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Vanderbilt University’s Engine for Art, Democracy and Justice initiative has announced its spring programs, which will feature works by African American composer Julius Eastman and Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama. Read More

Students age 4 through high school are invited to audition for Blair Academy music scholarships for the upcoming 2021-22 academic year. Need- and merit-based scholarships are available for lessons in orchestral and folk instruments, Suzuki violin and cello, piano and voice. Read More

Matthew Shorten, BMus’20, has been named to the 2021-22 class of Luce Scholars. A nationally competitive fellowship, the Luce Scholars Program aims to enhance the understanding of Asia among potential leaders in American society. Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the entire Vanderbilt community to change its routines. But because of the live-performance nature of music schools, the Blair School has implemented numerous precautions to ensure that faculty and students remain safe—all while maintaining a semblance of the highly personalized instruction for which Blair is known. Read More

During the Research Ramp-up process, more than 3,000 Vanderbilt research personnel have returned to in-person research activities, while many others have continued remotely through perseverance and ingenuity. The efforts of the School of Medicine Basic Sciences' Charles Sanders and Vanderbilt Blair School of Music's Jeremy Wilson are highlighted. Read More

Seth Soloway, who was previously executive and artistic director of the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, State University of New York, has been appointed associate dean of presenting and external relations and director of the Martha Rivers Ingram Center for the Performing Arts at Vanderbilt Blair School of Music. Read More

The inaugural Vanderbilt Changemakers event featured a discussion with Owen Graduate School of Management alumni Nat Robinson, MBA’07, JD’18, and Tori Samples, BMus’12, MBA’18, about the company they created to provide virtual banking services to refugees and migrants. Read More

Vanderbilt University has announced the addition of an undergraduate minor in data science beginning with the fall 2021 term. The new trans-institutional, interdisciplinary data science minor will be shared by all four undergraduate schools and colleges, and students will be able to begin declaring the minor this spring. Read More

During the Research Ramp-up process, more than 3,000 Vanderbilt research personnel have returned to in-person research activities, while many others have continued remotely through perseverance and ingenuity. The efforts of the Blair School's Cynthia Cyrus and the School of Engineering's Sharon Weiss and team are highlighted. Read More

Register now for Kindermusik with your child. Kindermusik is a nationally acclaimed program designed for children from infancy to age 5. Classes begin Jan. 13 and 14. Read More

Join the discussion on Zoom from the convenience of your home as Mitchell Korn, senior lecturer in music and educational outreach, uses video, images, stories and listening guides to bring great music to life. Classes are two hours in length and held during the day. Read More

Flutist Molly Barth brings music and poetry to life with stunning videos filmed at some of Nashville’s most iconic locations. This online event will be viewable via the Vanderbilt Blair website’s live-streaming page. Read More

Refusing to allow the COVID-19 pandemic to silence her flute, Vanderbilt Blair School of Music Associate Professor Molly Barth devised creative ways to continue playing, among them a solo recording project. Read More

The Blair String Quartet will perform a live-streamed concert on Friday, Oct. 2—including a portion that can be experienced in 3D virtual reality—as part of the Blair On Air fall concert series. Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced all kinds of choirs—church, synagogue, community, college—to take a break from in-person singing. While online singing can never replace making music together in the same physical space, the Nashville Hope Choir at Blair Academy offers a “for this moment” substitute. Read More

Take a break from your desk and Zoom with tai chi instructor Cindy Hui-Lio on Wednesdays from 12:15 to 1 p.m. Read More

“Symphony 101: New Ears for Music and the Orchestra” is an interactive eight-week class that brings great music to life. Sessions will be held on Wednesdays from 1 to 3 p.m., Aug. 26–Oct. 14. Read More

Blair Academy will offer five Kindermusik classes this fall beginning Sept. 2 and 3. Choose the one that fits your family’s schedule. Read More

Photo by Joe Howell by John Pitcher It’s the end of an era at Blair. Mark Wait, the Martha Rivers Ingram Dean and professor of music, retired June 30. Blair was a relatively small institution when Wait took the helm in 1993. It had 19 full-time faculty who taught and… Read More

Kirsten Agresta Copely, adjunct associate professor of harp, released Around The Sun, an all-original new age harp album in January. It takes listeners on a journey through a 365-day cycle from “Daybreak” to “Winter’s Bone” with introspective melodies and ambient soundscapes. This marks her third solo album and first as… Read More