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WEDNESDAY
JUNE 26
10:30
Wheeler Opera House and
AMFS History Tour (Free;
ticket required)
Wheeler Opera House Lobby
10:30
Tunes and Tales
(Free; for ages 8 and
under with an adult)
Basalt Regional Library
7:30
A Recital by Harmony Zhu
A
piano ($55)
Harris Concert Hall
R. SCHUMANN:
Fantasiestücke,
op. 12
SKRYABIN: Piano
Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp minor,
op. 19, “Sonata-Fantasy”
RAVEL: Gaspard de la nuit
CHOPIN: Fantasy in F minor,
op. 49
THURSDAY
JUNE 27
10:30
Tunes and Tales
(Free; for ages 8 and under
with an adult)
Pitkin County Library
4:00
Community Pride
Celebration (Free)
Meadows Campus
Enjoy a celebration of identity and life
with LGBTQAI+ people and allies.
6:00
Special Event: An Evening
with Chris Thile mandolin
and Orchestra ($65)
Harris Concert Hall
Teddy Abrams
A
conductor
Aspen Festival Ensemble
Artists of Aspen Opera
Theater and VocalARTS
COPLAND: Suite from
Appalachian Spring
CHRIS THILE/ROB MOOSE:
Escape from the Tuileries
CAROLINE SHAW: And So
J. S. BACH: Allegro from
Concerto for Two Violins
and Orchestra in D minor,
BWV 1043
CHRIS THILE: ATTENTION!
A narrative song cycle for
extroverted mandolin and
orchestra.
FRIDAY
JUNE 28
9:00
Aspen Chamber Symphony
Dress Rehearsal ($20)
Klein Music Tent
4:30
Overtures: Preconcert
Chamber Music (Free)
Harris Concert Hall
Yuval Chen piano
RACHMANINOFF: Piano
Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor,
op. 36
5:30
Chamber Symphony:
Trifonov Plays Mozart
($92, $75, $45)
Klein Music Tent
James Gaffigan
A
conductor
Daniil Trifonov piano
DEBUSSY: Prélude à l’après
midi d’un faune (Prelude to
the Afternoon of a Faun)
MOZART: Piano Concerto
No. 9 in E-flat major, K. 271,
“Jeunehomme”
JOEL THOMPSON
A
: To
See the Sky (AMFS Co-
Commission)
R. SCHUMANN: Symphony
No. 4 in D minor, op. 120
SATURDAY
JUNE 29
10:00
Opera Encounters: Arias
and Scenes ($40)
Wheeler Opera House
Renée Fleming
A
and
Peter Sellars hosts
1:00
Music on the Mountain
(Free; gondola ticket
required)
Top of Aspen Mountain
4:30
Chamber Music ($45)
Harris Concert Hall
Aspen Contemporary
Ensemble
Donald Crockett conductor
Jonathan Haas
A
conductor
Anton Nel piano
Myra Huang piano
Ed Stephan percussion
Cynthia Yeh
A
percussion
James Dunham viola
Isabella Butler percussion
Darrett Adkins
A
cello
Bing Wang
A
violin
Desmond Hoebig cello
JIHYUN KIM: Once Upon a
Time
MORTON SUBOTNICK: The
Key to Songs
SCHUBERT: Piano Trio in
B-flat major, D. 898, op. 99
7:30
A Recital by Daniil Trifonov
piano and Sergei Babayan
piano ($85)
Harris Concert Hall
SCHUMANN/SERGEI
BABAYAN: Andante and
Variations, Op. 46
MOZART: Sonata for Two
Pianos in D major, K 448
RACHMANINOFF: Suite No. 1
for Two Pianos, Fantaisie-
tableaux, op. 5
RACHMANINOFF: Suite No. 2
for Two Pianos, op. 17
SUNDAY
JUNE 30
9:00
AMFS Architectural and
History Tour (Free; ticket
required)
Paepcke Terrace
9:30
Aspen Festival Orchestra
Dress Rehearsal ($20)
Klein Music Tent
2:30
75th Anniversary Party
(Free)
David Karetsky Music Lawn
Join us to kick off the AMFS’s 75th
anniversary with family friendly fun
and refreshments. Wear your AMFS
swag from years past!
3:00
Prelude: Preconcert Talk
(Free)
Harris Concert Hall
Patrick Chamberlain speaker
4:00
Festival Orchestra:
Renée Fleming
A
,
Pines of Rome
($92, $75, $45)
Klein Music Tent
Robert Spano
conductor
Renée Fleming
A
soprano
R. STRAUSS: Also sprach
Zarathustra, op. 30
ALAN FLETCHER: Three
American Songs (World
Premiere, AMFS Co-
Commission)
R. STRAUSS: Muttertändelei,
op. 43 no. 2
Die Zeit, die ist
ein Sonderbar
Ding from Der
Rosenkavalier,
op. 59
Cäcilie, op. 27
no. 2
RESPIGHI: Pines of Rome
A
denotes an alumna or alumnus of the AMFS
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ONE
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JOSHUA BELL
RENÉE FLEMING
A
MONDAY
JU LY 1
7:00
A Concert Presentation of
Matthew Aucoin’s Music
for New Bodies ($40)
Wheeler Opera House
Timothy Weiss conductor
Peter Sellars director
Aspen Contemporary
Ensemble
Singers from Aspen Opera
Theater and VocalARTS
MATTHEW AUCOIN: Music
for New Bodies (AMFS Co-
Commission)
TUESDAY
JU LY 2
10:30
Wheeler Opera House and
AMFS History Tour (Free;
ticket required)
Wheeler Opera House Lobby
4:00
Leonard Bernstein’s
Young People’s Concerts
Presented by Carnegie
Hall+ — Who is Gustav
Mahler? ($10; Free for ages
18 and under)
Wheeler Opera House
6:00
Violin Competition (Free)
Hurst Hall, Bucksbaum Campus
6:00
Recital: FRAGMENTS I with
Alisa Weilerstein
A
cello
($55)
Harris Concert Hall
8:00
Wind Orchestra ($20)
Klein Music Tent
Joaquín Valdepeñas
A
conductor
GIPPS: Seascape, op. 53
MOZART: Wind Serenade in
B-flat major, K. 361, “Gran
Partita”
WEDNESDAY
JU LY 3
10:30
Wheeler Opera House and
AMFS History Tour (Free;
ticket required)
Wheeler Opera House Lobby
10:30
Tunes and Tales (Free; for
ages 8 and under with an
adult)
Basalt Regional Library
10:30
Tunes and Tales (Free; for
ages 8 and under with an
adult)
Pitkin County Library
12:00
High Notes Discussion
(Free; ticket required)
Bad Harriet, Hotel Jerome
Alan Fletcher moderator
Fletcher talks with cellist Alisa
Weilerstien and pianist Inon Barnatan.
5:00
Aspen Conducting
Academy Orchestra ($20)
Klein Music Tent
BRIAN RAPHAEL NABORS:
Onward
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Ballade
in A minor, op. 33
BRITTEN: Four Sea Interludes,
from Peter Grimes, op. 33a
—
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 3 in
F major, op. 90
6:00
Artist Dinner with Augustin
Hadelich violin ($750)
Private Residence
7:30
Recital: FRAGMENTS II
with Alisa Weilerstein
A
cello ($55)
Harris Concert Hall
THURSDAY
JU LY 4
4:00
Fourth of July Concert
(Free)
Klein Music Tent
Lawrence Isaacson
A
conductor
National Youth Pipe Band of
Scotland
The annual free Independence Day
celebration brings the AMFS Band to
the Tent stage with stirring patriotic
favorites. A beloved tradition.
6:00
String Showcase (Free)
Edlis Neeson Hall, Bucksbaum
Campus
FRIDAY
JU LY 5
9:00
Aspen Chamber Symphony
Dress Rehearsal ($20)
Klein Music Tent
9:00
AMFS Architectural and
History Tour (Free; ticket
required)
Paepcke Terrace
12:30
The Art of Listening (Free)
Crossroads Church
Tom Buesch speaker
1:00
Piping Class with The
National Piping Centre of
Scotland (Free)
Wheeler Opera House
Findlay MacDonald bagpipes
2:30
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Pitkin County Library 4:30
Overtures: Preconcert
Chamber Music (Free)
Harris Concert Hall
Itamar Esformes piano
student of Anton Nel
RACHMANINOFF: Études-
tableaux, op. 33
FRIDAY (continued)
5:30
Chamber Symphony:
Inon Barnatan, Haydn
Symphonies ($92, $75, $45)
Klein Music Tent
Nicholas McGegan
conductor
Inon Barnatan
piano
Stuart Stephenson
A
trumpet
Michael Rusinek clarinet
Nancy Goeres
A
bassoon
HAYDN: Symphony No. 31
in D major, Hob. I/31
“Hornsignal”
SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano
Concerto No. 1 in C minor,
op. 35
R. STRAUSS: Duet-
Concertino
HAYDN: Symphony No. 100
in G major, Hob. I/100,
“Military”
SATURDAY
JU LY 6
10:00
Opera Encounters: Art
Song Recital ($40)
Wheeler Opera House
Myra Huang host
1:00
Music on the Mountain
featuring The National
Piping Centre of Scotland
(Free; gondola ticket
required)
Top of Aspen Mountain
1:30
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Aspen Community Church
SATURDAY (continued)
4:30
Chamber Music ($45)
Harris Concert Hall
Aspen Contemporary
Ensemble, Donald Crockett
conductor, Laura Gamboa
violin, Bing Wang
A
violin
Renata Arado
A
violin, Cornelia
Heard
A
violin, Naoko Tanaka
A
violin, Anton Nel piano
Alexander Ishov flute, Victoria
Chiang
A
viola, Emily Levin
A
harp, Augustin Hadelich violin
Inon Barnatan piano
JESSIE MONTGOMERY:
Concerto Grosso (AMFS Co-
Commission)
LEO: Concerto for Four Violins
and Continuo
DEBUSSY: Sonata for Flute,
Viola, and Harp
CHAUSSON: Concert in D
major, op. 21
6:00
Low Strings Competition
(Free)
Hurst Hall, Bucksbaum Campus
7:30
An Evening of P. D. Q. Bach
A
($65)
Harris Concert Hall
Alan Fletcher host, Piotr
Waclawik
A
conductor Robert
Spano piano, Victoria Chiang
A
viola, James Dunham viola
, Anton Nel harpsichord,
Nadine Asin flute, Elaine
Douvas oboe, Andrew Brady
bassoon, Billy Hunter Jr.
trumpet AbelPereira horn,
James Miller trombone,
Soloists from Aspen Opera
Theater and VocalARTS
P. D. Q. BACH
A
: Toot Suite for
Calliope Four Hands, S. 212°
Sonata for Viola Four Hands
and Harpsichord, S. 440
Echo Sonata for Two
Unfriendly Groups of
Instruments, S.99999999...
“Goldbrick” Variations, S. 14
“Donna, Donna, Listen to My
Plea” from The Abduction of
Figaro, S. 384, 492
“Unbegun” Symphony
SUNDAY
JU LY 7
9:00
AMFS Architectural and
History Tour (Free; ticket
required)
Paepcke Terrace
9:30
Aspen Festival Orchestra
Dress Rehearsal ($20)
Klein Music Tent
3:00
Prelude: Preconcert Talk
(Free)
Harris Concert Hall
Andrew Ralston speaker
3:30
Pre-Concert Fanfare by
The National Youth Pipe
Band of Scotland (Free)
Karetsky Music Lawn
4:00
Festival Orchestra: Hadelich,
Rachmaninoff’s Symphony
No. 2 ($92, $75, $45)
Klein Music Tent
Dima Slobodeniouk conductor
Augustin Hadelich violin
WANG LU: Surge
PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto
No. 2 in G minor, op. 63
—
RACHMANINOFF: Symphony
No. 2 in E minor, op. 27
7:00
A Recital by Christopher
Houlihan organ (Free)
Aspen Community Church
JONATHAN DOVE: The
Dancing Pipes
PIERNÉ: Trois Pièces, op. 29
BUCK: Concert Variations on
“The Star-Spangled Banner”
PRICE: Suite No. 1 for Organ
VIERNE: Romance from Organ
Symphony No. 4 in
G minor, op. 32
Final from Organ Symphony
No. 3 in F-sharp minor,
op. 28
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WEEK
TWO
ALISA
WEILERSTEIN
A
2024 Opera Benefit:
Opera Under
the Stars
TUE, JULY 9 | 6:30 pm
$1,000+
Elegantly set on the Klein
Music Tent Stage, enjoy
cocktails, dinner, and a
spectacularly curated
evening of opera and music
theater gems performed by
special guest Will Liverman
baritone and the dazzling
young artists of Aspen’s
opera program.
For benefit
information and
tickets, contact
Chandler Martin at
970 205 6065 or by
email at
cmartin@
aspenmusic.org.
MONDAY
JU LY 8
10:00
Guided Tour of the
Bucksbaum Campus (Free)
Bucksbaum Campus
2:30
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Pitkin County Library
5:30
Aspen Center for Physics
Piano Recital (Free)
6:00
A Reminiscences Program
by the American String
Quartet ($65)
Harris Concert Hall
Peter Winograd
A
violin
Laurie Carney
A
violin
Daniel Avshalomov
A
viola
Wolfram Koessel
A
cello
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet
in F major, op. 135
SHOSTAKOVICH: String
Quartet No. 13 in B-flat
minor, op. 138
RAVEL: String Quartet in
F major
TUESDAY
JU LY 9
10:30
Wheeler Opera House and
AMFS History Tour (Free;
ticket required)
Wheeler Opera House Lobby
1:00
Harris Concert Hall Class
($25)
Steven Isserlis
A
cello
4:00
Leonard Bernstein’s
Young People’s Concerts
Presented by Carnegie
Hall+ — The Anatomy of a
Symphony Orchestra ($10;
Free for ages 18 and under)
Wheeler Opera House
WEDNESDAY
JU LY 10
10:30
Wheeler Opera House and
AMFS History Tour (Free;
ticket required)
Wheeler Opera House Lobby
10:30
Tunes and Tales (Free; for
ages 8 and under with an
adult)
Basalt Regional Library
12:00
High Notes Discussion
(Free; ticket required)
Bad Harriet, Hotel Jerome
Alan Fletcher moderator
Fletcher talks with pianist Jeremy
Denk and cellist Stephen Isserlis.
3:00
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Harris Concert Hall
5:00
Aspen Conducting
Academy Orchestra ($20)
Klein Music Tent
Violin Competition Winner
ISABELLA GELLIS
A
: Four
Morris Interludes, from
The Devil’s Den (AMFS
Commission, 2023
Druckman Prize Winner)
BERNSTEIN: Serenade (after
Plato’s Symposium)
SIBELIUS: Lemminkäinen
Suite, op. 22
7:30
A Recital by Jeremy Denk
A
piano ($75)
Harris Concert Hall
J.S. BACH: Partita No. 3 for
Keyboard in A minor, BWV
827
CHAUVIN, JOPLIN:
Heliotrope Bouquet
CRAWFORD SEEGER: Piano
Study in Mixed Accents
LAMBERT: “Pilgrim’s
Chorus” from Tanhäuser
BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata
No. 30 in E major, op. 109
IVES: Piano Sonata No. 2,
“Concord, Mass., 1840–60”
THURSDAY
JU LY 11
3:00
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Harris Concert Hall
3:00
Opera House Music ($125)
Private Residence
5:00
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Aspen Chapel
6:00
A Baroque Evening with
Nicholas McGegan
conductor and
Steven Isserlis
A
cello ($75)
Harris Concert Hall
Soloists from Aspen Opera
Theater and VocalARTS
HAYDN: Overture to
Orlando paladino, Hob.
XXVIII:11
HANDEL: Selections from
Orlando, HWV 31
J. S. BACH: Cantata: Jauchzet
Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51
HAYDN: Cello Concerto in C
major, Hob. VIIb:1
6:00
Artist Dinner with Jeremy
Denk
A
piano ($500)
Private Residence
7:00
String Showcase (Free)
Edlis Neeson Hall, Bucksbaum
Campus
FRIDAY
JU LY 12
9:00
AMFS Architectural and
History Tour (Free; ticket
required)
Paepcke Terrace
9:00
Aspen Chamber Symphony
Dress Rehearsal ($20)
Klein Music Tent
12:30
The Art of Listening (Free)
Crossroads Church
Tom Buesch speaker
2:30
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Pitkin County Library
4:30
Overtures: Preconcert
Chamber Music (Free)
Harris Concert Hall
Dinini Lee, Yufee Chen piano
KREISLER/RACHMANINOFF:
Liebesleid and Liebesfreud
MENDELSSOHN/
RACHMANINOFF: Scherzo
from A Midsummer Night’s
Dream
5:30
Chamber Symphony:
Spano with Joyce Yang,
Kelley O’Connor
($92, $75, $45)
Klein Music Tent
Robert Spano conductor
Kelley O’Connor mezzo-
soprano, Joyce Yang
A
piano
GABRIELA LENA FRANK
A
:
Haillí-Serenata
LIEBERSON: Neruda
Songs
FALLA: Noches
en los jardines de
España (Nights
in the Gardens of
Spain)
FALLA: El amor brujo
(Love Bewitched)
SATURDAY
JU LY 13
10:00
Family Concert: Prokofiev’s
Peter and the Wolf (Free)
Klein Music Tent
Piotr Waclawik
A
conductor
Graham Northrup narrator
A lively short concert for the whole
family! Come early and stay after
(9:15–11:15 am) for pre- and post-
concert activities on the Karetsky
Music Lawn. Concert open to all ages.
10:00
Opera Encounters: Arias
and Scenes ($40)
Wheeler Opera House
Renée Fleming
A
and
Patrick Summers hosts
1:00
Music on the Mountain
(Free;
gondola ticket required)
Top of Aspen Mountain
1:30
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Aspen Community Church
4:30
Chamber Music ($45)
Harris Concert Hall
Aspen Contemporary
Ensemble, Timothy Weiss and
Donald Crockett conductors
Renée Fleming
A
soprano
Will Liverman baritone
Myra Huang piano, Robert
Chen
A
violin, Robert Spano
piano, Joyce Yang
A
piano,
Nadine Asin
A
flute, Mingjia Liu
oboe, Michael Rusinek clarinet,
Nancy Goeres
A
bassoon,
Andrew Bain horn
BIRTWISTLE: Theseus Game
SARAH KIRKLAND SNIDER:
Everything that Ever Was
BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No. 2
in A major, op. 100
POULENC: Sextet
6:30
Sonata Showcase (Free)
Edlis Neeson Hall, Bucksbaum
Campus
7:30
Special Event: A Fauré
Evening with Joshua Bell
A
SATURDAY (continued)
violin, Steven Isserlis
A
cello, and Jeremy Denk
A
piano ($95, $75)
Harris Concert Hall
FAURÉ: Piano Quintet No. 1 in
D minor, op. 89
Piano Trio in D minor,
op. 120
FAURÉ: Piano Quartet No. 2 in
G minor, op. 45
SUNDAY
JU LY 14
9:00
AMFS Architectural and
History Tour (Free;
ticket
required
)
Paepcke Terrace
9:30
Aspen Festival Orchestra
Dress Rehearsal ($20)
Klein Music Tent
Appreciation Sunday: Free admission*
and post-concert reception for
Roaring Fork Valley first responders,
volunteers, teachers, and nonprofit
employees. *Free with registration.
bit.ly/amfsappreciation
3:00
Prelude: Preconcert Talk (Free)
Harris Concert Hall
Katie Brill speaker
4:00
Festival Orchestra:
Beethoven “Triple” with
Bell
A
, Isserlis
A
, Denk
A
($92,
$75, $45)
Klein Music Tent
Jane Glover conductor
Joshua Bell
A
violin
Steven Isserlis
A
cello
Jeremy Denk
A
piano
BARTÓK: Concerto for
Orchestra, BB 123
—
BEETHOVEN: Concerto for
Violin, Cello, and Piano in C
major, op. 56, “Triple”
7:00
Art Song Showcase (Free)
Aspen Chapel
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WEEK
THREE
WILL
LIVERMAN
JEREMY DENK
A
MONDAY
JU LY 15
2:30
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Pitkin County Library
5:30
Aspen Center for Physics
Piano Recital (Free)
6:00
Special Event: Science
of Music: The Art and
Science of Musical Peak
Performance ($30)
Aspen Community Church
Co-presented by the Aspen Science
Center
Alan Fletcher moderator
Anton Nel piano
Kathleen Winkler violin
Timothy Pitts double bass
6:00
A Recital by Conrad Tao
A
piano ($75)
Harris Concert Hall
Piotr Waclawik
A
conductor
MILHAUD: La
création du monde,
op. 81
CONRAD TAO
A
: Flung Out
(AMFS Co-Commission)
GERSHWIN/GROFÉ:
Rhapsody in Blue
(Original Jazz Band Version)
TUESDAY
JU LY 16
10:30
Wheeler Opera House and
AMFS History Tour (Free;
ticket required)
Wheeler Opera House Lobby
1:00
Harris Concert Hall Class
($25)
Harris Concert Hall
Joyce Yang
A
piano
TUESDAY (continued)
6:00
A Recital by the American
Brass Quintet ($55) NEW
DATE/TIME
Harris Concert Hall
Kevin Cobb trumpet
Brandon Ridenour
A
trumpet
Eric Reed
A
french horn
Hillary Simms
A
trombone
John D. Rojak
A
bass trombone
BRADE/RAYMOND MASE:
Courtly Dances and
Canzons
ANTHONY BARFIELD:
Samsara
DAVID SAMPSON: A Murder
of Crows (World Premiere)
GESUALSO/BRANDON
RIDENOUR: Due sospira
JENNIFER HIGDON: Book
of Brass
WEDNESDAY
JU LY 17
10:30
Tunes and Tales (Free; for
ages 8 and under with an
adult)
Basalt Regional Library
10:30
Wheeler Opera House and
AMFS History Tour (Free;
ticket required)
Wheeler Opera House Lobby
11:00
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Harris Concert Hall
12:00
High Notes Discussion
(Free; ticket required)
Bad Harriet, Hotel Jerome
Alan Fletcher moderator
Fletcher talks with conductors Jane
Glover and Leonard Slatkin.
4:00
Aspen Conducting
Academy Orchestra ($20)
Klein Music Tent
William Suh cello
See program above
WEDNESDAY (continued)
MISSY MAZZOLI: Orpheus
Undone
ELGAR: Cello Concerto in E
minor, op. 85
MOZART: Overture to Die
Zauberflöte,
K. 620
Symphony No. 39
in E-flat major,
K. 543
7:30
Special Event: As We
Speak—Béla Fleck
banjo, Zakir Hussain
tabla, Edgar Meyer
A
bass,
featuring Rakesh Chaurasia
bansuri ($75, $55)
Harris Concert Hall
Program to be announced from the
stage
THURSDAY
JU LY 18
10:00
Harris Concert Hall Piano
Class ($25)
Harris Concert Hall
Hung-Kuan Chen
10:30
Tunes and Tales (Free; for
ages 8 and under with an
adult)
Pitkin County Library
1:00
Woodwinds Competition
(Free)
Edlis Neeson Hall, Bucksbaum
Campus
3:00
ABQ Seminar @Aspen
Recital (Free)
Harris Concert Hall
5:00
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Aspen Chapel
5:15
Basalt Regional Library
Recital (Free)
THURSDAY (continued)
6:00
Recital: Piano-Palooza
($65)
Klein Music Tent
Hung-Kuan Chen,
Yoheved Kaplinsky, Anton Nel,
Arie Vardi, Greg Anderson piano
SHOSTAKOVICH/ARIE
VARDI: Waltz No. 2, from
Suite No. 1 for Variety
Orchestra
ARIE VARDI: Mazurka’s Day
Dream
BEATLES/ARIE VARDI:
Eleanor Rigby
ROSSINI/CZERNY: Overture
to Semiramide
SAINTSAËNS/GUIRAUD:
Danse macabre, op. 40
FALLA/ARIE VARDI: Danza
ritual del Fuego, from El
amor brujo
SMETANA: Sonata in E minor
for 2 Pianos, 8 hands
MILHAUD: Brazileira from
Scaramouche, op. 165b
WEBER: Invitation to the
Dance, op. 65
LAVIGNAC: Galop-Marche
SOUSA/GREG ANDERSON:
Stars & Stripes: Fireworks
for 8 pianos, 32 hands
7:00
String Showcase (Free)
Edlis Neeson Hall, Bucksbaum
Campus
7:30
Brass Bash I (Free)
Hurst Hall, Bucksbaum Campus
8:00
Recital: Quartet for the End
of Time ($55)
Harris Concert Hall
Michael Rusinek clarinet,
Bing Wang
A
violin, Darrett
Adkins
A
cello, Robert Spano
piano
MESSIAEN: Quatuor pour la fin
du temps
FRIDAY
JU LY 19
9:00
Composition Program
Readings (Free)
Klein Music Tent
12:30
The Art of Listening (Free)
Crossroads Church
Tom Buesch speaker
2:30
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Pitkin County Library
7:45
Humperdinck’s
Hansel and
Gretel ($85, $50,
$30 for children
18 and under)
Klein Music Tent
Patrick Summers conductor
Joanna Gleason director
Colorado Children’s Chorale
Emily Crile chorus director
Artists of Aspen Opera
Theater and VocalARTS
SATURDAY
JU LY 20
10:00
Opera Encounters: Art
Song Recital ($40)
Wheeler Opera House
Cameron Stowe host
10:00
Organ Class
Aspen Community Church
Paul Jacobs organ
1:00
Music on the Mountain
(Free; gondola ticket
required)
Top of Aspen Mountain
SATURDAY (continued)
1:00
Composition Readings
(Free)
Klein Music Tent
1:30
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Aspen Community Church
4:30
Chamber Music ($45)
Harris Concert Hall
Aspen Contemporary
Ensemble
Timothy Weiss conductor
Harp Competition Winner
Kathleen Winkler violin
Renata Arado
A
violin
Mark Sparks
A
flute
Robert Spano piano
Robert Chen
A
violin
Laura Park Chen violin
Zhenwei Shi viola
Darrett Adkins
A
cello
MISSY MAZZOLI:
These Worlds in Us
Dark with Excessive Bright
RAVEL: Introduction and
Allegro
BR AHMS: Clarinet
Sonata in E-flat major,
op. 120, no. 2
BE ETHOVEN: String Quartet
in D major, op. 18, no. 3
7:30
A Recital by Bruce Liu
piano
Harris Concert Hall,
HAYDN: Piano Sonata in B
minor, Hob. XVI/32
CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No. 2
in B-flat minor, op. 35

RAMEAU: Les tendres
plaintes
Les cyclopes
Menuet I and II
Les sauvages
La poule
Gavotte et 6
doubles from
Nouvelles suites
de pieces de
clavecin
CHOPIN: Variations on “Là ci
darem” from Mozart’s Don
Giovanni, op. 2
SUNDAY
JU LY 21
9:00
AMFS Architectural and
History Tour (Free; ticket
required)
Paepcke Terrace
9:30
Aspen Festival Orchestra
Dress Rehearsal ($20)
Klein Music Tent
2:30
Ice Cream Social (Free)
David Karetsky Music Lawn
Sponsored by Gerri Karetsky
3:00
Prelude: Preconcert Talk
(Free)
Harris Concert Hall
Jonathan Bellman speaker
4:00
Festival Orchestra: Slatkin
A
Conducts Copland,
Gershwin ($92, $75,
$45)
Klein Music Tent
Leonard Slatkin
A
conductor
Bruce Liu piano
COPLAND: El salón México
PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto
No. 3 in C major, op. 26
ROUSE: The Infernal Machine
from Phantasmata
BARBER: Adagio for Strings,
op. 11
GERSHWIN: An American
in Paris
7:00
A Recital by Paul Jacobs
organ (Free)
Aspen Community Church
J. S. BACH: Prelude and Fugue
in D major, BWV 532
Organ Trio Sonata No. 4 in
E minor, BWV 528
Prelude and Fugue in
A minor, BWV 543
Arioso from Cantata, BWV 156
LISZT: Fantasie and Fugue
on the Chorale ‘Ad nos, ad
salutarem undam’
JULY 19–21: AMFS ALUMNI WEEKEND
CONCERT
STREAMS
LIVE
FREE!
OPERA
STREAMS
LIVE
FREE!
RECITAL
STREAMS
LIVE
FREE!
WEEK
FOUR
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MONDAY
JU LY 22
2:30
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Pitkin County Library
3:30
Opera House Music ($125)
Hotel Jerome
5:30
Aspen Center for Physics
Piano Recital (Free)
6:00
Special Event: The Science
of Music—Neural Notes:
Music and the Brain ($30)
Harris Concert Hall
Co-presented by the Aspen Science
Center
Alan Fletcher moderator
TUESDAY
JULY 23
10:30
Wheeler Opera House and
AMFS History Tour (Free;
ticket required)
Wheeler Opera House Lobby
1:00
Harris Concert Hall Class
($25)
Harris Concert Hall
Yoheved Kaplinsky piano
6:00
Music with a View (Free)
Aspen Art Museum
7:00
String Showcase (Free)
Edlis Neeson Hall, Bucksbaum
Campus
7:30
Special Event: Fiddler on
the Roof in Concert
($125, $60, $30 for children
18 and under)
$500 (With VIP Party)
Klein Music Tent
Presented by Theatre Aspen and
the AMFS
Experience a special concert
collaboration of the nine-time Tony
Award winning musical classic.
Starring and directed by Tony Award–
winner Shuler Hensley, with musical
direction by Andy Einhorn,
this presentation features
John Williams’s Oscar-winning score
adaptation, performed by a full
orchestra.
WEDNESDAY
JU LY 24
10:30
Wheeler Opera House and
AMFS History Tour (Free;
ticket required)
Wheeler Opera House Lobby
12:00
High Notes Discussion
(Free; ticket required)
Bad Harriet, Hotel Jerome
Alan Fletcher moderator
Fletcher talks with composers Missy
Mazzoli and Christopher Theofanidis.
3:00
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Harris Concert Hall
4:00
A Mariachi Celebration:
Pre-Concert Fiesta (Free)
Karetsky Music Lawn
5:30
A Mariachi Celebration:
Community Concert (Free)
Klein Music Tent
Celebrate Mexican music and dance
with Mariachi Sol de mi Tierra, local
youth, and Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
Folklórico!
With special thanks to Title Sponsor
Querencia
6:30
Artist Dinner with
Edgar Meyer
A
double bass
($500)
SOLD OUT
*
Private Residence
* To be added to the waitlist, contact
Chandler Martin at 970 205 5065 or
[email protected]
7:30
A Recital by Jennifer Koh
amplified violin and
Missy Mazzoli keyboards,
electronics, and piano ($65)
Harris Concert Hall
MISSY MAZZOLI:
Dissolve, O my Heart
A Thousand Tongues
Tooth and Nail
Kinski Paganini
The Night Ahead and No
Real Fate
Program continues above
WEDNESDAY (continued)
MISSY MAZZOLI:
A Song for Mick Kelly
Hail, Horrors, Hail
All I Want is All of It
Procession Ascending
Vespers for Violin
THURSDAY
JU LY 25
10:00
Harris Concert Hall Piano
Class ($25)
Harris Concert Hall
Mikhail Voskresensky piano
10:30
Tunes and Tales (Free; for
ages 8 and under with
an adult)
Pitkin County
Library
12:00
Goethe and the Aspen Idea
(Free)
Crossroads Church
Tom Buesch speaker
3:00
Salon Showcase House
Music ($90)
Private Residence
3:00
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Harris Concert Hall
5:00
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Aspen Chapel
5:15
Basalt Regional Library
Recital (Free)
6:00
Brass Competition
(Free)
Hurst Hall, Bucksbaum Campus
6:00
A Reminiscences Program
by Gil Shaham
A
violin,
Adele Anthony
A
violin, and
Friends ($75)
Harris Concert Hall
Anton Nel piano
Joaquín Valdepeñas
A
clarinet
Choong-Jin Chang viola
Brinton Averil Smith
A
cello
Program continues above
THURSDAY (continued)
J.S. BACH/RICCI: Presto
from Violin Sonata No. 1 in
G minor, BWV 1001
ROSS EDWARDS: Ecstatic
Dance for Two Violins
WEILL/JULIAN MILONE: The
Threepenny Opera
MOZART/JULIAN MILONE:
The Queen of the Night
MERCURY/JULIAN MILONE:
Bohemian Rhapsody
MOSZKOWSKI: Suite for
Two Violins and Piano, op. 71
BRAHMS: Clarinet Quintet in
B minor, op. 115
FRIDAY
JU LY 26
9:00
Aspen Chamber Symphony
Dress Rehearsal ($20)
Klein Music Tent
9:00
AMFS Architectural and
History Tour (Free; ticket
required)
Paepcke Terrace
12:30
The Art of Listening (Free)
Crossroads Church
Tom Buesch speaker
2:30
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Pitkin County Library
4:30
Overtures: Preconcert
Chamber Music (Free)
Harris Concert Hall
David Jeongmin Kim, Taige
Wang piano
RACHMANINOFF:
Études-tableaux,
op. 39
5:30
Chamber Symphony:
Jennifer Koh, Sibelius
Symphony No. 2 ($92, $75,
$45)
Klein Music Tent
Dalia Stasevska conductor
FRIDAY (continued)
Jennifer Koh violin
OUTI TARKIAINEN: The Ring
of Fire and Love
MISSY MAZZOLI: Violin
Concerto (Procession)
SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 2 in
D major, op. 43
SATURDAY
JU LY 27
10:00
Opera Encounters: Arias
and Scenes ($40)
Wheeler Opera House
Aspen Conducting Academy
Orchestra
Patrick Summers host
1:00
Music on the Mountain
(Free; gondola ticket
required)
Top of Aspen Mountain
1:30
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Aspen Community Church
4:30
Chamber Music ($45)
Harris Concert Hall
Aspen Contemporary
Ensemble
Timothy Weiss conductor
Kathleen Winkler violin
Michael Mermagen
A
cello
Anton Nel piano
Adele Anthony
A
violin
Brinton Averil Smith
A
cello
ELIZABETH OGONEK: Water
Cantos
BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio in
E-flat major, op. 70, no. 2
BRAHMS/BRINTON SMITH
A
:
from Hungarian Dances,
WoO. 1
6:30
Sonata Showcase (Free)
Edlis Neeson Hall, Bucksbaum
Campus
SATURDAY (continued)
7:30
A Recital by the Danish
String Quartet ($65)
Harris Concert Hall
Frederik Øland violin
Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen
violin
Asbjørn Nørgaard viola
Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin cello
HAYDN: Str
ing Quartet in G minor,
Hob. III:33, op. 20, no. 3
THOMAS ADÈS: The Four
Quarters
TRADITIONAL/DANISH
STRING QUARTET:
Folk Music
SUNDAY
JU LY 28
9:00
AMFS Architectural and
History Tour (Free; ticket
required)
Paepcke Terrace
9:30
Aspen Festival Orchestra
Dress Rehearsal ($20)
Klein Music Tent
3:00
Prelude: Preconcert Talk
(Free)
Harris Concert Hall
Graeme Boone speaker
4:00
Festival Orchestra: Mahler
Symphony No. 9
($92, $75, $45)
Klein Music Tent
Robert Spano conductor
G. MAHLER: Symphony No. 9 in
D major
NOTE: There will be no late
seating for this event.
JENNIFER KOH
CONCERT
STREAMS
LIVE
FREE!
MONDAY
JU LY 29
12:30
DeLay Fellowship
Auditions (Free)
Edlis Neeson Hall, Bucksbaum
Campus
12:00
Guided Backstage Tour of
the Klein Music Tent and
Harris Concert Hall (Free)
CANCELED
Klein Music Tent Plaza
2:30
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Pitkin County Library
5:30
Aspen Center for Physics
Piano Recital (Free)
6:00 SOLD OUT
*
Artist Dinner with
Gil Shaham
A
violin ($750)
Private Residence
* To be added to the waitlist, contact
Chandler Martin at 970 205 5065 or
[email protected]
6:00
Percussion Ensemble Plays
Zappa ($25)
Harris Concert Hall
Jonathan Haas
A
director
Program to include:
VARÈSE: Density 21.5
ZAPPA/MIKE MYERS: RDNZL
ZAPPA: Let’s Make the Water
Turn Black
ZAPPA/MIKE MYERS:
Regyptian Strut
ZAPPA: Revised Music for
Marimba and Low-
Budget Orchestra
VARÈSE: Ionisation
ZAPPA/JONATHAN
HAAS: The Black
Page
ZAPPA/MIKE MYERS:
Sofa #1
TUESDAY
JU LY 30
10:30
Wheeler Opera House and
AMFS History Tour (Free;
ticket required)
Wheeler Opera House Lobby
1:00
Harris Concert Hall Class
($25)
Harris Concert Hall
Gil Shaham
A
violin
6:00
A Reminiscences Program
by Sharon Isbin
A
classical
guitar ($75)
Harris Concert Hall
George Jackson
A
conductor
Alan Liu classical guitar
ANONYMOUS: Drewrie’s
Accordes
La Rossignol
DOWLAND: My Lord
Willoughby’s Welcome
Home
LEO ROUWER: El decamerón
negro
BARRIOS MANGORÉ: Julia
Florida
RODRIGO: Concierto de
Aranjuez
WEDNESDAY
JU LY 31
10:30
Wheeler Opera House and
AMFS History Tour (Free;
ticket required)
Wheeler Opera House Lobby
12:00
High Notes Discussion
(Free; ticket required)
Wheeler Opera House Lobby
Alan Fletcher moderator
Fletcher moderates a seven-person
panel discussing the legacy of
Dorothy DeLay.
3:00
Art Song Showcase (Free)
Harris Concert Hall
5:00
Aspen Conducting
Academy Orchestra ($20)
Klein Music Tent
Woodwinds
Competition Winner
STRAVINSKY: Concerto for
Strings in D major, “Basel”
Woodwind Concerto to be
announced
DEBUSSY: La mer
RAVEL: La valse
7:30
Special Event: A Recital by
the Zukerman Trio
($95, $75)
Harris Concert Hall
Pinchas Zukerman violin
Amanda Forsyth cello
Shai Wosner piano
BRAHMS: Piano Trio No. 2 in
C major, op. 87
JENNIFER HIGDON:
Pale Yellow from
Piano Trio No. 1
BEETHOVEN: Piano
Trio in B-flat major,
op. 97, “Archduke”
THURSDAY
AUGUST 1
10:00
Harris Concert Hall Piano
Class ($25)
CANCELED
Harris Concert Hall
3:00
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Harris Concert Hall
5:00
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Aspen Chapel
5:15
Basalt Regional Library
Recital (Free)
6:00
A Recital by
Stephen Hough piano ($65)
Harris Concert Hall
CHAMINADE:
Automne from 6 Études de
concert, op. 35, no. 2
Autrefois, op. 87, no. 4
LISZT: Piano Sonata in B
minor, LW A179
CHAMINADE: Thème varié,
op. 89
Les Sylvains, op. 60
CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No. 3
in B minor, op. 58
7:00
String Showcase (Free)
Edlis Neeson Hall, Bucksbaum
Campus
FRIDAY
AUGUST 2
9:00
Aspen Chamber Symphony
Dress Rehearsal ($20)
Klein Music Tent
9:00
AMFS Architectural and
History Tour (Free; ticket
required)
Paepcke Terrace
12:30
The Art of Listening (Free)
Crossroads Church
Tom Buesch speaker
2:30
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Pitkin County Library
4:30
Overtures: Preconcert
Chamber Music (Free)
Harris Concert Hall
Joshua August Mhoon piano
RACHMANINOFF: Moments
Musicaux, op. 16
5:30
Chamber Symphony:
Conlon
A
Conducts
Shaham
A
, Mahler No. 4 ($92,
$75, $45)
Klein Music Tent
James Conlon
A
conductor
Gil Shaham
A
violin
Erica Petrocelli soprano
MOZART: Violin Concerto
No. 5 in A major, K. 219
G. MAHLER: Symphony No. 4
in G major
NOTE: There will be no late
seating for this event.
SATURDAY
AUGUST 3
10:00
Opera Encounters: Arias
and Scenes ($40)
Wheeler Opera House
Aspen Conducting Academy
Orchestra
George Jackson
A
host
1:00
Music on the Mountain
(Free; gondola ticket required)
Top of Aspen Mountain
1:30
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Aspen Community Church
4:30
A Recital by the Takács
Quartet and Stephen
Hough piano ($65)
Harris Concert Hall
Edward Dusinberre violin
Harumi Rhodes violin
Richard O’Neill viola
András Fejér cello
Stephen Hough piano
HAYDN: String Quartet in
B-flat major, Hob. III/78, op.
76, No. 4, “Sunrise”
STEPHEN HOUGH: String
Quartet No. 1 “Les Six
Rencontres”
DVOŘÁK: Piano Quintet in
A major, B. 155, op. 81
SUNDAY
AUGUST 4
9:00
AMFS Architectural and
History Tour (Free; ticket
required)
Paepcke Terrace
9:30
Aspen Festival Orchestra
Dress Rehearsal ($20)
Klein Music Tent
3:00
Prelude: Preconcert Talk
(Free)
Harris Concert Hall
Harlow Robinson speaker
4:00
Festival Orchestra: Midori
A
,
Pictures at an Exhibition
($92, $75, $45)
Klein Music Tent
Kevin John Edusei
A
conductor
Midori
A
violin
DONGHOON SHIN: Upon
His Ghostly Solitude
BARTÓK: Violin Concerto
No. 2, BB 117
MUSORGSKY/RAVEL:
Pictures at an Exhibition
2024 Season Benefit
A Feast of Music: AMFS at 75 and Beyond
SAT, AUG 3 | 6 PM | $2,000+
An unforgettable evening on the Matthew and Carolyn
Bucksbaum Campus, pairing performances by our
talented artists with fine wines and a Colorado-sourced
culinary journey created by Hotel Jerome.
Join us to remember the AMFS’s history and celebrate
its future in honor of our founders, Walter and Elizabeth
Paepcke.
For benefit information and tickets, contact Chandler Martin at
970 205 6065 or by email at cmartin@aspenmusic.org.
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GIL SHAHAM
A
MONDAY
AUGUST 5
10:00
Guided Tour of the
Bucksbaum Campus (Free)
Bucksbaum Campus
2:30
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Pitkin County Library
3:00
Salon Showcase House
Music ($90)
e Ritz-Carlton Club, Aspen
Highlands
5:30
Aspen Center for Physics
Piano Recital (Free)
6:00
Chamber Music ($45)
Harris Concert Hall
Aspen Contemporary
Ensemble conductor
Timothy Weiss conductor
Joaquín Valdepeñas
A
clarinet
James Dunham viola
Anton Nel piano
Kathleen Winkler violin
Stephen Wyrczynski viola
Brinton Averil Smith
A
cello
Timothy Pitts double bass
NICO MUHLY: Roots, Pulses
MOZART: Trio for Clarinet,
Viola, and Piano in E-flat
major, K. 498, “Kegelstatt”
TCHAIKOVSKY/TIMOTHY
PITTS: Souvenir de Florence,
op. 70
TUESDAY
AUGUST 6
10:30
Wheeler Opera House and
AMFS History Tour (Free;
ticket required)
Wheeler Opera House Lobby
1:00
Harris Concert Hall Class
($25)
Harris Concert Hall
Lawrence Power viola
6:00
A Recital by the Takács
Quartet ($65)
Harris Concert Hall
Edward Dusinberre violin
Harumi Rhodes violin
Richard O’Neill viola
András Fejér cello
DVOŘÁK: String Quartet
in E-flat major, B. 92, op. 51
NOKUTHULA
NGWENYAMA: Flow
SCHUBERT: String Quartet
in G major, D. 887, op.
posth. 161
6:00
Music with a View (Free)
Aspen Art Museum
6:00
Piano Competition (Free)
Hurst Hall, Bucksbaum
Campus
8:00
Wind Orchestra ($20)
Klein Music Tent
Joaquín Valdepeñas
A
conductor
R. STRAUSS: Serenade in
E-flat major, op. 7
ALWYN: Concerto for Flute
and Eight Wind Instruments
RAFF: Sinfonietta, op. 188
WEDNESDAY
AUGUST 7
10:30
Wheeler Opera House and
AMFS History Tour (Free;
ticket required)
Wheeler Opera House Lobby
12:00
High Notes Discussion
(Free; ticket required)
Bad Harriet, Hotel Jerome
Alan Fletcher moderator
Fletcher talks with conductor David
Robertson and violist Lawrence Power.
3:00
National Council House
Music
Private Residence
(National Council Membership
required)
3:00
First Glimpse Composition
Recital I (Free)
Harris Concert Hall
5:00
Aspen
Conducting
Academy
Orchestra ($20)
Klein Music Tent
Brass Competition Winner
NICO MUHLY: Bright Idea
Brass Concerto to be
announced
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony
No. 5 in D minor, op. 47
5:00
Anderson Ranch: AMFS
Guitar Students in Recital
(Free)
Anderson Ranch Arts Center
7:30
African Queens: A Recital
by Karen Slack soprano
and Kevin Miller piano
($55)
Harris Concert Hall
Program to include new works by
Jasmine Barnes, Damien Geter, Jessie
Montgomery, Shawn Okpebholo,
Dave Ragland, Carlos Simon and Joel
Thompson
A
(AMFS Co-Commission)
THURSDAY
AUGUST 8
3:00
AOTVA / Composer
Project Recital (Free)
Harris Concert Hall
5:00
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Aspen Chapel
5:15
Basalt Regional Library
Recital (Free)
6:00 SOLD OUT
*
Artist Dinner with Robert
McDuffie violin ($750)
Private Residence
* To be added to the waitlist, contact
Chandler Martin at 970 205 5065 or
[email protected]
6:00
Bach’s Mass in B minor
($85)
Harris Concert Hall
Robert Spano conductor
Seraphic Fire
Patrick Dupre Quigley
Seraphic Fire artistic director
J. S. BACH: Mass in B minor,
BWV 232
7:00
String Showcase (Free)
Edlis Neeson Hall, Bucksbaum
Campus
FRIDAY
AUGUST 9
9:00
Aspen Chamber Symphony
Dress Rehearsal ($20)
Klein Music Tent
9:00
AMFS Architectural and
History Tour (Free; ticket
required)
Paepcke Terrace
12:30
The Art of Listening (Free)
Crossroads Church
Tom Buesch speaker
2:30
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Pitkin County Library
4:30
Overtures: Preconcert
Chamber Music (Free)
Harris Concert Hall
Students of Julian Martin
piano
RACHMANINOFF: Ten
Preludes, op. 23
5:30
Chamber Symphony:
Bronfman Plays Beethoven
($92, $75, $45)
Klein Music Tent
David Robertson conductor
Yefim Bronfman piano
STRAVINSKY: Symphonies of
Wind Instruments
BARTÓK: Music for Strings,
Percussion, and Celeste,
BB 114
BEETHOVEN: Piano
Concerto No. 4 in G major,
op. 58
SATURDAY
AUGUST 10
10:00
Opera Encounters: Arias
and Scenes by AMFS
Composition Fellows ($40)
Wheeler Opera House
SATURDAY (continued)
Christopher Theofanidis and
Matthew Aucoin hosts
1:00
Music on the Mountain
(Free; gondola ticket
required)
Top of Aspen Mountain
1:30
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Aspen Community Church
1:30
Composer Workshop
(Free)
Klein Music Tent
4:30
Chamber Music ($45)
Harris Concert Hall
Aspen Contemporary
Ensemble
Timothy Weiss conductor
Elaine Douvas oboe
Darryl Kubian theremin
Renata Arado
A
violin
Cornelia Heard
A
violin
Stephen Wyrczynski viola
Darrett Adkins
A
cello
Anton Nel piano
Alexander Kerr violin
Christian Colberg viola
Brinton Averil Smith
A
cello
Alexander Malofeev piano
STEVEN MACKEY: Ground
Swell
MARTINŮ: Fantasia for
Theremin, Oboe, String
Quartet, and Piano
BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No. 3
in C minor, op. 60
6:30
Sonata Showcase (Free)
Edlis Neeson Hall, Bucksbaum
Campus
7:30
A Viola Evening with
Lawrence Power ($75)
Harris Concert Hall
Robert Spano piano
Piotr Waclawik
A
conductor
Yu-PingTsai violin (2023
Dorothy DeLay Winner)
GARTH KNOX: Quartet for
One
SATURDAY (continued)
THOMAS ADÈS: Three
Berceuses, from The
Exterminating Angel
MOZART: Sinfonia
concertante in E-flat major,
K. 364 (K. 320d)
SCHUBERT/RICHARD
BIRCHALL: Gesang der
Geister über den Wassern,
D. 714
ANDERS HILLBORG: Viola
Concerto (AMFS Co-
Commission)
SUNDAY
AUGUST 11
9:00
AMFS Architectural and
History Tour (Free; ticket
required)
Paepcke Terrace
9:30
Aspen Festival Orchestra
Dress Rehearsal ($20)
Klein Music Tent
1:00
Composition House Music
($90)
Private Residence
3:00
Prelude: Preconcert Talk
(Free)
Harris Concert Hall
Joseph Pfender speaker
4:00
Festival Orchestra:
Malofeev Plays
Rachmaninoff ($92, $75,
$45)
Klein Music Tent
Roderick Cox
A
conductor
Alexander Malofeev piano
RACHMANINOFF: Piano
Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp
minor, op. 1
R. STRAUSS: Ein Heldenleben
(A Hero’s Life), op. 40
NOTE: There will be no late
seating for this event.
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SEVEN
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A
MONDAY
AUGUST 12
10:00
Harris Concert Hall Piano
Class ($25) NEW DATE
Harris Concert Hall
2:30
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Pitkin County Library
5:30
Aspen Center for Physics
Piano Recital (Free)
7:00
Mozart’s The Marriage
of Figaro ($95, $65, $25
obstructed)
Wheeler Opera House
Matthew Aucoin conductor
Sara Erde director
Artists of Aspen Opera
Theater and VocalARTS
This performance includes all Act IV
arias commonly cut from the score.
TUESDAY
AUGUST 13
10:30
Wheeler Opera House and
AMFS History Tour (Free;
ticket required)
Wheeler Opera House Lobby
1:00
Harris Concert Hall Class
($25)
Harris Concert Hall
Robert McDuffie
A
violin
6:00
A Recital by Zlatomir Fung
A
cello and Tony Siqi Yun
piano ($55)
Harris Concert Hall
J.S. BACH: Suite No. 2 for
Unaccompanied Cello in D
minor, BWV 1008
J.S. BACH: Suite No. 3 for
Unaccompanied Cello in C
major, BWV 1009
BRITTEN: Suite No. 1 for solo
cello, op. 72
6:00
Music with a View (Free)
Aspen Art Museum
WEDNESDAY
AUGUST 14
10:30
Wheeler Opera House and
AMFS History Tour (Free;
ticket required)
Wheeler Opera House Lobby
12:00
High Notes Discussion
(Free; ticket required)
Bad Harriet, Hotel Jerome
Alan Fletcher moderator
Fletcher talks with music director
Robert Spano and composer and
conductor Matthew Aucoin.
3:00
First Glimpse Composition
Recital II (Free)
Harris Concert Hall
5:00
Aspen Conducting
Academy Orchestra ($20)
Klein Music Tent
Piano Competition Winner
RACHMANINOFF: Rhapsody
on a Theme of Paganini
—
G. MAHLER: Symphony No. 5
in C-sharp minor
7:30
A Reminiscences Program
by Robert McDuffie
A
violin ($75)
Harris Concert Hall
Derek Wang
A
piano and
harpsichord
VIVALDI: Concerto in
G minor, RV 315, “Summer”
from “The Four Seasons,” op.
8, no. 2
MIKE MILLS: Stardancers’
Waltz from Concerto for
Violin, Rock Band, and
String Orchestra
PROKOFIEV: Andante
Cantabile and Allegro from
Sonata in C major for Two
Violins, op. 56
CHAUSSON: Sicilienne from
Concert in D major, op. 21
STRAVINSKY: Tarantella from
Suite italienne
BERNSTEIN: Agathon from
Serenade, after Plato’s
Symposium
program continues above
WEDNESDAY (continued)
PHILIP GLASS
A
: Movement
IV from Violin Concerto
No. 2, “The American Four
Seasons”
7:30
Brass Bash II (Free)
Hurst Hall, Bucksbaum Campus
THURSDAY
AUGUST 15
3:00
Spotlight Marathon (Free)
Hurst Hall, Bucksbaum
Campus
3:00
Guitar Recital (Free)
Harris Concert Hall
5:00
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Aspen Chapel
5:15
Basalt Regional Library
Recital (Free)
6:00
A Recital by Simone
Dinnerstein piano ($75)
Harris Concert Hall
PHILIP LASSER: 12 Variations
on a Chorale by J. S. Bach
RAMEAU: Gavotte et 6
doubles from Nouvelles
suites de pieces de clavecin
J. S. BACH: 15 Sinfonias, BWV
787–801
KEITH JARRETT: Encore
from Tokyo
7:00
Mozart’s The Marriage
of Figaro ($95, $65, $25
obstructed)
Wheeler Opera House
Matthew Aucoin conductor
Sara Erde director
Artists of Aspen Opera
Theater and VocalARTS
7:00
String Showcase (Free)
Edlis Neeson Hall, Bucksbaum
Campus
FRIDAY
AUGUST 16
9:00
Aspen Chamber Symphony
Dress Rehearsal ($20)
Klein Music Tent
9:00
AMFS Architectural and
History Tour (Free; ticket
required)
Paepcke Terrace
12:00
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Harris Concert Hall
2:30
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Pitkin County Library
4:30
Overtures: Preconcert
Chamber Music (Free)
Harris Concert Hall
Jiacheng Xiong piano
Mehana Ellis piano
RACHMANINOFF: Preludes
5, 10, 11, and 12 from 13
Preludes, op. 23
5:30
Chamber Symphony:
Beethoven’s “Eroica” ($92,
$75, $45)
Klein Music Tent
Cristian Măcelaru
A
conductor
Marina Piccinini flute
SARAH KIRKLAND SNIDER:
Forward Into Light
CHRISTOPHER
THEOFANIDIS: Flute
Concerto (AMFS Co-
Commission)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony
No. 3 in E-flat major, op. 55,
“Eroica”
SATURDAY
AUGUST 17
10:00
Opera Encounters: Arias
and Scenes ($40)
Wheeler Opera House
Christina Goerke host
1:30
Spotlight Recital (Free)
Aspen Community Church
4:30
Chamber Music ($45)
Harris Concert Hall
Aspen Contemporary Ensemble
Timothy Weiss conductor
Joaquín Valdepeñas
A
clarinet
Alexander Kerr violin
Victoria Chiang
A
viola
Michael Mermagen cello
A
Brinton Averil Smith cello
A
Darrett Adkins
A
cello
AUGUSTA READ THOMAS
A
:
ABRACADABRA (World
Premiere, AMFS Co-
Commission)
MOZART: Clarinet Quintet in
A major, K. 581
VILLALOBOS:
Bachianas brasileiras No. 1
Bachianas brasileiras No. 5
7:00
Mozart’s The Marriage
of Figaro ($95, $65, $25
obstructed)
Wheeler Opera House
Matthew Aucoin conductor
Sara Erde director
Artists of Aspen Opera
Theater and VocalARTS
7:30 ARTIST CHANGE
Special Event: A Recital
by James Ehnes violin and
Alessio Bax piano ($95,
$75)
Harris Concert Hall
MOZART: Violin Sonata in E
minor, K. 304 (K. 300c)
BRAHMS: Violin
Sonata No. 1 in G major,
op. 78
BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata
No. 9 in A major, op. 47,
“Kreutzer”
SUNDAY
AUGUST 18
9:00
AMFS Architectural and
History Tour (Free; ticket
required)
Paepcke Terrace
9:30
Aspen Festival Orchestra
Dress Rehearsal ($20)
Klein Music Tent
3:00
Prelude: Preconcert Talk
(Free)
Harris Concert Hall
Joseph Pfender speaker
4:00
Festival Orchestra: Spano
Conducts Wagner,
Ohlsson Plays
Liszt ($100, $80,
$50)
Klein Music Tent
Robert Spano conductor
Garrick Ohlsson piano
Christine Goerke soprano
Greer Grimsley bass-baritone
Tamara Wilson
A
soprano
Lauren Decker
A
contralto
Artists of Aspen Opera
Theater and VocalARTS
BERLIOZ: Royal Hunt and
Storm, from Les Troyens
LISZT: Piano Concerto No. 2
in A major, LW H6
WAGNER: Act III from Die
Walküre
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