UCCS Faculty Masterclass Series
UCCS Faculty Masterclass Series 2025-26
The UCCS Music faculty invites all student musicians who are eager to expand their musical perspectives! Students who have studied their instruments and challenged themselves through diverse repertoire are encouraged to participate. The chosen piece should showcase the student’s current musical skills. It may be memorized or not. Students should bring the sheet music. A piano accompanist can be provided if the sheet music is emailed in by the deadline. This event is open to the public. Teachers, family, and friends of the students are all encouraged to attend! The Music Program welcomes all to the Ent Center to hear the beautiful acoustics of Chapman Foundations Recital Hall.
Masterclass Dates
Oct 25, 2025—Flute masterclass with Élise Roy (register by Oct 17)
Nov 8, 2025—Trumpet masterclass with Glen Whitehead (register by Oct 24)
March 7, 2026—Violin/viola masterclass with Michael DiBarry (register by Feb 25)
WHO: For each date, three high school or middle school student musicians are invited to perform for a UCCS faculty member.
WHAT: Each student performs one piece and workshops it with the instructor in the presence of a small audience.
WHERE: UCCS, Ent Center for the Arts (5225 N Nevada Ave. Colorado Springs, CO 80918), Chapman Foundations Recital Hall
WHEN: Saturdays on the below dates, 10:00-11:30am
HOW: Complete this form. You will be contacted to confirm your slot.
COST: Free for performing musicians and for audience.
For audience, free admission. Registration is required at the Ent Center for the Arts website.
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QUESTIONS: Contact Dr. Yvonne Wu, Co-Director of Music, UCCS, ywu@uccs.edu, 719-
255-8373
October 25, 2025 - Élise Roy (Flute)
Élise Ming Chu Roy is a composer, improviser, and flutist described as exhibiting “superhuman control and stamina over every note, gliss, click and hum…utterly spellbinding” (New Classic LA). Her music is characterized by complex sound worlds of layered instrumental sounds, extended techniques, and audio from sources as diverse as NASA space missions and field recordings from the Berlin Nature Archives of elephants.
November 8, 2025 - Glen Whitehead (Trumpet)
Glen Whitehead is an internationally recognized award-winning trumpet artist and composer who stretches the music field exploring improvisational phenomena, interactive communication and environmental collaboration between living cultures, technologies and the natural world. Springing from the world of trumpet virtuosity, his creative work often explores instrumental and vocal music as immersive soundscapes, sonic theatre, installation, environmental exploration and cultural discourse in order to build compelling new interdisciplinary investigations across the arts and sciences.
March 7, 2026 - Michael DiBarry (Violin/Viola)
Performer and educator Dr. Michael DiBarry (he/him) performs on both violin and viola. Before relocating to Colorado Springs to join the faculty of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs as an Assistant Professor of Strings, he served as the orchestra director and instructor of violin and viola at Glendale Community College in Arizona as well as an instructor of string methods, music history, and music theory. His community teaching includes current work with Rosie’s House Music Academy, and recently he gave masterclasses at the University of the Philippines and St. Scholastica’s College, Manila.
