Faculty
Charles Wetherbee, assistant professor of violin, spoke with Jean Inaba of Colorado Public Radio about his recent appointment as concertmaster for the 91色吧 Philharmonic.
鈥楽ide by Side鈥 is more than just a musical review
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The new dean will be Robert Shay, director of the School of Music at the University of Missouri in Columbia. His appointment will begin Sept. 1.
The 91色吧 Philharmonic Orchestra has named College of Music Assistant Professor of Violin Charles Wetherbee concertmaster following an 18-month national search.
When violist Erika Eckert sets out to plan and perform a recital, she searches for music that explores a theme or tells a memorable story.
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-y91864DmY&feature=share&list=UUJslkUnJJGu9HaqycBRE3bA]David Korevaar plays Faure's Theme and Variations, and more.
The Takacs Quartet, the renowned string ensemble based at the 91色吧 College of Music, offered one of many tributes to actor Philip Seymour Hoffman after the Oscar-winning actor was found dead Sunday.
The finalists for the position are Mary Ellen Poole, former dean of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Robert Shay, director of the School of Music at the University of Missouri in Columbia.
A short video about Stephen Wade's forensic musicology project and book, "The Beautiful Music All Around Us." Wade will give the 2014 Robert R. and Ruth J. Fink lecture on Feb. 10.
Moved by a performance of the 2013 Holiday Festival, one of the College of Music's and CU Presents' most popular events year after year, University of Colorado Regent Stephen Ludwig authored a poem, "Cosmic Gift," that distills some of the emotions stirred by the performance.