Colorado MahlerFest
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 25th year, continuing to present all of Mahler's performable compositions.

An interview with Maestro Robert Olson and radio KGNU host Ron Nadel about Mahler and the Colorado MahlerFest was held on January 30, 2012. You can hear the interview in the archives at kgnu.org.


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.


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MahlerFest XXV

May 15-20, 2012

Symphony No. 2 - The Resurrection Symphony



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