Festival Orchestra Concerts

Tickets: $50-$70

Presenting sponsor:

Guillermo Figueroa, conductor
Erin Schreiber, violin

Enjoy an evening of world-class classical favorites, performed by the Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra, led by Maestro Guillermo Figueroa and featuring soloist Erin Schreiber, violin.

Pieces to be performed include:

JENNIFER HIGDON: Blue Cathedral

ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35 featuring Erin Schreiber, violin

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY: Francesca da Rimini (Symphonic Fantasy after Dante, Op. 32)

Join us for a free pre-concert lecture at 6:00 pm at the Center for Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College, presented by Dr. Linda Mack Berven.

This concert is eligible for the Free Student Ticket Program! The Music in the Mountains Free Ticket Program for students offers up to two free student tickets with the purchase of one adult ticket to select festival concerts. If you are interested in securing free student tickets, please do not place your order online. These orders must be placed over the phone at (970) 385-6820 or in person at the Festival Office (515 E. College Drive, M-F, 9am-5pm). Note: Students must be present to receive tickets at Will Call.

Supporting Sponsors:

For accessible seating needs or additional assistance please call the festival office to assist you with your tickets at 970-385-6820.

Tickets: $50-$70

Presenting sponsor:

Guillermo Figueroa, conductor
Tony DeSare, piano and vocals

Named Rising Star Male Vocalist in Downbeat magazine, DeSare has won critical and popular acclaim for his concert performances throughout North America and abroad. From jazz clubs to Carnegie Hall to Las Vegas to headlining over 100 major symphony orchestras, DeSare has brought his fresh take on old school classics around the globe.

He has been featured on the CBS Early Show, National Public Radio, A Prairie Home Companion, and the Today Show. He has been a featured guest artist with over 100 symphony orchestras, including the Cleveland Symphony, New York Pops, San Francisco, Houston, and Chicago Symphonies.

Also an accomplished composer with songs and film scores to his credit, DeSare will join our Festival Orchestra, led by Maestro Guillermo Figueroa, for an incredible evening of music featuring arrangements of everything from Claude Debussy and George Gershwin to Elton John, Ray Charles, and John Lennon.

This concert is eligible for the Free Student Ticket Program! The Music in the Mountains Free Ticket Program for students offers up to two free student tickets with the purchase of one adult ticket to select festival concerts. If you are interested in securing free student tickets, please do not place your order online. These orders must be placed over the phone at (970) 385-6820 or in person at the Festival Office (515 E. College Drive, M-F, 9am-5pm). Note: Students must be present to receive tickets at Will Call.

For accessible seating needs or additional assistance please call the festival office to assist you with your tickets at 970-385-6820.

Tickets: $50-$70

Presenting sponsor:

Guillermo Figueroa, conductor
Aviram Reichert, piano

Pianist Aviram Reichert joins Guillermo Figueroa and the Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra for an evening of classical favorites, including:

ANTONIO VIVALDI: Concerto in B minor for Four Violins, RV 580 featuring Emmanuelle Boisvert, Hannah Ji, Jacqueline Audas, and Leslie Shank, violins

FRANZ SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759, “Unfinished”

GEORGE GERSHWIN: Concerto in F, for piano and orchestra featuring Aviram Reichert, piano

Join us for a free pre-concert lecture at 4:00 pm at the Center for Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College, presented by Dr. Linda Mack Berven.

This concert is eligible for the Free Student Ticket Program! The Music in the Mountains Free Ticket Program for students offers up to two free student tickets with the purchase of one adult ticket to select festival concerts. If you are interested in securing free student tickets, please do not place your order online. These orders must be placed over the phone at (970) 385-6820 or in person at the Festival Office (515 E. College Drive, M-F, 9am-5pm). Note: Students must be present to receive tickets at Will Call.

Supporting sponsor:

For accessible seating needs or additional assistance please call the festival office to assist you with your tickets at 970-385-6820.

Tickets: $5 (includes a hot dog dinner before the concert!)

Presenting sponsors:

Guillermo Figueroa, conductor
Paul Singer, narrator

Enjoy a hot dog dinner prior to this Festival Orchestra concert designed for children and their families!

Pieces to be performed include:

BRUCE ADOLPHE: Carnival of the Creatures

BENJAMIN BRITTEN: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

The Carnival of the Creatures is a comic, entertaining, and virtuosic portrayal of musical creatures including an owl, a shark, and a unicorn!

Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra not only introduces the differences between various instruments but is a powerful and sophisticated “theme and variations” work with something for audiences of all ages.

5:30 p.m. Hot dog dinner in the CCH courtyard

6:30 p.m. Concert

Supporting sponsors:

For accessible seating needs or additional assistance please call the festival office to assist you with your tickets at 970-385-6820.

Tickets: $175-$200

Presented by:

Don’t miss one of our community’s most anticipated events and our biggest fundraiser of the year, featuring guest conductor, the incomparable Richard Kaufman!

Delicious food and incredible music compete for center stage at this elaborate evening designed to bring you the glamour of Hollywood’s most celebrated Red Carpet!

Enjoy a fun cocktail hour prior to the chef-prepared multi-course dinner, then listen as Festival favorite Richard Kaufman returns to lead us on a romantic and nostalgic musical journey through treasured film themes, including An Affair to Remember, The Natural, Out of Africa, The Right Stuff, Forrest Gump, and The Magnificent Seven.

Maestro Richard Kaufman supervised music for all MGM television and animation projects for 18 years. He continues to be one of the world’s leading conductors of film music and he regularly appears with many of the top orchestras across the globe. In May 2015, he made his conducting debut with the Boston Pops, substituting for John Williams at the Annual Pops Film Night. In 2016, Mr. Williams graciously invited him to share the podium at the annual Tanglewood Film Night, and in 2018, he again joined Mr. Williams in concerts with the Chicago Symphony. We can’t wait to welcome Maestro Kaufman back here, conducting our very own critically acclaimed Festival Orchestra!

Tickets are $175 for General Seating and $200 for Premier VIP Seating

6:30:  Cocktail Hour
7:30:  Dinner
8:30:  Concert

NOTE: Tickets include house wine; cash bar available for beer and cocktail orders.

For accessible seating needs or additional assistance please call the festival office to assist you with your tickets at 970-385-6820.

Tickets: $50-$70

Presenting sponsor:

Guillermo Figueroa, conductor
Philippe Quint, violin, executive producer, performer, narrator, writer, and visuals

Special guest Philippe Quint joins Maestro Guillermo Figueroa and our Festival Orchestra for a wonderful evening of music featuring the works of Charlie Chaplin!

Did you know that Charlie Chaplin, one of the greatest silent movie actors and most iconic figures of the early film industry and was also a talented composer?

To celebrate Chaplin’s 134th birthday (he was born on April 16, 1889), we present Philippe Quint’s critically acclaimed multimedia program. Inspired by the violinist’s successful 2019 album Chaplin’s Smile (Warner Classics), the program has already appeared in the US, UK, Germany, Poland, Russia, Israel, Romania, Switzerland, and Norway.

Quint’s unique arrangements of songs from Chaplin’s most celebrated films (Modern Times, City Lights, Monsieur Verdoux, The Kid, Limelight, and A King in New York) are interspersed with rare footage of the actor, along with still images and video clips from his films. The program also features music by composers who influenced Chaplin’s musical style – Brahms, Debussy, Stravinsky, and Gershwin.

“I think it’s amazing my grandfather, Charlie Chaplin, is still around and loved by so many, that many years after his first movie was made, he still surprises people.  Philippe Quint’s new multimedia program Charlie Chaplin’s Smile is allowing him to be discovered by a whole new audience as a talented composer, a side of him many people did not know.”  -KIERA CHAPLIN, (Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter) Forbes Magazine

This concert is eligible for the Free Student Ticket Program! The Music in the Mountains Free Ticket Program for students offers up to two free student tickets with the purchase of one adult ticket to select festival concerts. If you are interested in securing free student tickets, please do not place your order online. These orders must be placed over the phone at (970) 385-6820 or in person at the Festival Office (515 E. College Drive, M-F, 9am-5pm). Note: Students must be present to receive tickets at Will Call.

Supporting sponsors:

For accessible seating needs or additional assistance please call the festival office to assist you with your tickets at 970-385-6820.

Tickets: $50-$70

Presenting sponsor:

Guillermo Figueroa, conductor
Jason Vieaux, classical guitar

Maestro Guillermo Figueroa, conductor, leads our Festival Orchestra as they’re joined by Grammy-winning soloist Jason Vieaux, classical guitar, for a special evening of world-class classical music.

Pieces to be performed include:

JOHANNES BRAHMS: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56

JOAQUÍN RODRIGO: Fantasía para un gentilhombre (Fantasy for a Gentleman) featuring Jason Vieaux, guitar

ANTONIO VIVALDI: Concerto for Guitar and Strings in D, RV 93 featuring Jason Vieaux, guitar

IGOR STRAVINSKY: The Firebird, Suite (1919)

Join us for a free pre-concert lecture at 6:00 pm at the Center for Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College, presented by Dr. Linda Mack Berven.

This concert is eligible for the Free Student Ticket Program! The Music in the Mountains Free Ticket Program for students offers up to two free student tickets with the purchase of one adult ticket to select festival concerts. If you are interested in securing free student tickets, please do not place your order online. These orders must be placed over the phone at (970) 385-6820 or in person at the Festival Office (515 E. College Drive, M-F, 9am-5pm). Note: Students must be present to receive tickets at Will Call.

For more information about Jason Vieaux, please visit https://www.jasonvieaux.com/

Supporting sponsors:

For accessible seating needs or additional assistance please call the festival office to assist you with your tickets at 970-385-6820.

Tickets: $50-$70

Presenting sponsor:

Guillermo Figueroa, conductor
Mariano Morales, piano, composer, arranger

Don’t miss this incredible evening of lively music when special guest Mariano Morales, piano, composer, arranger, joins Maestro Guillermo Figueroa, conductor, and our Festival Orchestra for a night of Latin Jazz!

Pieces performed include:

GEORGE GERSHWIN: Cuban Overture, Song Selections from the Ballet Who Cares?

EDWARD KENNEDY “DUKE” ELLINGTON: Medley for Orchestra

MARIANO MORALES: Afro, Saturday Night, Cha-Cha-Cha Dulzón, Rhumba Abierta

NORO MORALES: Maria Cervantes

This concert is eligible for the Free Student Ticket Program! The Music in the Mountains Free Ticket Program for students offers up to two free student tickets with the purchase of one adult ticket to select festival concerts. If you are interested in securing free student tickets, please do not place your order online. These orders must be placed over the phone at (970) 385-6820 or in person at the Festival Office (515 E. College Drive, M-F, 9am-5pm). Note: Students must be present to receive tickets at Will Call.

For accessible seating needs or additional assistance please call the festival office to assist you with your tickets at 970-385-6820.

Tickets: $50-$70

Presenting sponsors:

Guillermo Figueroa, conductor
Néstor Torres, flute

Our Festival Orchestra, led by Maestro Guillermo Figueroa and joined by Néstor Torres, flute, will close out our 2023 Festival with performances of:

ROBERT SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 1 in B-flat, Op. 38, “Spring”

MARIANO MORALES: Concerto for Flute and Orchestra featuring Néstor Torres, flute

ARTURO MÁRQUEZ: Danzón No. 2

Join us for a free pre-concert lecture at 4:00 pm at the Center for Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College, presented by Dr. Linda Mack Berven.

This concert is eligible for the Free Student Ticket Program! The Music in the Mountains Free Ticket Program for students offers up to two free student tickets with the purchase of one adult ticket to select festival concerts. If you are interested in securing free student tickets, please do not place your order online. These orders must be placed over the phone at (970) 385-6820 or in person at the Festival Office (515 E. College Drive, M-F, 9am-5pm). Note: Students must be present to receive tickets at Will Call.

For accessible seating needs or additional assistance please call the festival office to assist you with your tickets at 970-385-6820.