演奏集中功能由专家对每种乐器或声音进行广泛的私人应用指导。四年制课程中包含许多表演机会，从独奏音乐会到大型和小型合奏参与不等。表演集中只接受最熟练的本科音乐家，该课程的毕业表明学生已经取得了很高的音乐成就。我们的主要目标是培养学生成为高技能的音乐教育者，音乐治疗师，表演者和作曲家的能力。计划目标鼓励并发展音乐的教学，奖学金，表演和研究的高标准。我们很高兴提供小型学术课程，与高素质教职员工一起进行的应用研究以及对咨询的精心关注。音乐欣赏，音乐理论基础和合奏课程对所有学生开放，无论其专业是什么。学生将展示：具
ithin the Performance Concentration, Organ Option students have an opportunity to perform on the world-famous Casavant organ. Since its installation in 1968, the Casavant organ has gained international fame as one of the 25 greatest organs in the world (Anton Heiller, 1968). Built in the North German tradition, CSU's Casavant is among the world's most beautifully balanced and well-voiced organs. <br><br>In addition to practice and lesson time on the Casavant, organ students, through an arrangement with local churches, have access to practice and lesson times on three other exemplary organs in Fort Collins: <br><br>The Phelps organ at St. Luke's Episcopal Church <br>The Marcussen & Son organ at First United Methodist Church <br>The Allen Digital organ at the American Baptist Church. <br>Harpsichord students practice and take lessons on one of the department's two instruments: <br><br>Built in 2022 by Bruce Kennedy, whose workshop in Tuscany produces world-famous harpsichords, the instrument is a German double-manual (after M. Mietke, 1702-1704), capable of playing a range of keyboard music, but especially that of J.S. Bach. <br><br>A two-manual, three-choir instrument built by Dennis Brown (1982) to the specifications of Taskin, the great French harpsichord builder to the Louis at Versailles. <br><br>Liturgical Studies is a course of study that complements the degree program of an undergraduate or graduate music student interested in church music. It is also designed to provide continuing education to professional musicians in the community. The program seeks to offer theory and history of liturgical music together with applied music lessons and practical training for church music careers.