Today at noon at Christ Episcopal Church, pianist Orli Shaham joins Alan Fletcher, President and CEO of the Aspen Music Festival and School in a conversation about new works and the Mackey piano concerto Stumble to Grace. These thoughtful and stimulating discussions known as High Notes continue every Wednesday at noon and are free.
Today’s free Spotlight Recital featuring top student talent takes place at 3 in Harris Concert Hall.
AHouse Music recital presented by Mountain Living and featuring top Aspen Opera Theater Center students will be offered today at 3:30 at a private residence.
When Paganini’s 1st Violin Concerto premiered, the audience gasped at the extended passages of double stop thirds. Today at 6 in the Benedict Music Tent, Yiliang Jiang, this summer’s Dorothy DeLay Prize Winner, takes on the work’s many challenges backed by the Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of conductor Stephen Mulligan. Also on the program, a world premiere by Nina C. Young and the 2nd Symphony of Sibelius, which in Finland was associated by some with the struggle for Finnish independence, as it was written at a time of Russian sanctions on Finnish language and culture.
Violinist Jennifer Koh and pianist Shai Wosner play Beethoven’s 1st, 2nd, and 9th (“Kreutzer”) Sonatas and Vijay Iyer’s Bridgetower Fantasy at Harris Concert Hall tonight at 8:30.