Colorado
MahlerFest
Robert Olson, Artistic Director
Robert Olson, Artistic Director
Colorado MahlerFest, held yearly in Boulder,
Colorado, celebrates the
life, music, and times of the great composer Gustav
Mahler.
Founded in 1988 by Robert Olson,
the week-long festival incorporates concerts, recitals, and scholarly
symposia, with film, fine art, dance, theater, and multimedia
presentations. The week's events culminate in two orchestral
performances.
MahlerFest has completed its second symphonic cycle and is now in its third cycle and entering its 23rd year, and continuing to present all of Mahler's performable compositions in this, the 150th anniversary birthday year of Gustav Mahler.
MahlerFest has completed its second symphonic cycle and is now in its third cycle and entering its 23rd year, and continuing to present all of Mahler's performable compositions in this, the 150th anniversary birthday year of Gustav Mahler.
The
MahlerFest orchestra's 100-plus musicians come together from across the
United States and other countries, mostly on a volunteer basis, for a
week of intense music-making, drawn by their passion for Mahler's
music. Maestro Olson, currently Director of Opera and Orchestras at the
Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri at Kansas City,
returns to Colorado each year to lead the festival.
MahlerFest
XXIII
May
18-23, 2010
Gustav Mahler ~ Symphony No. 3
The Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra
Robert Olson, Conductor
with
The Boulder Chorale and the new Boulder Children’s Chorale
Our upcoming MahlerFest includes not just two performances of Mahler's Symphony No. 3, but also preview events, free chamber concerts, and a Symposium with presentations by world-class Mahler scholars.
You also will have the opportunity to conduct the MahlerFest Orchestra and Boulder Chorale in a section of Mahler's 3rd symphony, a once in a lifetime experience.
An eBay auction starting on March 5 and lasting for 10 days gives you the opportunity to be this conductor - you too can conduct the MahlerFest orchestra.
Travel to and from Boulder, CO is very easy and convenient.
* Detail from a new oil painting of Gustav Mahler hiking, by Elizabeth Black, acclaimed Boulder artist, commissioned by Colorado MahlerFest. Available in the Spring in signed posters, prints, and giclees.
Gustav Mahler ~ Symphony No. 3
The Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra
Robert Olson, Conductor
with
The Boulder Chorale and the new Boulder Children’s Chorale
Our upcoming MahlerFest includes not just two performances of Mahler's Symphony No. 3, but also preview events, free chamber concerts, and a Symposium with presentations by world-class Mahler scholars.
You also will have the opportunity to conduct the MahlerFest Orchestra and Boulder Chorale in a section of Mahler's 3rd symphony, a once in a lifetime experience.
An eBay auction starting on March 5 and lasting for 10 days gives you the opportunity to be this conductor - you too can conduct the MahlerFest orchestra.
Travel to and from Boulder, CO is very easy and convenient.
* Detail from a new oil painting of Gustav Mahler hiking, by Elizabeth Black, acclaimed Boulder artist, commissioned by Colorado MahlerFest. Available in the Spring in signed posters, prints, and giclees.
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