Category Archives: Strings

Colorado State University Center for the Arts Exterior

May 2016 Faculty Notes

Colorado State University retirees, as well as employees achieving a decade of service or more were honored at the annual Celebrate! CSU Milestones event on April 28, in the Lory Student Center Ballroom. Six School of Music, Theatre and Dance faculty and staff were honored for their years of service to CSU including Double Bass Professor […]


Borromeo String Quartet promotional photo

Borromeo String Quartet to Perform 11th Residency

The internationally acclaimed Borromeo String Quartet keeps local audiences coming back for more! Join us as we welcome the Borromeo String Quartet for their eleventh residency at CSU where the quartet leads masterclasses and performs as guest artists in the Classical Convergence Series co-presented by the School of Music, Theatre and Dance and the Fort […]


Why we do what we do…

Why do we spend countless hours in a small practice room, chamber music rehearsal, or orchestra or opera rehearsal? Is it for the grade, the approval, the sense of understanding a technical/musical issue that has been bothering us for weeks? All of that is part of the answer, but is it all of the answer? […]


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 […]


Anne Frank promotional poster

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 […]


Colorado State University Center for the Arts Exterior

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, […]