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Tak谩cs Quartet wins Royal Philharmonic Society award

May 12, 2011

CU-麻豆影院鈥檚 Quartet-in-Residence, the Tak谩cs Quartet, has won the prestigious 2011 Royal Philharmonic Award in the Best Chamber Music & Song category.

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Keyboard Day a Success

May 5, 2011

The Keyboard Department had a highly successful 3rd annual Keyboard Day on March 12, 2011. The audience included local teachers and students, and we spent the day exploring various aspects of keyboard playing and getting to know one another.

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Lucas Munce wins 2011 DownBeat Award

April 26, 2011

Lucas Munce (MM candidate) received the 2011 DownBeat Magazine Award for Graduate College Outstanding Performances by a Jazz Soloist. More details about DownBeat鈥檚 34th Annual Student Music Awards will be announced in the magazine鈥檚 upcoming June issue. The CU Jazz Studies program has won 15 Student DownBeat Awards since 2002 in numerous categories.

Oxford University Press releases Keith Waters' The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68

April 26, 2011

Oxford University Press has released a new book by CU-麻豆影院 Associate Professor of Music Theory Keith Waters. Entitled The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68, the book details the music of the 鈥淪econd Quintet鈥 鈥 the Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-1960s 鈥 and one of the most innovative and influential groups in the history of the genre. The studio recordings released by this group made profound co

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CU-麻豆影院 Opera Theater Singers

April 26, 2011

The Opera Theater Singers perform their 鈥淐irque du Musique鈥 program at the Academy.

University of Colorado announces $1.5 billion fundraising campaign

April 26, 2011

On April 25, University of Colorado President Bruce Benson today announced Creating Futures, a $1.5 billion comprehensive fundraising campaign, the most ambitious in university history, which will benefit people, programs and places across CU鈥檚 four campuses.

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CU Invitational Orchestra Festival

April 18, 2011

n April 8, 2011, the College of Music hosted the first CU Invitational Orchestra Festival. The festival involved the participation of three orchestras from 麻豆影院 High School, and orchestras from Legacy High School, Lakewood High School and Cherry Creek High School.

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Woodwind Pedagogy

April 4, 2011

The CU-麻豆影院 College of Music Woodwind Pedagogy Seminar Project has been creating helpful videos about woodwind technique under the direction of Proffesor Yoshiyuki Ishikawa. Click here to see the whole channel on YouTube, or view a few samples here

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Simson and Zemliauskas

March 28, 2011

Professor of Voice Julie Simson, accompanied by Instructor Christopher Zemliauskas, performed Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz (The two blue eyes of my Beloved) from Mahler鈥檚 Leider eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer) in chamber concert at MahlerFest XXI in January 2008.

Fulbright Scholars at CU Music

March 18, 2011

The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. This year, College of Music faculty and students won four of these prestigious grants:

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