| dc.description | Our concert performance season expands with new offerings in the Music on Film Series, now in its second year, curated and introduced this fall by celebrated Blair String Quartet violist John Kochanowski. We will take up further experimentations in the popular Nightcap Series, a unique opportunity for our faculty performers and scholars to explore new musical frontiers before audiences of music students and general music lovers alike. Our students, ever more talented and astute as musicians, will be featured in more concerts than ever before, in performances such as the fall 2009 Vanderbilt Opera Theatre production of Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" fully staged and costumed, with the Vanderbilt University Orchestra. Spring 2010 brings an even more exciting schedule with the highly anticipated premiere of a work by composer and soprano Susan Botti, who will perform with the Blakemore Trio in premieres in Nashville and at Merkin Hall in New York.
Blair will also serve as proud host to several guest artist residencies, including a rare series of visits throughout the year by the innovative composer, performer, violinist, and band leader Daniel Bernard Roumain and by the dean of American
pianists, Leon Fleisher, in the spring. | en_US |
