Composition
- Nearly a year after he found out his saxophone quartet "The Mechanics" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music, CU composer Carter Pann is helping the College of Music's graduate quartet prepare the piece for its Colorado 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 CU bands department for a concert and master classes.
- Violin professor Charles Wetherbee starts 2017 with a new hope for the future of musical relations after an October trip to Cuba.
- Andrea Ramsey hopes her piece about the Flint, Michigan, water crisis will move choral fans to activism.
- During her career, Barbara Bentree (BME ’80) has collaborated with Mouseketeers, her husband and even her high school classmates. But through it all, the name of a fellow College of Music graduate kept coming up.
- At Faculty Tuesday on Nov. 1, pianist Hsing-ay Hsu explores a few different compositional approaches with the astonishing genius of Beethoven and Chopin.
- It’s a big week for Associate Professor of Composition Daniel Kellogg: One of the biggest pieces he’s ever written will have its world premiere at Boettcher Concert Hall in Denver.
- On Monday evening, Nov. 7, music at ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ will be well represented on the East Coast when the College of Music puts on a showcase concert at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall.