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The students of the pre-professional organization for music education majors at the University of Colorado Boulder have recently been recognized nationally and locally for the quality of their programs and their commitment to providing learning experiences for their members. On March 11th, CU Boulder’s chapter of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) Collegiate division [...]
Keith Waters’ 2011 book The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68 has won numerous accolades this year
The Tesla Quartet, graduate string quartet-in-residence at the CU College of Music, has earned the Gold Medal in the Senior Strings Division of the illustrious Fischoff Chamber Music competition. After several rounds of rigorous competition, the Tesla Quartet emerged with the gold medal in the senior strings division along with a $3,000 cash prize. In [...]
Keane Southard (MM 2011) has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student grant to spend nine months next year pursuing research in Brazil.
Gramophone, the world’s authority on classical music, in preparation for its 90th birthday celebration, has selected 50 names to be the first inductees into The Gramophone Hall of Fame. Among these 50 names are only two ensembles, one of them being CU Boulder’s very own Takács Quartet. To give an idea of the caliber of [...]
Patrick Mason, a professor of voice at the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Music, has been selected to receive the 2012 Hazel Barnes Prize.
Composition faculty Daniel Kellogg has been awarded a coveted Aaron Copland Award that includes a residency at Aaron Copland’s National Historic Landmark house in New York’s lower Hudson Valley. During this residency, Professor Kellogg will continue his exemplary composition work. “An Official Project of the White House Save America’s Treasures program, Copland House is the only composer’s [...]
Students of Andrew Cooperstock were named prize winners in the “New York Concerti Sinfonietta 2011 International Piano Concerto Competition”
The Music Teachers National Association is a non profit organization whose mission is to advance the value of music study and music making to society and to support the professionalism of music teachers, 600 of whom reside in Colorado. Among other activities, MTNA organizes an annual national music competition. This year the first stage of the [...]
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