2011 Concert Season
July 9, Pianists Rita Sloan and Wu Han performed along with one of Wu Han's students, Brian Ge and Wu Han’s daughter Lillian Finckel.
July 16, Simone Dinnerstein, pianist.
July 23, American Brass Quintet. It was the ABQ’s 50th anniversary and they have been a favorite every year in Salida since the series started 35 years ago.
July 30, "A Musical Triptych," Dimitris Papadimitriou, piano and Robyn Bollinger, violin and Meta Weiss, cello.
August 6, The Jupiter Quartet.
August 12, Inon Barnatan, pianist, a recognized Schubert expert, returned to Salida for his third consecutive year to play with the Ars Nova String Quartet.
2010 Concert Season
2007 Salida Aspen Concerts:
Saturday, July 7 — Joyce Yang, piano — At 19 years old the Korean pianist was the youngest to win the 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. On tour now, she has already played with the Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra.
Saturday, July 21—All Beethoven – by three of Aspen’s top music student performers, two from Bulgaria and one from China who play "flawlessly and with such ease that it is transporting," according to their mentors in Aspen. Valley Fellowship Church, Buena Vista, Colo.
Tuesday, July 24 —
Aspen Contemporary Ensemble (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion) — Aspen’s music students perform a program of mixed eras–not just contemporary–directed by composer-conductor Syd Hodkinson who plays jazz and retired from the Eastman School of Music.
Saturday, July 28 — American Brass Quintet — returning favorites will bring with them a fellowship brass quintet from Aspen Music Festival and School.
Saturday August 4 — Rita Sloan & Friends — The Russian-born pianist returns for a 12th appearance since she first played in Salida in 1982. She will bring some of her performance colleagues from the Aspen Music Festival and School where she teaches.
Saturday, August 11 — Ingrid Fliter, piano — The Argentinean pianist won the 2006 Gilmore Artist Award (only the fifth pianist to do so) and made her first appearance with a major U.S. orchestra—the Atlanta Symphony. She has recorded works by Beethoven and Chopin at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (
www.ingridfliter.com).
Concerts from the 2006 season are highlighted below:
Saturday, August 12, 2006--Rita Sloan and Friends (piano, violin, horn). You can read more about the concert by clicking on More Info. Click on the following link to view the program, musicians' biographies, and composer notes: Sloan Program.
Saturday, August 5, 2006--Ann Schein and Earl Carlyss (piano and violin). You can read more about the concert by clicking on More Info. Click on the following link to view the program, musicians' biographies, and composer notes: Schein Program.
Thursday, July 20, 2006--Edgar Meyer (double bass). You can read more about the concert by clicking on More Info. Click on the following link to view the program, musicians' biographies, and composer notes: Meyer Program.
Thursday, July 15, 2006--Jasper Quartet. You can read more about the concert by clicking on More Info.
Saturday, July 9, 2006--Wu Han and David Finckel (piano and cello). Click on the following link to view the program, musicians' biographies, and composer notes: Han Program.
Saturday, July 8, 2006--American Brass Quintet. Click on the following link to view the program, musicians' biographies, and composer notes: ABQ Program.