2026 Season
42nd Season: June 6-26, 2026
2026 SEASON
Tickets available to donors April 1 and to the public May 1.
Festival Orchestra Concert - June 16
Scott Yoo, conducting
COPLAND - Appalachian Spring
MOZART - Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622
Jon Manasse, clarinet
SIBELIUS - Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43
NIGHT CAP MUSIC AND WINE PAIRING
A new add-on event to your ticket(s) this year!
For $50 added on to your season ticket package or your single concert ticket, join us for a "Night Cap" following Monday evening's Festival Artists Concert on June 22 to enjoy a special wine and music experience.
Pianist Lauren Ciborowski and Ben Harvey, both CC alums and longtime Festival supporters, will host this unique event that blends musical insight into the evening's concert program with thoughtfully-paired wine tastings, to be held at Evergreen Restaurant behind the Colorado College Spencer Center. Must add on event in advance.
PRE-CONCERT LECTURES
You're invited to free Pre-Concert Lectures with CC Prof. Emeritus Michael Grace prior to four of our concerts this season, all beginning at 5:45 p.m.:
- Tuesday, June 9 - Packard Room 9
- Tuesday, June 16 - Cornerstone Arts Center Screening Room
- Monday, June 22 - Packard Room 9
- Friday, June 26 - Cornerstone Arts Center Screening Room
These lectures include complimentary wine; no tickets or reservations required.
CHILDREN'S ORCHESTRA CONCERT
The Festival Orchestra performs Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, featuring guest artist Bill Bowers, mime, along with Virginia Barron, narrator, and accompanied by artwork created by students from the FAC's Bemis School of Art.
- Performances are at 9 and 11 a.m., Thursday, June 18 in Celeste Theatre, Cornerstone Arts Center.
- These performances specially designed for children and families are FREE, but tickets are required.
- Tickets will be available beginning June 1. We are opening tickets a bit later this year in an effort to mitigate no-shows.
Additionally, the CC Summer Music Festival is proud to partner with the Pikes Peak Library District to bring music to its Family Hour event: 10:30 a.m. Friday, June 12 at Library 21C.
FREE, NON-TICKETED EVENTS
Program TBA
Pre-Concert Recital attendees are invited to enjoy the complimentary wine bar in the Packard Courtyard prior to each ticketed Festival Artists Concert that follows the free recital.
All programs TBA
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MUSIC AND ART TALK
1:45 p.m. Wednesday, June 17
Music Room, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College
Exploring the life and works of abstract painter, printmaker and muralist Charles Bunnell, presented by Pat Musick, FAC visiting artist.
Bunnell's 1959 Untitled will be available for Talk patrons to view in the Gathering Place: Permanent Collection Reinstallation, in the FAC's First Floor Galleries on the day of the Talk. To see the piece on the way to the Talk, guests should walk with the group coming from Packard Hall following Music at Midday. Patrons who miss seeing the work beforehand will also have an opportunity to view it following the Talk.
Bunnell attended the Broadmoor Art Academy — precursor to the Fine Arts Center — where he studied under American impressionist Ernest Lawson in 1927 and 1928 and then became an instructor at the prestigious Academy in 1929. He is among the few artists who learned traditional painting at the Academy and later adopted a more purified form of abstraction in his paintings. In his paintings, pure color and shape are the elements through which our ultimate response is sensory, emotional, and intuitive. Read more
Untitled (1959) by Charles Bunnell
From the collection of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College. 2015.20.10
DONOR EVENTS
Donors to the Colorado College Summer Music Festival receive a number of exclusive benefits and offers. Along with discounts, insider info, and early-ticket access, the Festival holds special Donor events along with the SMF Faculty and Fellows:
2026 Donor Events:
- Donor Season Tickets Pick-up Party and Concert with Festival Artist pianist William Wolfram — May 26
- Champagne Reception — June 9
- Donor Scholarship Dinner — June 13 (Please contact our office about your RSVP by May 30)
- Festival Fellow After-Concert Party with food, drinks, live music and dancing — June 16 (this event is open to both donors and non-donors)
Visit our Donor webpage or contact us at (719) 389-6552 to support the arts and enjoy these perks!