Music Undergraduate Spotlight

Arts Management Masters is Now Online

Earn your Shenandoah Performing Arts Leadership and Management Master's degree anywhere!

Starting in Fall 2019, the Performing Arts Leadership and Management (PALM) master’s degree will be a fully online curriculum, giving you the opportunity to complete…

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Niess ’20 Selected to Compete in National Trumpet Solo Competition

Caeley Niess ’20 auditioned and was selected to compete in the National Trumpet Solo Competition being held from March 14, through March 16, at the…

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Jackson ’19 Awarded Strong Scholarship

Music education major Nick Jackson ’19 was awarded one of the two $5,000 scholarship awards from the Hattie M. Strong Foundation to defray costs during…

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Mary Elizabeth Bowden Appointed Assistant Professor of Trumpet

Gold medal Global Music Award winner joins Shenandoah Conservatory

Shenandoah Conservatory has appointed classical trumpeter and gold medal Global Music Award winner Mary Elizabeth Bowden, M.M., as assistant professor of trumpet beginning August 2019.…

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Shenandoah Performing Arts Students Collaborate In Radical Experiment

Student Performance Week Breaks New Ground

Being a leader doesn’t mean you have all of the answers; it just means you know how to find the people who do.” Jenna Barricklo…

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Composer Residency with Newman Culminates in Premiere of New Work, “NOVEL ROMANCE”

On Dec. 5, and Dec. 6, Director of Composition and Coordinator of New Music Jonathan Newman, M.M., participated in a guest composer residency at the…

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Music Education Students Attend VMEA Annual Conference in Virginia

From Nov. 15, through Nov. 17, Shenandoah Conservatory music education undergraduate students attended the Virginia Music Educators Association (VMEA) annual conference at The Homestead Resort…

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MPRT Students Visit NYC for Audio Engineering Society Convention

Twenty-seven Music Production & Recording Technology (MPRT) students and three Shenandoah Conservatory faculty members recently visited New York City to attend the 145th Audio Engineering…

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Students to Perform Work by Azerbaijani Composer for Kronos Quartet’s Fifty-for-the-Future Project

Director of Chamber Music and Professor of Viola and Chamber Music Doris Lederer, Diploma, Curtis Institute of Music, will work with select undergraduate students to…

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