All apologies to Forrest Gump, but you really never know what you’re going to get at the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ’s Ekstrand music competition finals. Might be Bach, Bernstein or Basie, show tunes or a string quartet, a jazz solo or guitar duo.
The University of Colorado College of Music won’t quite take you around the world in 80 minutes, but in one concert of that length, they can take you into musical cultures from the other side of the globe.
Funding from the endowment will help support the three full productions a year, an opera scenes program for students and CU NOW, a program in which students work directly with new composers. The endowment will also enable the program to provide the most professional experiences possible for students.
The Cavani Quartet's Oct. 15-20 residency at CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ includes two performances at Grusin Music Hall and master classes, lectures and workshops on campus and in the community.
Saxophonist and composer Greg Osby will be artist-in-residence at the CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ College of Music Thompson Jazz Studies Program Oct. 29-31. The residency will feature a public performance with students at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30 in Grusin Music Hall.
By Joshua Kosman | Houston Chronicle It's been nearly a decade since Geraldine Walther packed up her viola and left the ranks of the San Francisco SympCalifornia drought: Major cutbacks by many Northern Californians hony in favor of the life of a chamber musician. It doesn't sound like she regrets the decision for a moment.
By Peter Alexander | ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Weekly The Kronos Quartet, always bold, brings ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ artists to ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ for their appearance at Macky Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8.
They come from diverse backgrounds and have worked all over the world, from Santa Fe to Salzburg, New York to northern Iowa. But all four new full-time faculty members at the College of Music agree: ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ is hard to beat.
