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Thursday, Sept. 28, 7 p.m.
Packard Hall
This concert features new works by CC Professor of Composition Ofer Ben-Amots, Reggie Berg, Chris Glassman, and Andrew Friedrichs. Admission is free and open to the public.
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Thursday, Oct. 5, 7 p.m.
Shove Chapel
The Sheffer Fund for Catholic Studies presents this year’s Distinguished Organist Series concert in Shove Chapel featuring trumpeter Ivano Ascari and organist Leonardo Carrieri. The audience is invited to a reception with the artists following the performance. Admission is free and open to the public.
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Friday, Oct. 6, 5:30 p.m.
Hybl Gallery- Fine Arts Center
Join artist Erin Elder and her collaborator, CC Music Professor Iddo Aharony, in conversation with Jessica Hunter from CC’s Creativity & Innovation to discuss artistic approaches for exploring place. RSVP required to attend this event.
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Wednesday, Oct. 11, 12:15 p.m.
Presenting instrumental and vocal student performances every third Wednesday of the block during the academic year. Admission is free and open to the public.
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Friday, Oct. 13, 4 p.m.
Packard Hall
Back by popular demand, CC student ensembles take to the Packard stage in this annual Homecoming weekend event! Admission is free and open to the public.
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Saturday, Oct. 14, 3 p.m.
Packard Hall
Join us for an afternoon of music celebrating the life and compositions of Professor Emeritus Carlton Gamer, 1929-2023. Gamer taught at CC from 1954-94 and in addition to his work as a composer, was known as a brilliant music theorist, mathematician and peace activist. Admission is free and open to the public.
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Sunday, Oct. 15, 3 p.m.
Packard Hall
As a cross-listing with Anthropology and Asian study, this course explores two venerable Hindu Epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata. Join the performers in a presentation os shadow puppetry, gamelan music, vocal music, and dance drama. Admission is free and open to the public.
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Workshop: Drum Mixing and Processing
Monday, Oct. 2, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Room 15, Packard Hall
Professor Michael Schulze from the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music will demonstrate various uses of EQ, compression, gating, reverb and more to take raw drum recordings into a polished mixes for rock, electronic, and more. The session is open to all skill levels, majors, and interests. Please RSVP: jmaike@coloradocollege.edu
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Looking ahead to Block 3…
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Tuesday, Oct. 24, 7 p.m.
Packard Hall
The Escher String Quartet has received acclaim for their profound musical insight and rare tonal beauty. The program is sure to please with works by Mendelssohn, Janácek , and Schubert. This concert marks the celebration of the Summer Music Festival’s 40th Anniversary. A ticket purchase is required, however, admission is free to all CC community members.
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Friday, Nov. 10, 7 p.m. | Saturday, Nov. 11, 7 p.m. | Sunday, Nov. 12, 3 p.m.
Packard Hall
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Faculty Spotlight…Meet Lidia Chang!
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Please welcome the newest addition to the Music Department faculty, Assistant Professor, Lidia Chang! Chang’s work as a musicologist and flutist expands across musical eras, cultures, and countries. Born into an interracial/bi-national family from Houston, her personal background has greatly influenced her perspective on the conceptual boundaries of gender, nationality, and class. Her studies specialize in examining the intersection of gender, literature, print culture, organology, and music performance, with her current primary focus being “the performance of ‘gentlemanliness’ through music praxis in England’s Georgian era.”
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Chang’s accomplishments as a scholar include working as a research fellow at the Musée de la Musique of the Philharmonie de Paris, which she began after receiving her PhD in Musicology from the City University of New York. She also taught courses in music history at Brooklyn College, Queens College, and at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. And while her experience in academia alone is tremendous, she also manages an expansive career in performance, holding a double major in Flute Performance and Music History from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, being a member of period instrument ensembles (Arcadia Players, Dorian Baroque, and Ensemble Musica Humana of which she is a founding member), and having released two albums of Regency era dance music (Twelve Cotillions by Giovanni Gallini, 1710 and Country Dances by Thomas Skillern, 1781).
During Block 1, Chang co-taught the course Listening to Music with Associate Professor and Chair, Ryan Bañagale. We are excited about her new course Music and Gender in Jane Austen’s England that is being offered in block 3! Chang leads an active lifestyle as a runner, is wife to Sebastian Kirsch, and is a new mother to her son Emanuel. If you want to know more about Chang, feel free to stop by her website. Stick around long enough, and you may hear her take to the stage with her Irish flute…
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Quattro Mani set to release new album on October 6!
Colorado College’s Department of Music’s associate chair, artist-in-residence and senior lecturer, Susan Grace and her duo partner Steven Beck form one of the most dynamic piano duos before today’s concert-going public. On October 6, they will be releasing a new album: Fred Lerdahl Volume Seven: Inner Life.
Fred Lerdahl’s “Inner Life” is a cycle of three pieces for two pianos, composed between 2020 and 2022. The work was written for and dedicated to the spectacular duo Quattro Mani. This recording documents a truly inspired collaboration between Lerdahl, recently called “one of America’s great secret treasures” (Gramophone), and Quattro Mani “one of the most enduring and leading keyboard duos anywhere” (Fanfare).
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The Seay Library of Music and Arts
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Pizza and Coffee!!
The Seay Library of Music and Arts is located in the basement of Packard Hall. Inside we have a conference room, a coffee corner, listening spaces, alternate study spaces, and of course many resources to aid your curiosities about music and the arts! We invite you to join us for free pizza and collaboration on Wednesday, Oct. 4 at 12:15 p.m..
The Colorado College Department of Music will be continuing to update its resources and we invite all to come enjoy this space with us!
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