Alpenglow Music Program

Alpenglow Music Program Alpenglow Music Program is an organization of small ensembles providing affordable and flexible music education to students of all ages and skill levels.

Send in your application by midnight tonight to join us for this season of Alpenglow Music Program!
07/19/2024

Send in your application by midnight tonight to join us for this season of Alpenglow Music Program!

We would love for you to join us for a week of delightful music-making this August! Apply by this Friday July 19th, and ...
07/17/2024

We would love for you to join us for a week of delightful music-making this August! Apply by this Friday July 19th, and please don't hesitate to reach out with any questions.

ATTENTION, Alpenglow friends! Our Summer Music Festival application deadline has been EXTENDED and applications are now ...
05/06/2023

ATTENTION, Alpenglow friends! Our Summer Music Festival application deadline has been EXTENDED and applications are now due at 11:59 p.m. on May 10th. Please let your friends, family members, coworkers, and anyone else you know that there is still plenty of time to apply and that there is NO audition requirement. We look forward to seeing you all next month! Apply at this link: https://www.alpenglowmusicprogram.org/2023-application

Alpenglow friends, meet Coach Michael Sabatka, who will be joining us during our Summer Festival this year! Apply now at...
05/01/2023

Alpenglow friends, meet Coach Michael Sabatka, who will be joining us during our Summer Festival this year! Apply now at this link: https://www.alpenglowmusicprogram.org/2023-application

A native of Rochester, New York, Michael Sabatka resides in Colorado Springs where he serves as the Associate Principal Violist with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic and performs with in the chamber series Colorado Hausmusik. Before relocating to Colorado in the fall of 2018, Mr. Sabatka called Alabama home, where he performed regularly with the Huntsville Symphony, Chattanooga Symphony, and as a substitute with the Alabama Symphony. He also had the privilege to play two seasons with the Boise Philharmonic before relocating to the Southeast. An avid chamber musician and teacher, he has served as a faculty member of the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp, Chautauqua Music Camp, as a guest artist at Mississippi State University, in addition to the many summers he has been a staff member at the Credo Chamber Music Festival. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and his master’s degree from Boise State University where he served as a graduate teaching assistant and fellowship string quartet member. Pending the completion of his dissertation project, he will earn his DMA from the University of Alabama, where he was awarded a position in the Capstone graduate string quartet, and in addition served as a graduate teaching assistant. His primary mentors are Peter Slowik and Alice Kanack, and he has also grown both musically and as a teacher from the tutelage of Linda Kline, Wendy Richman, and Jacob Adams. In addition to his life in music, Mr. Sabatka loves the outdoors and enjoys hiking the trails and peaks in Colorado with his wife Erica and their Corgi mix, Bartok.

Alpenglow friends, meet Coach Amy Kolb, who will be joining us during our Summer Festival this year! Apply now at this l...
04/26/2023

Alpenglow friends, meet Coach Amy Kolb, who will be joining us during our Summer Festival this year! Apply now at this link: https://www.alpenglowmusicprogram.org/2023-application

Amy Kolb enjoys a varied career as an oboist and teacher. Part of her early musical training was in Freiburg and Cologne, Germany, where she spent nearly ten years commissioning and premiering new works for oboe, as well as performing with the Freiburg Philharmonic Opera Orchestra. In the US she has held university positions at Wichita State and the University of Oregon. For thirteen summers Amy performed with the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra under Helmuth Rilling and regards this experience as truly the most impacting and precious in her career. Additionally Amy has had wonderful opportunities to perform and collaborate under Matthew Halls, Marin Alsop, Nicholas McGegan, Jeffrey Kahane, Bobby McFerrin, Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Renée Fleming, Itzhak Perlman, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Carlos Kalmar, Teddy Abrams, Brett Mitchell, Josep Caballé Domenech, Jacomo Bairos, George Jackson, JoAnn Falletta and Thomas Wilson. In 2016 Amy moved to Colorado with her family, leaving behind a great passion and position as Founder and Executive Director of the Central Oregon Youth Orchestra program.In Colorado she teaches oboe lessons,freelances with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, Boulder Philharmonic, is a member of the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs and once a month hitches up the horses for Amarillo, Texas where she has been principal oboe since 2010. In her free time, she enjoys the outdoors, especially the ever changing views of Pikes Peak and the Front Range. At home, Kolb family fun is a menagerie of daily nonsense provided by their six rescue pets, as well as playing board games, watching biopics and planning travel adventures to wherever possible.

Alpenglow friends, meet Coach Paul Nagem, who will be joining us during our Summer Festival this year! Apply now at http...
04/24/2023

Alpenglow friends, meet Coach Paul Nagem, who will be joining us during our Summer Festival this year! Apply now at https://www.alpenglowmusicprogram.org/2023-application

Paul Nagem has been principal flute for the Colorado Springs Symphony/Philharmonic since 1994. A native of San Diego, he studied flute there with Damian Bursill-Hall, then principal flute of the San Diego Symphony and now with the Pittsburgh Symphony. He received his Bachelor's Degree from the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Lois Schaefer of the Boston Symphony. Mr. Nagem is the Instructor of Flute at Colorado College. He has performed with the San Diego Symphony, the Colorado Symphony and the Singapore Symphony. Mr. Nagem plays Straubinger flutes.

04/21/2023

PARTICIPANT FEATURE

Alpenglow friends, meet Ali Belone, one of our participants!

Hey there, I'm Ali Belone and I've been learning the cello for the past two years. Music has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. Over the years, I've dabbled in piano, alto saxophone, and electric guitar. I eventually started playing bass guitar at age 13 and have enjoyed recording music and playing in different types of bands for the last two decades.

My passion for the cello started in my early twenties. I rented a cello for only one month, but unfortunately, I quickly realized that I couldn’t afford the rental AND lessons. Gotta love those 20’s! Fast forward to 2020, I’m in my thirties - it’s the pandemic - and I experienced a lightning bolt of inspiration to pick up the cello again. Within two weeks, I found a teacher, rented a cello, and dove headfirst into lessons. It's been a nonstop love affair ever since, and I feel like the cello is my true home in the world of instruments.

"After a year of studying cello, I began hunting for a program that would welcome amateur adult players in a low-pressure setting, and finding Alpenglow was like a wish come true. Since participating in the summer and fall sessions, I've been blown away by my own progress. I am especially grateful for the incredible community that I have found with Alpenglow. Working with top-notch instructors and my fellow players has been a true joy! In the span of two years, my whole life has changed. To top it off, after volunteering regularly with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, I was thrilled to be offered a role as their marketing coordinator – I now get to live and breathe the orchestra community every day.

My dream is to go to music school someday and inspire people that it's never too late to follow your passion for music."

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