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Biography
Founded in 1975, the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston, Texas, is one of the nation’s youngest major university level music programs. Twenty-nine years later, it has become one of the most prominent music schools in the country. With an elegant state of the art facility, the Shepherd School attracts an international student body of 300 music majors and 58 faculty members and has made a great impact on the cultural life of Rice and the greater Houston community. The Shepherd School is proud that its quality of music instruction is paramount. Our illustrious faculty of artist-teachers are dedicated to the highest possible cultivation of the talents and skills of each individual student. The music school is housed in Alice Pratt Brown Hall, which boasts four performance halls, 54 teaching studios, 65 practice rooms, seven classrooms, an orchestra rehearsal hall, an electronic music studio and production and rehearsal spaces. The school receives about 75,000 visitors who attend more than 350 events annually.Rice is consistently ranked one of America’s best teaching and research universities. It is distinguished by its: size—2,700 undergraduates and 1,850 graduate students; selectivity—10 applicants for each place in the freshman class; resources-an undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6-to-1, and the fifth largest endowment per student among American universities; residential college system, which builds communities that are both close-knit and diverse; and collaborative culture, which crosses disciplines, integrates teaching and research, and intermingles undergraduate and graduate work. Rice’s wooded campus is located in the nation’s fourth largest city and on America’s South Coast.
Watch Past Performances
3/31/2018: The Conservatory Project: Rice University & Eastman School of Music
The Conservatory Project is an initiative designed to present the young musical artists in classical, jazz, musical theater, opera, and more from our nation’s leading undergraduate and graduate conservatories, colleges, and universities in performance at the Kennedy Center.
Free general admission tickets will be distributed in the States Gallery starting at approximately 5 p.m., up to two tickets per person.
2/20/2016: Shepherd School of Music at Rice University
Conservatory Project: Students from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University perform DiLorenzo’s Fire Dance; Hillborg’s Brass Quintet; Britten’s Reveille; a movement from Al-Zand’s Imaginary Scenes for Violin and Piano; movements from Barber’s Sonata for Piano; Ysaÿe’s Caprice d’après l’Etude en forme de Valse; Schumann’s Dichterliebe; and Donizetti’s “Ah! Mes Amis” from La fille du regiment.
Free general admission tickets will be distributed in the States Gallery starting at approximately 5:30 p.m., up to two tickets per person.
2/16/2015: The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University
Students perform a Beethoven String Quartet, Weirich’s Steamboat Stomp for French Horn solo, a soprano aria by Verdi, and Ouyang’s brand new Three Pieces for Piano. Part of the Conservatory Project.
2/21/2014: The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University
Students play Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor, Scodanibbio’s “Joke” from Sei Studi, Rabbath’s Le Cri de Venise, Rameau’s Gavotte et Six Doubles, and Ligeti’s Sechs Bagatellen. Part of the Conservatory Project.
2/19/2014: Organ Showcase
Students from participating Conservatory Project schools play selections from works by Widor, Schumann, Buxtehude, Smetana, Shostakovich, Demessieux, Litaize, Albright, Dupre, Ellington, Bach, Cochereau, and others on the Rubenstein Family Organ. Part of the Conservatory Project.
2/26/2012: The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University
Students perform a program featuring classical works by Barber, Tchaikovsky, and Kodály, as well as vocal selections from Bizet’s Carmen and Rossini’s il barbiere di Siviglia. Part of the Conservatory Project.
