Julia Fischer to perform twice - Aspen Music Festival and School

Supplement to The Aspen Times 

Y O U R W E E K L Y C L A S S I C A L M U S I C G U I D E 

by SARA M. KELLY 

Festival Focus 

At forty years old, Leonard 

Bernstein began his first season 

as music director of the New 

York Philharmonic, a tenure that became 

a legendary era for the orchestra. Now 

another young conductor has been 

appointed to the helm. 

Like Bernstein, Alan Gilbert is forty 

years old, and newly appointed to the 

New York Philharmonic. He is also 

the first native New Yorker to hold the 

position, which will begin in the 2009-10 

season. 

Before he steps into his illustrious 

post in New York, Gilbert visits 

the Aspen Music Festival and School, 

conducting the Sunday, July 6 

Aspen Festival Orchestra concert. 

This dynamic program features 

a balance of contemporary and Romantic 

works, opening with 2008 

AMFS composer-in-residence Anders 

Hillborg’s Eleven Gates, a piece of 

alternating movements of energy and 

stillness, which takes its title from 

the transitions between the eleven 

movements. 

Asadour Santourian, AMFS 

artistic advisor and administrator, says 

that Gilbert was first invited to the Festival 

in the 1990s when David Zinman 

became the AMFS music director. 

“We’re delighted that Alan is the 

New York Philharmonic designate,” 

says Santourian. “This usually means 

a very busy calendar, but we’re 

so pleased every time he returns to the 

Festival.” 

The program also includes Dvořák’s 

Violin Concerto in A minor, performed 

by one of today’s hottest talents, 

German violinist Julia Fischer. The 

concert will close with two richly 

lyrical pieces by Ravel, Alborada del 

gracioso and Daphnis et Chloé, Suite 

No. 2. 

Vol 19, No. 4 | Monday, June 30, 2008 

Julia Fischer to perform twice 

KASSKARA 

In addition to the Sunday AFO concert, Julia Fischer will give a recital, joined by 

AMFS artist-faculty Thursday, July 3 in Harris Concert Hall. 

David Zinman 

Music Director 

Alan Fletcher 

President and CEO 

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Meet Julia Fischer. Named 

the 2007 Gramophone Artist 

of the Year, she has 

become a full-fledged star, known for her 

nuance, insight, and power with the 

violin. 

She has also been an Aspen Music 

Festival and School favorite since she 

made her debut here in 2005. Since 

then, she’s been back every summer, 

and this season is no 

exception. 

“The nice thing in 

Aspen is that you have 

the academy there, 

with students practicing 

there every day, 

morning to evening,” 

Fischer says. “It’s a 

wonderful atmosphere 

for any musician who 

is allowed to play 

there.” 

This summer she returns for two 

performances. The first, a recital this 

Thursday, showcases her probing, 

introspective interpretations of Bach, 

Shostakovich, and Bruch. On Sunday’s 

Aspen Festival Orchestra program, 

she takes center stage with Dvořák’s 

hauntingly beautiful Violin Concerto in 

A minor, led by star young conductor 

Alan Gilbert. 

The concerto is infused with the 

rhythms and melodies of Dvořák’s na- 

Julia has quickly become 

a very admired and 

respected artist among 

the artistic and listening 

community. 

Asadour Santourian 

AMFS ArtiStiC ADviSOr 

AnD ADMiniStrAtOr 

tive Bohemia. The last movement is based 

on a “furiant”, a Czech folk dance that 

Dvořák used in an earlier work, the 

Slavonic Dances. 

Dvořák wrote the concerto for a noted 

violinist of the time, Joseph Joachim, 

who helped him with revisions but never 

got around to premiering the work. 

Despite this beginning, the Dvořák 

concerto has become a staple for 

violinists, and is one of more than forty 

orchestra works in Fischer’s repertoire. 

“Julia has quick- 

ly become a very 

admired and respected 

artist among the 

artistic and listening 

community,” Asadour 

Santourian, AMFS 

artistic advisor and 

administrator says. 

“From her first visit 

here, she’s not only 

performed with various 

orchestras, but 

also included chamber music as part of 

her appearance.” 

Fischer is not only an accomplished 

performer. At age twenty-five, she is also 

Germany’s youngest violin professor. 

Her love affair with the violin 

started early. At age three she started 

playing and at age nine she entered 

the Munich Academy of Music. 

In a 2007 interview on National Public 

See Fischer, Festival Focus page 4 

Alan Gilbert returns to the AMFS 

MATS LUNDQUIST 

Alan Gilbert, newly appointed music 

director of the New York Philharmonic, 

will lead the AFO this Sunday.



Monday, June 30, 2008 | Page 3 

Shahams find family and music time in Aspen 

CHRISTIAN STEINER 

MICHAEL TAMMARO 

Husband-and-wife David Robertson and Orli Shaham are two of the four members 

of the Shaham family that will be performing this week at the Music Festival. 



It’s a family affair at the Aspen 

Music Festival and School this week, as 

the musical Shaham siblings and their 

spouses and children gather in Aspen for a 

week of family reunion and public performances. 

Violinist Gil Shaham and his wife 

Adele Anthony will perform an all- 

Brahms recital on Tuesday; his sister, 

pianist Orli Shaham, plays on Wednesday; 

and her husband, renowned 

conductor David Robertson, leads 

the Aspen Chamber Symphony on 

Saturday. Not performing, but also 

making the trip to Aspen, are Gil 

and Adele’s boy Elijah and the new 

Robertson twin baby boys. 

The Shaham and Robertson children 

represent the third generation of 

Shahams to enjoy the AMFS. The 

Shaham siblings—who are both AMFS 

alumni—have long been marquee names 

here, but they were visitors before they 

were students. Since their father worked 

at the Aspen Center for Physics every 

summer as they were growing up, the 

family spent time at the Music Tent, 

taking in the concerts. 

As she sat down along with 

Robertson to talk about her Aspen 

experiences, Orli said that since the age 

of seven, when she started as a student 

here, she’s only missed two AMFS 

summers. She studied at the School 

for ten years, and as her career took 

off she started performing as a guest 

artist. 

At one memorable concert at 

the Benedict Music Tent that she 

was playing with her then-boyfriend 

Robertson, he proposed backstage at 

intermission. The post-intermission 

announcement to the audience brought 

smiles, tears, and much cheering. 

“Even though we all live in New 

York, we travel so much that we don’t 

get to see each other as often as we like,” 

she says. “We have an older brother, and 

we occasionally convince him to take 

his vacation in Aspen, so it’s our great 

family reunion. 

Orli was not only inspired by the season 

theme when programming her recital, she 

was also inspired by her new twin sons. 

See Shaham, Festival Focus page 5 

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T H I S W E E K A T 

Bringing critics’ favorites from the art-house 

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novel you’d read in a train station. this 

movie has everything you’d want in a 

summer page-turner—suspense, excitement, 

unexpected twists and a meticulous 

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layered and intriguingly misleading, 

this highly anticipated new film from 

Oscar-winning director Claude Lelouch 

(A Man and a Woman) stars Dominique 

Pinon and Fanny Ardant as an unlikely 

pair caught up in a game with high 

stakes—and deadly consequences. 

All films screen in Paepcke Auditorium, next 

to the Benedict Music Tent. Individual tickets 

are $12 can be purchased at the Wheeler 

Opera House or at Paepcke Auditorium 

before each film. Call 925-6882, x113 or 

visit www.aspenfilm.org for summerFILMS 

information. 

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tune in with AMFS Dean Joan Gordon 

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The Chamber Music Series, 

every Monday evening and 

Saturday afternoon throughout 

the summer, is one of the core offerings of 

the Aspen Music Festival and School. An 

intimate introduction to some of classical 

music’s best repertoire, the series features 

the Festival’s accomplished artist-faculty, 

as well as guest artists and students. 

AMFS artistic advisor and administrator 

Asadour Santourian points 

out, “our talented artist-faculty lead the 

programs, but on any concert you 

may also hear one of the week’s guest 

artists, or talented students who will be the 

artists and artist-faculty of tomorrow.” 

The Festival’s artist-faculty gather in 

Aspen from all over the United States and 

many foreign countries, and feature some 

of the world’s best musical minds. Among 

them are hundreds of awards: Grammy 

Awards, MacArther Fellowships, Pulitzer 

Prizes, Grawemeyer Awards, Gilmore 

Prizes, and more. 

Every major conservatory and orchestra 

is represented in their ranks, from the 

New York Philharmonic and The Juilliard 

School to the San Francisco Symphony and 

Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. The Cham- 

ber Music Series is where these seasoned 

musicians get to play their favorite chamber 

music works with Aspen friends and 

colleagues. 

Says Santourian, “The repertoire is 

predominantly their choice, and they come 

up with some wonderful suggestions. It’s 

an opportunity to work with colleagues they 

don’t usually see, or artists they’ve wanted to 

work with but haven’t yet had the chance.” 

Tonight, hear the music of Barber, 

Schumann, and more, exquisitely rendered 

in Harris Concert Hall. This Saturday, 


Chamber Music Series presents gems 

ALEX IRVIN / AMFS 

AMFS artist-faculty members Alexander Kerr and Anton Nel perform as part of 

the Monday evening and Saturday afternoon Chamber Music Series. 

July 5, the New York Philharmonic’s 

future music director Alan Gilbert picks 

up his viola and joins Alexander Kerr, Eric 

Kim, and Joseph Kalichstein in Dvořák’s 

Piano Quartet. Richard Woodhams, Per 

Hannevold, and Orli Shaham perform a 

Poulenc trio, and the Aspen Contemporary 

Ensemble presents work by composer David 

Dzubay. 

“The artist-faculty are the heart and 

soul of the Festival,” Santourian says. “The 

Chamber Music Series is where our heart 

and soul are performing.” 

ALEX IRVIN / AMFS 

Lawrence Isaacson leads the AMFS band in rousing patriotic favorites for the free annual Fourth of July concert. 

This Aspen tradition takes place Friday, July 4 at 4 pm in the Benedict Music Tent. 

Fischer: violin sensation returns 

Continued from Festival Focus page 1 

Radio, Fischer says she first dreamed of 

becoming a performer when she was six or 

seven years old and saw a television performance 

by violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. 

Fischer asked her mother how 

Mutter earned her living, and says she 

was surprised to learn that people could 

make money playing music. 

“And I said ‘Well, she’s allowed to play 

the violin and she even gets money for 

this?’” Fischer says. “I really could never 

understand that this is a profession. I 

always found it the most wonderful thing 

one is allowed to do, to be on stage and 

play a concert, and as I child I never could 

understand that one could actually get 

money for this.” 

Her first recording, a collection of 

Russian violin concertos, was released 

in 2004, and was a Gramophone Editor’s 

Choice pick. That was just an indication 

of the popularity to come. More than 

fourteen million classical music fans in 

thirteen countries voted in the 2007 

Gramophone Artist of the Year awards, and 

Fischer was the favorite, beating out other 

notable artists such as Claudio Abbado, 

Daniel Barenboim, and Bryn Terfel. 

As if she weren’t a formidable enough 

talent on the violin, Fischer is also an 

accomplished pianist. She started this 

year with her professional piano debut, 

in a New Year’s Day performance of the 

Glazunov Violin Concerto and the Grieg 

Piano Concerto No. 1 with renowned 

conductor Sir Neville Marriner at the 

Alte Oper Frankfurt. 

In the many facets of her career, 

Fischer remains a consummate artist who 

leaves audiences spellbound.





Only two cellists are allowed to 

perform Argentine composer 

Osvaldo Golijov’s Azul: Yo-Yo 

Ma, for whom it was commissioned, and 

Aspen Music Festival and School alumna 

Alisa Weilerstein. 

Weilerstein, whose legacy at the AMFS 

began with her parents (both artist- 

faculty members here), plays the piece this 

Saturday, July 5, with conductor David 

Robertson and the Aspen Chamber 

Symphony. 

She worked extensively with Golijov 

on Azul when he was composer-in- 

residence at the 2007 Mostly Mozart 

Festival in New York. 

“We revised it together, and now it’s 

a completely different piece than it was 

in its original form,” Weilerstein says. 

“We did the New York premiere last 

summer, and because of the revisions 

I didn’t get the final score until about 

a day and a half before. It was a very 

exhilarating experience and unlike 

anything I’ve ever encountered or done 

before.” 

Since then, she has introduced it to 

audiences worldwide, starting with the 

concerto’s New York debut, just months 

after her own debut with the New York 

Philharmonic. The New York Times 


Weilerstein shares Golijov work with Festival 


Cellist and AMFS alum Alisa Weilerstein presents Osvaldo Golijov’s Azul to Festival 

audiences this Saturday in the Benedict Music Tent. 

Shaham: family in Aspen 


“I prefer to do recitals that are 

a combination of solo and chamber 

music,” Orli says. “[The theme] made 

me think of the fantastic fairy tale-like 

quality of music, and having the little 

babies at home I thought of Debussy’s 

Children’s Corner, which I haven’t played 

since I was young.” 

Robertson remembers the AMFS 

as the place where he made his United 

States debut back in 1994. 

“I really loved the idea that there 

was this type of interaction between 

professionals and students,” Robertson 

says. “ The students really rise to 

the challenge. There’s this fantastic 

learning curve when you’re putting 

things in place, and over the rehearsals 

right before the concert the level is 

shooting up like some NASA space 

projectile.” 

When programming Friday’s ACS 

concert, Robertson says he was inspired 

by the opportunity to work with Alisa 

Weilerstein. Weilerstein is the only 

cellist besides Yo-Yo Ma who is 

permitted to perform Argentinian 

composer Osvaldo Golijov’s Azul. 

Robertson was originally slated to 

premiere the work with Ma, but 

scheduling conflicts prevented it. 

Now, he will conduct it for the first 

time in Aspen, leading Weilerstein, another 

AMFS alum. He also leads the orchestra 

in Schubert’s Symphony No. 9. 

Robertson describes the pairing as 

the perfect complement. 

“Works of the present need to 

harmonize really well with works of 

the past,” Robertson says. “The Schubert 

and the Golijov are striking 

because they’re about simplicity and 

sophistication, which is beautifully 

married together. They are both very 

engaging and yet even when you know 

the pieces quite well they reveal a sort 

of depth that draws you back over and 

over again.” 

Husband-and-wife violinists Gil and 

Adele will perform a recital of Brahms’s 

String Quintets Nos. 1 and 2, with 

members of the AMFS artist-faculty. 

The first quintet is known for its lyrical 

Romanticism, while the second is heavily 

influenced by gypsy melodies. 

It’s fitting that the entire family 

performs this week, because above all, 

Aspen remains a home for them all. 

“The first time I came to Aspen I 

was still in utero, and I’ve had so many 

great memories since then,” Orli says. 

“Last summer was my twin sons first 

summer when they were in utero. 

Aspen is such a great place to be a child, 

I look forward to the memories they’ll 

have here.” 

MAKE A NOTE OF it 

SATURDAY, JULY 5 

6:00 Aspen Chamber Symphony 

Benedict Music Tent 

David robertson conductor 

Alisa Weilerstein cello 

OSvALDO GOLiJOv: Azul 

— 

SCHUBErt: Symphony no. 9 in 

C major, D. 944, “the Great” 

Sponsored by Ruth and Martin 

Carver 

described Weilerstein performance as 

radiating “such concentration and pleasure…that 

watching her became a lesson 

in the art of listening.” 

Already a beloved performer with 

premier orchestras throughout the United 

States and abroad, twenty-five-year-old 

Weilerstein has won the respect and 

acclaim of critics with the insight and 

power that makes her performance of Azul 

so mesmerizing. 

Azul is primarily for cello and orchestra, 

but it also features large parts for the 

hyper-accordion—an accordion whose 

tones are processed through microphones—and 

percussion. 

See Azul, Festival Focus page 6 



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BOYD HAGEN 

Husband-and-wife violinists Gil Shaham and Adele Anthony will perform Brahms 

string quintets in their recital on Tuesday in Harris Concert Hall.

Page 6 | Monday, June 30, 2008 


Alisa Weilerstein is one of only two cellists in the world allowed to play Azul. 

The other is Yo-Yo Ma. 


“The hyper-accordion can make any 

sound you can imagine,” Weilerstein says. 

“The cello, orchestra, hyper-accordion, 

and two fantastic percussionists all 

blend to create great primitive Brazilianstyle 

rhythms.” 

It is fitting that Weilerstein introduce 

this piece to Aspen: She grew up 

visiting Aspen, spending sixteen of 

her first eighteen summers here. She 

began attending the School when 

she was twelve, but that was not 

her first experience with Aspen’s 

artist-faculty. Weilerstein says that 

as a child she remembers taking 

lessons from violinist Dorothy DeLay 

and stage deportment classes from Zara 

Nelsova. 

Concurrent with her experience in 

Aspen, Weilerstein also studied at the 

Cleveland Institute of Music in the 

Young Artist Program. These musical 

experiences as a child led her to choose 

a major that is atypical for young 

musicians—Russian History. 

“My roots are Eastern European 

and Ukrainian,” Weilerstein says. “I love 

the literature and music of Russia and the 

Soviet Union, and the history gave me a 

different perspective on the music.” 


Kawasaki reflects on his legacy of students 



This year marks an anniversary 

for artist-faculty violinist and 

violist Masao Kawasaki, as 

he commemorates three decades at 

the Aspen Music Festival and 

School. For his celebration, Kawasaki 

will do exactly what he loves: perform and 

teach. 

Tuesday, July 1, sees him playing 

Brahms’s String Quintets Nos. 1 and 

2 with a violinist he met many years 

ago—AMFS alum 

and noted violin 

soloist Gil Shaham. 

Kawasaki first met 

Shaham among the 

pre-college students 

at The Juilliard 

School, when Kawasaki 

listened 

to student auditions 

for chamber 

music groups. 

“I think that 

was Gil’s first 

year,” Kawasaki 

says. “He was eleven 

or twelve, and 

he was already 

amazing. Since that, he’s been here 

at Aspen often, and last year and 

I really enjoy teaching 

and sometimes I teach 

nine or ten hours straight, 

but I never get tired. 

All the time students 

bring something different 

and new to the music. 

It’s really enjoyable. 

Masao Kawasaki 

AMFS ArtiSt-FACULtY 

viOLin AnD viOLA 

other years past 

we’ve been able to 

perform chamber music 

together.” 

In addition to 

Shaham, Kawasaki 

fondly remembers 

other students 

and “Festival family” 

he has had the 

opportunity to 

work with over the years, icluding 

violinists Joshua Bell and 

Nadja Salerno-Son- 

nenberg. 

Kawasaki studied 

with DeLay at 

Juilliard, and he 

was interested in 

attending the AMFS 

one summer as 

a student. Instead, 

he found himself 

teaching when one 

of DeLay’s assistants 

for the summer cancelled. 

“Most students 

came to study with 

Dorothy DeLay, 

so as one of her assistants, 

I had the opportunity to work 

with them also,” Kawasaki says. 

“The first year 

I had only four 

students, and 

taught only two 

days a week,” Kawasaki 

recalls. “I practiced 

and played, but 

the rest of the time 

I was outdoors and 

swimming. I looked 

like a Hawaiian surfer 

with my tan.” 

Kawasaki says that he came back to 

Aspen the next year to teach and play 

chamber music. Now, he adds, he has a 

hard time believing that thirty years have 

passed since that first season with Dorothy 

DeLay. 

He returns to the AMFS every summer 

to teach and learn from his students, 

a goal he learned from his own 

teacher. 

“I really enjoy teaching and 

sometimes I teach nine or ten hours 

straight, but I never get tired,” 

Kawasaki says. 

“DeLay had a lot of students and 

she never got tired from the teaching, so 

I somehow caught the teaching addiction 

and learned from her. 

“All the time students bring something 

different and new to the music. 

It’s really enjoyable.” 



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Azul: the Weilerstein touch 


AMFS artist-faculty member 

Masao Kawasaki first came to the 

Festival in 1978 as an assistant 

to Dorothy DeLay. He has taught 

violin and viola at the Festival for 

thirty years. 

In addition to her blossoming solo 

career, Weilerstein also performs with 

her parents, violinist Donald Weilerstein 

and pianist Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, 

as the Weilerstein Trio. They are 

currently in the studio recording works 

of Schumann and Janáček. Weilerstein 

says she enjoys playing chamber 

music with her parents because they 

have such a tight musical and personal 

bond. 

“We’ve been playing since I could 

barely play,” Weilerstein says. “They’ve 

always let me have a voice and speak my 

mind musically, because they wanted me 

to develop the capacity to express musical 

ideas.” 

This musical expression will be on 

display when Weilerstein performs. Her 

soloing at the AMFS this summer is 

not only her chance to play for friends 

and fans: it is also the opportunity to 

reconnect with a place that helped shape 

her musical career. 

“I’ve probably done every hike that 

there is,” Weilerstein says. “I’ve made 

a countless number of lifelong 

friendships, and heard so many 

fantastic concerts. I have really, really 

fond memories of Aspen, and that’s an 

understatement. I’m always excited about 

coming back.”


THE 


BROADSHEET AMFS events for June 30-July 6 

WEEK 3 

MONDAY, JUNE 30 

12:00 Tent and Hall Tours (free) 

Explore the AMFS’s concert facilities. Meet at the Tent Plaza. 

6:00 Chamber Music ($46) 

Harris Concert Hall 

BARBER: Summer Music, op. 31 

Sparks, Woodhams, Hara, Hannevold, Zirbel 

POULENC: Violin Sonata 

Kantor, Weckstrom 

FALLA/MARÉCHAL: Suite populaire espagnole 

Hanani, Coen 

SCHUMANN: Piano Quartet in E-flat major, op. 47 

Rosenberg, Dunham, Takova, Nel 

Corporate support provided by Aspen Skiing Company 

6:00 Trombone Master Class (free) 

Opera Hall, Castle Creek Campus 

Trombone Artist-Faculty 

8:00 Horn Master Class (free) 

Castle Creek 1, Castle Creek Campus 

David Wakefield 

Rossini’s enchanting adaptation 

of the Cinderella story, La 

Cenerentola, opens at the Wheeler 

Opera House. July 8, 10, 13 

FRIDAY, JULY 4 

4:00 Fourth of July Concert (free) 


Lawrence Isaacson conductor 

Don’t miss this Aspen tradition, the annual free Fourth of 

July celebration in the Tent, featuring the AMFS band 

performing rousing patriotic favorites. 

Sponsored by the City of Aspen 

German violin sensation Julia Fischer 

performs Dvorak’s folk-infused Violin 

Concerto in A minor with the Aspen 

Festival Orchestra, led by Alan Gilbert. 

July 6 

11:00 Castle Creek Campus Tours (free) 

Meet at the Campus’s main administration building. 

1:00 Castle Creek Campus Tours (free) 

1:00 Master Class ($25) 


John Perry piano 

1:00 Viola Studio Class (free) 

Music Hall, Castle Creek Campus 

Victoria Chiang 

1:00 Cello Studio Class (free) 

Classroom 1, Castle Creek Campus 

Alan Harris 

3:30 Cello Studio Class (free) 


Yehuda Hanani 

4:00 American Academy of Conducting Orchestra (free) 


IPPOLITOV-IVANOV: Caucasian Sketches, Suite no. 1, op. 10 

PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major, op. 10 

— 

TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake Suite, op. 20a 

Sponsored by Marcia and John Donnell 

4:00 Piano and Strings Master Class (free) 


Rita Sloan, William Grubb 

4:30 Violin Studio Class (free) 





Masao Kawasaki, Catharine Carroll 

7:00 Double Bass Master Class (free) 


Double Bass Artist-Faculty 

6:00 A Recital by Gil Shaham and Adele Anthony violins ($46) 


Masao Kawasaki viola 

Catharine Carroll viola 

Michael Mermagen cello 

BRAHMS: String Quintet No. 1 in F major, op. 88 

String Quintet No. 2 in G major, op. 111 

Sponsored by Rita and Irwin Blitt 

Local business support provided by the Aspen Times 

9:30 Aspen Chamber Symphony Dress Rehearsal ($10) 


10:00 Opera Scenes Master Class ($35) 

Wheeler Opera House 

Edward Berkeley director 

Aspen Opera Theater Center Artist-Faculty 

12:30 Listener’s Master Class: Classical Era (free) 

Crossroads Church 

Tom Buesch 

1:00 Music on the Mountain (free) 

Top of Aspen Mountain (gondola ticket required) 

1:00 Clarinet Master Class (free) 


Dennis Smylie 

1:30 Viola Master Class (free) 



4:00 Chamber Music ($46) 


DAVID DZUBAY: all water has a perfect memory 

Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Hodkinson 

POULENC: Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano 

Woodhams, Hannevold, O. Shaham 

HINDEMITH: Des Todes Tod, op. 23a 

Barton, Thatcher, Person, Grubb, Crosmer 

DVOŘÁK: Piano Quartet in E-flat major, B. 162, op. 87 

Kerr, Gilbert, Kim, Kalichstein 

FOR TICKETS: 

(970) 925-9042 

www.aspenmusicfestival.com 

Harris Concert Hall Box Office: 9 am–evening-concert intermission, daily 

Wheeler Opera House: 10 am–5 pm daily; 

on AMFS event days, open one hour prior to event until curtain 

12:00 High Notes (free) 

Wheeler Opera House 

Edward Berkeley, Alan Fletcher, and the artistic team 

behind Rossini’s La Cenerentola discuss their creative vision. 



James Dunham 

1:30 Cello Master Class (free) 


Yehuda Hanani 

3:30 Oboe Master Class (free) 


Oboe Artist-Faculty 

8:00 A Recital by Orli Shaham piano ($46) 


Joaquin Valdepeñas clarinet 

Alexander Kerr violin 

Laurie Carney violin 

Masao Kawasaki viola 

Eric Kim cello 

Nancy Goeres bassoon 

Eli Epstein horn 

DEBUSSY: Children’s Corner 

PROKOFIEV: Overture on Hebrew Themes, op. 34 

SKRYABIN: Piano Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp minor, op. 19 

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4:30 Bassoon Master Class (free) 


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6:30 Clarinet Master Class (free) 

Aspen Middle School Room 233 

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8:30 A Recital by Julia Fischer violin ($46) 


David Halen violin 

Renata Arado violin 

Cornelia Heard violin 

Alan Gilbert viola 

James Dunham viola 

Eric Kim cello 

Kajsa William-Olsson cello 

Edgar Meyer bass 

J.S. BACH: Sonata No. 1 for Unaccompanied Violin 

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SHOSTAKOVICH: Two Pieces for String Octet, op. 11 

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5:00 Overtures: Preconcert Chamber Music 

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Yoheved Kaplinsky piano 

BEETHOVEN: 32 Variations on an Original Theme 

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Rondo in C major, op. 51, no. 2 

6:00 Aspen Chamber Symphony ($68) 


David Robertson conductor 

Alisa Weilerstein cello 

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8:30 A Recital by Yevgeny Sudbin piano ($46) 


HAYDN: Piano Sonata in B minor, Hob. XVI/32 

Piano Sonata in C major, Hob, XVI/50 

CHOPIN: Mazurka in D major, op. 33, no. 2 

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1:00 Voice Master Class (free) 

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2:00 Tours to the Tent (free) 

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3:00 Prelude: Preconcert Talk (free) 


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4:00 Aspen Festival Orchestra ($72) 


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Julia Fischer violin 

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