This year's Festival features a dynamic line-up of events, spanning genres and eras, with an amazing roster of soloists and guest artists joining our Festival Orchestra for four weeks of spectacular performances.

From returning familiar faces to all-new events like our Candlelight Chamber Concert to the return of our free community concert series on our mobile stage, each of this July's events will give audiences a memorable experience you'll want to relive over and over again.

Schedule

July 06, 2023

11:00 AM: FREE MOBILE STAGE CONCERT: DURANGOSTRING ENSEMBLE

Join us for a FREE community concert on our custom-built mobile stage!

Our mobile stage is designed to deliver free world-class classical music concerts throughout the region.

Location:
Cottonwood Park, Next to Animas Valley Elementary, Durango, CO 81301

2:00 PM: FREE MOBILE STAGE CONCERT: DURANGOSTRING ENSEMBLE

Join us for a FREE community concert on our custom-built mobile stage!

Our mobile stage is designed to deliver free world-class classical music concerts throughout the region.

Location:
Three Springs, 151 Heritage Lane, Durango, Colorado 81301

7:00 PM
FREE MOBILE STAGE CONCERT: PAGOSA SPRINGSSTRING ENSEMBLE

Join us for a FREE community concert on our custom-built mobile stage!

Our mobile stage is designed to deliver free world-class classical music concerts throughout the region

Location:
Town Park, Corner of Hermosa St. and Hot Springs Blvd, Pagosa Springs, CO 81147

July 07, 2023

11:00 AM
FREE MOBILE STAGE CONCERT: MANCOSWOODWIND ENSEMBLE

Join us for a FREE community concert on our custom-built mobile stage!

Our mobile stage is designed to deliver free world-class classical music concerts throughout the region.

Location:
Boyle Park, 150 Grand Ave, Mancos, CO 81328

2:00 PM: FREE MOBILE STAGE CONCERT: DURANGOWOODWIND ENSEMBLE

Join us for a FREE community concert on our custom-built mobile stage!

Our mobile stage is designed to deliver free world-class classical music concerts throughout the region.

Location:
Claire Viles Park, 245 E Park Ave, Durango, CO 81301

6:30 PM: FREE MOBILE STAGE CONCERT: DURANGOWOODWIND ENSEMBLE

Join us for a FREE community concert on our custom-built mobile stage!

Our mobile stage is designed to deliver free world-class classical music concerts throughout the region.

Location:
Buckley Park, 1250 Main Ave, Durango, CO 81301

July 08, 2023

11:00 AM
FREE MOBILE STAGE CONCERT: IGNACIOBRASS ENSEMBLE

Join us for a FREE community concert on our custom-built mobile stage!

Our mobile stage is designed to deliver free world-class classical music concerts throughout the region.

Location:
Shoshone Park, 400 Shoshone Ave, Ignacio, CO

2:00 PM: FREE MOBILE STAGE CONCERT: BAYFIELDBRASS ENSEMBLE

Join us for a FREE community concert on our custom-built mobile stage!

Our mobile stage is designed to deliver free world-class classical music concerts throughout the region.

Location:
Eagle Park, 1189 Bayfield Pkwy, Bayfield, CO 81122

6:30 PM: FREE MOBILE STAGE CONCERT: DURANGOBRASS ENSEMBLE

Join us for a FREE community concert on our custom-built mobile stage!

Our mobile stage is designed to deliver free world-class classical music concerts throughout the region

Location:
Buckley Park, 1250 Main Ave, Durango, CO 81301

July 14, 2023

7:00 PM: RESOLVE

FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA CONCERT

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.

Location:
Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO 81301

July 15, 2023

7:00 PM: I LOVE A PIANOFESTIVAL ORCHESTRA CONCERT

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.

Location:
Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO 81301

July 16, 2023

5:00 PM: VIBRANT VIRTUOSOS

FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA CONCERT

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.

Location:
Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO 81301

July 19, 2023

5:30 PM: DINNER & FAMILY CONCERT

FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA CONCERT

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

Location:
Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO 81301

July 21, 2023

7:00 PM: CANDLELIGHT CONCERT

CHAMBER CONCERT

Guillermo Figueroa, conductor

Amid the flickering glow of hundreds of candles, you will be immersed in a magical and awe-inspiring setting for this unique chamber concert event.

Pieces to be performed include:

MAX BRUCH: Octet for Strings in B-flat, Op. posth.

FELIX MENDELSSOHN: Octet for Strings in E-flat, Op. 20

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.

Location:
Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO 81301

July 22, 2023

6:30 PM: POPS NIGHT: A NIGHT AT THE OSCARS

BENEFIT DINNER & CONCERT

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, Schindler’s List, 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

Location:
Sky Ute Event Center, 14324 Hwy 172 North, Ignacio, CO 81137

July 23, 2023

5:00 PM: PHILIPPE QUINT IN CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S SMILE

FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA CONCERT

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.

Location:
Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO 81301

July 25, 2023

7:00 PM: SUBLIME SERENADE

CHAMBER CONCERT

Enjoy an intimate chamber concert featuring acclaimed musicians from the Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra.

Pieces to be performed include:

JONATHAN DOVE: Figures in the Garden, for woodwind octet

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Serenade in C minor, for woodwind octet, K. 388

SERGEI PROKOFIEV: Romeo and Juliet Suite, for woodwind octet

Location:
First Presbyterian Church, 1159 E. 3rd Ave., Durango, CO 81301

July 28, 2023

7:00 PM: MASTERFUL MOMENTS

FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA CONCERT

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.

Location:
Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO 81301

July 29, 2023

7:00 PM: CHA CHA CHA! LATIN JAZZ NIGHT

FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA CONCERT

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.

Location:
Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO 81301

July 30, 2023

5:00 PM: HEART & SOUL

FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA CONCERT

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.

Location:
Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO 81301

Date: July 6-30, 2023

Location: Various Venue, Durango, CO 81301

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