Beat the summer heat with a 2024 Colorado classical music festival

A full audience watching a performance during the Aspen Music Festival in an open-air amphitheater.
Aubree Dallas
The open-air Benedict Music Tent

A large audience in an outdoor amphitheater watching the Dallas Theater perform during Bravo! Vail summer music festival.

(Photo: Zach Mahone)

An orchestra at a performance during the Colorado Music Festival. On the front of the stage is composer Wang Jie.
Hart Van Denburg/CPR News
Composer Wang Jie premiered her “Flying On the Scaly Backs of Our Mountains” at the Colorado Music Festival, with Peter Oundjian conducting. Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022, at Boulder’s Chautauqua Auditorium.

A string sextet performing in front of an audience in a dimly lit hall in Boulder, Colorado.

Photo: Courtesy Flatirons Chamber Music Festival

Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis performs with a jazz band for a full audience in a dimly lit room during the Strings Music Festival.

(Photo: Courtesy Strings Music Festival)


Colorado music, all summer long