Virtual and In-Person Offerings this Winter

Virtual and In-Person Offerings this Winter

Festival Focus Staff

The music doesn’t end after the 2021 summer Festival draws to a close this weekend. The Aspen Music Festival and School will continue to curate and offer concerts throughout the winter both virtually, and, if possible, in person at Harris Concert Hall.

The series of planned virtual offerings will feature longtime Festival partners such as pianists John O’Conor and Steven Osborne, violinist William Hagen, and the Jupiter Quartet, all in recitals of their own creation. Showcasing their virtuosity as well as the programming passions of each artist, these concerts will be about an hour long. Starting in October, the Festival will stream approximately one recital each month through the winter.

The Jupiter Quartet will showcase some of their programming passions in a curated recital for the AMFS this winter.

“The Festival has so many deep personal relationships with artists,” comments AMFS Vice President for Artistic Administration and Artistic Advisor Asadour Santourian. “It is a pleasure to partner with them in this new way on, essentially, a virtual stage outside of summer. It expands what the Festival can do with the world’s creative minds and virtuosic talents. I’m very much looking forward to this series.”

Violinist and AMFS alumnus Will Hagen will be featured in the Festival’s Winter Music offerings.

One unique freedom of this new programming medium is that it gives the AMFS the ability to present artists who are scattered around the world. With travel still uncertain, it will be a treat for Festival audiences to be able to enjoy, for example, pianist Lise de la Salle from France.

French pianist Lise de la Salle performing with the Aspen Chamber Symphony and conductor Xian Zhang in 2018.

Other artists planned for the series include pianists Steven Osborne, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Orion Weiss, and Simone Dinnerstein, guitarist Colin Davin; and mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung.

The virtual series will be available to view on the AMFS Virtual Stage at aspenmusicfestival. com/virtual-stage.

The Festival also plans to continue its in-person Winter Music Recital Series in Harris Concert Hall with a line-up to be announced. Watch for further details on the winter concert schedule on the AMFS website and via email beginning in September.

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