COLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL's 2016 SEASON Program by Program Guide

COLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL CONTACT Elizabeth McGuire, Executive Director 303.665.0599, ext.101; [email protected] www.comusic.org; 200 E. Baseline Rd., Lafayette, CO 80026

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

COLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL'S 2016 SEASON Program by Program Guide

Festival Orchestra – Chamber Orchestra - Presenting Series – Mash-Up Series – Family Concerts ArC Series at the Dairy – Special Events

Guest Artist bios and photos are online.

Colorado Music Festival: Opening Night: Narratives of Heroism Conductor: Jean-Marie Zeitouni Guest Artist: Jennifer Koh, Violin Thursday, June 30, 7:30pm | Chautauqua Auditorium (900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, CO) Tickets: $12.00 - $54.00 ($9.00 - $51.00 Concert Member)

The 2016 Colorado Music Festival opens in heroic fashion, with a monumental program featuring Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni, the CMF Orchestra, and violin virtuoso, Jennifer Koh. Koh will perform the violin concerto of Finnish composer, Esa-Pekka Salonen, former Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and current Composer-in-Residence for the New York Philharmonic. The program opens with Beethoven’s flashy, fearless and often daring Egmont Overture and finishes with Hector Berlioz's larger-than-life Symphonie Fantastique.

Program: Beethoven Overture to Egmont, Salonen Violin Concerto, Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

Special Gala Events to enhance the evening! Please see Special Events section.

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Colorado Music Festival Presenting Series: Sō Brooklyn, Sō Boulder, Sō Percussion Guest Artist: Sō Percussion Friday, July 1, 7:30pm | Chautauqua Auditorium Tickets: $12.00 - $45.00 ($9.00 - $42.00 Concert Member)

The 2016 CMF Presenting Series opens with a stunning program by Brooklyn based ensemble, Sō Percussion, current Ensemble-in-Residence at Princeton University. Described by the New Yorker as "an exhilarating blend of precision and anarchy, rigor and bedlam," a performance by Sō Percussion is guaranteed to have you on the edge of your seat!

Program: Mazzariello Babybot, Reich Mallet Quartet, Treuting June, So Percussion Life is (blank), Cage Third Construction, Dessner Music for Wood and Strings

-more- Colorado Music Festival: Young People’s Concert: Machines and Dreams! Conductor: Jean-Marie Zeitouni Guest Artists: Sō Percussion Saturday, July 2, 10:00am | Chautauqua Auditorium Tickets: $8.00 ($5.00 Concert Member)

Join CMF Music Director, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, and the CMF Orchestra for a fun introduction to classical music with an orchestra program that will entertain and delight the entire family! Inspired by Mozart’s Toy Symphony and a trip by the composer to the famous Hamley’s Toy Shop, Colin Matthews’ Machines and Dreams is a symphonic masterpiece that has been described as “full of broad as well as sly humor,” and features as solo “instruments,” everything from toy pianos to fishing rods to bird calls! Featured soloists for the performances are the four virtuosic, brilliant musicians of Brooklyn-based, Sō Percussion, a percussion quartet that exudes energy, rhythm, and rhyme!

After the concert, concert-goers can join in a Music Fair on the lawn just outside Chautauqua Auditorium where kids can visit an instrument petting zoo, and enjoy face painting, balloon tying, snacks and more!

Program: Ravel Bolero, Reich Clapping Music, Treuting Oblique, Matthews Machines and Dreams

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Colorado Music Festival: Patriotism & Pops: Red, White & Brass CMF Brass Sunday, July 3, 4:00pm | Chautauqua Auditorium Tickets: $8.00 ($5.00 Concert Member)

Kick off your holiday weekend with the CMF brass ensemble! A celebration for the whole family, join CMF principal Trumpeter and conductor Jeffrey Work as he leads the CMF brass section in patriotic favorites like "Fanfare for the Common Man" and "Stars and Stripes Forever," coupled with popular tunes like "Quidditch" from Harry Potter and the Popular Suite for brass by Leonard Lebow!

Program: Copland Fanfare for the Common Man, Pardus Fanfare for Patriots, Goldman Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (American Fantasia), Lebow Suite for Brass, Williams Quidditch from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Sondheim Send in the Clowns, Wagner Under the Double Eagle, Villanueva Armed Forces Salute, Elgar Nimrod from Enigma Variations, Sousa The Stars and Stripes Forever ______

Colorado Music Festival: Part I: Boulder Brahms Conductor: Jean-Marie Zeitouni Thursday, July 7, 7:30pm | Chautauqua Auditorium Tickets: $12.00 - $54.00 ($9.00 - $51.00 Concert Member)

Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni leads the CMF Orchestra through a two-evening cycle of the complete symphonies of Johannes Brahms. Rarely does the opportunity arise to experience the verve, freedom, and complexity of this group of works in back-to-back performances. During the first evening, the grand and dignified Symphony No. 1 contrasts the joyful melodies and pastoral beauty of the more relaxed Symphony No. 2.

Program: Brahms Symphony No.1 in C minor, Brahms Symphony No.2 in D Major

-more- Colorado Music Festival: Part II: Boulder Brahms Conductor: Jean-Marie Zeitouni Friday, July 8, 7:30pm | Chautauqua Auditorium Tickets: $12.00 - $54.00 ($9.00 - $51.00 Concert Member)

During evening two of the cycle performance of Brahms symphonies, Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni and the CMF Orchestra explore the turbulence and tranquility of the composer's epic Symphony No. 3. The evening concludes with a bold interpretation of Brahms' complex, emotionally powerful final essay in symphonic form, his Symphony No. 4.

Program: Brahms Symphony No.3 in F Major, Brahms Symphony No.4 in E Minor

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Colorado Music Festival: Family Fun Concert Sunday, July 10, 3:00pm | Chautauqua Auditorium Tickets: $5 ($2 Concert Member)

These concerts give younger children a chance to meet different sections of the orchestra. Small ensembles of musicians from the CMF Orchestra perform informal, 45-minute musical programs. Concert-goers can meet the musicians for a Q&A following each performance.

Program: TBA

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Colorado Music Festival: The Tragedy of Carmen Conductor: Jean-Marie Zeitouni Guest Artists: Jeanine De Bique, Soprano; Abigail Fischer, Mezzo-Soprano; Jason Slayden, Tenor; Aleksey Bogdanov, Baritone Sunday, July 10, 7:30pm | Chautauqua Auditorium Tickets: $12.00 - $54.00 ($9.00 - $51.00 Concert Member)

Don't miss this pocket-sized, but dramatically intense adaptation of Georges Bizet's "Carmen" by legendary British theater and film director, Peter Brook. Under the baton of Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni, a quartet of vocal talent and the CMF Chamber Orchestra take on Brook's famously fresh "The Tragedy of Carmen," replete with musical favorites from Bizet's opera and scenes from the original novel.

Program: Bizet/Brook The Tragedy of Carmen

-more- Colorado Music Festival Mash-Up: The Rite of Spring Deconstructed Guest Artist: The Bad Plus Tuesday, July 12, 7:30pm | Chautauqua Auditorium Tickets: $12.00 - $45.00 ($9.00 - $42.00 Concert Member)

The 2016 Music Mash-Up series kicks off with a program featuring the so-called bad boys of jazz, The Bad Plus. The legendary jazz trio presents their original deconstruction of Igor Stravinsky's once notorious masterpiece, "The Rite of Spring," commissioned by Duke University and Lincoln Center for the Center’s Out-of-Doors festival in 2011. While the 1913 debut of the ballet performance in Paris triggered riots, The Bad Plus' musical interpretation of the signature work, with beautiful projected images and videos, has been praised as "electrifying" (The New York Times) and "exhilarating…dramatic, dynamic" (The Boston Globe).

Each 7:30pm concert in the Mash-Up series will be preceded by a 5:30pm Mash-Up Mixer in locations just outside Chautauqua Auditorium, featuring samples of food and drink from some of Boulder's finest restaurants, breweries, and specialty food stores. Each Mixer is free to concert goers that evening, but only a limited number of first come, first served passes will be available to ticket holders at Chautauqua on the evening of the performance, so please arrive early.

Program: On Sacred Ground: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring

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Colorado Music Festival: Brahms and Bernstein Conductor: Michael Christie Guest Artist: Orion Weiss, Piano Thursday, July 14, 7:30pm | Chautauqua Auditorium Tickets: $12.00 - $54.00 ($9.00 - $51.00 Concert Member)

CMF Music Director Laureate Michael Christie returns to Boulder to continue a longtime collaboration with pianist Orion Weiss, in a program featuring Johannes Brahms' tumultuous and quietly impassioned Piano Concerto No. 1. Christie rounds out the program by leading the CMF orchestra in Charles Ives' "The Unanswered Question," a spatial work comprising layers of sound; along with Leonard Bernstein's fanfare "Shivaree" and his beautifully integrated, single-movement Symphonic Suite from the 1954 movie, "On the Waterfront," which won 8 Academy Awards and was ranked the 8th best movie of all time by the American Film Institute.

Program: Bernstein Shivaree, Ives The Unanswered Question, Bernstein On the Waterfront, Brahms Piano Concerto No.1 in D Minor

-more- Colorado Music Festival Presenting Series: 21st Century Virtuosos: Joshua Roman and Orion Weiss in Concert Guest Artist: Joshua Roman, cello; Orion Weiss, piano Friday, July 15, 7:30pm | Chautauqua Auditorium Tickets: $12.00 - $45.00 ($9.00 - $42.00 Concert Member)

CMF Creative Partner, cellist Joshua Roman, and frequent CMF guest artist, pianist Orion Weiss, join artistic forces to present an evening of exquisite music for small ensembles. The first half includes Janacek's veiled, yet powerful Pohadka, Schubert's delightful sonata "Arpeggione," and Japanese composer, Toru Takemitsu's Orion. For the second half, Roman and Weiss return to stage with CMF musicians, including concertmaster, Calin Lupanu, for a performance of Brahms' magnificent Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor.

Program: Janacek Pohadka, Takemitsu Orion, Schubert Arpeggione Sonata, Brahms Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor

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Colorado Music Festival: Inspired by Bach Guest Artist: Vadim Gluzman, Violin Sunday, July 17, 7:30pm | Chautauqua Auditorium Tickets: $12.00 - $54.00 ($9.00 - $51.00 Concert Member)

SeiSolo Artist-in-Residence Vadim Gluzman leads the CMF Chamber Orchestra in a conductor-less program. The program begins with Alfred Schnittke's "Suite in the Old Style," which recalls the glorious temperament of Johann Sebastian Bach. The program also features Mozart's lightly-scored and gracefully ornate Violin Concerto No. 3, and his Bach-inspired Adagio and Fugue. Dmitri Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony, a profoundly emotional response to the WWII destruction of Dresden, adds both closure and transformation to the program.

Program: Schnittke Suite in the Old Style, Mozart Violin Concerto No.3 in G Major, Mozart Adagio & Fugue in C Minor, Shostakovich Chamber Symphony

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Colorado Music Festival Presenting Series: Italian Influences Guest Artist: Vadim Gluzman, violin; David Korevaar, piano Tuesday, July 19, 7:30pm | Chautauqua Auditorium Tickets: $12.00 - $45.00 ($9.00 - $42.00 Concert Member)

SeiSolo Artist-in-Residence Vadim Gluzman and piano virtuoso David Korevaar team up to perform César Franck's familiar, canonic Violin Sonata – a prayerful, passionate tribute to love. In Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Piedigrotta 1924 for solo piano, Korevaar goes it alone to reveal the rhapsodic nuances of Neapolitan folk music. In turn, a sextet of Colorado Music Festival string players come together to show off the contrapuntal prowess of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in his "Souvenir de Florence," initially sketched by the composer while visiting Florence.

Program: Franck Violin Sonata in A Major, Castelnuovo-Tedesco Piedigrotta 1924, Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence

-more- Colorado Music Festival: Russian Passions Conductor: Jean-Marie Zeitouni Guest Artist: Vadim Gluzman, Violin

Thursday, July 21, 7:30pm & Friday, July 22, 7:30pm| Chautauqua Auditorium Tickets: $12.00 - $54.00 ($9.00 - $51.00 Concert Member)

SeiSolo Artist-in-Residence Vadim Gluzman concludes his residency by returning to the stage as soloist in Tchaikovsky's monumental Violin Concerto – one of the most technically difficult works for the instrument. Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni and the CMF Orchestra also present Anatoly Liadov's brief, but transcendent "Enchanted Lake." For the second half of the program, Modest Mussorgsky's vivid and ponderous "Pictures at an Exhibition" is paired with stunning new projected animation developed by a team of professors and students at the University of Southern California to celebrate the opening of Frank Gehry's stunning New World Center in Miami.

Program: Liadov The Enchanted Lake, Tchaikovksy Violin Concerto in D Major, Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

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Colorado Music Festival: Mozart’s Summer of the Symphony Conductor: Jean-Marie Zeitouni Sunday, July 24, 7:30pm | Chautauqua Auditorium Tickets: $12.00 - $54.00 ($9.00 - $51.00 Concert Member)

For the fifth chamber orchestra program of the season, Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni leads the CMF Chamber Orchestra in a program of Mozart's three final symphonies. Unknown to most lovers of these works is the fact that all three were composed in the summer of 1788, in roughly the same six-week period of time as the Festival. It was a summer of symphonies for the genius composer!

Program: Mozart Symphony No.39 in E-flat Major, Mozart Symphony No.40 in G Minor, Mozart Symphony No.41 in C Major “Jupiter”

-more- Colorado Music Festival Mash-Up: An Evening with DJ Spooky Conductor: Chris Rountree Guest Artist: DJ Spooky Tuesday, July 26, 7:30pm | Chautauqua Auditorium Tickets: $12.00 - $45.00 ($9.00 - $42.00 Concert Member)

The Mash-Up series continues on Tuesday, July 26, with an evening curated by multi-dimensional hip-hop artist, producer, philosopher, author and visiting CU professor Paul Miller a.k.a DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid. Featuring DJ Spooky at the turntables, the CMF Orchestra, and conductor Chris Rountree, Artistic Director of the intrepid, Los Angeles based music ensemble, wild Up, get to know the many sides of DJ Spooky in a program that features a variety of Miller's work, from original compositions to remixes of popular classical works by Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart. As a National Geographic emerging explorer, Miller visited Antarctica and created Of Water and Ice, an evocative, multimedia journey across the rugged, awe-inspiring landscapes of this extraordinary place. Forest Symphony, Miller's latest project, is the result of his four seasonal residencies at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon. This multimedia work includes stunning, projected high-resolution videos.

Program: DJ Spooky Of Water and Ice, DJ Spooky Remixes of works by Bach, Beethoven and Mozart DJ Spooky Forest Symphony

______Colorado Music Festival: From Prague to Warsaw to Bucharest! Conductor: Jean-Marie Zeitouni Guest Artist: Stephen Hough, Piano Thursday, July 28, 7:30pm | Chautauqua Auditorium Tickets: $12.00 - $54.00 ($9.00 - $51.00 Concert Member)

British pianist Stephen Hough returns to Boulder to perform a pair of piano concertos - Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1, an exceedingly extroverted, virtuosic work and Polish composer Witold Lutosławski's "Paganini Variations," an original transcription of the incredibly difficult 24th Caprice for solo violin by Nicolò Paganini. With Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni leading the CMF Orchestra, the program also includes George Enescu's "Romanian Rhapsody," among the composer's best-known compositions, and Dvořák's cheerful, optimistic Symphony No. 8.

Program: Enescu Romanian Rhapsody No.1 in A Major, Liszt Piano Concerto No.1 in E-flat Major Lutoslawski “Variations on a Theme by Paganini”, Dvorak Symphony No.8 in G Major

______Colorado Music Festival: Family Fun Concert Sunday, July 31, 3:00pm | Chautauqua Auditorium Tickets: $5 ($2 Concert Member)

These concerts give younger children a chance to meet different sections of the orchestra. Small ensembles perform informal, 45-minute musical programs. Concert-goers can meet the musicians for a Q&A following each performance.

Program: TBA -more- Colorado Music Festival: Bach to Lash: 4 Centuries, 4 Masterpieces Conductor: Jean-Marie Zeitouni Guest Artists: Hannah Lash, Harp; Louis DeMartino, Clarinet; Glenn Einschlag, Bassoon Sunday, July 31, 7:30pm | Chautauqua Auditorium Tickets: $12.00 - $54.00 ($9.00 - $51.00 Concert Member)

On the heels of the October 2015 Carnegie Hall premiere of her first harp concerto, 2016 Click Composer-in- Residence and harpist Hannah Lash joins the CMF Orchestra as soloist for the world premiere of her Harp Concerto No. 2, commissioned by CMF through audience contributions to its Click Program. The program also includes three other masterworks from three centuries - Bach's dancelike Orchestral Suite No. 1, Beethoven's energetic Symphony No. 1, Richard Strauss' lyrical Duet-Concertino, which showcases two of CMF virtuosic principal musicians - clarinetist, Louis DeMartino and bassoonist, Glenn Einschlag.

Program: Bach Orchestral Suite No.1 in C Major, Lash Harp Concerto No.2 (World Premiere; commissioned by CMF through its Click program),Strauss Duett-Concertino, Beethoven Symphony No.1 in C Major

______Colorado Music Festival Mash-Up: Colorado’s Own Paper Bird Conductor: Chris Rountree Guest Artist: Paper Bird Tuesday, August 2, 7:30pm | Chautauqua Auditorium Tickets: $12.00 - $45.00 ($9.00 - $42.00 Concert Member)

The 2016 Mash-Up series concludes in style with the orchestral debut of Denver-based indie folk/baroque pop band Paper Bird, led by Chris Rountree, Artistic Director of the intrepid, Los Angeles-based music ensemble, wild Up. Paper Bird fans and music lovers alike will have a rare opportunity to hear the sublime sounds of some of Paper Bird's most well-known songs, arranged for the band and orchestra.

Program: TBA

______Colorado Music Festival: The Song of the Earth Conductor: Jean-Marie Zeitouni Guest Artist: Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano and Richard Cox, tenor Thursday, August 4, 7:30pm | Chautauqua Auditorium Tickets: $12.00 - $54.00 ($9.00 - $51.00 Concert Member)

Grammy award winning Mezzo-Soprano Kelley O’Connor and Tenor Richard Cox headline Gustav Mahler's magnificent "Das Lied von der Erde." Inspired by the earthly beauty and transience of six ancient Chinese poems on which the work is based, Mahler described the work as a "symphony in songs.” Also on the program is Claude Debussy's orchestral work "Nocturnes" for orchestra and chorus, inspired by James Abbott McNeill Whistler's series of Impressionist paintings by the same title.

Program: Debussy Nocturnes, Mahler Das Lied von der Erde

-more- Colorado Music Festival Presenting Series: Olga Kern and Music for Five! Guest Artist: Olga Kern, piano Saturday, August 6, 7:30pm | Chautauqua Auditorium Tickets: $12.00 - $45.00 ($9.00 - $42.00 Concert Member)

Following her wildly successful 2015 solo recital on the CMF Presenting Series, Boulder-favorite and pianist Olga Kern returns for the first of two performances. For this program, Kern joins CMF string musicians for what is sure to be a stirring performance of Brahms' masterpiece, the Piano Quintet in F minor. The Brahms Piano Quintet is paired with another celebrated work for five musicians, Mozart's String Quintet No. 3 in C major.

Program: Mozart String Quintet No.3 in C Major, Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor

______Colorado Music Festival: Olga Performs Beethoven! Conductor: Jean-Marie Zeitouni Guest Artist: Olga Kern, Piano Sunday, August 7, 7:30pm | Chautauqua Auditorium Tickets: $12.00 - $54.00 ($9.00 - $51.00 Concert Member)

Boulder-favorite and pianist Olga Kern returns to CMF to perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 with the CMF Chamber Orchestra for the final concert of the 2016 Festival! A nod to the self-proclaimed "Emperor" Napoleon, Beethoven's last piano concerto is grandly proportioned, dazzlingly virtuosic and sublimely melodic. With Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni conducting, the program opens with Stravinsky’s concerto for orchestra “Dumbarton Oaks” and concludes with Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 5, considered by many to be a musical tribute to the composer's idol, Mozart.

Program: Stravinsky Concerto in E-flat Major “Dumbarton Oaks”, Schubert Symphony No.5 in B-flat Major, Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 in E-flat Major “Emperor”

To purchase tickets online and for more information, please visit www.Comusic.org. The Chautauqua Box Office is located at 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, CO with hours:

From May 9 – June 26, Monday – Friday Hours: 12 pm – 5 pm

From June 27 – August 8, Monday – Friday Hours: 12 pm – 6 pm or 12 pm – show intermission on show days

The Chautauqua Box Office phone number is (303) 440-7666.

-more- New Series at the Dairy Arts Center

ArC – Artistic Currents AT THE DAIRY is CMF’s new series in partnership with American cellist and TED Senior Fellow, Joshua Roman. Building on the Festival’s portfolio of innovative artistic ventures, CMF’s creative partnership will go well beyond the traditional classical music experience to inspire audiences with eclectic, inventive performances that cross a range of art forms – from music and dance to theater and the visual arts.

All performances on this series will be held at The Dairy Arts Center (2590 Walnut St, Boulder, CO). Tickets are $32. To purchase tickets, please call 303-444-7328 or https://tickets.thedairy.org/online/ArCSubscription

“we do it to one another,” Poetry in Performance Joshua Roman, cello and conductor; Jessica Rivera, soprano; David Kaplan, piano; CMF Musicians Saturday, July 16 | 7:30pm

CMF Creative Partner and Senior TED Fellow Joshua Roman was commissioned to write a song cycle setting music to Tracy K. Smith’s 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poetry “Life on Mars”–and as a result, Roman’s “we do it to one another” was born. The evening will feature a performance of the piece by acclaimed soprano Jessica Rivera, reading by Smith, and a conversation between the artists on the creative process, music, and poetry.

Also on the program is Oliver Messiaen’s ethereally beautiful Quartet for the End of Time. The work was composed and premiered at the Stalag VIIIA prisoner-of-war camp in Görlitz, Germany, in 1941 after Messiaen was captured as a French soldier. ______BLACKBIRD FLY: A Concert for Voice, Body and Strings Daniel Bernard Roumain, violin; Marc Bamuthi Joseph, poet Saturday, July 23 | 7:30pm

BLACKBIRD, FLY weaves together an enduring tapestry of movement, narrative, music and Haitian folklore to engage audiences in dialog about critical questions of our time. Steeped in hip hop aesthetic, this intimate duet between two preeminent sons of Haitian immigrants – composer/violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain and arts activist/spoken word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph – unveils their life stories in search of their identity and role models, and delves into universal themes of tolerance and inclusion.

______Dichterliebe • Craigslistlieder • Songs Gabriel Kahane, piano and voice Saturday, July 30 | 7:30pm

In this unusual song recital, songwriter and composer Gabriel Kahane accompanies himself in Schumann’s monumental cycle Dichterliebe, drawing connections between the romantic German song tradition of the nineteenth century and the singer-songwriter tradition of contemporary American pop music. In addition, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of his cult song cycle Craigslistlieder, composed in 2006 and since performed by hundreds of singers including four-time Tony-winner Audra McDonald, Kahane will perform the complete work: eight irreverent yet poignant song settings of classified ads from craigslist.org. To round out the program, Gabriel will draw on songs from his latest LP,The Ambassador, hailed by Rolling Stone as “one of the year’s very best albums”.

-more- COLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL SPECIAL EVENTS CONTACT Melissa Fathman, Development Director 303.665.0599, ext.105; [email protected] www.comusic.org; 200 E. Baseline Rd., Lafayette, CO 80026

Special Events

Opening Night Gala Events The 2016 Colorado Music Festival kicks off on Thursday, June 30 with an Opening Night Gala. Join us on the Great Lawn at Chautauqua to celebrate the first of many exciting concerts this season! Dinner – $150 per person | Great Lawn at Chautauqua | 4:30pm - Cocktail Reception; 5:30pm - Dinner

Enjoy an elegant farm-to-table style dinner under a tent on the Great Lawn at Chautauqua in celebration of our opening night concert. Music Director, Jean-Marie Zeituoni and renowned Belgium chef, Willem de Froy of Guillaume’s European Catering, collaborate to present a unique menu inspired by the evenings symphonic work Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique. Dinner will include a spirited performance by Festival guest artist ensemble Sō Percussion.

Dinner + Reception – $200 per person | Great Lawn at Chautauqua 4:30pm – Cocktail Reception; 5:30pm – Dinner; 9:30pm – Post-Concert Reception

Mix and mingle with Jean-Marie Zeitouni and Opening Night Guest Artist, violinist Jennifer Koh, while enjoying live music, after-dinner drinks, dessert, tea and coffee. Includes pre-concert cocktail reception and dinner.

Dinner + Reception + Wine Event – $500 per person | Great Lawn at Chautauqua 4:30pm – Cocktail Reception; 5:30pm – Dinner; 9:30pm – Post-Concert Reception Plus July 16, 2016 | Private Residence - 7pm – Wine tasting

The art of making wine and the art of conducting share a common bridge, where craftsmanship and artistry come together to create spectacular experiences. As a special thank you, we invite VIP ticket holders to join CMF Music Director Laureate, Michael Christie,NY Philharmonic Sommelier, Ron Merlino, and Winemaker Doug McCrea of Salida Wines as they take you on a journey of creativity through wine tastings, musical excerpts, and discussion in the exquisite setting of a private residence.

For more information and tickets to the Gala Events, please visit www.comusic.org/opening-night-gala.

-more- Fêtes Galantes Series Enjoy an intimate private performance with world-renowned Festival Guest Artists while enjoying refreshments in some of the most beautiful homes in Boulder. Limited seating available, so purchase your tickets today for this unique Festival experience! Doors open at 7pm | Concert begins at 7:30pm | Tickets: $150 per person, per concert

The Bad Plus |Monday, July 11 Home of Henry and Anne Beer The Bad Plus came together at the end of the 20th century and has avoided easy categorization ever since, winning critical hosannas and a legion of fans worldwide with their creativity, unique sound and flair for live performance. Based in New York City, the intensely collaborative trio has constantly searched for rules to break and boundaries to cross, bridging genres and techniques while exploring the infinite possibilities of three exceptional musicians working in perfect sync. The Bad Plus’ 10th studio recording, Inevitable Western, sees bassist Reid Anderson, pianist Ethan Iverson, and drummer David King further honing the same conceptual base that fired their inception. Yet again they continue to explore myriad musical forms born of jazz along with any sonic source that forwards music that is uniquely The Bad Plus. Inevitable Western is an album where pop, blues, and folk meld with classic melodies and rhythmic innovation into that rarest of hybrids: intelligent music for the masses.

Olga Kern | Friday, August 5 Home of Susan Olenwine & Frank Palermo

Olga Kern is now recognized as one of her generation’s great pianists. With her vivid stage presence, passionately confident musicianship and extraordinary technique, the Russian-born, American pianist continues to captivate fans and critics alike. Olga Kern was born into a family of musicians with direct links to Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff and began studying piano at the age of five. She jumpstarted her U.S. career with her historic Gold Medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas as the first woman to do so in more than thirty years.

Steinway Artist and First prize winner of the Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition at the age of seventeen, Ms. Kern is a laureate of many international competitions and tours throughout Russia, Europe, the United States, Japan, South Africa and South Korea. The first Olga Kern International Piano Competition has been announced to take place in Albuquerque, New Mexico in autumn, 2016, where Ms. Kern will serve as Artistic Director and President of the Jury. Ms. Kern is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Division of the Arts. In June 2016 she will be the Jury Chairman of the Seventh Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition.

For tickets and more information: http://www.comusic.org/fetes-galantes-series/

-more- CMF Goes to the Velodrome Featuring live performances by 2016 guest artist DJ Spooky with Festival musicians! Boulder Valley Velodrome | 601 Bonnell Ave, Erie, CO Friday, July 29, 2016 Doors Open, 6pm | Live Performance, 8pm What is it like to ride the high banks of the fastest track cycling facility in America? What about while enjoying live performances by DJ Spooky and Festival musicians? $350 Cycling Price includes:

•Specialized Langster track bicycle •Pearl Izumi cycling shoes •World-class coaching instruction •Use of world-class velodrome to the finest live performances in Boulder •Complimentary souvenir event T-shirt and water bottle •Food and drink

$50 Spectator Price includes: •Full evening pass to Velodrome Party •Spectacular concert in one-of-a-kind setting •Food and drink If you can ride a bike – you can ride the Velodrome!

For tickets and more information: http://www.comusic.org/cmf-goes-to-the-velodrome/

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Guest Artists Photos and Bios available upon request also online at: http://www.comusic.org/2016-guest-artists/

About Music Director, Jean-Marie Zeitouni

Jean-Marie Zeitouni has emerged as one of the brightest young conductors of his generation. His eloquent yet fiery style, in repertoire ranging from baroque to contemporary music, has resulted in regular engagements with leading symphony orchestras and opera companies around the globe. Currently Music Director of the Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts and Artistic Director of Orchestre de chambre I Musici de Montréal, Zeitouni recently completed tenures as Music Director of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, in Ohio, and Principal Guest Conductor of Les Violons du Roy, an ensemble with which he gave more than 250 concerts throughout North America over the last 13 years.

Zeitouni has also held various other positions with leading Canadian organizations, including music director of the Banff Centre “Opera as Theatre” program, associate conductor and chorus master at Opéra de Montréal and music director of its Young Artist Program (Atelier lyrique), chorus master at Opéra de Québec, choir director of the Québec Symphony Orchestra, and director of the orchestra and opera workshop at Laval University.