Music at Virginia Tech
The Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts offers undergraduate degree programs in music performance, composition, education, and technology. Our alumni are regularly accepted into the finest graduate programs in music, perform professional throughout the United States, and include some of the leading music educators in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic region. The school offers everything an aspiring musician and music educator needs to succeed in the twenty-first century.
The curriculum combines an excellent liberal arts education and a low professor/student ratio with the library, computer facilities, and cultural interaction that only a major, comprehensive university can provide. Learning is enhanced by the use of music technology across the curriculum and innovative programs. Virginia Tech welcomes students with a broad aesthetic and intellectual curiosity and encourages students who are interested in pursuing double majors.
Acknowledgements
Virginia Tech acknowledges that we live and work on the Tutelo/Monacan peoples’ homeland, and we recognize their continued relationships with their lands and waterways. We further acknowledge that legislation and practices like the Morrill Act (1862) enabled the Commonwealth of Virginia to finance and found Virginia Tech through the forced removal of Native Nations from their lands, both locally and in Western territories.
We understand that honoring Native Peoples without explicit material commitments falls short of our institutional responsibilities. Through sustained, transparent, and meaningful engagement with the Tutelo/ Monacan peoples, and other Native Nations, we commit to changing the trajectory of Virginia Tech’s history by increasing Indigenous student, staff, and faculty recruitment and retention, diversifying course offerings, and meeting the growing needs of all Virginia tribes and supporting their sovereignty.
We must also recognize that enslaved Black people generated revenue and resources used to establish Virginia Tech and were prohibited from attending until 1953. Through InclusiveVT, the institutional and individual commitment to Ut Prosim (That I May Serve) in the spirit of community, diversity, and excellence, we commit to advancing a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive community.
We are grateful to Main Street Inn and the Inn at Virginia Tech, the hotel sponsors for the Concert Artist Series and Visiting Artist Series in the School of Performing Arts at Virginia Tech.
If you enjoyed this performance, please consider making a gift to the School of Performing Arts.