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Want to follow along as Vanderbilt Orchestra embarks on its holiday concert tour in China? You can read all about it in real time. Orchestra members Caitlin Quinlan, Lindsey Reymore and Sam Rhodes will be blogging their experiences on this historic trip. Watch this space for their updates! The orchestra… Read More

Vanderbilt University’s VUCast newscast profiles new trombone professor Jeremy Wilson, who comes to the Blair School of Music from the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, where he was a member since 2007.  … Read More

Snowbird has come to Vanderbilt! Members of the Blair Choristers and the Nashville Boychoir can be seen this winter on Nashville’s WSMV-TV (Comcast channel 4), in a station advertisement promoting the Snowbird School Closings report. The Choristers and Boychoir are both part of the… Read More

The first round of this year’s Collegiate Concerto Competition will be held on Saturday, January 19, in the Instrumental Rehearsal Hall at the Blair School of Music, from 9 a.m. until finished. As many as 10 finalists will be selected to perform in the final round at 7 p.m. Sunday,… Read More

Craig King is bringing his wealth of experience and wisdom back to Blair on December 10 as part of the Blair Hit Songwriter Series in An Evening with Craig King and Friends. The class starts at 7 p.m. in Room 2192 at thr Blair School of Music, 2400 Blakemore Ave. Read More

Registration opens Monday, December 3, for spring semester precollege and adult course offerings. Private lessons and a wide variety of classes are available – see the brochures for complete details and to register. Highlights for precollege students In order to make our ensemble courses available to the broadest possible… Read More

Stefan Jackiw, widely recognized as one of the best young violinists today, will conduct master classes with Blair students from 10 a.m.-noon on Saturday, Nov. 3. While only Blair students will participate directly in the class, anybody may attend and observe, and the sessions are free and open to public. Read More

Due to Hurricane Sandy, the Vanderbilt Office of Undergraduate Admissions released this message to prospective students: “The Admissions Office at Vanderbilt understands that many of you on the East Coast are being impacted by Hurricane Sandy. We understand that you may have difficulty submitting the Common Application or acquiring required… Read More

Blair’s second afternoon chamber music recital of the 2012-13 season, which takes place 2:20-3:10 p.m. Wednesday, October 31, will be full of musical treats. This program is free and open to the public, and all are encouraged to attend. Blair students who are registered… Read More

Blair composition professor Stan Link is the featured composer/performer at the final installment of Zeitgeist Gallery's Indeterminacies performance and conversations series for Fall 2012. Adjunct professor Robert Bond will moderate the conversation. The event takes place 6-8 p.m. Thursday, November 1, at the gallery, 1819 21st Ave. S. It is free and open to the public. Link has composed three original pieces for this event, which will be performed by Blair faculty, students and friends. The works will be performed just this once, from Link's original score, which will then be destroyed. Performers include: Stan Link, composing and computer processing Michael Slayton, composer Zach Bowers, marimba Shelby Flowers, marimba Kevin Rilling, marimba Ali Cole, soprano Emma Dansak, viola Jonathan Rattner, video artist See below for the full press release from Zeitgeist Gallery about this event. Read More

Precollege families, get ready to get ghoulish! On Thursday, October 25, from 4-6 p.m., the Anne Potter Music Library will host its annual Halloween open house for our precollege students and their families. Go scavenger hunting to find music library resources and services Play Music Library mini-golf Play music bingo… Read More

Brad Schmitt from The Tennessean took a preview look at a few of the student composers who will be featured on tonight’s Living Sounds concert: Shelby Flowers, Jon O’Hara and Riley Crabtree. Read the full story!… Read More

The Nashville Scene has released the winners of its annual Best of Nashville awards, and Blair faculty members brought home six Writers’ Choice awards. Best New Classical Recording: Carolyn Huebl, violin, and Mark Wait, piano, for their Naxos Records release, Stravinsky: Works for Violin and Piano. Best Chamber Music Performance:… Read More

Blair’s first student Chamber Music Recital of the 2012-13 season features works by Dmitri Shostakovich, Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms, performed by some of Blair’s stellar student chamber ensembles. The recital takes place at 2:10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, in Steve & Judy Turner Recital Hall, and is free… Read More

  Carolyn Huebl and Mark Wait (photo: Jim McGuire) Music critic John Pitcher, of ArtsNash, posts his glowing review of violinist Carolyn Huebl and pianist Mark Wait’s October 2 recital at Blair. “The classics have seldom sounded so good,” he says. Read the… Read More

Pianist Angela Mace, a 2006 graduate of the Blair School of Music, made headlines this week with an important musical discovery. Duke University announced that Mace, now pursuing her Ph.D. in musicology at Duke under the advisement of R. Larry Todd, has proved the authorship of a mystery “lost sonata.”… Read More

Mentors in Music Advice for high school music students and their families, from college students and parents who have been there! 2-4 p.m. Sunday, September 23, in Blair’s second-floor classrooms Panel discussions with Blair undergraduates How to pick a college for music… Read More

The Blair School of Music congratulates sophomore Steven Fiske (at far left in photo), who is starring as Claudio in Nashville Shakespeare Festival‘s current production of Much Ado About Nothing. The play runs Aug. 16-Sept. 16, Thursdays through Saturdays plus Labor… Read More

The Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University is pleased to announce four new faculty appointments beginning in the 2012-13 academic year, including highly prestigious appointments in trombone and bassoon, a new director of choral programs and a newly created position for a second vocal coach. “We are extremely fortunate… Read More

After a successful world-premiere performance in Nashville in February, the Blair String Quartet continues its three-city tour to debut "Images from a Closed Ward," commissioned from and written for the ensemble by esteemed composer Michael Hersch. Read More