CC Summer Music Festival announces 2026 season
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Summer Music Festival
Summer Music Festival
Our 42nd Season: June 6-26, 2026
FULL 2026 SEASON SCHEDULE: Presenting dozens of free and ticketed events for all ages this summer
- Tickets go on sale starting April 1 for SMF donors and May 1 for the general public
- Five Festival Artists Concerts and two Festival Orchestra Concerts, conducted by Scott Yoo
- Special event this year: "Night Cap" music and wine pairing with ticket add-on
- Free Pre-Concert Recitals feature Festival pianists and Grande Orquesta Navarre
- Concerts include works by special guest composers Sam Wu and Grace Hale
- Children's Orchestra Concert presents Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf with celebrated mime Bill Bowers
- Free talks, lectures, community performances, and more!
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SUPPORT the 42nd season of the CC Summer Music Festival
Your support plays a crucial role in bringing the Summer Music Festival to Colorado College each June. As a donor, you can enjoy invitations to special events, early access to purchasing tickets, and other perks during our summer season and throughout the year.
Your donation allows us to recruit the finest Fellows, bring in outstanding professional faculty to teach and perform, and reach new audience members.
In essence, your support ensures that we continue to offer world-class musical experiences and nurture the next generation of talented musicians. Donate today
FEATURED 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.
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 2021.
Sponsors
The Summer Music Festival is grateful for the support from the following foundations and organizations:
Contact Us
Ann Van Horn
Assistant Director, Colorado College Summer Music Festival
avanhorn@coloradocollege.edu
(719) 389-6552
Mailing Address: 819 N. Tejon St.
Physical Address: 5 W. Cache La Poudre St., Office #112
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Assistant Director, Colorado College Summer Music Festival
avanhorn@coloradocollege.edu
(719) 389-6552
Mailing Address: 819 N. Tejon St.
Physical Address: 5 W. Cache La Poudre St., Office #112
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
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Last updated: 03/09/2026