Breckenridge Music Festival

The Breckenridge Music Festival is pleased to present Marc Cohn sponsored by One Ski Hill Place as a part of its BLUE RIVER SERIES at the Riverwalk Center in Breckenridge on Sunday August 15^th at 7:30PM.  Tickets, $30 in advance and $35 day of show, can be purchased by calling 970-547-3100 or ordered online by CLICKING HERE

Marc Cohn will appear on Sunday, August 15^th for a Blue River Series concert.  Singer-songwriter, pianist, and acoustic and electric guitarist, Cohn is often described as one of the most personal, most introspective lyricists of his generation.  Cohn combines the precision of a brilliant tunesmith with the passion of a great soul man.  He’s a natural storyteller, balancing the exuberant with the poignant, and able to distill universal truth out of his often romantic drawn-from-life tales.  With many hits including “Walking in Memphis,” “Dig Down Deep” and “True Companion,” Cohn’s show will be a fantastic fit to this year’s Blue River Series.

Cohn released an album just last month and since then has gotten rave reviews.  Collaborating with longtime producer-arranger-multi-instrumentalist and fellow Grammy Award winner John Leventhal, Cohn doesn’t merely recreate the sounds of this storied time. On Listening to the new album titled Booth:1970, he transforms songs from such artists as Cat Stevens, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Van Morrison, Smokey Robinson, Creedence Clearwater Revival and even Bread into tracks that are warm, soulful, more than a little sexy and full of easy-going charm. These highly personal interpretations say as much about Cohn’s own history – his experiences, his memories, his inspirations – as about the legacy of these songs. They’ve been so creatively and confidently re-imagined, and sung with such feeling, they practically feel brand new.

Get your tickets now to see Marc Cohn at the Riverwalk Center on Sunday August 15^th at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 day of show and can be purchased by calling the Riverwalk Center Box Office at 970.547.3100.  For a complete Breckenridge Music Festival schedule or to order tickets online CLICK HERE

The Breckenridge Music Festival is pleased to present “Swinging at the Summit,” sponsored by Robbie and Ted Beaty, on Saturday, August 14 at the Riverwalk Center in Breckenridge.  The magically transformed BMF Big Band Orchestra, along with guest vocalist Jessica Medoff-Bunchman, will be performing works by the loved Glenn Miller, George Gershwin and Cole Porter.  Works from the evening will include, Opus One, Frenesi, A Foggy Day, Tuxedo Juntion, Pennsylvani 6-5000, Sing Sing Sing, East St. Louis Toodle-Oo, I Got Rhythm, Peel Me a Grape, Just One of Those Things, and Tenderly.

Guest Conductor Michael Linville is the Director of Admissions and Coaching Associate with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach and an adjunct faculty member of the North Carolina School of the Arts.  He is a pianist, percussionist, harpist, conductor and arranger and has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, New World Symphony, Honolulu Symphony, Pasadena Symphony and the Florida Philharmonic.  He is also Artistic Coordinator of the New World Percussion Consort, an ensemble that performs contemporary chamber music featuring percussion.  This is Mr. Linville’s fourteenth summer as a member of the Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra.

Lyric Soprano Jessica Medoff Bunchman is currently making her mark as an admired performer in the classical and cross-over repertoire. Jon Sobel of Blogcritics Magazine wrote, “Jessica Medoff Bunchman was perfectly spectacular…if she doesn’t have a fan club, someone should start one”.  Roles in her operatic repertoire include Judith in Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Musetta (La Bohéme), Micaela (Carmen), and Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow).  For her work as the Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas, the New York Times wrote, she sang the role “with an alluring mischievousness”.   An avid cross over performer and recitalist, Mrs. Medoff Bunchman has performed with Symphony and Festival orchestras, including Aspen and Breckenridge, and is the co-creator of two original cabarets. She made her Carnegie Hall oratorio debut in 2007 as Soprano Soloist in the Fauré Requiem.

Put on your dancing shoes and get ready to join Guest Conductor Michael Linville and Soprano Jessica Medoff-Buchman along with the Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra for an entertaining evening of “Swinging at the Summit” at the Riverwalk Center in Breckenridge, July 30 at 7:30 pm.  For tickets ($25, $30, and $35 Adults, $10 students, $7 juniors) call 970.547.3100 or CLICK HERE to purchase tickets online

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

The Breckenridge Music Festival is pleased to present its annual BRASS CONCERT, featuring the ever-talented brass section of the Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra.  The evening’s program will consist of:  Hanson’s, Fanfare for Mountains and Plains, Byrd/Allen’s, Earl of Oxford’s March, Bach/Allen’s, Little Fugue in G Minor, Respighi’s, Ancient Airs and Dances, Strauss’s, Fanfare Stadt Wien, and Woud’s, The Call; Brass Presented.

Brass ensembles have a long and distinguished history, with both the British and German Brass Band traditions creating enthusiastic followings in the United States as well as in their countries of origin. A strong tradition of composing for brass ensemble, as well as of creating transcriptions of works originally for other instrumentation, has built a repertoire which encompasses music from the Renaissance Period through the most contemporary era, including popular, sacred and art music of all styles.

Influenced perhaps by the traditional brass-players’ characteristic irreverence for protocol and tendency to quirky senses of humor, the Breckenridge Music Festival’s annual Brass Concert features the entertaining blend of excellent music and enjoyable personalities which Festival audiences have come to expect. This evening’s “Brass á la Breck” is sure to answer all expectations for an enjoyable evening at the Riverwalk Center.

Please join the members of the Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra Brass Section in a celebration of Brass at the Riverwalk Center in Breckenridge, August 11 at 7:30 pm. For tickets ($25, $30, $35 Adults, $10 students, $7 juniors) call 970. 547.3100. For more information or to order tickets online CLICK HERE