Featured Events
December 18benefit event
A Winter Passage: An Evening of Music and Art
February 17recital
Ghosts and Echoes:
A Recital by the Junction Trio with Conrad Tao
March 04recital
Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata with Benjamin Grosvenor
March 17recital
Augustin Hadelich and Francesco Piemontesi in Recital
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The School
One of the World's Best Training Programs for Emerging Artists
Our AOTVA Applications for the 2026 season are now live! Apply by September 1. Applications for all our other programs will open September 15.
Each summer, nearly 500 young artists come to Aspen to play in four orchestras, sing, conduct, compose, and study with more than 100 artist-faculty members who come from the orchestras of Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Dallas, the Metropolitan Opera, and the leading conservatories and music schools. In a unique construct, they are both students and colleagues of their highly accomplished teachers and perform side by side with them all summer long.
Alumni of Aspen program include violinists Joshua Bell, Sarah Chang, Midori, Gil Shaham, and Robert McDuffie; pianists Joyce Yang, Orli Shaham, Conrad Tao, Yuja Wang, and Wu Han; conductors Marin Alsop, James Conlon, Leonard Slatkin and Joshua Weilerstein; composers William Bolcom, Philip Glass, David Lang, Augusta Read Thomas, Bright Sheng and Joan Tower; vocalists Isabel Leonard, Jamie Barton, Sasha Cooke, Danielle de Niese, Renée Fleming, Dawn Upshaw and Tamara Wilson; cellist Alisa Weilerstein; guitarist Sharon Isbin; bassist Edgar Meyer; and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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