Past Programs

April 2, 2011, 7:30 pm

A Chamber Music Recital - Missing Link: Composers in the Holocaust

We have a very special evening planned of the most fabulous music by tremendous composers whom you may not have heard of. 

A number of excellent composers were lost in the Holocaust. These Eastern European composers provide a "missing link" between  Romantic and Modern music. Their music is influenced by Janacek, folk music, Mahler, Debussy, Jazz, and more. I find their music very beautiful, moving, human, and accessible. I believe that composers such as Gideon Klein, Ervin Schulhoff, Pavel Haas, Hans Krasa and Viktor Ullmann would have provided the world with more beloved modern music.

We will celebrate their music, as we wonder at what might have been.  

We hope you will join us!

Cynthia Katsarelis, Music Director and Conductor 

April 2, 2011
Saturday, 7:30 pm
Pre-concert talk, 6:30 pm

Cofrin Auditorium in the ATLAS Building 
(Room 100)
1125 18th Street, Boulder, CO - CU Campus

Music Voices

Chamber Music Recital
Silenced Voices: Holocaust Composers

Gideon Klein
String Trio, 1944
written in the concentration camp of Theresienstadt

Erwin Schulhoff 
Five Pieces for String Quartet, 1923

 Pavel Haas
String Quartet No. 2 (from the Monkey Mountains), 1922

This concert is supported by the Martin and Gloria Trotsky Fund for Lectures and Performing Arts, the Department of English at CU, the Community Foundation of Boulder County, and co-sponsored by the Boulder Jewish Community Center.



January 29, 2011
Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
First United Methodist Church
1421 Spruce Street in downtown Boulder

Music Declares
PMC declares a Mozart birthday celebration!

Pianist Larry Graham joins us to present
Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21

Mozart Symphony No. 41, Jupiter
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21
Daniel Kellogg Mozart's Hymn

6:30 p.m.
Pre-Concert Conversation w/Cynthia

Loading the 9 foot Steinway for Larry!

November 20, 2010
Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
First United Methodist Church
1421 Spruce Street in downtown Boulder

Music Speaks

Patrick Mason, Grammy-award winning baritone and CU faculty member, joins us in a moving work by John Adams. The Wound-Dresser uses the text by Walt Whitman, about his time as a Civil War nurse.

Dvorak String Serenade
John Adams The Wound-Dresser
Ives The Unanswered Question

6:30 p.m.
Pre-Concert Conversation w/Cynthia

Ticket Prices:
$20 Adults, $15 Seniors, $5 for Students

Tickets available: online here, at the door, or by calling 303-776-5355.

In our season, Pro Musica is committed to helping Near and Far. In this concert, Pro Musica will dedicate the Wound-Dresser to the Colorado Haiti Project, who will be present so you can learn more about their excellent work. 

Fun Facts about this concert:

• Pro Musica Colorado's Concertmaster, Alvaro deGranda, played in The Cleveland Orchestra for 40 years and was assistant concertmaster for 31 of those years. He served as concertmaster for the Cleveland Orchestra's recording of the String Serenade under Vladimir Ashkenazy.

• The Adams uses a text by Walt Whitman. The text is a poignant poem about Whitman’s service as a Civil War nurse. John Adams writes about his piece, the Wound-dresser, that "it strikes me as a statement about human compassion of the kind that is acted out on a daily basis, quietly and unobtrusively and unselfishly and unfailingly."

• A feature of both the Adams and Ives are the trumpet solos which will be played by Bruce Barrie of the Grammy-award winning Chestnut Brass Quintet. 

 About Haiti

Our music director, Cynthia, just returned from three weeks of conducting and teaching at Holy Trinity School of Music in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

 March 27, 2010 Bach and Beyond

Edward Dusinberre, 1st violinist of the Takács String Quartet, joins Pro Musica in Bach's Violin Concerto in E Major.

Mendelssohn String Sinfonia
Bach Violin Concerto in E Major
Golijov Last Round
Haydn Symphony No. 44 Trauer

7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 27, 2010 at Mountain View Methodist Church,
355 Ponca Place in Boulder

6:30 p.m. Pre-Concert Conversation w/ Cynthia and Edward

This concert is a Far and Near concert.  There are 3 ways you can help our world:

• Bring a canned food item to the concert for Emergency Family Assistance Association (EFAA) - part of the Orchestras Feeding America campaign
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• Donate at the concert, 20% goes to the Colorado Haiti Project.

Chamber Music Recital: Women Composers

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts  Guest Artist Series.

Amy Beach Piano Quintet in F# Minor
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Violin Sonata
Dianne Betkowski Hommage

Stacy Lesartre, violin
Nannette Shanno, piano
String Quartet from Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra   

November 7, 2009. "Mostly Mozart"

Wonderful clarinetist Daniel Silver joins PMC to  explore the sublime Clarinet Concerto by Mozart.

Jennifer Higdon Celebration Fanfare

Mozart Symphony No. 27

Mozart Clarinet Concerto

6:30 p.m. Pre-Concert Talk with our Music Director
7:30 p.m. Performance
Saturday, November 7, 2009 at Mountain View Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place in Boulder.

Open Rehearsal in Lafayette

Friday, November 6, 2009, 7:00 pm

Location: Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts.

 Guest Artists

 Patrick Mason, baritone

Patrick Mason has been hailed by critics and audiences for his masterful performances of an enormously wide range of repertoire spanning the last ten centuries. He studied voice at the Peabody Conservatory with Francesco Valentino and art song with Ellen Mack. His performances and many recordings reveal his broad interest in music of all types and styles. His deep passion for teaching and Pedagogy finds an outlet at the University of Colorado at Boulder where he is a Berton Coffin Faculty Fellow.

Since 1972 Patrick Mason has made recordings for Sony, l'Oiseaux Lyre, Erato, Nonesuch and CRI. His long and successful association with Bridge Records was crowned in 2006 when his CD of The Songs of Amy Beach was nominated for a Grammy Award.