UCCS Faculty Masterclass Series 2027
UCCS Faculty Masterclass Series 2027
Participate in a Masterclass!
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 for the violin/viola class 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.
Schedule 2027
February 13, 2027—Guitar masterclass with Dr. Colin McAllister (register by Feb 1)
February 27, 2027—Violin/viola masterclass with Michael DiBarry (register by Feb 15)
Masterclass Information
WHO: For each date, three college, 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 given dates, 10:00-11:30am
HOW: Register by clicking the button below.
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
February 13, 2027—Dr. Colin McAllister, Guitar
Colin McAllister pursues an active career as both a guitarist and conductor, with a particular emphasis on repertoire from the late-20th and 21st centuries. He has given over 150 world or U.S. premieres by composers including Christopher Adler, Juan Campoverde, Chaya Czernowin, Franco Donatoni, Brian Ferneyhough, Beat Furrer, Vinko Globokar, Adam Greene, Helmut Lachenmann, Tania León, Rolf Riehm, and Terry Riley. His performances as a guitarist and conductor have been hailed as ‘sparkling...delivered superbly’ (San Francisco Chronicle), ‘ravishing’ (San Diego Union Tribune) and ‘an amazing tour de force’ (San Diego Story), For over a quarter century, he has been a member of the ensemble NOISE, and is a co-founder of the soundON Festival, held annually since 2007 in La Jolla, California. McAllister serves as Director of Humanities and an Associate Professor in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, where he directs the Sagitta Guitar Ensemble and organizes the Solertia Humanities Speaker Series.
February 27, 2027—Dr. 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.
