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Blair’s Thomas is finalist on The Voice
Sep. 8, 2011—Vanderbilt student Patrick Thomas advanced to the finals on the NBC television show The Voice, which aired on Tuesdays during the spring and summer. The rising junior from Dallas (Class of 2013) is pursuing a double major in voice at the Blair School of Music and economics in the College of Arts and Science. A country...
2011 Commencement Honors and Awards
Sep. 8, 2011—HONORS Founder’s Medalist: Lillian Elizabeth Johnson Banner Bearer: Madeline Sarah Myers Alma Mater Vocalist: Hilary Elizabeth White Commencement Performer: Blake Anthony Johnson (cello) Student Marshals: Erin Mara Steigerwald and John A. Woller III AWARDS Sigma Alpha Iota College Honor Award: Lara Marie Pitts Sigma Alpha Iota Scholastic Award: Kathryn Gay Heaton Achievement in Teaching Recognition...
Join us for the Fall 2011 Blair Concert Series
Sep. 8, 2011—Featured events include: A CELEBRATION CONCERT HONORING MARTHA RIVERS INGRAM September 18, 3 p.m. Ingram Hall Martha Rivers Ingram has been a longtime patron of the Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University and the arts in Nashville. This fall, Mrs. Ingram relinquishes her position as chair of Blair’s KeyBoard after 16 years of dedicated service...
Tutti: News About Faculty and Staff
Sep. 8, 2011—Gregory Barz, associate professor of musicology (ethnomusicology), gave a keynote address at Syracuse University’s Music and Conflict and Resolution symposium. He spoke on his recent research on music in post-genocide Rwanda. He spent the summer in South Africa and Lesotho continuing his work as senior research fellow at the University of the Free State in...
Kristin Whittlesey appointed Blair School of Music’s director of external relations
Sep. 8, 2011—Kristin Whittlesey (left) has been appointed the Blair School of Music’s director of external relations. Before joining Blair in May, Kristin served as the assistant lifestyles editor at The Tennessean. She has a broad array of editorial experience in print and online publications, including serving as editor of The Rage, All The Rage and Metromix....
New Faculty
Sep. 7, 2011—Philip Dikeman has joined the Blair School of Music as associate professor of flute. He comes to Blair as acting principal flute of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and began playing with the DSO as assistant principal flute in 1992. A native of Ann Arbor, Mich., Dikeman attended the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, where he studied...
Blair student volunteers in Haiti
Mar. 28, 2011—Sarah Danielle Williams, composition student at Blair, volunteered as part of a seven-person AidWEST Humanitarian Missions in Haiti team in early August. She organized and participated in a spring fundraising concert in Atlanta that raised nearly the entire $900 participation fee so she could volunteer for the team. She contacted various music schools in the...
Widening the Parameters With International Study
Mar. 28, 2011—Music transcends all national and cultural boundaries, and in programs as far-flung as Australia and Japan, Blair students are taking advantage of the chance to educate themselves as citizens of the world. They are broadening their horizons with the full support of their home institution, according to Associate Dean Melissa Rose. “If students can incorporate...
In England with the Blair Children’s Chorus
Mar. 28, 2011—More than 50 members of the Blair Children’s Chorus (Boychoir, Concert Choir and Young Men’s Chorus) gathered on a beautiful summer afternoon last July in London’s historic Southwark Cathedral for a festive concert. This was the grand finale to a week of touring by the Boychoir and Young Men’s Chorus. The tour included two days...
World premiere in Paris
Mar. 28, 2011—The Atlantic Ensemble (Kirsten Cassel Greer, adjunct artist teacher of cello; Seanad Dunigan Chang, adjunct artist teacher of violin and viola; and Wei Tsun Chang, adjunct associate professor of violin), gave the world premiere in November of Trio for Violin, Viola and Violoncello: Savannah Shadows by Associate Professor of Composition Michael Kurek in Paris, France,...