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Elizabeth Cook. Photo by Kristin Barlowe   Soulful country singer Elizabeth Cook will headline the Blair School of Music’s 10th Annual Appalachian Celebration 2013, scheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday, April 20, at the Blair School’s Ingram Hall. She’s joined by Tim Carroll… Read More

Nearly 100 of Nashville’s best musicians, including students and faculty from the Blair School, will perform a continuous six hours of the music of J.S. Bach, both in ways Bach would feel at home with and in ways that he never dreamed of. Everything from cantatas to jazz combos! The… Read More

Joy Fan won the Kentucky MTNA Junior Strings Division. Joy is a student of Connie Heard. Chloe Harvel, violin, won honorable mention in Junior Strings at the MTNA Southern Division competition in January 2013. Chloe is a student of Carolyn Huebl. Nolan Harvel, guitar, won the Columbus State Guitar Symposium… Read More

Blair School of Music precollege violin student Mary Grace Johnson won the Nashville Symphony Curb Concerto Competition on March 3, 2013, in the final round of three performers. Johnson will perform the first movement of Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto, Op. 14, with the Nashville Symphony and Curb Youth Symphony at… Read More

Musicologist Alejandro Enrique Planchart, Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of California – Santa Barbara, will present a talk titled “Venerabilis vir Guillermus Du Fay, Musicus,” exploring the evolution of the concept of the composer during the medieval period.  The presentation will take place at 4… Read More

Violist Daniel Reinker presents an evening of trios that spotlight the viola, with guest performers Christian Teal and Mary Kathryn VanOsdale, violins; Kathryn Plummer and Sarah Cote, violas; Licia Jaskunas, harp; and Erik Gratton, flute. Zoltán Kodály’s Serenade for Two Violins and Viola is a dynamic, virtuosic piece for an… Read More

The Blair School’s popular Music on Film series this month presents François Girard’s musical masterpiece, The Red Violin. The screening, which is co-presented by the Nashville Symphony, will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, in Ingram Hall. Canadian director Girard’s 1998 film is a swirling,… Read More

For the second year in a row, Cheekwood’s annual Cheekwood in Bloom spring celebration will include a special Drawing Room Concert Series featuring Blair School of Music musicians. The last two Sundays in March and every Sunday in April, from 2-3 p.m., a different Blair musician or… Read More

Japanese percussionist Kuniko Kato, a gifted marimba player and multi-instrumentalist, will perform a marimba concert at Blair School of Music’s Turner Hall at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 27. Kuniko’s program, “History of Marimba Music in Japan,” will showcase Kuniko’s interpretations of popular marimba pieces by great… Read More

The second installment of the 2012-13 Living Sounds concert series takes place at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20 in Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall. For this series, Blair’s student musicians perform works written by their composer compatriots. The results are wide-ranging in instrumentation and style, but always thought-provoking and… Read More