Pablo Dos Santos Hernandez, Instructor of Music

Pablo Dos Santos Hernandez is an enthusiastic oboist, active performer, and music educator. He is the recently appointed instructor of oboe at Colorado State University and serves on the music faculty of the Early College Academy of the Aims Community College in Greeley, as well as for the summer Elevare Orchestral Music Festival in Guadalajara, Mexico. He has taught privately and in masterclasses, including the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas in Tampico, Mexico.

As a performer, Hernandez regularly appears with chamber ensembles and orchestras throughout the Americas. A native of Brazil, he has performed with the Gulf Coast Symphony (Mississippi), Fort Collins Symphony, Opera Steamboat, Wyoming Symphony, Cheyenne Symphony, and the Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra (Brazil). Consequently, he has shared the stage with world-renowned artists such as Nadja-Salerno Sonnenberg, Francois Rabbath, Itzhak Perlman, Renee Fleming, and Steve Vai.

Pablo Hernandez with his wife, cellist Romina Monsanto, perform together as New Duobus. They are dedicated to expanding the repertoire for cello and oboe and have commissioned works including Six Questions by Paul Elwood and Dialogue for Oboe and Cello by Attakorn Sookjaeng. His recordings include the album Portraits Bizarre by C.L Shaw, the film score for Severina, and the 2016 Gramado Festival awarded film, Vento.

Hernandez won the Soloist Concerto Competition and Southard Music Competition with the Bear Lake Quintet at the University of Northern Colorado. In addition, the Bear Lake Quintet won the American Prize playing the quintet arrangement of Le Tombeau de Couperin.

Mr. Hernandez holds a Bachelor of Music in Performance from the University of Southern Mississippi, a Master of Music Degree in Performance and Literature from Baylor University, and he is currently finishing the Doctor of Arts in Music Performance at the University of Northern Colorado. His primary teachers include Dr. Anna Pennington, Dr. Doris DeLoach, Dr. Mark Ostoich, Dr. Euridice Alvarez, and Prof. Timothy Gocklin.

Cayla Bellamy: Assistant Professor of Music; Coordinator of Woodwinds

Cayla Bellamy is a performer, collaborator, and pedagogue dedicated to advancing the music field through redefining standard practices in the bassoon studio and chamber ensemble settings. Dr. Bellamy currently serves as Assistant Professor of Bassoon at Colorado State University, where she teaches applied bassoon, chamber music, and instrumental and virtual pedagogy, in addition to performing regularly with the Colorado Bach Ensemble and Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra. As a bassoonist and advocate for new music, she most recently completed a performance series presenting modern concerti by Joan Tower, Libby Larsen, James Stephenson, Mathieu Lussier, and Dana Wilson.  

Dr. Bellamy's contemporary music ventures extend beyond large ensemble works, and she was a recipient of a 2022 New Music USA Creator Fund alongside CSU colleague Dr. Megan Lanz, which has funded the commission of The Ghosts That Haunt Us for flute/alto flute and bassoon/contrabassoon by Canadian composer Frank Horvat. Additional commissions for this year include works by Jalen Jamal Thompson (for distorted bassoon and fixed electronics) and Kevin Poelking (for flute, bassoon, and piano). Cayla’s debut album, Double or Nothing (2018), consists of premiere recordings for solo and duo bassoon and is available through the Mark Masters label on iTunes, Amazon, and Spotify. Recordings from this album earned her first honorable mention in the 2020 Ernst Bacon Prize for the Performance of American Music, and she is currently recording her second project, a collection of new compositions for bassoon titled American Bassoon Voices. Live recital recordings from this album’s collection have earned her semi-finalist status in the 2023 American Prize for Instrumental Performance.