Join us for the Strings Music Festival!!

Schedule of Events:

10:00 am: Music on the Green: Bootleg Trio

This event is free to attend and does not require tickets. All Music on the Green performances take place at the Yampa River Botanic Park.

Join us every Wednesday morning this summer for our weekly free concert series, co-presented by the Yampa River Botanic Park. With concerts lasting just 45 minutes, it's the perfect way to enjoy a summer morning.

This week's featured artist is the Bootleg Trio, a band of veteran Steamboat musicians who love American music from a wide variety of genres. The band performs original music alongside tunes bootlegged from popular and lesser-known artists.

The band features: Tbone Williams (guitar), Kris Lindahl (saxophone), Bob Gumbrecht (bass), and Carlos Acosta (drums). Tbone played for thirty years in Kansas City before moving to Steamboat five years ago with firm roots in blues, country, rock and soul. Kris is a longtime Steamboat local, playing sax in multiple groups and genres for close to 40 years with roots in jazz, progressive rock, blues, and funk. Bob is a longtime Steamboat local, playing bass for more than three decades, with roots in punk and progressive rock, jazz, and funk. Carlos is an adopted, local musician of thirty-five years, with proficiency in blues, rock, reggae and Latin feels, with the voice of an angel and heart of gold.

7:00 pm: Weiss Kaplan Carr Trio

Starts at $41.

The Weiss-Kaplan-Carr Trio, featuring pianist Yael Weiss, violinist Mark Kaplan, and cellist Colin Carr, unites three internationally acclaimed artists renowned for their exceptional musicianship and commitment to chamber music. With performances spanning the globe, the trio brings together Weiss's poetic sensitivity, Kaplan's expressive artistry on his historic Stradivari violin, and Carr's vibrant cello playing praised worldwide. Individually celebrated through prestigious awards, international competitions, and acclaimed recordings-the ensemble is distinguished by their unified musical vision.

Yael Weiss, piano

Award-winning Israeli-American pianist Yael Weiss has performed worldwide including at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Bolshoi Hall, Seoul's Arts Center and Tokyo's Gotanda Center. Her discography includes solo, concerto and chamber music works by over a dozen composers.  On her recent release of The Complete Beethoven Piano Trios (with violinist Mark Kaplan and cellist Peter Stumpf) Gramophone Magazine compared Weiss to Beethoven himself "…as if the composer were at the keyboard".  

She is curator of the groundbreaking commissioning and performing project 32 Bright Clouds: Beethoven Conversations Around the World, bringing together new piano works from countries of conflict, all unified by Beethoven's "Call for Inward and Outward Peace".

Ms. Weiss has been honored with distinguished prizes from the Naumburg International Piano Competition and the Ko?ciuszko Foundation Chopin Piano Competition. She has served on the faculties of Indiana University and UC-Santa Barbara. Her teachers included Richard Goode and Leon Fleisher.

Mark Kaplan, violin

A leading violinist of his generation and a laureate of the Leventritt International Competition, Mark Kaplan has appeared with nearly every major American orchestra, including the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras, the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras; as well as the great symphonies of Europe and Asia. He has appeared regularly at festivals such as Aspen, Chautauqua, Grant Park, Ravinia, Saratoga and Wolf Trap.

Deeply devoted to chamber music, Kaplan has been playing and recording trios for 45 years, first in the Golub-Kaplan-Carr trio and now in the Weiss-Kaplan-Stumpf Trio. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he was a student of Dorothy DeLay and recipient of the Fritz Kreisler Memorial Scholarship. He plays a violin made by Antonio Stradivari in 1685, known as the Marquis.

Mark Kaplan is Professor of Violin at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music.

Colin Carr, cello

Colin Carr appears throughout the world as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, and teacher. He has played with major orchestras worldwide, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, The Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, the orchestras of Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Philadelphia, Montréal and all the major orchestras of Australia and New Zealand. Conductors with whom he has worked include Rattle, Gergiev, Dutoit, Elder, Skrowasczewski and Marriner.

Chamber music plays an important role in his musical life. He is a frequent visitor to international festivals and has appeared often as a guest with the Guarneri and Emerson string quartets and with New York's Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

He has held teaching positions at the New England Conservatory and the Royal Academy of Music. St John's College, Oxford created the post of "Musician in Residence" for him. Since 2002 he has been a professor at Stony Brook University in New York.

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm: Twilight Yoga in the Strings Festival Park

Join us Wednesday evenings July 2 - August 13 at 7pm as teachers from Harmony Yoga lead an all-levels yoga class set to classical music. $10 Suggested Donation.

Bring your yoga mat and a buddy to sunset classes in our beautiful Festival Park. Teachers from Harmony Yoga will lead all-levels, all-ages classes to the sounds of Strings' classical evening concert. Classes focus on breath for grounding, movement for alignment of energy and extra-long savasana for embodiment of our practice. Following the event, join your fellow yogis in a non-alcoholic drink reception as the sun sets on Mt. Werner. Come for the yoga, stay for community connection. Dress in layers for varying weather. Suggested donation benefits Strings Music Festival.