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MahlerFest 37(2024)

MahlerFest 37(2024)

May 15-19, 2024
Mahler & the Mountains

Mahler's Symphony No. 4 and Strauss' tribute to Mahler, "An Alpine Symphony." Plus, Hendrix Meets Mahler, Verklärte Nacht, a free brass quintet program, the MahlerFest Symposium, and more!

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Cocktails and Conversations

Cocktails and Conversations

April 28, 2024
4 PM MDT (UTC -6)

Our online event where board member and Certified Whisky Ambassador Ron Nadel will emcee and teach you how to make a two whisky-based drinks. MahlerFest Artistic Director Kenneth Woods will discuss Mahler's Fourth Symphony and introduce you to a surprise guest.

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Support MahlerFest

Support MahlerFest

From donated cars to concert sponsorships, there are a variety of ways to help us celebrate the life and music of Gustav Mahler. Whether you want to name an orchestra chair, include MahlerFest in your estate planning, give monthly, or make a small donation today we greatly appreciate your support.

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Colorado MahlerFest News and Reviews

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MahlerFest “Rises” with Five Landmark Concerts

MahlerFest XXXVI (2023) Review by Kelly Dean Hansen

"The luminous, celestial final strains of Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony enveloped the crowd at Boulder’s Macky Auditorium on the afternoon of Sunday, May 21 in a moment of unbridled ecstasy. That is not a significant observation, as this most glorious of all symphonic endings has the same effect whenever the work is programmed. What made this moment different was how much it culminated--not only the symphony, but also a five-concert series over five straight days, each of whose individual events was notable on its own."

Boulder’s 36th (!) Mahlerfest — A Communal Labor of Love

Joe Horowitz made his first trip to MahlerFest in 2023 to speak at the symposium. He blogged about how much he enjoyed the festival.

"The rapt audience was remarkably inter-generational – something not to be found in New York City concert halls these days, and crucial to the ambience of shared experience. As unusual is that the orchestra of 100-plus players felt part of it all...

Woods’ performance of Mahler 2 left no doubt that he is a major Mahler interpreter. I have heard cleaner performance of this work, but never one more convincing."

MahlerFest XXXV CD Review

Karl Nehring reviewed our CD from MahlerFest XXXV (2022) on the Classical Candor site.

"There are of course many fine commercial recordings of this symphony available, and many Mahler fans will already have their favorites, but this recording would not be embarrassed in that company."

"The music is engaging, the sound quality is excellent...
this is a unique and uplifting recording that is not just another same old same old."

Review: Mahler: Symphony 5 (Colorado Mahlerfest)

Certainly, the writings and interpretive thoughts of the festival’s current Music Director, Kenneth Woods, are hugely insightful and put many other leading conductors of this music practising today to shame, so it is a pleasure to be able to review this latest release of a live concert from two years ago at MahlerFest, not least because of its interesting coupling, another Fifth Symphony, this time the world premiere performance of Philip Sawyers’.