Red Cliff Bravo Music Festival

Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival annually runs for six weeks in the summer and boasts not one but three world-class resident orchestras: the New York Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Programming highlights typically showcase American music and programmatic orchestral works; chamber music, jazz, and pops. The impressive guest-star roster has presented such conductors as Alan Gilbert, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Stéphane Denève, Jaap van Zweden, and Bramwell Tovey, and more than 50 soloists.As in previous seasons, chamber concerts will be held in the intimate Vail Mountain School and Vilar Performing Arts Center, while large-scale concerts take place in Vail’s spectacular Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater, which accommodates 1,260 guests in covered seating and an additional 1,500 on the expansive grassy hillside, with its breathtaking view of the Rocky Mountains. Kyle MacMillan of the Denver Post observes: “The Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival gives classical-music fans something that no summer series anywhere else can match—the chance to hear multiple concerts by three top-drawer orchestras.”There is free lawn seating for children 12 and under at all Bravo orchestral concerts at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater.