Join Dance Aspen for an evening of cutting-edge contemporary dance. For the program, Dance Aspen welcomes nationally acclaimed and award-winning choreographer Matthew Neenan who will curate a brand new work for the company artists. Dance Aspen is also honored to be the first American company to premiere two works by internationally esteemed creator Cayetano Soto…
The acoustic jazz ensemble, Rhythm Future Quartet has a straightforward agenda: to keep the spirit of Gypsy jazz alive and expanding in today’s musical universe. The virtuosic foursome, named for a Django Reinhardt tune, offers up a newly minted sound, influenced by the classic Hot Club of France, yet wholly contemporary. Founded by violinist Jason…
Musicians from around the country are coming to Crested Butte for this splendid performance of Totally Mozart! Many of our guest musicians have performed in the past with the Crested Butte Music Festival, and all are noteworthy musicians in their home states, performing with ensembles including the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, The Florida Orchestra, the…
The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart’s delightfully chaotic opera, is a whirlwind comedy of mistaken identities. The story takes place in a single crazy day – the wedding day of the Count’s servants, Figaro and Susanna. From the first notes of the famous overture through to their boss’s lesson in marital fidelity, the women are portrayed…
Understanding the virtuosity of Reckless Kelly requires the perspective of where the band has been. Cody and Willy Braun grew up in the White Cloud Mountains of Idaho. They moved to Bend, Oregon, and then migrated to that great musical fountainhead, Austin, Texas. The band’s co-founders and frontmen toured the country as part of their…
Maggie L. Fox is Founder of the Global Biodiversity Narrative Project, which seeks to revitalize and realign the cultural narrative about humanity’s true relationship of interdependence and connection with all life on Earth. She also serves organizations, foundations, communities in the development and implementation of 21stcentury biodiversity, climate change, regenerative, organic agriculture and clean energy…
Hardin Lang is vice president for programs and policy at Refugees International. A veteran of six United Nations peacekeeping and humanitarian field missions, Hardin has worked in Afghanistan, the Balkans, Central America, Gaza and the West Bank, Iraq, Haiti, Jordan, Lebanon, Myanmar, Tunisia, Turkey, and West Africa. During his UN tenure, Hardin helped launch the…
Sam Myers is a Principal Research Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health and is the founding Director of the Planetary Health Alliance (www.planetaryhealthalliance.org). Sam’s research explores Planetary Health—a field focused on the human health impacts of global environmental change. His projects currently include exploring the human nutritional consequences of rising concentrations of CO2…
Dr. Anthony Tingle is the Program Director of the Institute for Future Conflict at the United States Air Force Academy where he oversees research on regional conflict and military technology including artificial intelligence, cyber, and biotechnology. Dr. Tingle’s research focuses on three core issues: the future of war, the future of US defense priorities, and…
Lesley Brooks, MD serves as the Chief Medical Officer for SummitStone Health Partners and as the Assistant Medical Director for the North Colorado Health Alliance in northern Colorado. As the Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Brooks leads SummitStone’s partnership in the design, development and implementation of Larimer County’s new Longview Behavioral Health Services facility, which is…