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Simply outstanding: Four undergrads receive faculty award, scholarship

May 1, 2015

Robbie Erhard, Chas Douthit, Jordan Pyle and David Leech named 2015 College of Music Outstanding Students.

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NAfME recognizes three CU-Boulder music ed students

April 28, 2015

NAfME has awarded its Professional Achievement Recognition to CU-Boulder juniors Maddy Cort, Amanda Johnson and Alex Chavez.

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DAILY CAMERA - CU's 'Poppea' an astonishing accomplishment

April 24, 2015

Be sure to include CU's "L'incoronazione di Poppea" in your weekend plans!

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Master student performs with world-famous “orchestral academy”

April 17, 2015

Trombone MM candidate Mark Hsieh just returned from a three-week stint with the New World Symphony in Miami, Fla.

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Students and dean discuss future of college, strategic plan

April 10, 2015

On Thursday evening, April 9, Dean Robert Shay held a town hall meeting for students to hear more about the College of Music's upcoming strategic plan, ask questions and provide their feedback.

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CU-Boulder students perform at Monterey's prestigious Next Generation Jazz Festival

March 31, 2015

The students were invited to perform as part of the Monterey Jazz Festival’s prestigious Next Generation Jazz Festival, which annually brings more than a thousand middle-school, high-school and college big bands, combos and ensembles to “duke it out for the glory of performing at the Monterey Jazz Festival in September,” according to the festival’s website.

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DAILY CAMERA — Eklund Opera's 'Così fan tutte' is 'intense, hysterical, radiant'

March 13, 2015

Even in its most intimate and reserved moments, Mozart's Così fan tutte is by turns intense and hysterical. Its intricate plot, which might have become convoluted in lesser hands than those of Mozart and his librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte, moves forward with such swiftness that at times the observer is left breathless.

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Graying gracefully: Natalie Merchant to play with CU-Boulder Symphony April 2

March 9, 2015

Natalie Merchant is used to it by now—the startled gasp from the audience when she emerges on stage. The reaction says more about our celebrity-crazed culture than it does about Merchant, embraced by fans in the 1980s as the hip vocalist and literate lyricist/songwriter for the alt-folk-rock band 10,000 Maniacs.

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Jazz great Paquito D'Rivera to give master class at CU-Boulder Feb. 26

Feb. 24, 2015

Born in Havana, Cuba, the versatile D'Rivera—flute, saxophone, clarinet—performed with the National Theater Orchestra at age 10. He studied at the Havana Conservatory of Music and became a featured soloist with the Cuban National Symphony at age 17.

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College of Music piano major Eli Stalzer key to Buffs basketball

Feb. 17, 2015

Under bright stage lights, before an audience of empty chairs, Eli Stalzer runs his fingers across the keys of a large, black piano. He’s come for an interview, not a rehearsal, but he can’t help himself: He’s been a piano player since age eight.

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