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One year after the renovation project in Grusin Music Hall was underway, Recording Engineer Kevin Harbison talks about the changes to the aesthetics and acoustics of the hall. If you didn’t get to a concert during the 2010-11 academic year, join us in the Fall to enjoy the exciting new concert experience in Grusin.

This video features Associate Professor of Piano Pedagogy Alejandro Cremaschi performing the first movement from retired CU Composition Professor Luis J. Gonzalez’s “City Twilights.” Live performance at Grusin Music Hall on March 16, 2010.

The CU New Opera Workshop (CU NOW) returned June 22-25 with an exciting new program of workshop-style performances featuring commentary from the composers. The workshop opened June 14 with a sold-out recital by CU voice alumnus Ashraf Sewailam.

Associate Professor of Musicology Brenda Romero is the recipient of a book contract for the Folklore Studies for a Multicultural World Series, a Mellon initiative with the American Folklore Society, the University of Illinois Press, University of Wisconsin Press, and University of Minnesota Press. A national competition, they chose 6 authors. Her proposal The Transcultural Matachines, Creativity and Renewal in the Americas was one of only six selected.

The 2011 Panoramic Flutist Seminar was a huge success! 45 students from all over the US gathered for four packed days of flute playing, classes, concerts, yoga and hikes. Faculty included Christina Jennings, Leone Buyse, Lisa Garner Santa, and collaborative pianist, Colette Valentine. Panoramic Flute 2011 faculty

The University of Colorado “Golden Buffalo” Marching Band enters this season as one of the premier college marching bands in the US. For more information about joining the Marching Band or any of CU’s other great bands, visit bands.colorado.edu.

Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies John Gunther‘s Safari Trio performs Gunther’s composition Hermeto Type Tune

CU-Boulder’s Quartet-in-Residence, the Takács Quartet, has won the prestigious 2011 Royal Philharmonic Award in the Best Chamber Music & Song category.

The Keyboard Department had a highly successful 3rd annual Keyboard Day on March 12, 2011. The audience included local teachers and students, and we spent the day exploring various aspects of keyboard playing and getting to know one another.

Oxford University Press has released a new book by CU-Boulder Associate Professor of Music Theory Keith Waters. Entitled The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68, the book details the music of the “Second Quintet” — the Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-1960s — and one of the most innovative and influential groups in the history of the genre. The studio recordings released by this group made profound co