The Blair School of Music serves as the focal point within Vanderbilt University for the study of music as a human endeavor and as a performing art. Music offers to all persons a medium for the expression of the human spirit. Accordingly, the Blair School of Music addresses music through a broad array of academic, pedagogical, and performing activities. Consistent with the mission of Vanderbilt University, the School maintains and promotes the highest standards in the pursuit of scholarly and creative work, in the delivery of instruction, and in the promotion of professional and public service.

In its scholarly and creative work, the Blair School of Music proposes to advance the discovery of knowledge, to expand the horizons of musical expression, to promote academic excellence, and to sustain an environment supporting these pursuits by faculty and students.

Pedagogically, the Blair School is committed to providing superior musical instruction to pre-collegiate and adult students in the environment of Nashville, Tennessee; stimulating classroom and studio instruction to collegiate music majors and minors; and, to the students of Vanderbilt University at large, an array of academically rigorous, culturally enriching courses appropriate to one of the nations' leading institutions of higher learning.

In its commitment to professional and public service, the Blair School of Music contributes to cultural and intellectual life at Vanderbilt University and throughout the region through concerts, lectures, and recitals by faculty and students, and by providing a forum for visiting artists, scholars, and composers of national stature.

Blair is a conservatory-level music program alongside a top 15 academic institution. It is one of the few exclusively undergraduate music schools in the country.

Nashville, TN 37212

615-322-6181

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 58 full time, 52 adjunct

Brass • Composition • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Education • Piano • Strings and Harp • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds and Percussion

✔=Yes   ✖=No   ◯=Under consideration

✔ Shifting semester start and/or end dates?

✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes?

✔ Shifting more coursework online?

✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff?

✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided?

Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at term start, then periodically? ◯

Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or room & board fees? ✖