Composition news

Associate Director of Choral Studies Andrea Ramsey composed a setting as part of a new collection of Shakespeare-inspired songs.

This fall, the College of Music celebrates the legacy of conductor, composer, organist and former CU Boulder teacher George Lynn.

The ATLAS Summer Experimental Music Week, supported by the College of Music, is August 4-7.

Combining composition and computer science, double major Willie Payne is exploring new ways to use music in video games.

Dan Kellogg talks about his new chamber-opera based on the story of Alferd Packer.

BOULDER, Colo. — Brett Madsen was deeply interested in music as a high-school student in Florida. It just wasn’t the pop, rock, hip-hop and other genres most of his peers listened to. He was into classical music, from Bach and Beethoven to Mozart and Chopin. And he was very into writing the same kind of thing.

When the Colorado Buffaloes catch a breather during Pac-12 network football games this fall — ditto for the basketball team, right into spring — expect to see a top-notch team from the CU-Boulder College of Music step in.

Composer Libby Larsen talks about the themes in her new opera A Wrinkle in Time being workshopped by CU New Opera Workshop June 14-16.

Keane Southard (MM 2011, composition) has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student grant to spend nine months next year pursuing research in Brazil.

Composition faculty Daniel Kellogg has been awarded a coveted Aaron Copland Award that includes a residency at Aaron Copland’s National Historic Landmark house in New York’s lower Hudson Valley. During this residency, Professor Kellogg will continue his exemplary composition work.