News Shih-Hui Chen's “Birds Are Real; Ambushed From Ten Directions" honors Shepherd's 50th News Shepherd School honors Hispanic heritage with Spanish-language recital News Shepherd School’s 50th anniversary season kicks off with weekend of orchestral performances News Shepherd School presents ‘Noche Española’ with opera star, professor Ana María Martínez News Musical powerhouses strengthen offerings at Rice’s Shepherd School of Music News Award-winning musicologist Erik Broess joins Shepherd School faculty News Rice Shepherd School of Music alumnus reflects on conducting during Olympics opening ceremony News Alumna of Rice’s Shepherd School selected for Met Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Program News Shepherd School professor and alumni help develop affordable, American-made bassoon News Longtime master of trumpet and Shepherd School professor Charlie Geyer passes away News Miguel Harth-Bedoya Announced as Distinguished Resident Director of Orchestras News Italian immersion: Shepherd School voice students travel to Italy to learn language, history News ‘Music for New Bodies’ makes world premiere at Rice’s Shepherd School News Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra concludes 2023-24 season on a high note with a sold-out program News Grammy winner Isabel Leonard offers expertise and inspiration to Shepherd School students News Matthew Aucoin & Peter Sellars: Music for New Bodies featured in The New York Times The world premiere collaboration took place in Brockman Hall for Opera at the Shepherd School of Music. News Rice’s Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra presents ‘A Constellation of Sounds & Stories’ News Matthew Aucoin & Peter Sellars: Music for New Bodies - A World Premiere Collaboration at the Shepherd School of Music News Chamber Music America to host its 2025 National Conference in Houston in partnership with the Shepherd School of Music News Audiences celebrate Shepherd School’s opera double bill of ‘Dido and Aeneas’ and ‘The Rape of Lucretia’ News Shepherd School’s Kellan Dunlap wins Presser Graduate Music Award for project raising awareness of school shootings News Shepherd School Opera’s double bill to explore timely stories of remarkable women News Isabel Leonard named Rice Shepherd School’s 2023-24 Aleko Endowed Master Class artist News Rice’s Shepherd School mesmerizes families at Musical Stories Family Concert News Mastery in Motion: Shepherd School students learn from award-winning pianist Daniil Trifonov News Window into the Creative Mind: Pioneering concert explores the neural underpinnings of musical improvisation News Cowboys, Cowgirls, and Classical Music at the Houston Rodeo News It's Back! Shepherd School Students Perform Music Across Houston via The Concert Truck News Miguel Harth-Bedoya Leads the Shepherd School Orchestras Mar 2-3 News Shepherd School Alumna Caroline Shaw ('04) Wins at the Grammy's News Shepherd School to Kick Off Spring Semester News Music for New Bodies Casting Announced - Including Two Shepherd School Alumni News Final Events of 2023 at the Shepherd School of Music News Numerous Shepherd School Alumni up for Grammy gold News One-of-a-kind practice organ gifted to the Shepherd School News The Shepherd School of Music Presents Eugene Onegin News Music with Hans Graf & Kevin Puts at the Shepherd School News Shepherd School Bringing Free Music to Community via The Concert Truck News James McCarthy Named 2024 San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow News Orchestra Season Kicks Off with Conductor Robert Spano News Shepherd School of Music Announces 2023-24 Season News SSM Alumni Shine at Santa Fe Opera This article mentions alumni Lauren Snouffer (BM '09, Stephen King) and Luke Sutliff (MM '21, Stephen King), in addition to former SSM student Nicholas Brownlee (MM candidate, Stephen King). News Xayvion Davidson Wins Cynthia Woods Mitchell-Ima Hogg Young Artist Competition News Emanuel Ax Coaches Shepherd Pianists in Master Class News Trio Menil Wins Plowman Chamber Music Competition News Sir Stephen Hough Visits Shepherd News Grammy Winner Christian McBride Gives Master Class News Shepherd School Ready to Hit High Notes Again, says Houston Chronicle News Announcing Guest Conductors for Orchestras News Don Giovanni Named Best of 2022 by Houston Chronicle News Announcing Joshua Winograde, our new director of Opera Studies News Collector loans Stradivarius violin to the Shepherd School of Music News Flutist Marianne Gedigian to join Rice's Shepherd School of Music
News Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra concludes 2023-24 season on a high note with a sold-out program
News Matthew Aucoin & Peter Sellars: Music for New Bodies featured in The New York Times The world premiere collaboration took place in Brockman Hall for Opera at the Shepherd School of Music.
News Matthew Aucoin & Peter Sellars: Music for New Bodies - A World Premiere Collaboration at the Shepherd School of Music
News Chamber Music America to host its 2025 National Conference in Houston in partnership with the Shepherd School of Music
News Audiences celebrate Shepherd School’s opera double bill of ‘Dido and Aeneas’ and ‘The Rape of Lucretia’
News Shepherd School’s Kellan Dunlap wins Presser Graduate Music Award for project raising awareness of school shootings
News Window into the Creative Mind: Pioneering concert explores the neural underpinnings of musical improvisation
News SSM Alumni Shine at Santa Fe Opera This article mentions alumni Lauren Snouffer (BM '09, Stephen King) and Luke Sutliff (MM '21, Stephen King), in addition to former SSM student Nicholas Brownlee (MM candidate, Stephen King).
Award-winning musicologist Erik Broess joins Shepherd School faculty Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music is pleased to welcome award-winning educator Erik Broess as Assistant Professor of Musicology. Broess, who comes to Rice from Boston University, specializes in rock, metal and jazz through the lenses of music technology and sound studies. He earned his Ph.D. in music history from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), where his thesis, “Unobtainable: Electric Guitar Gear and the Mythology of Tone,” explored the cultural significance of tone for electric guitarists.
