See the debut 2024 performance of the award-winning Vanderbilt Wind Symphony, Friday, February 9, 2024, 8:00 p.m., in Ingram Hall. Conducted by Thomas Verrier, the student ensemble will perform a program entitled American Icons and will be joined by the Vanderbilt Symphonic Choir, directed by Tucker Biddlecombe. The program features masterworks for winds by four lauded American composers. View the program
This is a free event with tickets required for admission. Doors to Ingram Hall will open 30 minutes prior to show start. Late seating will be at artist discretion.
Venue: Ingram Hall, Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music
Address: 2400 Blakemore Ave., Nashville, TN 37212
Parking: Free parking is available at the Vanderbilt West Parking Garage on Childrens Way, directly across from Blair School of Music. Due to construction on 25th Ave. South, enter the West Garage on 24th Ave. South.
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About the Vanderbilt Wind Symphony:
The Vanderbilt Wind Symphony is one of the premier performing ensembles at Vanderbilt University and includes the outstanding woodwind, brass, harp, and percussion students at the Blair School of Music.
Recognized for its excellence and artistry, the Wind Symphony has received invitations to perform for state and regional conferences, at the National Conference of the College Band Directors National Association, at the Chicago International Music Festival in Orchestra Hall, and its members have toured internationally in Spain, Costa Rica, Cuba, and Colombia.
At the Blair School of Music, a rotating menu of projects provides students with a range of wind and orchestral ensemble experiences within each semester. The true core of the Blair instrumental ensemble experience is the chamber music program. All students participate in chamber groups, which rehearse regularly in the hour preceding the conducted ensembles. This approach reflects our philosophy that great ensemble musicianship is inherently collaborative.
About Conductor Thomas Verrier:
Thomas E. Verrier is the senior band conductor and director of wind ensembles at Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music. He serves as conductor of the Vanderbilt Wind Symphony, artistic director of the Vanderbilt Music Academy in Berlin, Germany (a joint project with musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic), and was the foundingdDirector of the Conductors Lab in Aix-en-Provence, France. His teaching duties include undergraduate and graduate-level courses in conducting, pedagogy, and education. In addition, Verrier was the program director of the Sistema Nacional de Educación Musical Instituto de Desarrollo Musical, a collaborative project of the Blair School of Music and the Ministry of Culture of Costa Rica. Verrier dedicates much of his time to the teaching of band pedagogy and the training of band conductors throughout Central and South America.
Thomas Verrier has accepted invitations to conduct throughout the Americas, Asia, and Europe. He has presented and/or conducted performances at conferences of Asodibandas (Cajicá, Colombia), Probandas Latinoamerica (Lima, Peru), the Congreso Iberoamericano de Directores, Compositores, Arregladores e Instrumentistas de Bandas Sinfónicas (Tenerife, Canary Islands), the Asian Pacific Band Directors Association (Macau and Hong Kong), the Hong Kong International Band Fair, and the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic (Chicago). Ensembles under his direction have been selected to perform for the International Society for Music Education (Tenerife, Canary Islands), The National Association for Music Education (NAfME) National In-Service Conference (Nashville), the North American Saxophone Alliance (Los Angeles), southern and western division conferences of the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA), as well as the CBDNA National Conference (hosted by the Blair School in March 2015). He has served as Consultor Artístico with the Dirección General de Bandas of Costa Rica, and he is the Artistic Advisor of the Hong Kong Wind Ensemble.
Verrier is a member of the American Bandmasters Association and also serves on the executive board of the College Band Directors National Association as the organization’s national executive secretary.