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BOULDER, Colo. 鈥� Brett Madsen was deeply interested in music as a high-school student in Florida. It just wasn鈥檛 the pop, rock, hip-hop and other genres most of his peers listened to. He was into classical music, from Bach and Beethoven to Mozart and Chopin. And he was very into writing the same kind of thing.

When the Colorado Buffaloes catch a breather during Pac-12 network football games this fall 鈥� ditto for the basketball team, right into spring 鈥� expect to see a top-notch team from the CU-Boulder College of Music step in.

Composer Libby Larsen talks about the themes in her new opera A Wrinkle in Time being workshopped by CU New Opera Workshop June 14-16.

Keane Southard (MM 2011, composition) has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student grant to spend nine months next year pursuing research in Brazil.

Composition faculty Daniel Kellogg has been awarded a coveted Aaron Copland Award that includes a residency at Aaron Copland鈥檚 National Historic Landmark house in New York鈥檚 lower Hudson Valley. During this residency, Professor Kellogg will continue his exemplary composition work.

The Aakash Mittal Quartet, led by Aakash Mittal (BM 2007, saxophone), received the ASCAP/Chamber Music America award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music for jazz ensemble in January in New York. The group performs its members鈥� original works and draws heavily on the improvisational vocabulary and compositional aspects of the North Indian classical raga tradition.

Members of the CU Bassoon Studio perform faculty composer Daniel Kellog's Canticle of Earth February 22, 2011 on the Faculty Series in Grusin Music Hall.

Jazz Piano Bachelor of Music student Annie Booth received an Honorable Mention as part of the 2011 ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards. This program, established in 2002, was created to encourage gifted jazz composers from throughout the United States. The recipients, who receive cash awards, range in age from 9 to 29, and are selected through a juried national competition.

The Tak谩cs Quartet just completed a three-concert series focusing on Schubert in New York City (92nd Street Y), and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The series featured the New York premiere of a new work composed for the Quartet by CU Composter Daniel Kellog based on the slow movement theme of Schubert鈥檚 鈥淒eath and the Maiden鈥� Quartet; guest pianist Jeffrey Kahane, guest cellist Paul Katz, and guest bassist Joseph Feeney. Reviews:

CU-Boulder composition faculty member Daniel Kellogg is working on a new opera, The Autumn Orchard, which will be workshopped this summer at the CU New Opera Workshop. Here are a few sample posts from his blog danielkellogg.blogspot.com: