Past Productions & Events

2024



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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 […]


2023

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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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CSU Spur Music Lab: Celebrating Healthy Holidays!

December 9, 2023 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm –

CSU Spur MusicLab is a free, community-based, and culturally relevant music outreach program that provides elemental music education workshops and performance opportunities for learners of all ages with a focus on beginner and amateur musicianship. Doors are open to all levels of musicians, but no previous music experience is required to enjoy this musical community.


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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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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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2023 CSU Honor Band Festival

December 7, 2023 – December 9, 2023 @ 12:00 am –

The annual CSU Honor Band Festival brings together the finest high school musicians in the Rocky Mountain Region, selected from hundreds of applicants throughout the western region; the three-day festival takes place at the University Center for the Arts at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. Guest clinicians and conductors enhance the student’s experience, providing invaluable insight and expertise. In addition to rehearsals, students enjoy several concerts given by CSU faculty and student ensembles. The experience is capped off with a performance by the Honor Wind Symphony and the Festival Concert Band in the beautiful, world-class Griffin Concert Hall.


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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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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 […]