September 29, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Join CSU Jazz Studies for a Masterclass and Open Rehearsal with special guest artist Randy Brecker. 12-1 PM Masterclass Runyan Rehearsal Hall 1-2 PM Open Rehearsal Clinic with Jazz Combo 1 UCA 204 Randy Brecker, jazz trumpeter and composer, has helped shape the sound of jazz, R&B and rock for more than four decades. His […]
September 28, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Jazz Classics: 100 Years of Jazz by Decade (Part 1 – 1920s-1960s) Join CSU Jazz Ensembles on a journey from the inception of Jazz as the American artform to present day. The Jazz Ensembles will perform music chronologically from the 1920s through the 1960s demonstrating the development of Jazz styles in the big band. In addition […]
September 18, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – CSU faculty artists Dr. Tiffany Blake and Tim Burns present a program of art song.
September 16, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Regina Helcher Yost is nationally renowned as an orchestral and chamber music musician and an acclaimed flute and piccolo pedagogy teacher. She is the second flute/piccolo of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra and the Assistant Principal Flute/Piccolo of the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder, Colorado. Dr. Helcher Yost is a faculty member at Charleston Southern University […]
September 15, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – I, Too, Sing America: The Friendship and Collaboration of Margaret Bonds and Langston Hughes As an undergraduate at Northwestern University, pianist-composer Margaret Bonds (1913-1972) stumbled across a book of poetry by Langston Hughes (1902-1967). It was in that book that she first read, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” his first published poem (written at age […]
September 14, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Grand Duos CSU faculty artists Dr. Wesley Ferreira and Dr. Bryan Wallick kick off their U.S. tour of a program featuring grand duos for clarinet and piano. The indelible and monumental works by Johannes Brahms (Sonata, Op. 120, No. 2) and Carl Maria von Weber (Grand Duo Concertante) are paired with the impressive Four Rags […]
September 14, 2023 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – A lecture by Joel Bacon, followed by a tour of the CSU Annual Flower Trial Gardens with John Murgel Flowers have long been associated with the Virgin Mary. Gardens of roses inspired the rosary, and countless flowers honor Mary by name, such as marigolds, Lady’s slippers, and rosemary. In this lecture in GAMA’s Robert W. […]
September 13, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – You, Me, Us: A Celebration of Queer Music for Saxophone Join saxophonist Nick May in concert as part of the I Exist Project with a performance of works by emerging and leading queer composers of our time. It is undeniable to acknowledge the influence queerness has on contemporary music. With iconic 20th-century queer figures including […]
September 13, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – 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. Performances by Colorado State University music faculty and students are enriched with context provided by faculty and students from the Department of Art and Art History and the […]
September 12, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Start the semester with a delightful and enjoyable trombone and horn music evening with CSU faculty artists Dr. John McGuire and Dr. Drew Leslie as they present new and interesting music for each instrument and arrangements not previously heard!
