Blair School Of Music
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Summer Kindermusik classes available at Blair
Enjoy music, movement, and a special bonding time for caregivers and infants and children through age five. Read MoreMay 13, 2019
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Blair School Dean Mark Wait to speak at this year’s Phi Beta Kappa ceremony
Blair School Dean Mark Wait will address the university’s outstanding liberal arts undergraduates at the Phi Beta Kappa induction ceremony May 9. Read MoreMay 7, 2019
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Vanderbilt Osher Lifelong Learning summer classes announced
A harmonica learning lab, nutrition and health, and the history of Fisk University are among the topics offered in June and July by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt. Read MoreMay 6, 2019
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¡BLAIR! Conductors Symposium
A roundtable discussion with music directors from Colombia, Panama, Peru, The Dominican Republic, and Costa Rica about the role of youth music programs in Latin America; recruitment and retention of at-risk youth; strategies for promoting responsibility, leadership, and team work. Read MoreApr 11, 2019
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Celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday on Library Lawn
Travel back in time for an Elizabethan-style celebration of William Shakespeare’s 455th birthday on Library Lawn hosted by the Heard Libraries and Nashville Shakespeare Festival April 17. Read MoreApr 10, 2019
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Chancellor reflects on tenure, focuses on the future at Spring Faculty Assembly
Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos emphasized the vital importance of faculty leadership to guide the future direction of Vanderbilt when he delivered his 24th and final faculty assembly address on April 4. Read MoreApr 5, 2019
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Spring Celebration of Music is March 21
Since 2015, the Anne Potter Wilson Music Library has held a Spring Celebration of Music that allows participants to interact with music technology. Read MoreMar 19, 2019
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Vanderbilt Osher Lifelong Learning Institute announces spring classes
Pirates in the Atlantic world, religion in prison, and a workshop on jazz great Cole Porter are among the classes offered this spring by the Vanderbilt Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Read MoreFeb 26, 2019
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Arts and Humanities micro-grants fund three new faculty projects
New faculty projects that include a performance at Carnegie Hall, symposium and podcast on disability practices have been created with Arts and Humanities micro-grant funding. Read MoreFeb 21, 2019
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Blair School offers adult Tai Chi classes for stress release
Learn gentle Tai Chi movements and breathing techniques with instructor Cindy Hui-Lio to help ease chronic stress and anxiety. Learn how to “tune in” to your body and balance your movements. Read MoreFeb 20, 2019
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Pro Performance: New commissioning project gives Blair composition students a taste of professional life
Junior Nicholas Heilborn conducts his commissioned piece with chatterbird musicians. Photo by Susan Urmy The composer Michael Slayton can’t remember the first time an ensemble performed one of his pieces. That’s perhaps not surprising, since Slayton’s works, especially his chamber music, are now frequently commissioned and performed… Read MoreFeb 19, 2019
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Accolade: Shadle wins inaugural Cohen/RIPM Award
Photo by Anne Rayner Douglas Shadle, assistant professor of musicology, was presented with the American Musicological Society’s inaugural H. Robert Cohen/RIPM Award at this year’s annual meeting in San Antonio for his book Orchestrating the Nation: The Nineteenth-Century American Symphonic Enterprise (2015, Oxford University Press). The award honors… Read MoreFeb 19, 2019
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Vanderbilt choral director to make Carnegie Hall debut
Associate Professor of Choral Studies Tucker Biddlecombe will make his Carnegie Hall conducting debut on Sunday, Feb. 17, helming Morten Lauridsen’s modern-day classic "Lux Aeterna." The production will include singers from the Blair Children’s Chorus program, specifically the Young Men’s Chorus, who will perform with choristers from five states accompanied by the New England Symphonic Ensemble. Read MoreFeb 13, 2019
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‘She Sang Freedom: Black Women, Music and the Struggle for Social Justice’ Feb. 21
Tammy L. Kernodle, professor of musicology at Miami University of Ohio, will present an interactive program exploring how black women musicians have used music as a means of documenting and promoting the struggle for equality and social justice in America. The event is scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. Feb. 21 at the Wond'ry. Read MoreFeb 13, 2019
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International dream comes true for Blair composition major
Vanderbilt sophomore Jacob Beranek loves music and his Czech heritage. These passions recently converged in an incredible opportunity for the talented music composition major. Read MoreFeb 7, 2019
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Vanderbilt Osher winter term: Innovation, ‘Julius Caesar’ and more
Innovative thinking in the digital age, women in the civil rights movement and acting for opera are among the winter 2019 classes offered by Vanderbilt’s Osher Institute for Lifelong Learners. Read MoreDec 21, 2018
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Blair student selected to 2018 SEC Student Music Ensemble
Blair School of Music junior Hiram Rodriguez was among the seven SEC student musicians who used the activities surrounding the 2018 SEC Football Championship Game in early December to showcase their jazz and improvisational music skills to thousands of SEC administrators, staff and fans as part of the third SEC Student Music Ensemble. Read MoreDec 13, 2018
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Blair School offers adult Tai Chi classes for stress release
Learn gentle Tai Chi movements and breathing techniques with instructor Cindy Hui-Lio to help ease chronic stress and anxiety. Learn how to “tune in” to your body and balance your movements. Read MoreDec 13, 2018
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Rediscovered: Concert Celebrates the Music of Florence Price
courtesy of AETN.com Florence Price was the first African American woman to have her music performed by a major symphony orchestra—in 1933. Bringing together the European classical tradition in which she was trained and the haunting melodies of African American spirituals and folk tunes, Price’s music has experienced… Read MoreNov 19, 2018
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A Family Legacy Inspires Students
Natalie Vlach, BMus’18. Photo by Joe Howell As a young girl, Natalie Vlach, BMus’18, fell in love with her electronic keyboard. Unlike some childhood infatuations, however, Vlach’s passion for piano endured and deepened, leading eventually to her winning the Linde B. Wilson Scholarship at the Blair School. “Blair… Read MoreNov 19, 2018