Maria Bachmann is the Artistic Director of Telluride MusicFest in Telluride, CO, an annual festival which celebrates its 8th year in the summer of 2010. She has been the Artistic Director of Telluride MusicFest since it's inception in 2003.

Maria has been the Artistic Director for Trio Solisti’s residency at Adelphi University in New York, where the trio was the Ensemble-in-Residence in 2002-2008, the Artistic Director for Trio Solisti’s concert series at the Morgan Library in New York City from 2001-2003, and a series of programs for New York's WQXR radio station ON-A-I-R Series from 1997-2000.

WQXR RADIO ON A-I-R SERIES

At WQXR in New York, the largest classical radio station in America, Maria was the Artistic Director of more than 40 one hour radio programs broadcast on WQXR’s ON A-I-R series, a series which featured Maria as a soloist, as violinist of her trio, and in performance with guest artists. The series was hosted by Tom Bartunek, President of WQXR, and aired from 1997-2000. Each show featured performances, interviews, and lecture/demos about the repertoire being performed.

About TELLURIDE MUSICFEST

Maria Bachmann is the Artistic Director of Telluride MusicFest in Telluride, CO, an annual festival which celebrates its 8th year in the summer of 2010. Trio Solisti is the founding ensemble of Telluride MusicFest, and in 2009 Philip Glass is the Composer-in-Residence.
Guest artists in 2009 include Hsin-Yun Huang, viola, David Harding, viola, Wendy Sutter, cello, and Ayano Ninomiya, violin.

In 2010, the theme for Telluride MusicFest is From Russia With Love, and Trio Solisti is joined by guest artists Adam Neiman, piano, Hsin-Yun Huang, viola, David Harding, viola, Jesse Mills, violin, and Wend Sutter, cello.

Past years guest artists have included David Krakauer on clarinet, violinist/violist Toby Appel, clarinetist Jon Manasse, pianists Simon Mulligan and Inessa Zaretsky, and composer Paul Moravec among others. The Festival offers diverse programming ranging from the great masterworks of chamber music to Klezmer arrangements and contemporary works including those by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Paul Moravec who was the featured composer in residence in 2005.

For season schedule and more info go to: www.telluridemusicfest.com

About THE MORGAN LIBRARY

Maria Bachmann has been the Artistic Director for Trio Solisti’s concert series at the Morgan Library in New York from 2001-2003. Those series included:

  • “Beethoven and Beyond” 2000-01- A six-part concert series at the Morgan Library focusing on the music of Beethoven and his influence on composers such as Schumann, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Mahler and Brahms. With pre-concert talks and demonstrations about the repertoire before each program.
  • “Classic Characters” 2001-02- A six-part concert series at the Morgan Library exploring the works and relationships of composers such as Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Smetana, Janacek, Turina, Poulenc, Schubert, Haydn, and Piazzolla, among others. The programs included pre-concert talks.
  • “Brahms Celebration” 2002-03 - A five-part concert series which celebrated the 170th anniversary of Brahms birth with performances of his chamber music. The series explored how Brahms was influenced by Beethoven, as well as his relationships with other composers such as Schumann, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, and Joachim. Those relationships and the influence of Hungarian music and musicians on Brahms output through his life was explored in pre-concert talks and demonstrations.
About ADELPHI UNIVERSITY

Maria was the Artistic Director for Trio Solisti’s residency at Adelphi University in New York, where the trio was the ensemble- in- residence in 2002-2008. Each season, Trio Solisti performed a 3 concert series at Adelphi University, as well as giving master-classes, open rehearsals, lecture/demos, and career seminars.