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For some years now, Alan Fletcher, executive director of the Aspen Music Festival and School, has been taking the question of diversity quite seriously. More and more festival events feature women composers as well as composers and performers of color. Here is the story of one guitarist who has a long history of working with musicians from around the planet.
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Pianist Illia Ovcharenko arrived at the Aspen Music Festival and School to suddenly find that he was assigned to perform a tough piano sonata by fellow Ukrainian Sergei Prokofiev. He agreed to take on the assignment.
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The Aspen Music Festival and School has long had a strong interest in current composers and conductors, seeking to prepare them for successful careers. And this summer, Piotr Waclawik, a member of the conductors’ program at AMFS, conducted a brand new work from composer Gala Flagello called "Vitality."
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Volinist Augustin Hadelich, who is performing Sunday afternoon at the Aspen Music Festival and School, has a complicated layer in his busy life. The online world keeps assigning him fictional wives. Listen to his tale.
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Conductors Tomáš Netopil and George Jackson join AMFS President and CEO Alan Fletcher for a lively lunchtime discussion.
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The Aspen Opera Theater and Vocal Arts Program, which is part of the Aspen Music Festival and School, is directed by two of the biggest names in the business: superstar soprano Renée Fleming and acclaimed conductor Patrick Summers.
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Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, left, spoke this week with Chris Mohr of Aspen Public Radio about being in town, about the importance of family time at the beach and hard work, and about the joy of playing Falstaff and other operatic misfits.
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Armenian violinist Diana Adamyan, who will perform Sunday at the Aspen Music Festival, feels the music of her nation’s fine composers in her heart.
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Alan Fletcher talks with AOTVA co-artistic director and conductor Patrick Summers about the upcoming production of Verdi's Falstaff, and with piano artist-faculty and culductor Arie Vardi about his special evening of Mozart.
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The Aspen Music Festival’s resident brass ensemble, the American Brass Quintet, or ABQ, will fill Harris Hall with glorious sounds on Thursday.