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2015 Holiday Spectacular

December 5, 2015 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Kick off the 2015 holiday season with our family-friendly and wildly popular annual presentation! Featuring performances from CSU ensembles and other special guests, this charming evening of traditional, secular, and sacred holiday music is a celebration of community, and includes something for all ages to enjoy. Proceeds support music scholarships to CSU students. Reception at […]


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2015 Holiday Spectacular

December 5, 2015 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Kick off the 2015 holiday season with our family-friendly and wildly popular annual presentation! Featuring performances from CSU ensembles and other special guests, this charming evening of traditional, secular, and sacred holiday music is a celebration of community, and includes something for all ages to enjoy. Proceeds support music scholarships to CSU students.


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2015 Holiday Spectacular

December 3, 2015 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Kick off the 2015 holiday season with our family-friendly and wildly popular annual presentation! Featuring performances from CSU ensembles and other special guests, this charming evening of traditional, secular, and sacred holiday music is a celebration of community, and includes something for all ages to enjoy. Proceeds support music scholarships to CSU students.


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2015 Parade of Lights Preview

December 3, 2015 @ 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm – The CSU Marching Band returns for the 2015 9NEWS Parade of Lights, leading the annual event through the streets of downtown Denver on Friday, Dec. 4. Support the band during a hometown parade preview on the streets around the University Center for the Arts when the uniformed band, complete with twinkle lights, marches counterclockwise around […]


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Virutoso Series Concert: Joel Bacon, Organ

November 30, 2015 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – The program features Bach’s Clavierübung III – a monument of organ music. Hymn preludes in various styles are then bookended by the glorious Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Major. As one of Bach’s few works published in his lifetime, it was certainly a collection dear to the composer’s heart.


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Voice Area Recital #2

November 17, 2015 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – A recital featuring students from the voice studios, including the Freshman Voice Studio.


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Jazz Ensembles Play the Music of Colorado Composers

November 17, 2015 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Directed by Peter Sommer, the Jazz Ensembles perform the music of composers from the great state of Colo. The Centennial State is home to some of the greatest modern big band composers in the country, including resident jazz composer, Wil Swindler. Join us for an evening of original compositions and arrangements for big band by […]


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Virtuoso Series Concert: Faculty Chamber Ensemble

November 16, 2015 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – The CSU faculty collaborate to present a delightful evening of chamber music, including Tiffany Blake, soprano, singing with an ensemble conducted by Richard Frey in a performance of Quatre Poèmes Hindous by Maurice Delage; Máximo Diego Pujol’s Suite Buenos Aires for trombone, piano, and percussion with Chris van Hof, Tim Burns, and Eric Hollenbeck; Mozart’s […]


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Graduate String Quartet: Zinnia Quartet

November 11, 2015 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – One of two graduate quartets at CSU, the Zinnia String Quartet presents a program of the great string quartet literature. Members: Ji Hye Chung, violin; Elizabeth Lenz, violin; Joy Holz, viola; Lydia Hynson, cello.


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Medieval Music Recital

November 10, 2015 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Organ and music history students present an evening of Medieval liturgical music featuring organ and Gregorian chant. The rich heritage of this music creates a beautiful blend between the chant and the instrument for a new type of program for CSU’s Casavant organ.