Colorado Music Magazine 2018

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2018

Music at your fingertips How Specdrums—a CU-bred tech company— is disrupting music education with its little silicone ring (pg. 32)

Transatlantic collaboration pg. 6

Reaching rural pg. 17

excellence College taking applicants for musical theatre degree If you’re catching a Broadway vibe from the College of Music right now, it’s not your imagination. In March, College of Music students, faculty and alumni brought Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd to Macky Auditorium. And next year, the college launches its new Bachelor of Music in musical theatre degree. “I want to turn this into a program that’s as competitive as any of those at the top-tier musical theatre training schools,” says Matthew Chellis, who is heading development of the program.

Contents

06 Spanning the globe to open doors Partnering with Finland’s Sibelius Academy

12 Alumni 20 Guest Artists 26 Faculty 32 Students 38 Our Supporters 47 In Memoriam

Editor/Writer Designer Jessie Bauters Sabrina Green Contributors Photography Corinne Baud CU Photography Sabine Kortals Glenn Asakawa Sarah Off Jackson Dorfman Alexander George Copy Editors Laima Haley Madelyne Smith Becca Vaclavik Amanda Tipton Printer Frederic Printing

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Founded in 1920, the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music offers a wide range of programs for undergraduate and graduate study, uniquely combining advanced musical training with professionally oriented experiences and the rich resources of a leading research university. Active as award- winning professional performers, composers and scholars, College of Music faculty members are committed to helping students develop their talents and succeed in their chosen musical endeavors. The college offers seven undergraduate and graduate degrees in 23 fields of study, along with an array of interdisciplinary opportunities, including certificates in music technology and entrepreneurship.

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Cover photo: Specdrums in action. Photo by Jackson Dorfman Dear Friends, Dean’s Cabinet Inspiring artistry and Dean, College of Music discovery, together. Robert Shay Associate Dean for Enrollment Last year, the College of Music faculty Management and Undergraduate Studies approved a new mission statement, James Austin and these five words represent a Assistant Dean for Concerts short version of what we came up and Communications with. It’s simple and speaks directly to Joan McLean Braun who we are: We want our students to Associate Dean for Graduate Studies be artists and thinkers and to benefit Steven Bruns substantially from the pervasive sense Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs of community that so thoroughly and Operations characterizes our work. We keep this John Davis mission in mind especially as a new Director of Strategic Initiatives and academic year gets underway, and Special Assistant to the Dean as we get to know a new (and large) Alexander George incoming class. We seek inspiration Assistant Dean for Budget and Finance from our new students just as we hope David Mallett to inspire them to envision musical Assistant Dean for Advancement lives full of artistry and discovery. Courtney Rowe

Behind the scenes at the College of Music, this moment puts us on an exciting, transformative path as we move forward with our plans for an expansion of the Imig Music Building. The major addition to the south end of the building—approximately 20,000 additional feet— Advisory Board is slated to begin this January and is projected to be completed in 2020. The expansion will provide new state-of-the-art rehearsal spaces, classrooms, faculty Chair studios and practice rooms, as well as specialized labs for our Entrepreneurship Mikhy Ritter Center for Music and Musicians’ Wellness Program. Sue Baer Jim Bailey Gil Berman Supporting this expansion has been the dedicated work of the College of Music Christopher Brauchli Advisory Board and music+ Campaign Steering Committee. While focused on our Bob Bunting $50 million music+ campaign to raise new endowment funds to support College Jan Burton of Music students, faculty and programs, much of their work lately has been Bob Charles devoted to a brick-and-mortar component to support construction of the new Paul Eklund facility. I am pleased to report that we have currently raised more than $29 million Bill Elliott toward our $50 million goal. Martha Coffin Evans Jonathan Fox David Fulker As a member of the College of Music family, you play an important part in our Grace Gamm work; we continue to sense—as we consider the accomplishments of our alumni, Lloyd Gelman the generosity of our supporters, the commitment of our faculty and staff, and Laurie Hathorn the talents, energy and scholarship of our students—that we’re poised to do Doree Hickman something very special, broadening our leadership in the field and seeing our Daryl James impact grow locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. Maria Johnson Caryl Kassoy Robert Korenblat Erma Mantey With best wishes, Ben Nelson Joe Negler Susan Olenwine Becky Roser Firuzeh Saidi Stein Sture Robert Shay Jeannie Thompson Dean, College of Music Jack Walker Celia Waterhouse

5 Spanning the globe to open doors College enters into collaboration with Sibelius Academy

Last fall, Finland marked 100 years since the Nordic nation gained its independence from Russia. At the same time, a series of events culminated in a partnership that will bring Finnish musicians and scholars to Boulder and send College of Music faculty and students half a world away to work with one of Europe’s most renowned music institutions. 

6 · 2018 FEATURED 7 “It’s inspiring that something like this came out of the strategic plan, the passion of our donors and faculty enthusiasm for international collaboration.”

The opportunity was set in motion The piece had its premiere in October and Director of Orchestras Gary Lewis. three years ago, when donors Don and 2017 on the Faculty Tuesdays series This summer, Brown and double bass Maria Johnson—he an architect and and then hit the road for two more student Brett Armstrong attended she a dancer—proposed a scholarship performances: at CU Denver and at the Sibelius’ highly selective summer and commission for a composition Finnish Embassy in Washington, D.C. program, Creative Dialogue, in Santa graduate student to write a piece Fe. Students from music schools like the celebrating the centennial. “I’m astounded. This was just one idea Eastman School of Music and the Curtis that has taken off,” Johnson says. “It Institute of Music were in attendance. “Both Maria, being a Finn, and my love was so exciting to hear Conor’s piece of Finnish culture and design were the performed at the embassy. That blows Shay says a key component moving reasons for choosing Finland for reaching me away. We were invited by the forward will be to establish a more out internationally,” says Don Johnson. ambassador!” formal student exchange program. “What happens in classrooms and The celebration This October—almost exactly a year rehearsal halls is only a part of students’ The first recipient of the Finnish after they debuted Brown’s piece— overall learning. The additional Jubilee Composition Scholarship was Professor of Clarinet Daniel Silver, opportunities for travel, collaboration Conor Brown, a master’s student in graduate quartet in residence Ajax and learning from diverse peers can composition who graduated in May. Quartet and vocalist-accordionist contribute and potentially help them The scholarship not only helped make it alumna Alicia Baker (MM ’16) will take refine their career paths.” possible for him to study at the College the work to Helsinki for its Finnish of Music—it afforded him the chance to debut. A few days later, they’ll join the The transformative potential of study immerse himself in Finnish culture. College of Music’s second Weill Recital abroad is also part of what inspired Hall showcase concert at Carnegie Hall the Johnsons to support the college “I met with the Johnsons, and after in New York. and its efforts. Maria Johnson herself talking about the project, it became is a native of Finland who came to the clear that in order to do the piece The partnership United States as a dance student. “It justice, I needed to go to Finland,” As Brown’s piece made the rounds, the is a big change for [the students] and Brown explains. He spent 10 days College of Music celebrated another it might change their whole thinking in the capital city of Helsinki and in milestone: Three years into its strategic about the future,” she says. “It’s also Rovaniemi, a town on the Arctic Circle, plan, The College of Music Advantage, important when they come back that learning from experience and shaping the college has entered into a formal they share their experiences with their his work with the help of Finnish partnership with the Sibelius Academy peers.” accordionist Hannu Rahikainen. The at the University of the Arts in Helsinki. on-the-ground learning led to Ladun And Brown, a Boulder native who began hiihin lau lajille, Brown’s piece inspired “It’s inspiring that something like composing music when he was just 10 by Finnish folk tales and national music. this came out of the strategic plan, years old, says the cultural exchange the passion of our donors and between CU and Sibelius could take “The text comes from two poems from faculty enthusiasm for international musical study at both institutions to a two different rural regions of Finland,” collaboration,” says Robert Shay, dean new level. Brown explains. “But the music isn’t of the College of Music. “That’s what meant to imitate Finnish music. Part makes this so special.” “I think the culture at the academy is of my background is in Bulgarian, very different from CU Boulder. Seeing Macedonian and klezmer music as a The partnership calls for short-term those two different styles in action can clarinetist, so that influence is felt in faculty and student visits; it’s already be helpful in training composers here all my compositions. I decided not to seen transatlantic visits by Sibelius Dean and in Finland.” write that out of the piece but rather to Kaarlo Hildén and Head of International include the Finnish influence primarily Relations Tuovi Martinsen, along with through text.” Shay, Composition Chair Daniel Kellogg

Photos, clockwise from top: CU musicians performing at the Finnish Embassy in Washington; Student composer Conor Brown walks a snowy 8 · 2018 trail near Rovaniemi, Finland, during a trip there in 2016; Maria and Don Johnson and Conor Brown at a College of Music donor reception FEATURED 9 The College of Music Advantage: Year Two

1 Connect student success to professional achievement • Hosted third Cleveland Orchestra residency • Filled new staff position in community engagement and social innovation

2 Realize music’s interdisciplinary potential • Expanded curricular offerings to include: - BA in Music, Technology and Media - Minor in Music - Certificate in Arts Administration

3 Expand national and international leadership • Finalized Sibelius Academy partnership • Held Recreate Your Roots festival

4 Build a robust network of partners • Launched National Alumni Council • Entered into Accademia Musicale Chigiana partnership

5 Cultivate diversity and inclusion • Hosted first Distinguished Lectureship on Music, Diversity and Inclusion The new Howard B. Waltz Music Library

Last fall, after two years of interviews, planning and construction, the newly renovated Howard B. Waltz Music Library opened its doors with a more open floor plan and new collaborative spaces for student groups.

Introducing platform facilitates connections among alumni across disciplines in music and Stay Connected Music Buff Connect non-music industries, allowing Music Buffs to search by field of study, area Get the latest updates on the Robust alumni engagement platform— of interest or geographic location.” College of Music website at musicbuffalumni.com—fosters music colorado.edu/music. Follow us on industry innovations, entrepreneurship, The new platform also spotlights social media for news about alumni, professional development and College of Music alumni who are students, faculty and friends. networking. trailblazers in the music industry and @cubouldermusic promotes relevant news, knowledge This spring, the College of Music and events via regular updates that launched Music Buff Connect, an @cubouldermusic inspire Music Buffs to redefine success. engagement platform for all CU Music Buffs—alumni, current students and @cubouldermusic participants in any College of Music Join musicbuffalumni.com to: • Celebrate alumni accomplishments youtube.com/musicatcu ensemble or program. and discover how Music Buffs are well equipped to lead and innovate “Music Buff Connect is the online home What do you think of this magazine? in music and non-music industries for alumni to network with fellow Music Email [email protected] Buffs, to ask questions and explore • Share your services, expertise, to let us know. collaborations with other alumni, insights and lessons learned and to discover and share tools and • Post updates and queries and resources that develop their skills and expand your professional network advance their careers,” says Alumni Coordinator Meagan Mahlberg. “The

FEATURED 11 ALUMNI

College of Music National Alumni Council celebrates inaugural year

Founding members pay it forward

12 · 2018 One of the first goals of the recently launched College of Music alumni program was to establish the College of Music National Alumni Council (COMNAC) comprised of creative alumni pursuing diverse career paths. Priorities of the council include, among others, channeling members’ own professional insights and accomplishments to inform alumni initiatives, such as elevating student achievements and celebrating the myriad successes of fellow alumni. 

ALUMNI 13 Meet the alumni serving as the and get some practical education— council’s founding members: journalism—that might help me find a paying gig after college. This proved to be fortuitous, as my first job was Susan Olenwine as a public relations assistant with the (MM ’09), Chair Denver Symphony. Fifteen years ago, I returned to the nonprofit world to raise Susan Olenwine—a Boulder-based money for worthy causes, including the freelance collaborative pianist, teacher San Francisco Symphony. It all makes and coach—serves as COMNAC’s sense in retrospect.” first council chair. “I came to CU Boulder after a 20-year career in Continues Berenson, “My years at CU music administration,” says Olenwine, were some of the best of my life. When I who also serves on the College of was invited to join COMNAC, the pieces Music Advisory Board. “My major was fell into place. I was thrilled because collaborative piano, which came after a it meant I had an excuse to visit the lifetime of being a collaborative pianist school and meet other alumni who had but without the formal degree. chosen different paths like I had.” “The education I received at CU added many levels of knowledge and Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf expertise and provided the opportunity (DMA ’07) to develop my instinctive skills with Upon receiving an associate’s degree fabulous oversight from the entire at London’s Guildhall School of Music faculty at the college.” Olenwine had and Drama, Scottish-born cellist Mairi previously earned bachelor’s and Dorman-Phaneuf earned master’s and master’s degrees from the Manhattan doctoral degrees at the College of School of Music and an MBA from the Music. She’s currently based in New University of New Haven. York, where she’s working on Broadway and as a freelancer. Barbara Bentree (BME ’80) Santa Fe-based filmmaker Barbara “I would not have been able to afford Bentree—director of “Dave Grusin: graduate school in the United States,” ‘Not Enough Time’”(due out next year says Dorman-Phaneuf, who has held and chronicling the life of fellow alum chairs in 16 Broadway shows. “The Grusin)—says COMNAC provides “a teaching assistant position I was tangible and meaningful way to give appointed to made my life and career in back to the College of Music. the United States possible. I feel I owe a tremendous debt to CU Boulder. I’m “The study of music applies to many glad to have this opportunity to serve.” unrelated fields,” she explains. “I Adds Musick, “I truly believe the often use my music training to make Michael Musick (BM ’07) College of Music—along with its editing choices on my films. It’s Missoula-based Michael Musick is partner programs in the College of satisfying to share knowledge and assistant professor of media arts at the Media, Communication and Information experience that took me decades to University of Montana. “My work focuses and ATLAS—is well-positioned to be absorb and understand. I hope that on the use of code and computers to among the most significant centers for my participation will inspire younger make art and music,” he says. “My time innovative music- and art-making in students—collaboration always makes at CU inspired me to pursue a career the country.” any project more powerful!” in music and art. It gave me strong foundational tools in performance, Douglas T. Owens (MM ’86) Kate Berenson (BA ’78) composition, theory and history, while Having earned both a bachelor’s in Based in Berkeley, Kate Berenson— allowing me to develop as a performer. music education and a master’s in senior philanthropic advisor and major trumpet performance at the College gifts officer at the Jewish Community “The confidence I earned at CU also of Music, Douglas T. Owens currently Federation of San Francisco, the empowered me to shift from the lives in Norfolk, where he’s Diehn Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties— tuba to making music and art with Endowed Chair of Instrumental complemented her voice degree from computers. It was from my studies Music Education, graduate program CU Boulder with journalism studies. with professors Michael Allen, Michael director and an associate professor of Dunn, Bill Stanley, Allan McMurray, John music at the Old Dominion University “I chose a general degree program Drumheller and Kevin Harbison that I Department of Music. that allowed me to continue to study knew my musical skills and techniques voice, perform with University Singers would be applicable beyond the tuba.”

Photos, top row from left: Barbara Bentree, Kate Berenson and Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf 14 · 2018 Bottom row from left: Michael Musick, Doug Owens and Ashraf Sewailam “College of Music faculty and various tripod existence” out of New York, San The Country Day School Headmasters’ experiences greatly impacted my career Francisco and Boulder. Association and as a consultant to as a music educator and musician,” educational and nonprofit organizations. he says. “Following graduation, I felt The voice teacher, budding stage “While studying at the College of highly prepared to teach instrumental director and freelance opera singer Music, I was fortunate to develop music in schools. I continue my enjoys a career spanning opera houses positive mentoring relationships with performance on trumpet, and I credit in the United States, Australia, New several professors,” recalls Wagner. trumpet professors Terry Sawchuk and Zealand and the Middle East. “The skills “Those individuals provided me with Frank Baird for motivating and inspiring and experiences I acquired during my opportunities that impacted my success me to work at a high level. 10 years of study at the College of Music as an educator and leader. They opened constitute the majority of professional professional doors that wouldn’t “The opportunity to learn more about fuel and infrastructure for my career,” have been made available without the current College of Music initiatives and says Sewailam. “Being a scholarship confidence they placed in me.” its students, faculty, staff and future recipient as an international student, as goals is very interesting to me. I would well as the education I received, inspire Reflecting on the council, Wagner like to contribute where I can.” and compel me to ‘pay it forward’ in adds, “When I was asked to serve on any way I can. It’s the least I can do to the council, I was honored to be able to Ashraf Sewailam (DMA ’08) say, ‘Thank You.’” give back to the college. I’m energized According to Ashraf Sewailam—who by the opportunity to be on campus, to earned a trio of degrees at the College Barbara Wagner (MME ’78) exchange ideas with other alumni who of Music, including bachelor’s, master’s Los Angeles-based Barbara Wagner care deeply about the college and— and doctoral degrees—he leads “a currently serves as executive director of most of all—to meet with students!”

ALUMNI 15 my investment in the College of Music parts of an already-written composition Finding inspiration helped me to become really clear about throughout the orchestra,” he says. what I wanted in life.” “But there’s always the opportunity to from Forever Buffs put a little bit of yourself into it, too.” Fuller, Kull honored as Specifically, Fuller balances the worlds of performance and education as a Kull serves as lead orchestrator for distinguished alumni touring artist and full-time professor at Douglas Pipes and was among a crew the Berklee College of Music. “Getting of orchestrators who worked with my master’s at CU, honing in on jazz James Newton Howard and James At this year’s commencement pedagogy and performance, really Horner on scores for several familiar ceremony, alumni Tia Fuller (MM ’00) brought it all together,” she says. “The blockbusters like “Avatar” and “Troy.” and Jon Kull (BM ’85, MM ’89) were College of Music turned out to be a He describes Howard as “an excellent fêted as distinguished alumni of the safe space to learn different modes of composer with a great gift for blending College of Music. teaching and to develop my own way of traditional orchestral elements with teaching,” she adds, specifically noting electronic textures” and credits the For Tia Fuller, “Being at CU Boulder the lasting influence of Professor of Jazz late Richard Toensing—prize-winning served as a strong foundation. Not Studies and Associate Dean for Faculty composer, accomplished conductor only in terms of my education, but also Affairs and Operations John Davis. and former faculty director of the musically, artistically and spiritually.” “I’ve always felt—and still feel—very College of Music’s then-Electronic The accomplished sax player recalls supported by the college,” she says. Music Studio—for being the first “to a visiting clinician at the College of open my ears” to such new sound Music encouraging students to write Jon Kull, a composer and orchestrator textures and possibilities. down what they wanted to accomplish in greater Los Angeles whose studies in life. “He asked us to expand our at CU focused on piano performance “Richard encouraged me to step outside thinking beyond just our professional and composition, has contributed to my comfort zone,” says Kull, who goals,” says Fuller. “I wrote down some 190 movies and additional TV remains active as a composer himself. several things, and I’ve hit 98 percent films and series. “In mechanical terms, “His perspective and willingness to of what I wrote down. I’m blessed that orchestration involves assigning the take risks continue to inspire me.”

16 · 2018 Photo: Jon Kull (BM ’85, MM ’89), Dean Robert Shay and Tia Fuller (MM ’00) at College of Music Commencement in May that exist in less traditional contexts. the community by expanding and Reaching rural I have begun to redefine my idea of strengthening this program. success by determining whether or to give back not my pursuits are driven by ego or In addition to my work with the Mt. Contributed by Sarah Off by a true passion for something. This Blanca Conservatory, I also performed has fostered my passion for rural recently as the violinist for Tandem (BM ’10) community arts engagement and Duo, a violin and percussion duo with increased my desire to give back to the percussionist Marilyn Clark Silva. Much community that gave so much to me. of our performing was for underserved I grew up in the San Luis Valley town communities like rural areas, and we of Del Norte, Colorado, which gave I serve as the artistic director of the Mt. aimed to break down the fourth wall me great insight and passion for the Blanca Summer Music Conservatory, by providing an intimate and diverse arts in rural areas. There is a real which serves the communities of program for our audiences through need for access to the arts through the San Luis Valley by providing collaboration with other art forms like live performance and educational opportunities for young musicians dance and theatre. opportunities in rural communities; to take part in private instruction, there’s also a vibrant and exciting workshops and performances. In I encourage everyone who has a opportunity for mutually beneficial addition to the educational priorities of passion for music and the arts to think partnerships to grow between the program, we offer opportunities for outside the box and look for ways to musicians and music educators and the community to attend and take part create in places that may not boast these communities. in live musical performance. Our guest well-known venues, large crowds or artists have consistently come away world-famous festivals but can offer a Often, our traditional idea of what from the experience feeling inspired by truly fulfilling and inspiring experience. a successful career looks like as a the enthusiastic reception and wanting After all, I think that’s what motivates musician tends to eclipse the many to return in the future. We hope to much of our passion as musicians in fulfilling and important career prospects continue our work in partnership with the first place.

Photo: Sarah Off graduated from the College of Music in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in violin performance ALUMNI 17 Alumni notes

Allan Armstrong (DMA ’16) is a visiting Several alumni from the music education Composer Nathan Hall (DMA ’14) was assistant professor of collaborative piano PhD program gave presentations at the commissioned by Playground Ensemble at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Society for Music Teacher Education to create a piece inspired by the Clyfford Music. (SMTE) and National Association for Music Still Museum in Denver, titled Notes from Education (NAfME) Music Research and Clyfford Still. Thompson Jazz Studies alumna Annie Teacher Education conferences, including Booth (BM ’11) received the 2017 Herb Kyle Chandler (PhD ’09), Erik Johnson Chris Hanning (DMA ’95) was appointed Alpert Young Jazz Composers Award, the (PhD ’14), Bryan Koerner (PhD ’17), Lisa dean of the School of Music at West Phoebe Jacobs Prize and a Westword Martin (PhD ’14), Stephanie Prichard (PhD Chester University in Pennsylvania. He is Music Award. She also released her latest ’13) and Taryn Raschdorf (PhD ’15). also president-elect of the Percussive Arts recording, Abundance. Society. Andrew Crust (DMA ’16) was named Pia Bose (DMA ’12) presented piano duo assistant conductor of the Memphis Keyboard alumnus Christopher Harmon recitals with pianist Antonio Pastor Otero in Symphony Orchestra and conductor of the (BA ’17) is the Rocky Mountain division Switzerland. Bose is professor of piano at Memphis Youth Symphony. manager for D’Addario Woodwinds. the International School of Geneva. Ricardo de la Torre (DMA ’13) was Oboist Abby Yeakle Held (MM ’14) Elaina Burns (MM ’07) is founder and owner appointed staff accompanist at the completed a nine-month Fulbright fellowship of Resonance: Mind-Body-Music, LLC, a University of Puget Sound. He was a judge in Vienna, studying the Viennese oboe and company that offers piano instruction, yoga in the Helen Crowe Snelling Memorial Piano earning her doctorate from the College- and meditation for performing artists in Competition in Washington state and the Conservatory of Music at the University of Pearl River, New York. Spokane Piano Competition. He was also Cincinnati. This fall, she began teaching in a finalist at the United States International the oboe department at Stephen F. Austin Grace Burns (MM ’17) was appointed to Duo Piano Competition with fellow alumna State University in Texas. the piano faculty at the Center for Young Lark Powers (DMA ’13) in Colorado Musicians in Pittsburgh. She is also staff Springs in December. Powers was recently Joshua Horsch (DMA ’15) conducted accompanist at Duquesne University. appointed assistant professor of piano productions with Opera Steamboat, Opera at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Las Vegas, Des Moines Metro Opera, Diego Caetano (DMA ’15) maintained a Washington. Florida Grand Opera, North Carolina Opera busy schedule of concerts this year, with and Tri-Cities Opera. performances in Texas, Japan, Brazil, In March, mezzo soprano Kristin Gornstein Spain and Portugal. He recently judged (MM ’08) joined the Little Opera Theatre YoonJoo Hwang (DMA ’17) was recently the DeBose National Piano Competition of New York and New Vintage Baroque appointed assistant professor of bassoon at in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Caetano is Orchestra to perform Johan Hasse’s Piramo the University of Central Florida. In Fall 2017, currently assistant professor at Amarillo e Tisbe at the Baruch Center of Performing Hwang was instrumental in the creation of College in Texas. Arts in New York. She also appeared with the the Korean Double Reed Association, which Brooklyn Art Song Society, singing songs united Korean bassoon and oboe teachers Music education alumni continue to have by Honegger and Durey, and appearing in and students for the first time. a strong presence at the annual Colorado a concert of new works, by Max Johnson. Music Educators Association (CMEA) In April, she made her Carnegie Hall debut, Music education alumnus Erik Johnson conference. Congratulations to Dana winning third place in the Lyndon Woodside (PhD ’14), associate professor of music Clanin (MME ’02), Phil Olivas (BME ’94), Oratorio Competition with the Oratorio education at Colorado State University, Anne Paulu (MM ’97) and Rob Styron Society of New York. She sang selections published an article based on his dissertation, (MME ’00) on their performances at the 2018 from Britten’s Phaedra and Mozart’s Mass “The Effect of Symmetrical and Asymmetrical CMEA conference. The following alumni gave in C minor. Peer-Assisted Learning Structures on Music presentations at the conference and/or serve Achievement and Learner Engagement in on the CMEA board: Amy Abbott (BME ’98), Percussionist Allison Rae Graham (MM ’17) Seventh-Grade Band,” in the Journal of Ed Cannava (BME, MME ’80, PhD ’94), is the K-12 music director at Limon Public Research in Music Education. Alex Chavez (BME ’16), Madeleine Cort Schools. (BME ’16), Elke Diefendorf (MME ’00), Nick Music education alumnus Bryan Koerner Hinman (BME ’08), Erik Johnson (BME ’01, Flute alumna Leanne Hampton (DMA (PhD ’17) was hired as assistant professor MM ’07, PhD ’14), Kate Klotz (BME ’08), ’17) was appointed consortium instructor of music education at the University of Anna Langness (PhD ’92), Brian Margrave of flute at the University of Evansville as Oklahoma. (BME ’07), Alison Mayes (BME ’06, MME well as principal flute for the Evansville ’15), Jay McGuffin (BME ’00), Jan Osburn Philharmonic Orchestra. The duo of pianist Rose Lachman (DMA (MME ’02), Jessica Sebold (BME ’15), Rick ’15) and violinist Michiko Theurer (DMA Shaw (BME ’80), Hannah Smith (BME ’14) Pianist Adam Haas (DMA ’10) was ’16) had a one-week residency this summer and Michael Vallez (MME ’14). appointed instructor at the Colorado at Avaloch Farms Music Institute in New Springs Conservatory. Hampshire.

Dick Larson (MME ’64) received the CMEA Music education alumna Stephanie In February, composition alumna Elena Hall of Fame Award for his lifetime of Prichard (PhD ’13) published an article Specht (MM ’17) premiered her commission accomplishments and his contributions to titled “Music Practice Instruction in Middle with Symphony Pro Musica in Hudson, music education in Colorado. School Instrumental Ensembles: An Massachusetts. Exploratory Analysis” in the Bulletin of the Doreen Lee (DMA ’15) was hired as tenure- Council for Research in Music Education. Pianist Lucy Tan (DMA ’16) was appointed track assistant professor of collaborative She also published an article based on artist in residence at Oklahoma Panhandle piano at the University of South Alabama. her dissertation in the Journal of Research State University. She recently performed a in Music Education. Prichard is assistant recital and gave a master class at Amarillo Pianists Elizabeth Leger (MM ’14) and Elle professor of music education at the College. Tyler (MM ’13) joined Emily McGree (DMA University of Maryland. ’10) on the administrative team at Parlando Christopher Tran (MM ’17) was named School of Musical Arts in Boulder. Thompson Jazz Studies Program alumnus associate director of orchestras at Plano Josh Reed (DMA ’16) was appointed Senior High School in Texas. Composition alumnus Hugh Lobel (DMA director of jazz studies at Santa Clara ’15) gave a premiere with the Texas New University in California and released a new James Clayton Vaughn (DMA ’13) was Music Ensemble. recording called Leaping Forward with appointed cellist with “The President’s pianist Art Lande. Own” Marine Corps Band. Vaughn is also Andrea Murano (MM ’14) won a flute/ a member of the Alabama Symphony piccolo position in the United States Air Rafael Rodriguez (DMA ’17) was appointed Orchestra and the Des Moines Metro Opera Force Academy Band in Colorado Springs. director of orchestras at Augsburg University Orchestra. in Minneapolis. Thompson Jazz Studies Program alumnus Owen Zhou (DMA ’14) performed at the Damani Phillips (DMA ’07) currently Music education alumnus Joshua Russell’s San Francisco International Piano Festival in teaches at the University of Iowa. This year, (PhD ’07) book Statistics in Music Education August 2017. He is the founder and owner he released a new recording called Live in Research was published by Oxford of Opus Zero, a video and audio production Iowa and published his first book, What Is University Press this year. Russell is currently company in Boulder. This Thing Called Soul—Conversations on associate professor of music education at Black Culture and Jazz Education. the University of Hartford.

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Connecting with heritage The Artist Series this year brought together a student with her idol

When Julieta García arrived at Macky age. “I loved music because of my Auditorium one Saturday afternoon in grandfather,” she says. “We grew up April, she only had a vague idea of what with him, always with a book around, was to come. It wasn’t until the junior always listening to music. That’s why I from Jacona, Michoacán, Mexico, saw have a passion for music, why I sang in the stage that reality sunk in. “I didn’t choirs and in church, and why singing know what to expect,” she says. “I had grew into a profession for me.” never been in a show like that before. When I saw the stage and musicians Those traditions were with García the set up for the soundcheck, I thought, night of her performance with Downs. ‘What did I get myself into?’” She wore an authentic P’hurépecha dress; it was made for the occasion That night, Mexican artist Lila Downs by an award-winning dressmaker would be performing to a sold-out whom she met by chance when she audience in her signature “cantina- was home over winter break. The classical” style. And for one song—a dress, Downs’ presence on stage and traditional P‛hurépecha tune from her the crowd made the night one García home region—García would join her. won’t soon forget. “I’ve been a fan for as long as I can remember,” García says. Indeed, her “It was a marvelous experience. I’ve admiration of Downs—who has made never felt so proud and so free,” she a career of melding traditional and says. “As soon as I stepped out on popular music from Mexico—started stage, I saw people whom I’d never when García was a student at the met shouting my name. And they were Conservatorio de las Rosas, when mostly Chicanos or immigrants from Downs presented a master class. Mexico, and I hope I gave that feeling of openness and warmness back to “She’s an avid fighter for the rights of them through my singing.” indigenous people,” García says. “She’s one of the people who has brought to Professor of Ethnomusicology Brenda the world what being Mexican really is. Romero helped orchestrate the meeting And she’s done it through music, which when she heard Downs was coming to is such a wonderful thing.” Boulder for CU Presents’ Artist Series. “People like Lila are a tremendous García’s background in music inspiration for students,” Romero says. goes back to the traditions of her “The fact that Julieta could be on stage P’hurépecha grandfather. As a with her and have a chance to introduce professor and native speaker of the herself to that audience—she was so P’hurépecha language indigenous to excited and happy.” central Mexico, he brought culture into García’s home environment while fostering a love of music from an early

Photo: Junior Julieta García performs on stage during Mexican singer Lila Downs’ Artist Series concert 20 · 2018 GUEST ARTISTS 21 thousands of pieces preserved in poet, multi-instrumentalist and founding Rooted in tradition the Library of Congress’ archives,” member of the Grammy Award-winning Recreate Your Roots festival explains Riis, who retired this year and Carolina Chocolate Drops. Flemons considers Recreate Your Roots his brought to the festival his own take shines spotlight on American swan song of sorts. “During Recreate on ragtime, Piedmont blues, spirituals, music of all creeds Your Roots, we presented songs in a Southern traditional music, string band modern, collaborative context that was music, fife and drum music and jug- both exciting and engaging—beyond a band music. This year, the American Music Research history lesson.” Center (AMRC) brought together a The festival further included a diverse cross-section of American Those songs come with backstories diverse Latin American program by roots music traditions in an ear-opening of black cowboys, slyly political Steve Mullins—a flamenco guitarist, festival for present-day listeners. Over Caribbean dancers—and the kind of composer and ethnomusicologist—and two weeks, Recreate Your Roots woman who wouldn’t leave her house Professor of Ethnomusicology Brenda presented concerts, TED-style talks without her fiddle and her rifle. “In all Romero, a singer-violinist and expert and community gatherings for all ages our music, we treat old field recordings on New Mexican, Native American and throughout Boulder County. not as time capsules but as heirloom Mexican styles. seeds passed down from a bygone “It inspired conversation and celebrated generation,” says Stone, internationally “Ultimately, Recreate Your Roots folk music in various formats on campus known banjoist, composer and song was a celebration that embodied the and out in the community,” says AMRC curator and coordinator of Recreate values we associate with folk music,” Director Thomas Riis of the festival, Your Roots. concludes Riis. “Through music and which was two years in the making. storytelling—between the performers “Through free, public programs—as “From Black Lives Matter to #MeToo, and our audiences—we‘re sharing well as school outreach—we wanted to we’re witnessing cultural shifts that common experiences of humanity.” engage a broad audience.” are sometimes easier to recognize and contextualize when you look backward,” Support for Recreate Your Roots came from Recreate Your Roots was a little like says Stone. “For my part, I have more the Department of Women and Gender a summer camp, featuring visiting questions than answers, and I think Studies; the Center for Humanities and the Arts; the Office of Diversity, Equity and musicians and collaborators—Jayme that’s perfectly wonderful as a starting Community Engagement; the Roser Visiting Stone’s Folklife, Anna & Elizabeth, point to real conversations about this Artists Endowment; the President’s Fund for and Dom Flemons—who honored cultural moment.” the Humanities; and local businesses and and explored the origins and social volunteers. underpinnings of the songs they The festival also featured Dom “The played. “Jayme has listened to American Songster” Flemons—slam

22 · 2018 Photo: Members of Jayme Stone’s Folklife perform a concert at First Congregational Church in Boulder Society for Seventeenth- Charlotte Heth: College of Members of The Cleveland Century Music hosts annual Music’s first Distinguished Orchestra visit for third conference in Boulder Lectureship on Music, residency since 2013 Diversity and Inclusion The formative music of the 17th century For the third time in five years, got its place in the 21st-century spotlight This February, the College of Music members of The Cleveland Orchestra this April as the College of Music hosted launched its annual Distinguished called Boulder home for three days the Society for Seventeenth-Century Lectureship on Music, Diversity and last September. And just as the Music’s annual conference at the Hotel Inclusion with a talk by Native American beginning of the semester brought the Boulderado. ethnomusicologist Charlotte Heth. “It’s new energy of a change in season, the always timely to learn and deepen our residency brought new energy to the College of Music Dean Robert Shay, respect for varying values and cultural halls of Imig Music. who was among the musicologists who traditions,” says Heth, professor founded the society in the early 1990s, emerita at the University of California, “The biggest benefit for me was helped bring the conference to Boulder. Los Angeles. “It takes courage to be improving my own personal playing “As the society has grown, it has tolerant and to avoid making judgments and seeing what it’s like to be a helped build a broader understanding about society.” professional musician,” says violin of the 17th century as a unique period doctoral student Ryan Johnson. He stylistically,” Shay explains. “The first Heth’s lecture, “Too Many Words— was one of the many students who operas, for example, are really products Not Enough Music,” looked to Native benefited from the visit, which was of this century, and members of the American music to make sense of part of the Daniel P. Sher Master Class society work on music from nearly every and appreciate distinct cultures and Program. In addition to a side-by-side European country and the New World, societies. “When we go beyond words rehearsal, sectionals and one-on-one too.” and focus on the emotional aspects coaching sessions that have been the of music, we recognize how it can hallmark of the residency, last year’s Music of the early baroque period is empower, heal and unify us.” visit also included a special Faculty enjoying something of a rebirth, Shay Tuesdays recital featuring the out-of- says, and CU Boulder is part of that Adds Heth, “It’s about bringing people town musicians. conversation—to the benefit of the together through music. When this students at the college. “There are happens, we move past differences The residency was made possible flourishing early music ensembles and toward greater understanding and by a generous gift from The Clinton in many large cities that require respect.” A citizen of the Cherokee Family Fund. Bruce Clinton, a longtime specialized skills, and we want to Nation of Oklahoma, Heth’s early orchestra supporter, says he was provide insights and opportunities here research focused on Oklahoma inspired to support the college by the that open students’ eyes and ears Cherokee music. From there, her excellence of its musicians and leaders. to different repertoires and ways of research expanded to include musical “When we saw the music program making music.” instruments, dance, education and here, we could see that it was simply related Native American topics. outstanding, so we decided to lend our Professor of Musicology Jeremy support,” Clinton says. Smith and graduate student Jordan “Music often gets reduced to a formula Hugh Sam presented a paper at the rather than a powerful means to A recent $150,000 gift from The conference and Quicksilver Baroque connect and communicate,” she says. Clinton Family Fund will support two Ensemble presented master classes “If we can recognize the individual more visits to Boulder for members of and performed as part of the CU through music, we elevate that person the orchestra over the next few years. Presents Artist Series. and change perceptions.”

Photos, from left: Robert Mealey of Quicksilver Baroque Ensemble gives a master class with CU strings students; Provost Russell Moore, Associate Professor Jay Keister, Charlotte Heth, Professor Brenda Romero and Dean Robert Shay at the college’s first Distinguished Lectureship on Music, Diversity and Inclusion; Cleveland Orchestra Principal Trumpet Michael Sachs and Principal Tuba Yasuhito Sugiyama work with CU Symphony Orchestra students GUEST ARTISTS 23 Selected Guest Artists

Charlene Archibeque Lowell Liebermann Director Emerita of Choral Activities at Director of Composition at the Mannes San Jose State University School of Music at The New School

Brenda Brenner Ónix Ensamble Associate Professor and Chair of New Music Group Music Education at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Sean Powell Assistant Professor and Chair of Music Andrew Campbell Education at the University of North Associate Professor and Director of Texas College of Music Collaborative Piano at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Amanda Quist Arizona State University Chair of Conducting, Organ and Sacred Music at Westminster Choir Claire Chase College at Rider University Flutist and Professor of the Practice at the Harvard University Department Glenn Schaft of Music Professor of Music and Director of Percussion Studies at Youngstown Joan Catoni Conlon State University Dana School of Music College of Music Professor of Music and Director Emerita of Graduate Maria Schneider Choral Research Jazz Composer and Conductor

David Cowley Jerry Scholl Former Professor at the Royal Welsh Professor of Percussion at the Wichita College of Music and Drama State University School of Music

Robert Duke Rita Sloan Professor of Music and Human Professor of Collaborative Piano at the Learning and Director of the Center University of Maryland School of Music for Music Learning at the University of Texas at Austin Butler School of Music Michael Udow Composer and Percussionist Scott Farthing Director of Vocal Music at Saddleback Deborah Voigt College Soprano

Béla Fleck Duain Wolfe Banjoist Conductor of the Chicago Symphony Chorus and Colorado Symphony Kristin Kuster Chorus Professor of Composition at the University of Michigan Pamela Z Distinguished Alumna (BM ’78) and Brook Larson Media Artist Artistic Director of the Orpheus Male Chorus of Phoenix 3B Percussion Trio Formed by Alumni John Leavitt Todd Bills (BM ’14), Jacob Bori (MM Composer and Editor at Hal Leonard ’15) and J.R. Souders (BA Percussion) Music Publishers

Photos, from top: College of Music students pose with members of the Ónix Ensamble; Soprano Deborah Voigt teaches a master class; Banjoist Béla Fleck holds a side-by-side workshop; Lowell Liebermann poses with members of the piano studio; 24 · 2018 Distinguished alumna Pamela Z performs a multimedia show at ATLAS Black Box Theater. 2018–2019 Season

Dee Dee Bridgewater ...... Sept. 22 Jessica Lang Dance ...... Oct. 5 Venice Baroque Orchestra ...... Nov. 2 Sarah Chang, violin ...... Nov. 16 Eklund Opera Program ..... Oct. 26–April 28 Canadian Brass ...... Dec. 17 Faculty Tuesday Series ...... Aug.–March Silkroad Ensemble ...... Jan. 31 Student Music Ensembles ...... Sept.–April Kodo ...... Feb. 16 Student Recitals ...... Sept.–April Tafelmusik ...... March 4 Holiday Festival ...... Dec. 7-9 Batsheva Dance Company ...... March 20 CU Theatre Series ...... Sept. 27–April 14 Dorrance Dance ...... April 6 CU Dance Series...... Sept. 20–April 27

Takács Quartet ...... Sept. 23–24 Takács Quartet ...... Oct. 28–29 Carpe Diem String Quartet ...... Nov. 25–26 2019 season tickets on sale Oct. 29 Takács Quartet ...... Jan. 13–14 Next season is June 8–Aug. 11, 2019 Takács Quartet ...... Feb. 10–11 Takács Quartet ...... April 28–29

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GUEST ARTISTS 25 FACULTY Passing the torch Takács Quartet founding violinist Karóly Schranz retires, while faculty member Harumi Rhodes takes his place

As a young violinist studying at The “I’ve been a fan of theirs for as long in the Juilliard Quartet for four decades. Juilliard School, Harumi Rhodes as I can remember,” Rhodes says. “I think there’s something about the watched as many of her classmates “One of the reasons I always knew role of the second violinist. I relate to formed string quartets of their own. about the college was because of the it in terms of my own temperature and Each group came together for this Takács residency. The idea of serving personality.” reason or that, uniting for the common on the faculty alongside them was a purpose of performing some of the huge magnet.” It seems fitting, then, that she join a most cherished music ever written. group known for its unique style— Over the course of two and a half years, at once unified yet individual, and But as those quartets came and went, Rhodes performed with the quartet always displaying the utmost skill and Rhodes never found her family of four. a number of times. Then in February, understanding of the works it presents. Schranz announced that after more “Many great composers chose the “I always hoped to be in a string than 40 years with the quartet—which string quartet as the ultimate medium to quartet. But after a certain time I he co-founded with Fejér, Gábor Takács express their most intimate and complex began to think, ‘What are the chances Nagy and Gábor Ormai—he would retire ideas. The idea of having a life of playing that four likeminded people—who at the end of the 2018 season. this repertoire is a dream come true.” are complementary and completely devoted to a life in quartet playing— Rhodes was named his successor as would find one another?’” second violinist. “I’m beyond excited. “You’re tied together by this One of the things I’ve always admired sense of love and shared Through graduate studies at New about the Takács is their warmth of values for something larger England Conservatory, teaching sound, their playful and spontaneous than yourselves.” positions at Juilliard and Syracuse playing.” University, and a prolific chamber music career as founding member of Especially Schranz, she says, whose Dual passions Trio Cavatina and with the East Coast shoes she is honored to fill. “He’s a Despite a demanding worldwide Chamber Orchestra, Boston Chamber musical hero of mine. So to be sitting performance schedule, Rhodes is Music Society and Music from Copland in his chair is mindblowing.” pleased to be able to continue to teach House—to name a few—Rhodes made violinists at the College of Music. It’s a beautiful music and developed an Falling into place busy life she begins with gratitude and abiding love of teaching, but still the Rhodes played her first concerts as excitement, as this longtime admirer of quartet eluded her. “It was with a little the Takács Quartet’s second violinist the string quartet finally finds her own. bit of sadness that I assumed that the this summer in London, Vienna and stars would never align in that way.” New York. She says the part suits her “When you have three other people personality perfectly. “The position is by your side, and you’re all immersed Then came the opportunity to teach in multifaceted. You have to know when in what you consider to be one of the the same department as one of the most to come out and be an individual, when utmost artforms, exploring it together, revered string quartets on the planet. to support and make other people it feels like a group mission. You’re shine, when to blend, how to provide tied together by this sense of love and A path revealed color and harmony and melody and shared values for something larger The prospect of becoming close rhythm,” she explains. than yourselves.” colleagues with violist Geraldine Walther, cellist András Fejér and You could say it’s a role she was born Rhodes continues to teach in her violinists Edward Dusinberre and Károly to play: Rhodes’ mother, Hiroko Yajima, tenure-track position at the College Schranz was thrilling to Rhodes when was second violinist of the Galimir of Music; Schranz now plays a larger she came to the College of Music as Quartet for more than 20 years, while teaching role as senior instructor of assistant professor of violin in 2015. her father, Samuel Rhodes, played viola violin.

26 · 2018 Photo: The Takács Quartet (left to right): Harumi Rhodes, Edward Dusinberre, Geraldine Walther and András Fejér FACULTY 27 music ensembles Waverly Consort and the oldest music archive of its kind in Saying goodbye Schola Antiqua, composers Leonard the United States. Riis says he’ll always Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, treasure the relationships he cultivated and thank you guitarist David Starobin and orchestras at the College of Music. “There’s that and opera companies around the sense here that you can take musical to four beloved world. He says his time as an educator feelings and questions and excitement has always informed his singing. to someone down the hall and they’ll colleagues “Teaching made me a better singer and get it.” Boethling, Farr, Mason and vice versa,” Mason explains. “Working with students on the issues they have— Elizabeth Farr has been the College Riis retired in May building technique and getting back to of Music’s stalwart champion for the basics—makes me constantly re- foundational music since 1992. Now, as For the first time since the early 1990s, examine my singing.” director of historical performance studies four faces familiar to the College and professor of organ and harpsichord, of Music are conspicuously absent When Joseph Negler Endowed Chair in she’s seen the role of early music—and this fall. Professor of Organ and Music Thomas Riis was growing up in its popularity—evolve. “There’s a lot to Harpsichord Elizabeth Farr, Professor upstate New York, he and his younger enjoy and learn about baroque music,” of Voice Patrick Mason and Professor brother had to take turns with the family Farr says. “It’s a hot topic now, even of Musicology Thomas Riis retired record player. But it wasn’t so they more so than when I was coming up.” in May after a combined 76 years could share equal time spinning their In the 26 years she’s been in Boulder, teaching music at CU Boulder, and favorite vinyl. “My mother used to say Farr has helped early music go from a Gayle Boethling, known for her tireless there was conflict because I wanted somewhat marginalized discipline to and joyful attitude, marked her last to play the records and my brother something of a basso continuo to the day as a mainstay in the Imig Music wanted to figure out how the record melody of the college. “I have friends all Building front office. player worked.” His brother went on to over this building, working with students become a pilot. Riis went on to become in a variety of musical disciplines. My Patrick Mason has become known one of the foremost scholars in 19th- current colleagues consider me to be throughout his nearly 50-year career and 20th-century American music. an important part of the keyboard area, as a master of many genres. The Since coming to the College of Music in as the person who offers instruction on baritone and Berton Coffin Faculty 1992, Riis has also been the director of two baroque instruments. It’s been a Fellow has collaborated with early the American Music Research Center, good job for me.”

28 · 2018 Photo: Patrick Mason, Gayle Boethling, Elizabeth Farr and Thomas Riis Meet our new faculty members for Fall 2018

John Seesholtz, Associate Professor and Director of Vocal Pedagogy Seesholtz comes to the college from Colorado State University’s School of Music, Theatre and Dance. He is also the current president of the Colorado and Wyoming chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) and a resident artist with Denver Art Song Project. Seesholtz says he’s looking forward to establishing a voice lab at the College of Music. “There are very few pedagogy programs that have done this, and it makes sense that the place to do it would be in Boulder—one of the healthiest places to live.”

Robert Hill, Professor of Harpsichord and Eugene D. Eaton, Jr. Chair in Baroque Music Performance Harvard-educated Robert Hill has been at Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in Germany for the Odds are if you’re a staff member, a better part of 30 years. In his return to the United faculty member, a student or a wayward States, Hill says he’s excited to hold a position passerby in Imig Music Building, that specializes in baroque performance and you’ve probably interacted with Gayle practice—an area in which the College of Music Boethling. This summer, after 24 years is unique among U.S. schools. “This position will at the college, Boethling entered her not only allow me to teach harpsichord but also well-earned retirement. Her position— communicate with the Boulder community the which started off as administrative importance of playing music that is historically assistant for Dean Daniel Sher—ebbed oriented on modern instruments.” and flowed with the needs of the college, covering everything from travel reimbursement to event organization.

But Boethling says after a quarter- century as the beating heart of the Susan Thomas, Professor of Musicology and College of Music, it’s the people she’ll Director of the American Music Research miss the most. “They have all become Center (AMRC) part of my family, and I will truly miss Susan Thomas, who comes to the college from working with them. the University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music, founded and co-directed the Athens “One of my fondest memories is Music Project, a collection of regional music and the incredible trip that some staff research at the University of Georgia. As she and faculty took to Italy to celebrate takes the helm of the AMRC, she says she’s ready [Professor Emerita] Judith Glyde’s to delve into its collections and program more house-warming party. That was the 20th-century works from the Americas. “One of trip of a lifetime. I also cherish the the things I’m excited to do is to get to know our many friendships I have made with our faculty and ask them to help the collection be students. They never cease to amaze heard, either in student or faculty concerts or in me with their dedication, hard work scholarly dialogues.” and talent.”

FACULTY 29 Faculty notes

Associate Professor of Music Education He was also invited to Paris to be the primary Assistant Professor of Voice Andrew Margaret Berg published articles in the consultant to Marigaux oboe company for Garland participated in a workshop at Journal of Music Teacher Education (co- the launch of an American model oboe. the Yellow Barn world premiere of Some authored with Assistant Professor of Cooper also taught at Rocky Ridge Music Favored Nook last fall, while teaching a Music Education David Rickels) and the Center for the seventh year. class at the Greenwood School in Putney, String Research Journal. She also gave Vermont. Garland sang with various presentations at the American String Professor of Piano Andrew Cooperstock Colorado orchestras and symphonies over Teachers Association (ASTA) conference, performed a Leonard Bernstein centennial the past year, along with a Winners Concert Society for Music Teacher Education (SMTE) recital at the New York Public Library for in Geneva, Switzerland. He taught master symposium, National Association for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center and classes at the Renaissance Arts Academy Music Education (NAfME) Music Research a lecture/recital at the Music Teachers in Los Angeles; the University of California, and Teacher Education conference and National Association (MTNA) conference Los Angeles; the Longy School of Music Colorado Music Educators Association in Orlando. He traveled throughout Taiwan of Bard College and Princeton University. (CMEA) conference (with Director of and Europe, where he performed Mozart Other highlights include performing in Orchestras Gary Lewis) this year. She at the composer’s home in Vienna and Sweeney Todd with the Eklund Opera continues to serve on the editorial boards Haydn’s Double Concerto at the composer’s Program, appearing with fellow faculty of the Journal of Music Teacher Education home in Eisenstadt, Austria. In addition to member Alejandro Cremaschi in his Faculty and the Bulletin of the Council for Research performances, Gramophone and Fanfare Tuesdays recital and singing Telemann’s St. in Music Education. In May, she completed magazines featured Cooperstock in Luke Passion with Boston Baroque. her four-year term on the ASTA National interviews and reviews of his recent album, Executive Board, for which she continues The Complete Solo Piano Works of Leonard Director of Choral Studies and Lynn Whitten to serve as chair of the ASTA Mentor Bernstein. Cooperstock returned as an artist Choral Music Faculty Fellow Gregory Gentry Committee. and faculty member at Germany’s Saarburg had his fourth conducting appearance at Festival and performed with the Takács Carnegie Hall in April, premiering an original In October, Chair of Voice and Opera and Quartet and with members of the Cleveland work composed by CU doctoral candidate Associate Professor of Voice Jennifer Orchestra. Finally, a former student of his is Kevin Padworski along with 12 CU choir Bird-Arvidsson was the soprano soloist currently filming a series on piano playing for students, the Erie High School Choir, the for Mendelssohn’s Elijah in Cape Town, digital learning platform Great Courses. Colorado Chorale and singers from the South Africa, under the baton of Alexander University of Virginia. Fokkens. During the week leading up to Alejandro Cremaschi, chair of the Roser the performance, she was also a guest Piano and Keyboard Program and associate Brad Goode, associate professor of jazz clinician of the vocal department of the professor of piano pedagogy, was main studies, was on sabbatical leave during South African College of Music at the artist and clinician for the Montana State the fall semester, which allowed him to give University of Cape Town. She also had Music Teachers Association and the Iowa 140 performances in 45 different cities and the privilege of working with exceptionally Music Teachers Association conferences; visit 17 schools as a guest teacher and talented South African voice students in a he also presented research at the College clinician. He produced the music events series of four master classes. Music Society and National Conference in at CU’s Conference on World Affairs and Keyboard Pedagogy (NCKP). He is currently directed and taught at the CU Summer Jazz Director of the Musicians’ Wellness Program on the planning committee for the 2019 Academy. In January, Goode recorded his and Associate Professor of Oboe James NCKP conference. Cremaschi was a finalist 18th solo recording, which will be released Brody continues to explore new teaching in the IT track of the CU New Venture later this year on Origin Records. In addition, strategies, especially through study with Challenge with the project MusicFestSnap, he continued to run a weekly jam session Alexander Technique master Missy Vineyard an online system he developed to manage for students off-campus, providing them in Amherst, Massachusetts. Much of music competitions. Finally, he received the with hands-on professional performance this recent work was supported by a CU Outstanding Alumni Award from the College training. Leadership Education for Advancement of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at and Promotion (LEAP) grant. In March, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. John Gunther, director of the Thompson he presented “Breathing for Musicians” Jazz Studies Program and associate to Alexander Technique teachers at the Assistant Director of Bands and Conducting professor of jazz studies, recorded and Freedom to Make Music conference in and Music Education Instructor Matthew performed with his trio and Gnawa music New York. Finally, Brody presented at Dockendorf had the opportunity to conduct master Fourat Koyo; he also taught at the the Musicians‘ Health and Performance various honor bands along the Front Range Royal Academy of Music and played at the conference in Helsinki, Finland, in June. this year, including Holyoke High School, famed Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London. Douglas County, Aurora, Poudre and the Gunther traveled with CU student Alex Senior Instructor of Oboe Peter Cooper Combined Leagues Honor Band. He was Heffron to the International Association gave recitals and master classes this also guest conductor at Michigan State of Schools of Jazz (IASJ) conference in spring at the University of Texas at Austin, University, where he presented clinics to Estonia and performed in the capital city Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge conducting students. of Tallinn. and Kennesaw State University in Atlanta.

30 · 2018 Associate Professor of Piano Jennifer With violinist and alumna Michiko Theurer Matthew Roeder, associate director Hayghe continued to perform her innovative (DMA ’16), she performed and presented at of bands, premiered his composition multimedia program “The Art of Music” at the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ in Amsterdam. Fortress Fanfare for Brass and Percussion major universities in Texas, Missouri and Her quartet Throw Down or Shut Up! during the CMEA conference in January. Montana. In the spring, she performed as received a Graduate Committee on the Arts Roeder served as a guest conductor of a chamber artist at Colorado MahlerFest. and Humanities grant and gave two world the Adams County High School Honor Summer highlights included teaching and premieres. At the Eastman School of Music, Band at Westminster High School and was performing at the Brancaleoni International Leong performed on the Faculty Artist Series selected as a participant in CU Boulder’s Music Festival in Italy and serving as a juror and gave a colloquium. She completed a Faculty Leadership Institute this year. at the prestigious New Orleans International term as vice president of the Society for Finally, Roeder worked in collaboration with Piano Competition. Hayghe also taught Music Theory and presented “What do you award-winning composer Jake Runestad to and performed at the New Orleans Piano hear? Listening to modernist music,” during premiere a wind band version of his choral Institute and continued to serve as director CU on the Weekend in September 2017. composition, Let My Love Be Heard, with of the AFA Summer Music Academy North the CU Symphonic Band. Campus Piano Program near Houston. Director of Orchestras and Bob and Judy Charles Endowed Chair in Music Gary In February, Michael Thornton, associate Pendulum New Music Director Hsing-ay Lewis conducted a concert with the Sichuan professor of horn, performed Benjamin Hsu partnered with the London-based Philharmonic Orchestra in Chengdu, China, Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings ClimateKeys organization and the Boulder in January. with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, of City Council to present her Faculty which he serves as principal horn. He also Tuesdays recital “ClimateKeys: Global Professor of Musicology Rebecca Maloy released Passages, an album of music for Initiative, Local Innovation.” published the edited collection Chant, Liturgy horn, flute and piano in January on the Troy/ and the Inheritance of Rome this year. Albany label. The disc features new works by Yoshi Ishikawa, chair of the woodwind area composers Paul Basler, Adrienne Albert and and professor of bassoon, was in residence at Associate Professor of Collaborative Piano Christopher Roze. This summer, Thornton Lyon Conservatory in France and presented Margaret McDonald and flute alumna performed at the Colorado College Summer master classes at Hanyang University in Michelle Stanley (MM ’96) released their Music Festival, Strings Music Festival in South Korea and Mahidol University in album Nouvelle Vie: A Rediscovery of Steamboat Springs and Washington Island Thailand. For the Faculty Tuesdays series, French Flute Music in January. Music Festival in Wisconsin. he organized and performed Mozart’s Gran Partita and Stravinsky’s Octet with Associate Professor of Jazz Studies Paul Professor of Percussion Douglas Walter woodwind faculty Peter Cooper, Christina McKee was invited to direct the Michigan played solo marimba-vibraphone recitals Jennings and Daniel Silver; brass faculty All-State High School Jazz Ensemble in and taught clinics at six conservatories in Justin Bartels, Terry Sawchuk and William Grand Rapids in January. France during Fall 2017, including three in Stanley; and their respective graduate metropolitan Paris, Strasbourg, Lyon and assistants. Ishikawa performed Einojuhani Entrepreneurship Center for Music Aix-en-Provence. Rautavaara’s rarely programmed Sonata for Director Jeffrey Nytch’s new book, The Bassoon and Piano with Hsing-ay Hsu as a Entrepreneurial Muse: Inspiring Your Career Professor of Music Theory Keith Waters’ part of the College of Music’s celebration of in Classical Music, was released by Oxford German-to-English translation of Ekkehard Finland’s centennial. University Press in March. Jost’s essay on European free jazz of the 1960s and 70s appeared in the journal Jazz Christina Jennings, associate professor of Austin Okigbo, director of the World Perspectives. His fourth book, which studies flute, was featured at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Vocal Ensemble and assistant professor of the jazz compositions of Wayne Shorter, Recital Hall as part of the Concert Artists ethnomusicology, received the CU Boulder Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, is slated Guild Encore Series in November. She provost’s Faculty Achievement Award in to be published by Oxford University Press performed with members of the Ensō String October for his book Music, Culture, and later this year. Quartet and with the Brasil Guitar Duo. In the Politics of Health: Ethnography of a addition, she presented a master class at the South African AIDS Choir, published by Buffet Crampon Showroom in Manhattan. Rowman and Littlefield. Faculty Tuesdays Series

Associate Professor of Composition and Associate Professor of Composition and Renowned faculty artists perform with new Christoffersen Faculty Fellow in new Christoffersen Faculty Fellow in students and colleagues in chamber music recitals featuring world premieres Composition Daniel Kellogg premiered Composition Carter Pann was recently and beloved classics. Free most his commission Darest Thou Now, O Soul commissioned by Ithaca College in Tuesdays September through March. with St. Martin’s Chamber Choir and the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Karel Colorado Wind Ensemble in Denver and Husa’s seminal work Music for Prague 1968, Learn more at cupresents.org Boulder. Kellogg also received the Marion which was commissioned by the college. International Fellowship in May. Pann’s new commission will be premiered at Lincoln Center in April 2019 alongside Daphne Leong, associate professor of Husa’s work. Pann will begin work on the music theory, received a Kayden Research piece after completing a double concerto, Grant for her book Performing Knowledge: which was commissioned by 15 clarinet/ Twentieth-Century Music in Analysis and saxophone duos and wind ensembles Performance, forthcoming from Oxford throughout the United States. University Press. Other publications appeared in Music Theory Online and the Norton Guide to Teaching Music Theory.

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32 · 2018 Disrupting music education with Specdrums PhD student lends expertise to music-making startup

Jenna Palensky is an ethnomusicology Then a couple of weeks later, he asked PhD student studying musical tourism me to join the team.” in the Republic of Georgia. In one way or another, music has always been a Palensky is now education content part of her life. But she never thought manager for Specdrums and Sphero. it would take this form. “I actually got She spends her days engaging to solder batteries onto USB ports. with educators, who, in the case of We’d have a bucket of silicone, dye Specdrums, are primarily elementary and molds, and we’d spend evenings school music teachers. “So many making these rings.” music teachers have caught on to this little device. The kids love it, the Palensky was one of the original teachers love it, it’s fun for both sides. employees at Boulder-based startup It’s a great way to bring technology into Specdrums, which was acquired over the classroom, and that’s not always the summer by robotic toy company the easiest thing to do.” Sphero. She and the other members of the team create and market rings that fit And at a time when music programs on your finger and play music through a are struggling, Palensky says this ring smartphone app. “The ring turns color could be a musical lifeline for some into sound,” Palensky explains. “You children. “Especially in light of the fact assign certain colors to certain sounds that so many music programs’ funding in the phone application, and the ring is being cut, teachers are looking for has a color sensor inside of it. When you effective and less expensive ways to tap on certain colors, you make music.” teach music.”

The acquisition—the ultimate feather As Palensky juggles a full-time job in the cap for a startup—was a perfect and dissertation writing, she says she fit for Specdrums, which took home owes her career path to the College the grand prize in the CU New Venture of Music’s Entrepreneurship Center Challenge in the spring. It’s safe to for Music. “There’s always been that say the company has come a long voice in my head that says, ‘No, you way since Palensky met founder and have to explore something outside CU engineering PhD student Steven music performance and education.’ Dourmashkin two years ago. “I was Entrepreneurship is really where I speaking to music students about my belong. They say that entrepreneurship experience in the NVC when I met chooses you, and that couldn’t be more Steven. I remember him so vividly true for me. That voice in my head— because he was so humble about his that was entrepreneurship calling.” idea, and I thought it was just brilliant.

STUDENTS 33 Associate Professor of Piano Jennifer past year. Indeed, CU MTNA has grown Leading by Hayghe has been advising MTNA from a handful of students to more chapters for 18 years, during her time than 30. “We have a really dynamic set example at Louisiana State University and Ithaca of leaders who can inspire people to CU Boulder’s MTNA chapter College, and now at the College of Music. get involved.” This is the first time she’s been involved wins coveted award for its with the top group in the country. “This is Hjelmstad says the chapter takes humanitarian efforts amazing. Numerous chapters I advised the service component of its mission submitted nominations for this award. seriously, which has led to a surge The screening process is competitive, in membership and attendance at Studying music a thousand miles from and it’s exciting to join these ranks.” monthly meetings and frequent MTNA your family can be isolating—especially Coffee Discussions. “Everyone has this when something goes wrong at home. The service project made CU stand idea that what we do—playing music— Just ask recent piano doctoral grad out. In addition to a benefit recital, the is really privileged, so we should use Sarah Rushing. “There was flooding fundraiser had an online component, that to give back. MTNA has been a in my hometown in 2016. My mom, explains chapter Vice President Robert great way to fill that need.” who is a piano teacher, had two feet of Hjelmstad. “We started a social media water in her house. She lost a lot of her campaign, similar to the ALS Ice To that end, the chapter also partnered sheet music, but the water stopped just Bucket Challenge. We would challenge with the CU chapter of the National below the soundboard of her piano, so other musicians to play a piece that Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) this it was saved.” they were working on and donate.” year to draw attention to mental illness. “We wanted to provide resources The storm didn’t make national headlines The posts went viral, with other and raise awareness about suicide the same way hurricanes do, but it did schools like the University of Oklahoma prevention through the arts,” Rushing damage nonetheless—75 percent of and the University of Texas at Austin says. “We‘re trying to think outside the Rushing’s Louisiana parish was flooded. getting involved as well. In all, the effort box about ways classical musicians can Rushing wanted to do something to raised $800 for flood recovery. “It was be involved in the community.” help, so she organized a service project awesome to be able to help so far from for the CU Boulder chapter of the Music home, and that happened because we This spring, Rushing and Hjelmstad Teachers National Association (MTNA), were able to get so many other people presented with fellow members Cody of which she was the president. It led to interested,” Rushing says. Goetz, Olivia Richardson and Jiahui hundreds of dollars raised—and the title Sun on group piano teaching on behalf of MTNA Collegiate Chapter of the Year. Hayghe says the leadership of the of CU MTNA at the organization’s chapter has taken it to new levels in the national conference in Orlando.

Photo: The MTNA members who presented at the organization’s national conference in Florida 34 · 2018 (left to right): Jiahui Sun, Robert Hjelmstad, Cody Goetz, Sarah Rushing and Olivia Richardson Congratulations to the Class of 2018

“In the end, it matters not whether you’re a performer, scholar, teacher or one for whom music may not be a profession. I have no doubt you will fondly remember your time here. And I hope that if you take one thing away from music school, it’s that you should enjoy every single moment that you get to participate in music.”

—David Leech, clarinet Outstanding Graduating Student for 2018

Wind Symphony returns to Denver for CU at Boettcher

A world premiere. A tribute to a composer and friend. A surround- sound rendition of one of the great works for flute. It was an evening of stunning contemporary music as the College of Music hosted its biennial showcase concert at Boettcher Concert Hall at the Denver Performing Arts Complex.

The season-closing CU at Boettcher featured the Wind Symphony performing works all written since the 1970s. Director of Bands Donald McKinney says the concert was the grand finale of a special year of music making. “This is my fifth year here, and I almost feel like I‘ve been on a journey with these students,” he explains. “All the momentum led to this.”

The concert featured a world premiere by composer Emily Cooley, Associate Director of Bands Matthew Roeder’s arrangement of a John Corigliano piece, a moving performance of Joel Puckett’s “Shadow of Sirius” featuring Associate Professor of Flute Christina Jennings and her studio, and the late David Maslanka’s powerful “A Child’s Garden of Dreams.”

Maslanka was at the College of Music in February 2017 for a residency and sadly passed away just months later. “The emotional power of the performance was palpable,” says McKinney. “There were students on stage who knew David from last year.”

STUDENTS 35 Student notes

Congratulations to the winners of the Ellie Falter (PhD Music Education) gave a Along with senior David Leech (BM College of Music’s prestigious performance research presentation titled “The Pros of Clarinet), who spoke at College of Music competitions! Undergraduate voice students Wanting to Explore on Your Own: Preservice Commencement in May, freshman Patrick Bessenbacher, Mara Riley Music Teachers’ (Re)experience Play” at the Claire Gunsbury (BM Flute), sophomore and Sophia Zervas won the Anderson American Education Research Association Anoushka Divekar (BM Clarinet, BME) Undergraduate Scholarship Competition in conference in New York as well as a clinic and junior Sophia Zervas (BM Piano, Voice; violist Allyson Stibbards, trombonist presentation at the National Association for Voice) were named Outstanding Students Aaron Zalkind and saxophonist Ryan the Education of Young Children conference for the 2017–18 academic year. Senior Van Scoyk won the Honors Competition; in Atlanta. Falter also had articles published in Caroline Vickstrom (BM Voice, BME) was and oboist Kristin Weber won the Bruce Teaching Young Children and Teaching Music Outstanding Student for Fall 2017 and Ekstrand Memorial Graduate Student and presented a session, along with Megan spoke at the December commencement Competition. Stibbards and Van Scoyk will Wick (PhD Music Education) and Associate ceremony. Congratulations! perform with the University Symphony and Professor Margaret Berg, titled “Finding the Wind Symphony this fall, while Weber Your People: Peer Mentoring Strategies and In January, the Colorado Symphony will travel with a delegation of students from Tools for Doctoral Students and Faculty” at performed Dianna Link’s (BM Composition) the College of Music to perform in Carnegie the Society for Music Teacher Education orchestration of Gary Schocker’s Piccolo Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in November. (SMTE) symposium in Minneapolis. Italiano, featuring soloist Julie Thornton.

Emily Alley (DMA Collaborative Piano) was Jason Friedman (BM Horn) won fourth Teresita Lozano (PhD Ethnomusicology) a fellow in the collaborative piano program horn positions with both the Fort Collins and Dan Obluda (PhD Musicology) won at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Symphony and Greeley Philharmonic prizes for the best student papers at Barbara this summer. orchestras during the 2017–18 season. the Rocky Mountain Music Scholars Friedman was also one of three finalists Conference at the University of Arizona. Several music education master’s and for the International Horn Competition of Lozano was also awarded the Charlotte W. PhD students gave presentations or America and was awarded the Gretchen Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship from performances at the Colorado Music Snedeker Prize. Friedman will be attending the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Educators Association (CMEA) Conference the Juilliard School next year to study with Foundation and the Joann Kealinohomoku in January, including Jocelyn Armes, Kate Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Principal Prize for Outstanding Student Paper from M. Bertelli-Wilinski, Shelby Carne, Tom Horn Erik Ralske, joining former classmate the Southwest Chapter of the Society for Chapman, Ellie Falter, Christopher Loesel, Cort Roberts (BM ’17). Ethnomusicology. Megan Ogden, Seth Taft and Megan Wick. Ashley Gulbranson (DMA Horn) presented Angela Munroe (PhD Music Education) is Jocelyn Armes (PhD Music Education) was a lecture at the Northwest Horn Symposium assistant professor of music education at appointed to the advisory committee of the in March. Her topic was “Focus of the University of West Virginia. Music Educators Journal in May. Attention in Horn Pedagogy and Learning.” Gulbranson’s article “Brahms and the Jessica Nilles (DMA Piano Pedagogy) was The Boulder Laptop Orchestra (BLOrk) Shifting Barline: Metric Displacement in appointed pianist for the Denver Immersive celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, the Horn Trio, Op. 40” was published in Opera company. with special guests Todd Reynolds and the May issue of the refereed journal of the Luke Dubois appearing in performances at International Horn Society, The Horn Call. Pendulum New Music Ensemble the ATLAS Black Box Theater. premiered new commissions on studio projects with ’ violin studio, Annaka Hogelin (DMA Clarinet) gave a Harumi Rhodes In October 2017, the Detroit Symphony presentation on Joan Tower’s Wings at the Michael Thornton’s horn studio, Christina premiered Conor Brown’s (MM Composition) International ClarinetFest in Belgium. Jennings’ flute studio and William Stanley’s How to Relax with Origami. Brown’s piece trombone studio. Down from the Verge of Heaven also had Megan Hurley (BM Horn) began her position its premiere with the Baroque Chamber as second horn in the Sarajevo Philharmonic Melanie Shaffer (PhD Musicology) published Orchestra of Colorado. Orchestra in Bosnia in September. the article, “Finding Fortune in Motet 13: Insights on Ordering and Borrowing In June, the Indigo Girls released Indigo in Machaut’s Motets” in Plainsong and Brian Lambert (BM Composition) organized Girls Live With The University Of Colorado a soundpainting improvisation concert Medieval Music. Symphony Orchestra, an album of their hits on Pearl Street for Pendulum New Music recorded live at Macky Auditorium with the Ensemble. Students performed on several Chandler Spoon (MM Horn) attended the CU Symphony Orchestra in April 2017. unusual instruments, including a hurdy National Repertory Orchestra this summer. gurdy, as the composer used signed Anoushka Divekar (BM Clarinet, BME), gestures to conduct. Clark Stewart (MM Horn) began a position attended the Eastern Music Festival in as second horn with the Sun Symphony Greensboro, North Carolina, this summer. Orchestra in Hanoi, Vietnam, in May.

36 · 2018 Kelsey Marie Thibdeau (PhD Musicology), ATLAS fellow Sean Winters (DMA Horn), Nathália Kato (DMA Collaborative who has been in the field as a Fulbright Composition) premiered his audiovisual Piano), Dragana Loncar (MM Viola), fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies piece at the Roulette Intermedium in Brandon Norton (DMA Trumpet), Barbara in Amman, Jordan, was awarded the Brooklyn in March. The event was curated by Noyes (DMA Collaborative Piano), Alison prestigious Thomas E. Devaney Fellowship CU Intermedia, Art, Writing and Performance Orthel (BM Trombone), Renée Hemsing from the Center for Humanities and the Arts (IAWP) PhD student Angie Eng. Patten (PC Violin), Elizabeth Potter (BM at CU Boulder. Violin), Gabriel Ramos (BM Cello), Skyler Congratulations to the current students and Schlenker (BM ’16), Ryan Spencer (DMA Kristin Weber (DMA Oboe) was the sole recent graduates who attended the Aspen Trumpet), Clark Stewart (BM Horn), Steve oboist in the National Arts Orchestra’s Music Festival and School this summer: Vaughn (DMA Tuba), Caroline Vickstrom Young Artist Program in Ontario, Canada. Mario Rivera (PC Viola), Dante Ascarrunz (BM Voice, BME), Steven Vinolas, Anna She also won an oboe and English Horn (BM ’17), Kelsey Bentley (MM ’17), Tyler Whiteway (MM Voice), Tom Yaron (PC position with the Tulsa Philharmonic and Bentley (MM ’17), Colby Bond (BM Clarinet), Violin) and Aaron Zalkind (BM Trombone). an English Horn position with the Wichita Abby Dreher (MM Viola), Jason Friedman This was the College of Music’s largest ever Symphony Orchestra. (BM Horn), Jonathan Galle (BM Violin), Eric enrollment at the prestigious festival! Haugen (PC Cello), Megan Hurley (BM

A Year in the Life of the College of Music 2017-2018

Students hailed from... Students studied...

Strings 7 Brass and Percussion 2 10 7 7 1 Voice 1 3 11 3 1 1 Woodwinds 13 2 3 1 352 6 10 3 2 1 3 Piano and Keyboard 1 4 2 3 Music Education 1 2 16 1 Jazz 2 2 Composition 2 Conducting ...and Canada, United Kingdom, China, Mexico Musicology and Ecuador Theory

Students performed in... Graduates/Undergraduates student-to- 80 ensemble faculty ratio concerts 8:1 192 student 275 191 student 32 ensembles recitals 7312 music classes

23 master classes

STUDENTS 37 OUR SUPPORTERS

38 · 2018 For the love of the low brass Boulder scientist and music champion Stan Ruttenberg is memorialized in a new endowed scholarship

As a grad student in the 1940s, one of legacy by doing what she could to help it possible for more students to Stanley Ruttenberg’s early encounters music thrive. “I’m so impressed with make music a part of their lives. “I with music was in Arnold Schoenberg’s the College of Music and how great the studied music and math in college, Los Angeles apartment, where he took students and faculty are, so I wanted to I taught public school music and I equipment one afternoon to play back support them. was assistant concertmaster in the some of the earliest electronic recordings Mississippi Symphony. Even though for the avant-garde composer. my career eventually took a different “Any time the tubas got path, I loved the aspect of creating Thirty years and a thousand miles later, loud, he loved it.” something that’s bigger than you. when Boettcher Concert Hall opened at Music washes all over you.” the Denver Performing Arts Complex in 1978, Ruttenberg was quick to discover A fitting tribute Where math meets music Ring 4, where he could sit above his When Ruttenberg inquired as to where After earning math and music degrees favorite section of the then-Denver a gift to the College of Music could from Oberlin College and Conservatory Symphony, the low brass. “He would sit make the most impact, she couldn’t and Syracuse University, Ruttenberg is up there and cup his ears. Any time the have hoped for a better answer. “I now a software engineer at NCAR— tubas got loud, he loved it.” asked where there was need, and they following in both her mother and her told me low brass. I thought, ‘Dad father’s professional footsteps. But she One of Becky Ruttenberg’s most would love that.’ He’d be embarrassed says the love of music they instilled in indelible memories of her father by all this attention, but he’d secretly her and her sister at a young age is just was his love of music. A geophysics be pleased as punch.” below the surface. administrator at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) by This year she established the Stanley “For me, reading music is like reading day and the longtime board president Ruttenberg Memorial Endowed a computer program. If you listen to of Colorado MahlerFest by nights and Scholarship Fund to support low brass Brahms, you can dissect his work weekends, Stan always had an affinity graduate and undergraduate students. and hear how he used math to put it for the bombastic. “He liked romantic It’s the perfect fit, given Stan’s love of together, but underneath that you can music the best. Wagner, Tchaikovsky, the tuba. One of his longtime friends, feel the emotion, the loneliness. That’s Mahler. The bigger, the better,” his Mahlerfest tubist Tom Stein, put it best: why music speaks to me on both a daughter remembers. “Being a tuba player, you don’t get cerebral and an emotional level. many fans. Stan was a fan of the tuba. Yet Stan’s personality was anything He always came up to me to talk about “We need music to help us develop all but big—modest, happiest behind the his favorite tuba parts and how much parts of our brains. Music makes you scenes and ever the diplomat, he used he loved it when the tuba filled out the human. A world without music would his experience in the global science sound and made the room rumble. [It’s] be a very dark world.” community to help grow MahlerFest odd how two people can come together from a regional festival 30 years ago and form a decades-long bond over an Becky Ruttenberg still plays music as to one of international renown today. oversized hunk of brass.” a member of the Longmont Symphony Becky, who plays violin in MahlerFest, Orchestra. knew that when her dad passed away Ruttenberg, herself an accomplished in February 2017, she had to honor his musician, says she wanted to make

OUR SUPPORTERS 39 Christoffersen, who moved to Boulder The Christoffersen Faculty Fellowships Showing support with his wife Barbara 25 years ago, in Composition now provide salary turned a love of music and higher support for Kellogg and Pann and for excellence education into a service to the community further funding to bring in guest Chris and Barbara in 2011. The couple donated $600,000 artists, purchase new composition to the College of Music to create the equipment and travel to conferences. Christoffersen spread giving Christoffersen Endowment Fund for the Says Kellogg, “Our program is able to faculty composers Takács Quartet, which helps keep the to provide more creative outlets for Grammy-winning quartet in residence at students than those at other nationally the college. known schools. And because we’re Ralph “Chris” Christoffersen has a a relatively small program, this allows long history in academia. And during Recently, the Christoffersens saw us to build on our already-strong core his entire career—first in Kansas, then another opportunity to enrich and offerings and stand out.” at Colorado State University—the sustain music study at CU Boulder. chemistry professor and administrator “Barbara and I decided to support areas The new endowment brings the says there was another constant in his that demonstrated real excellence. The Christoffersens’ lifetime giving to the life: music. “I’ve been active in music Takács is a world-class organization, College of Music to more than $1 since I was a teenager. I started in choir so we wanted to further their work. million. It’s a gift the couple is proud to and had some instructors to show me Then—when we heard about Dan provide. “The faculty at the College of how important music is. Throughout [Kellogg] and Carter [Pann] and the Music are a treasure. That’s exactly why my career, I was doing music in parallel Pulitzer nomination—we wanted to do we’ve invested in them,” Christoffersen with everything else.” the same thing.” says.

Photo: Carter Pann, Chris and Barbara Christoffersen and Daniel Kellogg at the celebration 40 · 2018 of the Christoffersens’ gift in support of the two composition professors Introducing B.A.D.

The Boulder Altitude Directive (B.A.D.), directed by Associate Professor of Composition Carter Pann, has completed its first season, with six student premieres and professional recordings. The upcoming season will see the commissioning of six new student composers and will include a spring concert with guest composer Sarah Kirkland Snider in attendance. The ensemble was founded with help from an anonymous donor with the goal of commissioning and premiering new works by composition students in performance and in professional recordings.

Pictured, left to right: Conor Brown, Cecilia Lo-Chien Kao, Reneé Hemsing-Patten, Eric Haugen, John Boggs, Carter Pann, Brice Smith, Parker James and Selena Wellington

Welcome new Assistant Dean for Advancement Courtney Rowe

The College of Music’s new assistant “This is a brilliant time to be part of the dean for advancement is already a College of Music,” Rowe says. “Dean familiar and friendly face to the college Shay’s vision and investment from the community. Courtney Rowe stepped campus are helping us better connect into the new position after a national our benefactors to the impact of their search in May. She takes the helm of support for our exceptional programs, the college’s fundraising efforts after faculty and students. I am inspired three years on the advancement team, daily and can’t wait to see what we most recently as interim assistant accomplish in the years leading up dean. Prior to arriving back at her to the college’s 100th anniversary in alma mater in Boulder, Rowe was 2020.” manager of corporate, foundation and government relations at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

OUR SUPPORTERS 41 Thank You. With grateful appreciation, we publish here the names of all individual and corporate supporters of the College of Music from July 1, 2017 to Aug. 15, 2018 (contributions of $250 and above). Your generous contributions represent a significant investment in the future of music and allow the college to build on its tradition of excellence.

Every effort has been made to present this list as accurately as possible; if there is an error or omission, please contact Jeni Webster at 303-735-6070.

$500,000–$999,999 $10,000–$24,999 Don and Maria Johnson Anonymous The Academy Charitable Foundation, Inc. $250,000–$499,999 Bettina Baruch Foundation Patricia Butler Marilyn Brown and Graeme Forbes Chris and Barbara Christoffersen Jennifer Chan and Kevin McGee The Dr. C. W. Bixler Family Foundation Gina and Frank Day Tina Lynn-Craig and Alex Craig Yvonne and Phil DiStefano Mikhy and Mike Ritter The Dorothy and Anthony Riddle Leslie Walker and Dale Pruce Family Foundation Robert Edmonds William Elliott $100,000–$249,999 Galen & Ada Belle Spencer Foundation Anonymous Lloyd and Mary Gelman Gil and Nancy Berman Michael and Barbara Gerber Christopher and Margot Brauchli Helen K. Weil Estate Barbara and Timothy Cooper Horejsi Charitable Foundation, Inc. Brad Ellins and Tonya Jilling Indigo Girls, Inc. David Fulker and Nicky Wolman Bruce and Kyongguen Johnson Grace and Gordon Gamm Bob and Alice Korenblat Linda Johnson Patricia and Robert Lewis Jeannie and Jack Thompson Ann Oglesby Martha and David Peercy $50,000–$99,999 Kathryn Riddle Penzkover and Robert Bunting and Gigi Reynolds David Penzkover Kristina and Paul Eklund Christopher and Kimberly Riddle Shari and Jonathan Fox Dorothy Riddle George Lichter Family Foundation Daniel Ringoen Laurie Hathorn and Peter Spear David Ringoen Walter and Eileen Kintsch Becky Roser and Ron Stewart Louis and Harold Price Foundation Peg and Chuck Rowe Fran Rominger The Schramm Foundation Marion Thurnauer and Alexander Trifunac Robert Shay and Kate Lowerre Daniel and Boyce Sher $25,000–$49,999 Judy and Robert Waterman Anonymous Karen Weil and Ed Kaplan Kate Berenson Sherri and Frank Weil Jan Burton Steven and Barbara Taniguchi Abel Chavez The Clinton Family Fund $5,000–$9,999 Martha Coffin Evans and Robert Trembly Anonymous John and Xan Fischer Pamela Barsam Brown and Stan Brown Albert and Betsy Hand Lyle Bourne and Rita Yaroush C. Ben and Patricia Nelson Shirley and Joseph Burford Becky Ruttenberg Carson-Pfafflin Family Foundation SeiSolo Foundation Mark and Margaret Carson Liz and Ernest Verrill Brent and Dana Cohen Amy Lakritz and Mark Weiner Charlotte Corbridge Ella Gayle Hamlin Foundation Aileen and Steve Gleason Robert Graham Jake Heggie

42 · 2018 Daryl and Kay James Gary and Judith Judd Mary Lamy Arthur Lieb Martin/Martin Norma R. Johnson Fund Susan Olenwine and Dr. Frank Palermo Paul Bechtner Foundation Louise Pearson and Grant Couch Tom and Lisa Price Greg Silvus Karen and Stein Sture Takács String Quartet Viola Vestal Coulter Foundation Paul Weaver Marilyn Carol and Robert Weaver

$2,500–$4,999 Meeting at last Anonymous Sue and Barry Baer A year after speaking with Colorado Music Magazine about the scholarship in her son’s name, Gary and Karina Berg Linda McBurney finally met Doug Bolin face to face this summer. Bolin has been donating for Center Copy Printing, Inc. several years to the Scott McBurney Memorial Fund, a scholarship Scott’s parents started in P.J. Decker and B.A. Saperstein his name after his tragic death in 1995. Bolin knew Scott during their time as students at the Denver Lyric Opera Guild College of Music; he and Linda McBurney had communicated via letter only. They met in July Stephen Dilts along with Scott’s sisters Valerie and Laura, his piano professor Doris Lehnert and a recent Diane and Richard Dunn recipient of the scholarship Erin Biringen (BM ’16). Norma Ekstrand and Tom Campbell Jessica Finlay-Schultz and Ray Schultz Mick Garrett and Loretta Cummings Marc and Joan Buie Joel Pokorny James and Laura Graham Jane Butcher Elizabeth and Michael Scholl Gene Harsh M. Jane Byers The Seaver Institute Holland & Hart, LLP Thomas and Carol Cech Toni and Douglas Shaller R. David and Suzanne Hoover Bob and Judy Charles Theodore and Ruth Smith Hurdle's Jewelry Margot Crowe Carol and Arthur Smoot James & Associates, LLC Madeline Day Frank and Maureen Spaid Ruth Carmel Kahn Mike Dorsey and Carolyn Buck Jeff and Joy Stewart Alyssa Moody Marilyn R. Doscher Alan and Martha Stormo Russell and Stacy Moore Dianna and Brad Ekstrand Kathleen Sullivan Lin Murphy Frances Evans Evelyn Taylor Randy Parella Jon Finson John and Carson Taylor Margaret and Rodolfo Perez Frasier Meadows Tebo Development Co. Deborah and Larry Preble Jim Gentry Stephen Tebo The Presser Foundation Alex George and Yi-Ting Hsu Lawrence and Ann Brennan Thomas Roxanne Reff Fred Gluck and Andrea Rhodes Clifford and Lynn Thygesen Ellen and Josh Taxman David Grusin and Nancy Newton University of Colorado Golden Buffalo Daniel Trump The Halverson Foundation Marching Band Alumni Barbara Wagner Anne and Jon Halverson Peter Wall Anne Heinz and Ran Yaron Wright Family Foundation $1,000–$2,499 John and Sandra Heyer Kenneth and Ruth Wright Anonymous Doree Hickman Shigemichi and Eri Yazawa Laurie Achenbach Amy and Clark Jones Ann and Gary Yost Janet Ackermann and Scott Wiesner Caryl and David Kassoy Ted and Debbie Appel Carol Lena Kovner $500–$999 Charlene Archibeque and Robert Melnikoff Deanna and Joseph LaCamera, Jr. Anonymous Nadia Artman Nancy and Paul Levitt Jane and Richard Alder, Jr. Peter Barbieri Erma and John Mantey Judith Auer and George Lawrence Paul and Jane Baryames Krista Marks and Brent Milne Margaret and James Austin Elizabeth Bayne Patrick Mason Kristen Bednar Ingrid Becher Bruce and Lanelle McKay Margaret and Gregory Berg Penny and John Bennett John and Maggie McKune William and Louise Bradley Benson Mineral Group, Inc. Jane Menken and Richard Jessor Allen Brockman in honor of Michael Marcy and Bruce Benson Doyen and James Mitchell and Michele Ritter Sue Blessing Valorie Goodall Mooney and William Mooney Alex Campbell Dean and Ellen Boal The Oboe Fairy Anne Culver Claudia Boettcher Merthan Michael O'Brien Debbie and Dan Day Douglas Bolin Carol-Ann and Al Olson Barbara Dixon and Timothy Caldwell Ann Boyer and Everett Spees Patty Pacey and Chuck Neinas Brad Ellison Joan McLean Braun Linda and W. Joseph Paule Carolyn and Don Etter Barbara Brenton John Peterson Senja Foster Thomas and Mimi Brosh Nancy Pierce Michael and Carol Gallucci

OUR SUPPORTERS 43 Robert Garnett Douglas and Avlona Taylor Linda Giedl Patricia Thompson Ellen and John Gille Robert Tripp Donald Gingrich Theresa Vanderheiden and Lois and Thomas Godfrey Todd VanderHeiden Marcia and Dave Green Celia and John Waterhouse Leslie and Michael Guelker-Cone Dorothy and Randy Watson Sara and David Harper Anne and Peter Wood Rachel Hauser and Jeffrey Whiting Elizabeth Hoops $250–$499 Jerrie and Jon Hurd Anonymous Robert Hurrell Michael and Linda Anderson Ray Jenkins Susan and Warren Bocim Christina Jennings and Matthew Dane Virginia Boucher Sandra and Michael Karpuk Jim and Judith Bowers Robert Kehoe Sally and Sandy Bracken Carol and Tony Keig J. N. and Martha Brown Jacquie and James Kilburn Barbara and Ken Calkins Bonnie Kirschenbaum Evguenia and Patrick Charles Richard Knowles Bob Clingan The Kocsi Family Fund Mary and Elvis Coble David Korevaar JoAnn and Richard Crandall Julie and Mark Laitos Alison Craig and Stephen Trainor Margot and Ray LaPanse Eleanor DePuy Harold and Joan Leinbach Karen and Louis Diamond David Lewis Robbie Dunlap Chris and Bruce Lindeke Nan and Spike Eklund Patricia and Robert Lisensky Sib Ellis and Cappy Black Heidi and Charles Lynch Diane and Niles Flanders Lorna Lynn and Harold Palevsky Marilyn and Bruce Fredrickson Kathleen Maloney and Thomas Sullivan Rodney and Sandra Garnett T. Scott and Janet Martin Lissy Garrison Christina Mayer Steve Goldhaber and Mariana Vertenstein Leonard McCain Ken and Dianne Hackett Robert and Sandra McCalmon Thomas and Nicole Hasenpflug Donna Meckley Anne Hayes Judy and Alan Megibow Jodie and James Hayes Tamara Milane and Dennis Schouten Carolyn and Larry Hazlett Rick and Christine Moody Christopher Hepp Norma Morin-Voilleque and Paul Voilleque Beverly and Willie Hill, Jr. Dick and Anne Munday Dan and Jane Hill Francine and Robert Myers William Hoffman Allyson and Anthony Naes III Brian and Franka Hopwood Cynthia Neil Diane Jackson Robin Newsome-Suitts and David C. Suitts Diane and Mark Jensen Virginia Newton Ann Johnson and Robert Sprinkle Joan and Ronald Nordgren Marcia Johnson Mary and Kevin O'Brien Jennifer and Bob Kamper Riley O'Toole Bob and Mikee Kapelke Neil and Martha Palmer Bridget and Joseph Kasinskas Christopher and Linda Paris Tara and Steve Kelly Dennis Peterson Susan and James Kieswetter Diane and Ray Phillips Holger Kley and Jacqueline Zipser Gail Promboin and Robert Burnham Leila Larijani and Louis Hirshfield Barb and John Quinlan Judah and Alice Levine Barbara Reid and Christopher Meadows Timothy and Birgit Lilligren Jane and Cedric Reverand Randy and Eline Lorance Elisabeth and Douglas Richardson Lori Lucas and Bob Schuyler Tana and Joe Rocco, Jr. Albert Lundell Juan and Alicia Rodriguez Meagan Mahlberg Connie and Harold Roth Sara Martin Donald and Elizabeth Saunders Susannah and Bennett Martz Larry Schmidt Kate and John McFerrin Madalynn Schmidt Allan McMurray and Judy Kaffka Suan and Russell Schnell Lise Menn Connie and Gerald Schroeder Patricia and Tom Metz David and Susan Seitz Amanda Miles Rosanne and Jim Shaw Yudoxie and Burton Myers Becky and John Shockley Elizabeth and Philip Nicholson Robert and Jeanne Sichler Alice-Ann Oliver Roberta Stepp Stephanie and Roger Oram

44 · 2018 David and Ann Phillips Cindi and John Stetson Janet and Preston Pierce, Jr. Jeffrey and Shelley Stiffler Kim and Rich Plumridge Anthony and Randi Stroh Leslie Prevish Gretchen Vanderwerf and Gordon Jones Judy Reid and Rick Collins Heather Van Dusen Ardith and Rodney Rietema Lynne and Rick Waidler Tom Riis Paul Ward and Lucinda Waldron Cynthia and Dave Rosengren Betty and Ken Whiton Susan and James Rudosky William E. Schmidt Foundation Inc. Marilyn and John Shelton Patricia and Jim Wilmore Carol and Randall Shinn Katherine and Martin Wirth Anita and Terry Shockey James and Nurit Wolf Andrew Skumanich Ronald Young Dan and Donna Smith Dan and Joyce Zaharris Daryl Smith Endowments

Amadeus Fund College of Music Advantage Endowment American Music Research Center Endowment College of Music Fund for Faculty Excellence Anthony and Dorothy Riddle Lyric Theatre Crick Streamer Memorial Scholarship Fund Performance Prize CU New Opera Workshop Endowment Fund Architects of Music Endowed Dale R. Johnson Opera Scholarship Opportunity Fund Daniel and Boyce Sher Colorado Arline P. Cohen Music Scholarship Fund Music Scholarship Endowment Fund Artist Series Endowment Fund Daniel and Boyce Sher Colorado Music Bagley Prize Scholarship Endowment Fund for Piano Barbara M. Doscher Memorial Daniel and Boyce Sher Distinguished Voice Scholarship Musicians Scholarship Beckie Reeder Arnold Piano Darrell and Lauren Boyle Lyric Theatre Scholarship Fund Program Endowment Fund Bernice Holic Piano Award Fund Darrell and Lauren Boyle Lyric Theatre Berton Coffin Applied Voice Faculty Research Program Scholarship How to give and Professional Development Denby and Georgia L. Peebles Memorial Fund Endowment Fund Denes Koromzay Fund for Chamber Music The College of Music thanks its many Berton Coffin Endowed Fund Enhancing Dennis Jackson Opera Scholarship Fund donors for their vision and generosity in Voice Students' Success Dewitt and Billie Brennan Music Fund supporting student scholarships, faculty Berton Coffin Voice Faculty Fellowship Fund Don G. Campbell Fund for The American chairs and programs. Berton Coffin Voice Scholarship Fund Music Research Center Betsey Crockett Shay Memorial Don T. Swall Band Scholarship Fund Please consider making a new or Endowed Scholarship Fund Doris Pridenoff Lehnert Endowed additional gift today in support of the Bob and Judy Charles Endowed Chair Piano Scholarship Fund following areas: in Music Dorothea Eldridge Music College of Music Dean’s Annual Fund Bourne/Yaroush Takács Quartet Boulder Douglas, Connie (Zwoyer), Tyler and (0121180) Performance Endowment Lois Harsh Memorial Endowment College of Music Dean’s Scholarship Fund Brownlow V. Wilson Scholarship in Edith E. Edwards Estate Scholarship Fund (0121181) Music Education Ekstrand Competition Endowed Fund Burford-O'Neal-Taniguchi Endowment for Elena Ann Donald College of Music To mail your gift, please make your the Entreprenuership Center for Music Endowment Fund check payable to the CU Foundation and Cecil Effinger Endowed Fellowship Eric Sutton Skinner Memorial send to: in Composition Scholarship Fund CU Foundation Celena M. Smith Music Fund Erismann Fund for Faculty Excellence Attention: Processing Department Charles Haertling Scholarship Fund Eugene D. Eaton Jr. Chair in Baroque Music 10901 West 120th Ave., Suite 200 Charlotte Orr Reid Vocal Scholarship Everett J. Hilty, Sr. Music Fund Broomfield, CO 80021 Endowment Fund Ewing Memorial Music Scholarship Fund Christoffersen Endowment Fund for Fischer Family Endowed Music To donate online or for more information, the Takács Quartet Scholarship Fund please visit colorado.edu/music/giving or Christoffersen Fellows in Composition Fran and Jack Rominger Endowed contact Courtney Rowe, Assistant Dean for Endowed Fund Music Scholarship Fund Advancement, at courtney.rowe@colorado. Christoffersen Fellows in Composition Frank and Gina Day Endowed edu or (303) 492-6291. Endowed Professional Development Fund Music Scholarship Fund Chuck, Jane and Jeff Byers Family Fund for Frank W. Baird Trumpet Scholarship Thank you for your support! All donations Choral Music Education Endowment Fund are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by Claudia Boettcher Merthan Vocal Freelyn A. Jeffers Graduate Fellowship law. For more information, please call: Scholarship Endowment in Choral Conducting 303-492-3054.

OUR SUPPORTERS 45 Gabor Ormai String Scholarship Endowment Phyllis Parmlee Memorial Piano Garrett-Cummings Electro-Acoustic Scholarship Fund Student Award Fund R. Mauldin Piano Scholarship Fund George Fullmer Reynolds Lectureship Raymond Schultz and Jessica Finlay Schultz George Lynn Memorial Endowment Fund Marching Band Endowment Glenn Miller Fund Rebecca Beardmore Chavez Gloria and Martin Trotsky Music Scholarship Fund Scholarship Fund Rebecca Scamman Green Marching Band Gordon C. Miller Seminar Series Endowed Scholarship Fund Endowment Fund Rhodes Gluck Marching Band Gregory Philip Ranno Excellence in Music Scholarship Endowment Scholarship Fund Richard Toensing Endowed Doctoral Hallenbeck/Walker Music Composition Fund Scholarship in Composition Hathorn Family Endowed Fund for Richard Toensing Undergraduate Flute Student Success Composition Scholarship Fund Herbert T. Clark Scholarship Fund Ritter Classical Guitar Scholarship Hoover Music Teaching and Learning Endowment Fund Endowment Fund Robert A. Miles Endowed Bassoon Howard B. Waltz Music Scholarship Scholarship Fund James M. Grossi Composition Scholarship Robert K. McIntosh Scholarship for Jean Hammond Macferran Music Education Music Instruction Endowment Fund Robert R. and Ruth J. Fink College of Jean L. and Jack C. Thompson Jazz Music Endowment Fund Endowment Fund Robert R. Fink Music Theory Jessie and Albert Henry Memorial Scholarship Fund Scholarship Endowment Robin Sawhill Piano Fellowship Competiton Joan Catoni Conlon Graduate Roser Endowed Musicology Department Choral Fellowship Support Fund Joesph Negler Endowed Chair in Music Roser Piano and Keyboard Program John F. Hardy Memorial Music Endowed Fund Scholarship Fund Roser Student Travel Endowed Fund John Nolan Parsons Musicology Endowment Slavin Marching Band Scholarship John W. (Jack) Bartram Memorial Fund Endowment Fund Jonathan and Shari Fox Marching Band Stanley Ruttenberg Memorial Endowed Endowed Scholarship Fund Scholarship Fund Joe and Becky Negler CU Jazz Endowment Stephen Robert Dudley Horn Joyce Mata Ashley Endowed Scholarship Endowment Scholarship Fund Storm Bull Research Award Julia Lakritz and Sondra Weiner Endowed Sue Conrad and C. Dixon Titus Scholarship Fund for Piano Memorial Fund Karen McMurry Scholarship Endowment Susan L. Porter Memorial Fund Katherine Anne Suber Whiton Music Takács Scholarship Endowment in Memory Scholarship Endowment Fund of Faye Shwayder Louis and Harold Price Entrepreneurship Taniguchi Holiday Festival Student Support Center for Music Fund Endowment Fund Louise Touhy Scholarship Fund The College of Music Scholarship Lynn Whitten Choral Music Faculty Fellowship Endowment Fund Lynn Whitten Fellowship in Graduate The Eklund Family Opera Program at Choral Conducting CU Boulder Endowment Fund Mantey Fund for Faculty Excellence The Judith and Richard Waterman Margaret Steed Memorial Graduate Scholarship Fund String Quartet Endowed Fund The Walter and Jenny Kate Collins Graduate Margaret V. Heinricy Student Support Fellowship in Choral Studies Fund in Music Thurston E. Manning Endowment Fund Marty and Alan Stormo Endowed Music Fund for Composition Mayme Holder Lacy CU Opera Endowment Tonya Jilling and Brad Ellins Endowed McDowell CU Opera Endowment Music Scholarship Fund Michele and Michael Ritter Classical Guitar Trego Music Endowment Fund Program Endowment Fund Trudi Mielziner Graduate Opera Mile Hi Band Scholarship Fund Scholarship Endowment Fund Nancy and Ted Anderson Music Virginia Blake Becker Scholarship Fund Scholarship Endowment Virginia E. Schwatel Fund for Music Education NORIS Graduate Student Awards in Music Wallace F. Fiske Memorial Scholarship Fund Norman W. Swanson Music Scholarship Fund Wallace Fiske Music Library Fund O'Neal Taniguchi Endowment for the Walter Orr Roberts Music Scholarship Entrepreneurship Center Warner and Norma Imig Choral Pamela K. Stormo Memorial Endowed Conducting Scholarship Fund Scholarship Fund for Music Education Weil Endowed Fund for Faculty Excellence Paula Marie and H. Rolan Zick Endowment William Earl Rose Sr. Scholarship Fund Peercy-Roth Memorial Scholarship Fund William J. and Elizabeth C. Suitts Music Pete Smythe Scholarship Fund Student Support Endowment Fund Peter and Julianne Steinhauer Fund Wilma and Perry Louis Cunningham Scholarship Fund 46 · 2018 In Memoriam The College of Music community marked the passing of these faculty, alumni, colleagues and friends this year:

David Louis Baker (MM ’94) Lewis E. Higel (BME ’49, MME ’50) Robert E. Nicholas (BME ’52) Musician and sound technician Veteran and band director Walter Nilsen (BME ’64) Shirley C. Bauer (BME ’51) Jared R. Hirsch (BME ’60) Singer and carpenter Sales associate and volunteer Jazz musician and music teacher David Flanders Noble (BME ’74) Matthew Howard Capell (MM ’66) Karen Clifton Kappler (MM ’80) Music teacher and cellist Singer and voice professor Musician and world traveler Leonard F. Ostwald (BME ’52, MME ’55) Alan C. F. Cass Quentin E. Karsrud (MME ’59) Veteran and music teacher Glenn Miller Archive curator Veteran and music teacher Barbara Boesel Owens (BM ’57, MM ’61) Barbara Hoppock Chambers (BME ’53) Karen Louise Kelsch Violinist and music teacher Choral director and piano teacher Music teacher Wilma L. Parsons (MM ’79) Carroll L. Chilton (BM ’52) David W. Keuhn Teacher and church choral director Veteran and piano professor Orchestral trumpet player Mary Uell Pollart (BME ’65) Carrie Frances Dozbaba (MM ’06) Margery Gerlach Layton (BME ’60) Elementary school music teacher Pianist, composer and nurse Kindergarten teacher Robert D. Rider (BME ’55) Janet E. Elder Marjorie Selters Logan Elementary school music teacher Choral singer and legal secretary (BME ’51, BM ’52) Doris Coon Rood (BME ’40) Elementary school teacher Kristin Marie Farnsworth Private piano teacher (MM ’10, MBA ’15) Elizabeth G. Maas (MM ’73) Ben Saypol (MM ’04) Pianist Insurance agent and world traveler Founder of Theatre Delta Lee Charles Fuchs (MM ’85) Mildred A. MacDonald Frank N. Speller III (BM ’61, DMA ’68) Church choral director (PhD Music Education ’72) Organ and harpsichord professor Patricia Mae Gebura (MM ’53) Bonnie E. McCosh (BA Music ’44) Elizabeth C. Suitts Violin teacher Geologist Longtime College of Music supporter and John Paul Goodman (BME ’66, MME ’68) Richard D. McDaniel (BME ’64) benefactor of the William J. and Elizabeth Teacher Band director C. Suitts Music Scholarship Lloyd William Hanson (MM ’77, DMA ’84) Andrew William McKee Carl Russell Thompson Voice teacher Auto shop employee and Veteran, accountant and former College of Music student former College of Music student Howard T. Hatton (BME ’39, MM ’41) Veteran, choral singer and voice professor Ruth Corwin Meyer (DMA ’70) Richard Dale Waggoner (MM ’56) Piano professor Church music minister Margaret Heinricy (BME ’57) Choral director and Jere Franklin Morris (BA ’74) Irene Oestreich Wake elementary school teacher Piano technician Church choral director and organist Gerald M. Hickman, MD Larry Ray Naylor (BA ’75, MM ’77) Shirley Burtt White (BM ’49) Longtime College of Music supporter Jo Ann L. Newmyer (BME ’55) Teacher 301 UCB Boulder, CO 80309-0301