OPENING WEEKEND IS FINALLY HERE!
TCHAIKOVSKY PIANO CONCERTO NO.1
Boettcher Concert Hall
SEPT 18-20
Music Director Andrew Litton conducts the Colorado Symphony through an all-Russian slate to start the season with a bang. The weekend also brings Italian-born pianist Alessio Bax to Denver for the first time since the 2010-11 season, with a technique that's a perfect match for Tchaikovsky's bold Piano Concerto No. 1. Shostakovich's triumphant Symphony No. 5 in D minor provides an apt finish that is a work of high art. Learn more and browse the program notes available HERE.
ABOUT ALESSIO BAX
Alessio Bax has been called a pianist of “authority, elegance, and intensity.” He has played world-wide with over 100 different orchestras and with some of the most innovative performers of our time including violinist Joshua Bell.
“I first met Alessio about 20 years ago while he was studying piano in Dallas where I was Music Director. I had the opportunity to work with him for the first time last year and was so impressed I immediately invited him to open our Colorado Symphony season. He is a phenomenal pianist and musician and his Tchaikovsky is going to raise the roof!” – Andrew Litton, Colorado Symphony Music Director
COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO LIVE STREAM
The Colorado Symphony partners with Colorado Public Radio to live stream select performances throughout the season. The performance on Friday, September 18 at 7:30PM will be included.
Please note that all broadcast times and dates subject to change.
Visit CPR.org to listen.
UPCOMING EVENTS
THIS SATURDAY:
COLORADO SYMPHONY 5K RUN / WALK
Sloan's Lake Park
SEPT 19
Leave your headphones at home and help the Colorado Symphony kick off its 2015/16 concert season by participating in the Colorado Symphony 5K Run/Walk. Put a team together; bring your family, friends and pets, and join us for a fun-filled event featuring live music along the course. Post-race activities include an awards ceremony for top finishers and most successful fundraisers, as well as a performance featuring musicians of the Colorado Symphony, and vendors galore!
Title Sponsor: St. Anthony Hospital
MEREDITH WILLSON'S
THE MUSIC MAN
IN CONCERT
Boettcher Concert Hall
SEPT 26-27
The Colorado Symphony's self-produced take on the Meredith Willson classic brings River City, Iowa to Denver for two performances. The timeless story of slick con man Harold Hill wooing Marian the Librarian features such showstoppers as "Ya Got Trouble," "The Wells Fargo Wagon," and the signature "76 Trombones." Hear this classic score the way the composer intended it – with a full symphony orchestra accompanied by an amazing cast of local and national singers and actors.
Featuring Gabriel Preisser as Harold Hill, Sarah Lawrence as Marian Paroo, and the Colorado Symphony Chorus.
MOZART PERFORMED BY MICHAEL THORNTON
Boettcher Concert Hall
OCT 3
Colorado Symphony Principal Horn Michael Thornton performs works by two Mozarts: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's well-known Horn Concerto No. 3, then trades his French horn for an eight-foot alphorn for Sinfonia pastorella by Leopold, Wolfgang's father. In his Colorado Symphony debut, former Cleveland Orchestra staff conductor James Feddeck opens with Dvorák's Carnival Overture and rounds out the program with Brahms' lush Symphony No. 4, the last symphonic work of his career.
Performance on Oct 2 is SOLD OUT!
INSIDE THE SCORE: SYMPHONY 101
Boettcher Concert Hall
OCT 9
Assistant Principal Viola and Director of Education Catherine Beeson hosts an informative and educational evening that meshes musical performances with a behind-the-scenes peek into the symphony world. For this event, the focus is on debunking myths and explaining the orchestra to newbies and veteran Symphony-goers alike. It's the ultimate entry point into the Colorado Symphony experience.
JAKE SHIMABUKURO
IN CONCERT
Boettcher Concert Hall
OCT 10
The Hawaiian-born ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro has long been a household name in his native state and Japan, but he exploded into the musical mainstream in 2006 with an assist from a viral YouTube video of him playing The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" that has been seen by more than 13 million people. Shimabukuro's performance will include the Colorado debut of Byron Yasui's Concerto No. 1 for Ukelele. Watch the trailer for Life on Four Strings which reveals the cultural and personal influences that have shaped the man and the musician.
ELGAR "ENIGMA VARIATIONS"
Boettcher Concert Hall
OCT 16-17
This dazzling program showcases Colorado Symphony Principal Harp Courtney Hershey Bress in virtuosic masterpieces from Debussy and Ravel. New York Philharmonic staff conductor Courtney Lewis leads this program culminating in Sir Edward Elgar's Variations on an Original Theme. Popularly known as "Enigma Variations", the piece consists of twenty-four variations that each depict one of Elgar's family members or friends in a musical cryptogram that draws inspiration from lost loves, barking bulldogs, and his toughest critics.
The Colorado Symphony thanks its generous 2015/16 sponsors:
