Read on for notes on听accomplishments and accolades for College of Music students in 2019.
Jocelyn Armes (PhD Music Education)
Armes鈥 manuscript "Backward Design and Repertoire Selection: Finding Full Expression" was accepted for publication in the Music Educators Journal. She also had the opportunity to present research at various conferences with the help of graduate student and dean鈥檚 grant funding. Armes was appointed the assistant to the editor of the Journal of Music Teacher Education and鈥攁long with alumna Ellie Falter (PhD 鈥18) and fellow PhD students Kate Bertelli-Wilinski and Seth Taft鈥攋ust began a four-year term on the advisory council for the Music Educators Journal.听
Jackson Bailey (MM Violin)听
Bailey performed at the NEXTFEST for Emerging Artists at Le Poisson Rouge in New York this summer.
Kimberly Bill (MM Violin)听
Bill performed at Carnegie Hall as a member of the New York String Orchestra Seminar in December 2018.听
Margaret Brady (BM Violin)听
Brady attended the Bowdoin International Festival this summer.听
Corie Brown (DMA Choral Conducting and Literature)
Brown is associate director of choirs at San Jose State University.听
Dakota Cotugno (BM Cello)听
Cotungo finished in second place in the Irving M. Klein International String Competition in San Francisco.听
Mary Malizia Evans (MM Violin)听
Evans won a position in the Colorado Springs Philharmonic and joined its roster this fall.听
Indigo Fischer (BM Flute) and percussionist John Sevy (BM Percussion)
Fischer and Sevy won first and second prize at the Arapaho Philharmonic T. Gordon Parks Collegiate Concerto Competition. They both took home cash prizes and Fischer performed a solo with the orchestra in March.
Marisa Ishikawa (DMA Violin)
Ishikawa performed a debut recital in Carnegie Hall and was named second violin of the Carpe Diem String Quartet. Assistant Professor of Violin Charles Wetherbee is a founding member of the quartet.
Hannah Kennedy (MM Violin)听
Kennedy attended the Madeleine Island Chamber Music Festival as a string quartet fellow this summer.听
Brian Lambert (BM Composition)
One of Lambert鈥檚 compositions was performed by the CU 麻豆影院 Bass Studio at the 15th Rocky Mountain Bass Festival in October 2018.
Teresita Lozano (PhD Ethnomusicology)
Lozano performed with her ensemble Las Dahlias at the inaugural ball for Colorado Governor Jared Polis in January.
Claire McCahan (MM Voice, AD Voice)听
McCahan was a finalist in the Oratorio Society of New York鈥檚 Soloist Competition.
Rebecca Myers (MM Voice)听
Myers was a finalist for the Keller Distinguished Bach Musician Award, given by the Grand Rapids Bach Festival.
Barbie Noyes (DMA Collaborative Piano)听
Noyes traveled to Santa Barbara as a fellow in the collaborative piano program at the Music Academy of the West this summer.
Kevin Padworski (DMA Choral Conducting and Literature)
Padworski teaches at Colorado Academy and continues to compose music.听
Nathan Payant (DMA Choral Conducting and Literature)
Payant is assistant director of choirs at Colorado State University.听
Megan Pryor (BM Voice) and David Starry (MM Voice)
Pryor and Starry sang the National Anthem at the opening ceremony for the 2019 Colorado Legislature in January.
Seth Taft (PhD Music Education)听
Taft had articles accepted for publication in the Music Educators Journal and in Update: Applications of Research in Music Education. He also gave a presentation titled 鈥淧ost-鈥楨very Student Succeeds Act鈥 Perspectives on Music Teacher Evaluation Policy and Practice鈥 with Jocelyn Armes (PhD Music Education) and Professor of Music Education James Austin at the American Educational Research Association conference in Toronto.
Kristin Weber (DMA Oboe)
Weber won an audition for an oboe and English horn position in the 麻豆影院 Philharmonic Orchestra. She also substituted in the Colorado and Kansas City symphonies and continues to perform with the Tulsa and Wichita symphony orchestras.
Sean Winters (DMA Composition)听
Winters did a collaborative audiovisual set with CU Intermedia, Art, Writing and Performance (IAWP) PhD student Angie Eng at Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival in March.
Max Wolpert (MM Composition)
Wolpert premiered his harpsichord concerto Baroque in Mirror in February in Denver, 麻豆影院 and Longmont. His orchestration of William Bolcom's Little Suite of Four Dances was performed by Colorado Symphony Assistant Principal Clarinet Abby Raymond in January.
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In July 2018, the CU 麻豆影院 Horn Quartet鈥Raya Panova (DMA), Josh East (MM), Erika Hollister (BM) and Maggie Barnes (BM)鈥攑erformed in Denver鈥檚 Civic Center Park with cellist Yo-Yo Ma to kick off Ma鈥檚 鈥淒ay of Action鈥 rally with then-Governor John Hickenlooper (pictured).
Congratulations to our spring outstanding students, senior Brian Lambert (BM Composition), junior Anoushka Divekar (BM Clarinet, BME), sophomore Claire Gunsbury (BM Flute) and freshman Samuel 鈥淢ack鈥 Rodgers (BM Voice) and fall outstanding graduating senior Austen Jankowski (BM Bassoon, BME)!