The Breckenridge Music Festival (BMF) is pleased to present “A Perfect Match,” an evening celebrating the music of two composers from Classical Vienna, Mozart and Schubert. Selections from the program include Mozart’s Overture to Marriage of Figaro, and Piano Concerto in B-Flat Major, K. 450 as well as Schubert’s Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major. The Marriage of Figaro overture opens the program and sets the theme for “A Perfect Match,” a concert featuring the Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra in music written in Classical Heaven—eighteenth-century Vienna.
The BMF is pleased to welcome pianist Robin Sutherland as this evening’s concerto soloist for the Mozart Piano Concerto in B-flat. Born in Denver, Robin Sutherland grew up in Greeley, entering the studio of Dr. Rita Hutcherson at the age of four. As a boy, he was befriended by another faculty member, Dr. Kenneth Evans; which led to many musical experiences including the first of many solo engagements with the Breckenridge Music Festival. Sutherland is an alumnus of the Aspen Music School and Festival, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the University of Hawai’i and The Juilliard School. Of Sutherland’s recording of Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations, Newhouse News Services has said, “…Sutherland has given us what may very well be the most totally satisfying Goldberg Variations available.”
Mozart’s Piano Concerto in B-flat was written for a series of performances in Vienna, with Mozart himself featured as concerto soloist. This quality of composition by Mozart at the age of twenty-eight would seem young, unless compared with Schubert’s Symphony No. 5, a work written when Schubert was nineteen years old. Both young geniuses compressed an amazing maturity of composition into brief careers. Mozart was the more successful in the eyes of Vienna during his thirty-five brilliant years. Schubert, virtually ignored during his lifetime except by a small circle of devoted friends, left an incredible number of compositions including six hundred Lieder, nine symphonies and a body of chamber music that rapidly gained recognition after his death at age thirty-one.
Please join the BMF for a night of beautiful music a match made in Classical Heaven with, “A Perfect Match,” on August 13 at 7:30 pm at the Riverwalk Center. For tickets ($25, $30, and $35 Adults, $10 students, $7 juniors) call 970.547.3100 or CLICK HERE to buy tickets online
