Welcome

Hello friends,

Welcome to Boettcher Concert Hall! All of us at the Colorado Symphony are thrilled to be back home with you, bringing a new season of incredible symphonic music to the heart of downtown Denver. What a thrill it was to join this community and your Colorado Symphony family as Principal Conductor in February. The opportunity to work alongside an ensemble of this caliber, filled with world class musicians, and supported by an extraordinary group of dedicated concertgoers means so much and I’m so looking forward to sharing wonderful music with you in the months and years to come.

For our first full season together, we’re delighted to present a slate of magnificent and diverse works across a host of musical genres led by our incredible orchestra. And I couldn’t be more excited to kick things off on September 10 with the return of a legend and friend, Itzhak Perlman, for an evening featuring many of the greatest film scores ever written for violin.

I hope you’ll join me for a spectacular Classics season opener featuring Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances in September. This season, I’ll also be on the podium leading performances featuring Beethoven’s Third Symphony; a special weekend mini festival we’re calling Mozart & Now which features three unique performances contrasting the music of Mozart with four of today’s brightest composers; and we’ll conclude our Classics season in May with Stravinsky’s groundbreaking The Rite of Spring. I’m also particularly looking forward to late March when I’ll be conducting one of the most stunning works ever composed, Brahms’ A German Requiem featuring the Colorado Symphony Chorus.

This is an exciting time for our orchestra, which has forged an international reputation for creativity, imagination, and outside the box thinking that has the Colorado Symphony poised to become one of the preeminent 21st century orchestras. Of course, this season will be no exception as we debut our Imagination Artist Series with RZA, Mary-Mitchell Campbell, and Nathaniel Rateliff, featuring curated orchestral programs that will showcase three unique artistic visions, all debuting exclusively for Colorado Symphony audiences.

On behalf of our musicians, staff, and the Board of Trustees, thank you for your continued support. We have a spectacular season ahead featuring some of the very best symphonic music ever composed and we can’t wait to share it with all of you.

With deep gratitude,

Peter Oundjian, Principal Conductor