Alumni news

College of Music alumni Obe and Whitney Ariss open their music and food hall The Preservery in Denver's River North District on April 1.

The 2010 renovations at Grusin Music Hall have transformed it into a world-class concert hall, a unique asset for students and faculty and now, a noteworthy recording studio.

This year, the Panoramic Flutist summer seminar will hold a Colorado High School Day on June 2.

A College of Music alumna is compiling a book of writings by her late husband, former piano professor David Burge.

On Wednesday, Feb. 10, the Entrepreneurship Center for Music's Career Launchpad welcomes back two College of Music alumni who have run the gamut of gigs in the music world.

Willie Hill, Jr., College of Music graduate and former professor and assistant dean, led the very first Super Bowl halftime show for Grambling College in 1967.

University of Colorado Boulder alumnus Glenn Miller will be inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame in April.

College of Music alumni Jessica Kiger (BM ‘06) and Nathan Brandwein (BM ‘02) are working at one of the premiere opera venues in the world.

It’s not often you get to return to your alma mater and play one final concert with your peers. Fortunately, the College of Music offers that chance every year to winners of the Honors Competition, and this year sees the return of cellist Robert Erhard.

A 1998 graduate of the College of Music, Slater got her Bachelor of Music before moving on to study – and eventually teach – literature. After a few years as a professor and amateur musician, a feeling that had been stirring since she was a teenager began to guide Slater in a different – yet familiar – direction.