Category Archives: Strings

Post Break

“It’s pretty far, but it doesn’t seem like it”  ~ Yogi Berra For me, that quote relates to the upcoming end of the semester. If you’ve had Spring Break, I hope it was one of rest and rejuvenation; if yours is still to come, I wish the same for you! Seven weeks left of the […]


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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 […]



CSU 2014 Concerto Competition in Griffin Concert Hall

2016 Concerto Competition

UPDATE: Landon Adams Declared 2016 Concerto Competition Winner After three exceptional performances by Landon, Paola, and Rachelle, Landon Adams was declared the 2016 Concerto Competition Winner. “The competition was extremely close and all of our contestants played with style and bravura,” Maestro Wes Kenney stated. “The judges had a tough time making a decision.” This year’s […]


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February 2016 Alumni Class Notes

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 […]


University Symphony Orchestra 2016 CMEA performance photo

University Symphony Orchestra Performs at Annual CMEA Conference at the Broadmoor

Last week, a good portion of our music faculty and staff, Music Education students, and the University Symphony Orchestra traveled to Colorado Springs for the Colorado Music Educators Association Clinic and Conference. The annual event is an exciting opportunity for the Colorado Music Education community to collectively connect, share, and learn. CSU faculty served the […]


Margaret Miller pictured with Viola Alumni at the 2016 CMEA Conference

On to the next event…

The annual Colorado Music Educators Association Conference is always a wonderful, busy week of interesting sessions, seeing old friends and meeting new ones, hearing terrific orchestras from around the state, all in the beautiful setting of the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. I had three sessions, one for Tri-M, the high school music honor society, […]


Ji Hye Chung taking the Oath of Allegiance and becoming a U.S. Citizen

After 14 years in the United States, CSU student awarded citizenship

A current Colorado State University master’s student from South Korea was one of 15 citizenship candidates from 10 countries to become United States citizens this weekend. After moving to the U.S. at age 12 with her parents, gaining permanent residency and applying for citizenship, Ji Hye Chung participated in a naturalization ceremony Saturday at the Westminster Public Library. […]


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Special Concert with The Minguet Quartet and Andreas Klein, Piano

The Classical Convergence Series, co-presented by Colorado State University School of Music, Theatre and Dance and the Fort Collins Lincoln Center continues when The Minguet Quartet with Andreas Klein, piano, appear on the Griffin Concert Hall stage on Thursday, Jan. 28, 7:30 p.m. The innovative partnership between the two organizations presents a fresh concert series […]


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Recharged and Ready

Happy New Year to you all! I hope the holidays were a time of rest and recharging before the spring semester. Classes at CSU start tomorrow, and it is going to be a wild ride: presentations at the Colo. and Wyo. Music Educators Conferences, classes, and teaching. That’s just between now and the end of […]