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JUDith COE, voice

Judith Coe in concert

Judith Coe is Assistant Professor of Music and Director of the Commercial Voice program in the Music & Entertainment Industry Studies Department at the University of Colorado Denver, where she teaches applied voice and improvisation, pop songwriting, women in contemporary music, Irish music and directs the singer/songwriter ensemble, and her Cyberspace Music Resources site has won international awards. An eclectic singer/songwriter, composer, and keyboardist/synthesist, Coe specializes in classical, pop and jazz, and music of our time which utilizes extended vocal techniques and technology.  She has performed, composed, taught, and recorded in traditional classical, avant, and commercial genres, and has performed and given scholarly presentations and world premiere performances throughout North America, Western and Central Europe, the British Isles, and in the Caribbean.  Coe toured Czech Republic and Poland next Spring and is working on three new projects - a "Place as Identity" sonic and visual exploration, an Afro-Celt crossover concert, and a multimedia collaboration for digital art and light, dancers, DJ, and rock/hip hop nonet.

Professor Coe received a Fulbright Scholar’s Award for research she conducted in Ireland beginning September, 2006, for the academic year. Coe was hosted by the University of Limerick in the Irish World Music Centre (IWMC), and traveled around the country doing interviews with students and faculty, observing regional pedagogies and singing styles, and listening to and making music with Irish musicians. Her project explores alternative expressions in Irish music and song, and will examine sean-nós (Irish traditional “old-style”) singing and pedagogy, and how those traditions inform and transform other musical genres, including the creative work of emerging pop musicians and singer/songwriters, electronic and experimental musicians, and classical/cross-over genres.  

 

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Judith.Coe@cudenver.edu
303.556.6013

JUDITH COE, Assistant Professor of Music
BM, MM, Colorado State University;
D.MA, University of Colorado at Boulder.

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