What's new at Aspen Music Festival and school in 2022?
The Aspen Music Festival and School’s 2022 summer season marks a return of a nearly full concert and training program, following two years of virtual and pandemic-shrunken festivals.
Who are the Sunday soloists performing at the Aspen Music Festival?
Sunday soloists include many popular returning festival performers such as feaviolinist Gil Shaham (July 17), violinist Augustin Hadelich (July 31) and pianist Joyce Yang (Aug. 14) as well as the Aspen debut of the 20-year-old Russian piano phenom Alexander Malofeev (Aug. 7) performing Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto.
What's new at Music Fest 2022?
Produced in 2021 by a group known as The Concert Truck, the 2022 rendition will be staged on a new Music Fest-built mobile stage. Fletcher expects to collaborate with other valley entities to stage those shows this summer.
How many students will be playing piano at the 2022 Festival?
The festival’s vaunted piano program is also shrinking a bit for 2022, as the administration concluded that the smaller 2021 version of it better served students. The school expects 35 students, down from 55 in pre-pandemic summers (but up from the 20 students in the pandemic 2021 season).
How long is Aspen Music Festival?
eight-weekFounded in 1949, the typical eight-week summer season includes more than 400 classical music events—including concerts by five orchestras, solo and chamber music performances, fully staged opera productions, master classes, lectures, and children's programming—and brings in 70,000 audience members.
Where is Aspen Music Festival?
The Aspen Music Festival and School is headquartered at the pastoral 38-acre Bucksbaum Campus located just outside of Aspen among groves of aspen trees, fields, and ponds.
Who is playing at Jazz Aspen?
Details. Founded in 1991, Jazz Aspen Snowmass returns over Labor Day Weekend for another three days of music in the mountains. Snowmass Town Park will see performances by Stevie Nicks, Chris Stapleton, Leon Bridges, Little Big Town, Zach Bryan, Patrick Droney and Marc Broussard.
What genres of music are included in the JAS Labor Day Experience?
Our JAS Labor Day Experience brings artists from a wide range of popular genres of music: rock, heritage, country , pop and alternative to name a few. If you are looking for a more jazz focused musical lineup please take a look at our JAS June Experience and our JAS Café Series.
How many albums has Jimmy Buffett made?
Singer/songwriter/author Jimmy Buffett has become a legend of popular culture as the composer of such classic songs as “Margaritaville,” “Come Monday” and “Cheeseburger In Paradise.” He has recorded over fifty albums, most of which have gone gold, platinum or multi-platinum. His sold-out concert tours are an annual rite of summer for his legions of fans, affectionately known as Parrot Heads, many of whom are professionals by day and who dress in spectacular and outrageous tropical outfits and headwear when Jimmy comes to town.
Who produced the song "KINDRED SPIRITS"?
KINDRED SPIRITS – which, like its three predecessors, was self-produced by Larkin Poe for their own Tricki-Woo Records, this time from their home studio with engineer and Rebecca’s husband Tyler Bryant of Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown – sees the duo paying tribute to favorite artists from the Allman Brothers Band, Lenny Kravitz, and Robert Johnson to Elton John, Post Malone, Ozzy Osbourne, and The Moody Blues.
Is Jazz Aspen a non profit organization?
Founded in 1991 and entering its 30th season, Jazz Aspen Snowmass (JAS) is a not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) organization. The MISSION of JAS is to present and preserve jazz and related forms of music through world-class events, performances and education programs.
June 30 - August 21
- The Aspen Music Festival and School’s 2022 summer season marks a return of a nearly full concert and training program, following two years of virtual and pandemic-shrunken festivals. The season, running June 30 to Aug. 21, will include three weekly performances by the festival’s orchestras, as many as 400 total public events and the return of indoo...
Fleming, ‘Falstaff’ and A Full Festival
- The festival will open June 30 with a recital by pianist Hung-Kuan Chen at Harris Concert Hall. The opening Sunday concert with the Aspen Festival Orchestra will feature soprano Renée Flemingand baritone Rod Gilfry as soloists in a program conducted by returning festival music director Robert Spano. That opening Sunday program includes Kevin Puts’ “The Brightness of Light” — a Georgi…
String Quartet Hiatus
- Strings lovers will note there is only one quartet on the otherwise robust and varied recital schedule — a July 7 performance by the Pacifica Quartet, which has led the festival’s Center for Advanced Quartet Studies since 2017. The center is not in session for 2022. It had typically hosted 16 students for the summer with at least three quartets typically performing and leading …
Special Events and Streams
- Special events include a Broadway-themed concert with soprano Renée Fleming and baritone Rod Gilfry (July 9) as well as the previously announced “Sound of Music: In Concert” (July 25 and 26) co-presented with Theatre Aspen, which marks the exceedingly rare occasion that the Music Fest repeats a performance. The Aspen Conducting Academy concerts and smaller events pepperin…