We are at the Richard Celeste Th Performing Arts Center at Colora this festival inaugurated it in 2008 with Beethoven's Ninth S And it does feel like my June ho and, it's a very happy place, The Colorado College Summer Musi is a really unique event.

short, it's a three week long chamber music festival held But it has lots of really intere So there are the faculty members and then there are this year's 5 who are part of this festival, a and postgraduate aged for the mo pre-professional musicians, they come in to study with the f And then under the baton of Scot they form an orchestra it's inte There were 386 applicants this y And they all get to come here li for the three weeks and have a s to learn from renowned faculty.

this is a free festival.

the fact that this is room board for at least two meals a day and I think, a huge draw for a lot o especially when we're at this st in our lives, emerging professio We don't have the money to spend other summer festivals.

Here we Oh.

it's just a really fun, collaborative experience, Somebody like Sydney, she's just gotten out with her m of Colorado Boulder, and she now is looking for full And so this is kind of getting h for the auditions and getting he for the mindset of playing in a What we just did was perfect.

You're rushing.

And then kind of getting it back to the normal tempo.

Okay, that was perfect.

What's fun about teaching at a place like this th and they're hungry to learn beca It's not getting a grade in high And whether you get a B or a no, And what I love about this group without fail, sweet people.

And they're here to learn and they're here to better thems They're doing this for the right They love music and they want to get good at it, and they are already good at it, but they want to get even better And I, I can't think of a more construc to use time than to, you know, sort of work on oneself.

Yes.

It's a completely different things.

Fantastic.

You guys sound amazing.

It's going to be great.