The Colorado State University Faculty Chamber Winds embark on a two-week European tour July 4 – 19, 2014, performing at festivals, and historic sites in Germany, Austria, Slovakia, and Hungary. The anchor event of the tour is the annual Mid Europe Music Festival, held in Schladming and Haus/Ennstal, Austria, July 8-13, where the ensemble is scheduled to perform […]
A celebration of the UCA’s Fifth Anniversary Season featuring The Power of Bruckner
This year’s finalists were Robert Bonner, trumpet; Adrian Barrera Ramos, violin; and this year’s winner, Yolanda Tapia Hernandez.
The CSU Symphony Orchestra hosts the 2013-2014 Concerto Competition Finals featuring CSU’s finest soloists on Wednesday, February 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Griffin Concert Hall at the University Center for the Arts, located at 1400 Remington St. This year’s “Star Search” finalists are Yolanda Tapia, piano; Robert Bonner, trumpet; and Adrian Barrera Ramos, violin. […]
New format in one special Fort Collins performance brings holiday cheer
DENVER (April 26, 2013) – The Denver Young Artists Orchestra Association (DYAO), Colorado’s premier youth orchestra, announced today that Wes Kenney has been appointed as the organization’s new Music Director. Kenney is a tenured professor of music at Colorado State University and also serves as Music Director for the Fort Collins Symphony and Opera Fort […]
Earlier this semester, Colorado State University hosted its annual Concerto Competition at the University Center for the Arts. During a rigorous audition process, three soloists were selected as finalists to perform in concert with the CSU Sinfonia Orchestr.
The CSU Concert Orchestra is a non-auditioned string ensemble that meets on Mondays and Wednesdays, 1-2:30 p.m. in Room 202 of the University Center for the Arts. The first rehearsal will be held the first Wednesday of the semester and all CSU students are welcome, regardless of major. The ensemble’s conductor is Leslie Stewart (pictured) who […]
The Colorado State University Symphony will hit the road Feb. 13 – Feb. 19 to visit four cities west of the Front Range; Glenwood Springs, Aspen, Breckenridge and Grand Junction, Colo. The orchestra, directed by Wes Kenney, will perform one of the most intense symphonies ever written on this tour: Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in […]
The Colorado State University Department of Music is proud to announce that Margaret Miller, special assistant professor of viola and chamber music, and coordinator of CSU’s Graduate String Quartet Program, received the 2010 Outstanding Teacher Award from the Colorado American String Teachers Association, Inc. The award was presented during the 2011 Colorado Music Educators Association […]
