwig Jantzen, Greenville, NC, The Juilliard School
Sponsored by Virginia & Guy Cresap and Cindy & Rex Kramer
Elan Jiang, Leawood, KS, Yale University
Sponsored by Carolyn Meyer & Toby Appel and Jon Thomas
Diego Mieres, Caracas, Venezuela, University of Michigan
Sponsored by Libby Rittenberg & Nasit Ari
Hideaki Shiotsu, Mercer Island, WA, Eastman School of Music
Sponsored by Stefan Hersh and Peggy Berg & Jonathan Lee
Daniel Simmons, Queens, NY, Columbia University–Juilliard School
Sponsored by Keiko & Phillip Ying and Peggy Shivers
*Joshua Head, Colorado Springs, CO
CELLO
Ethan Blake, Colorado Springs, CO, Eastman School of Music
Sponsored by Art Porter
Campbell Gardiner, Huntington Beach, CA, Royal Academy of Music
Sponsored by Jeffrey Haney
Nathaniel Hagan, Cary, NC, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Sponsored by Susan Chamberlain & John Chalik
Felix Kim, Bothell, WA, Eastman School of Music
Sponsored by Sandra Hilt
Abigail Leidy, Spotsylvania, VA, Yale School of Music
Sponsored by Laurent Carrier
Gabriella McClellan, Athens, GA, University of Georgia
Sponsored by Katherine Loo
Isaac Pagano Toub, New York, NY, New England Conservatory
Sponsored by Susan Ashley & Robert Lee
BASS
Paul Gong, Irvine, CA, The Juilliard School
Sponsored by Kathleen Yasumura
Jeonghoo (Logan) Lee, Chandler, AZ, Boston University
Sponsored by Margaret Satterfield
Kurt Melendy, Beverly Hills, MI, University of Colorado
Boulder
Sponsored by Jeffrey Schmoyer and Lee & James Ringe
FLUTE
Jonah Murphy, Brooklyn, NY, Manhattan School of Music
Sponsored by Becky & Jon Medved
Wen-Hsin Weng, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Stony Brook University
Sponsored by Paul Alan Feil
*Allison Gioscia, Colorado Springs, CO
OBOE
Hoon Chang, Lakewood, WA, Lynn Conservatory of Music
Sponsored by Timothy Fuller
Suji Chang, Seoul, South Korea, Southern Methodist University
Sponsored by Michele Strub-Heer & Jordan Strub
CLARINET
Chris Dechant, Lucas, TX, The Juilliard School
Sponsored by Anne & Gary Bradley
Elias Gilbert, Santa Cruz, CA, Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
Sponsored by Kathleen Yasumura and Margaret Satterfield
BASSOON
Corey Castillo, Pleasanton, CA, University of Texas at Austin
Sponsored by Becky & Jon Medved
Landon Murr, Frisco, TX, University of North Texas
Sponsored by Pam & Tom Sanny
CONTRABASSOON
*Alejandro Vieira, Colorado Springs, CO
HORN
Alex Fanetti, Springfield, MO, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
Sponsored by Dr. Susan Rae Jensen Scholarship Award Fund and Dr. Lorna Lynn & Dr. Harold Palevsky
Lauren Goff, Commerce Township, MI, USC Thornton School of Music
Sponsored by Helene Knapp and Nicole de Naray
Christine Ott, Rochester, NY, Curtis Institute of Music
Sponsored by Jacqueline Lundquist & Richard Celeste
Arlet Tabares Martín, Philadelphia, PA, Temple University
Sponsored by Claire Taber and Tim Bardwell
TRUMPET
Steven Cozzuli, West Salem, OH, University of Wyoming
Sponsored by Avis & Curtis Cook
Sydney Hoehl, Litchfield, IL, University of Colorado Boulder
Sponsored by Constance Raub
*Kylie Holes, Colorado Springs, CO
TROMBONE
Mark Bennett, Leander, TX, University of Colorado Boulder
Sponsored by Nancy Roeder and Helen & Horst Richardson
Jihong Son, Seoul, South Korea, University of Michigan
Sponsored by Sandra Hilt
BASS TROMBONE
Aimen Hashish, Philadelphia, PA, Carnegie Mellon University
Sponsored by Susan Chamberlain & John Chalik
TUBA
*Joseph Boylan, Colorado Springs, CO
PIANO
Jasmin Abdunazarova, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, University of Georgia
Sponsored by Esther Redmount & Harry White
Ashley Lee, Fairfax, VA, Eastman School of Music
Sponsored by Janice Saffir & Paul Stephens and Karen & Charles Walter
Lan Fen Jocelyn Yang, Toronto, Ontario, Mannes School of Music
Sponsored by Lauren Ciborowski & Benjamin Harvey
TIMPANI
*Albert Ortega, Colorado Springs, CO
PERCUSSION
*Dick Carpenter, Colorado Springs, CO
*Nick Finley, Colorado Springs, CO
*Robert Jurkscheit, Colorado Springs, CO
*Aaron Turner, Colorado Springs, CO
*guest musician
Sonatine en trio for brass
TUESDAY, JUNE 10
7 p.m., Packard Hall
Allegro (1921-2010)
Andante
Fanfare-Allegro
Jack Sutte, trumpet; Michael Thornton, horn; John Rojak, trombone
Duo for bassoon and double bass, L. 35
Andantino (1869-1937)
Michael Kroth, bassoon; Susan Cahill, double bass
String Trio in C Major JEAN FRANÇAIX
Allegretto vivo (1912-1997)
Scherzo-Vivo
Andante
Rondo-Vivo
Ayano Ninomiya, violin; Toby Appel, viola; David Ying, cello
Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet
**Jenna Hunt, harp; Elizabeth Mann, flute; Jon Manasse, clarinet
Laura Frautschi, violin; Stefan Hersh, violin
Phillip Ying, viola; Bion Tsang, cello
Sextuor for piano and winds
RAVEL (1875-1937)
FRANCIS POULENC
Trés vite et emporté-Allegro vivace (1899-1963)
Divertissement-Andantino Finale-Prestissimo
**guest artist
John Novacek, piano
Elizabeth Mann, flute; Erin Hannigan, oboe; Jon Manasse, clarinet
Michael Kroth, bassoon; Michael Thornton, horn
This concert is sponsored by Robert Lee and Susan Ashley
Jon Manasse is the Tom and Pam Sanny Endowed Faculty Artist
John Novacek is the Richard and Sandra Hilt Endowed Faculty Artist
Trio Sonata from The Musical Offering, BWV 1079
SATURDAY, JUNE 14
7 p.m., Packard Hall
J. S. BACH
Largo (1685-1750) Allegro
Andante
Allegro
Elizabeth Mann, flute; Ayano Ninomiya, violin
David Ying, cello; **Eric Wicks, harpsichord
Duett for trombone and double bass
EDWARD ELGAR Allegretto (1857-1934)
John Rojak, trombone; Susan Cahill, double bass
Piano Quartet in A minor in one movement
John Novacek, piano
Laura Frautschi, violin; Phillip Ying, viola; Bion Tsang, cello
Septet for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, viola and cello
GUSTAV MAHLER (1860-1911)
ALEXANDRE TANSMAN Allegro molto (1897-1986)
Lento
Presto
Elizabeth Mann, flute; Erin Hannigan, oboe; Jon Manasse, clarinet
Michael Kroth, bassoon; Jack Sutte, trumpet; Toby Appel, viola; David Ying, cello
Piano Quartet, Op. 1 (2024; Colorado Premiere) SCOTT YOO
John Novacek, piano; Scott Yoo, violin; Phillip Ying, viola; Bion Tsang, cello
**guest artist
This concert is sponsored by Timothy Fuller in memory of Kalah Powers Fuller
Jon Manasse is the Tom and Pam Sanny Endowed Faculty Artist
John Novacek is the Richard and Sandra Hilt Endowed Faculty Artist
Overture from Die Fledermaus
Scott Yoo, conducting
Sinfonia concertante in B-flat Major, Op 84, Hob.I:105
TUESDAY, JUNE 17
7 p.m., Celeste Theatre
STRAUSS II (1825-1899)
JOSEPH HAYDN
Allegro (1732-1809)
Andante
Finale-Allegro con spirito
Laura Frautschi, violin; Elizabeth Koch Tiscione, oboe; Michael Kroth, bassoon; David Ying, cello
— INTERMISSION —
Please join us in the Main Space for catwalk capers.
Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Un poco sostenuto-Allegro-Meno allegro (1833-1897)
Andante sostenuto
Un poco allegretto e grazioso
Adagio-Più andante-Allegro non troppo, ma con brio-Più allegro
The audience is cordially invited to a post-concert celebration in the Main Space featuring LOOK’EE HERE! blues and jazz trio.
This concert is sponsored by Arthur and Elizabeth Aikin
Conductor and Faculty Artist Scott Yoo is sponsored by Michael and Susan Grace
JOHANN
SEASON 6 IS OUT NOW! Learn more
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 .
This new season’s four episodes spotlight the inspirations of Frédéric Chopin, Luigi Boccherini, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Agustín Barrios . All of these composers are expats or exiles, their music shaped by nostalgia for a homeland they couldn’t return to, and new friendships, ideas and opportunities in new places . Their careers were marked by loss and longing, but ultimately renewal and redemption . Yoo visits Poland, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, France, Switzerland, Mexico, and more to explore the musical evolution of these artists and play the compositions that solidified their musical legacy.
BARRIOS: CHOPIN OF THE GUITAR
RACHMANINOFF REBORN
BOCCHERINI: NIGHT MUSIC
CHOPIN’S POLISH HEART
THURSDAY, JUNE 19
9 a.m. and 11 a.m., Celeste Theatre
*Sam Wu, conducting featuring Really Inventive Stuff creative team
Sara Valentine
Michael Boudewyns and guest artist
Jennifer DeDominici, soprano
Virginia Barron, master of ceremonies
Toy Symphony
Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham
*festival fellow
Text by Theodor Geisel
This concert is sponsored by Children’s Hospital Colorado, Bee Vradenburg Foundation, and Webb Family Fund of Pikes Peak Community Foundation.
Fellow Assistant Conductor Sam Wu is sponsored by Arthur and Elizabeth Aikin.
LEOPOLD MOZART (1719-1787)
ROBERT KAPILOW (b. 1952)
(Dr. Seuss)
THURSDAY, JUNE 19
5:45 p.m., Packard Hall
Featuring the music of John Novacek
Barcarolle (after Shenandoah) for piano trio
John Novacek, piano; Stefan Hersh, violin; Bion Tsang, cello
Rags for Two Jo(h)ns
4th Street Drag Schenectady
Jon Manasse, clarinet; John Novacek, piano
Music for 8 (string octet) (2025; Colorado premiere*)
I. Step-to
II. Coconino
III. Heirloom Stomp (“Thinking of Jelly Roll”)
Steven Copes, violin; Stephen Rose, violin; Andrew Wan, violin; Stefan Hersh, violin
Alan Kay, clarinet; Mark Kosower, cello; William Wolfram, piano
This concert is sponsored by the estate of Miriam Bolner
Music Director and Faculty Artist Susan Grace is sponsored by the Bain Family Foundation
ROBERT ALDRIDGE
PRESENTER: ALANA ADAMS
Assistant Curator of Collections, FAC
Alana Adams is the Assistant Curator of Collections at the FAC . Adams received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2021 and her Master of Science from the University of Oxford in 2022 . Originally trained as an archaeologist, Adams became interested in museum work through volunteering on collections projects at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science . She assists with several projects at the Fine Arts Center, such as Gathering Place, ongoing research into artwork and artists represented in the permanent collection, and planning new exhibitions .
Photos of Mary Chenoweth courtesy of CC Special Collections
Chenoweth exhibition!
THURSDAY, JUNE 26 5:45 p.m., Packard Hall
Wind Extravaganza
Featuring Festival Fellows and Faculty Directed by Michael Thornton, horn
Please enjoy the wine bar in the Packard Courtyard between concerts.
This free concert is sponsored by the estate of Miriam Bolner
Fantasia et Fuga in G minor, BWV 542
THURSDAY, JUNE 26
7 p.m., Packard Hall
Alice Dade, flute; Nathan Hughes, oboe; Alan Kay, clarinet
Michael Kroth, bassoon; Michael Thornton, horn
Herbstlied (Autumn Song) for clarinet and string quartet
(1685-1750)
arr. A.R. Kay
(1840-1893)
arr. Tōro Takemitsu
Alan Kay, clarinet
Steven Copes, violin; Stefan Hersh, violin
Virginia Barron, viola; Mark Kosower, cello
Sonata for violin and piano in C minor, Op. 45
GRIEG
Allegro molto ed appassionato (1843-1907)
Allegretto espressivo alla Romanza
Allegro animato
Grand Sextet in E-flat Major
Scott Yoo, violin; Susan
, piano
GLINKA
Allegro; Maestoso (1804-1857)
Andante
Finale: Allegro con spirito
William Wolfram, piano
Andrew Wan, violin; Steven Copes, violin
Toby Appel, viola; Bion Tsang, cello; Susan Cahill, double bass
This concert is sponsored by Harry White and Esther Redmount
Conductor and Faculty Artist Scott Yoo is sponsored by Michael and Susan Grace Music Director and Faculty Artist Susan Grace is sponsored by the Bain Family Foundation
Grace
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FRIDAY, JUNE 27
7 p.m., Celeste Theatre
Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 .
Allegro (1841-1904)
Adagio, ma non troppo
Finale - Allegro moderato-Andante-Allegro vivo
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Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10 DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Allegretto-Allegro non troppo (1906-1975)
Allegro-Meno mosso
Lento-Largo
Allegro molto
This concert is sponsored by Judith Sellers in memory of Dr. Buz Sellers.
Conductor and Faculty Artist Scott Yoo is sponsored by Michael and Susan Grace.
Thank you for contributing to a very successful 41st season! We are grateful and look forward to seeing you in 2026.
Mark Kosower, cello
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 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, NY, and on more than 100 performances on tour.
Yoo was born in Tokyo and raised in Glastonbury, CT. He studied violin with Roman Totenberg, Albert Markov, Paul Kantor, and Dorothy DeLay, and conducting with Michael Gilbert and Michael Tilson Thomas. He has been the conductor of the Colorado College Music Festival since 2002, and the founder of the Medellín Festicámara, a chamber music program that brings together world-class artists with underprivileged young musicians. He attended Harvard University, where he received a bachelor’s degree. In 2021, he received an honorary doctorate degree from Colorado College.
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.
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.
Erin Hannigan, oboe
Oboist Erin Hannigan is the newly appointed Professor of Oboe at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, a position she will begin in 2025-26. She has been the principal oboist of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra since 2001 and, before coming to Dallas, she was a member of the Rochester Philharmonic. Hannigan has been a member of the Southern Methodist University faculty since 2002, where she is adjunct associate professor of oboe. She was previously a faculty member at the Eastman School of Music as instructor of Baroque oboe from 1996 to 2001. She has performed and taught at numerous summer festivals. In 2018, Hannigan received the prestigious Ford Musician Award for Excellence in Community Service from the League of American Orchestras for her annual Concert for Kindness, which has raised over $450,000 for animal rescue organizations.
Stefan Hersh, violin
Violinist Stefan Hersh enjoys a varied career, equally at home as a chamber musician, soloist, orchestral musician, and teacher. Hersh is currently the artistic director of Guarneri Hall NFP and serves on the faculty of the Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He is known nationally as a guest artist, teacher, lecturer, and performer. Hersh moved to Chicago in 1995 from Minneapolis, where he was principal second violin with the Minnesota Orchestra. He was the second violinist of the Chicago String Quartet, and a member of the Chicago Chamber Musicians until 2000. Hersh was associate professor at DePaul University from 1995-2003. Hersh was concertmaster of the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra from 19851989 and founded several chamber music series in the San Francisco area in the 1980s. In 1989, he joined the Vancouver Symphony as assistant concertmaster, where he remained until joining the Minnesota Orchestra in 1991.
Nathan Hughes, oboe
Nathan Hughes, a native of Saint Paul, MN, is Principal Oboe of the Minnesota Orchestra and a faculty member at The Juilliard School and Lynn Conservatory of Music. Previously Principal Oboe of the Metropolitan Opera and the Seattle Symphony, he has recorded, toured, and made guest appearances as Principal Oboe with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and San Francisco Symphony. An avid chamber musician, Hughes has performed with the Chamber Music Societies in Philadelphia, La Jolla, Seattle, and Brooklyn, as well as ChamberFest Cleveland, and Chamber Music Pittsburgh. In addition, he has made appearances at many festivals, and he has received critical acclaim for his performances as a concerto soloist. A dedicated teacher, his students have earned significant positions in numerous major symphony orchestras. Hughes earned degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and The Juilliard School.
Alan Kay, clarinet
Praised by the New York Times for his “spellbinding” performances and “infectious enthusiasm and panache,” Alan R. Kay is Principal Clarinetist and a former Artistic Director of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and serves as Principal Clarinet with New York’s Riverside Symphony and Little Orchestra Society. Recently, anonymous donors established the Alan R. Kay Music Scholarship in perpetuity at The Juilliard School, where he has taught for more than 40 years. A founding member of the Windscape Quintet, he is a regular guest in chamber music venues throughout the world. Also a conductor, Kay studied conducting at Juilliard with the late Otto-Werner Mueller and has led orchestras and chamber ensembles at Juilliard, Stony Brook and in the New York City area. He currently serves as Executive Director of the Stony Brook (University) Symphony Orchestra, which he conducts regularly.
Elizabeth Koch Tiscione, oboe
Elizabeth Koch Tiscione joined the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at the beginning of the 2007-2008 season as principal oboe. In addition to her responsibilities with the ASO, Ms. Tiscione plays Principal Oboe at the Grand Teton Music Festival, Strings Festival, Festival Mozaic and is a member of the Atlanta Chamber Players. She has performed as guest principal oboe with the orchestras of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, St. Louis, Detroit, KBS, Baltimore, Rochester, Buffalo, Jacksonville and the Orpheus and St. Paul Chamber Orchestras. She is on faculty at Kennesaw State University and maintains a private oboe studio out of her home. Elizabeth is married to another member of the Atlanta Symphony, trumpeter Michael Tiscione, and they have a son, Elio.
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.
Jean Laurenz, trumpet
Jean Laurenz, Assistant Professor of Trumpet at UW-Madison, is an eclectic musician who loves variety and collaboration. She primarily performs with Seraph Brass and the Wisconsin Brass Quintet. A soloist and chamber musician, Laurenz has enjoyed appearances with artists including Adele, The Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, and The Boston Pops. Also a passionate vocalist and stage performer, Laurenz builds multi-layered interdisciplinary projects which combine theater, singing, trumpet, visual arts, and storytelling. Most recently, she produced an award winning film and multimedia work, DESCENDED. She has also toured Europe with Lucerne Festival’s dance and theatrical production of Divamania. You can hear her on albums including Azul, with Yo-Yo Ma and The Knights, and in DESCENDED released through Bright Shiny Things.
Jon Manasse, clarinet
Among the most distinguished classical artists of his generation, clarinetist Jon Manasse is internationally recognized for his inspiring artistry, uniquely glorious sound, and charismatic performing style. Manasse’s solo appearances include New York City performances at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall. Manasse is also principal clarinetist of the American Ballet Theater Orchestra and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. In 2008, he was appointed principal clarinetist and ensemble member of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in New York City. Manasse was a top prize winner in the 36th International Competition for Clarinet in Munich and the youngest winner of the International Clarinet Society Competition. He is an official performing artist of both the Buffet Crampon Co. and Vandoren. Manasse is on the faculties of The Juilliard School, The Lynn Conservatory, and The Mannes School of Music.
Elizabeth Mann, flute
Elizabeth Mann is a featured performer in concert halls throughout the United States, Europe, and the Far East. She is the principal flutist of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the St. Luke’s Chamber ensemble, and is a member of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Mann has been a featured performer at various festivals including the, Santa Fe Chamber Festival the Lochenhaus Festival in Austria, Caramoor International Music Festival, the Moab Music Festival and principal flute for the Mostly Mozart Festival. She has
been principal flute of the Santa Fe Opera, flutist of the Dorian Wind Quintet, played principal flute with the Minnesota Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony, and performed with the Boston Symphony and the New York Philharmonic. She can be heard on over 100 recordings. Most recently she released a CD with harpist Deborah Hoffman, titled “Reflections” of Chopin transcriptions, receiving critical acclaim. Mann also teaches seminars at Juilliard.
Ayano Ninomiya, violin
Winner of numerous prizes including the Walter Naumburg International Competition, Tibor Varga International Competition, Astral Artists National Auditions, Young Performers Career Advancement, and Lili Boulanger awards, Ninomlya has performed with orchestras across the U.S., Switzerland, Bulgaria, and most recently in Carnegie Hall. She has performed at the Marlboro, Ravinia, Moab, Bowdoin, Kingston, Adams (New Zealand), Canberra International (Australia), and Prussia Cove (England) festivals. She has been featured on Musicians from Marlboro tours in the U.S. and France, and gave a TEDx talk in 2012 at the University of Tokyo. She was first violinist of the Ying Quartet and was Associate Professor at the Eastman School of Music until 2015, when she joined the violin faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music.
John Novacek, piano
Grammy-nominated pianist John Novacek regularly tours the Americas, Europe, and Asia as solo recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist; in the latter capacity he has presented more than 30 concerti with dozens of orchestras. Novacek’s major American performances have been heard in New York City’s Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall, Washington’s The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Chicago’s Symphony Center and Los Angeles’ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Hollywood Bowl and Royce Hall, while international venues include Paris’ Theatre des Champs-Elysées, Salle Gaveau and Musée du Louvre, London’s Wigmore Hall and Barbican Centre, and most of the major concert halls of Japan. He is a frequent guest artist at festivals, here and abroad. Often heard on radio broadcasts worldwide, Novacek has appeared on NPR’s “Performance Today,” “St. Paul Sunday” and, as both featured guest composer/performer, on “A Prairie Home Companion” with Garrison Keillor. Novacek tours widely as a member of Intersection, a piano trio that includes violinist Laura Frautschi and cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper. His original compositions have been widely performed and recorded by major international soloists and ensembles. He has recorded more than 35 CDs, encompassing solo and chamber music by most major composers and many original scores. Novacek is a Steinway Artist.
John Rojak, bass trombone
John Rojak became a member of the American Brass Quintet in 1991, joining their residencies at The Juilliard School and the Aspen Music Festival. He is bass trombonist of the New York Pops, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Iris Orchestra, Stamford Symphony, and Little Orchestra Society. Rojak has performed and recorded with the New York Philharmonic, Orpheus,
and Solisti New York, and performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and Boston Symphony. His Broadway shows include “Les Miserables,” “Sugar Babies,” and “The Producers.” Rojak has performed with Metallica, Peter Gabriel, and Styx, as well as for Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis. Solo CDs include “Rojak Rocks” on Navona, “The Romantic Bass Trombone” on MMC, “Bass Hits, The Bass Trombone Concerti of Eric Ewazen” on Albany Records, and “The Essential Rochut” on Belle Records. Rojak has given master classes throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, Australia, Brazil, and Mexico. He also serves on the faculties of The Juilliard School and the Aspen Music Festival and School.
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, Sutte 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.
Michael Thornton, horn
Michael Thornton enjoys a distinguished and varied career as an orchestral performer, chamber musician, soloist, and pedagogue. Thornton has performed on six continents with acclaimed ensembles and has presented master classes at prestigious musical institutions. Thornton holds concurrent appointments as principal horn of both the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Colorado Symphony. He joined the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in 2017 and joined the Colorado Symphony Orchestra during the 1997 season. Before joining the CSO, he left his studies at The Juilliard School to become the principal horn of the Honolulu Symphony. In 1999, Thornton was appointed to the faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder, where he serves as the associate professor of horn. Thornton has twice received the Marinus Smith Award, which is bestowed upon CU Boulder teachers who have made significant contributions to their students’ development.
Bion Tsang, cello
Cellist Bion Tsang has been internationally recognized as one of the outstanding instrumentalists of his generation: among his many honors are an Avery Fisher Career Grant, an MEF Career Grant and the Bronze Medal in the IX International Tchaikovsky Competition. Tsang earned a Grammy nomination for his performance on the PBS special A Company of Voices: Conspirare in Concert (Harmonia Mundi). Tsang has appeared as soloist with such orchestras as the New York, Mexico City, Moscow, Busan and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestras, the National, American, Pacific, Delaware and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras, the Saint Paul and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestras, the Louisville Orchestra and the Taiwan National Orchestra. Tsang resides in Austin, TX, where he is Division Head of Strings and holds the Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Chair in Cello at the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin. He was the recipient of the Texas Exes Teaching Award after just his first year of service and soon after was named “Instrumentalist of the Year” by the Austin Critics Table.
Andrew Wan, violin
Andrew Wan was named concertmaster of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (OSM) in 2008. As soloist, he has performed worldwide under conductors such as Rafael Payare, Kent Nagano, Maxim Vengerov, Vasily Petrenko, Bernard Labadie, Carlo Rizzi, Peter Oundjian, Xian Zhang, Michael Stern and James DePreist. He has played chamber music with artists such as the Juilliard Quartet, Vadim Repin, Marc-André Hamelin, Daniil Trifonov, Menahem Pressler, Jörg Widmann, Emanuel Ax, Johannes Moser, Arabella Steinbacher, James Ehnes, and Gil Shaham as a frequent artist at the Seattle Chamber Music, La Jolla Summerfest, Ottawa Chamberfest, Toronto Summer Music, Orford Musique, St. Prex, Colorado College and Olympic festivals. Wan performs regularly as guest concertmaster for the Pittsburgh, Houston, Indianapolis, National Arts Centre, Toronto and Vancouver Symphony orchestras. Wan enjoys a collaborative relationship with Canadian pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin, silver medalist of the 17th Chopin International Piano Competition, with whom he has recorded all 10
Beethoven sonatas for piano and violin. Wan graduated from The Juilliard School with Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, and Artist Diploma degrees. He is currently a member of the New Orford String Quartet, Associate Professor of Violin at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, and Artistic Director of the Prince Edward County Chamber Music Festival. Wan performs on a 1744 Michel’Angelo Bergonzi violin, and gratefully acknowledges its loan from the David Sela Collection. He also enjoys the use of an 1860 Dominique Peccatte bow from Canimex.
William Wolfram, piano
American pianist William Wolfram was a silver medalist at both the William Kapell and the Naumburg International Piano Competitions and a bronze medalist at the prestigious Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow. Wolfram has appeared with many of the greatest orchestras of the world and has developed a special reputation as the rare concerto soloist who is also equally versatile and adept as a recitalist, accompanist and chamber musician. In all of these genres, he is highly sought after for his special focus on the music of Franz Liszt and Beethoven and is a special champion for the music of modernist 20th century American composers. His concerto debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony under the baton of Leonard Slatkin was the first in a long succession of appearances and career relationships with numerous American conductors and orchestras. As an educator and teacher, Wolfram is the head of the Piano Department at the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina. Most recently, Wolfram has been appointed to the Piano Faculty at the Manhattan School of Music, where he teaches chamber music and piano seminar. A graduate of The Juilliard School, Wolfram has two grown daughters. He resides in New York City with his wife.
David Ying, cello
David Ying is well known to concert audiences as the cellist of the Grammy Award-winning Ying Quartet. With the quartet, he has performed worldwide in celebrated music venues from Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House. Ying first pursued chamber music avidly as a teenaged student at the Eastman School of Music with his piano trio, which was awarded first prize at the Coleman Chamber Music Competition. Later, he would also win the Naumburg Chamber Music Award, this time with the Ying Quartet. Ying is also highly regarded as an individual artist, having won prizes in the Naumburg Cello Competition and in the Washington International Competition. Ying serves on the cello and chamber music faculty at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he and Elinor reside with their two children.
Phillip Ying, viola
Phillip Ying, as violist of the Ying Quartet, has performed across the United States, Europe and Asia. He has won the Naumburg Award for Chamber Music, has won a Grammy for a collaborative recording with the Turtle Island String Quartet, and has been nominated three additional times, most recently for a collaborative album with pianist Billy Childs. Ying is an associate
professor of chamber music and viola at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. From 2001-2008, he was named, with the Ying Quartet, Blodgett Ensemble in Residence at Harvard University. Additionally, he served a six-year term as president of Chamber Music America, a national service organization for chamber music ensembles, presenters, and artist managers, and has been published by Chamber Music magazine.
GUEST ARTISTS
Jennifer DeDominici is a true crossover artist, having performed major roles in opera, musical theater, concerts, and even film. She has been seen on the stages of many venues in Colorado Springs and across the U.S. She worked with Tim Rice on his show for the Seabourn Cruise Line and joined a star-studded cast in a concert version of My Fair Lady featuring Emmy-award-winning Peter Scolari and Broadway artist Elena Shaddow, which played with the Milwaukee Symphony and North Carolina Symphony. DeDominici has also sung with the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs, the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, the National Repertory Orchestra, the Fresno Philharmonic, the Cleveland Pops, and the Denver Philharmonic. She was an Apprentice Artist at the Santa Fe Opera and at Anchorage Opera and has performed at Central City Opera, Indianapolis Opera, San Diego Opera, Piedmont Opera, Opera Fort Collins, Opera Theatre of the Rockies, and Opera Colorado. She is a first-place winner of the Denver Lyric Opera Guild Auditions, a NATS Singer of the Year, and a four-time Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
Colorado harpist Jenna Hunt received her bachelor’s degree in jazz performance at University of Northern Colorado in 2015 and completed her master’s degree in harp performance at University of Denver Lamont School of Music in 2020. She has studied under Ann Marie Liss, Grace Browning and Kathy Bundock-Moore and she regularly performs with orchestras including the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs, the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. In addition to performing as a soloist, chamber musician, jazz musician, and orchestra musician, she maintains a private lesson studio for aspiring harpists of all ages. She is currently the harp instructor at Colorado College and the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.
Colin McAllister is Director of Humanities and an Associate Professor in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, where he directs the Sagitta Guitar Ensemble and organizes the Solertia Humanities Speaker Series. He has recorded on the MicroFest, Summit, Innova, Centaur, Naxos, Albany, Old King Cole, Vienna Modern Masters, Carrier, and Tzadik labels. McAllister is the guitarist and conductor for the ensemble NOISE, and a co-founder of the soundON Festival, held annually since 2007 in La Jolla, CA. He performs regularly with guitarists Derek Keller and Wayne Wilkinson, and leads his own jazz quartet, which can be heard monthly in various venues in Colorado
Springs. A dedicated performer of contemporary repertoire, McAllister has given more than 100 first performances, including the U.S. premiere of works by leading European composers Chaya Czernowin, Franco Donatoni, Brian Ferneyhough, Beat Furrer, Vinko Globokar, Helmut Lachenmann and Rolf Riehm.
Aaron Turner is an active percussionist, educator, and composer in Colorado Springs. He currently teaches percussion at Colorado State University-Pueblo. Turner has performed with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, United States Air Force Academy Band, and Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra. He is the co-leader of a flute and marimba duo, the Timberline Players. He has published original compositions and arrangements with C. Alan Publications and Permus Publications. Turner holds a Bachelor of Music from Lawrence University in percussion performance and a Master of Music from the University of North Texas in percussion performance with an emphasis in jazz studies.
Sergei Vassiliev is the founder of Educational Partnerships Immersive Concerts (EPIC), a non-stuffy classical concert series that received the Peak Arts Prize upon its inception in 2020 and has been described by the Colorado Springs Gazette as “not your parents’ classical music series.” Vassiliev has served as principal clarinetist with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra since 2009. A versatile musician, Vassiliev has appeared throughout the U.S. and Europe as a soloist, chamber musician, and clinician. He maintains a sought-after teaching studio in Colorado Springs and has served on the faculties of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs and Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Vassiliev holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Rice University, and the University of Southern California.
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.
In 2005, the creative team of Sara Valentine and Michael Boudewyns co-founded Really Inventive Stuff, a production company creating playful, theatrical programs for orchestra concerts for young audiences; it has since become one of the most popular presenters of its kind. Really Inventive Stuff’s productions are created with a core commitment to imaginative, playful, and entertaining storytelling while keeping the music in the spotlight. Valentine made her solo orchestra debut in 2007 with the Philadelphia Orchestra. In addition to performing, she
creates the many props and puppets used in the Really Inventive Stuff productions. Boudewyns made his solo orchestra debut in 2004 with the Philadelphia Orchestra. As the communication expert for Really Inventive Stuff, he has been the primary outreach coordinator and booking agent for the company. Together, with his moustache, he has performed over 160 concerts of Really Inventive Stuff’s signature production, Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf
THEATRICAL ARTISTS
Prentiss Benjamin trained under the Bolshoi ballerina Alla Khaniashvili in Los Angeles. There, she performed soloist roles from ballets including Legend of Love, Don Quixote, Giselle, Raymonda, The Sleeping Beauty, Dying Swan, and Romeo and Juliet. She was a finalist in the prestigious Music Center Spotlight Awards. While in New York, she taught and performed with Manhattan School of Ballet and currently teaches at UCCS. Benjamin is also a stage actress, having performed extensively in Colorado at Theatreworks and The Arvada Center. In New Jersey, she has worked extensively at Playwrights Theatre, originating roles in new plays including the award-winning Sunrise at Monticello. She is a graduate of Northwestern University and a proud member of Actor’s Equity.
Nike Doukas was recently named the Artistic Director of the Anteaus Theatre Company. She has appeared in 20 productions at the South Coast Repertory Theatre, and has also appeared at The Pasadena Playhouse, The Ojai Playwright’s Festival, The Mark Taper Forum, The Old Globe, The American Conservatory Theatre, The Berkeley Repertory Theatre, ACT (Seattle), The LA Shakespeare Festival, The Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, PICT Theatre, Kinetic Theatre, and the Jewel Theatre. She was most recently seen on television guest starring on the new Frasier and NCIS. As a director her work includes productions at The Antaeus Company, A Noise Within, The Ensemble Theatre, North Coast Repertory, The Jewel Theatre, Playwright’s Arena and PICT Classic Theatre. Doukas is a recipient of a 2011 Lunt Fontanne Fellowship, awarded to regional theatre actors, and she has an MFA in acting from the American Conservatory Theatre.
Originally from Switzerland, Patrizia Herminjard is a choreographer, filmmaker, dancer, mother, and educator with a passion for exploring human connection through movement and digital media. Currently a lecturer in the Theater & Dance Department at Colorado College (class of ’96), her work focuses on creating socially engaged projects for the stage and screen. Herminjard’s approach to her craft has been shaped by the guidance and inspiration of Yunyu Wang, Pearl Lang, Donald McKayle, and Eiko Otake, whose mentorship continues to influence her work as an artist and educator. She serves as the Director of Cinematic Engagement for the International Museum of Dance (IMOD), where she supports the democratization of Dance Cinema by curating accessible and thought-provoking content.
Jane Kaczmarek is best known for her role as Lois on television’s award-winning Malcolm in the Middle, for which she received seven consecutive Emmy nominations , multiple Golden Globe and S.A.G. nominations, as well as the Television Critics Award two years running — the only woman to be so honored. After graduating from The University of Wisconsin and Yale School of Drama, her career began with the iconic TV series St Elsewhere, The Paper Chase, and Hill Street Blues and the feature film Falling in Love with Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro . She has starred in innumerable films and television series since, and continues in her role as Judge Constance Harm on The Simpsons. Kaczmarek co-starred with LaKeith Standfield on Apple TV’s limited series The Changeling, and she will appear with Alfred Molina on the Duffer Bros. new Netflix series, The Boroughs. A great lover of classical music, Kaczmarek is a trustee of the Pasadena Conservatory of Music appearing in their Musical Interlude Concert Films on Erik Satie, pianist and holocaust survivor Alice Herz Sommers, and Bel Canto by Ann Patchett.
Thomas Lindblade was the National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professor at Colorado College, and was the college’s inaugural T. William and Nancy Bryson Schlosser Professor of the Arts. He taught in Colorado College’s Department of Theatre and Dance, where he served 14 years as chair between 1995 and 2009. He hails from Minnesota and came to Colorado College after receiving his Bachelor of Arts fromthe University of Wisconsin (1979), his Master of Arts from the University of Minnesota (1982), and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in drama and humanities (1989). Since 1982, Lindblade has been an active theatre professional in the San Francisco Bay Area, directing, musical directing, conducting, and dramaturgy more than 40 productions for TheatreWorks, the Magic Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Solo Mio Festival (Climate Theatre), and the California Shakespeare Festival.
Leo Marks’s recent credits include reprising the role of Shylock in Sarah Mantell’s Everything That Never Happened at Baltimore Center Stage (which he originated at Boston Court Theater); the roles of Walt Disney, Joseph Goebbels and Ernst Jaeger in Tom Jacobson’s Crevasse; and Mayer Lehman in The Lehman Trilogy at Ensemble Theater Company. He was a founding member of New York’s Elevator Repair Service, and is a proud member of Antaeus and Rogue Machine. He’s an Obie Award winner, and has received multiple best acting nominations from the LA Drama Critics Circle, Stage Raw, and the LA Ovations. With a crack team of co-conspirators, Marks was awarded the 2023 LA Drama Critics Gordon Davidson Award as well as the 2023 Stage Raw “Queen of the Angels” Award for his co-leadership of a coalition whose efforts led to the passage of California state law SB1116, the Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund. Recent on-camera credits include FBI: International and “Red” in Academy Award nominee Pedro Kos’ feature film In The Blood
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 graduated from Uspenskiy School of Music and Lynn Conservatory, and she is now pursuing a master’s degree at UGA’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music. Born into a musical family in Uzbekistan, she began playing piano at age 3. She won several piano competitions and received the “Tasanno” prize from the Republic of Uzbekistan. She has collaborated with Turkistan Orchestra and participated in prestigious festivals and masterclasses. A gymnastics enthusiast, she also competed in regional and Asian rhythmic gymnastics competitions.
Mark Bennett is currently completing his master’s degree in trombone performance at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is a member of the graduate brass quintet in residence, The Flatiron Five. Before moving to Colorado, he received his bachelor’s degree in trombone performance at Baylor University. Last summer, he was a fellow at the Brevard Music Center. Bennett has performed with the Waco Symphony Orchestra, Abilene Philharmonic, and the New World Symphony.
Hailing from Colorado Springs, cellist Ethan Blake recently received a Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Colorado Boulder. He has performed with the Rochester Philharmonic and Colorado Symphony, and he was previously a member of the Alabama Symphony and the Boulder Philharmonic. This fall, Blake joins the Buffalo Philharmonic as assistant principal cello. His past mentors include David Ying, David Requiro, Alice Yoo, Matthew Zalkind, and Anne Marie Dawson.
Corey Castillo is a recent graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, having previously earned his Bachelor of Music at UCLA. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, he served as the contrabassoonist for the California Young Artists Symphony and shared innovative music-making with Los Angeles-based ReedPlay Quintet. Away from the bassoon, Castillo is a passionate marching arts educator for high school band programs and the Denver-based Blue Knights Drum and Bugle Corps.
From Lakewood, WA, Hoon Chang attended the Interlochen Arts Academy under Dr. Dane Philipsen. He then received a bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University under Martin Schuring. Currently, Hoon is a master’s student at the Lynn Conservatory of Music under Nathan Hughes. While at Lynn, he has been named runner-up at auditions for the Syracuse Orchestra and the North Carolina Symphony. He has also performed with the North Carolina Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra.
Suji Chang is an oboist from Seoul, South Korea, who completed her undergraduate studies at Kyunghee University and earned her master’s in music from the University of North Texas. She is pursuing a Performance Diploma at Southern Methodist University. Chang has won several competitions in Korea and placed in ensemble contests in Korea and the U.S. She has performed with the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas and teaches musicians, building a career in orchestral performance and education.
Violinist Roger Chen was born and raised in the Bay Area, California. He is a rising sophomore currently pursuing his undergraduate degree at the New England Conservatory of Music under Ayano Ninomiya. His previous teachers include David Chernyavsky, Eric Chin, and Ryan Chen. Outside of music, Chen enjoys drawing, playing tennis, watching movies, and exploring new restaurants to try.
Elizabeth Chernyak is a Canadian violinist and violist recently graduated from the Bard College Conservatory of Music. She is a student of Luosha Fang and Melissa Reardon and has previously studied with Daniel Phillips and Marka Gustavsson. Chernyak has attended Eastern, Round Top, ENCORE, Borromeo, and Music Mountain summer festivals, as well as the New York String Orchestra Seminar.
Steven Cozzuli is a native of West Salem, OH, and graduate of Oberlin Conservatory. He holds a Master of Music from the University of Wyoming, where he was a Graduate Teaching Assistant and Instructor of Brass Chamber Music. Cozzuli has performed for the 2022 United Nations Gala Concert as well as inter-
nationally in France, Spain, and Brazil. He is extremely grateful for his instructors Roy Poper, Dr. David Wharton, and Dr. Ken Holzworth.
Aliza Creel is a violist studying under Molly Carr at The Juilliard School. She is an avid chamber musician and has performed at the Perlman Music Program and Kinhaven Music School. In 2022, Creel toured Europe as principal violist of the U.S. National Youth Orchestra. She has an interest in new and underrepresented music and has premiered four student chamber compositions at Juilliard, as well as a new arrangement of This Earth by Matthew Aucoin at Carnegie Hall.
Chris Dechant is a clarinetist from Dallas, currently in his second year at The Juilliard School. As an avid solo, chamber, and orchestral musician, he has performed with groups across the country, including the Juilliard Orchestra, New York String Orchestra Seminar, Aspen Music Festival, and Fort Worth Symphony. In his free time, Dechant enjoys cooking, reading, and — more often than he should — playing even more clarinet.
Originally from New Jersey, Angelina Dong is a violinist currently studying at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Jessica Lee and Stephen Rose, and previously with Jaime Laredo. She has attended Music Academy of the West and the Aspen Music Festival as a fellowship recipient, as well as the Heifetz International Music Institute and the Meadowmount School of Music. As a chamber musician, Angelina has been a member of the Advanced String Quartet Program at CIM for the past two years. She has worked with members of Emerson, American, Tokyo, Calidore, Borromeo, Orion, and Dalí quartets.
Dexter Doris is a violinist from New York, currently pursuing his Bachelor of Music degree with Laurie Smukler. At the age of 13, he was admitted into Juilliard’s Pre-College to study with Ann Setzer. During this time, he soloed with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sound Symphony of Long Island, and the Massapequa Philharmonic in concerti by Vieuxtemps, Saint-Saens, and Mozart. Doris is a 2022 YoungArts winner, a 2023 guest artist on NPR’s From the Top: Show #430, and has since then given public performances at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Zankel Hall.
Alex Fanetti received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Nevada Reno School of Music with Natalie Brooke Higgins, and he is currently pursuing a master’s degree under Margaret Tung and Scott Leger at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He performs as third horn of the Reno Philharmonic, and he has previously performed with the Kentucky Symphony and Tahoe Symphony, and as guest principal horn of the Lexington Philharmonic and the Eastern Sierra Chamber Orchestra.
Campbell Gardiner, a cellist from Huntington Beach, has been playing the cello since age 9. Gardiner graduated from Orange County School of Arts and attended the Royal Academy of Music. In previous summers, he has attended the Aspen Music Festival. He is now a member of the Civic Orchestra of Los Angeles and formerly a member of the American Youth Symphony. Gardiner is an avid baker and loves walking through the wetlands of Orange County.
Elias Gilbert is a clarinetist from Santa Cruz, CA. He is a graduate student in the studio of Alexander Fiterstein at Peabody Conservatory, where he also studies conducting with Harlan Parker. Gilbert graduated with a Bachelor of Science in computer science and mathematics in 2024 from Yale University, where he was assistant conductor of the Yale Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor of the Davenport Pops Orchestra.
Lauren Goff is a graduate student at the University of Southern California, studying with Julie Landsman. Goff is principal horn of the California Young Artist Symphony and the Civic Orchestra of Los Angeles, and she has previously performed at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles with USC. Goff studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she performed at Carnegie Hall twice. She has played with many different orchestral, wind, and chamber ensembles, including the Sarasota Music Festival in summer 2023.
After growing up in Irvine, CA, Paul Gong is now a freshman at The Juilliard School, pursuing a bachelor’s degree in double bass performance under the tutelage of Timothy Cobb. He has performed with the Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra, NYO2, and the Juilliard Orchestra. In addition to joining the Colorado College Summer Music Festival this summer, Gong will participate in the International Society of Bassists competition and attend the Aspen Music Festival.
Nathaniel Hagan is a cellist from Cary, NC. He is studying cello performance at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor with Dr. Amir Eldan. Hagan is Associate Principal Cello of the University Symphony Orchestra and has been a member of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra since the fall. Outside of music, he loves spending time outdoors and going to hockey games with his dad.
Dylan Hamme, a violinist from Leonia, NJ, is finishing his fourth year bachelor’s degree studying at Juilliard with Areta Zhulla. He was the winner of Juilliard’s Ligeti Violin Concerto Competition in 2024; that April, he performed the work with Juilliard’s Axiom Ensemble and Jeffrey Milarsky. He is a member of Juilliard’s coveted principal pool and has served as both
concertmaster and principal second in Juilliard Orchestra concerts. He also composes and has received commissions from NYC-based ensembles.
Aimen Hashish is an orchestral bass trombonist based in Pittsburgh, PA. He is currently in his third year of his undergraduate degree at Carnegie Mellon, studying with Jeff Dee and Peter Sullivan, bass trombone and principal trombone of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Hashish has performed with the New World Symphony and the National Orchestral Institute and Festival. He has worked with, Marin Alsop, Leonard Slatkin, JoAnn Falletta, and John Morris Russell.
Sydney Hoehl is a master’s student in trumpet performance at the University of Colorado Boulder. Hoehl is a versatile musician, experienced in orchestral, wind band, chamber, and jazz styles. She has been a trumpet fellow with Eugene Ballet’s Orchestra Next for three seasons and substitutes with multiple regional orchestras. Hoehl earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon. She is originally from Litchfield, IL, and in her free time enjoys traveling, hiking, yoga, and skiing.
Elan Jiang is a violist and first-year biology and astronomy major at Yale University. Originally from Kansas City, she is currently the assistant principal violist of the Yale Symphony Orchestra and has enjoyed attending the National Symphony Orchestra’s Summer Music Institute at the Kennedy Center in the past. Outside of music, she studies epileptic seizures in a lab at the Yale School of Medicine, works in a student-run biotech company, and teaches yoga.
Lou Jantzen, a violist from Greenville, NC, is currently a master’s student at the Juilliard School, studying under Professor Huang. He began learning the viola at age 5. As an undergraduate student, he studied with Professor Hsin-Yun Huang where he was part of the Columbia-Juilliard Program. At Columbia University, he majored in applied math and astrophysics, and graduated in the spring of 2025. For fun, Jantzen likes to take long walks and read about linguistics.
Felix Kim comes from Bothell, WA. He is a fourth-year student at the Eastman School of Music, studying with Steven Doane and Rosemary Elliott. Kim has soloed with the Cascade Symphony and the University of Washington Campus Philharmonia, and he has performed on Seattle’s KING 5 New Day Northwest and Classic KING FM 98.1 Northwest Focus Live. Kim was a member of the New York String Orchestra Seminar and the Pacific, Colorado College, and Sarasota music festivals.
Ayano Kimura has been studying for a Master Pedagogy with Alexander Sitkovetsky at the Zurich University of the Arts. At the age the age of 4, she began playing the violin and won numerous prizes at national and international competitions. In 2017, she was a prizewinner and scholarship holder at the Tokyo International Association Competition, and she won second prize at the Prof. Dichler Competition in Austria in 2018. She also performed in the Verbier Festival and Zermatt Festival.
Ashley Lee is a pianist from Fairfax, VA, pursuing a master’s degree at the Eastman School of Music, studying with Joseph Rackers. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory under the tutelage of Steven Spooner. She has previously attended the Sarasota Music Festival, Garth Newel Emerging Artists Program, Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival, and the National Symphony Orchestra’s Summer Music Institute.
Born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in Chandler, AZ, double bassist Logan Lee is finishing his bachelor’s degree at Boston University, studying with Edwin Barker. In Arizona, Lee began his bass study at the age of 14, studying under Dan Swaim. He has recently attended Taipei Music Academy and Festival and has been on tours in Taiwan.
Abigail Leidy, a cellist from Spotsylvania, VA, is pursuing a master’s degree at the Yale School of Music under the tutelage of Paul Watkins, former cellist of the Emerson String Quartet. She received her Bachelor of Music degree in cello performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Leidy won first prize in the 2024 Nancy F. Walker Memorial Scholarship Competition. She performs in Yale Philharmonia, Yale Cellos, and is an avid chamber musician.
Liliana Mahave is a violinist from Toronto, Ontario. She studies with Yoojin Jang at the Eastman School of Music where she is pursuing a bachelor’s in violin performance. She currently plays with the Cantante quartet, which was awarded the Celentano Award for excellence in string quartet chamber music this spring. She was the concertmaster of the Eastman Philharmonia in the past academic year, and she is a co-leader of Eastman’s Baroque ensemble, Collegium Musicum. In her spare time, Mahave enjoys baking, running, and walking her dog.
Cecilia Martin is a violinist from Columbus, OH, and currently a junior at the Manhattan School of Music, studying with Patinka Kopec. She has played under the baton of many leading conductors, such as Joshua Gersen, Michael Stern, Robert Moody, Matthias Pintscher, Karina Canellakis, Scott Yoo, George Manahan,
Leonard Slatkin, and JoAnn Falletta. Martin recently attended the Robert Mann String Quartet Institute in 2024.
Gabriella McClellan is from Good Hope, GA, and is a fourth-year undergraduate at the University of Georgia, pursuing a degree in cello performance under the instruction of James Kim. She was a winner of the UGA Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition and the MasterWorks Festival Concerto Competition in 2023, and a finalist in the PRISMA Festival Concerto Competition in 2024. She has served as principal cellist in the UGA Symphony Orchestra and the ARCO Chamber Orchestra, among others.
Diego Mieres, from Caracas, Venezuela, attended Colegio Emil Friedman for high school and graduated from the University of Michigan in May 2025. A student of Yizhak Schotten and Adriana Virguez, Mieres has performed as a soloist with the Orquesta de exalumnos del Colegio Emil Friedman and won second prize in the MASTA 2022 Elizabeth A.H. Green Solo Competition. He frequently shares the unique artistry that his home country of Venezuela has imprinted on him.
Kurt Melendy earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in spring 2025, focusing his research on body wellness for bassists. Previously, he received three graduate music degrees from the University of Michigan. He serves on the Board of Directors for the International Society of Bassists and helped organize their 2023 and 2025 conventions. Based in Colorado, Melendy freelances actively and is pursuing a career in higher education and performance, with a strong commitment to research-informed pedagogy.
Sophia Molina is a violinist from Miami, FL, who began her musical studies at the age of 4. Throughout her musical career, she has performed as soloist with multiple orchestras and has received several awards at both national and international levels. Molina recently completed her bachelor’s degree at The Juilliard School, studying under the tutelage of Hyo Kang, and she has a deep passion for chamber music. Outside of music, Molina holds a 200-hour Yoga Teaching Certificate and enjoys scrapbooking.
Jonah Murphy has graduate degrees in flute and composition from the Manhattan School of Music. His awards include first places in the Cynthia W. Mitchell-Ima Hogg Concerto Competition, Eisenberg-Fried Concerto Competition, New York Flute Club Competition, and others. Murphy recently performed Jacques Ibert’s Flute Concerto with the Houston Symphony, under the baton of Gonzalo Farias, and with the MSM Symphony, under the baton of JoAnn Falletta. He currently teaches young flute students at the ADCA-Washington Heights Community Conservatory of Fine Arts.
Landon Murr was born in raised in Frisco, TX. He is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in bassoon performance at the University of North Texas, where he studies with Darrel Hale. He performs with the UNT Concert and Chamber Orchestras, as well as the Mesquite Symphony Orchestra. In addition to his musical studies, he is also earning a degree in computer science, and outside of music, he works as a contract AI software trainer.
Katharine Nelson completed her undergraduate in violin in May 2025 at Indiana University, where she studied with Simin Ganatra. She has enjoyed summer music institutes at Bowdoin International Music Festival, Indiana University, the University of Michigan, and Chautauqua. Nelson has taken masterclasses and lessons with Sirena Huang, Jorja Fleezanis, Lindsey Deutsch, Stephanie Arado, Nurit Pacht, Vadim Gluzman, Mikhail Kopelman, Lina Bahn, Simin Ganatra, and both the Cavani and Verona String Quartets.
Christine Ott, from Rochester, NY, graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Jennifer Montone and Jeffery Lang.
Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, Matthew Lipman, Paul Neubauer, Teng Li, and the Borromeo String Quartet, among many others. He has also recently performed chamber music alongside esteemed artists such as Yura Lee and Benjamin Beilman. Currently, he is a student of Masumi Per Rostad at the Eastman School of Music.
Violist Daniel Simmons has performed at many prestigious music festivals, including New York String Orchestra, Toronto Summer Music, the Heifetz International Music Institute, Curtis Institute Summerfest and Tanglewood. In 2023, he attended the Conservatoire américain in Fontainebleau, France, where he won third prize in the Prix Ravel. Simmons studied economics at Columbia University, and he is now pursuing a master’s in music at The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Paul Neubauer and Steven Tenenbom.
Jihong Son is from Seoul, South Korea, and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Chamber Music degrees at the University of Michigan. Every summer, as a founding member of the Pacific Trombone Project, he performs and records commissioned works with professional trombonists in Asian and Pacific countries. He recently played in the Detroit Opera and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Before his graduate studies, he worked as a full-time kindergarten teacher.
Isaac Pagano-Toub is a cellist, composer, and improviser based in the NYC/Boston area. He is currently pursuing his master’s at New England Conservatory with Paul Katz. Before that, he studied at the Eastman School of Music with David Ying. In 2022, Pagano-Toub won the Eastman School of Music cello concerto competition and received a spot on the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. He has amassed a large body of compositions, including chamber music, choral music, film scores, and orchestral works, and has won numerous composition competitions.
Comfortable across genres, violinist Gabriel Roth has performed with Enrico Gatti and ARTEK, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, as well as the Syracuse, Mansfield, and Firelands Symphony Orchestras. Studying with David Bowlin, Amy Lee, and Edwin Huizinga, he recently completed his fourth and final year at Oberlin College and Conservatory, where he majored in history and violin performance and was elected to Pi Kappa Lambda.
A native of Mercer Island, WA, Hideaki Shiotsu’s passion for music started when he heard his brother and his friends play chamber music. Hideaki has attended the Heifetz, Music@Menlo YAP, Sarasota, and Bowdoin International Music Festivals and has performed in masterclasses given by
Arlet Tabares Martín is a Cuban French horn player, educator, and chamber musician currently pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts at Temple University. A versatile performer across classical and contemporary genres, she has collaborated with Symphony in C, The Orchestra San Antonio (TOSA), the Cuban and Ecuadorian National Symphony Orchestras, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Talent Development Program. She is a founding member of Havana Horns, with whom she recorded the acclaimed Mozart a la Mambo album alongside Sarah Willis of the Berlin Philharmonic.
Laura Tillack is pursuing her Bachelor of Music degree at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University with Jinjoo Cho. Her ensemble experience includes the New York Youth Symphony and Second Ending Ensemble. In 2023, she performed with the Sion Festival Orchestra as part of the Tibor Varga International Junior Violin Competition in Sion, Switzerland. She has previously attended the Meadowmount School of Music, Domaine Forget de Charlevoix, and the Encore Chamber Music Institute.
Grace Weitzel is a sophomore violin performance major at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, studying with world-renowned violinist and pedagogue Grigory Kalinovsky (formerly with Aaron Janse of the Minnesota Orchestra). With over a decade of performance experience, Weitzel is well known in the thriving music community of their home state of Minnesota and frequently performs at events and recitals in the Twin Cities. Weitzel is three-time finalist in the Minnesota Orchestra’s YPSCA competition and a current member of the JSOM Philharmonic Orchestra.
Wen-Hsin Weng, a Taiwanese-born flutist, is currently pursuing a DMA at Stony Brook University under Carol Wincenc, having previously studied with Sabina Shu-Chun Chiang. She has performed with the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, and Stony Brook University Orchestra. As director of Tonic Ensemble, she is an active chamber musician and advanced to the semifinals of the 2024 Kobe International Flute Competition.
Anne-Marie Wnek is a violinist from Germantown, MD, and a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Robin Scott and was awarded the Arts Leadership and Performer’s Certificates. Making her solo orchestral debut at age 9, Wnek has gone on to perform at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and win numerous competitions. She recently won a position with the Syracuse Orchestra and is a substitute violinist with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Alana Adams, assistant curator of collections, Fine Arts Center
Jean Truty, data and stewardship specialist, Fine Arts Center
Frances Huntington, patron services manager, Fine Arts Center
Linda Sagastume, instructor, Bemis School of Art
Peggy McKinley, owner, Coaltrain Fine Wines
Mike Grace, Grace Design
Libby Rittenberg and Nasit Ari, proofreader and friend of SMF
Lauren Ciborowski, arts writer and promoter of SMF
Lisa Gregory, music office coordinator
Ryan Seward, music librarian and Seay Library manager
Dave Dymek, music circulation coordinator
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
CC Events Staff and Summer Conferences
Sam Wu’s music “abounds in delicate colours, wisps of sound and sylvan textures” (Gramophone). His collaborations span five continents, notably with the orchestras of Philadelphia, Minnesota, Sarasota, Melbourne, Tasmania, Macao, and Shanghai; the New York City Ballet; the Lontano, Parker, Argus, ETHEL, and icarus quartets; and conductors Osmo Vänskä, Marin Alsop, and Miguel Harth-Bedoya. Raised in Shanghai, Wu received degrees from Harvard, Juilliard, and Rice, and is on the faculty at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA.
Jocelyn Yang, a Taiwanese-Canadian pianist, is pursuing her studies at the Mannes School of Music under John Novacek. She holds a Bachelor of Music in piano performance from the University of Toronto and is an alumna of The Royal Conservatory’s Taylor Performance Academy. She has won top prizes at the Canadian Music Competition, Arizona International Music Competition, and New York International Music Festival. Yang has performed at Steinway Hall, Klavierhaus, and Koerner Hall.
Madeleine Zarry is a violinist from Toronto, Ontario. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree at Rice University under the tutelage of Kathleen Winkler. She previously graduated from Oberlin Conservatory with a bachelor’s degree in violin performance and later completed an advanced musical studies diploma at Carnegie Mellon University studying with William van der Sloot. In 2022, Zarry was awarded associate concertmaster and concertmaster for Oberlin’s Carnegie Hall performances of Beethoven 9 and Nathaniel Dett’s The Ordering of Moses, respectively.
MUSIC FESTIVAL STAFF
Susan Grace, music director
Virginia Barron, associate director
Ann Van Horn, assistant director
Jordan Peeler, patron management assistant
Liz Manring, communications assistant
Shane Groothof, music production coordinator
Kwon Lazarus, assistant production coordinator
Schylar Woods, music technical director
Serena Nguyen, festival intern
Oliver Goslin, festival intern
Hazel Keithahn, festival intern
Massimo Flumian, festival intern
Neo Li, festival intern
BEMIS SCHOOL OF ART
Linda Sagastume Children’s Orchestra Concert art class instructor
For the Love of Music • thomas wilson, music director
Announcing Our 42nd Season
Whatever You’re Ready to Feel, Feel it Fiercely
A rollicking romp through the dance floor of the underworld. A profound journey of resilience where sound becomes the voice of the afflicted. An ancient myth where spiritual transcendence lies just out of reach.
One of music’s greatest strengths is its ability to activate our empathy — to let us hear another person’s expression of themselves, and understand where they came from, and how they came to feel the way they felt.
ORGAN SPECTACULAR X
Sun, Sept. 21 - 2:30PM • First UMC
What began as a one-time exploration of music for organ and orchestra — to celebrate the revitalization of Colorado Springs’ largest musical instrument — now reaches its 10th anniversary. Three of the city’s greatest organists will perform an all-American program that includes Hans Zimmer’s unforgettable soundtrack from Interstellar.
THE HUMAN EQUATION
Sat, Jan. 10 - 7:00PM • Sun, Jan. 11 - 2:30PM
Ent Center • Chapman Recital Hall
This concert speaks directly to the resilience and vulnerablity of the human heart. My Name Is Amanda Todd is a young girl’s message of hope, empathy, and tolerance in the face of bullying. Then, a new electric cello concerto from Colorado native Dylan Fixmer traces the arc of an artist’s journey out of darkness.
THINGS THAT GO BUMP
Fri, Oct. 31 - 8:00PM • Sun, Nov. 2 - 2:30PM Ent Center • Chapman Recital Hall
A rollicking romp through the dance floor of the underworld. A rapturous dream of diabolical origins. And the shrieking strings that defined slasher films for a generation. Join us for thrilling music that will leave you questioning what’s lurking in the shadows during this Halloweenweekend concert.
ALL IN GOOD HUMOR
Sat, Feb. 28 - 7:00PM • Sun, Mar. 1 - 2:30PM
Ent Center • Chapman Recital Hall
Sometimes you need music to help process pain. Other times, music might help you explore your inner self. Or, music can just make you smile. A shameless, sweet slice of chocolate cake — in concert form. Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 is a delight served up by our concertmaster, Jacob Klock, in a weekend of sweet escapism.
The Chamber Orchestra’s 2025-26 season is all about peering into hearts and souls: our own, and those of the incredible composers and artists whom we will feature. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll be struck with wonder. Whatever it is that our music helps you feel … you’ll feel it fiercely. www.chamberorchestraofthesprings.org
DANCES WITH THE WINDS
Sat, Dec. 6 - 7:00PM • Sun, Dec. 7 - 2:30PM Ent Center • Chapman Recital Hall
All four members of the flute family will take a turn in an ethereal, snowy concerto by Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara, performed by the winner of our 2024 Emerging Soloist Competition. We’ve paired this piece with an inventive and witty suite by Jacques Ibert and Beethoven’s fourth symphony.
ASCENDING
Sat, May 2 - 7:00PM • Sun, May 3 - 2:30PM
Ent Center • Shockley Zalabak Theater
Ascending Bird describes the journey of a mythic bird that tries to reach the sun — it tries and fails before finally reaching the radiant embrace of the sun and losing its physical body in a metaphor for spiritual transcendence. We close with the lush and radiant Symphony No. 3 by Max Bruch, in a concert all about rapturous joy.
POIESIS QUARTET
THURSDAY, OCT. 9
7 p.m., Packard Hall
Founded during Oberlin Conservatory’s Advanced Quartet Seminar program in Fall 2022, The Poiesis Quartet is the 2023 Grand Prize winner of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. As a string quartet made up of inter- and multi-disciplinary young artists, Poiesis seeks to program music of all styles and genres and expand the traditional quartet setting with an emphasis on platforming works by emerging and underrepresented composers. The Poiesis Quartet strives to create unique moments of synchronicity, sensitivity, and verve in each performance
MANITOU CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL SUMMER CONCERT SERIES
Transfigured Night“ - Faculty Concert
Strauss Capriccio
Bartok Etude for the Left Hand Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht
15 JULY
Chaconne“ - Faculty Concert
Bach Chaconne arr Brahms for Piano Left Hand
Handel Halvorson Passacaglia
Britten 2nd String Quartet
From Eastern Europe“ - Faculty Concert
Dvorak Cypresses
Ravel Sonata for Violin & Cello
Janacek Capriccio
FESTIVAL GALA *Featured Event*
Features our young musicians alongside our faculty
Beethoven Romance in F Major, Op 50
Copland Appalachian Spring
18 JULY
22 JULY
“We attended the first concert of the season and were immediately hooked so we became patrons for the rest of the season. You can’t beat the intimacy of the venue, the enthusiasm and talent of the musicians and the Q&A opportunity.” - patrons
THE MANY TRAVELS OF MARY CHENOWETH
Lane East Gallery
June 25 - October 4, 2025
A graduate of the University of Denver and a member of the modernist group The 15 Colorado Artists, Mary Chenoweth was a force in the artistic landscape of Colorado and the surrounding region. Chenoweth dedicated her time to travel, art, and shaping generations of young artists through her work as an instructor at the former art school of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and later as an instructor and professor at Colorado College.
The Many Travels of Mary Chenoweth exhibition at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College brings together a selection of Chenoweth’s work from the Fine Arts Center’s permanent collection and ephemera from Special Collections at Tutt Library to explore the impact that global travel had on her art. This exhibition features artwork and ephemera relating to and inspired by Chenoweth’s travels across the globe beginning in 1958.
OPENING CELEBRATION: 1:30 p.m. June 25 at the Music and Art Talk featuring Alana Adams, Assistant Curator of Collections at the FAC and the Colorado College Summer Music Festival
RSVP (requested) for the Talk by scanning the code or visiting fac.coloradocollege.edu/events
Attendees are invited to visit the exhibition afterward!
Mary Chenoweth Flight FA 1999.3.26
Mary Chenoweth Freemantle
Courtesy CC Special Collections
ANNOUNCING THE 2025 VOCAL ARTS FESTIVAL LINEUP!
Joshua Conyers, VAF Benefit Recital
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Packard Hall
Let’s Make a Scene
Opera Scenes from the Repertory
Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Packard Hall
A Scenic View Opera Scenes from the Repertory
Sunday, July 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Packard Hall
Here’s to the Ladies A Salute to the Women Composers and Lyricists of the Broadway Theatre
Friday, August 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Packard Hall
CSPHIL
Itzhak Perlman violin
JUNE 27 - JULY 12 17TH
Aimee Mann performs upcoming musical “The Forgotten Arm” at The Cabaret Club
