Through our carefully designed week-long curriculum, children will play with the AMFS 2024 season theme and explore their musical capabilities. Register for a 30-minute class at times held throughout the day. Designed for infants through Kindergarten (ages 0-6).

Sing, Play, Move

Christ Episcopal Church in Aspen

Join us to learn about the history of Aspen, the Wheeler Opera House, and the Aspen Music Festival and School. Presented in collaboration with the Aspen Historical Society, these tours provide an insider glimpse into the fascinating and unusual history of these storied institutions, and commemorate the 40th anniversary of the reopening of the Wheeler Opera House and the AMFS’s 75th anniversary season. On Wednesdays following the tour, consider attending the free High Notes panel discussion in Bad Harriet at the nearby Hotel Jerome at noon. Walk-ups accommodated on a space-available basis.

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Wheeler Opera House and AMFS History Tour

Wheeler Opera House

Schubert’s Impromptus are filled with lyricism and profound emotions ranging from anguish to serenity and everything in between. Schumann composed Fantasiestücke, op. 12 during a period when he was prevented from marrying the pianist Clara Wieck by her father. He was so distraught that he dedicated the eight short pieces to another woman, taunting the one he loved. As in Schubert’s Impromptus, the emotional palette is a wide-ranging one. Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit is one of the most ferociously difficult pieces of the piano repertoire. In fact, Ravel intended to make the final movement even more difficult than Balakirev’s Islamey, another work that puts pianists to the test. The three-movement work was inspired by three macabre poems by Aloysius Bertrand, and captures their dark spirit in endlessly innovative ways.

A Recital by Harmony Zhu piano

Aspen Meadows Resort

In collaboration with the children’s librarian, kids are treated to enchanting stories blended with music performed by AMFS students and local musicians. For kids under age 9, with an adult.

Tunes and Tales 2024

Pitkin County Library

Basalt Regional Library

In collaboration with the City of Aspen, Aspen One, and the Aspen Chamber Resort Association, the AMFS will host its second Community Pride Celebration—a free event celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community, friends, and families. Enjoy ice cream, fun and celebration, and visit with local partner organizations. This event will kick off a four-day celebration titled “Sounds of Pride” celebrating and honoring the legacy of LGBTQIA+ musical artists and marking the anniversary of Aspen’s landmark anti-discrimination policy protecting gays and lesbians—the first of any Colorado municipality. Everyone is welcome!

Community Pride Celebration

 Karetsky Music Lawn

Mandolinist, singer, songwriter, composer, and radio personality Chris Thile is known for his eclectic performances ranging from Bach to bluegrass. A 2012 MacArthur Fellow and multiple Grammy winner, he’s collaborated with violinists Mark O’Connor and Hilary Hahn, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and double bass player Edgar Meyer. In 2009, he composed a mandolin concerto and premiered it with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra.

An Evening with Chris Thile mandolin and Orchestra

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

Overtures: Preconcert Chamber Music 2024 Concert 1

“Even having seen it, one cannot quite believe it. Such is the artistry of pianist Daniil Trifonov,” marveled the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Trifonov has been wowing Aspen audiences with his mesmerizing concert performances and recitals for several seasons. He now brings his unique interpretive stamp to the Mozart concerto that pianist Alfred Brendel called “one of the great wonders of the world.”

Chamber Symphony: Trifonov Plays Mozart

Michael Klein Music Tent

Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS Co-Artistic Director Renée Fleming and opera director Peter Sellars coach the program's major emerging talents in arias and scenes. Enjoy excerpts from the repertoire, ravishing voices, and insightful coaching.

Opera Encounters 2024 Concert 1

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.

Chamber Music

Experience the magic of a student-mentor relationship when Daniil Trifonov teams up with his former teacher, Armenian-American pianist Sergei Babayan. This all-Rachmaninoff program begins with the composer’s youthful 1st Suite for Two Pianos, with its thrilling finale reminiscent of tolling bells and Russian liturgical chant. The more mature 2nd Suite is full of rich melodies which evoke Rachmaninoff’s popular 2nd Piano Concerto, and a dazzling tarantella that had a Los Angeles audience on its feet several years ago. Topping off the program is the two-piano version of the composer’s Symphonic Dances, a tour de force sure to display the virtuosity and almost telepathic connection between these two pianistic powerhouses.

All Rachmaninoff Evening with Pianists Daniil Trifonov and Sergei Babayan

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

Get ready for orchestral and vocal magic when 2023 Kennedy Center honoree Renée Fleming performs songs by Richard Strauss and a world premiere by Alan Fletcher. It’s been said that Strauss had a lifelong love affair with the soprano voice. He was undoubtedly inspired in part by his wife Pauline, a famous soprano in her day. Strauss’s writing for sopranos fully displays their vocal prowess, and some of his most memorable operatic roles are for the soprano voice. Renée Fleming has long had an extraordinary affinity for Strauss’s music, creating unforgettable heroines on the opera stage. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear her in some of Strauss’s most sensuous and moving orchestral songs.

Festival Orchestra: Renée Fleming, Pines of Rome

Please join us for a celebration to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Aspen Music Festival and School! Gather your family and friends to kick off the 2024 Season with fun activities and refreshments. Make sure to show your retro flair by donning AMFS spirit-wear from years past, adding some vintage charm to the festivities. This event is not to be missed as we celebrate the past, revel in the present, and anticipate the bright future ahead of the AMFS.

75th Anniversary Party

Join us at Aspen Meadows campus, home to the Aspen Institute and the Aspen Music Festival and School performance venues. Led by guide Ann Mullins, this tour will explore the architectural delights of the Bauhaus design school, illuminate the shared history of the institutions, and give participants the opportunity to hear live orchestral rehearsals. Coffee and dress rehearsal admittance included with tour ticket. Walk-ups accommodated on a space-available basis.

AMFS Architectural and History Tour

Prelude: Preconcert Talks present listeners with engaging and topical commentary on the Sunday afternoon programs. Lectures are presented by AMFS’s artistic team and special guests.

Prelude: Preconcert Talk 2024

Premiered in April 2024, this major new work is from the creative team of MacArthur award-winning composer Matthew Aucoin, whose commissioning credits include the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, and Lyric Opera of Chicago, and director Peter Sellars, celebrated for his operatic collaborations with John Adams, Tyshawn Sorey, and the late Kaija Saariaho. Inspired by the writings of visionary poet Jorie Graham and pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson, Aucoin and Sellars’s new work offers an immersion in vast planetary processes.

Matthew Aucoin: Music for New Bodies

Talented AMFS students play beautiful chamber and solo works.

Spotlight Recital 2024

Aspen Chapel

Aspen Community Church

Get an inside look at two of the world's finest concert facilities. A guide walks you through the performance, audience, and backstage areas, stopping to share anecdotes and explain the history as well as the architectural and acoustic details of these two incredible venues. Don't miss the underground tunnel between the two buildings!

Guided Backstage Tour of the Klein Music Tent and Harris Concert Hall

Faculty artist Joaquín Valdepeñas conducts top students in Russian composer Edison Denisov’s adventurous 1961 piece for eleven wind instruments and timpani, followed by Mozart’s sublime Serenade for 13 Winds known as the “Gran Partita.” It’s one of the composer’s most beloved works in any genre and undoubtedly one of the greatest masterpieces ever written for wind band. In Peter Shaffer’s play Amadeus, the character Salieri gives a vivid and emotional description of the adagio movement, saying” "On the page it looked nothing. The beginning simple, almost comic. Just a pulse - bassoons and basset horns - like a rusty squeezebox. Then suddenly - high above it - an oboe, a single note, hanging there unwavering, till a clarinet took over and sweetened it into a phrase of such delight! This was no composition by a performing monkey! This was a music I'd never heard. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing, it had me trembling. It seemed to me that I was hearing a voice of God."

Wind Orchestra Recital 2024 Concert 1

New! In a special partnership between Carnegie Hall+ and the Aspen Music Festival and School, Aspen viewers of all ages can screen two of Leonard Bernstein’s legendary Young People’s Concerts with the New York Philharmonic. In his most important role as music educator, Bernstein’s pioneering series of nationally televised broadcasts began in 1958 live from Carnegie Hall, making the concert hall an accessible classroom that introduced a new generation to classical music.

Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts Presented by Carnegie Hall: The Anatomy of a Symphony Orchestra

Witness talented AMFS students from all over the world vie for top honors in front of a panel of judges.

Violin Competition

Bucksbaum Campus

Alisa Weilerstein is one of the most celebrated cellists of our time. Her extraordinary artistry, emotional commitment, and interpretive depth have made her an international favorite. “Not content merely to serve as a vessel for the composer’s wishes, she inhabits a piece fully and turns it to her own ends,” marveled the New York Times.

Recital: FRAGMENTS I with Alisa Weilerstein cello

These lunchtime discussions features prominent performers, composers, and musicologists in lively discussions with AMFS President and CEO Alan Fletcher.

High Notes Panel Discussion

Hotel Jerome

See the conducting stars of tomorrow in these engaging concerts where student conductors rotate between conducting a movement of a work, or playing in the orchestra. Program Director and AMFS Music Director Robert Spano observes the work of his students at this weekly event.

Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra 2024 concert 1

The AMFS invites you to an intimate evening of conversation and music with renowned violinist Augustin Hadelich. Artist Dinners are hosted in private homes and include a cocktail reception, performance, and catered dinner with the artist.

Artist Dinner with Augustin Hadelich

Private Residence in Aspen

The annual free Fourth of July celebration is a community favorite! Join friends of all ages as the Aspen Festival Band plays a rousing selection of patriotic favorites, including Sousa marches, American traditional songs, and the famous annual sing-along. Members of the National Youth Piping Band of Scotland join as special guests.

Fourth of July Concert 2024

AMFS strings young artists get a chance to present repertoire they have been preparing for weeks or months to their fellow students, string artist-faculty, and members of the public. A warm, enchanting experience of the AMFS community.

String Showcase 2024

Finlay MacDonald, Director of Piping at The National Piping Centre, demonstrates and teaches basic elements of bagpiping.

The National Piping Centre Class

The incomparable Inon Barnatan returns to Aspen for Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor. The Evening Standard called him “a true poet of the keyboard: refined, searching, unfailingly communicative,” and the Philadelphia Inquirer recognized his “breathtaking charisma that comes from gorgeously turned-out technique, a masterly sense of color, and an expressiveness that can question, weep, or shout joy from the rooftops.”

Chamber Symphony: Inon Barnatan, Haydn Symphonies

These insightful talks on the season's programming are designed to help listeners get more from the music.

The Art of Listening 2024

Crossroads Church

Low Strings Competition 2024

An Evening of P.D.Q. Bach

Myra Huang coaches the Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS program's major emerging talents in Art Song. Enjoy excerpts from the repertoire, ravishing voices, and insightful coaching.

Opera Encounters 2024 Concert 2

The National Piping Centre presents The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland.

Music on the Mountain featuring The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland

Chamber Music 2024 Concert 2

Members of the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland perform a pre-concert fanfare on the grounds surrounding the Klein Music Tent.

Pre-Concert Fanfare with The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland

Piano Department Performance Class 2024 Concert 1

Join us for an unforgettable musical journey at the Benedict Music Tent on July 11, 2021, at 4:00 PM MT, as the Aspen Festival Orchestra presents a concert that promises to be a highlight of the Aspen Music Festival and School season. With special thanks to Lisa and Will Mesdag, this event features a trio of musical powerhouses performing Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, a piece that showcases the fun and dynamic interplay between a piano trio and orchestra. The concert will also include Hannah Kendall's "The Spark Catchers," inspired by Lemn Sissay’s poem, and Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, a piece reflecting the tumultuous times of World War II.

The concert begins with "The Spark Catchers," where Kendall draws inspiration from Sissay's vibrant and dynamic poem to create a piece full of contrasting musical characteristics. Following this, the orchestra will delve into Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, a work known for its rhythmic intensity and chromaticism, reflecting the composer's response to the era's sharp events and shifting emotions.

The highlight of the evening, Beethoven's Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C major, op. 56, known as the Triple Concerto, will feature the exceptional talents of Ludovic Morlot as conductor, Stefan Jackiw on violin, Alisa Weilerstein on cello, and Inon Barnatan at the piano. This concerto is a testament to Beethoven's genius, offering a richly expressive middle movement and a rousing, dance-like finale that promises to captivate the audience.

This 75-minute performance will be streamed live for free, allowing music lovers worldwide to partake in this extraordinary musical feast. Please note that there will be no intermission, and attendees are encouraged to check the Concert Protocols page before attending to stay informed on the most up-to-date safety protocols.

Don't miss this opportunity to experience the magic of the Aspen Festival Orchestra under the direction of Ludovic Morlot, with Robert Spano as Music Director and Alan Fletcher as President and CEO, in a concert that spans the centuries and celebrates the power of music to unite and inspire.

Festival Orchestra: Hadelich, Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2

A Recital by Christopher Houlihan organ

Longtime Aspen alumni artists curate bespoke programs to share music, reminiscences, and stories of their decades in Aspen.

Anniversary Reminiscences Program: American String Quartet

Talented AMFS piano students play a variety of repertoire.

Physics Center Recital 2024

Aspen Center For Physics

Take a guided tour of the spectacular redeveloped Bucksbaum Campus, completed in 2016. This $80-million complex, blended harmoniously into the 38-acre forested site, comprises state-of-the-art, acoustically designed rehearsal halls, studio teaching spaces, practice rooms, a cafeteria, administrative offices, and more.

Guided Tour of the Bucksbaum Campus 2024

Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts Presented by Carnegie Hall+: Who is Gustav Mahler?

Cellist Steven Isserlis teaches exceptional students the nuances of great music-making in this intensive workshop.

Harris Concert Hall Class

Join us for an elegant dinner and show on the Klein Music Tent stage to experience the exceptional talent of the Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS (AOTVA) program. Featuring special guests, Will Liverman, the evening will present a lineup of familiar opera and music theater favorites selected by AOTVA co-artistic directors Renée Fleming and Patrick Summers.

2024 Opera Benefit

Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra 2024 concert 2

Winner of a 2013 MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, the 2014 Avery Fisher Prize, and Musical America’s 2014 Instrumentalist of the Year Award, Jeremy Denk has been hailed by The New York Times as “a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs, in whatever combination – both for his penetrating intellectual engagement with the music and for the generosity of his playing.”

A Recital by Jeremy Denk piano

High Notes Panel Discussion 2024

The story of the knight Orlando, who went insane from love during the age of Charlemagne, was a popular subject for composers, providing Haydn with his most successful opera, Orlando paladino. The sprightly overture introduces this parody of heroism which also has elements of pathos and sincere emotion. Handel’s opera Orlando treats the subject with more gravity, and contains one of the most extraordinary scenes in all of Baroque opera, a mad scene for the title character. Like the Orlando selections, Bach’s Cantata No. 51 is a virtuosic vocal vehicle, as well as giving the trumpeter a serious workout. A favorite operatic stunt in the day was to set up a contest between the singer and trumpeter to see who could hit the higher notes and hold them longer.

A Baroque Evening with Nicholas McGegan conductor and Steven Isserlis cello

The AMFS invites you to an intimate evening of conversation and music with one of America's foremost pianists Jeremy Denk. Artist Dinners are hosted in private homes and include a cocktail reception, performance, and catered dinner with the artist.

Artist Dinner with Jeremy Denk

Join us for an intimate Opera House Music to experience the remarkable talent and for a chance to meet student artists of the Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS program. Hosted in a private home, the event includes an exclusive performance, conversation, light hors d'oeuvres, and refreshments. 

Opera House Music 2024

Overtures: Preconcert Chamber Music 2024 Concert 2

Join us for an enchanting evening under the stars at the Benedict Music Tent on July 9, 2021, at 5:30 PM MT, as the Aspen Chamber Symphony, led by the illustrious conductor Nicholas McGegan, presents a captivating program that promises to be a highlight of the summer season. This special concert, part of the Aspen Music Festival and School, features a selection of mostly 18th-century compositions that are sure to delight audiences.

The evening will commence with the overture to "L’amant anonyme," op. 11 no. 2 by Joseph Bologne, a contemporary of Mozart and a pioneering black composer whose work has recently been celebrated for its charm and historical significance. Following this, violinist Stephen Waarts, acclaimed for his performance of the Khachaturian Violin Concerto in 2019, will take the stage to perform Mozart’s elegant and enchanting Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216, Strassburg.

Adding to the evening’s allure, soprano Julia Bullock, honored by Musical America as a 2021 Artist of the Year: Agent of Change, will transport the audience to India with her rendition of DeLage’s song cycle "Quatre poèmes hindous," inspired by the composer’s travels. The concert will conclude with Haydn’s Symphony No. 82 in C major, Hob. I/82, "The Bear," a piece known for its vivacity and harmonic ingenuity, which earned Haydn the reputation of a compositional rock star across Europe.

This 75-minute performance, with no intermission, is a testament to the joy and energy of live music. Attendees are encouraged to check the Concert Protocols page before attending for the most up-to-date safety protocols. Don't miss this opportunity to experience the brilliance of Nicholas McGegan, Stephen Waarts, Julia Bullock, and the Aspen Chamber Symphony in a program that is sure to make you smile and leave you enchanted.

Featured Conductor & Artists:
- Nicholas McGegan, conductor
- Stephen Waarts, violin
- Julia Bullock, classical singer
- Robert Spano, Music Director
- Alan Fletcher, President and CEO

Special thanks to Janet and Tom O'Connor, and Dana and Gene Powell for their support of this event.

Chamber Symphony: Spano with Joyce Yang, Kelley O'Connor

Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS co-artistic directors Renée Fleming and Patrick Summers coach the program's major emerging talents in arias and scenes. Enjoy excerpts from the repertoire, ravishing voices, and insightful coaching.

Opera Encounters 2024 Concert 3

A lively, short concert that will introduce kids to the world of classical music! Come early and stay after for pre- and post-concert activities on the David Karetsky Music Lawn (running 9:15 – 11:15am). Easy parking is available for families in the Klein Music Tent/Harris Concert Hall lot.

Family Concert: Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf

Chamber Music 2024 Concert 3

Musical magic is sure to happen when three powerhouses team up for works of Gabriel Fauré, a composer known for his elegance, sinuous melodies, and harmonic innovation.

A Fauré Evening with Joshua Bell violin, Steven Isserlis cello, and Jeremy Denk piano

Hear gems from the sonata repertoire performed by talented AMFS students.

Sonata Showcase

Three extraordinary solo artists team up for a one of a kind work, Beethoven’s “Triple” Concerto. When played by musicians of the caliber of Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis, and Jeremy Denk, Beethoven’s piano trio with orchestra is three times the fun of a solo concerto. Listen in on this musical conversation which includes a richly expressive middle movement and a rousing, dancelike finale.

Festival Orchestra: Beethoven "Triple" with Bell, Isserlis, Denk

Hear talented singers from the Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS program in beautiful art songs.

Art Song Showcase

The Aspen Science Center and the Aspen Music Festival and School bring back the popular Science of Music series of lectures and demonstrations aimed at the "enthusiastic novice." No previous knowledge of physics or music theory is needed to enjoy these explorations.

Special Event: The Science of Music: The Art and Science of Musical Peak Performance

Exceptional AMFS alumni join forces for two jazz-inspired 20th century favorites Conrad Tao has been called “a magical pianist, with a scholar’s mind wrapped in an almost impossible technique” (San Diego Union-Tribute) Charismatic, award-winning conductor Piotr Waclawik attended the Aspen Conducting Academy and was chosen as assistant conductor for the 2024 season. He is also the assistant conductor of the Warsaw Philharmonic.

Conrad Tao Plays Rhapsody in Blue and More

Exceptional students learn the nuances of great music-making in this intensive workshop with AMFS alumna and audience favorite, pianist Joyce Yang.

Harris Concert Hall Class 2024 Concert 2

Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra 2024 Concert 3

Prepare to be mesmerized when four virtuosi present a concert based on their latest album As We Speak. Tabla player Zakir Hussain explains “When we are performing on stage, in composing mode or creating mode, we are basically having a conversation. So the music emerges as we speak.”

Special Event As We Speak with Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer bass, Zakir Hussain tabla, and Rakesh Chaurasia bansuri

Woodwinds Competition 2024

See talented piano students receive coaching from AMFS artist-faculty.

Harris Concert Hall Piano Class 2024 Concert 1

Top student brass ensembles coached by the American Brass Quintet perform a variety of repertoire.

ABQ Seminar @Aspen Recital

Hear some of the summer’s top students and AMFS artist-faculty as they perform a wide variety of repertoire in a festive piano marathon!

Piano-Palooza

Talented AMFS brass students play chamber music.

Brass Bash I 2024

Messiaen composed his masterpiece Quartet for the End of Time while imprisoned in a German POW camp. The unusual combination of instruments resulted from the players who were available to him. Both intimate and epic, the work is full of the bird songs which fascinated the composer throughout his life, and also expresses the depth of his faith under the most trying of circumstances.

Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time

Basalt Regional Library Recital 2024

See talented singers from the Aspen Opera Theater and Vocal ARTS program and a full orchestra conducted by Houston Grand Opera director Patrick Summers in a semi-staged performance of the beloved fairy-tale opera Hansel and Gretel. Humperdinck began his career as an assistant to Wagner, and while you may detect many of the lessons he learned from his hero, there’s also a lightness which was Humperdinck’s own. He successfully balances the darker aspects of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale with humor and charm, making this perfect entertainment for both children and adults. Enjoy the magic of Humperdinck’s opera at this one-night-only performance!

Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel

Hear brand-new works by talented AMFS composition students.

Composition Program Readings 2024

Cameron Stowe coaches the Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS program's major emerging talents in Art Song. Enjoy excerpts from the repertoire, ravishing voices, and insightful coaching.

Opera Encounters 2024 Concert 4

Chamber Music 2024 Concert 4

Dubbed “the high priests of brass” by Newsweek, the American Brass Quintet returns to the stunning acoustics of Harris Concert Hall.

A Recital by the American Brass Quintet

The Financial Times hailed him as “a pianist with a captivating personality,” Le Monde applauded his “magician’s fingers and soul of integrity.” Bruce Liu is the first Canadian to ever win a gold medal at the prestigious XVIII International Chopin Competition, and at 26 has already achieved rock star status in the classical music world. Hear him in Prokofiev’s high-voltage, virtuosic 3rd Piano Concerto, which the Chicago Daily Herald called “the most beautiful modern concerto for piano” at its American premiere in 1921. The last movement is especially dazzling, with pounding chords on the piano surrounded by blazing sounds from the orchestra.

Festival Orchestra: Slatkin Conducts Copland, Gershwin

AMFS Life Trustee Gerri Karetsky is once again hosting an ice cream social on the David Karetsky Music Lawn this Sunday, July 21 at 2:30 PM. All audience members, both inside the Tent and on the Lawn, are invited for this "sweet" event!

Ice Cream Social

A Recital by Paul Jacobs organ

Special Event: The Science of Music Neural Notes: Music and the Brain

Join us for libations and hors d'oeuvres after the performance for a special chance to meet the Fiddler on the Roof in Concert cast and creative team. Ticket price of $500 includes the performance and an exclusive party at a private residence.

VIP After-Party for Fiddler on the Roof in Concert

See top AMFS piano students receive coaching from esteemed faculty artist Yoheved Kaplinsky.

Harris Concert Hall Class 2024 Concert 3

With nine Tony awards including "Best Musical," Fiddler on the Roof sang and danced its way into America's heart beginning in 1964 when it became an instant Broadway classic. Sixty years later, experience the production in a concert collaboration with Theatre Aspen and the Aspen Music Festival and School featuring John Williams’s Oscar-winning score adaptation as heard in the 1971 feature film version of this timeless musical.

Special Event: Fiddler on the Roof in Concert

Talented AMFS students play chamber music in the artful, open-air space on the roof of the Aspen Art Museum.

Music with a View 2024

Aspen Art Museum

Join us for the culminating event of the AMFS Mi Historia Mariachi Workshop for middle and high school musicians. In celebration of Mexican culture, local music students and Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Folklórico dancers will perform alongside the Denver-based Mariachi Sol de mi Tierra on the Klein Music Tent stage. The concert will begin at 5:30 pm.

A Mariachi Celebration

The AMFS invites you to an intimate evening of conversation and music with renowned composer and bassist Edgar Meyer. Artist Dinners are hosted in private homes and include a cocktail reception, performance, and catered dinner with the artist.

Artist Dinner with Edgar Meyer

The Strad described Jennifer Koh as “a risk-taking, high-octane player of the kind who grabs the listener by the ears and refuses to let go.” The New York Times recently called composer Missy Mazzoli “one of the most inventive and surprising composers working in New York today.” The Grammy-nominated Mazzoli is one of only two women commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera; her Lincoln in the Bardo will be premiered there in 2025. Koh and Mazzoli have been collaborating for more than a decade, and will come together for a unique evening of Mazzoli works, with the composer at the keyboard.

A Recital by Jennifer Koh violin and Missy Mazzoli piano

Brass Competition 2024

Anniversary Reminiscences Program: Gil Shaham violin and Adele Anthony violin

Join us for an intimate House Music for an exclusive performance and chance to meet talented AMFS student artists. Hosted in a private home, the event includes music, conversation, light hors d'oeuvres, and refreshments.

Salon Showcase House Music

Aspen Highlands

Overtures: Preconcert Chamber Music 2024 Concert 3

Welcome back the amazing Jennifer Koh in Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto, a work composed for her after a decade of previous collaborations. Koh premiered the work in 2022 in a performance conducted by Aspen Conducting Academy alumna Gemma New. Subtitled “Procession," the work is inspired by medieval rituals developed during the Plague. The Washington Post described it as “an unsettling work that opens like a trapdoor, or the moment you fall asleep… Like Vaughan Williams, Mazzoli taps into and transforms a hymnal history—albeit with a more “messed-up” (her words) twist. Mazzoli conjures penitential processions, “melting hymns,” spells cast over broken bones and a conclusory ascent to the heavens.”

Chamber Symphony: Jennifer Koh, Sibelius Symphony No. 2

Chamber Music 2024 Concert 5

Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS Co-Artistic Director Patrick Summers coaches the program's major emerging talents in arias and scenes with a full orchestra. Enjoy excerpts from the repertoire, ravishing voices, and insightful coaching.

Opera Encounters 2024 Concert 5

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

Mahler once said “A symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything.” In the 9th, his last completed score to be publicly performed, Mahler takes us on a sweeping musical and spiritual journey. It contains the full spectrum of emotions, and culminates in a transcendent finale in which, in the words of his protégé Bruno Walter, Mahler “peacefully bids farewell to the world.”

Festival Orchestra: Mahler Symphony No. 9

The AMFS invites you to an intimate evening of conversation and music with beloved guest artist Gil Shaham. Artist Dinners are hosted in private homes and include a cocktail reception, performance, and catered dinner with the artist. For more information or to be added to the waitlist for this sold out event, please contact Chandler Martin, Director of Annual Giving and Special Events, at 970 205 5065 or cmartin@aspenmusic.org.

Artist Dinner with Gil Shaham

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.

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Wheeler Opera House and AMFS History Tour

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A Recital by Harmony Zhu piano

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Tunes and Tales 2024

Jun 27, 2024

Community Pride Celebration

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