Author: Kelly Dean Hansen

Orchestra will open new season as scheduled, despite music director’s cancer diagnosis

The July 4 holiday has always been problematic for the Colorado Music Festival. The summer concert series at Chautauqua Auditorium — one of Boulder’s premier classical music events — has traditionally...

Nearly two decades ago, a 12,497-foot peak in Colorado’s Never Summer Mountains was officially named Mount Mahler to honor the Austrian post-romantic composer. Colorado MahlerFest, the annual Boulder event dedicated...

Editor’s note: This performance has been rescheduled for 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 5. Cynthia Katsarelis, music director and founder of Boulder-based Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra, says the organization of...

Ray Chen doesn’t define success by artistic accomplishments alone, although they are many.  The violinist — born in Taiwan and raised in Australia — won the 2008 International Yehudi Menuhin...

Richard O’Neill moved from southern California to join CU Boulder’s resident Takács Quartet as its new violist in June 2020. Arriving when he did, with travel limited by the pandemic,...