Stonehill College Visual and Performing Arts

A concert pianist who has performed at Boston’s Symphony Hall and won the grand prize in a Russian music competition at New York City’s Carnegie Hall, Matthew Hutton ’26 knows a good piano when he sees one.

“Stonehill has great pianos,” he said. “It’s one of the reasons I wanted to come here.”

Read more about the student musician: https://zurl.co/I4hhO

Here's the newest track by VPA graduate Wendy Lucas, "Lost Art" . . .

Lost Art Wendy Lucas · Lost Art · Song · 2025

The Cover Band track for the month of July is "You Can Kiss Me (But Don't Tell)" . . .

You Can Kiss Me (But Don't Tell), by JSYK track by JSYK

The Music Technology Ensemble is celebrating Christmas in June with the song "I Won't be a Grinch" . . .

I Won't be a Grinch, by JSYK track by JSYK

Professor Bohn caught up with two former VPA students, Wendy Lucas (2020) and Andrew Stilson (2021) at a gig of theirs in Nee Bedford. You can check out their music at . . .

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0QS3e81yxqcAh6izLUEa3a?si=qo8SWNWqTEmTqPIGA3VBaw

Here's the Music Technology Ensemble's tune of the month for May, "Rainstorm" by Viet Le, Edison Roberts, Conor Ryan, & Connor Sullivan . . .

Rainstorm, by JSYK track by JSYK

Guitar and bass students with Professors Jim Davidson and Andrew Schiller!

Here's the Music Technology Ensemble's song of the month, "Don't Wanna Cry" by Viet Le . . .

Don't Wanna Cry, by JSYK track by JSYK

Check out the album "Sonoran" by our bass teacher, Andrew Schiller . . .

Sonoran Andrew Schiller Quintet · Album · 2019 · 9 songs

Finally, in the back of the studio we also have a Yamaha Pacifica electric guitar and an Ibanez Gio electric bass available for student use.

To the rear of the studio we have a Pearl Roadshow drumset setup with eight microphones: kick, 2 for snare (above and below), high hat, high tom, low tom, left overhead, and right overhead. There is also a headphone cable running to the drumset so the drummer can play to a click.

In the bottom drawer of the cabinet we have some miscellaneous percussion instruments / mallets, and a couple of guitar pedals, a multi-effects pedal, and a chorus pedal that is a clone of the chorus circuits including on Roland synthesizers from the early 1980s.