Josh Halpern

Josh Halpern is a cellist scheduled to perform as soloist with the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra in April 2027, playing the cello part in Brahms's Double Concerto in A minor. The program also includes Pärt's Collage über B-A-C-H and Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. Beyond these listed appearances, no further biographical details are available here.

In this program, Halpern takes on the cello role in Brahms's Double Concerto, a work that pairs cello and violin as near-equal partners in conversation with the orchestra, trading melodic lines and answering each other's phrases throughout its three movements. Listeners can expect the cello to open the concerto's slow introduction with a bold, unaccompanied statement before the violin joins, and to carry some of the work's warmest, most lyrical material in the second movement. The concert opens with Arvo Pärt's Collage über B-A-C-H, a short, sharply contrasted piece built from the musical letters of Bach's name, before closing with the taut, four-note motif that drives Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.