The University of Colorado College of Music won鈥檛 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.
College of Music freshman Michael Ochoa has been named to the inaugural class of the CU-Boulder Esteemed Scholars program. "I was honored to be awarded this scholarship and to be included in this program," Ochoa says. "A huge factor for me was the professor of oboe here (Peter Cooper), also the environment of CU-Boulder is a really welcoming place."
鈥楽ide by Side鈥� is more than just a musical review BOULDER, Colo. 鈥� Imagine hanging out with legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim and a few of his closest friends鈥擝ernadette Peters, Leonard Bernstein, Mandy Patinkin and others鈥攁s they chat and swing into some of his greatest works. That鈥檚 what you鈥檒l experience onstage when CU Opera performs 鈥淪ide by Side by Sondheim鈥� April 24-27.
Moved by a performance of the 2013 Holiday Festival, one of the College of Music's and CU Presents' most popular events year after year, University of Colorado Regent Stephen Ludwig authored a poem, "Cosmic Gift," that distills some of the emotions stirred by the performance.
The University of Colorado Boulder Horn Choir performs Jean-Fran莽ois Taillard's "Christmas Crackers" at Denver's Children's Hospital on Dec. 9, 2013, Michael Thornton directing.
Beginning in fall 2014, these Sher Distinguished Scholars (either undergraduate or graduate students) will be awarded full-ride scholarships to the College of Music based on their demonstrated exceptional ability and potential to excel at a national and international level.
Following the brutal ethnic cleansing that ravaged Kosovo in the late 1990s, Liz Shropshire wanted to find a way to help the tens of thousands of children living in refugee camps.
BOULDER, Colo. 鈥� Brett Madsen was deeply interested in music as a high-school student in Florida. It just wasn鈥檛 the pop, rock, hip-hop and other genres most of his peers listened to. He was into classical music, from Bach and Beethoven to Mozart and Chopin. And he was very into writing the same kind of thing.
Violinist Jenny Shea, a Colorado native and graduate student at the CU-Boulder College of Music, climbed daunting Longs Peak with her friend, cellist Gal Faganel, professor of cello at the University of Northern Colorado, play a free 'rock' concert on July 22, 2013.
Top: Scored by Dan Brandt, played by violinist Marisa Ishikawa, cellists Megan Knapp and Trevor Minton, and pianist Peter Mathys. Ishikawa and Knapp also appear briefly. Bottom: Scored by Hugh Lobel, played by Ishikawa, Knapp, Minton, and Mathys.
