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 Dr. 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 is nearing completion of its second symphonic cycle, while continuing to present all of Mahler's performable compositions.

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 University of Missouri at Kansas City, returns to Colorado each year to lead the festival.

Our upcoming festival, Colorado MahlerFest XXII, May 13 - 17, 2009, will feature Mahler's monumental Symphony No. 8, the Symphony of a Thousand.

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