Instrumental Music

The Instrumental Music Program at Blair offers the student a multi-faceted range of experiences. From private lessons to a large Wind Symphony, students are exposed to all aspects of instrumental music, much of which meets during the academic day as full-credit classes. Instrumental students perform four major concerts each year, in addition to providing music for vespers services and other school functions.

Recent Performance and Tour Information

The Blair Academy String Ensemble and Singers Take an International Tour
Director of Instrumental Music Jen Pagotto recounts the European tour of the Blair Singers and String Ensemble as they made their way through Prague, Vienna and Budapest in June.

In early June, the Blair Academy Singers and String Ensemble embarked on an Eastern Europe concert tour, the first trip ever for a Blair Academy instrumental ensemble and the first tour in four years for Singers. During the 12-day trip, we performed four full concerts, participated in two mass services and gave several informal performances in Prague, Vienna and Budapest. Each performance received enthusiastic applause and requests for encores.

For more exciting photos and text from the tour. please click here.

The Blair Academy Wind Symphony and Jazz Ensemble In Concert
Thursday, May 1
DuBois Theatre, Armstrong-Hipkins Center for the Arts
The Blair Academy Jazz Ensemble will open with several Jazz standards including Satin Doll, Caravan, Dealer Takes Five, Sea Journey and Alter Ego. The Blair Academy Wind Symphony will then take the stage, performing “Music from the British Isles,” including historically significant works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst and Percy Grainger. Join us for an evening of American and British classics.

The Blair Academy String Ensemble and Singers In Concert
Thursday, May 8
DuBois Theatre, Armstrong-Hipkins Center for the Arts
The Blair Academy String Ensemble and Singers will join forces this spring to present a concert in preparation for their European Tour later this summer. They will perform combined works by Handel, Mozart and Bernstein, in addition to their individual sets, which will include masterworks from the Baroque era to the 20th century.

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