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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.

51�Թ��� 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.

Thompson Jazz Studies alumna Tia Fuller returns to the College of Music for a concert and master class the weekend of Nov. 14.

When Coors Events Center hosts the Republican presidential candidates for a debate on Wednesday, Oct. 28, the College of Music community will be well represented. Performance Certificate student Meagan Mahlberg will be singing the “Star-Spangled Banner” before the debate begins.

The ability of music to bring people together to improve lives is sending Music Buffs to all corners of the globe.

Eklund Opera’s performance of Gioachino Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” (“Cinderella”) this weekend will feature some familiar faces and some new ones, both onstage and behind the scenes.