Performances & Concerts
Enjoy electro-acoustic music, featuring Swiss-American guest composer Katharina Rosenberger, and vote for the winner of the fourth annual 64-Bit E-Music Competition Finals.
From Feb. 10 through 12, the classical guitar will take center stage in the third CU International Guitar Festival and Competition. The festival’s finale will feature 40 competing guitarists from China, Italy, Mexico and all over the United States.
"Voigt Lessons" tells the story of opera star Deborah Voigt's rise to fame through refreshingly frank anecdotes, songs and arias. The Feb. 18 performance takes place in Macky Auditorium.
CU Boulder’s 2016-17 theatre season continues with Unspoken, a 2016 work by New Play Festival winner and PhD candidate Kevin Crowe. The intimate portrait of six friends living in New York City runs Feb. 15 to 19 in CU’s Loft Theatre.
Writer-director Niki Tulk's "Ophelia | Leaves" gathers poetry, soundscapes, video projections and cello into a meditation on the spirit of "Hamlet's" Ophelia as she might have existed. The production premieres Jan. 27 and 28.
On Feb. 9 and 10, the College of Music’s band department hosts the U.S. Air Force Academy Concert Band for a series of master classes and a joint concert in honor of the Air Force's 70th birthday.
Four graduating CU Boulder students have choreographed brand-new works for the spring showcase, "Catapult," examining everything from anxiety in modern times to the negative impact of processed food to the male gaze in Renaissance art.
CU Presents' 80th-anniversary Artist Series continues with a concert of sizzling, seductive music and dance from Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, experts in traditional Spanish dance. The performance takes place Jan. 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Macky Auditorium.
A partnership of CU Boulder students, faculty and staff will host a Jan. 25 BuffsUnited event that will support the values of an inclusive campus and the Colorado Creed. The event is free and open to the public.
Expect the unexpected at this fall’s Open Space, a dance production featuring brand-new works created, choreographed and performed by CU Boulder students. A tantalizing mix of pieces will be on display for three different showings from Nov. 11 to 13 in CU’s Charlotte York Irey Theatre.