Contemporary Music/Media Applications

Tossing beach balls to huge crowds, fetching supper for a big-time country star, and booking nearly two dozen bands put Converse’s Music Business & Technology students center stage—and backstage—at Spring …

Four of Dr. Valerie MacPhail’s voice students advanced to the Mid-Atlantic Regional NATS competition after receiving honors at the SC State auditions last month. Instructor of Piano, Sharalynn Hicks, was …

Bold. Brilliant. Beautiful. The School of the Arts at Converse College is creating a powerful new season of works for 2016-2017 that will amaze. “Our students and faculty are expanding …

Breathing new life into historic materials from Spartanburg’s textile mill heritage, the new Rainey Amphitheater at Converse College was dedicated during a celebration held Friday, June 24th. Building materials for the project came from Clifton Manufacturing Company No. 2 Mill, which was built in 1888 by Converse founder Dexter Edgar Converse and dismantled in 2013.

Here at the Petrie School of Music, you can’t move without hearing music from somewhere—a practice room, a classroom, Daniel Recital Hall, even from the furniture in the Blackman lobbies …

Striking Matches, a Nashville, Tenn., duo lighting up the music world with a buzz...

As Converse College’s Petrie School of Music prepared to celebrate its centennial in 2010, Henry Janiec reflected on his 42 years as a faculty member, including 27 years as its …

“In the School of the Arts we have a fun motto: We’ll sell you the whole seat, but you’ll only need the edge,” says Dr. Boone Hopkins, who stepped into …

Converse announces another year of record enrollment as the campus welcomes 275 new students for the 2015-16 year. The College expects 5% growth in total undergraduate enrollment over last year, …