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UPCOMING EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS: This Week on Entrepreneurship Wednesdays For the next month, Entrepreneurship Wednesdays will be offering a series of meetings on Your Basic Career Toolkit: This Week à Come to this week’s session on tips for demo recordings and head shots, and then sign up for the ECM Photo Shoot on Friday! (See

ENTREPRENEURIAL UPBEAT: Vol. 6, No. 2 Hi Gang! If you’re like me, you’re wondering how we could already need that Labor Day holiday as much as we did… But now it’s time to dive back in! Lots of things cooking at the ECM, so check ‘em out: This Week on Entrepreneurship Wednesdays We start off

The 12th Rocky Mountain String Bass Festival is being held on Sunday, September 16 in the CU College of Music. The Festival is features guest artist Artem Chirkov, one of the foremost double bassists in the world today. Mr. Chirkov is principal bass of the St.

The CU Youth Piano Program trains students through weekly, one-hour or half-hour private or group lessons. Instructors are experienced teachers from the CU College of Music, and the program is supervised by the CU Piano Pedagogy Chair, Dr. Alejandro Cremaschi.

Renowned jazz composer Maria Schneider visited CU-Boulder last year for a week-long residency. In between rehearsals and clinics, she found time to record these helpful videos for prospective music students. Thanks to MajoringinMusic.com for sharing these insightful clips:

CU Opera provided the student vocalists for the lead roles in the Colorado Music Festival’s presentation of Hans Krasa’s “Brundibar” June 28-29, 2012. Jessi Goebel and Lukas Graf played the young heroes, Anniku and Pepicek, in search of milk for their ailing mother.

Director of Entrepreneurship at the College of Music, Jeffrey Nytch, talks about the New Venture Challenge and this year’s winners, Sarah Wood and Joseph Howe.

The Tesla Quartet, graduate string quartet-in-residence at the CU College of Music, has earned the Gold Medal in the Senior Strings Division of the illustrious Fischoff Chamber Music competition. After several rounds of rigorous competition, the Tesla Quartet emerged with the gold medal in the senior strings division along with a $3,000 cash prize. In addition to the prize money, the Tesla Quartet will participate in a tour of the midwestern United States in October.

THIS WEEK ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEDNESDAYS: BUILDING A “PORTFOLIO CAREER” with special guest artist, flutist LINDSEY GOODMAN What’s a portfolio career? It’s what many (if not most) music students say they aspire to have: a career made up of teaching, an orchestral job, and chamber/solo performing. Learn what it takes to build such a career from

THIS WEEK ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEDNESDAYS: MANAGING YOUR PERSONAL FINANCES with guest DENNIS PAUL from Elevations Credit Union How many of you have student loans? Credit card balances? Other financial responsibilities? How many of you are already saving for retirement or paying your own health insurance? Do you know your credit score and why it’s so