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Professional musicians from around the World striving to bridge cultural, geographic and temporal divides through vibrant collaboration in community.

04/13/2026

Announcing the Eighth Season of the Flatirons Chamber Music Festival! 🔥

“Alchemy” - Friday, June 12 at 7:00pm at Ruby Red Barn
Clarinet Quintet - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
John’s Book of Alleged Dances - John Adams
World Premiere - Benjamin Park
Clarinet Quintet - Samuel Coleridge Taylor

“Strata” - Sunday, June 14 at 7:00pm at Ruby Red Barn
Limestone and Felt - Caroline Shaw
Amrit - Kala Ramnath
Strata (World Premiere) - Scott Lee
String Quintet - Franz Schubert

Strata draws inspiration from the distinct layers of geological activity visible throughout the Colorado landscape, serving as a rich metaphor for the layers of human experience and societal structure.

2026 Artists:
Stephanie Block - Viola
Jamie Clark - Co-Director and Cello
John Diodati - Clarinet
Born Lau - Viola
Kenny Lee - Co-Director and Cello
Scott Lee - Composition
Yun-Ting Lee - violin
Benjamin Park - Composition
Samuel Park - Violin
Patrick Yim - Violin

Tickets available soon at www.flatironscmf.org

06/14/2025

Due to the extreme heat, we’ve made the decision to move The Space Between Us concert to 7:00pm tomorrow (Sunday, June 15).

We hope this change will make for safer and more enjoyable experience for both our artists and audience.

If for any reason you cannot make it we are happy to offer you a refund.

Thank you for your understanding. We look forward to seeing you tomorrow evening!

Warmly,
The FCMF Team

06/12/2025

Patrick Harlin’s “The Wilderness Anthology” will be featured on our “Call of the Wild” concert this Friday at 7:00pm!

You don’t want to miss hearing this spectacular work for string quartet and pre-recorded audio soundscapes from the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest and Book Cliffs in Utah and Colorado. The piece invites us to explore relationships between sounds found in the natural world and those in the concert hall.

Tickets are almost sold out! Buy yours now at www.flatironscmf.org

04/21/2025

Announcing the Seventh Season of the Flatirons Chamber Music Festival! 🔥

"Call of the Wild" - Friday, June 13 at 7:00pm at Ruby Red Barn
Carrot Revolution - Gabriela Smith
The Wilderness Anthology - Patrick Harlin
World Premiere - Benjamin Park
String Sextet in G Major - Johannes Brahms

"The Space Between Us" - Sunday, June 15 at 4:00pm at Ruby Red Barn
Allaqi - Marcus Goddard
Sonata for Violin and Cello - Maurice Ravel
Tarp Run - Nicky Sohn
No Name Rest Area - Nicky Sohn
String Quintet in B flat Major - Felix Mendelssohn

Join us for a musical exploration of the Wilderness from which we came from and a celebration of the miraculous that flows in the space between us.

2025 Artists:
Stephanie Block - Viola
Jamie Clark - Co-Director and Cello
Patrick Harlin - Composition
Marta Lambert - Viola
Kenny Lee - Co-Director and Cello
Benjamin Park - Composition
Samuel Park - Violin
Nicky Sohn - Composition
Natsuko Takashima - Violin
Patrick Yim - Violin

Tickets available now at www.flatironscmf.org

08/15/2024

We are thrilled to share that the Flatirons Chamber Music Festival: Crossing the Divide and Scott Lee have been named recipients of the 2024 Barlow Endowment for Music Composition grant!

We can’t wait to feature “Strata,” a string sextet in our 2025 FCMF Season. Just to give you a small sneak peak……

“The geologic layers of sediment in Colorado’s landscape serve as a poignant metaphor for societal divisions. Just as these layers remain distinct yet part of a unified whole, Strata will emphasize the idea that our societal separations are artificial and unnecessary. Through its musical narrative, the piece will advocate for a more integrated and empathetic human experience.”

More info: https://barlow.byu.edu/commission-recipients/?fbclid=IwY2xjawErUkZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHSXjXGBRDypayR-gnVsk3Lc21vAqwc7XwpI-SFnyxtHk39mxlndglcLp7A_aem_mQL9l7bIRBfIIRgKJlB_MA

06/09/2024

🎶 Meet our 2024 Composer-in-Residence Benjamin Park!

Reserve your tickets at www.flatironscmf.org to hear the world premiere of “Into the Path of Totality”

Boston native Benjamin Park first started composing music in high school, but it was not until arriving at MIT that Ben started studying and writing music more seriously. After declaring his physics major, Ben added a second degree in music. While at MIT, he studied composition with Peter Child and played horn in the MIT Wind Ensemble. In recognition of his contributions to the MIT Music Department he was awarded the Gregory Tucker Memorial Award in 2009.
Following his passion for music, Ben enrolled at the Hartt School, ultimately earning his master’s degree and artist diploma. At Hartt, Ben studied with Robert Carl and David Macbride and performed with Capitol Winds. Ben also took part in collaborations with the Theatre and Dance Divisions and also had multiple works commissioned by the school’s new music ensemble, one of which—a violin concerto, Huldufólk—was played in Reykjavik, Iceland, as part of the Dark Music Days Festival in 2015.
From 2014 to 2019 Ben completed his doctorate in music composition with a minor in music theory at the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Kati Agócs and graduated with the Donald Martino Award for Excellence in Composition. The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) premiered his Dwarf Planets, an epilogue of sorts to the more famous Holst suite, and Ben also served as the Collage New Music Fellow in 2018-2019. After teaching a variety of theory and composition courses at Boston College, MIT, and NEC, Ben now works as a software engineer at Markforged, a 3D-printing company based just outside of Boston.

06/06/2024

🎶 2024 Artist Spotlight! Pianist Sophie Scolnik-Brower!

Pianist Sophie Scolnik-Brower’s innate grace and musical expression have moved audiences across the United States and abroad. Her playing has been called ‘soulful artistry that underlines gorgeous harmonic change without overplaying.” Her roster of festivals include Perlman Music Program, La Jolla Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, and Pablo Casals Festival. She is a frequent guest at Mistral Music and on WCRB Radio (Boston). Her graduate studies were completed in the studio of Vivian Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory.
Scolnik-Brower’s notable performances include a performance in Jordan Hall as a winner of NEC’s Honors Chamber Music competition, and as the recipient of the Borromeo String Quartet’s Guest Artist Award. She has also performed extensively as a young artist at the Perlman Music Program and at La Jolla Music Festival’s SummerFest, receiving accolades from luminaries such as Cho-Liang Lin and Itzhak Perlman. She continues to collaborate with numerous acclaimed artists from celebrated American symphony orchestras in chamber music performances.
Scolnik-Brower graduated Magna cm laude in 2012 from Harvard University with a B.A. in psychology, followed by a year as an AmeriCorps volunteer for at-risk New York City high school students. Deeply passionate about working with disenfranchised communities, Scolnik-Brower recently completed a Master of Social Work at Boston College.

Reserve your tickets at flatironscmf.org to hear Sophie this summer!

06/05/2024

🎶 2024 Artist Spotlight! Violinist Patrick Yim!

Praised for his “deeply expressive, finely nuanced playing” (The Strad Magazine), “dazzling technique and passionate interpretations” (The Whole Note), and “superb” performances (Fanfare), Honolulu-born violinist Patrick Yimmade his solo debut with the Honolulu Symphony, and has performed chamber music with Juilliard, Emerson, St. Lawrence, Pacifica, and Ying Quartet members, and musicians from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Cleveland Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic. He performed with the Cleveland Orchestra on tour in the USA and Europe, and at Carnegie Hall with the Emerson Quartet violinists. His recordings, including numerous world premieres, have been published by Naxos, Navona, Ravello, and Acis. In 2024, Yim performed the world premiere of Bamboo Grove, a new unaccompanied violin work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Zhou Long commissioned for him by the University of Notre Dame, at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. He earned his BM and MM from the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) and his DMA from Stony Brook University. He previously taught at CIM, Hong Kong Baptist University, Interlochen, and Stony Brook. Yim is Assistant Professor of Violin in the Department of Music and Faculty Fellow at the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, University of Notre Dame.

Join us this summer to hear Patrick! Reserve your tickets at flatironscmf.org

06/04/2024

🎶 2024 Artist Spotlight! Introducing violist Stephanie Block!

Stephanie Block is a Chicago-born violist and Principal Viola of the Sarasota Orchestra. She has performed internationally as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician and gave the U.S. premiere of Alejandro Cardona’s Sweet Tijuana: Danzas Fronterizas for Viola and Orchestra with the New Juilliard Ensemble. An alumna of the New World Symphony, she has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Block was featured on PBS NewsHour and appeared on PBS American Masters.

Ms. Block has performed and toured with the Amernet and Vega String Quartets and has been an artist at the Sitka Music Festival. She also has a passion for jazz music and performed with Wynton Marsalis at Dizzy’s Jazz Club in New York as part of Daniel Chmielinski’s Four by Four. A pediatric cancer survivor, she was a headline speaker for the Miami Cancer Institute’s ‘Inspire You’ and is an ambassador for the Histiocytosis Association.

Join us this summer to meet Stephanie! Reserve your tickets at flatironscmf.org

06/02/2024

🎶 2024 Artist Spotlight! Introducing violinist Samuel Park!

A native of Arizona, Samuel Park made his solo debut with the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra at the age of 15. An enthusiastic and devoted chamber musician, he has collaborated with members of the Orion, Escher, New Orford, and Ying String Quartets. Samuel is currently based in Houston, Texas and is a proud member of the Kinetic Ensemble and Monarch Chamber Players.
Samuel holds degrees from Rice University, the Juilliard School and the Cleveland Institute of Music. His primary teachers include Paul Kantor, Catherine Cho, Joel Smirnoff, Joan Kwuon, and Jonathan Swartz. Samuel plays on an 1828 Johannes Francesco Pressenda violin and a Giovanni Lucchi bow, on generous loan from the Maestro Foundation.

Join us this summer to hear Sam! Reserve your tickets at flatironscmf.org

05/13/2024

Announcing the sixth season of the Flatirons Chamber Music Festival!

“Soundscapes” - Friday, June 14 at 7:00pm at Ruby Red Barn

“Lift” - Sunday, June 16 at 4:00pm at Ruby Red Barn

We celebrate the season by returning home to our beloved Ruby Red Barn.

Highlights include the World Premiere of Benjamin Park’s “Into the Path of Totality,” a performance of Paul Wiancko’s “Lift” an exploration of all dimensions of joy, and more.

Tickets available now at www.flatironscmf.org

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