Composition
Two composition faculty now have new titles and more resources thanks to two longtime friends of the College of Music.
Maria and Don Johnson and Conor Brown at a recent College of Music donor reception Don and Maria Johnson are generous supporters of the College of Music and the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ
Boulder. Denver. Washington, D.C. Helsinki. The College of Music is hitting the road in October to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Finnish independence, starting with a Faculty Tuesday premiere of a student-written ode to Finnish folk tradition.
In a special partnership for the 2017 edition of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ NOW’s Composer Fellows’ Initiative, Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder’s Eklund Opera Program teamed up with Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Film Studies students to create short films to accompany student-written and student-performed opera scenes
<p>This summer, Eklund Opera’s trailblazing new works program—ŷÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ New Opera Workshop, or Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ NOW—pulls out all the proverbial stops in its latest quest to bring what’s fresh and exciting about opera to the campus of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder.</p>
Waking up at 3:30 a.m., rappelling off a 60-foot wall and learning how to use a gas mask aren’t part and parcel of most post-music-school gigs. For Sara Corry, though, it’s all just another day in the life.
Nearly a year after he found out his saxophone quartet "The Mechanics" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music, Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ composer Carter Pann is helping the College of Music's graduate quartet prepare the piece for its Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ premiere.
Alumni Sam Estes (MM ’05) and Cole Ingraham (DMA ’13) are changing the game in film scoring, helping build a music composition software based on an algorithm and user needs.
If you’ve ever stopped to enjoy the music drifting from a painted piano near the Pearl Street Cheesecake Factory, then you’ve been exposed to the many talents of first-year composition student Jack Gaffney.
Musical excellence, intrastate collaboration and the 70th birthday of the U.S. Air Force will all be on display at the College of Music this February as the U.S. Air Force Academy Band joins the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ bands department for a concert and master classes.