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Thank you to retired Professor Joan Catoni Conlon for sending us these updates about some of our recent graduates from the Voice, Opera, and Choral Department:

CU Presents Executive Director Joan McLean Braun talks about highlights of 2010-2011 and what it takes to program a season.

Aaron Tindall (DMA tuba student) won the concerto competition at the Aspen Music Festival and performed R. Vaughn-Williams’ Concerto for Bass Tuba July 28th in the Benedict Music Tent at the Aspen music Festival. Before the performance he gave a live radio broadcast with Warren Deck, former principal tuba of the New York Philharmonic and John Rojack, bass trombone with the American Brass Quintet on KAJX (Aspen Public Radio).

CU Opera Director Leigh Holman gives a rundown of what audiences can expect at this year’s inaugural CU New Opera Workshop (CU NOW) July 25-August 7. For more information and tickets, visit the CU Presents website.

CU New Opera Workshop, this is your chance to experience an opera being built from score to floor July 25-August 7!

CU’s Boulder Laptop Orchestra (BLOrk) performed with Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies John Gunther in December 2008 as part of the ISIM (International Society for Improvised Music) Conference. Enjoy this performance of Gunther’sFireflies!

Faculty members Edward Dusinberre, violin and David Korevaar, piano have just released a new recording of Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas Nos. 9 “Kreutzer” & 10 on Decca. This recording was funded by grants from the Council on Research and Creative Work and from the Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities at the University of Colorado. The recording can be ordered from Presto Classical.

The American Music Research Center’s annual advisory board retreat Saturday, July 17 was an opportunity for AMRC staff and board members to discuss future plans and recap the year’s events. This past year has been an eventful one at the AMRC, including the following highlights:

The 2010 Panoramic Flutist Seminar was held June 1-4 at CU. 44 flutists from the US, Mexico, France, Korea, and New Zealand were in attendance. Flute faculty included CU’s Christina Jennings, Rice University Full Professor Leone Buyse, and Jean Ferrandis- the extraordinary International soloist. Margaret McDonald and David Korevaar were the seminar’s amazing pianists.

Instructor of Music Theory Paul Miller was invited in May to perform on three historical string instruments in the Wilkins Collection of the Library of Congress, in Washington DC. These instruments were donated in 1937 by Dr. H.