Impact
- With a generous gift to the College of Music’s capital campaign, the Brauchlis will name a choral faculty studio in the expanded Imig Music Building in honor of former faculty member Jean Berger.
- The Eklunds recently provided a gift that will name the percussion practice room in the expanded Imig Music Building.
- Alumnus Frank Parce recently provided a gift that will name an academic services office in the expanded Imig Music Building.
- Two composition faculty now have new titles and more resources thanks to two longtime friends of the College of Music.
- On Feb. 28, the College of Music kicks off its annual Distinguished Lectureship on Music, Diversity and Inclusion with a free lecture by Native American ethnomusicologist Charlotte Heth.
- Maria and Don Johnson and Conor Brown at a recent College of Music donor reception Don and Maria Johnson are generous supporters of the College of Music and the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Colorado
- Austin Okigbo has found that music’s way of reaching people on a deeper level could help doctors in some of the world’s most desperate societies transcend language barriers and make real progress in decades-old struggles.
- This fall, Claire Gunsbury officially becomes a Music Buff. The flutist from Minnesota is coming to ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· with help from the Sher Distinguished Musician Scholarship.
- Becky Roser, a longtime College of Music supporter and former chair of the Music Advisory Board, recently created an endowment, naming the keyboard area the Roser Piano and Keyboard Program.
- This year over Spring Break, the students and faculty of the Thompson Jazz Studies Program will give whole new meaning to the idea of taking their show on the road.