Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra concludes 2023-24 season on a high note with a sold-out program
Six-time Grammy Award-winning music director Giancarlo Guerrero led Rice University’s Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra through musical landscapes from outer space to a 1940s jazz club in “One Thousand and One Nights” April 19.
‘Music for New Bodies’ makes world premiere at Rice’s Shepherd School
Lauded by the New York Times for “the ferocity of the music” and “the layered depths of the text,” “Music for New Bodies” made its world premiere at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University April 20.
Faculty, staff, students honored for excellence in teaching, mentoring, service
Each year, Rice honors members of the university community who have served students through outstanding teaching, dedication and service.
Rice’s Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra presents ‘A Constellation of Sounds & Stories’
Delving into realms both celestial and terrestrial, Rice University’s Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra presents “A Constellation of Sounds & Stories” in Stude Concert Hall at Alice Pratt Brown Hall at 7:30 p.m. April 19.
The ambitious double bill featured two operatic masterpieces: “Dido and Aeneas” composed by Henry Purcell and “The Rape of Lucretia” by Benjamin Britten.
On April 20, Rice Univeristy’s Shepherd School of Music will host the co-commission with DACAMERA, the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC), the Los Angeles Opera and Aspen Music Festival and School.
Shepherd School students combine their new music with new art at Rice’s Moody Center
Students from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music composed and performed a series of compositions that served as musical responses to the themes and artworks present in the Moody Center for the Arts’ spring 2024 exhibition Hayv Kahraman: The Foreign Among Us.
Kellan Dunlap , a Rice Shepherd School of Music graduate student studying vocal performance, is a recipient of the 2024 Presser Graduate Music Award for a musical project that will take listeners on a “thought-provoking musical journey that addresses the multifaceted dimensions of school shootings.”
Rice’s Shepherd School mesmerizes families at Musical Stories Family Concert
Combining the enchantment of music with the allure of artful storytelling, Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music celebrated another successful iteration of its annual family concert March 23, showcasing the musical talents of Shepherd School students while serving as an example of Rice’s commitment to fostering creativity and cultural enrichment within the community.
Mastery in motion: Shepherd School students learn from award-winning pianist Daniil Trifonov
Several piano students from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music learned from Grammy Award-winning pianist Daniil Trifonov, coached them during a unique public master class.
A thought-provoking opera double bill set for April 5 and 7 from the Rice University Shepherd School of Music pairs works written nearly 300 years apart, each exploring remarkable women and timeless themes that remain all too relevant today.
At the March 20 concert at Rice University billed as a “Window into the Creative Mind,” the audience was also given a glimpse inside the mind of pianist and Shepherd School of Music musical arts Ph.D. candidate Chelsea de Souza.
When the largest wildfire in Texas history recently ravaged small towns and ranches in the Texas panhandle, Canadian, Texas native Alex Moreno-Gonzalez, a senior composition student in the Rice University Shepherd School of Music , knew he had to do something to help.
Isabel Leonard named Rice Shepherd School’s 2023-24 Aleko Endowed Master Class artist
Three-time Grammy Award winner Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano and star on the world’s leading stages and screens, has been named the Rice University Shepherd School of Music’s 2023-24 Aleko Endowed Master Class artist.
Rice Shepherd School Family Concert ‘Musical Stories’ set for March 23
Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music invites families to join in for an unforgettable musical experience at its annual family concert “Musical Stories” at 11 a.m. March 23 in Alice Pratt Brown’s Stude Concert Hall.
