Faculty

Thomas L. Riis, Emeritus Joseph Negler Professor of Musicology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, earned a BA from Oberlin College and an MA and PhD from the University of Michigan. In 2001, he served as the Albert Seay Distinguished Visiting Professor at Colorado College. Riis is a specialist in musical theatre, and writes and lectures frequently on many topics in 19th- and 20th-century American music. His book “Just...

Principal oboist of the Colorado Symphony since 1993 and a teaching professor of oboe at the University of Colorado Boulder, Peter Cooper has taught and performed as soloist with orchestras in Asia, Europe and the United States. He previously held positions in the San Francisco Symphony and as principal oboist of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestras. Cooper has commissioned and premiered five oboe concertos, and recorded the Strauss and David...