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  • Jazz on the Move featuring vocalist Connye Florance, Sept. 14

    Jazz on the Move featuring vocalist Connye Florance, Sept. 14

    Photo by Kevin Schlatt Sunday, September 14 3 p.m., Steve & Judy Turner Recital Hall Nashville Jazz Workshop presents this year’s final installment of Jazz on the Move, its popular jazz performance and education series, with lectures and performances that highlight major figures and periods in… Read More

    Aug. 22, 2014

  • Blair Voices request the pleasure of your company, Sept. 6

    Blair Voices request the pleasure of your company, Sept. 6

    Signature Series: Blair Voices Saturday, September 6 7:30 p.m., Ingram Hall Gayle Shay, mezzo soprano, Ben Harris, piano, Jennifer McGuire, piano, Amy Jarman, soprano, Jonathan Retzlaff, lyric baritone Requesting the Pleasure of Your Company….Music from the Manor An evening of popular music from the first half… Read More

    Aug. 21, 2014

  • Guest Artists: Duo Damiana, Sept. 13

    Guest Artists: Duo Damiana, Sept. 13

    Photo by Alyson Levy Saturday, September 13 6 p.m., Steve & Judy Turner Recital Hall Molly Barth, flute, and Dieter Hennings, guitar Grammy-winning flutist Barth, a professor at the University of Oregon, is a devoted champion of modern music, and specifically contemporary chamber music. She and… Read More

    Aug. 21, 2014

  • Pianist Roland Schneller honored on Sept. 13 for 50+ years teaching at Blair

    Pianist Roland Schneller honored on Sept. 13 for 50+ years teaching at Blair

    To help him celebrate more than 50 years of teaching at the Blair School of Music, current and former piano students of Roland Schneller will perform in concert in his honor. All of these artists were once precollege students at Blair Academy/Blair School of Music. The concert… Read More

    Aug. 21, 2014

  • Listen: Joy Calico on BBC Radio 3

    Listen: Joy Calico on BBC Radio 3

    Joy H. Calico, Associate Professor of Musicology at the Blair School and Director of the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies at Vanderbilt University, was interviewed last spring by BBC Radio 3 about her most recent book, Arnold Schoenberg’s ‘A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar… Read More

    Aug. 12, 2014

  • Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer to perform at Blair School on September 30

    Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer to perform at Blair School on September 30

    Mandolinist/composer Chris Thile and bassist/composer Edgar Meyer will perform at the Blair School of Music’s Ingram Hall at 8 p.m. Tuesday, September 30. Thile, of Punch Brothers and Nickel Creek, and Meyer have teamed up again for a new album, Bass & Mandolin, to be… Read More

    Aug. 8, 2014

  • Nashville Sinfonietta kicks off fall concert season, Aug. 30

    Nashville Sinfonietta kicks off fall concert season, Aug. 30

    Nashville Sinfonietta Dean Whiteside, director Saturday, August 30 7 p.m., Ingram Hall The Nashville Sinfonietta brings together Blair School musicians and their Nashville Symphony colleagues, under the baton of Blair alumnus and acclaimed conductor Dean Whiteside. This program consists of famous concertos through the… Read More

    Aug. 6, 2014

  • Olivia Palazzolo wins Tone Award at Primrose International Viola Competition

    Olivia Palazzolo wins Tone Award at Primrose International Viola Competition

    American Viola Society president Nokuthula Ngwenyama presents Blair student Olivia Palazzolo with the Tone Award at the Primrose International Viola Competition.   Blair School precollege student Olivia Palazzolo won the Tone Award at the Primrose International Viola Comptition, held in June at the Colburn School in… Read More

    Jul. 31, 2014

  • Jeremy Wilson, trombone, and Mark Wait, piano, Sept. 28

    Jeremy Wilson, trombone, and Mark Wait, piano, Sept. 28

    Sunday, September 28 8 p.m., Steve & Judy Turner Recital Hall For this concert, trombonist Jeremy Wilson had to dig deep. As he explains it, much of the recital repertoire for trombone is actually transcriptions of orchestra parts or material originally written for other instruments. The… Read More

    Jul. 28, 2014

  • Faculty Notes, Summer 2014

    Faculty Notes, Summer 2014

    Greg Barz, associate professor of musicology (ethnomusicology), was named Alexander Heard Distinguished Service Professor at Vanderbilt for 2013–14. He also published three articles in 2013 in the South Africa Journal of Humanities, the Cambridge Guide to World Music, and a special issue of Acta Academica. He serves on… Read More

    Jul. 11, 2014