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Collaboration Spotlights

supportive community. Choir members often refer to creative autonomy, which can contribute to healing
TRC as their family. This deep sense of belonging has from trauma. Our repertoire includes texts that appeal
proven transformative, particularly for individuals who to our diverse membership, including cultural songs
lack local family ties. Through weekly in-person check- introduced by members, original compositions created
ins and an active WhatsApp group, choir members by choir members and staff, and one to two octavos per
help one another through life’s challenges and celebrate season taught by rote, often with some adaptation. For
milestones such as graduations, births, citizenship, and example, we taught Coty Raven Morris’s “Who I Want
new jobs. These relationships translate to trust and vul- to Be,” and a choir member was inspired to create a
nerability within the creative process and enable rapid spoken word element to include in the middle of the
collaboration in the synthesis of new songs. song, which we incorporated with composer’s permis-
sion.
What is the collaborative element of your project? Additionally, our collaborative spirit extends beyond
our choir community through our Welcoming Artists
Our repertoire and pedagogical approach, rooted Series. This initiative involves partnering with guest
in an aural tradition, are grounded in a spirit of col- artists for each concert, many of whom are introduced
laboration. By deliberately creating space for choir to us through existing choir member connections. Past
members to co-create each piece, influencing elements collaborations have featured artists from diverse cultur-
such as harmonies, lyrics, composition form, and cho- al backgrounds such as Mongolia, Venezuela, Ukraine,
reography, we aim to instill a sense of ownership and DR Congo, and Cuba. These partnerships enrich our

Be Boulder.

Coreen Duffy, Elizabeth Swanson, Leila Heil, Associate
Director of Choral Associate Director of Professor of Music
Actvities Choral Activities Education
Choral studies in the foothills of the Rockies

The College of Music is thrilled to welcome Coreen Duffy to
the faculty as Director of Choral Activities in Fall 2024. Our
comprehensive program offers mentorship, diversity of research
and repertoire, and interdisciplinary curriculum.
Degrees
Choral Conducting (MM, DMA)
Music Education (MME*, PhD)
Music Education plus licensure
Various undergraduate offerings
Deadlines
Undergrad/Grad: December 1
*Summer MME: March 1

Generous scholarships and assistantships available.

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