Jeff Pettit
"When I came to Belmont University, I was not a music major. But it did not take me long to recognize the incredible opportunities that this school had to offer students with a passion to study music. Inside the classroom, I found teachers that went beyond my expectations. They are not only knowledgeable about the curriculum but also interested in showing how it can affect my life as a musician and an educator.You will rarely find a teacher who simply relies on lectures and textbooks; most of the faculty are actively involved everyday with the subjects they are teaching and are able to bring modern vantage points into the classroom. And yet the opportunities outside of the classroom are what have made my Belmont experience invaluable.
In the years I was enrolled, I sang under world-renowned conductors as they've conducted some of music history's greatest major works, performed on-stage in both musical theatre and opera, toured regionally and internationally with the Belmont Chorale, recorded for local and national radio and television programs, and even led a traveling fifty-voice student gospel choir. I know that sometimes people attach certain stigmas to smaller universities, but Belmont School of Music takes advantage of every resource available to make sure its students are equipped and ready to pursue any of the diverse and ever expanding fields of music."
- Jeff Pettit (2004 Graduate)
