Composition

  • maria and don johnson and conor brown at a reception
    Maria and Don Johnson and Conor Brown at a recent College of Music donor reception Don and Maria Johnson are generous supporters of the College of Music and the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Colorado
  • conor brown in finland
    Boulder. Denver. Washington, D.C. Helsinki. The College of Music is hitting the road in October to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Finnish independence, starting with a Faculty Tuesday premiere of a student-written ode to Finnish folk tradition.
  • woman on stage in the black box theater singing
    In a special partnership for the 2017 edition of CU NOW’s Composer Fellows’ Initiative, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ Eklund Opera Program teamed up with CU Film Studies students to create short films to accompany student-written and student-performed opera scenes
  • mark adamo
    <p>This summer, Eklund Opera’s trailblazing new works program—CU New Opera Workshop, or CU NOW—pulls out all the proverbial stops in its latest quest to bring what’s fresh and exciting about opera to the campus of ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ.</p>
  • sara corry rappelling
    Waking up at 3:30 a.m., rappelling off a 60-foot wall and learning how to use a gas mask aren’t part and parcel of most post-music-school gigs. For Sara Corry, though, it’s all just another day in the life.

  • quartet performing the mechanics
    Nearly a year after he found out his saxophone quartet "The Mechanics" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music, CU composer Carter Pann is helping the College of Music's graduate quartet prepare the piece for its Colorado premiere.
  • sam estes in an audio booth
    Alumni Sam Estes (MM ’05) and Cole Ingraham (DMA ’13) are changing the game in film scoring, helping build a music composition software based on an algorithm and user needs.
  • jack gaffney splattered piano
    If you’ve ever stopped to enjoy the music drifting from a painted piano near the Pearl Street Cheesecake Factory, then you’ve been exposed to the many talents of first-year composition student Jack Gaffney.
  • us air force band on stage
    Musical excellence, intrastate collaboration and the 70th birthday of the U.S. Air Force will all be on display at the College of Music this February as the U.S. Air Force Academy Band joins the CU bands department for a concert and master classes.
  • cuba building
    Violin professor Charles Wetherbee starts 2017 with a new hope for the future of musical relations after an October trip to Cuba.
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