News

  • 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

  • Photos from master classes taught by members of the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet

    Photos from master classes taught by members of the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet

      Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet member Andreas Wittman works with oboe students during a master class in the instrumental rehearsal hall. master class (‘ma:str klas) A class taught by an accomplished musician who individually instructs advanced students in performance and technique, often before… Read More

    Jul. 2, 2014

  • Roger Vignoles featured at inaugural Mentoring Program for Young Professional Vocal Coaches

    Roger Vignoles featured at inaugural Mentoring Program for Young Professional Vocal Coaches

    In June, the Blair School welcomed Roger Vignoles, a world-class collaborative pianist and vocal coach, to mentor four young professional vocal coaches as they worked with four Blair students. The goal of this workshop was to help coaches in the middle stage of their careers, when they… Read More

    Jun. 30, 2014

  • Photos from Blair’s 50th Anniversary Gala Concert, March 16, 2014

    Photos from Blair’s 50th Anniversary Gala Concert, March 16, 2014

      A combination of precollege, collegiate, and alumni singers and musicians performed John Rutter’s “Mass of the Children” on March 16 at the Blair School of Music 50th Anniversary Gala Concert. For more information on future 50th anniversary concerts, visit “Blair Events” on… Read More

    Jun. 27, 2014

  • Madeline Myers wins first annual Davenport Songwriting Contest

    Madeline Myers wins first annual Davenport Songwriting Contest

    Madeline Myers, BMus'11 (Photo by Elena Olivo) Madeline Myers, BMus’11, won the first annual Davenport Songwriting Contest sponsored by Tony Award-winning producer Ken Davenport (The Bridges of Madison County, Kinky Boots, Macbeth starring Alan Cumming, Godspell) with her song “I Could Be a Hero.” The… Read More

    Jun. 27, 2014