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2024 CSU Honor Band Festival

2024 CSU Honor Band Festival

December 5, 2024 - December 7, 2024 at 12:00 AM
The annual CSU Honor Band Festival brings together the finest high school musicians in the Rocky Mountain Region, selected from hundreds of applicants throughout the western region; the three-day festival takes place at the University Center for the Arts at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. Guest clinicians and conductors enhance the student’s experience, providing invaluable insight and expertise. In addition to rehearsals, students enjoy several concerts given by CSU faculty and student ensembles. The experience is capped off with a performance by the Honor Wind Symphony and the Festival Concert Band in the beautiful, world-class Griffin Concert Hall.
Symphonic Band Concert: <em>Time and Place</em>

Symphonic Band Concert: Time and Place

December 5, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Time and Place With Chris Bloom, Tuba Music’s ability to take us to another time and place is the focus of the Symphonic Band concert, conducted by Dr. Jayme Taylor with Cameron Honnen, graduate student conductor. Featuring Darius Milhaud’s Suite Française, CSU’s own James David’s new work Atomic Time, and introducing CSU’s new professor of [...]
Wind Symphony Concert: <em>Latin American Chronicles</em>

Wind Symphony Concert: Latin American Chronicles

December 6, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Latin American Chronicles With Wesley Ferreira, Clarinet  The Wind Symphony continues their season performing Spanish and Latin works in preparation for their premiere international trip to Spain in March 2025. Under the baton of Dr. Rebecca Phillips, the dazzling and energetic music of Spanish and Latin American composers comes to life on a program featuring [...]

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CSU Symphonic Band Presents: Incantations: Nothing Gold Can Stay

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Symphonic Band french horn section pictured

Incantation (noun): a use of spells or verbal charms spoken or sung as a part of a ritual of magic; also: a written or recited formula of words designed to produce a particular effect Magic is a thing that most kids firmly believe in and most adults are adamant is nonexistent. It dwells in all […]

CSU Marching Band Leads Annual Parade of Lights

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CSU Marching Band pictured in the 2016 Parade of Lights parade

By Tiana Nelson, Director of CSU Denver Outreach As a favorite annual tradition, Colorado State University alumni and friends are invited to watch the CSU Marching Band in the 9NEWS Parade of Lights. CSU’s Marching Band is the only college marching band participating in the parade, scheduled at 8 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 2 in […]

The CSU Marching Band Bids Farewell to Hughes

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CSU football field ground level photo

The Colorado State University Marching Band’s 2016 season is nearly complete, with just a final home game, the 9News Parade of Lights in Denver, and a possible bowl game remaining. To date, this has been a tremendous season for the marching band as they have participated in the decade-by-decade theme celebrating the “Farewell Hughes” season. […]