Join us this summer (July 1-August 23)
Welcome to Week 1!
Featured Events
July 03orchestral
Chamber Symphony: Beethoven's Symphony No. 7
July 05orchestral
Festival Orchestra: Opening Sunday with Renée Fleming and Thomas Hampson
July 08recital
A Recital by Leonidas Kavakos violin and Enrico Pace piano
July 09recital
A Recital by Alisa Weilerstein cello and Inon Barnatan piano
July 11recital
Time Traveler Suite with Inon Barnatan piano
AMFS News
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Video Screens at the Tent (Weeks 7 and 8)
A professional team will capture close-up images, coordinated with the music, highlighting the performers’ faces and fingers, interactions between performers, and dramatic moments in the music. -
The AMFS Names Meghan Umber as Munroe President and CEO
She follows the transformational leadership of Alan Fletcher, who after 21 years will transition to the position of president emeritus. -
AMFS's 77th Season: July 1-August 23
Season Theme: "For All"
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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