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Worcester State Visual and Performing Arts Student with Sitting with Guitar

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Compose Music in VPA Labs

Students create eclectic and diverse forms of sonic expression by taking a course – or a series of courses – in VPA's music composition lab! Students may even choose “Music Composition and Technology” as a Minor. Interested in learning more? Check out some of our students' original compositions below.
Worcester State VPA Professor Carlos Odria on Guitar

Instruments

Take a Music Lesson

WSU students enjoy one-hour-per-week music lessons for course credit with professors who have studied, performed, and toured locally, nationally, and internationally…with many continuing to perform at live shows and festivals! Lessons are available in guitar, piano, brass, strings, voice, winds or percussion, with performance opportunities on and off campus! Practice space is available.
A group of seven people, including one taking a selfie, stand and smile in a Worcester State classroom with desks and a piano, highlighting their shared love for music.

Make Music with Classmates

Be Part of an Ensemble

VPA offers rigorous applied lessons and music theory instruction geared toward performance, with ensemble opportunities available in African Drumming, Brass, Guitar, Jazz, Strings, Piano, Wind, and new in Fall 2023 - The Good Time Vocal Band with Professor Steve Gagliastro - all for course credit!
Three musicians play electric guitars and bass in front of sheet music stands, with blue chairs and a brick wall in the background.

WATCH AND LISTEN: Evan Couture '23 delivers capstone performance during WSU Jazz Concert

Three musicians perform indoors; two play acoustic guitars while seated and standing, and one plays a cajón drum while seated. Microphones and amplifiers are set up nearby.

Video highlights of Musica!'s Spring 2023 performance of "Summer Samba" by Marcos Valle

A young man in a tie-dye hoodie plays an electric guitar while seated, with an amplifier and chairs in the background.

WATCH AND LISTEN: Orchestra Pit rehearsal for THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE musical

Worcester State faculty perform

World Jazz Concert VIDEO feat. VPA Faculty and Special Guests

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/822329497
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/820962698
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/819533169
A man plays a grand piano while a woman stands beside him singing on stage with closed black curtains in the background, performing as part of a Music Worcester State event.

Watch a replay of the Fall 2023 Mosaic of Music

A scene from a student's music composition work at Worcester State

WATCH AND LISTEN: A Student Composer's Work

Worcester State Visual and Performing Arts Student with Sitting with Guitar

Senior Spotlight Video about Julian Wagner '22

Hannah Picchioni performs "What a Wonderful World" in Worcester State VPA's Spring 2022 Mosaic of Music

Behind-the-scenes video of a Mosaic of Music show

https://www.instagram.com/p/CXbeOe1FSvB/
A pianist plays a grand piano while a vocalist in red pants sings from a music stand onstage, both set against a black curtain backdrop.
Singer Kaylee Salatino sings "Pretty Funny" in Worcester State VPA's Spring 2022 Mosaic of Music
Julian Wagner performs "Took Me Forever," his own work, in Worcester State VPA's Spring 2022 Mosaic of Music Performance
Erica Hanlon and Jonathan Paine perform on piano in Worcester State VPA's Spring 2022 Mosaic of Music
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Contact Visual & Performing Arts
Learning Resource Center
Suite LRC-325
VPA@worcester.edu
508-929-8145