Visual & Performing Arts

Program Description

Belmont University

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The Wilson Music Building and Massey Performing Arts Center provide ample rehearsal and practice rooms, spacious teaching studios, fully equipped classrooms, and computer, piano, and music technology labs. Multiple performance areas include a recital hall, a large concert hall, and a historic antebellum mansion. Guest artists frequently perform and hold master classes.

Faculty

 Undergraduate and graduate music students from thirty states and various countries prepare at Belmont for careers as performers, church musicians, composers, music teachers, and studio musicians. Faculty members are graduates of some of the most prestigious institutions and hold such honors as Composer of the Year awards, listings in Who’s Who in Music, Outstanding Educator of America, Grammy Award nominations, professionally released recordings, and Metropolitan Opera Regional Finalist.

Student Performance

 Ensemble opportunities include Oratorio Chorus, Chorale, Chamber Singers, Women’s Choir, Company (show choir), Jazzmin, Southbound (country ensemble), Phoenix (top 40 ensemble), Session (a capella women’s ensemble), Opera and Musical Theatre workshops, Wind Ensemble, Symphony Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble and small jazz groups, Brass and Woodwind Quintets, String Quartets, Rock Combo, Belmont Pops, Bluegrass, and Percussion Ensemble. Belmont’s proximity to downtown Nashville and Music Row allows for involvement in professional recording projects and productions of leading arts organizations.

Special Programs

 International music opportunities are growing with the Russian Academy of Music in Moscow and with Germany’s Hochschule für Musik Dresden, Karl Maria von Weber. The Commercial Music Program, a unique approach to the study of popular styles, continues to develop course work in music technology to stay current with developing technological advances as they impact music composition, copying, and performance. There is also a vocal arts lab utilizing state-of-the-art technology to assist students in the development of proper technique.

Application Procedures

Deadline--freshmen and transfers: June 1. Required: essay, high school transcript, college transcript(s) for transfer students, minimum 3.0 high school GPA, letter of recommendation, audition, SAT or ACT test scores, Basic Musicianship Test. Auditions held 5 times on campus; videotaped performances are permissible as a substitute for live auditions if a campus visit is impossible.

Undergraduate Contact

Dr. Sharon F. Gregg, Director of Admissions, School of Music, Belmont University, 1900 Belmont Boulevard, Nashville, Tennessee 37212-3757; 615-460-6408, fax: 615-386-0239.

Graduate Contact

Dr. Robert B. Gregg, Director of Graduate Studies, School of Music, Belmont University, 1900 Belmont Boulevard, Nashville, Tennessee 37212-3757; 615-460-6408, fax: 615-386-0239.