Past Productions & Events

2025

Joel Bacon Promotional Photo

Organ Week Concert: Joel Bacon, Solo Organ Recital / FREE

June 8, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – To open Organ Week, Joel Bacon, CSU Professor of Organ, will play a recital on the Phelps organ of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. The program will include works by J.S. Bach, Nicolas de Grigny, Franz Liszt, and Roxanna Panufnik. This event is free and open to the public, and takes place at St. Luke’s Episcopal […]


Casavant Organ pictured in Organ Recital Hall

2025 CSU Organ Week

June 8, 2025 – June 13, 2025 @ 12:00 am –

Organ Week is designed for high school students interested in expanding (or beginning) their organ study. Led by a faculty of prominent concert and church organists, the program features one-to-one instruction, masterclasses, and recitals on the finest pipe organs in northern Colorado, including CSU’s Casavant organ.


Percussion Professor Eric Hollenbeck pictured teaching Pre-College Percussion Camp students

2025 CSU Percussion Camp

June 2, 2025 – June 3, 2025 @ 12:00 am –

Percussion Camp for high school students includes instruction on how to successfully prepare and audition to become a collegiate music major. The workshop focuses on the four primary percussion instruments: Mallets (2 and 4 mallet), Timpani, Snare Drum, and Drum Set as well as insight on applications, scholarships, equipment, and skills in being a college student.


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Graduate String Trio Concert / FREE

May 8, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Note: This concert was moved from April 27th to May 8th. This concert features repertoire for piano trio, string trio and piano trio.


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Concert Orchestra Concert: Master of Tuplets (Bach’s Revenge) / FREE

May 6, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Master of Tuplets (Bach’s Revenge) What do Baroque music and Heavy Metal have in common? Find out as the Concert Orchestra integrates music from Baroque and early classical repertoire with selections inspired by heavy metal. After hearing Larry Moore’s arrangement of Brandenburg inspired by Black Violin, the orchestra oscillates between the traditional and unexpected, including […]


2025 Concert Band Concert Passions promotional screen

Concert Band Concert: Passions / FREE

May 5, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Passions Join guest conductor and master’s student, Cameron Honnen, for a concert full of life and passion!


Promotional Photo of University Center for the Arts External Spring

Trombone Studio Recital / FREE

May 4, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – An evening of solo and chamber music that highlights the trombone in a variety of musical settings. This recital features undergraduate and graduate students from the trombone studio under the guidance and coaching of Dr. Drew Leslie, associate professor of trombone.


2025 World Percussion Ensemble Promotional Screen

CSU World Percussion Ensemble Festival Concert

May 4, 2025 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – The concert features percussion music from several parts of the world, including a Mexican Marimba band, Brazilian Ensemble, Civil War Rope Drum Ensemble, Ragtime Novelty Band, and a Steel Drum band.


Promotional Photo of University Center for the Arts External Spring

Double Reed Studio Recital / FREE

May 4, 2025 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Students of the oboe and bassoon studios of Dr. Galit Kaunitz and Dr. Cayla Bellamy perform solo, and ensemble works written from the 1600s to the present day.


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Symphonic Band Concert

May 1, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Symphonic Band Concert: Abstractions Jayme Taylor, Conductor, James Mepham, Graduate Student Conductor


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