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Department of Music
The Valdosta State University Department of Music is a fully accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Music, with a faculty of 27 artist teachers and over 150 music majors. The Department of Music presents over 200 musical performances for the public each year. In addition, several of the major performing ensembles of the department travel throughout Georgia, the Southeast, and abroad; performing for schools, civic groups, and as part of community concert series.
The faculty of the Department of Music are active performers, scholars, conductors, clinicians, and adjudicators throughout the region. The department offers a full range of instrumental and vocal performing ensembles, including the Valdosta Symphony Orchestra. Membership in ensembles is open to all VSU students.
The third concert of the nineteenth season of the Valdosta Symphony Orchestra will be Saturday, December 6, at 8:00 p.m. in Whitehead Auditorium of the Fine Arts Building on the campus of Valdosta State University. Guest conductor for this concert will be Maestro Jonathan Pasternack. Maestro Pasternack is the last of three candidates vying for the position of Music Director of the VSO as well as Director of Orchestra Studies at VSU. Award-winning symphony and opera conductor Jonathan Pasternack has conducted the Hague Residentie Orkest, National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, Oregon Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Saint Petersburg Festival Orchestra, and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra.