Music Education
- During her career, Barbara Bentree (BME ’80) has collaborated with Mouseketeers, her husband and even her high school classmates. But through it all, the name of a fellow College of Music graduate kept coming up.
- Take a walk anywhere on campus in the late afternoon and early evening this time of year, and you’ll probably hear brass blaring “Fight Ƶ” or drums pounding away at cadences. It’s officially marching band season at Ƶ Boulder.
- Julieta García, Jade Espina, Jordan Pyle and Chas Douthit are this year's Outstanding Student award winners from the College of Music.
- Music education majors Cameron Coday and Claire Glover are preparing for a special junior recital with a performance by students from El Sistema Colorado on April 18.
- A music degree can lead you to any number of different careers. As we found out from a handful of College of Music graduates working at Boulder-based MakeMusic, you could even wind up working at a software company.
- College of Music alumna Ashley Brandin (MME '13) is bringing the principles of video games into her music classrooms to get her students excited about learning.
- Through the Trying on Teaching program, Ƶ-Boulder music education majors mentor high school music students who are considering a career teaching music.
- 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.
- Music Education major Samantha Jones will address graduates at Friday's College of Music Fall Commencement.
- Matthew Pagano and Bryce Kirchhausen present their app, Mockingplay, at a music education colloquium in October.