AMFS artist-faculty, all top musicians from renowned orchestras, opera companies, and conservatories, come together to play their favorite chamber music works. Always a joyful and creative 75 minutes of music-making.

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Chamber Music 2024 Concert 8

Aspen Meadows Resort

Talented AMFS students play beautiful chamber and solo works.

Spotlight Recital 2024

Aspen Chapel

Aspen Community Church

Pitkin County Library

AMFS artist-faculty and students play beautiful chamber music before the Friday evening orchestral concert.

Overtures: Preconcert Chamber Music 2024 Concert 6

Spotlight Marathon 2024

Bucksbaum Campus

The Shame Disco. DJ Reform94 throws a youth disco for adults, with the best/worst music from the nineties.

Reform94

Union Scene

A free, family-friendly street dance on the west side of the Stadium of Fire site, featuring a Miner Music DJ spinning tunes from across the decades, held after the fireworks on Independence Day.

Street Dance: Post-Stadium of Fire Celebration

LaVell Edwards Stadium

Closing reading of the Queer Literature Festival Munich with Sophia Merwald, moderated by Franziska Setare Koohestani. Reading from the debut novel "Sperrgut".

Closing Reading: Sophia Merwald "Sperrgut"

Gasteig HP8

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ_ZQW5C2pw&amp;t=2s

The Artelize Podcast Presenting Will Shutes: 'Bring it down out of the clouds to human being level'

Talented AMFS brass students play chamber music.

Brass Bash II

Aspen alum Zlatomir Fung is the youngest cellist to win First Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition. Only 25, he’ll be joined by 23 year-old Canadian pianist Tony Siqi Yun, who stepped in last-minute to wow the Aspen audience in a recital in 2023. Hear these two rising stars in Clara Schumann’s dreamlike Nocturne, composed when she was only 15. Two solo performances follow, with Yun playing the one-movement Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata of Litszt, inspired by a Victor Hugo poem. Fung will be showcased in Britten’s first solo cello suite, which hearkens back to the techniques and textures employed in Bach’s cello suites. Following intermission, the two reunite for Rachmaninoff’s last chamber work, his gorgeous and deeply moving cello sonata.

A Recital by Zlatomir Fung cello and Tony Siqi Yun piano

AMFS young artists perform much-loved sonata repertoire they have been honing in their summer studies.

Sonata Showcase 2024

Lawrence Power calls the viola his mother tongue, but he has also been known to recite poetry, to conduct-even to pick up a violin. He also co-founded a cross-disciplinary video production. This adventurous British violist wowed the Aspen audience with his performance of Bartók’s Viola Concerto several summers ago, and now returns for what's sure to be an exciting evening of music!

A Recital by Lawrence Power viola

Chamber Music 2024 Concert 7

AMFS music students play light chamber music with the stunning Elk Mountain Range as a backdrop. Bring a picnic or purchase lunch at the Sundeck restaurant. (Gondola ticket or strenuous hike required to get to this event.)

Music on the Mountain 2024

Aspen Mountain

Overtures: Preconcert Chamber Music 2024 Concert 5

Longtime faculty member and clarinet virtuoso Joaquín Valdepeñas conducts top wind students. The program opens with Richard Strauss’s lyrical and melodious Serenade, composed when he was only 17. British composer William Alwyn was also an accomplished conductor and flutist, who showcased his instrument in a 1980 concerto inspired by memories of his youth. In Alwyn’s words, the work “came (to me) like recollections of joy once experienced. I just wanted to write a piece of musical beauty." The program concludes with the Swiss Romantic composer Raff’s sunny and technically brilliant Sinfonietta. Raff was the first composer to use the term to describe a work in several movements similar to a symphony, but shorter and lighter in content. Hear top students in a delightful program of rarities for wind ensemble!

Wind Orchestra Recital 2024 Concert 2

Michael Klein Music Tent

“Classical music doesn’t get much more life-enhancing than this,” said The Guardian about a recent performance by the Grammy-winning Takács Quartet. This second of two programs by the Takács opens with Dvořák’s “Slavonic” quartet, the first of his mature chamber works. Celebrated as a perfect fusion of classical style and Bohemian folk sensibility, it’s full of shifts between darkness and light reminiscent of Schubert.

A Recital by the Takács Quartet

Chamber Music 2024 Concert 6

Hailed by The New York Times for “making the most traditional of works feel radical once more,” the Takács Quartet returns to Aspen for two performances, the first featuring pianist Stephen Hough as both composer and performer.

A Recital by the Takács Quartet and Stephen Hough piano

Music on the Mountain

Overtures: Preconcert Chamber Music 2024 Concert 4

"With Pinchas Zukerman’s matchless musicianship and charisma at its core, this is a trio made in heaven.,” raved Limelight Magazine. “Their combination of outsized string sound, exciting ensemble precision and compelling interpretation puts them at the head of the Piano Trio division in the Chamber Music Major League,” said the San Diego Union-Tribute.

Special Event: A Recital by the Zukerman Trio

Directed by long-time AMFS faculty member Jonathan Haas, the annual Percussion Ensemble recital offers an electrifying showcase featuring a dazzling array of instruments. Join the adventure as talented students and faculty members take you to a variety of sound-worlds.

A Recital by the Percussion Ensemble

The Washington Post called them one of the “best string quartets before the public today.” The Los Angeles Times noted their remarkable ability to make “time stand still” and also “assume the pose of excitingly aggressive rockers.”

A Recital by the Danish String Quartet

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