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In our latest faculty spotlight, Assistant Professor of Composition and Pendulum New Music Director Annika Socolofsky discusses her recent Gaudeamus Award win and how she perceives her role as a composer, performer and educator. “There is only one thing that I can do better than anyone else on the planet, and that’s to be fully me,” says Socolofsky. “It’s my job as a composer to be genuinely and transparently myself in my music and that means embracing my love of other types of music, art and so on. To deny that would be to deny a part of myself.” Read on and be inspired.

Photo by Co Broerse: Annika Socolofsky performs “Don’t say a word” with the New European Ensemble at Gaudeamus Muziekweek in Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2021.

• Congratulations to alumna mezzo-soprano Claire McCahan—a student of College of Music Associate Professor of Voice Abigail Nims—for competition!
• Annual Persevering Legacy concerts feature works by diverse women composers: The lineup includes the late Florence Price, the country’s best-known Black female composer; Zenobia Powell Perry, a professor and civil rights activist; and Grażyna Bacewicz, a Lithuanian and Polish emigre composer and violinist; alongside living composers such as Angelica Negrón and Jessie Montgomery, both born in 1981.
• ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Philharmonia honors Florence Price in newly imagined orchestration: As part of a weekend honoring diverse women composers, join us for a full orchestration of “Seven Miniatures for Piano” comprising seven standalone pieces—each of which reveals different facets of Price’s creative personality. ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder student and alumni composers completed the orchestrations. 

• COVID-19 protocols on campus