Music

The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries have acquired the personal collection of Dom Flemons, a Grammy Award-winning songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and cultural historian whose music and research have brought greater awareness to African Americans’ extensive contributions to roots music. Flemons also will be appearing at the Blair School and NMAAM later this month. Read More

Lauded musician, composer, and educator Wadada Leo Smith will be at Vanderbilt University for a weeklong residency November 28 – December 1, which will include two musical performances and a special forum interview event. Read More

Blair School of Music is well represented in the nominations for the 66th GRAMMY Awards, with a total of five selections announced on November 10. Read More

A new partnership with AARP Tennessee and the National Museum of African American Music is allowing the Therapeutic Music in the ICU program led by Vanderbilt School of Nursing Professor Ruth Kleinpell and Vanderbilt University Medical Center Professor Joseph Schlesinger to expand, with outreach to veterans and older adults at long-term care facilities in Middle Tennessee. Read More

The Vanderbilt Wind Symphony, conducted by Thomas Verrier, associate professor of conducting, will open its fall performance season on Friday, Sept. 22, with Symphonic Songs. The Vanderbilt University Orchestra will perform Rhythmic Tapestry on Saturday, Sept. 23, where Ernesto Estigarribia Mussi, assistant professor of conducting, will make his Blair conducting debut. Read More

'Florence Price: A Celebration,' a multi-event music festival, will pay tribute to the life, music and enduring legacy of a woman who broke barriers of race and gender in classical music. Taking place Oct. 3–Nov. 14 at venues across Nashville, the series is produced by Blair's Douglas Shadle, associate professor of musicology. Read More

"Voices of Mississippi" is presented by the Vanderbilt Wilson Music Library. Tickets will go on sale Tuesday, Aug. 1, at 9 a.m. A limited number of complimentary tickets have been held for Vanderbilt University students, faculty and staff. Read More

Conducted by Robin Fountain and featuring guest alumna soprano Lauren Urquhart, faculty tenor Tyler Nelson and baritone Dashon Burton, this once-in-a-lifetime performance event will bring together the combined forces of the Blair School of Music. Read More

The Vanderbilt Blair School of Music has secured $5 million in funding for the pilot phase of a comprehensive scholarship, the Blair Community Scholars Program, which will recruit highly talented students from underrepresented and vulnerable backgrounds. Read More

The husband-and-wife team of Camille Obering, BA’00, and Ben Musser, BS’01, are the founders of Guesthouse, an exhibition space and residence that functions as a laboratory for adventurous art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Read More

Kingston Ho, a third-year student in violin performance and medicine, health and society, has been selected to compete in the annual Paganini Competition in Genoa, Italy. Read More

Human and organizational development major William Hall is taking his music dreams to the next level with a capstone immersion experience at Nashville's acclaimed Blackbird Music Studio. Read More

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 More

Jeremy and Jason Burchard—whose startup, RootNote, invests in promising musicians so talented artists can become their own companies and brands—are music entrepreneurship advisers at the Wond'ry. Read More

Researchers are seeking 6- to 12-month-old infants for research studies on music and autism. Read More

Acclaimed electric violinist Tracy Silverman will perform with the Vanderbilt Orchestra Oct. 5. Read More

When 17-year-old Ray Cruz was invited to perform at the Ryman Auditorium, he agreed to do it under one condition — that his doctor perform alongside him. Read More

A summit of three of the most prominent music writers in the country will take place at Vanderbilt Oct. 27. Read More

The Science of Song symposium explored the use of music and singing to help people with developmental disabilities like autism improve their social skills, and others with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) recover from the traumatic events they’ve experienced. Read More

Blair School of Music will host a one-day symposium Sept. 12 called "The Science of Song." Read More