Music

Booker Prize-winning novelist Julian Barnes and highly acclaimed pianist Angela Hewitt join forces for an exciting musical and literary residency at the Blair School of Music March 23–25. Read More

Successful arts communities are anchored by three types of "artist-activists," visionaries who create opportunities for artists to develop their craft. Read More

A new experiment shows that auditory melodies can enhance a musician's visual awareness of written music, particularly when they match. Read More

Watch video of the most recent presentation in the Food for Thought lunchtime series which took place on April 21. In partnership with the National Museum of African American Music and Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Vanderbilt presents a two-part Food for Thought series entitled The Soundtrack of Civil Rights. Panel… Read More

A child’s ability to distinguish musical rhythm is related to his or her capacity for understanding grammar, according to a recent study from a researcher at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center. Read More

There will be a forum on copyright law Oct. 24 in Flynn Auditorium at Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

The Mables will perform a special concert under the stars at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory on Saturday, Sept. 27, to benefit scholarship students attending the Dyer Observers Summer Science Camps. Read More

See how a discovery about mosquito sperm could fight deadly disease; learn where to click for the coolest original music created by Vanderbilt students; and tour the newest evolution of College Halls. All this and more in the latest VUCast, Vanderbilt’s online newscast. Watch now. Read More

"Art, Advocacy and Action," a symposium on immigration reform, will be co-presented by Vanderbilt University Divinity School and the Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions Feb. 20-21. Read More

Heartfelt songs penned by a group of patients of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt while working with their music therapist are being released May 14 worldwide on a compilation CD featuring some of Nashville’s top recording stars. Read More

Watch video of the most recent presentation in the InsideOut of the Lunch Box series – The Vanderbilt Commodore Steel Band – which took place on March 21. Read More

Through a set of experiments, Gordon Logan, Nashville musician Jerry Kimbrough and Matthew Crump (now of Brooklyn College-CUNY) have illustrated that guitarists – and players of other related instruments like mandolin, banjo and bass – tend to acquire their skills differently than most other musicians. Read More

Vanderbilt’s physics and astronomy department has invited the award-winning music director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero, to deliver a lecture on campus. Read More

Tom Kimmel and Pierce and Grace Pettis will headline the June 16 Bluebird on the Mountain concert at scenic Dyer Observatory. Read More

(Vanderbilt University/Daniel DuBois) Vanderbilt’s annual “Symphony on the Lawn” concert – a special performance for the Vanderbilt community presented by Employee Celebration and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra – is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 22, on The Commons Center Lawn. All faculty, staff, their family members and friends… Read More

Singer-songwriters Lionel Cartwright, Allen Shamblin and Chuck Cannon will be the featured performers at the season opener of the Bluebird on the Mountain concert series at Dyer Observatory May 19. Read More

(Vanderbilt University/Daniel Dubois) Vanderbilt’s annual “Symphony Concert on the Lawn” – a special performance for the Vanderbilt community presented by Employee Celebration and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra – is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 22, on The Commons Center Lawn. All faculty, staff, their… Read More

Red Baraat (image courtesy of the artists) Led by drummer Sunny Jain, Red Baraat will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, April 13, at
 Vanderbilt’s Student Life Center Ballroom. Red Baraat delivers a riveting sound coupled with an explosive stage performance and presence. The ensemble — comprised of dhol… Read More

Jazz singer Annie Sellick at a recent performance with the Nashville Jazz Orchestra at the Commodore Grille. (Steve Green/Vanderbilt) Hear the Nashville Jazz Orchestra, a resident ensemble of the Blair School of Music, perform each Monday night at the Commodore Grille, located on West… Read More

Vanderbilt Divinity School’s Dave Perkins will debut the soundtrack for the new independent feature film Deadline on Feb. 3. The plot of Deadline, which premieres Feb. 15 in Nashville, is inspired by the true events of the unsolved murder of an African American teen in rural Alabama. Perkins, a… Read More