Music Performance

Bring your passion for performance to our stage.

Music Performance at Shenandoah Conservatory provides talented and creative pre-professional artists with opportunities to develop performance skills to a very high level. Performance opportunities include membership in choral ensembles, opera, orchestra, wind ensemble, jazz ensemble and various small chamber ensembles. Students benefit from study with artist teachers in all performance areas.

Bachelor Of Music In Performance

Instrumental (Brass, Wind, Strings, Guitar or Percussion)
Piano
Voice

Master Of Music In Performance

Instrumental (Brass, Wind, Strings, Guitar or Percussion)
Piano
Voice
Woodwind Doubling

Doctor Of Musical Arts In Performance

Instrumental (Brass, Wind, Strings, Guitar or Percussion)
Piano
Voice
Conducting
Woodwind Doubling

Artist Diploma (Post-Master’s Certificate)

Spotlights

Saxophone Ensemble Embarks on First International Tour

The Shenandoah Conservatory Saxophone Ensemble has been invited to perform and study in Seville, Spain, and Paris, France, from Tuesday, May 23, through Friday, June 2. This will be the group’s first international tour. Activities include a public performance at the Conservatorio Superior de Música Manuel Castillo in Seville featuring a new arrangement of Gershwin’s […]

Jeffrey ’23 Celebrates Atayal Culture Through Dissertation Topic

Flutist Yuan-I Jeffrey ’23 (Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance) honored and celebrated her Atayal tribe (an Indigenous population in Taiwan) culture through her dissertation topic, “Revival and Innovation of Taiwanese Indigenous Music.” Her research included a study on three ballads for flute solo and string orchestra, as well as the Saisiyat Capriccio for flute, […]

Deputy Chief of Mission and Minister Xueyuan Xu and Delegates Visit Shenandoah

Shenandoah Welcomes Deputy Chief of Mission and Minister Xueyuan Xu and Delegates

Shenandoah University (SU) and President Tracy Fitzsimmons, Ph.D., were honored to welcome Deputy Chief of Mission and Minister Xueyuan Xu and her delegates from the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China, and to celebrate the artistry of Shenandoah Conservatory Chinese D.M.A. students and their collaborators in a special showcase recital last week. In collaboration […]

Alumni Successes

David Meyer, Katie Burnham, Rachel Balbi

Students and Faculty Collaborate on Biomedical Research Presented at ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Canada

Several Shenandoah Conservatory students and faculty collaborated on biomedical research that was selected by the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) and International Society for MR Radiographers & Technologists (ISMRT) to be presented at the 2023 ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, from Saturday, June 3, through Thursday, […]

Fleming Performs Emperor Concerto with National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland

Eoín Fleming ’20, ’22 (Bachelor of Music in Performance, Master of Music in Performance) performed Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, op. 73 (“Emperor”) with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland on Friday, March 24. The performance was livestreamed on RTÉ Lyric FM and is available for listening.

Conservatory Choir Presents U.S. Premiere of ‘The Gun Mass’

The Conservatory Choir presents the U.S. premiere of “The Gun Mass” during the Shenandoah Sings concert at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 14, in Armstrong Concert Hall. The new choral work features music by Jamie Powe and text by Haley Hodges ’16 (Master of Music in Performance) that laments those who have perished in American […]