Joel Noyes, Assistant Principal Cello of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, takes center stage at the Strings Pavilion. In Noyes’ 10th performance at the Festival, Noyes shines in a cello recital alongside accomplished piano soloist Benjamin Hochman.

Joel Noyes, cello
Benjamin Hochman, piano
BEETHOVEN Seven Variations on ‘”Bei Männern welche
Liebe fühlen” in E-flat Major WoO46, from Mozart’s Die
Zauberflöte
BARTÓK Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56
SCHUMANN Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
BRAHMS Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99
We invite you to mingle with the musicians following this evening’s performance.

 Before the show, enjoy dinner at Strings Café. Reservations are required: 

For the Orchestra’s finale, Colorado Symphony Music Director Brett Mitchell is on the podium to conduct an extraordinary arrangement of Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. Performed with gracious consent from the Natalia Ensemble, one of Europe’s leading chamber ensembles, Mahler’s energy gorgeously transcends from a 100-person symphony to this chamber music version performed by the Strings Festival Orchestra.

Brett Mitchell, conductor
STRAUSS JR. (arr. Schoenberg) Kaiserwalzer, Op. 437
(Gupta, Ramsey, J. Albers, Mesh, Steele, Nuccio, Basinska)
BACH French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816 (Hochman)
MAHLER (arr. Natalia Ensemble) Symphony No. 5 in
C-sharp minor
STRINGS FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Violin: Nurit Bar-Josef (Concertmaster), Laura Albers, Nancy Wu,
Vijay Gupta, Scott Weber, John Macfarlane
Viola: Lynne Ramsey, Mark Jackobs
Cello: Joel Noyes, Julie Albers
Bass: Leigh Mesh
Flute: Jennifer Steele
Oboe: Michele Tosser Smith
Clarinet: Mark Nuccio
Bassoon: John Clouser
Horn: Richard Deane
Trumpet: Michael Sachs
Harp: Cheryl Losey Feder
Piano: Benjamin Hochman, Alicja Basinska
Timpani: Paul Yancich
Percussion: William Cahn, Peter Flamm
We invite you to mingle with the musicians at our Closing Night champagne reception following the evening’s performance.

 Before the show, enjoy dinner at Strings Café. Reservations are required: