TELLURIDE MUSICFEST

Maria Bachmann is the Artistic Director of Telluride MusicFest in Telluride, CO, an annual festival which presents its' 9th year of programs in the summer of 2011. Bachmann's chamber group, Trio Solisti, is the founding ensemble of Telluride MusicFest and performs there with guest artists.

Each year the festival presents chamber music concerts which encompass themes such as Vive La France (2011), From Russia With Love (2010), Celebrating Mendelssohn and Glass (2009), Passionate Romantics (2008), Greatest Masterworks (2007),
The Gypsy Spirit (2006), and A Brahms Celebration (2005), among others.

Philip Glass was the composer-in-residence in 2009. The Glass String Sextet received its' world premiere at the festival and his Sonata for Violin and Piano (2008) written for Maria received its' Colorado premiere. In 2005, Pulitzer prize winning composer Paul Moravec was the composer-in-residence. The festival presented the Colorado premiere of his Pulitzer winning compostiion Tempest Fantasy written for Trio Solisti, and new works written for them including his Scherzo and B.A.S.S. variations.

Trio Solisti's guest artists have included pianists Adam Neiman and Simon Mulligan, cellist Wendy Sutter, clarinetists David Krakauer and Jon Manasse, violists Hsin-Yun Huang and
Toby Appel, and violinists Jesse Mills and Ayano Ninomiya. The Festival offers diverse programming ranging from the great masterworks of chamber music to Klezmer arrangements and contemporary works.

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

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.

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.
ADELPHI UNIVERSITY

Ms. Bachmann 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, master-classes, open rehearsals, lecture/demos, and career seminars.