February 27, 2016 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm – Audition days are for students wishing to pursue an undergraduate music major or minor degree at CSU. Auditions simultaneously function as admission consideration as well as scholarship consideration through the School of Music, Theatre and Dance. Registration required: music.colostate.edu or call (970) 491-5529.
February 20, 2016 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm – Audition days are for students wishing to pursue an undergraduate music major or minor degree at CSU. Auditions simultaneously function as admission consideration as well as scholarship consideration through the School of Music, Theatre and Dance. Registration required: music.colostate.edu or call (970) 491-5529.
April 11, 2016 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – The concert features select student groups performing string and wind chamber music.
May 4, 2016 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – The string area welcomes the graduate string quartet to the UCA stage. The members come from a variety of locations, and bring a passion for chamber music to the Fort Collins community.
May 2, 2016 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Violin students of Ron Francois perform a variety of pieces from the standard repertoire for violin.
May 1, 2016 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm –
The orchestra, directed by Leslie Stewart, opens the concert with Antonio Vivaldi’s L’Estro Armonico in D minor, featuring the Zinnia Graduate String Quartet. Faculty soloist Andrew Jacobson joins the ensemble for Alessandro Marcello’s Oboe Concerto, and the orchestra portion concludes with Prelude and Fugue for Orchestra by Italian-American composer, Vittorio Giannini, whose students at the Manhattan School of Music included Herbie Hancock. The 100-member band, directed by Dr. Erik Johnson, performs music inspired by water in many forms, with works by contemporary composers including Johan de Meij and Eric Whitacre.
March 5, 2016 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm –
The choir and orchestra, directed by Dr. Ryan Olsen, combine to perform “Anne Frank: A Living Voice” by Linda Tutas Haugen. This choral song cycle for women’s choir and strings traces the emotional journey Anne Frank underwent as she tried to comprehend the events of the Holocaust during World War II. Using Frank’s own words, the piece goes through a range of emotions from fear, confusion, heartbreak, hope, and even the optimism and joy of a young adolescent. Often performed with a string quartet, this is the first time that the piece will be performed with a chamber string orchestra. Viola Professor Margaret Miller joins the orchestra, directed by Leslie Stewart, for Hindemith’s Trauermusik.
February 26, 2016 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Under the direction of Maestro Wes Kenney, the select chamber orchestra – ranging from 10–40 members – performs music from the Baroque to contemporary while specializing in the Classic period music of Mozart and Haydn. This concert features Igor Stravinsky’s Danses Concertantes and Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s “Much Ado About Nothing” Suite.
February 10, 2016 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm –
The University Symphony Orchestra, directed by Wes Kenney, hosts the 2015-2016 Concerto Competition Finals featuring CSU’s finest soloists. This year’s ‘star search’ finalists are: Landon Adams and Ben Justis, percussion, performing Avner Dorman’s Spices, Perfumes, Toxins! (Spices); Paola Zamario, violin, performing Aram Khachaturian’s Concerto for Violin (Mvt. 1); and Rachelle Crowell, flute, performing Christopher Rouse’s Flute Concerto. These soloists, chosen through audition for the annual highly competitive competition, compete for monetary awards. In addition to the solo showcase pieces, the orchestra performs George Gershwin’s Catfish Row.
May 5, 2016 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Violin students of Ron Francois perform a variety of pieces from the standard repertoire for violin.
