Solo Recital
Cellists for Change presents a cello recital featuring community youth musicians performing diverse works, including pieces by Lili Boulanger, Ignatius Sancho, Pink Martini, and more! The concert will culminate in a sneak preview of our upcoming program, The Fabric of Sound: Celebrating Neurodiversity in Music.
Strings Through Generations
“The Boulder Phil continues to forge community connections with organizations dedicated to nurturing the next generation of musicians and orchestra members. Join us to listen to Cellists for Change, students from teachers at the Center for Musical Arts and Boulder Phil violist Matthew Diekman.” Free! Visit www.boulderphil.org to reserve tickets. (Tickets are not required by strongly encouraged due to limited seating.)
The Fabric of Sound: Celebrating Neurodiversity in Music
The Fabric of Sound: Celebrating Neurodiversity in Music
Cellists for Change presents The Fabric of Sound: Celebrating Neurodiversity in Music! Community youth cellists perform historical and contemporary works honoring neurodivergent composers, featuring the World Premieres of The Fabric of Sound by local composer on the autism spectrum Kari Kraakevik and Lala y Flor by Guatemalan composer Sergio Marroquín. Cellists for Change is committed to increasing accessibility to music and the arts. All of our concerts are free, bilingual English/Spanish, and offer Sensory Kits for audience members to borrow with items including noise reducing headphones, earplugs, notebooks/crayons, sunglasses, and fidgets.
In addition to our concert at the Boulder Public Library on March 9th, we will present our program at the Lafayette Neurodiversity Community Center (100 W. Cleveland St, Lafayette) on Sunday, April 27th at 5:00pm.
The Fabric of Sound: Celebrating Neurodiversity in Music
The Fabric of Sound: Celebrating Neurodiversity in Music
Cellists for Change presents The Fabric of Sound: Celebrating Neurodiversity in Music! Community youth cellists perform historical and contemporary works honoring neurodivergent composers, featuring the World Premieres of The Fabric of Sound by local composer on the autism spectrum Kari Kraakevik and Lala y Flor by Guatemalan composer Sergio Marroquín. Cellists for Change is committed to increasing accessibility to music and the arts. All of our concerts are free, bilingual English/Spanish, and offer Sensory Kits for audience members to borrow with items including noise reducing headphones, earplugs, notebooks/crayons, sunglasses, and fidgets.
The Fabric of Sound: Celebrating Neurodiversity in Music
We will be giving a special presentation of our Fabric of Sound: Celebrating Neurodiversity in Music concert to the Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition community of Latine families with children with disabilities as part of their Discovering Art in Me/Descubriendo arte en mí event!
Cellists for Change presents The Fabric of Sound: Celebrating Neurodiversity in Music! Community youth cellists perform historical and contemporary works honoring neurodivergent composers, featuring the World Premieres of The Fabric of Sound by local composer on the autism spectrum Kari Kraakevik and Lala y Flor by Guatemalan composer Sergio Marroquín. Cellists for Change is committed to increasing accessibility to music and the arts. All of our concerts are free, bilingual English/Spanish, and offer Sensory Kits for audience members to borrow with items including noise reducing headphones, earplugs, notebooks/crayons, sunglasses, and fidgets.
Boulder Philharmonic
Cellists for Change youth musicians will perform before the Boulder Phil’s concert, From the New World featuring violinist Tessa Lark.
“Tessa Lark, a brilliant classical artist from Kentucky with bluegrass roots, brings a unique blend of styles to our program. Michael Torke’s “Sky,” written for Lark and nominated for both a Grammy and Pulitzer, merges Copland-like Americana with Appalachian fiddle music. The program also features works inspired by the beauty of American landscapes, including Stephen Lias’s “Wind, Water, Sand,” which draws from his experiences as composer-in-residence at a dozen US National Parks, including Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado. This concert marks the world premiere of Lias’s piece. Additionally, Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony, a beloved blend of Central European classicism with American influences, including spirituals and Native American music, rounds out the evening with its distinctive Americana.”
Celebrate the Holidays
Cellists for Change youth play at Paradise Found Records! Stop on by to shop for your favorite records while listening to festive holiday tunes!
Special Event
Cellists for Change youth perform holiday tunes for the residents of Sunrise Senior Living Center’s Memory Care Unit!
Special Event
Cellists for Change youth perform holiday tunes for the residents of Sunrise Senior Living Center!
Special Event: Holiday
Cellists for Change youth perform holiday tunes for SPAN (Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence)!
Special Event: Holiday
Cellists for Change youth perform holiday tunes for Boulder Community Hospital!
Play for the Vote
Play for the Vote is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to amplifying voter turnout and civic engagement through the transformative power of live music. They believe that music has a unique ability to bring people together, create shared experiences, and remind us of our collective purpose as citizens in a democracy. By placing musicians at polling locations across the country on Election Day, they aim to make voting a celebration of democracy, encouraging more people to participate in the electoral process.
Cellists for Change will be performing this year as part of Play for the Vote!
Pearl Street Busking
Cellists for Change youth will be busking on Pearl Street to raise money for under-resourced youth living in an orphanage in Guatemala to take music lessons! Tentatively in front of the Courthouse. Come on by!
Pearl Street Busking
Cellists for Change youth will be busking on Pearl Street to raise money for under-resourced youth living in an orphanage in Guatemala to take music lessons! Tentatively in front of the Courthouse. Come on by!
Peace Faire
In recognition of the United Nations International Day of Peace, there will be keynote speakers, discussion panels, a workshop, music and arts, a kids’ passport to peace, a scavenger hunt, and a Peace fair with many peace-minded organizations participating.
Our theme this year is “Boulder Builds Peace” with the goal of involving and highlighting diverse Boulder-connected organizations and individuals who focus on international and local peacebuilding.
This will be a collective public/civic engagement to contribute to an informed, constructive discourse about peace and conflict in these difficult times. (All events are free and open to the public.)