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CSU Marching Band at Football vs. Utah State

CSU Marching Band at Football vs. Utah State

November 29, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Fall 2024 Performance Schedule Saturday, Sept. 7: FB vs. Northern Colorado (5 p.m. Kick-off) Ag Day/Orange Out/Band Day Saturday, Sept. 14: FB vs. Colorado (5:30 p.m. Kick-off) Rocky Mountain Showdown/Green Out Saturday, Sept. 21: FB vs. University of Texas, El Paso (3 p.m. Kick-off) State Pride/White Out Wednesday, Oct. 2, 11 a.m.: President's Fall Address [...]
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 [...]

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Searching for the new VOICE of the CSU Marching Band

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Alumni Marching Band Jacket pictured

We’re looking for the new VOICE of the CSU Marching Band! If you (or someone you know) love the band, want to have an important and on-going role with the program, and are a band alum with a great announcer voice, then you might be the next “VOICE of the CSUMB.” The band seeks an individual […]

Fully both: CSU alum Henry Ives blends art and science

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marching band student

By Liam Conlon Henry Ives graduated from Colorado State University in 2022 with degrees in computer science and music, and when asked for his title, he paused. “It’s a deeper question than you think,” he said. “I’m not a composer that writes software as a day job, and I’m not a software engineer that composes […]

Dr. Rebecca Phillips Honored as Guest Conductor of “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band

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Rebecca Phillips Conducting ABA

Dr. Rebecca Phillips, Professor of Music and Director of Bands at Colorado State University, grew up in Washington D.C., attending many military band concerts. Phillip’s father and grandfather were trombonists in the U.S. Navy Band, which instilled in her a natural reverence for military band traditions. Phillips was incredibly honored when Col. Jason K. Fettig, […]