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GRACE NOTES: Two more concerts in 2023

Boulder Piano Quartet, Boulder Phil Holiday Brass Dec. 15 & 17

By Peter Alexander Dec. 13 at 6:15 p.m.

The Boulder Piano Quartet continues its season of guest violinists Friday (7 p.m. Dec. 15, Chapel Hall at the Academy) with Jubal Fulks, a faculty member at the University of Northern Colorado College of Music.

Fulks joins standing Boulder Piano Quartet members Matthew Dane, viola, Thomas Heinrich, cello and David Korevaar, piano, for two late Tomantic-era quartets, by the little known composer Amanda Röntgen-Maier and a young Richard Strauss. 

Fulks is the second of four guest violinists who will appear with the Boulder Piano Quartet during their 2023–24 season. All are appearing in place of the quartet’s long-time previous violinist, Chas Wetherbee, following his untimely death last year. Remaining concerts by the quartet during the current season will be Jan. 19 and May 3 at the Academy.

The quartet likes to include one piece by an unfamiliar composer on each program, to go with pieces by better known composers. Clearly the unknown composer for Dec. 15 is Röntgen-Maier. The first female graduate of the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, she married Julius Röntgen, the son of her violin teacher, who himself became a well known composer.

Her Quartet in E minor is her final major composition, written on a trip to Norway in 1891. It pairs well with the Quartet in C minor of Richard Strauss, a comparably late-Romattic work written 1884-85. Written when the composer was 20, it is one of his earliest works and shows the influence of Brahms.

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Boulder Piano Quartet Jubal Fulks, guest violin, with Matthew Dane, viola, Thomas Heinrich, cello and David Korevaar, piano

  • Amanda Röntgen-Maier: Piano Quartet in E minor (1891)
  • RIchard Strauss: Piano Quartet in C minor (1884-85)

7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 15
Chapel Hall, The Academy, 833 10th St., Boulder
Free with reservation, available HERE

Concert funded by the Ruth M Shanberge Chamber Music Fund in memory of Academy resident Ruth Shanberge.

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Holiday Brass, an ensemble of brass and percussion players from the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, will present the Phil’s annual Holiday concert, under the direction of Gary Lewis, at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 17, at the Mountain View Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place in Boulder.

In the words of the Boulder Phil Web page, the program “includes a variety of beloved holiday tunes, ranging from traditional carols to popular holiday songs, all arranged to showcase the sound of the brass and percussion ensemble.”

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Holiday Brass
Boulder Philharmonic Brass ad Percussion Gary Lewis, conductor

  • Seasonal music including traditional carols and holiday songs from the pop repertoire  

4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 17
Mountain View Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place, Boulder

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Boulder Chamber Orchestra opens 2023-24 season Saturday

Both violin and piano soloists featured Sept. 16

By Peter Alexander Sept. 12 at 4 p.m.

The Boulder Chamber Orchestra is first out of the gate of the city’s five orchestras that present a season every year.

Bahman Saless with the Boulder Chamber Orchestra. Photo by Keith Bobo.

Their opening concert for the fall of 2023–24, featuring music by Mozart, Beethoven and Dvořák, will be the coming Saturday (Sept. 16 at 8 p.m. at the Boulder Adventist Church; program below) and will feature solo appearances by violinist Jubal Fulks and pianist Petar Klasan. Music director Bahman Saless will conduct.

This is ahead of all other local orchestras—the Boulder Philharmonic, the Boulder Symphony, the Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra and the University Symphony—by two weeks or more.

If there is a theme to the season, it might be the presentation of three different piano concertos by Beethoven by three different soloists: Concerto No. 3 played by Petar Klasan Sept. 16; Concerto No. 2 played by Adam Zukiewicz Oct. 21; and the “Emperor” Concerto played by Jennifer Hayghe in 2024. There is also the usual mixture of very familiar composers (Beethoven! Mozart!) with quirky, unfamiliar composers (Jim Klein and Ian Jamison! Maxim Goulet!) that reflect Saless’ eclectic tastes.

December offers the world premiere of a flute concerto written for the BCO and principal flutist Cobus DuToit by Czech composer Sylvie Bodorova. Compiled from previous works, the concerto was suggested to Saless this past summer when he met Bodorova in a conducting workshop.

Jubal Fulks

The “Romance” in the title of Saturday’s opening concert comes from Dvořák’s Romance in F minor for violin and orchestra. A gently enchanting piece, it was derived from the slow movement of the composer’s String Quartet no. 5 in F minor. The soloist, Jubal Fulks, teachers violin and heads the string area at the University of Northern Colorado.

Mozart’s Symphony No. 35 has a somewhat complicated backstory, having been preceded by two different serenades Mozart wrote for the Haffner family of Salzburg. The first, written for a wedding in 1776, is known today as the “Haffner Serenade.” Portions of the second, commissioned for the ennoblement of Siegmund Haffner in 1782, became Symphony No. 35, first performed in Vienna in 1783.

Beethoven composed his Third Piano Concerto in or around 1800—the exact date is disputed—and gave the first performance on a concert in April 1803 on which he also presented first performances of his Symphony No. 2 in D major and his oratorio Christ on the Mount of Olives. Although the concerto was complete, at least in the composer’s head, he had not yet written it all down. Ignaz von Seyfried, a friend who turned pages at the performance, later reported that almost all the pages were blank! 

Petar Klasan

“He played nearly all the solo part from memory since, as was so often the case, he had not had time to set it all down on paper,” Seyfried wrote.

With BCO, the soloist will be Croatian pianist Petar Klasan, who fortunately has studied Beethoven’s completed score. A prize winner in several European competitions, Klasan, 21, is a fellow of the International Music Academy in the Principality of Liechtenstein. He currently lives in Vienna, where he continues his studies and performs with “Con Brio,” a concert series that he founded in 2018.

A full listing of the BCO’s 2023–24 season, and access to ticket purchases, can be found on the orchestra’s Web page.

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Boulder Chamber Orchestra
2023 Fall Concert Schedule

“Romance and Intrigue”
Boulder Chamber Orchestra, Bahman Saless, conductor
With Petar Klasan, piano, and Jubal Fulks, violin

  • Dvořák: Romance in F minor for violin and orchestra
  • Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D major (“Hefner”)
  • Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor

8 pm. Saturday, Sep. 16
Boulder Adventist Church, 345 Mapleton Ave.

“Mozart Mass and  More”
Boulder Chamber Orchestra, Bahman Saless, conductor
Boulder Chamber Chorale, Vicki Burrichter, conductor

  • Jim Klein and Ian Jamison: Summation  for choir and orchestra
  • Mozart: Mass in C minor

7:30 p.m. Friday Oct. 6
First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce, St. Boulder

“Capturing the Folk Spirit”
Mini-Chamber Concert 1
Hsing-sa Hsu, piano, with members of the orchestra

  • Bartók: Romanian Folk Songs for violin and piano
  • Dvořák: Quintet for piano and strings in A major
  • Brahms: Klavietstücke, op. 118 no. 3

7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21
Boulder Adventist Church

Holidays Celebration
Boulder Chamber Orchestra, Bahman Saless, conductor
Nadia Artman, guest conductor
With Adam Zukiewicz, piano, and Cobus DuToit, flute

  • Mozart: Overture to Marriage of Figaro
  • Maxime Goulet: Chocolats Symphonique
  • Sylvie Bodorova: Concerto for Flute and Orchestra (2023; world premiere)
  • Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat, op. 19

7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 16
Boulder Adventist Church

TICKETS for all concerts available at the Boulder Chamber Orchestra Web site.

NOTE: Correction of spell-corrector errors, 9/12: paragraph 2, the violin soloists name is Jubal Fulks, not Forks; paragraph 4 and penultimate paragraph, the soloists name for the Third Concerto is Petar Klasan, not Peter.