Concerts and Operas

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Fall 2023 Student Recitals FREE

September 7, 2023 – December 9, 2023 @ All Day – Please join us in celebrating the recital performances of our CSU music students. Student Recitals are FREE and open to the public. Note: Dates, times, and locations are subject to change, please check back to confirm performance details. Saturday, October 7, 2023: 5 p.m., Organ Recital Hall, Rachel Richardson, Horn Friday, October 20, 2023: 5 […]


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Graduate String Quartet

December 4, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – The Graduate String Quartet will be performing Dimitri Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 8 and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet. The Shostakovich is a powerful work composed in Dresden in 1960 that is dedicated to the victims of fascism and war. The piece uses the composer’s initials as the motif in each of the five movements. The Mozart […]


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Piano Studio Recital

December 6, 2023 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – A recital presented by piano students from the studio of Bryan Wallick. CONFIRMATION OF TIME: Wednesday, Dec. 6 at 6 p.m.


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Symphonic Band Concert: Arecibo to Orion

December 7, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – The Symphonic Band, conducted by Dr. Jayme Taylor, performs a concert featuring the amazing musical talents of three of our CSU Faculty. First a consortium premiere of CSU composer James David’s Message from Arecibo, followed by the performance of The Orion Concerto: Double Oboe and Bassoon Concerto featuring oboe professor Pablo Dos Santos Hernandez and […]


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Wind Symphony Concert –The Music of Kevin Day

December 8, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – The Music of Kevin Day With John McGuire, Horn and Drew Leslie, Trombone Colorado State University and the CSU Band Program welcomes composer Kevin Day to Fort Collins for a week of performances and lectures. An American whose music has been characterized by “propulsive, syncopated rhythms, colorful orchestration, and instrumental virtuosity,” (Robert Kirzinger, Boston Symphony) […]


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Voice Area Recital / FREE

December 10, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Performances by students from the voice studios of Nicole Asel, Tiffany Blake, and John Lindsey.


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Spring 2024 Student Recitals / FREE

January 16, 2024 – May 6, 2024 @ All Day – Please join us in celebrating the recital performances of our CSU music students. Student Recitals are FREE and open to the public. Note: Dates, times, and locations are subject to change, please check back to confirm performance details. Friday, February 16, 2024: 5 p.m., Organ Recital Hall, James Scott, Bassoon Friday, March 1, 2024: 5 […]


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Classical Convergence Series: Cuarteto LatinoAmericano

January 23, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Cuarteto LatinoAmericano is one of the world’s most renowned classical music ensembles and a leading proponent of Latin American music for string quartet for more than thirty years. Founded in Mexico in 1982, the Cuarteto has toured extensively throughout Europe, North and South America, Israel, China, Japan and New Zealand. They have premiered more than […]


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Classical Convergence Series: Vitamin String Quartet

February 6, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Long before Bridgerton broke the Netflix algorithm, Vitamin String Quartet had helped establish classical crossover as a genuine force in contemporary music. Fresh off high-profile placements in Seasons 1 and 2 of the aforementioned streaming smash, VSQ has “reached a mainstream, global audience” (Variety) and “charmed the world with their classical covers” (Nylon). New York […]


Classical Convergence Series: Gilbert & Sullivan in Concert

February 28, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – A sextet of New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players stars will entertain with many selections from the full repertoire of Gilbert & Sullivan’s comic operas. Hear your favorites from The Pirates of Penzance, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Mikado and more! Followed by their signature section—impromptu audience requests! Building on the foundation of the classical music tradition, […]


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Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck

April 4, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Presented by the Ralph Opera Program The classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale comes to life with the Ralph Opera Program’s performance of Engelbert Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel”. Humperdinck’s sister, Adelheid Wette, wrote the libretto of the Märchenoper or fairy-tale opera Hänsel und Gretel, which is considered a key work of the German genre. The Märchenoper […]