Bravo! Vail announces lineup for 37th season
The six-week festival returns June 20 to Aug. 1
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The Bravo! Vail Music Festival has announced its 37th festival season featuring more than 80 concerts across the Vail Valley.
Taking place from June 20 to Aug. 1, the six-week festival presents four internationally acclaimed resident orchestras — Mexico’s Sinfónica de Minería (formerly Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería), the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic — alongside distinguished chamber ensembles and guest artists. The season highlights an incredible breadth of programming, ranging from opera, classical masterpieces and new music, to pop favorites and Latin-American classical music.
“Bravo! Vail Music Festival’s 37th season promises to be exhilarating and filled with joy,” said artistic director Anne-Marie McDermott. “The festival and its community of listeners will share in the transformative and uplifting power of live music in one of the world’s most majestic natural settings. Whether listening to an orchestra at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater, a string quartet in the Vail Chapel, or a solo artist in the comfort of someone’s home, audiences will share with artists the special magic of the music they love.”
The season commences with Mexico’s Sinfónica de Minería, making a historic debut as the 2024 international chamber orchestra and the first Latin-American guest orchestra presented at the festival. Led by renowned Mexican conductor and artistic director Carlos Miguel Prieto, the three-day residency showcases world-renowned artists, including trumpet player Pacho Flores, guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas, cantaora Esperanza Fernández, flamenco dancer Isaac Tovar and cuatro player Leo Rondón.
Additional highlights from Bravo! Vail’s 37th season includes Puccini’s “La bohème” on July 10 and 12 with The Philadelphia Orchestra led by music and artistic director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. This staged production, the second opera presented at Bravo! Vail, brings together the orchestra, a full chorus, costumes, set design and some of the leading opera singers of our time, including Nicole Car, Gabriella Reyes, Stephen Costello and Étienne Dupuis.
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Bravo! Vail will also celebrate Jaap van Zweden as he makes his final appearances as music director of the New York Philharmonic, leading the iconic orchestra in three of its six powerful performances at Bravo! Vail.
The 2024 season also marks the third year of Bravo! Vail’s Symphonic Commissioning Project, an initiative that upholds the festival’s legacy of supporting living composers and their work. As part of this project, The Philadelphia Orchestra gives the Colorado premiere of Jeff Tyzik’s “Take Off!,” a work commissioned by Bravo! Vail in celebration of Tyzik’s 30th year at the festival. Additionally, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra presents the Colorado premiere of Anna Clyne’s “ATLAS” for piano and orchestra featuring pianist Jeremy Denk, and the New York Philharmonic gives the Colorado premiere of “To See the Sky” by Joel Thompson. Coupled with these three Symphonic Commissioning Project works, eleven works by living composers receive their Bravo! Vail premieres.
Bravo! Vail’s Chamber Music Series presents four performances by internationally celebrated chamber musicians and ensembles in the beautiful, intimate environments of the Donovan Pavilion and Vilar Performing Arts Center. The 2024 series features the Bravo! Vail debut of pianist Sergei Babayan with Daniil Trifonov and additional guest artist performances by violinist Paul Huang, pianist Igor Levit, artistic director and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, Dalí Quartet, New York Philharmonic String Quartet and The Philadelphia Orchestra’s principal horn Jennifer Montone and principal clarinet Ricardo Morales.
Bravo! Vail’s Immersive Experiences take listeners on a “deep dive” over multiple concerts into a whole body or oeuvre of music, with the musicians themselves serving as the guide. The 2024 series explores works from the prolific last year of Schubert’s life, which was tragically cut short at age 31 by typhoid fever.
Bravo! Vail’s Classically Uncorked returns with two bold chamber music programs co-curated and presented by the Dublin Guitar Quartet, a quartet dedicated to performing contemporary music using eight and eleven-string guitars. Each Classically Uncorked program offers a unique chamber music experience with handcrafted wines and cabaret-style seating in the gorgeous Donovan Pavilion.
The Linda and Mitch Hart Soiree Series will take listeners to a one-of-a-kind social and musical experience hosted at magnificent private residences. Each evening begins with a cocktail hour followed by a performance by some of the world’s most extraordinary musicians with an intimate post-concert dinner. The 2024 series includes concerts by Sergei Babayan, Jason Vieaux, Susanna Phillips, Anne-Marie McDermott, Anthony McGill and Carter Brey.
The locations and programs will be announced at a later date. For more information and tickets, visit BravoVail.org.
