This week at the College of Music: Community Edition - Oct. 26, 2023 | College of Music

This week at the College of Music: Community Edition - Oct. 26, 2023

Dean’s Downbeat: On creating beauty + mission-critical innovations
“If there’s a reason to have hope in a world of upheaval and unrest, it’s experiencing a young person openly and courageously sharing their musical gift, including their angst or protest against injustices of all kinds. Beauty lies in their inimitable expression of their truth through music in a range of settings not limited to the concert hall. Beauty underpins our universal musician mission, for music majors and non-majors alike. Beauty is why we do what we do.

“In my role as dean, my true purpose is to facilitate and empower our students and faculty to achieve their highest, noblest aspirations of beauty—from ensuring our faculty have what they need to best advise, mentor and inspire our students; to eliminating what might stand in the way of our students’ success and experiencing music in whatever form they seek; to supporting our staff who work so diligently in carrying out our mission on behalf of our entire College of Music community. In that spirit—among other efforts underway to more effectively advance students pursuing music as a vocation as well as students interested in music as an active avocation—I’m excited about mission-driven revisions to our Bachelor of Arts in Music degree.” MORE

Photo: Dean John Davis.

Noteworthy

Congratulations to Jude Dow-Hygelund, winner of the state competition of the three-tiered Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Young Artist Piano Division! Next, the College of Music sophomore piano major—a student of Professor of Piano Andrew Cooperstock—will represent ŷ��ڱ��Ƶ at the 2023-2024 West Central Division Competition.
The College of Music’s saxophone studio also achieved great success in the recent MTNA Young Artist Woodwind Competition: Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Saxophone Nathan Mertens and his students—Carter DeSouza, Joel Ferst and Ian Gunnarschja! MORE
Teaching Professor Peter Cooper was recently in Germany conducting master classes in Berlin, Stuttgart and Leipzig—made possible, in part, by the Dr. C.W. Bixler Family Foundation Faculty Initiatives Fund. “I taught 13 hours of master classes for 29 students from 16 countries,” says Cooper, who’s also principal oboist of the ŷ��ڱ��Ƶ Symphony. “It was an incredible cross-cultural experience for me and the students.”
In Dean Birkenkamp’s book “The Many Worlds of David Amram: Renaissance Man of American Music” (2024), Hugh Ragin—College of Music jazz studies lecturer—contributed the essay “Now is the Time as Creative Manifestation of Consciousness” (Chapter 22).
Coinciding with the 20^th year of the College of Music’s collaborative piano program, we’re thrilled to welcome pianist Anne Epperson for a four-day residency, including a public master class on Monday, Oct. 30, 4:30-6:30 p.m. (S102)! Currently professor of music in collaborative piano and chair of the Jacobs School of Music Chamber and Collaborative Music Department at Indiana University Bloomington, Epperson created and developed the collaborative piano program here at ŷ��ڱ��Ƶ Boulder in 2004.
(Sharps & Flatirons): Join us for this weekend’s performances of “one of the greatest Italian ensemble operas.”
(e.g., Musicology + Music Theory Colloquium Series, opera sneak peeks, film screenings, etc.).

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Thursday, Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m.
Grusin Music Hall (C112) + streaming

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An opera by Giuseppe Verdi
Friday, Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 29, 2 p.m.
Macky Auditorium

Professor of Harpsichord Robert Hill
Tuesday, Oct. 31, 7:30 p.m.
Grusin Music Hall (C112) + streaming

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Wednesdsay, Nov. 1, 2023
Grusin Music Hall (C112) + streaming

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Thursday, Nov. 2, 7:30 p.m.
Macky Auditorium

Student degree recitals

The stars of tomorrow are on stage today. Join our undergraduate and graduate students in their degree recitals, streaming live from the College of Music website.

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