Past Productions & Events

2025

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Guest Artist Concert: Anna Christy, Soprano / FREE

September 9, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Praised by the New York Times as “nimble of voice, body and spirit,” soprano Anna Christy continues to impress and delight audiences with an extraordinary blend of sparkling voice, powerful stage presence, and innate musicality. She has performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and the Royal […]


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WAVES: Listening to the Cosmos, with Ben Skepper, cello / FREE

September 8, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm –

The world premiere performance of Ben Skepper’s self-initiated, multi-sensory work draws directly from raw gravitational wave data recorded by the international LIGO-VIRGO-KAGRA scientific community: translating black hole mergers into a richly spatialized immersive soundscape.

This premiere also marks a rare instance of an artist-led interaction at a leading scientific summit, embodying a new model of public engagement at the frontier of art, physics, and immersive experience.


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Fall 2025 Student Recitals / FREE

September 3, 2025 – December 6, 2025 @ 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm – 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, October 3, 2025: 5 p.m., Organ Recital Hall, Sophia Marino, French Horn Sunday, October 19, 2025: 6:30 p.m., […]


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Virtuoso Series Concert: Cayla Bellamy, Basoon-Isolated

September 2, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Isolated With Jooyeon Chang, Piano, and Tiffany Blake, Soprano This evening of music for bassoon features works inspired by desolate mountain peaks, religious chants, the vast emptiness of our solar system, the isolation of pandemic lockdowns, and the lost children of the Holocaust. CSU faculty artists Drs. Cayla Bellamy, Jooyeon Chang, and Tiffany Blake present […]



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2025 International Keyboard Odyssiad® and Festival, U.S.A.

August 4, 2025 – August 8, 2025 @ 12:00 am –

The International Keyboard Odyssiad® & Festival, U.S.A., is a weeklong summer piano competition and festival featuring more than a dozen guest artists and pianists in daily masterclasses and presentations, the live Semifinal and Final Rounds of the Olympic-styled Odyssiad® competition, and riveting matinee and evening concerts by internationally renowned pianists, including Van Cliburn winners. At the foothills of the majestic Rocky Mountains of Colorado, the International Keyboard Odyssiad® and Festival (IKOF) is designed for pianists of all ages and nationalities, teachers, and the general public who love the piano and its repertoire.


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Colorado Cello Intensive Live! / FREE

August 1, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Join us for an evening of cello music featuring the Colorado Cello Intensive Festival Participants. This concert will feature music by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Johannes Brahms, Astor Piazzolla, Ludwig van Beethoven, and more. The Colorado Cello Intensive is a selective program which includes world-class faculty and extremely dedicated students. To Learn more about the festival, please […]


2025 Colorado Cello Intensive

July 27, 2025 – August 2, 2025 @ 12:00 am –

The Colorado Cello Intensive program is designed to maximize technical, musical, and personal growth. With a student-to-faculty ratio of 4:1, the Colorado Cello Intensive (CCI) is dedicated to helping students reach their full potential. We believe in the work hard, play hard mentality and offer students an array of evening possibilities, including hiking, rock climbing, and a trip to Rocky Mountains National Park. Surrounded by the beautiful Rocky Mountains in Fort Collins, Colorado, CCI is the ideal location to develop your playing this summer!


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Patience by Gilbert and Sullivan (Concert Version)

July 12, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – The CSU Summer Conducting Seminar continues its fun tradition of presenting a delightful concert version of a popular operetta or Broadway musical. The project serves as the master’s thesis for working music educators from around the world who participate in the seminar for three consecutive summers. Musical direction by Wes Kenney Stage direction by Tiffany […]


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2025 Colorado Kodály Institute: Summer Residency

July 12, 2025 – July 26, 2025 @ 12:00 am –

CKI is a dynamic training center for elementary classroom music teachers, independent music instructors, and secondary music teachers interested in elevating their teaching, conducting, musicianship, and depth of knowledge about music education. Students from across the U.S., Mexico, Korea, Sweden, and Saudi Arabia participate in the annual summer seminar.


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