Past Productions & Events

2017

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2017 Try On Teaching with MSOE

February 1, 2017 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm –


Virtuoso Series Concert, Joel Bacon, Harpsichord

January 30, 2017 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – CSU faculty artist Joel Bacon performs harpsichord works by J. S. Bach, including one of his most famous pieces for the instrument, the Italian Concerto.


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2017 Master Class with the Canadian Brass

January 29, 2017 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm –

With an international reputation as one of the most popular brass ensembles today, Canadian Brass has truly earned the distinction of “the world’s most famous brass group.” Education plays a key role in the story of Canadian Brass, with each member uniquely attuned to training the next generation of players. On their travels around the world, they often pause for master classes and are more than happy to work with students and young audiences.


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Creative Writing Reading Series Special Event: Off the Book: Arts, Literature and All that Jazz presents Ethan Canin

January 27, 2017 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – A highly regarded novelist and short story writer, Ethan Canin’s work is the basis for four Holly-wood movies and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and Esquire. Canin is the F. Wendell Miller Professor of English at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Ethan Canin will read from his novel, A Doubter’s Almanac, and […]


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CSU Alumni Reception and More at CMEA

January 26, 2017 – January 28, 2017 @ All Day – We are looking forward to seeing our Music Education alumni at the 2017 Colorado Music Educators Association Clinic-Conference, taking place at the Broadmoor Resort in Colorado Springs on Jan. 26-28. On Friday during the conference, CSU Jazz Ensemble I, directed by Peter Sommer, performs at 3 p.m. in the Main Ballroom on the second floor […]


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Virtuoso Series Concert, John McGuire, Horn

January 24, 2017 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – With Tim Burns and Joel Bacon, Piano CSU faculty artist John McGuire is joined onstage by keyboardists Tim Burns and Joel Bacon as he performs a diverse and exciting program of music from the Baroque all the way through modern. Pieces include Christoph Forster’s Concerto in E-flat for Horn, Songs of a Wayfarer by Gustav […]


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Traditional Chinese Folk Music Concert

January 22, 2017 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – With guests from Southwest University, Chongqing, China The Music School of Southwest University from Chongqing, China presents a concert of some of the most popular Chinese folk songs featuring traditional Chinese folk instruments such as Chinese bamboo flute; the Guzheng, a Chinese zither; the Suona, a double-reed horn; the Lusheng, a bamboo pipe; the Erhu, […]


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Guest Artist: Sinaisky-Kislenko Piano Duo

January 18, 2017 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – The duo, praised for their “seamless ensemble “and “sensitive expressivity” (Santa Barbara News Press), formed in 2010. The duo, comprised of Russian pianist Natasha Kislenko and Israeli pianist Ilya Sinaisky, performs a program of duets written specifically for one piano and four hands.