2025 Trying On Teaching Launch
January 22, 2025 @ 12:00 am –
Kim Abeles: Community Smog
January 22, 2025 – March 14, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm –
Community Smog is a collaboration between artist Kim Abeles and Northern Colorado community members. Abeles’s Smog Collectors create “footprints of the sky” and mimic air quality by collecting particulates from the air on plates or fabric.
Scholarship Info Session
01/22/2025 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Learn everything you need to know about applying for scholarships using the CSU Scholarship Application (CSUSA) as a College of Liberal Arts student. Available Times and Locations: Wednesday, October 23, 6-7 PM, Eddy 104 Wednesday, November 13, 6-7 PM, BSB room 105 Wednesday, December 11, 6-7 PM, Visual Arts Building room F111 Wednesday, January 22, […]
Music Therapy Major Information Session #2
January 23, 2025 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm – Please join us for a music therapy information session and Q&A. During the webinar, you will receive an overview of our music therapy program, meet music therapy faculty, learn about the application process, and have an opportunity to ask questions. The session includes separate break-out rooms for graduate and undergraduate discussions. Prospective undergraduate students will […]
Classical Convergence Series: The Aznavoorian Sisters
January 28, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Ani (cello) and Marta (piano) Aznavoorian, winners of the National Foundation for the Arts Award, have performed at Carnegie Hall, had a residency at the Seattle Chamber Music Society, and toured the globe. $25/35+ regular; $18 student Building on the foundation of the classical music tradition, but with a contemporary edge, the co-produced season features […]
2025 Continuting Education Credit at CMEA
January 29, 2025 – February 1, 2025 @ 12:00 am –
Visualize: The Collection
February 1, 2025 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm –
Visualize is the annual benefit gala supporting the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art. In February, we will celebrate the rich connections between art and music through our museum collection, featured exhibitions, entertainment, and activities, along with delicious food and drink. Visualize is an elegant evening you won’t want to miss!
MFA Thesis Reading
February 6, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm –
Hear readings by Creative Writing MFA students from the Colorado State University Department of English.
2025 Theatre Virtual Visit Session
February 7, 2025 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Please join us at the 2025 Spring Theatre Virtual Visit Session. CSU Theatre’s virtual visit session is an opportunity for high school students, transfer students, associate degree graduates, and current CSU students (and their parents/guardians) to meet with CSU Theatre students and faculty. The event includes an overview of our degrees, Q&A segments, and themed […]
2025 Body/Speak
February 7, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Co-directed by Susie Garifi and Julia Cooper Body/Speak features guests from colleges, universities, and dance companies across the region who join CSU Dance for an evening of diverse dance. “This concert brings our community together to showcase what’s happening in dance across Colorado and Wyoming,” said director of Dance Emily Morgan. All participants are invited […]
Masterclass with Joseph Alessi, Trombone / FREE
February 8, 2025 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm – World-renowned trombonist Joseph Alessi – principal trombonist of the New York Philharmonic and Juilliard Conservatory teacher – is in demand across the globe as a soloist, orchestral member, and teacher. He is the featured soloist with the Fort Collins Symphony on Saturday, Feb. 8, performing the Chick Corea Trombone Concerto. The masterclass is open to […]
Spring 2025 Student Recitals / FREE
February 9, 2025 – May 10, 2025 @ All Day – Please join us in celebrating the recital performances of our CSU music students. Student Recitals are FREE and open to the public. Note: Dates, times, and locations are subject to change, please check back to confirm performance details. Sunday, February 16, 2025: 5 p.m., Griffin Concert Hall, Anthony Sacheli, Saxophone 6 p.m., Organ Recital Hall, […]
Music Therapy Major Information Session #3
February 10, 2025 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm – Please join us for a music therapy information session and Q&A. During the webinar, you will receive an overview of our music therapy program, meet music therapy faculty, learn about the application process, and have an opportunity to ask questions. The session includes separate break-out rooms for graduate and undergraduate discussions. Prospective undergraduate students will […]
The Body Construct: Between Flesh and Thought
February 12, 2025 – April 13, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm –
The Body Construct: Between Flesh and Thought, curated by 2024 Curatorial Interns Aspen Crawford, Madrigal Frederick-Law, and Marissa Goldin, explores the intricate relationship between the body and identity, examining how the physical form shapes and is shaped by personal, societal, and cultural narratives.
Scholarship Info Session
02/12/2025 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Learn everything you need to know about applying for scholarships using the CSU Scholarship Application (CSUSA) as a College of Liberal Arts student. Available Times and Locations: Wednesday, October 23, 6-7 PM, Eddy 104 Wednesday, November 13, 6-7 PM, BSB room 105 Wednesday, December 11, 6-7 PM, Visual Arts Building room F111 Wednesday, January 22, […]
Spring 2025 Dance Experience: Visit and Audition Day
February 21, 2025 @ All Day – Discover CSU Dance! Join us for masterclasses, a concert preview, and interactive sessions with our dance faculty and students. Explore our unique dance program and cap off your day with an evening activity with current dance majors. The perfect event for prospective students and guardians seeking an unparalleled dance journey
2025 CSU Trumpet Day
March 1, 2025 @ 12:00 am – The event is designed for trumpet players of ALL AGES AND EXPERIENCE who are looking for an in-person event that inspires their love of music and all things trumpet.
Family Day
March 1, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm –
Family Day is a free, drop-in program featuring art activities led by CSU Art Education faculty and students. Designed for children ages 5-12.
Enjoy a variety of hands-on activities, including crafts to take home, games, and experiments. Meet students, curators, and other experts. Explore the galleries! Connect with art and each other!
Spring 2025 Be a Voice Major for a Day
March 3, 2025 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm –
Join us on the Colorado State University campus and experience a day in the life of a music major in the voice area! The day is an opportunity for high school students, transfer students, associate degree graduates, and current CSU students (and their parents/guardians) to see what it is like being a music major at CSU.
2025 Middle School Outreach Ensembles (MSOE)
March 5, 2025 – April 19, 2025 @ 12:00 am –
The Middle School Outreach Ensembles (MSOE) at Colorado State University provide an inspirational music learning experience and opportunities to form and engage in a broad music community.
Peter and the Starcatcher adapted by Rick Elice
March 7, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Directed by Wesley Longacre This tale upends the story of Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. In Peter and the Starcatcher – adapted by Rick Elice, book by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson – marauding pirates, jungle tyrants, unwilling comrades, and unlikely heroes playfully explore the depths of greed and despair, and […]
2025 BassoonaRAMa and OboeRAMa
March 8, 2025 @ 12:00 am – Since 2006, BassoonaRAMa and OboeRAMa have brought together bassoonists and oboeists of all ages! The day-long event features today’s multifaceted musicians who explore what it means to have a life and success in and around music. Guest clinicians include chamber and orchestral musicians, college professors, music researchers, and professional reed manufacturers.
24/25 ON THE BRINK Reading Series: Staged Reading #3
March 12, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – A collaboration of professional theatre artists, faculty members, current students, and CSU alumni, the ON THE BRINK Company explores works representing a variety of underrepresented voices and perspectives. Join directors Saffron Henke and Javier Hurtado and special guests for unique productions throughout the year. Readings are followed by a facilitated post-show reflective discussion to process […]
Classical Convergence Series: Icarus Quartet Bartók Rebórn
March 26, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Bartók Rebórn Like the mythological figure from which it draws its name, the half piano/half percussion icarus Quartet dares to fly toward the sun, aspiring to new heights of artistry. This riveting program features and pays homage to Bartók’s seminal 1937 masterpiece, “Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion,” through the artistic vision of three of […]
Family Day
April 5, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm –
Family Day is a free, drop-in program featuring art activities led by CSU Art Education faculty and students. Designed for children ages 5-12.
Enjoy a variety of hands-on activities, including crafts to take home, games, and experiments. Meet students, curators, and other experts. Explore the galleries! Connect with art and each other!
24/25 ON THE BRINK Reading Series: Staged Reading #4
April 9, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – A collaboration of professional theatre artists, faculty members, current students, and CSU alumni, the ON THE BRINK Company explores works representing a variety of underrepresented voices and perspectives. Join directors Saffron Henke and Javier Hurtado and special guests for unique productions throughout the year. Readings are followed by a facilitated post-show reflective discussion to process […]
2025 Rocky Mountain Saxophone Summit
April 12, 2025 @ 12:00 am –
Classical Convergence Series: Imani Winds & Boston Brass
April 13, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Two powerhouse ensembles and wind chamber music leaders will join forces to create a “super band” collaboration featuring the music of the iconic musician and composer Arturo Sandoval. The collaboration will also include music by Khachaturian, Bach, de Falla, Piazzolla, and D’Rivera. $35/45+ regular; $23 student Building on the foundation of the classical music tradition, […]
Spring 2025 Dance Concert
April 18, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – CSU Dance keeps innovation alive! This diverse concert features new works by faculty and student choreographers. Be inspired by our performers’ versatility, athleticism, and expressiveness.
MFA Thesis Reading
April 24, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm –
Hear readings by Creative Writing MFA students from the Colorado State University Department of English.
Paradise Lost by Erin Shields: An adaptation of John Milton’s epic tale
April 25, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Directed by Debbie Swann The 2024-2025 season ends with one of the most famous poems in the English language, John Milton’s 17th-century tale Paradise Lost, an epic story about fallen angels and faulty humans searching for meaning through our temptations. In Erin Shields’s adaptation for the stage, Lucifer is a woman cast out of Heaven […]
Family Day
May 3, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm –
Family Day is a free, drop-in program featuring art activities led by CSU Art Education faculty and students. Designed for children ages 5-12.
Enjoy a variety of hands-on activities, including crafts to take home, games, and experiments. Meet students, curators, and other experts. Explore the galleries! Connect with art and each other!
24/25 ON THE BRINK Reading Series: Spring Monologue Festival
May 7, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – A collaboration of professional theatre artists, faculty members, current students, and CSU alumni, the ON THE BRINK Company explores works representing a variety of underrepresented voices and perspectives. Join directors Saffron Henke and Javier Hurtado and special guests for unique productions throughout the year. Readings are followed by a facilitated post-show reflective discussion to process […]
Spring 2025 Dance Capstone Concert
May 9, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – The spring capstone concert features the creative work of senior dance majors Macala Bartucci, Matt Bishop, Kris Johnson, Ellie Schroeder, and Liam Teagarden.
2025 CSU Summer Voice Intensive
June 2, 2025 – June 6, 2025 @ 12:00 am –
Spend a week honing your craft on the beautiful CSU campus! Auditioned students will perform a solo in our beautiful Recital Hall. Participants will also take voice lessons with CSU faculty, and participate in workshops, masterclasses, and talkbacks, including ‘Conquering the College Audition.’
2025 CSU Percussion Camp
June 6, 2025 – June 7, 2025 @ 12:00 am –
Percussion Camp for high school students includes instruction on how to successfully prepare and audition to become a collegiate music major. The workshop focuses on the four primary percussion instruments: Mallets (2 and 4 mallet), Timpani, Snare Drum, and Drum Set as well as insight on applications, scholarships, equipment, and skills in being a college student.
2025 Education in Motion: A Professional Development Seminar for pK-12 Educators
June 9, 2025 – June 12, 2025 @ 12:00 am –
Join CSU Dance faculty, regional educators, and guests for four days of interactive workshops and presentations exploring strategies and tools for integrating movement at all levels of learning.
2025 CSU Summer Jazz Workshop
June 11, 2025 – June 14, 2025 @ 12:00 am – Join CSU Jazz Faculty Wil Swindler, Peter Sommer, Dr. Seth Lewis, and Tom Amend for our second annual CSU Jazz Summer Workshop. The workshop will run 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. each day focusing on small group jazz playing and improvisation. Students will also study Jazz history and listening, Jazz theory, and attend instrument-specific masterclasses. […]
2025 Colorado Harp Seminar
June 15, 2025 – June 21, 2025 @ 12:00 am – Colorado Harp Seminar is a one-week intensive harp program for high school and undergraduate pedal harpists. Directed by faculty member Kathryn Harms at Colorado State University, it is designed to support, nurture, and inspire excellent musicianship. In addition to private lessons, students will participate in harp ensemble, masterclasses, and workshops on various topics such as […]
2025 Colorado Harp Seminar Showcase Concert / FREE
June 21, 2025 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm – Colorado Harp Seminar is a one-week intensive harp program for high school and undergraduate pedal harpists. Directed by faculty member Kathryn Harms at Colorado State University, it is designed to support, nurture, and inspire excellent musicianship. In addition to private lessons, students will participate in harp ensemble, masterclasses, and workshops on various topics such as […]
2025 Summer Conducting: Seminar for Music Educators
June 27, 2025 – July 12, 2025 @ 12:00 am –
The two-and-a-half week conducting seminar (four credits each summer) includes daily conducting opportunities in all three disciplines with a workshop orchestra, band and choir, providing further hands-on training. All participants learn to conduct in all three disciplines.
2025 Colorado Kodály Institute: Summer Residency
July 12, 2025 – July 26, 2025 @ 12:00 am –
CKI is a dynamic training center for elementary classroom music teachers, independent music instructors, and secondary music teachers interested in elevating their teaching, conducting, musicianship, and depth of knowledge about music education. Students from across the U.S., Mexico, Korea, Sweden, and Saudi Arabia participate in the annual summer seminar.
2025 Colorado Cello Intensive
July 27, 2025 – August 2, 2025 @ 12:00 am –
The Colorado Cello Intensive program is designed to maximize technical, musical, and personal growth. With a student-to-faculty ratio of 4:1, the Colorado Cello Intensive (CCI) is dedicated to helping students reach their full potential. We believe in the work hard, play hard mentality and offer students an array of evening possibilities, including hiking, rock climbing, and a trip to Rocky Mountains National Park. Surrounded by the beautiful Rocky Mountains in Fort Collins, Colorado, CCI is the ideal location to develop your playing this summer!
2025 Dance Lab: Summer Intensive
August 3, 2025 – August 16, 2025 @ 12:00 am –
CSU Dance Lab is a college preparatory summer program offering immersive study in classical and contemporary dance forms, repertory, theory, and composition. In addition to dance classes and rehearsals, students will attend lectures, develop artist statements, choreograph solos, and present a public performance. Mentored by CSU Dance faculty, renowned guest artists, and current dance majors, attendees expand skills and knowledge while contributing to a collaborative creative process. Beginner through pre-professional level dancers ages 14+ are invited to register for our two-week in-person intensive. To ensure individualized attention, registration is limited to 24 dancers admitted on a first-come-first-served basis.