Community Engagement
On May 5, we look forward to welcoming back Judith Glyde, formerly professor of cello and chamber music at the College of Music and chair of our string faculty. Since retiring in 2014 to live in New York City, the professor emerita she has been active with the colleges alumni community there, offering tremendous support to Forever Buffs who are now living and working in the city.
To support our students and our communitys musical development, the College of Music offers summer session courses and richly varied summer programming.
Recent alumnus Kaleb Chesnic has already made his mark on flute repertoire by transcribing all three of Edvard Griegs violin sonatas. He shared with us how his debut recording with collaborative pianist and alumna Nath獺lia Kato came to be.
Recent alumna Carrie Proctor always knew she wanted to impact young lives by becoming a music educator. Discover her passion to inspire youths through a shared connection to music.
As 2021 comes to a close and I reflect on my first year as Dean, Im filled with gratitude for our College of Music family and all weve accomplished in a new and evolving hybrid learning environment. Im especially proud of our progress to ensure an increasingly welcoming spirit within our beautifully expanded Imig Music Building.
MarieFaith Lane, a current graduate student and Holiday Festival 2021 concertmaster, offers a first-person perspective on the spirit of this weekends community event.
We have a real opportunity to use the American Music Research Center as a uniting force to bring together people of different cultures, ethnicities, perspectives and walks of life. I see this [DEI] work as not only educational, but as a strategy to improve the environment in which persons of color are pursuing their educations at CU Boulder.
Kicking off November, the College of Music's Piano + Keyboard Program will present virtual and in-person events as part of a doctoral seminar on diverse piano literature.
"Everything is connectedmy artistry, my scholarship, my dissertation research and my activism in the immigrant community.
On Oct. 19, horn and piano faculty will collaborate with the CU Boulder Graduate Wind Quintet and members of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in a Faculty Tuesdays program for winds, including George Walker's "Wind Set."