All performances are FREE and take place in Packard Hall unless otherwise indicated.

Senior Capstone Presentations 
Wednesday, April 1 from 1-4:30 p.m.  
Senior music majors present their capstone projects, showcasing their unique approach to music studies. 
Saarang Chari: “The Line Between Sound Design and Score” 
Ella Dill: “Trusting Desire: Art, Authenticity, and Institutional Authority”
Sam Goodner: “Evolution” 
Neo Li: “From Music Healing to Music Therapy” 
Elliot Rossman: “The Lowest Fidelity” 
Luca Zoeller: “Where Are We Going? A Colorado College Compilation Album”  

Live from Packard Hall 
Faculty Artists Concert 
Tuesday, April 7 at 3 p.m.  
Featuring the talents of our very own CC Music Faculty, including piano four hands, a Baroque string quartet, and professional gamelan.   

Music at Midday  
Wednesday, April 8 at 12:15 p.m.  
CC students perform an array of vocal and instrumental works. Come see the variety and talent of our students! 

Opera Scenes 
“Ain’t it Awful, the Heat”
Friday, April 10 at 7 p.m.: CC’s Packard Performance Hall
Saturday, April 11 at 7 p.m.: UCCS ENT Center’s Chapman Recital Hall 
Operatic highlights presented by CC and UCCS voice students. 

United States Air Force Academy Band Chamber Recital  
Monday, April 13 at 7 p.m.  
A musical tour de force, the program features the United States Air Force Academy’s premier band! 

Liliana Carrizo, our Associate Academic Chair and the Christine S. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Music, recently earned tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. Her scholarly achievement, teaching excellence, and service to the department and the College have made a lasting impact on our students and community. We are grateful for the creativity, insight, and care she brings to her work and are delighted to celebrate this well-deserved milestone. We all look forward to this next phase of her CC career!  

Students attend a concert at the renowned Musikverein.

Assistant Professor Lidia Chang’s Block 6 Music and the Museum class spent three intense weeks in Vienna, Austria visiting museums, attending concerts, and designing their own interactive virtual exhibition in the Kunsthistorisches Museum’s musical instrument collection. The students went behind the scenes with curators, museum directors, and restoration/conservation specialists to learn first-hand about the multifaceted and interdisciplinary work that museum professionals do every day. The students worked in small groups to curate exhibitions on five objects in the collection: a 16th-century lute by Hans Frei, a curiously un-playable spinet-regal, a composition board used by the blind composer Maria Theresia von Paradis, a set of royal trumpets and timpani, and an 18th-century quartet table. Their virtual exhibitions opened on March 5, and the quartet table was featured on the Kunsthistorisches Museum’s public lecture-recital series, “Unerhört!” 

MU398/CO300: Doctor Faustus–
Exploring Music and Fascism in the Twentieth Century with Assistant Professor Lidia Chang
Thomas Mann’s 1947 novel, Doctor Faustus, captures the anxieties and horrors of the 20th century while weaving them into the history of Western music. This remarkable work of fiction that blends truth and fantasy will be our guide to learning about composers such as Bach, Beethoven, Schoenberg, and other canonized figures of European art music whose legacies have become inextricably linked with the Third Reich. Fulfills General Education requirements: Analysis and Interpretation of Meaning OR Historical Perspectives. 

MU228: Decoding Music with Professor Ofer Ben-Amots
What makes a piece of music feel cohesive, powerful, or surprising? And how do we uncover the deeper workings beneath its surface? In this course, students will break down music into fundamental elements for analysis—scales, harmony, rhythms, form, and beyond—while understanding how and when such theoretical constructions can be applied to a range of historical and global repertoires. Through hands-on exercises, listening sessions, and case studies, we will explore an array of analytical techniques that reveal new layers of meaning. Students will gain fresh perspectives on how music is constructed, emerging with analytical skills that can be applied in future music-making, scholarship, and everyday listening. All interested students are welcome to join, regardless of their level of music theory background. 

Colorado College and the University of Denver music departments join forces for the first time to present The Brandenburg Project! This groundbreaking collaboration explores the resonance of J.S. Bach’s compositions and instruments in the modern world, juxtaposing them with newly-commissioned works for period instruments. After a year of intense study of early instruments, techniques, and practices, students bring their own experience and artistry to J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. Join us for a joyful celebration of music, old and new. Both performances are free and open to the public. 

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