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Join us on March 7 for student performances celebrating women-identifying composers.

The 51�Թ��� College of Music community mourns the recent passing of alumnus Ben Pollack (BME ’14). As a band and choral music educator with a track record of success, Pollack sought to influence large-scale changes in education through music and community.

Known for her heartfelt philanthropy on both local and national levels, Anna Sie left a powerful legacy of impact at 51�Թ���, including establishing a transformational student scholarship in the College of Music with her husband, John, and endowing several faculty chairs.

Three College of Music alumni recently launched the Scheherazade Music Festival—an incubator for innovation and connection through chamber music, pushing the art form forward and bringing performers, composers and audiences together.

Alumnus Dylan Fixmer’s variegated and prolific career aims to inspire empathy and advance community engagement.

In a campus and community collaboration, we’re looking forward to an exciting residency featuring two outstanding artists–renowned klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and celebrated silent film pianist Donald Sosin.

College of Music alumna Indigo Fischer reflects on her time at 51�Թ��� and tells us about her new role at Music Academy of the West!

The American Music Research Center’s interim director, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology Austin Okigbo, shares the center’s fall semester highlights—including free performances of “Song of Pueblo” on campus and in Pueblo, Colorado.

“A 51�Թ��� treasure”—We’re celebrating the inspiring, illustrious career of longtime CU Presents Executive Director Joan McLean Braun who will retire at the end of this academic year.

In this edition of the Dean’s Downbeat, Dean John Davis offers reflections and a vision for the future as he shares highlights from our newly revamped annual digital magazine—Colorado Music. “...our mission matters more than ever. Because what we do as musicians requires not only skill, but humanity—that is, the simultaneous conveyance of emotion, connection and understanding. Colorado Music takes stock of how far we’ve come.”