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Visual & Performing Arts
Music Lessons, Ensembles, & Pe...

Music Lessons, Ensembles, & Performance


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  • Visual & Performing Arts
  • Music Lessons, Ensembles, & Performance
    • Applied Music Lessons Application
    • The Good Time Vocal Band
    • The Mosaic of Music
    • The WSU Jazz Ensemble
  • Theatre Production
    • Richard O'Brien's "Rocky Horror Show"- Spring 2025
  • Visual Art Exhibits & Studios
    • Sagamore Studios
    • The Mary Cosgrove Dolphin Gallery
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    • Creative Thinking VALUE Rubric
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VPA@worcester.edu
508-929-8145
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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.
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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!
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WATCH AND LISTEN: Evan Couture '23 delivers capstone performance during WSU Jazz Concert

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

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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
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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

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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/
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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