Announcing our 2026 Summer Season!
Tickets on Sale April 14 at 12 pm MT
Join us for another transcendent summer celebrating artistry and the human spirit.
Summer 2026 Highlights!
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Yuja Wang (July 29, August 1)
Today's hottest classical pianist! -
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (August 23)
The one, the only. -
Joyce DiDonato (July 15, July 19)
World-famous mezzo-soprano -
Guys and Dolls in Concert (July 13, July 14)
In collaboration with Theatre Aspen
AMFS News
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Summer 2026 Development Events
Benefits, House Musics, Artist Dinners, and more! -
Alan Fletcher to Become President Emeritus in 2027
Caps an extraordinary 21-year tenure. -
Local to Aspen? Learn about our School Year Programs
Ranging from AfterWorks to Musical Connections, students in the Roaring Fork Valley receive quality music education! -
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The School
One of the World's Best Training Programs for Emerging Artists
Each summer, nearly 500 young artists come to Aspen to play in four orchestras, sing, conduct, compose, and study with more than 100 artist-faculty members who come from the orchestras of Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Dallas, the Metropolitan Opera, and the leading conservatories and music schools. In a unique construct, they are both students and colleagues of their highly accomplished teachers and perform side by side with them all summer long.
Alumni of Aspen program include violinists Joshua Bell, Sarah Chang, Midori, Gil Shaham, and Robert McDuffie; pianists Joyce Yang, Orli Shaham, Conrad Tao, Yuja Wang, and Wu Han; conductors Marin Alsop, James Conlon, Leonard Slatkin and Joshua Weilerstein; composers William Bolcom, Philip Glass, David Lang, Augusta Read Thomas, Bright Sheng and Joan Tower; vocalists Isabel Leonard, Jamie Barton, Sasha Cooke, Danielle de Niese, Renée Fleming, Dawn Upshaw and Tamara Wilson; cellist Alisa Weilerstein; guitarist Sharon Isbin; bassist Edgar Meyer; and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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