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Brass Festival Concert: Workshop Guest Artists

March 14, 2015 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm – As the Brass Festival concludes, join us for this final concert special concerts featuring all the workshop guest artists: trumpeter Jim Thompson, professor at the Eastman School of Music; hornist Johanna Yarbrough, 4th horn for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra; trombonists Mark Hetzler, professor at University of Wisconsin; Nick Finzer, NYC freelance artist; and tubist Alex […]


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Brass Festival Concert: Guest Nick Finzer

March 13, 2015 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – The inaugural Brass Festival continues with a concert by award-winning trombonist Nick Finzer and a cadre of Colorado’s finest jazz brass players. Fizner is a NYC freelancer and also serves as co-founder and artistic director of the Institute for Creative Music, which is dedicated to the education and dissemination of jazz and creative music across […]



CSU Presents January and February Virtuoso Series Concerts

The music program at Colorado State University presents its January and February Virtuoso Concert Series performances. The Virtuoso Concert Series highlights the CSU music faculty’s performance talents. Unless otherwise noted, all performances will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Organ Recital Hall of the University Center for the Arts, 1400 Remington St. Tickets are […]


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Annual Holiday Spectacular Concert Supports Music Scholarships

For what has become an annual holiday tradition, CSU performed its Holiday Spectacular Concert at the UCA in Dec., featuring performances by 250 musicians in the CSU Choirs, the University Symphony Orchestra, and other special guests, in a charming evening of traditional secular and sacred holiday music. This was the first year, however, that proceeds […]


Study Abroad: Hearts, Heads, Hands – CSU Meets Africa

This six-week (4 weeks in-country) summer program will focus on the Arts of Africa through the study of artistic methods and techniques, cultural context, and global significance.  Students will engage with South African visual artists through service learning projects, interviews, educational programming, and collaboration.  The course will focus on Studio Art Methods and Techniques, Art […]


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Jeremy Denk Continues New Music Series Partnership with CSU and Lincoln Center

Together with the Fort Collins Lincoln Center, the CSU School of Music, Theatre & Dance presents the internationally acclaimed pianist Jeremy Denk, the fifth installment in the new Classical Convergence Music Series, on Tuesday, Jan. 20 at 7:30 p.m. in Griffin Concert Hall at the University Center for the Arts at 1400 Remington Street. This […]


Pictured the 2012 College of Liberal Arts Luncheon

Champion an Artist scholarship program strengthens the Arts at CSU

Champion an Artist Scholarship Program Strengthens the Arts at Colorado State University By Marilyn Bistline The transformation of the old Fort Collins High School into the University Center for the Arts marked the beginning of the university and community’s initiative to invest in the arts at Colorado State University. Over five years after the University […]



Spring 2015 Internships at the University Center for the Arts

The University Center for the Arts at Colorado State University provides an enriched venue in which the study and practice of Art, Dance, Music and Theatre are nurtured and sustained by building the skills and knowledge needed by future generations of arts professionals to become contributors to the essential vitality of our culture and society. […]