About the Blair School of Music

The Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music offers conservatory-level, world-class music training at a top 20 academic institution. One of the few exclusively undergraduate music schools in the country, Blair limits enrollment to approximately 245 students in order to offer an exceptional 4:1 student-to-faculty ratio. Areas of study include strings, woodwinds, brass, voice, keyboards, jazz studies, percussion, composition, musicology, music education, and more.

The Blair School of Music seeks students with high standards of musicianship, scholarship, and personal character, whose ambition is to reach their greatest musical and intellectual potential.

Our Mission Statement

The Blair School of Music educates musicians who demonstrate exceptional artistic capacity and a motivation to help shape the world. It likewise serves as a home for anyone seeking engagement with music as a fundamental human enterprise. Blair graduates are recognized as distinguished artists and scholars committed to performance, composition, education, advocacy, and entrepreneurship.

• A unique, undergraduate-only experience that yields a community of the highest creative and intellectual caliber

• Students are welcomed into the transformative spaces of a world-class research university

• Degree programs are grounded in pedagogies and repertoires shared by the most competitive conservatories and schools of music—while still exploring new pathways in music beyond established norms.