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Violinist Jennifer Koh opens the Colorado Music Fest. Photo provided by CMF. 
Getting your player ready...
The Colorado Music Festival is one of those artistic jewels that make the state a magical place for classical in summer. The 2016 version will opens big in Boulder with a concert featuring Jennifer Koh performing the ultra-contemporary Violin Concerto, by Finnish composer Esa-Pekka Salonen. Bookending that show piece — and broadening the concert’s appeal to traditionalists — will be Beethoven’s “Egmont Overture” and Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique.”
Jean-Marie Zeitouni, the festival’s music director, conducts the orchestra for the program, set for 7:30 p.m. June 30, at Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Tickets are $12- $54. Info at 303-440-7666 or comusic.org.