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Alumni Spotlight: Catching up with Sam Estes

July 5, 2018

Sam Estes—a bassoonist, vocalist and pianist—specializes in taking a compositional approach to sound design in his various roles in Southern California.

Associate Professor of Composition Daniel Kellogg

Composition professor awarded prestigious international fellowship

June 6, 2018

Daniel Kellogg recently received the Marion International Fellowship for the Visual and Performing Arts.

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Dive into something different this summer at the College of Music

April 11, 2018

Heavy metal, misfits and tragedy are just some of the topics you can tackle in the College of Music’s summer course offerings.

Carter Pann, Chris Christoffersen, Barbara Christoffersen and Daniel Kellogg at a dinner celebrating the Christoffersens’ latest gift to the College of Music.

New endowment creates Christoffersen Faculty Fellowships in Composition

March 1, 2018

Two composition faculty now have new titles and more resources thanks to two longtime friends of the College of Music.

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Q&A with Finland scholarship supporters Don and Maria Johnson

Sept. 26, 2017

Maria and Don Johnson and Conor Brown at a recent College of Music donor reception Don and Maria Johnson are generous supporters of the College of Music and the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Colorado. They are active in providing scholarship support and creating international cultural...

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College of Music joins worldwide celebration of Finnish birthday

Sept. 26, 2017

Boulder. Denver. Washington, D.C. Helsinki. The College of Music is hitting the road in October to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Finnish independence, starting with a Faculty Tuesday premiere of a student-written ode to Finnish folk tradition.

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Mini-Documentary: CFI 2017

July 6, 2017

In a special partnership for the 2017 edition of CU NOW’s Composer Fellows’ Initiative, CU Boulder’s Eklund Opera Program teamed up with CU Film Studies students to create short films to accompany student-written and student-performed opera scenes at the ATLAS Black Box Theater. Watch the video below for highlights from...

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CU NOW to present Mark Adamo's "The Gospel of Mary Magdalene"

May 24, 2017

This summer, Eklund Opera’s trailblazing new works program—CU New Opera Workshop, or CU NOW—pulls out all the proverbial stops in its latest quest to bring what’s fresh and exciting about opera to the campus of CU Boulder.

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When music marches down a different path

March 7, 2017

Waking up at 3:30 a.m., rappelling off a 60-foot wall and learning how to use a gas mask aren’t part and parcel of most post-music-school gigs. For Sara Corry, though, it’s all just another day in the life.

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CU students to give Colorado premiere of Pann’s Pulitzer-finalist piece

Feb. 27, 2017

Nearly a year after he found out his saxophone quartet "The Mechanics" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music, CU composer Carter Pann is helping the College of Music's graduate quartet prepare the piece for its Colorado premiere.

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