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Music: CSU Band Named Best in the Mountain West

The Colorado State University Band and Spirit Squads won the first annual Mountain West Conference High Five Award. The award was presented at the 2011 Conoco Mountain West Conference Basketball Championships held in Las Vegas, Nev. Mar. 9 – 12, 2011. “I want to congratulate the spirit squads and band at Colorado State University for […]


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CSU Music Educators National Conference Student Organization wins national award

The Department of Music, Theatre and Dance announces that Colorado State University’s Collegiate Music Educators National Conference (MENC) Student Organization has received the National 2011 Chapter of Excellence Award for Recruitment given by the MENC National Association for Music Education. The CSU Collegiate MENC Chapter held a Swing Dance Social in November 2010 featuring the […]


NAfME National Chapter of Excellence Award for Recruitment

The School of Music, Theatre, and Dance announces that Colorado State University’s Collegiate National Association for Music Education Student Organization has received the National 2011 Chapter of Excellence Award for Recruitment given by the National Association for Music Education (NAfME). The CSU Collegiate NAfME Chapter held a Swing Dance Social in Nov. 2010 featuring the […]


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Alumni Spotlight: Hannah Holbrook

Fort Collins native Hannah Holbrook always knew she wanted to study music at Colorado State University. “I auditioned for acceptance into the music program because I really wanted to study with Janet Landreth,” says Holbrook. “I remember when Janet called and told me I was accepted in the music program. I was thrilled, but then […]


Music: Alumnus wins the 2011 StAR Studio Fellowship Award

Department of Music, Theatre and Dance alumna Miroslava Mintcheva ’02 is the winner of the 2011 StAR Studio Fellowship Award. The award comes from the Music Teachers National Association and is given to those who demonstrate outstanding achievements in the teaching profession. With her husband David McArthur ’04, ’06, Mintcheva runs a private piano studio […]



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Music: YouTube sensation takes shamisen playing seriously

From the Coloradoan Newspaper on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 It would be easy to write off shamisen player Kevin Kmetz as a novelty act if all you knew were his YouTube covers of Led Zeppelin tunes and performances with his side project God of Shamisen. But hear him performing minyos (Japanese folk songs), and you’d […]


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Music: Junior Chaazi Munyanya wins annual CSU Singer of the Year competition

Vocal music majors at Colorado State University received a variety of awards, including the coveted “Singer of the Year,” at the annual competition that took place on Saturday, February 12, 2011, in the Organ Recital Hall at the University Center for the Arts. At the Singer of the Year Competition, undergraduate voice students compete for […]


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CSU will greatly miss Dr. James McDonald, assistant professor of voice

Colorado State University and the Department of Music, Theatre and Dance mourn the passing of James McDonald who died Feb. 11, 2011 at his home in Loveland, Colo. “A mark of an excellent teacher is the ability to teach students how to teach themselves. James McDonald did just that. He was truly inspirational. He did […]


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Music: Margaret Miller Receives 2010 Outstanding Teacher Award

The Colorado State University Department of Music is proud to announce that Margaret Miller, special assistant professor of viola and chamber music, and coordinator of CSU’s Graduate String Quartet Program, received the 2010 Outstanding Teacher Award from the Colorado American String Teachers Association, Inc. The award was presented during the 2011 Colorado Music Educators Association […]