Jerry Myers, Associate Director of Choral Activities, has been selected as Artistic Director for a choral festival in South Africa. The W&L University Chorus will join with other ensembles from across the United States for festival performances in Cape Town and Johannesburg in 2009.
Elizabeth Cameron, '07, was a founding member of the Colonnade String Quartet. She was a cellist in the University-Shenandoah Symphony Orchestra and played in various chamber ensembles. Elizabeth graduated with a degree in European history and is attending graduate school in nursing.
The W&L Music Department offers a music major
leading to the B.A. in Music. Students can major in sequences including Musicology,
Performance, or Theory/Composition. Participation in the Department's instrumental and
choral ensembles along with private instruction for all instruments and voice is open to
all W&L students for credit.
The Department offers numerous concerts each year including those by
student ensembles, our Concert Guild series, and Sonoklect, the new music/jazz series. Performances are held in
the state-of-the-art Wilson Concert Hall, which opened in August of 2006, and
the Lenfest Center for the Performing Arts. Department Ensembles regularly tour the United States and Europe.
For a listing of concerts in the 2006-2007 academic year, please see our
Performance Calendar.
Prospective Students
If you would like to
receive more information on the Department please complete our online Request Information Form.
Current Students
View Leyburn Library's Music Resource Page
for links to online music encyclopedias and indexes.
Contact the Music Department
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, administrative assistant
Music Office: (540) 458-8852
Music Fax: (540) 458-8104
Washington and Lee University
Department of Music
Lexington, VA 24450-0303
Upcoming Events
Featured Concert
A Mahler Tribute to John Wilson
Sat., Feb. 3, 2007
The USSO honored John Wilson with one of his favorites, Mahler’s Symphony No. 5.
University-Shenandoah Symphony Orchestra conducted by Barry Kolman
