INTERMEZZO SEASON KEEPS THE MUSIC ALIVE

SMF welcomes the CATALYST QUARTET for our Fall Intermezzo Season as we continue to celebrate 40 Years of the Festival at Colorado College

 October 30, 2024

7 p.m.,  Packard Hall

Tickets on sale online September 30, 2024

General Admission $30;    Donors $25;    Non CC Students $5;     FREE with current CCID

SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL 1984-2024

40th Anniversary Interviews and Blog

We celebrated a fabulous 40th Season with amazing music this past June.  See how Colorado College Summer Music Festival continues to celebrate our 40th Season. 

 Listen to the interviews with our favorite long-standing patrons or read the daily blog though the eyes of David Sckolnik.

 SEE OUR 2024 CONCERT PROGRAM.

MEMORIES FROM JUNE

View Slide Show 9 Photographs

GIve for our 40th Anniversary Season

We are a Best of the Springs 2024 Winner!

Thank you to all who took the time to vote for us. We are a 2024 winner of the Gazette's BEST IN THE SPRINGS as a LOCAL FESTIVAL!  

We look forward to celebrating our 40th Anniversary Season and all the music with you!

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Colorado College Summer Music Festival episode on PBS!

Now Hear This Season 3, episode 3 “Aaron Copland: Dean of American Music” takes place in Colorado Springs on the CC campus and with the faculty and students of the CC Summer Music Festival.

WATCH THE TRAILER 

Drawing from his Jewish roots, modernism and American folk music, Pulitzer-, Grammy- and Oscar-winning composer Aaron Copland created a distinctive American sound in both his classical compositions and film scores. Like Copland did for much of his career, host Scott Yoo and fellow musicians spend time working with students at a music festival in Colorado to strengthen their auditioning skills and better understand Copland’s music. To discover Copland’s inspiration, Yoo travels to New York to explore the Jewish music Copland was raised with as well as modernist music through performances by Cantor Daniel Mutlu, violinist Steven Copes, cellist Mark Kosower, festival music director and pianist Susan Grace and more. Later, Yoo becomes the student and learns from pianist and Copland enthusiast John Novacek about how the composer developed his signature sound, now so familiar to us all.

 

Go to PBS to stream the entire episode.

 

Scott Yoo, conductor of the CC Summer Music Festival

is also the host and executive producer of Now Hear This  

Read more about PBS on the CC campus in 2022.

Season Four of Now Hear This

Great Performances: Now Hear This Series 4 is still available on PBS, pbs.org/nowhearthis the PBS App, or on PBS Passport.  Host of the show, and the conductor for the Summer Music Festival at Colorado College, Scott Yoo, danced halls of Buenos Aires, the place where guitars are born in Granada, the culturally vibrant neighborhoods of Brooklyn, and Schumann’s newlywed home in Leipzig in the latest season of Now Hear This on Great Performances. In this fourth season of the critically acclaimed miniseries, Yoo shines a spotlight on the collaborative process and the source of creative inspiration while exploring the backgrounds of tango’s Astor Piazzolla, the Romantic era’s Robert Schumann, steel pianist and composer Andy Akiho and flamenco’s Isaac Albéniz. Showcasing the talents of artists around the world including pianist and Schumann expert Dr. Richard Kogan.  Summer Music Festival cellist Bion Tsang, and flutist Alice Dade were both featured in this season.

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