The Flatirons Chamber Music Festival is a non-profit summer music festival held annually in Boulder, Colorado.

Schedule:

Friday, June 13, 2025

7:00 p.m: Call of the Wild

Program:
Gabriella Smith - Carrot Revolution
Patrick Harlin - Wilderness Anthology
Benjamin Park - World Premiere
Johannes Brahms - String Sextet No. 2 in G major

Gabriela Smith's Carrot Revolution celebrates the spirit of fresh observation and new ways of looking at old things. Her work for string quartet is a patchwork of wildly contrasting influences and unexpected juxtapositions, ultimately drawing connections between things we don't think of as being related.

Patrick Harlin's The Wilderness Anthology is written for string quartet and pre-recorded audio soundscapes from the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest and Book Cliffs in Utah and Colorado. The work employs audio from these environmentally imperiled disappearing soundscapes (sum total of audio in a given environment) with live string quartet drawing relationships between sounds found in the natural world and those in the concert hall. Though almost entirely overlooked in the field of sustainability, soundscapes are a critical component of an ecosystem, a potential indicator of biodiversity, a valuable tool in predator and prey dynamics, and a clear signal in a frequently visually cluttered or camouflaged landscape.

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Sunday, June 15, 2025

4:00 p.m: The Space Between Us

Program:
Marcus Goddard - Allaqi
Maurice Ravel - Sonata for Violin and Cello
Nicky Sohn - No Name Rest Stop and Tarp Run
Felix Mendelssohn - String Quintet, Op. 87

Season closer "The Space Between Us" is a musical exploration of a sentiment shared in a conversation between Yo-Yo Ma and Jacob Collier. When asked what we should do given the state of the world, Yo-Yo Ma replied "create a connection in the space between yourself and another person or group of people, and then allow something beautiful to flow between you. Then, do that over and over and over again."

Marcus Goddard's "Allaqi" incorporates elements of inuit throat singing, a kind of performance-game in which two Inuit women face one another and produce interlocking patterns of grunts, inhalations, exhalations, and short repeating melodies - the first to laugh or stop is the loser. Marice Ravel's "Sonata for Violin and Cello" is an ultimate tour-de-force in its thin instrumentation jacked up with blazing string crossings, piercing harmonics, and snapping pizzicati. He shares "This sonata marks a turning point in my career - the music is stripped to the bone and there is a return of the emphasis on melody." This remarkable piece serves as a reminder of the incredible potential created between two people.

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Date: June 9 - 15, 2025

Location:

Ruby Red Farm
6927 Jay Road
Boulder, CO 80301

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