Video by Pang Pongsirirushakun ‘25.
Summer Music Festival
Save the dates for our 41st season: June 7-27, 2025!
PROSPECTIVE FELLOWS: Applications for 2025 are open NOW! Deadline to apply is Feb. 15, 2025.
Celebrating 40 Years: 1984 - 2024
The Colorado College Summer Music Festival celebrated a fabulous 40th season with amazing music this past June.
Recent SMF News
40th anniversary season delights Fellows, Faculty, and fans
Summer Music Festival a 2024 Best of the Springs winner
New season of 'Now Hear This' airs this spring
Featured on PBS
Now Hear This Season 3, episode 3 “Aaron Copland: Dean of American Music” takes place in Colorado Springs on the CC campus and with the faculty and students of the CC Summer Music Festival.
Drawing from his Jewish roots, modernism and American folk music, Pulitzer-, Grammy- and Oscar-winning composer Aaron Copland created a distinctive American sound in both his classical compositions and film scores. Like Copland did for much of his career, host Scott Yoo and fellow musicians spend time working with students at a music festival in Colorado to strengthen their auditioning skills and better understand Copland’s music. To discover Copland’s inspiration, Yoo travels to New York to explore the Jewish music Copland was raised with as well as modernist music through performances by Cantor Daniel Mutlu, violinist Steven Copes, cellist Mark Kosower, festival music director and pianist Susan Grace and more. Later, Yoo becomes the student and learns from pianist and Copland enthusiast John Novacek about how the composer developed his signature sound, now so familiar to us all.
Go to PBS to stream the entire episode.
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Assistant Director, Colorado College Summer Music Festival
avanhorn@coloradocollege.edu
(719) 389-6552
Mailing Address: 819 N. Tejon St.
Physical Address: 5 W. Cache La Poudre St., Office #112
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
