Music in the Museum Concert Series at the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art explores the cross-fertilization of music and the visual arts through concerts in the galleries with performances by Colorado State University music faculty.

Featured performers include Dr. Galit Kaunitz, Dr. Cayla Bellamy and Dr. Rose Wollman.

This program is held in GAMA’s Griffin Foundation Gallery. These concerts are free and open to the public, but we ask for reservations as space is limited. Registration closes 1 hour before each concert or if event reaches total capacity.

FREE REGISTRATION for 12 p.m. (noon)
These concerts are free and open to the public, but we ask for reservations as space is limited. Registration closes 1 hour before each concert or if event reaches total capacity.

Performers include:

Cayla Bellamy is assistant professor of bassoon at Colorado State University

Cayla Bellamy

Dr. Cayla Bellamy-Lanz is a performer, collaborator, and pedagogue dedicated to advancing the music field through redefining standard practices in the bassoon studio and chamber ensemble settings. She serves as Associate Professor of Bassoon at Colorado State University, where she teaches applied bassoon, chamber music, and instrumental pedagogy, in addition to performing regularly with the Colorado Bach Ensemble and directing the Fort Collins-based Health and Wellness Community Orchestra.

Cayla is a specialist in contemporary American concerto writing for the bassoon, with eight orchestral and wind band solo features in the past five years, including concerti by Jenni Brandon, Libby Larsen, Mathieu Lussier, James Stephenson, Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate, Joan Tower, and Dana Wilson. Her contemporary music ventures extend beyond large ensemble works, as well, and she has been a recipient of numerous finalist honorable mention awards for the American Prize, as well as the New Music USA Creator Fund alongside CSU colleague and flutist Dr. Megan Bellamy-Lanz. With this duo, she has commissioned and premiered nine works in the past three years and is embarking on recording her third commercial album, a collection of music inspired by the National Parks.

Cayla’s debut album, Double or Nothing (2018), consists of premiere recordings for solo and duo bassoon. Recordings from this album earned her first honorable mention in the 2020 Ernst Bacon Prize for the Performance of American Music, and her second project, a collection of new compositions for bassoon titled American Bassoon Voices. Both albums are available through the Mark Masters label on iTunes, Amazon, and Spotify.

Cayla holds a Doctor of Music degree in Bassoon Performance and Literature from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, in addition to Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Music Education and Bassoon Performance from the University of Georgia, where she was distinguished as a National Presser Scholar. Her primary teachers include William Ludwig, Amy Pollard, and William Davis, with additional studies with Nancy Goeres and Per Hannevold at the Aspen Music Festival and School. In addition to professional affiliations with the National Association for Music Education and College Music Society, she was previously on the conducting faculties of the New York Summer School of the Arts and Emory Youth Symphony Orchestra. Currently, Cayla serves on the staff of the International Double Reed Society as Communications Coordinator, as Colorado state chairperson for the National Association of Wind and Percussion Instructors, and as President for the Southwest Regional Chapter of the International Double Reed Society.

Offstage, Cayla is an amateur endurance athlete with academic research focusing on coaching methodologies, burnout, and the intersections of artistic and athletic training. Most recently, she has presented on the application of athletic training models to musical practice at the 2025 Colorado Music Educators Association and International Double Reed Society conferences. Learn more about Cayla at www.caylabellamy.com.

Rose Wollman

Hailed as “innovative” and “stylish” by the Chicago Classical Review, violist Rose Wollman has performed in venues around the world including Carnegie Hall, the Krannert Center and Constitution Hall (US), Suntory Hall (Japan), and KKL (Switzerland). Rose is a champion of new music as well as a fledgling composer. She has spent her career commissioning and performing new pieces, working with groundbreaking composers such as Pierre Boulez, Augusta Read Thomas, Garth Knox, Don Freund, Atar Arad, David Dzubay, Gabriela Ortiz, and Mario Lavista.

Rose was the founding violist of the Petar Jankovic Ensemble and the Larchmere String Quartet with whom she released albums, including a premiere recording of Stephan Krehl’s String Quartet for the NAXOS label. Rose’s 2022 solo album Loop: Ligeti’s Inspiration & Legacy explores György Ligeti’s Sonata for Viola Solo through the lens of baroque and newly composed music. Her album, Breaking Glass Ceilings: Music by Unruly Women with pianist Dror Baitel, explores the legacy of female composers in the 20th and 21st centuries. Partita Party is a new composition and recording in collaboration with Atar Arad and three other violists. It was released in October 2024and was the second release on her record label SBOV Music (Sounds Better on Viola).

Rose has performed with the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. She served as principal violist of the Evansville Philharmonic and the Cape Cod Symphony. She has collaborated with diverse artists such as Atar Arad, Michael Kannen, James Dunham, Rachel Barton Pine, choreographer Elizabeth Shea, tango pianist and composer Julián Peralta, tango bassist Pablo Aslan, and Latin jazz percussionist Michael Spiro.

Rose is Assistant Professor of Viola at Colorado State University ​and serves on the board of the American Viola Society. She holds a D.M. from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music as well as degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music and the University of Illinois. Her primary teachers are Atar Arad, Carol Rodland, Masumi Rostad, Rudolf Haken, and Julia Adams. For more information visit www.rosewollman.com.

Photo by Kat Van Skiver

Galit Kaunitz

Oboist Galit Kaunitz is the Assistant Professor of Oboe at Colorado State University. She is a seasoned pedagogue with an active performing career including solo, chamber music, and orchestral concerts across the United States.

Central to her research is rediscovering the music of Elizabeth Gyring, a Viennese Jewish composer who was displaced by World War II. In collaboration with pianist Michael Bunchman and musicologist Barbara Dietlinger, Galit is performing and recording Gyring’s works for oboe so they may be rightfully enjoyed by oboists and audiences everywhere. Galit’s research interests are not limited to historic rediscovery. She recorded All Are Welcome: Works for Oboe and Bassoon with Jacqueline Wilson, bassoon, and Fabio Menchetti, piano, on Washington State University Recordings in 2022. All Are Welcome is the culmination of the Double Reed Dish Commission Consortium project and includes works by Connor Chee, Kate Pukinskis, Mason Bynes, and brin solomon. Galit has been invited to perform at International Double Reed Society conferences (2015, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2024), and College Music Society National Conferences (2015, 2019) to perform both solo and chamber music repertoire.

Galit is an experienced orchestral musician. She has performed with the Mobile, Baton Rouge, Meridian, Gulf Coast, and Mississippi Symphony Orchestras and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. In Colorado, she has been invited to perform with the Colorado Symphony, Colorado Bach Ensemble, Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra, and Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra.

Galit is grateful to have studied under Eric Ohlsson, Rebecca Henderson, Humbert Lucarelli, and Marilyn Krentzman. She is proud to be a Marigaux artist and plays on a Marigaux 901/901P.