CSU Partners with Bohemian Foundation for Contemporary Artist Music Series
This series is an exciting way to feature local musicians and CSU alumni in an intimate setting.
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CSU Well Represented at 2012 Colorado Band Association Marching Band Championships
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 […]
Non-Auditioned Concert Orchestra Open to All CSU Students
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 […]
Music to cope, learn, and heal
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 […]
Funding Awarded to Arts Students for Final Project in “Entrepreneurship in the Arts”
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 […]
CSU Director of Bands Invited to Guest Conduct in Central America
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 […]
Director of Jazz Studies will perform at the World Saxophone Congress in Scotland
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 […]
CSU Flute Choir, Directed by Michelle Stanley, to play at National Convention
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 […]
Register for the 2012 CSU Marching Band
Greetings! We invite you to participate in another great CSU Marching Band season and be a part of history in supporting Coach McElwain’s inaugural season with the CSU Rams! Last year our 260-member band was the largest in the state and the Mountain West Conference, but we don’t care as much about size as we […]
CSU Piano Professor Launches International Keyboard Odyssiad and Festival
International Keyboard Odyssiad and Festival – “A Journey to the Performance of a Lifetime” Colorado State University Professor Dr. Janet Landreth is set to launch the International Keyboard Odyssiad and Festival U.S.A., presented in conjunction with the new CSU Summer Keyboard Institute (SKI/Colorado). Both IKOF and SKI/Colorado take place during the first week of August […]