Composition
- 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 CU Boulder 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.
- Student composer from the University of Colorado Boulder workshop and present original opera scenes alongside their voice and opera peers at the CU NOW Composer Fellows' Initiative.
- Hugh Lobel, a 2015 DMA graduate, is making it easier for anyone to compose their own music using his new platform, Music_SDP.
- Composition alumnus Keane Southard is raising funds to write a symphony about the Appalachian Trail.
- Faculty composer Carter Pann's piece "The Mechanics: Six from the Shop Floor" was named a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
- Associate Professor of Music Composition and Technology Michael Theodore recently wrapped up an art and sound installation at David B. Smith Gallery in Denver’s Lower Downtown district.