Conducting news

Every year, conductors of all skill levels come to Boulder for the Conducting Symposium, hosted by the College of Music's band and orchestra departments. Participants and clinicians share what you can learn in this supportive workshop setting.

Joan Catoni Conlon and her husband Frank recently endowed a fellowship to support graduate students pursuing the Master of Music or Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting and Literature degrees.

For more than 30 years, the college has welcomed conductors of all levels to a summer conducting workshop. Starting June 5, one of the college’s most long-standing summer traditions returns to Boulder at the Conducting Symposium.

When the Eklund Opera Program ends its season with Aaron Copland's "The Tender Land,"audiences will also witness the close of a notable and distinguished graduate student career.

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

The ability of music to bring people together to improve lives is sending Music Buffs to all corners of the globe.

The University Symphony Orchestra is in concert Friday, Sept. 25, 2015, 7:30 p.m. at Macky Auditorium.

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

Andrea Ramsey comes to the College of Music from the The Ohio State University in Columbus, where she is currently teaches choral methods and undergraduate conducting, and conducts the University Chorus.

Little more than a decade before Joel Schut arrived for a two-month teaching project at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul, music was banned in the war-torn central Asian nation. From 1992 to 2001, the ruling Taliban prohibited the playing of music and actively destroyed thousands of instruments. An entire generation of Afghans was not allowed to take part in the act of creating music.