Music Lessons, Ensembles, & Performance

Music Lessons, Ensembles, & Performance

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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.
Worcester State VPA's guitar ensemble performs in the Spring 2022 Mosaic of 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, the Worcester State Chorale, and Música, Worcester State University's Latin American Music Ensemble - all for course credit!
A scene from a student's music composition work at Worcester State

WATCH AND LISTEN: A Student Composer's Work
Virtual choir concert via Zoom during covid at Worcester State

WATCH AND LISTEN: The Chorale Performs "The Road Home"
Worcester State Visual and Performing Arts Student with Sitting with Guitar

WATCH AND LISTEN: Senior Spotlight on Julian Wagner '22
Worcester State Latin American Music Ensemble playing live music in the Worcester State Art Gallery

WATCH AND LISTEN: Musica! performs at VPA Gallery
Worcester State University chorale members return to in-person performance in Sullivan Auditorium during the Spring 2022 Semester
Striking a Pose
The Worcester State University Chorale
Jacob Portrais performs "Petite Piece Concertante" on trumpet in Worcester State VPA's Spring 2022 Mosaic of Music
From Lessons to the Stage
Snapshot from a Mosaic of Music Concert
Erica Hanlon and Jonathan Paine perform on piano in Worcester State VPA's Spring 2022 Mosaic of Music
From Lessons to the Stage
Snapshot from a Mosaic of Music Concert
Hannah Picchioni performs "What a Wonderful World" in Worcester State VPA's Spring 2022 Mosaic of Music
WATCH AND LISTEN
Enjoy Behind the Scenes VIDEO from Mosaic of Music
Worcester State University chorale members return to in-person performance in Sullivan Auditorium during the Spring 2022 Semester
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Snapshot of a Worcester State Chorale Concert
Julian Wagner performs "Took Me Forever," his own work, in Worcester State VPA's Spring 2022 Mosaic of Music Performance
From Lessons to the Stage
Snapshot of Mosaic of Music
Worcester State University Chorale performs at All Saints Church
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A Worcester State Chorale performance in Worcester's All Saints Church
Worcester State faculty perform
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World Jazz Concert VIDEO feat. VPA Faculty and Special Guests
Singer Kaylee Salatino sings "Pretty Funny" in Worcester State VPA's Spring 2022 Mosaic of Music
From Lessons to the Stage
Snapshot of Mosaic of Music
Worcester State University chorale members return to in-person performance in Sullivan Auditorium during the Spring 2022 Semester
Voice
Snapshot of a Worcester State Chorale concert
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Contact Visual & Performing Arts
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Suite LRC-325
VPA@worcester.edu
508-929-8145