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- - 2018-19 School of Performing Arts season showcases student talent and more
    The Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts announces its 2018-2019 season of music, theatre, and cinema events.
- - Heartland Marimba Festival comes to Blacksburg
    Virginia Tech will host the 2018 Heartland Marimba Festival, which will offer three free public performances in Blacksburg.
- - Polly Middleton named director of The Marching Virginians
    The former assistant director of The Marching Virginians will bring a blend of old and new traditions to the 330-member-strong band also known as The Spirit of Tech.
- - Eric Lyon receives Guggenheim Fellowship to explore the edges of spatial orchestration
    The Moss Art Center’s Cube is an inspirational muse for the associate professor of music technology, who is using the space’s 150 speakers to compose new music during his year as a Guggenheim Fellow, a prestigious honor for which only 4 percent of the competition’s applicants receive funding.
- - Summer Arts Festival 2018 kicks off on June 1
    The Summer Arts Festival in Blacksburg offers free events all summer long for the community.
- - New creative technologies in music degree option reimagines instruments and soundmaking
    The music program is pushing the boundaries of traditional music through electronics to create unique musicscapes, unimagined instruments, new sets of digital tools, and electroacoustic research that reconsiders the very nature of sound.
- - Maria Jernigan named 2018 Undergraduate Student of the Year
    The honors student, a triple major in philosophy, Spanish, and theatre arts, has also received the Outstanding Senior Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences.
- - Billie Lepczyk receives the Alumni Award for Excellence in Research
    Lepczyk's research includes the movement styles of classical ballet as well as such notable artists as Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Twyla Tharp, and George Balanchine.
- - School of Performing Arts presents Carl Orff’s ‘Carmina Burana’
    One of the best known pieces of classical music, “Carmina Burana” was composed in the mid-1930s and is based on 24 of the 254 poems from the medieval collection written in the 11th and 12th centuries. The piece will be performed by more than 200 musicians as it was originally scored.
- - Performers add campus flavor for Virginia Tech Music Day
    Featuring over 20 student and community musicians performing in various outdoor locations, the third annual event will be held on Friday, April 13, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
- - JUMP campaign honors music legacy through the Virginia Tech Trumpet Festival
    Allen Bachelder’s legacy as a Department of Music professor emeritus continues through a scholarship in his name. Join alumni, students, and the community in supporting the Trumpet Festival that helps sustain the scholarship by donating through Virginia Tech’s crowdfunding platform.
- - 'The Importance of Being Earnest' is witty and stylish
    Oscar Wilde's play "The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People" will be presented by the School of Performing Arts on April 18-21 in the Anne and Ellen Fife Theatre, Moss Arts Center.
- - 'Cinescapes' concert to highlight music from film
    The fifth annual musical exposition will be performed Sunday, March 25, at the Moss Arts Center. All proceeds go to Delta Omicron to support music scholarships at Virginia Tech.
- - ‘Shakespeare’s Garden,’ an immersive theatrical installation, begins March 22
    The installation, which uses the spatial audio capabilities of the Cube, will enable visitors to explore an immersive sound and visual experience as they follow a meandering path through the space and listen to Shakespearean texts performed by Virginia Tech students.
- - Carnegie Hall accolades help send Virginia Tech Wind Ensemble to perform at national conference
    The Virginia Tech Wind Ensemble will perform at the College Band Directors National Association Southern Division Conference in Tampa on Feb. 23.
- - Tragicomic musical 'Fun Home' opens Feb. 20
    Graphic novelist Alison Bechdel's book comes to life in the musical "Fun Home," opening Feb. 20 and running for eight performances in the Squires Studio Theatre.
- - Workshop series to teach the art of connecting with audiences
    The weekly sessions will offer a range of creative techniques to help Virginia Tech faculty, students, and staff communicate ideas and forge collaborations.
- - Policy Strategic Growth Area advances interaction and collaboration at open forums
    The purpose of the forums was to “provide an opportunity for faculty from diverse disciplines to come together to share their interests and make new connections related to policy,” said Isabel Bradburn, research director in the Department of Human Development and Policy SGA program manager.
- - Funding program creates more research opportunities for undergraduates
    Nine interdisciplinary teams of Virginia Tech faculty won the awards, which will help them build new undergraduate-research programs and compete for national grants.
- - Researchers from music and engineering team up to turn big data into sound
    Instead of showing information visually, this pioneering approach uses immersive spatial sound to represent data with the goal of developing a better understanding of complex systems.

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