Ekstrand Memorial Graduate Student Competition (2019)

In the College of Music's premier graduate student performance competition, CU Boulder's top graduate students compete for a $2,000 grand prize in the Bruce Ekstrand Memorial Graduate Student Performance Competition, named for former Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Bruce Ekstrand. 

Performance date and time: 

Sunday, Nov. 3, 2 p.m.

Program: 

George Walker: String Quartet No. 1 “Lyric”; Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 8, in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2; Ernst Sachse: Concertino in E-flat Major; Paul Hindemith: Sonate für Trompete in B und Klavier; Béla Kovács: “After you, Mr. Gershwin!”; Jörg Widmann: Fantasie; Giuseppe Verdi: “La Forza del Destino” - Prelude to Act III; Paul Wiancko: “American Haiku”; Caroline Shaw: “Limestone & Felt”; Arnold Schoenberg: Klavierstücke, Op. 11; Alexander Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 “Black Mass”

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Competition Judges:

Christopher Dragon, Associate Conductor of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra; Music Director of Wyoming Symphony

Alan Smith, director of Keyboard Collaborative Arts at the University of Southern California; coordinator of piano and vocal studies at Tanglewood Music Center

Kelly Waltrip, Executive Director of the Denver Young Artists Symphony