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After 20 years as dean of the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music, Daniel P. Sher will step away from the post in June — but he isn’t going quietly. First, student musicians at the college will dedicate their performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at Boettcher Concert Hall in Denver on Wednesday to the [...]

Jeannie and Jack Thompson have made an unprecedented commitment to the Jazz Studies program at the University of Colorado Boulder — building $1.6 million in combined gifts to trigger a new $2 million program endowment. To honor and recognize this transformational gift, the program will be renamed the Thompson Jazz Studies Program, as announced at [...]

Staging of Stravinsky opera set for this weekend at CU-Boulder’s Macky Auditorium.

He will have served in the post for 20 years when he steps down next summer, and plans to return to the College of Music faculty.

Patrick Mason, a professor of voice at the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Music, has been selected to receive the 2012 Hazel Barnes Prize. The prize is the highest faculty recognition for teaching and research awarded by the university.

Faculty from the CU-Boulder College of Music will present a concert in tribute to those killed in the 9/11 attacks 10 years ago.