Summer Music Festival 38th Season: June 5 - June 24, 2022
The Colorado College Summer Music Festival, now in its 38th season, provides the highest caliber, inclusive educational experience for pre-professional musicians, connecting them with preeminent performance faculty from around the country.
Providing a vibrant concert series is part of our mission. We have five festival artist concerts in Packard Hall, featuring ensembles of our faculty and selected fellows, two festival orchestra concerts with our fellows in Celeste theatre, and one outdoor orchestra concert on the Tava quad. In addition, fellows perform free music-at-midday chamber ensemble concerts, a children's orchestra concert, community outreach concerts, and concerto readings.
Read more about our 2022 season concert program.
Upcoming Events
Our opening concert for the 38th season of the Summer Music Festival
A Concert in Honor of Peggy Shivers featuring Brian Major, baritone
June 7, 2022 * 7:30 p.m * Packard Hall
See the entire program

SMF featued on PBS
SMF Part of Season 3 Now Hear This
This episode takes place in Colorado Springs, Colorado on the CC campus and with the faculty and students of the CC Summer Music Festival.
Great Performances: Now Hear This “Aaron Copland: Dean of American Music”
Streaming now or on the PBS Video app
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.
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Contact Us
Assistant Director, Colorado College Summer Music Festival
14 E. Cache La Poudre St.
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
festival@coloradocollege.edu
(719) 389-6552