Perform at the Highest Level
- Professional-level training
- Distinguished artist faculty
- Innovative music industry programs and performance opportunities
- Preparation for prestigious graduate programs worldwide
Ensembles
Music Programs
Music at Shenandoah
- Programs span the music industry
- Unique programs in jazz/commercial music and contemporary music/entrepreneurship
- Virginia’s oldest music therapy program
- Highly regarded music education program
- Students accepted by respected programs as the Chautauqua Institute, Kneisel Hall, Aspen Music Festival, The Pierre Monteux School, Adamant and the Idyllwild Summer Program
- Alumni perform in symphony orchestra and opera companies worldwide, are educators and therapists, and respected creatives
Music News
SUMTA Leads Celebration of 2024 World Music Therapy Week at SU
Shenandoah Conservatory’s music therapy program joined professionals, scholars, and students around the world in a special celebration of World Music Therapy Week, held April 10 through April 15. World Music Therapy Week is an event facilitated by ... Continue Reading SUMTA Leads Celebration of 2024…
London-based Choreographer Adam Haigh Guest Choreographs and Directs Movement for Main Stage Opera
Shenandoah Conservatory welcomes London-based choreographer Adam Haigh as its guest choreographer and movement director for this season’s main stage opera, “Moscow, Cheryomushki,” running Friday, April 26, through Sunday, April 28, in Ohrstrom-Bryant ... Continue Reading London-based Choreographer Adam Haigh Guest…
Shenandoah Conservatory Announces Winners of the 2024/25 Student Soloists Competition
Shenandoah Conservatory announces the winners of the 2024/25 Student Soloists Competition (SSC) on behalf of the SSC committee. The final round of the competition was held at 7 p.m. on Sunday, April 7, in Armstrong Concert Hall. Pictured left to ... Continue Reading Shenandoah Conservatory Announces Winners of…
Music Alumni
Shaw ’11 and Telegraph Quartet Perform in Feldman Chamber Society’s Annual Series
Cellist Jeremiah Shaw '11 (Bachelor of Music in Music Production & Recording Technology) and the other members of Telegraph Quartet performed as part of the Feldman Chamber Society’s 2023/24 series on April 8, at the Chrysler Museum of Art in ... Continue Reading Shaw ’11 and Telegraph Quartet…
Devlin ’17 Co-edits Published Book on Music Therapy and Neurology
“Music Therapy and Music-Based Interventions in Neurology: Perspectives on Research and Practice,” a book co-edited by Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music Therapy Kerry Devlin ’17, M.M.T., LPMT, MT-BC, and colleagues at Johns Hopkins, was recently ... Continue Reading Devlin ’17 Co-edits Published Book…
Shegogue ’23 Appointed First Pediatric ICU Music Therapist at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center
Jamie Shegogue ’23, LPMT, MT-BC, (Bachelor of Music Therapy) has been appointed as the first Pediatric ICU Music Therapist at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, Maryland, expanding the presence of music therapy at Johns Hopkins. ... Continue Reading Shegogue ’23 Appointed First Pediatric…
Music Faculty
Active, supportive, masters of their craft
- Passionate about the art of teaching
- Sought after as soloists, guest artists, and expert clinicians worldwide
- Highly engaged in their fields with deep networks
- In residence at prestigious summer festivals
- Experience ranging from performing at the Metropolitan Opera to conducting Grammy Award-winning choirs, composing music and serving on international competition juries
ShenCoLAB
Shenandoah Conservatory turns over the programming and facilities to its students for a week of unbridled exploration, collaboration and creativity.
ShenCoLAB is the only such week of its magnitude and scope offered by a university performing arts program in the United States.
The week culminates in an extraordinary event: the Festival of Arts, Ideas & Exploration, which featured 27 performances and five presentations in the inaugural year!
Take a Virtual Tour of Shenandoah Conservatory
Shenandoah Conservatory is an exciting hub of collaboration and innovation. Here's a chance to take a quick look at all the spaces in which our students engage in rich and rewarding creative experiences in music, theatre, and dance.
We're an All-Steinway School
Great music stirs the heart and inspires the soul, and Steinway pianos are celebrated as the instruments used by renowned artists to cultivate their talent and produce great music. Similarly, uncompromising excellence in performing arts education sparks the imagination and inspires the future.