BCO Chamber Music Residency
Conscious ListeningTM in Chamber Music

Hsing-ay Hsu, 2023-2024 Artist-in-Residence
Bahman Saless, Director of Boulder Chamber Orchestra

Chamber music invites us to breathe collaboratively,
creating space for each other and building a culture of listening...

Online Resources to Go Deeper 

Interactive Zoom Café  |  SAT Feb 24 10amMT/12noonET

Conscious Listening Piano Festival   |  March 22-23 Livestream
YouTube Videos

Live Chamber Music With BCO Friends
Venue: Boulder Adventist Church, 345 Mapleton Avenue, Boulder, Colorado

SAT April 6, 8pm, with Kellan and Chas, Boulder Arts Week!
7:45pm Conscious Listening warm up

 
Mixing Timbres
Faure Trio 1st movement
Beethoven Clarinet Trio Op.11
Brahms Clarinet Trio Op.114
Rutherford "Morning Dance" 2017

https://bco.vbotickets.com/events

Personal Vision

When Maestro Bahman Saless recently visited my Conscious ListeningTM Café as the featured guest, we found many mutual ideas and thematic interests. In a life full of distractions and noise, we process life better when we take the time to listen to artful music whole-heartedly.

I am thrilled to present a 2023-2024 A "Conscious Listening Residency" at the Boulder Chamber Orchestra. Established in 2004, BCO's mission is to promote classical musical arts and education to all people through an engaging and profound musical experience that transforms lives. Following several joyful collaborations as a concerto soloist, I will be sharing my ideas on collaborative listening with the principle players of the BCO.

When I first created the Conscious ListeningTM Process 14 years ago, I wanted to expand the way audiences listen and engage with concert music. I have also spent fourteen years working with University of Colorado students on how to rehearse and collaborate in a way that was led by listening, so that the way they perform was personally meaningful and multidimensional. My own performances, listening workshops and teaching activities are deeply intertwined, because I think that understanding art music goes beyond thinking and invites the connection of mind, body, and heart in an immersive participation. 

I am thrilled to partner with Maestro Saless, my wonderful colleagues at the BCO, and the Boulder arts community to use chamber music as a way to cultivate a culture of collaborative listening!

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Past: SAT October 21, 7:30pm

Capturing the Folk Spirit
What is the difference between folk music and art music? How does Brahms, Bartok, and Dvorak use folk music as inspiration for their art? Come explore these lofty ideas through the sheer pleasure of hummable tunes and groovy rhythms!

Brahms Klavierstucke Op.118 No.3

Dvorak Piano Quintet in A major

SAT February 17, 7:30pm, with Annamaria and Joseph
7:15pm Conscious Listening warm up
Triptych of Trios
Mozart Trio in G major K.564
Bach Trio Sonata, Originally for Two Flutes, BWV 1039
Brahms Trio no.3, Op.101, in C minor