Following his return to the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia, Rossen Milanov is heard this week in two concerts with the Breckenridge Music Festival. Trading Colombia for Colorado, the Bulgarian conductor first leads a free family concert on Friday that highlights Nathaniel Stookey’s The Composer is Dead, a work set to Lemony Snicket’s illustrations and story.
The following evening, Rossen leads the Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra in an Americana-inspired program that includes Copland’s Appalachian Spring, Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Bernstein’s “Glitter and Be Gay,” and Mozart’s Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter.” Icelandic soprano Dísella Lárusdóttir joins for the Barber and Bernstein.