The Colorado Music Festival’s 2024 summer concert season runs from July 5 through Aug. 4. This week’s opening of the 2024 Colorado Music Festival comes with the announcement that music director Peter Oundjian has signed a new, five-year contract, extending a collaboration with the Boulder-based concert presenter that dates back to 2018. It is very big news indeed; perhaps historic.
Then, facing an injury to his left hand, he made an unexpected pivot to conducting. Most famously, he helmed the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for 14 years, part of a podium career that has had him working with top-level orchestras across several continents. That orchestra programs classical music more than 38 weeks a year, and Oundjian gets plenty of help with the artistic work.
One good example this season is the July 21 premiere of a commissioned concerto written by of-the-moment composer Gabriela Lena Frank. It is the rare concerto to feature a string quartet in the “soloist” position. Boulder’s Grammy-winning Takács Quartet will be featured. Oundjian has taken the adventurous step of programming a tribute to two composers on the same night. The July 14 concert celebrates Bruckner’s 200th birthday and Schoenberg’s 150th birthday.
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