JD

Remembrance, resilience + forging our future

Jan. 27, 2022

ā€œEven as we bear witness to loss and unknowable challenges with compassion and care, I see us rebounding with resilience again and againā€”undeterred in our shared quest for excellence, dogged in our pursuit to inform and influence what it means to be a successful, fulfilled creative artist in an increasingly diverse and interdisciplinary musical landscape.ā€

Florence Price

CU Philharmonia honors Florence Price in newly imagined orchestration

Jan. 19, 2022

As part of a weekend honoring diverse women composers, join us for a full orchestration of ā€œSeven Miniatures for Pianoā€ comprising seven standalone piecesā€”each of which reveals different facets of Florence Priceā€™s creative personality. CU Boulder student and alumni composers completed the orchestrations.

Preserving Legacy

Annual Persevering Legacy concerts feature works by diverse women composers

Jan. 18, 2022

Discovering and playing the music of composers who have been historically marginalized is a wonderful educational experience for all students, regardless of gender or ethnicity, says Professor of Piano Pedagogy Alejandro Cremaschi.

Annika Socolofsky

Gaudeamus Award winner challenges status quo

Jan. 14, 2022

Assistant Professor of Composition and Pendulum New Music Director Annika Socolofsky discusses her recent incentive prize and how she perceives her role as a composer, performer and educator.

JD

ā€œHolding spaceā€ for a culture of belonging

Dec. 15, 2021

As 2021 comes to a close and I reflect on my first year as Dean, Iā€™m filled with gratitude for our College of Music family and all weā€™ve accomplished in a new and evolving hybrid learning environment. Iā€™m especially proud of our progress to ensure an increasingly welcoming spirit within our beautifully expanded Imig Music Building.

MFAL

Annual Holiday Festival celebrates community comeback

Dec. 1, 2021

MarieFaith Lane, a current graduate student and Holiday Festival 2021 concertmaster, offers a first-person perspective on the spirit of this weekendā€™s community event.

Davis interactions

Innovation + inclusivity

Nov. 18, 2021

ā€œWe have a strong foundation for DEI work and weā€™re seeing progress [...] but thereā€™s more workā€”more positive disruptionā€”ahead of us before we can claim ubiquitous inclusivity in our collegeā€™s culture, classrooms and curricula.ā€

KA

The transformative power of music

Nov. 16, 2021

Kedrick Terrell Armstrong is one of the students benefiting from scholarship support as he works toward a masterā€™s in orchestral conducting.

JS

CU Philharmonia Orchestra features anthem for risk taking, for ā€œthat brilliant fire that lives in us allā€

Nov. 10, 2021

On Nov. 15, the CU Philharmonia Orchestra will present diverse works by Jessica Mays, Maurice Ravel and Felix Mendelssohn.

AC

New endowed fund to foster DEI through American Music Research Center

Nov. 8, 2021

ā€œWe have a real opportunity to use the American Music Research Center as a uniting force to bring together people of different cultures, ethnicities, perspectives and walks of life. I see this [DEI] work as not only educational, but as a strategy to improve the environment in which persons of color are pursuing their educations at CU Boulder.ā€

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