Archive for Thursday, July 7, 2005
Recital season begins this week
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They board planes with their cello cases and violins, giving up six weeks of their summer for their music. This is the sixth year for the Rocky Mountain Summer Conservatory, held at Lowell Whiteman School. Sixty-seven students from across the United States come to Steamboat Springs to study chamber music with internationally renowned faculty from major orchestras, professional quartets and universities. They take private lessons and master classes and practice for hours each day, pairing their music with interdisciplinary studies, such as printmaking, photography and tae kwon do.
This diligence is important to us because part of the RMSC curriculum is regular recitals that are free and open to the public.
Students arrived June 26. Their second recital is tonight.
"At these recitals, it's interesting to hear the level of playing," said RMSC founder and artistic director Ernest Richardson. The youngest students are 10, and the oldest are in graduate school. Students are accepted to the RMSC through competitive national auditions. "These are some of the most talented musicians of their age in the country."
This year, students are focusing on the work of American composers, such as David Diamond and John Adams. Free recitals continue through Aug. 6.
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