Colorado Music Festival
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Thursday July 3 7:30pm - 9:00pm MDT
Hélène Grimaud Plays Brahms
“[Hélène] Grimaud doesn’t sound like most pianists,” proclaims The New Yorker, also calling her “a reinventor of phrasings” and “taker of chances ” here she opens the 2025 Festival season with Brahms’ monumental First Piano Concerto. Surrounding Brahms’ intense work are......More
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Sunday July 6 10:30am - 11:15am MDT
Family Concert: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Missing Maestro
When the orchestra discovers their Maestro is nowhere to be found, they panic — until the world’s greatest detective agrees to take the case! All the musicians are suspects, which means Sherlock Holmes must investigate each of the instrument families — brass, woodwinds,......More
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Sunday July 6 6:30pm - 8:00pm MDT
Hélène Grimaud Plays Brahms
“[Hélène] Grimaud doesn’t sound like most pianists,” proclaims The New Yorker, also calling her “a reinventor of phrasings” and “taker of chances ” here she opens the 2025 Festival season with Brahms’ monumental First Piano Concerto. Surrounding Brahms’ intense work are......More
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Tuesday July 8 7:30pm - 9:00pm MDT
Schubert, Prokofiev & Brahms
The 2025 Robert Mann Chamber Music Series opens with a program highlighting the Festival’s own musicians. Schubert left his String Trio in B Flat, D. 471 unfinished, but its single complete movement is a Classical jewel full of spontaneity. Prokofiev’s dizzying Quintet ......More
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Thursday July 10 7:30pm MDT
Brahms 1 + Joan Tower’s World Premiere
These can’t-miss concerts bring together two Festival favorites: lauded composer Joan Tower, whose concerto A New Day premiered at the Festival to rave reviews, and saxophonist Steven Banks, who stunned audiences in 2021. Now these powerhouses unite to give the world pr......More
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Friday July 11 6:30pm - 8:00pm MDT
Brahms 1 + Joan Tower’s World Premiere
These can’t-miss concerts bring together two Festival favorites: lauded composer Joan Tower, whose concerto A New Day premiered at the Festival to rave reviews, and saxophonist Steven Banks, who stunned audiences in 2021. Now these powerhouses unite to give the world pr......More
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Sunday July 13 6:30pm - 8:00pm MDT
An Evening of Mozart
The Philadelphia Inquirer calls violinist Benjamin Beilman “poised and monstrously talented ” Beilman takes the stage with Mozart’s Fifth Violin Concerto, best known for its final movement’s “Turkish” style. Guest conductor Chloé van Soeterstède leads the Festival throu......More
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Tuesday July 15 7:30pm - 9:00pm MDT
Brentano String Quartet
By popular demand, the Brentano String Quartet — Ensemble-in-Residence at the Yale School of Music — returns to the Robert Mann Chamber Music Series. The Times (London) raves, “Balance and intonation reach an almost unearthly level of perfection, yet there’s nothing inh......More
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Thursday July 17 7:30pm - 9:00pm MDT
Anne Akiko Meyers Plays Ravel
There is something for everyone in these energetic concerts! Be among the first to hear a new showpiece for violin, The Pacific Has No Memory, composed by Eric Whitacre and commissioned by Latin Grammy-winning violinist Anne Akiko Meyers. Meyers, “the coolest thing to h......More
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Friday July 18 6:30pm - 8:00pm MDT
Anne Akiko Meyers Plays Ravel
There is something for everyone in these energetic concerts! Be among the first to hear a new showpiece for violin, The Pacific Has No Memory, composed by Eric Whitacre and commissioned by Latin Grammy-winning violinist Anne Akiko Meyers. Meyers, “the coolest thing to h......More
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Sunday July 20 6:30pm - 8:00pm MDT
Tchaikovsky & Beethoven
Known for dominating international cello competitions, Hayoung Choi possesses a talent not to be missed here Choi performs Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, an elegant staple of cello repertoire. Guest conductor Maurice Cohn returns to the Chautauqua stage to ......More
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Tuesday July 22 7:30pm - 9:00pm MDT
Mozart & Dvořák
The Robert Mann Chamber Music Series continues with a spotlight on the Festival’s own musicians. Mozart once considered his Quintet in E-Flat for Piano and Winds “the best work I have ever written ” its sense of spontaneity is beguiling. Dvořák’s Third String Quartet wa......More
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Thursday July 24 7:30pm - 9:00pm MDT
Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3
Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto finds the composer moving toward his own personal style, displaying what would become his hallmark drama, spirit, and agitation pianist Yeol Eum Son brings a “fearlessly fast articulation” (The Times) to the stage. Sofia Gubaidulina’s st......More