Shenandoah Conservatory muscic, theatre, dance
Academic Programs
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Shenandoah Conservatory offers intense, specialized, professional training in music, theatre and dance. Students work with a faculty of active professionals as they develop artistically and intellectually for careers in the performing arts. Shenandoah Conservatory offers more than 60 degrees at the baccalaureate, masters and doctoral levels, and produces more than 300 performances each year. With the opening of its newest facilities - Ohrstrom-Bryant Theatre, Glaize Studio Theatre and Ruebush Hall - in 1998, the conservatory honors its origins as it secures its commitment to quality education and the highest level of performance in music, theatre and dance. More than 700 students are currently enrolled in baccalaureate through doctoral study.
Music students in the Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, Conservatory Choir, Jazz Ensemble, Cantus Singers, Chamber Choir and Shenandoah Singers have received regional and national acclaim through off-campus concerts and other invitational tour appearances. Performances include the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. and The Music Center at Strathmore. Your professional development is further refined through solo and chamber music opportunities.
The Jazz Ensemble averages 15 performances each year in various tours, jazz festivals, conventions, artist series and concerts, and has toured Europe, China, Japan and Africa. The Shena ndoah Singers have toured Brazil and Japan. The Conservatory Choir, under the direction of Grammy Award-winning conductor Robert Shafer, regularly performs with the City Choir of Washington and tours Europe in alternate years.
Theatre students follow an intense course of study. You will have the opportunity to be cast in a production the first day of school and can be performing to the very last day in the spring semester. The production and performance opportunities are extensive. In addition to the numerous student-directed, one-act plays and senior showcase, the annual theatre schedule includes two musicals, two children's theatre productions, one opera, one mainstage play, a laboratory theatre production, a touring children's theatre production and either a touring revue or a concert musical production.
The conservatory is also home to Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre, a professional company that presents four professional musicals with full orchestra each summer. Conservatory theatre students are given first auditions for the acting and technical company, and its music students have first auditions for the orchestra. Current students and alumni have made up the majority of the summer theatre's actors, technical and management workers, and musicians since its inception in 1984.
Dancers participate in three mainstage dance concerts and two Performance Forum concerts annually, with many additional opportunities to perform throughout the year. The Dance Division supports two performing companies - the Shenandoah Dance Ensemble, and the faculty ensemble still MOVING. Student ensembles have performed throughout the region and in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain and Russia. Dance students participate yearly in the regional conference of the American College Dance Festival Association.
These extensive performance opportunities at Shenandoah contribute to the development of the sound artistry that supports all of the Conservatory programs of study.
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