Video footage by Xinyi Zhao ‘24 and Scott Yoo.
Summer Music Festival 40th Anniversary Season June 2-21, 2024
THE COLORADO COLLEGE SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL CELEBRATES 40 YEARS: 1984-2024
40th Anniversary Daily Blog
See how Colorado College Summer Music Festival is celebrating our 40th Year through the eyes of David Sckolnik and his day-to-day blogs of the festival here!
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Music and Art at the FAC
Exploring Ethel Magafan and the Broadmoor Art Academy
June 12, in the Agents of Care Hall Fine Arts Center at Colorado College
11:00 Music by SMF aritists, 11:15 Art Talk, Followed by Music At Midday in Packard Hall
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Presenter: Pat Musick FAC Visiting Artist
GIve for our 40th Anniversary Season
We are a Best of the Springs 2024 Winner!
Thank you to all who took the time to vote for us. We are a 2024 winner of the Gazette's BEST IN THE SPRINGS as a LOCAL FESTIVAL!
We look forward to celebrating our 40th Anniversary Season and all the music with you!
Recent SMF News
Art to Celebrate the 40th Season of the Summer Music Festival
Quattro Mani piano duo dazzles with CD
Colorado College Summer Music Festival episode on PBS!
Now Hear This Season 3, episode 3 “Aaron Copland: Dean of American Music” takes place in Colorado Springs on the CC campus and with the faculty and students of the CC Summer Music Festival.
WATCH THE TRAILER
Drawing from his Jewish roots, modernism and American folk music, Pulitzer-, Grammy- and Oscar-winning composer Aaron Copland created a distinctive American sound in both his classical compositions and film scores. Like Copland did for much of his career, host Scott Yoo and fellow musicians spend time working with students at a music festival in Colorado to strengthen their auditioning skills and better understand Copland’s music. To discover Copland’s inspiration, Yoo travels to New York to explore the Jewish music Copland was raised with as well as modernist music through performances by Cantor Daniel Mutlu, violinist Steven Copes, cellist Mark Kosower, festival music director and pianist Susan Grace and more. Later, Yoo becomes the student and learns from pianist and Copland enthusiast John Novacek about how the composer developed his signature sound, now so familiar to us all.
Go to PBS to stream the entire episode.
Season Four of Now Hear This
Great Performances: Now Hear This Series 4 is still available on PBS, pbs.org/nowhearthis the PBS App, or on PBS Passport. Host of the show, and the conductor for the Summer Music Festival at Colorado College, Scott Yoo, danced halls of Buenos Aires, the place where guitars are born in Granada, the culturally vibrant neighborhoods of Brooklyn, and Schumann’s newlywed home in Leipzig in the latest season of Now Hear This on Great Performances. In this fourth season of the critically acclaimed miniseries, Yoo shines a spotlight on the collaborative process and the source of creative inspiration while exploring the backgrounds of tango’s Astor Piazzolla, the Romantic era’s Robert Schumann, steel pianist and composer Andy Akiho and flamenco’s Isaac Albéniz. Showcasing the talents of artists around the world including pianist and Schumann expert Dr. Richard Kogan. Summer Music Festival cellist Bion Tsang, and flutist Alice Dade were both featured in this season.
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Assistant Director, Colorado College Summer Music Festival
avanhorn@coloradocollege.edu
(719) 389-6552
Mailing Address: 819 N. Tejon St.
Physical Address: 5 W. Cache La Poudre St., Office #112
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
