Music

  • large window of the Imig Music Building against a blue sky
    CU Boulder’s College of Music celebrated its 100th birthday in style last year with a stunning 64,000-square-foot, $57 million expansion funded by numerous private donors and a university matching capital grant. 
  • jazz musician Tia Fuller holds her saxophone while wearing a gold dress and standing in front of a sparkling beaded curtain
    From Beyonce to Pixar, Tia Fuller shines her light on jazz.  Soon after Tia Fuller (MMus’00) vamped the red carpet at the Grammy Awards in March 2019, she got a call from a casting agent representing the animated Pixar film Soul. “They were
  • List of Ten
    CU has hosted many amazing artists over the years, representing everything from classical cello to electronic dance music. Here are 10 great concerts performed at CU Boulder.
  • G. Brown author of On Record
    As a journalist for the Denver Post, G. Brown covered music for nearly 30 years. Today he’s executive director of the Colorado Music Experience and author of On Record.
  • On Record 1978 cover
    by G. Brown (Jour'79) (Colorado Music Experience, 340 Pages; 2020)   Buy the Book Colorado Music Experience founding director and author G. Brown covered popular music at the Denver Post for 26 years, interviewing
  • Pamela Z performance illustration
    Digital artist Pamela Z is known for creating unique loops, voice manipulations and compositions. Her work earned her the Rome Prize.
  • G. Forsberg
    In June, Gary Forsberg and the a cappella chorus he’s a part of, Sound of the Rockies, represented the U.S. at France’s Brittany American and Omaha Beach American Cemeteries, to commemorate D-Day’s 75th anniversary.
  • professor holding a skeleton
    Making music is a physical pursuit. The CU Music Wellness Program helps performers stay fit.
  • Lee Knight
    Lee Knight of Denver is a front-end software developer by trade, and also a musician, youth minister, choir director — and bull rider.
  • Collage of music sheets
    Rodney Sauer bought a cultural treasure sight unseen — a vast trove of silent film-era musical scores. Then he gave it all away.
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