The Wilson Music Building houses the School of Music offices, classrooms, faculty teaching studios and rehearsal space for its diverse array of performing arts majors, including church music, commercial music, music education, musical theatre, music therapy, music technology and music performance. Programs are offered for vocalists and instrumentalists and in a variety of music styles including classical, country and pop. The three-floor structure also houses practice rooms, a piano lab and two music technology labs. The entire building is acoustically sound and accessible between eight a.m. and midnight so students have flexibility in scheduling rehearsal times. The practice rooms, music technology and class piano labs are used by nearly 750 music students.
In 2010, Belmont was officially recognized as an All-Steinway school, making the university one of only 150 schools world-wide to have that distinction. All-Steinway Schools must demonstrate a commitment to excellence by providing their students and faculties with the best equipment possible for the study of music. It’s just one more way Belmont’s School of Music offers its students a winning combination of large university resources and personal, small college service.
The Massey Performing Arts Center, known throughout campus as MPAC, provides an exceptional multi-purpose performance setting with the Massey Concert Hall, which seats approximately one-thousand people. The space is used frequently throughout the academic year for concerts, showcases, lectures, opera and musical theatre productions; as well as, for annual events like summer orientation, the President’s Concert and Belmont student’s sketch comedy show, Fall Follies. In addition to practice rooms and studios, the building’s lower levels feature the one-hundred seat Harton Recital Hall, which provides an intimate venue for classical performances. School of Music students and faculty perform recitals and concerts in these venues throughout the year.
More than two hundred events are held in the Massey Performing Arts Center annually, from vibrant productions of former Broadway hits to pop, jazz and bluegrass concerts to lectures from such luminaries as Ken Burns and Colin Powell. Most of these events are free and open to the public, allowing the Nashville community to get a taste of the incredible talent and educational resources Belmont has to offer.
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