Category Archives: Music Education

Denise Apodaca pictured teaching music appreciation class at CSU.

CSU music professor shares love for music, impacts lives

~ Story by Nicole Towne. Reprinted from the Collegian with permission It is a Tuesday afternoon and approximately 150 students gather in the Aylesworth lecture hall for music appreciation class. Professor Denise Apodaca walks up and down the aisles, talking with students in the minutes leading up to the start of class. As class begins […]


Kids Do It All Todos Santos

Kids Do It All – A Beautiful Collaboration and Exchange

Gabriela Ocádiz, CSU Alum (’15), M.M., Music Education PhD student in Music Education at Western Ontario University My experience with Kids Do it All in Todos Santos has always been enriching in many senses, particularly professionally and personally. The purpose of the program, in my own words, is to give opportunities for children to express […]


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Conducing Seminar to Perform The Merry Widow Operetta

Summer. A time when lawnmowers are rumbling, the grills are fired up, and children laugh and play as their parents struggle to apply sunscreen. While the long days of sunshine, festivals, and fireworks are floating by, students in the Colorado State University Summer Conducting Seminar, the residency component of CSU’s Master of Music, Music Education […]


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GRAMMY Foundation supports autism research in the School of Music, Theatre and Dance

Aided by an award from the GRAMMY Foundation® Grant Program, two School of Music, Theatre and Dance professors at Colorado State University are set to lead a study on musical creativity in children with autism spectrum disorder. With a $19,697 GRAMMY Grant, combined with an additional $20,132 from Colorado State University (CSU), Erik Johnson, Ph.D. […]


Rebecca Phillips pictured conducting

April 2016 Faculty Notes

Last fall, Assistant Professor of Music History K. Dawn Grapes had her annotated bibliography/research guide to “John Dowland” recently published online by Oxford University Press in Oxford Bibliographies. In her introduction, Dr. Grapes describes Dowland (b. 1563–d. 1623) as an internationally known English musician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. As the most […]


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A Night to Remember: Concert Orchestra with Concert Choir

By Madeline Bombardi, UCA Marketing Intern If you are moved by musical journeys, then join the School of Music, Theatre and Dance at Colorado State University for a night of Remembrance with the Concert Choir and Concert Orchestra’s performance of Anne Frank: A Living Voice by Linda Tutas Haugen and Paul Hindemith’s Trauermusik. The FREE […]


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March 2016 Alumni Class Notes

Lisa Dameron, 2010, B.M. Music; 2011, M.M. Music: “Since I have graduated from CSU, I have taught in three different schools (and districts), varying from Kindergarten to 12th grade Music. I taught K-5 general music, 6-12 choir, drama, and a music exploration class in Bennett, Colo. After 1 ½ years, my husband and I moved […]


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February 2016 Faculty Notes

Last fall, Music Education Professor Dr. Bonnie Jacobi, had her research published The Journal of Historical Research in Music Education. Her article titled “In Burst of Fresh Song” – William Churchill Hammond and His Christmas Caroling Choir at Mount Holyoke College explains how he not only helped to reinstate the musical celebration of Christmas after […]



Michael Bowles pictured at Graduate Student Showcase

Performing and Visual Arts Students Awarded at Graduate Student Showcase

Each fall, the Graduate School and the Vice President for Research Office at CSU hosts the Graduate Student Showcase. The one-day conference is an opportunity for students to present their work and talents in front of faculty and peers, and learn about other disciplines while gaining presentation and conference experience. Entries in the showcase of […]