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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

Lucas Munce (MM candidate) received the 2011 DownBeat Magazine Award for Graduate College Outstanding Performances by a Jazz Soloist. More details about DownBeat’s 34th Annual Student Music Awards will be announced in the magazine’s upcoming June issue. The CU Jazz Studies program has won 15 Student DownBeat Awards since 2002 in numerous categories.

On April 25, University of Colorado President Bruce Benson today announced Creating Futures, a $1.5 billion comprehensive fundraising campaign, the most ambitious in university history, which will benefit people, programs and places across CU’s four campuses.

n April 8, 2011, the College of Music hosted the first CU Invitational Orchestra Festival. The festival involved the participation of three orchestras from Boulder High School, and orchestras from Legacy High School, Lakewood High School and Cherry Creek High School.

The CU-Boulder College of Music Woodwind Pedagogy Seminar Project has been creating helpful videos about woodwind technique under the direction of Proffesor Yoshiyuki Ishikawa. Click here to see the whole channel on YouTube, or view a few samples here

Professor of Voice Julie Simson, accompanied by Instructor Christopher Zemliauskas, performed Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz (The two blue eyes of my Beloved) from Mahler’s Leider eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer) in chamber concert at MahlerFest XXI in January 2008.

The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. This year, College of Music faculty and students won four of these prestigious grants:

Members of the CU Bassoon Studio perform faculty composer Daniel Kellog's Canticle of Earth February 22, 2011 on the Faculty Series in Grusin Music Hall.

The Glenn Miller Archive at the University of Colorado Boulder American Music Research Center has acquired one of the world’s most significant collections of Big Band Era recordings and memorabilia. The Ed Burke Collection – named for its shepherd and founder – contains approximately 1,400 reel-to-reel tapes containing hundreds of hours of live radio programs featuring virtually every musician of major importance during the Big Band Era.

Jazz Piano Bachelor of Music student Annie Booth received an Honorable Mention as part of the 2011 ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards. This program, established in 2002, was created to encourage gifted jazz composers from throughout the United States. The recipients, who receive cash awards, range in age from 9 to 29, and are selected through a juried national competition.