ASCENDING
From A Mythic Flight to Mozart’s Mastery: A Grand Finale
Ascending Bird describes the journey of a mythic bird that tries to reach the sun - it tries and fails, and tries again, before finally reaching the radiant embrace of the sun and losing its physical body in a metaphor for spiritual transcendence.
We’ll remain in the heavens, from which the music of Mozart was said to be plucked, for a piano concerto featuring the virtuoso Dr. Adam Haas, before finishing the season with the lush and radiant Symphony No. 3 by Max Bruch, in a concert all about rapturous joy. For this one, we’ll need the expanded stage across the hall at the Ent Center’s Shockley Zalabak Theater - a fittingly majestic finale to a breathtaking season.
Colin Jacobsen & Siamak Aghaei — Ascending Bird
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor
Max Bruch — Symphony No. 3 in E major
RUN TIME: 1 hour, 34 minutes (including intermission)
You’ll See: A Virtuoso Pianist
You’ll Hear: Music of the Heavens
You’ll Feel: Spiritual Transcendence
Choose Your Date:
MAY 2nd
2026
Saturday, 7:00PM
Ent Center for the Arts
MAY 3rd
2026
Sunday, 2:30PM
Ent Center for the Arts
This Concert’s Music Made Possible by:
Concert Sponsor:
2025-26 Season Sponsor:
Music Sponsors:
Jordan Strub & Michele Strub-Heer, Connie Raub, and Doug & Dianne
Herzberg
Guest Artist Sponsors:
Doug & Dianne Herzberg
Featuring:
Adam Haas, piano
WHAT TO KNOW
VENUES
This concert is held at the Ent Center for the Arts (Map) in the Shockley-Zalabak Theater - 5225 N Nevada Ave, in Colorado Springs, CO.
Doors open 1 hour + 15 minutes prior to the performance.
PARKING
Free parking is available on-site in Lot 576 - for those with mobility needs, Lot 176 is available and adjacent to the building.
PRE-CONCERT TALK
The pre-concert talk will begin 1 hour before the performance.
The pre-concert talk leader will be announced soon.