The 2012 CBA State Marching Band Championships concluded in November. Colorado State University alum and students direct and assist many of the award-winning high school bands from across the state. Please join us in congratulating the following bands and their CSU personnel! Class 1A State Champion Cedaredge High School, Mike Bowles (CSU ’11), director Class […]
Guest euphonist Adam Frey will join the CSU Wind Ensemble during a special one-night-only fundraiser concert benefiting the CSU Marching Band on Saturday, Sept. 29 – the 2013 March to Dublin Fundraiser Concert. The concert features the Symphonic Band, Wind Ensemble, and CSU Marching Band. The Wind Ensemble portion, conducted by CSU’s Christopher Nicholas of […]
The University Center for the Arts begins its fall 2012 music concerts on Monday, August 27 with the Virtuoso Series Concert of chamber music from Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro in the Organ Recital Hall at the University Center for the Arts, located at 1400 Remington St. This special concert draws from the doctoral thesis […]
After awakening from a coma, junior Devon Aimes (’14) was crushed when he heard he might never again play the tuba, something he had done since sixth grade. “The thought of not having music was just the scariest thing,” he says. Aimes was 17 when he slipped into a coma brought on by Lemierre’s Syndrome, […]
The CSU Concert Orchestra is a non-auditioned string ensemble that meets on Mondays and Wednesdays, 1-2:30 p.m. in Room 202 of the University Center for the Arts. The first rehearsal will be held the first Wednesday of the semester and all CSU students are welcome, regardless of major. The ensemble’s conductor is Leslie Stewart (pictured) who […]
When alumnus Casey Ehresman ʹ08 taught in the K-12 education system, she noticed that music had a way of helping children manage stress and excel academically. She chose Colorado State University to study music therapy because of the program’s emphasis on neurologically based research and study. Now a music therapist in a maximum security state […]
Students from a new class at Colorado State University – Entrepreneurship in the Arts – were recently selected to receive a $1,000 award to help bring their end-of-term project to fruition. The course is one of the first offerings from the new Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Arts Advocacy, and the Public (LEAP) subject code at CSU. Proposals […]
Summer 2012 will be a busy and fulfilling season for the Colorado State University Director of Bands. Dr. Christopher Nicholas has been appointed principal guest band conductor and adviser to the National Sistema de Orquestas, Coros y Bandas de Guatemala and will conduct concerts there in June. In July he will serve on the conducting faculty […]
Colorado State University saxophone faculty and Director of Jazz Studies Peter Sommer is traveling to Fife, Scotland to perform at the 2012 World Saxophone Congress XVI, held at St. Andrew’s on July 10-14, 2012. The Congress features an elite program of concerts, lectures, and recitals selected from a pool of submitted proposals and recordings, of […]
The Colorado State University Flute Choir and professors will take their playing to a national stage with an invitation to perform at the 40th Annual National Flute Association Convention at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nev., Aug. 9–12, 2012. Nineteen groups from around the country were selected to perform at the four-day convention, which is […]
