The Colorado Springs Philharmonic will present a program featuring works by Anna Clyne, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Igor Stravinsky at Pikes Peak Center for the Performing Arts, with tickets starting at $42. The concert pairs a 2013 BBC commission with a Russian violin showcase and a ballet score built around three jealous puppets, spanning three different centuries in a single evening.
Scheduling Details Still Being Confirmed
Exactly which nights the orchestra takes the stage depends on which listing you check. The Colorado Springs Gazette’s report describes the concert as taking place Friday and Saturday in November, while an event listing cited in the same coverage schedules performances for Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Separately, Pikes Peak Center’s own event page lists the dates as November 14-15, 2026, and AXS ticketing shows Saturday, Nov. 14, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 15, at 2:30 p.m. Concertgoers may want to confirm showtimes directly with the venue before planning their evening.
The venue sits at 190 S. Cascade Ave. in downtown Colorado Springs, according to the Colorado Springs Philharmonic’s own event listing. Children 17 and under get in free with a paid adult ticket, and high school students can claim a free ticket with valid school ID, per the same listing. Local painter Jacqueline Viola Moulton is scheduled to work live in the building during the concert, giving attendees a visual art component alongside the music.
A Program That Opens Soft and Ends Breakneck
The concert opens with Anna Clyne’s Masquerade, a piece the composer wrote in 2013 for the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Pikes Peak Center’s description frames the work as a welcome into the pleasure gardens of 17th- and 18th-century Europe, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra notes that Clyne composed the piece on a BBC commission for the 2013 Proms, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop giving its first performance at Royal Albert Hall on Sept. 7, 2013.
From there, the program moves into Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, which the Gazette’s reporting describes as serving as an emotional parenthesis within the concert. Pikes Peak Center describes the concerto as concluding with a breakneck exchange between the violin and orchestra. Principal violinist Stefan Jackiw, who is from New York City and has appeared as soloist with the Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco orchestras, is set to take the solo role.
The night concludes with Stravinsky’s Petrushka, originally scored as a ballet and depicting unrequited love and jealousy among three personified puppets, according to the Gazette. Music director Chloé Dufresne has said Clyne’s music is influenced by Stravinsky’s writing, drawing a throughline across the closing two works even though they were written decades apart.
A Centennial Season Built Around Storytelling
The performances arrive within the Philharmonic’s 100th-anniversary season, which kicked off in late September, and which music director Chloé Dufresne has described as built around a theme of storytelling. “The whole theme of the season is the storytelling of our community,” Dufresne told the Gazette in earlier reporting. The centennial season also includes the orchestra’s first composer-in-residence, Eunike Tanzil, a milestone the Gazette reported in the spring.
Dufresne, a French conductor who lives in France and completed a fellowship with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducts for five orchestras this season, including three in Germany, one in Finland, and the Colorado Springs Philharmonic. She has said themed seasons can make audiences feel part of a longer journey, and that she likes to build each season around a unifying idea. Ahead of this concert, Dufresne has also said that the pre-concert conversation can deepen listeners’ connection to the music they’re about to hear.
Those conversations are scheduled as 30-minute pre-concert talks beginning one hour before the concert starts, according to the Colorado Springs Philharmonic listing. The sessions are designed to walk concertgoers through the meaning behind each piece on the program before the orchestra plays a note.
