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The University of Tennessee School of Music and the Stanford Eisenberg Knoxville Jewish Day School are excited to announce a performance by world-renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman on Tuesday, March 31, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. in the historic Tennesee Theatre.

One day last year, Greg Tardy, associate professor of jazz saxophone, received an unexpected call. It was a call he had been waiting for his entire adult life–an invitation to join famed jazz musician and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis on tour.

At 46, in the midst of a successful career as a commercial musician, music director, teacher, and performer, Dennis Belisle decided to enroll in UT’s School of Music to pursue a new dream—being a composer.

The School of Music is offering free behavioral and mental health consultations for all music students. 

The UT School of Music is set to kick off Octubafest 2019 with the first of three exhilarating performances during a three-night event celebrating the tuba and euphonium.

The UT viola studio is attending the 46th International Viola Congress this week in Poznan, Poland. Six students are traveling with Hillary Herndon, associate professor of viola and coordinator of strings.

Constance Starr, who revolutionized the musical landscape by bringing the Suzuki Piano method to the United States more than four decades ago, passed away August 26 at her home in Boulder, Colorado. Her impact in the music community at the University of Tennessee, however, continues. 

UT is one of only a few universities in the United States to offer specific certificate and degree programs for students who want to be music composers or music teachers, according to a recent article in the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy.

For the second year, Rosalind Hackett, Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in UT’s Department of Religious Studies, will facilitate sessions at Big Ears Festival.

UT School of Music graduate student Kevork Esmeryan spent part of January traveling to schools around the Knoxville area playing violins once played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust.

The School of Music, in collaboration with UT Libraries, is excited to announce a music and art performance, "Americana" from 2 to 5 p.m. January 13 in the Natalie L. Haslam Music Center.