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Aspen Music Festival and School

Aspen Music Festival and School

Founded in 1949, the Aspen Music Festival and School is regarded as one of the top classical music festivals in the United States, noted both for its concert programming and its musical training of mostly young adult music students. The eight-week summer season includes hundreds of classical music events: concerts by four orchestras, recitals, chamber music, operas, classes, lectures, and family programs. In the winter, the AMFS presents recitals and robust music education programs for local youth and families, and in the summer the Aspen Music Festival and School host High Notes, lunchtime discussions featuring prominent performers, composers, and musicologists in lively discussions with AMFS President and CEO Alan Fletcher. Learn more at: aspenmusicfestival.com.
  • Thanks to Aspen Public Radio’s partnership with the Aspen Music Festival and School these lunchtime discussions are recorded each week as part of our “Ideas, Speakers & Lectures” initiative and feature prominent performers, composers, and musicologists in lively discussions with AMFS President and CEO Alan Fletcher. This week’s speaker is AMFS Music Director Robert Spano.
  • Thanks to Aspen Public Radio’s partnership with the Aspen Music Festival and School these lunchtime discussions are recorded each week as part of our “Ideas, Speakers & Lectures” initiative and feature prominent performers, composers, and musicologists in lively discussions with AMFS President and CEO Alan Fletcher. This week’s panelists are conductor David Robertson and violist Lawrence Power.
  • Part of the Dorothy DeLay Week celebrations, spotlighting this legendary Aspen teacher from 1971 to 2001, and illuminating the deep mentoring that has been taking place in Aspen between professionals and young artists since 1950. This special expanded High Notes panel features Aspen teachers and their students discussing this very special type of relationship. Moderated by AMFS President and CEO Alan Fletcher.
  • Thanks to Aspen Public Radio’s partnership with the Aspen Music Festival and School these lunchtime discussions are recorded each week as part of our “Ideas, Speakers & Lectures” initiative and feature prominent performers, composers, and musicologists in lively discussions with AMFS President and CEO Alan Fletcher. This week’s panelistsare composers Missy Mazzoli and Christopher Theofanidis.
  • Thanks to Aspen Public Radio’s partnership with the Aspen Music Festival and School these lunchtime discussions are recorded each week as part of our “Ideas, Speakers & Lectures” initiative and feature prominent performers, composers, and musicologists in lively discussions with AMFS President and CEO Alan Fletcher. This week’s panelists are noted conductors Jane Glover and Leonard Slatkin.
  • These lunchtime discussions features prominent performers, composers, and musicologists in lively discussions with AMFS President and CEO Alan Fletcher. Panelists are pianist Jeremy Denk and cellist Steven Isserlis.
  • Thanks to Aspen Public Radio’s partnership with the Aspen Music Festival and School these lunchtime discussions are recorded each week as part of our “Ideas, Speakers & Lectures” initiative and feature prominent performers, composers, and musicologists in lively discussions with AMFS President and CEO Alan Fletcher. This week’s panelists are pianist Inon Barnatan and cellist Alisa Weilerstein.
  • Alan Fletcher speaks with world-renowned tenor Matthew Polenzani about his role in the AMFS’s production of Mozart’s Idomeneo. Joining them is AMFS Music Director Robert Spano.
  • Alan Fletcher meets with composer John Luther Adams and conductor David Robertson to discuss their concert collaboration, a reflection of the 2023 AMFS season’s theme: The Adoration of the Earth.
  • Saxophonist Steven Banks and pianist Myra Huang join Alan Fletcher in a spirited lunchtime discussion.