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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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February 2016 Alumni Class Notes

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Colorado State University Center for the Arts Exterior

Cynthia Stokes, 1981, B.A. Speech and Theatre Arts, recently founded SD CITY Opera in San Diego, Calif., a new, artist-driven opera company dedicated to building community by turning beautiful music into stunning theatre and contributing to the dynamic reimagining of opera in America for the 21st century. Previously, Ms. Stokes started La Jolla Playhouse’s Summer Conservatory […]

Arizona Bowl Recap

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CSU Marching Band 2015 Arizona Bowl Trip photo

On Dec. 26, In the middle of the holidays, 240 CSU Marching Band members and staff returned to Fort Collins for one last rehearsal before boarding a charter flight in the wee hours of the morning, flying to Tucson, Ariz. for the inaugural Arizona Bowl vs. the Nevada Wolfpack. Leading up to the game, held […]

Light: Symphonic Band creates visual spectacle in final concert

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Mixed, an adjective, meaning consisting of different qualities or elements; the word can be interchanged with others like assorted, varied, and combined. Media, the plural form of the word medium, the noun refers to the main means of mass communication regarded collectively, or simply put, a collection of presentations in various forms. The Symphonic Band, […]