Aspen Music Festival

Jul 1 2010 - Aug 22 2010  •  Aspen CO  •  Benedict Music Tent
Genre(s): baroque, chamber, choir, opera
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Founded: 1949
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Phone: 970-925-9042
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Category: Classical
Region: Mountain West
Type: Concert Series

"Music Director David Zinman presides over the eight-week summer festival of more than 350 events - including orchestral concerts, chamber music, opera, contemporary music, master classes, lectures, and kids' programs. Each day brings concerts to the 2,050-seat Benedict Music Tent (an acoustically superior and award-winning permanent structure that opened in 2000), the beautifully restored Victorian Wheeler Opera House, the exceptional Harris Concert Hall, as well as in churches and other halls around Aspen. Many events are free, and other tickets range up to $80. Lawn seating is always free."—Description by festival




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10-Days of Free Streaming Concerts

The veritable classical music YouTube site, Medici.tv, will be streaming 90 performances worth of video from the first 10 days of AMF 2008.

Aspen Music Peace Project
<p>This wing of the AMFS organization involves students in discussions of and the implementation of projects proposed by the AMPP's committee members that will utilize the socially constructive powers of music in various community service projects throughout the Aspen area and around the globe.</p>
The School

An absolutely monstrous part of the Aspen summer activities, the Aspen Music School will four-, five-, and nine-week intensive programs for subjects ranging from piano and classical guitar to composition studies to audio recording, with the opportunity to perform at the festival's main venue, the Benedict tent, even open to students who successfully audition to select programs.



Early this week the Aspen Music Festival and School released its schedule of programs for the summer. It should have included a blue pencil. The festival announced on Friday that David Zinman, its music director since 1997 and the director of the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen, which he founded in 2000, had resigned effective immediately.

Mr. Zinman was scheduled to conduct five concerts this summer as well as to direct the academy. Alan Fletcher, the president and chief...