2025 Season: June 7-27

Tickets are on sale NOW! 

• Season Tickets
• Individual Concert Tickets
• Children's Orchestra Concert Tickets (Free!) - SOLD OUT! Email festival@coloradocollege.edu to join the waitlist.
• Music and Art Talk RSVP (Free!)

Five Festival Artists Concerts, two Festival Orchestra Concerts conducted by Scott Yoo, special On the Fringe event: The Soldier's Tale, Children's Orchestra Concert presenting Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham, Music and Art Talk celebrating Mary Chenoweth, and so much more in store this June!

See our 41st season schedule, concert programs, and more details.

CHILDREN'S ORCHESTRA CONCERT
Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham

with Really Inventive Stuff and the CC Summer Music Festival Orchestra

THURSDAY, JUNE 19, Celeste Theatre, Cornerstone Arts Center
Two shows: 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.
SOLD OUT! - Email festival@coloradocollege.edu to join the waitlist for free tickets

ON THE FRINGE
STRAVINSKY'S THE SOLDIER'S TALE 

Directed by Professor Emeritus Thomas Lindblade

SUNDAY, JUNE 22, Celeste Theatre, Cornerstone Arts Center
5 p.m.
Tickets: $30/donors; $35/general public; $5/children

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.

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.