In the studioConservatory
Formation and fluency.
Through the Conservatory, College, and Annie Moses Method, students are formed in performance, theory, and composition from first study to professional mastery.
Visit the ConservatoryThe Institute
The Discipline of Beauty. The Practice of Joy.
A conservatory, performing arts center, and publishing house in Middle Tennessee forming Christian artists for the glory of God and the renewal of culture.
What we do
One work. Three expressions.
Teaching, performing, and creating — three institutional bodies carrying forward a single vision for Christian artistry and the long life of culture.
In the studio
On stageStage
Performance and production.
The Playhouse, Festival, touring concerts, and original stage works — the season as it unfolds.
See what's on
Benjamin CelloWorks
Creation and publication.
Original works in print, on screen, and through song — preserving and extending the Institute's work for the long life of culture.
Browse the CatalogOn Stage
Coming to the stage.
Concerts, festivals, and stage productions from the Institute, the Packard Playhouse, and the Annie Moses Band.
August 22 – August 30, 2026
The Packard Playhouse
Stephen Schwartz's beloved musical based on the Gospel according to Matthew — strangers becoming a community and finding the light of Christ.
The Conservatory
Study with us.
A complete musical formation — from a child's first lessons to a professional portfolio — taught by working artists in the Annie Moses tradition.
Foundation Studio
Ages 6–11. The entry tier — private study, theory and ear training, drama, and the weekly performance habit.
Foundation →Pre-College
Ages 12–18. Sixty-minute private study, composition for collegiate-track students, and pre-collegiate planning.
Pre-College →College Program
The Associates Degree in Music — a two-year, career-focused conservatory degree culminating in a capstone portfolio.
College Program →Works
From the catalog.
A musical, an album, a children's series, a hymnal — the Institute's published work outlives the season.
Album
American Rhapsody
Annie Moses Band
Album
This Glorious Christmas
Annie Moses Band
Album
The Best of the Beginning
Annie Moses Band
KIN, from Annie Moses
Films, concerts, and conversations on KIN.
The Institute's streaming home — original films, recorded concerts, and long-form conversation with the artists and thinkers in our orbit.
Go to Watch
Every film and concert on KIN is kept free by the patrons of the Institute. Become a patron →
The Journal
Letters, essays, and reviews from Middle Tennessee.
A quarterly notebook on music, formation, and cultural life — published by the Institute, written by its faculty and friends.
ESSAY
The Secret of Mary Poppins
When I was five years old, I broke our videotape of Mary Poppins. Not through childhood carelessness, but because I watched it so often that the VCR finally ate the tape. Why did I love the film so? I thought the answer was obvious: great music, comedy, whimsy — all things I loved as a boy. But there’s more to Mary Poppins than meets the eye, and I didn’t realize it until I grew up and saw it again after many years.
Benjamin Wolaver · January 1970
ESSAY
Soothed by a Mysterious Stranger
By mid-morning the clouds had parted and the sun was pushing out, slurping the excess water into a clammy humidity. As a premier attraction, Land Between the Lakes extended to its visitors an opportunity to view a working farm reminiscent of the 1800s, where young men and women, dressed in Ma and Pa Ingalls hand-me-downs, demonstrate Foxfire-style procedures. Bill had taken the kids to see the animals and left me alone with my bad mood. I tromped through the pasture, feeling guilty. You’d better perk up, I berated myself.
Robin Donica Wolaver · January 1970
ESSAY
The Blessing of Music
I’ve been around music all my life, for as long as I can remember. In fact, I don’t think there’s ever been a time when I didn’t have a tune in my head or a piece of music in my hands. Music runs in our family. I was a voice major in college; my husband, Bill, is a composer; our six children have studied in the finest music schools and conservatories. All of us have performed together around the world with our own group, the Annie Moses Band, started when the kids were young.
Robin Donica Wolaver · January 1970
Voices
Faculty and Guild artists.
The working musicians, composers, and teachers who carry the Institute's work alongside the founding family.
PortraitDaniel Hosny
THE INSTITUTE
PortraitDenise Bian
HEAD OF DANCE
PortraitJoshua Carswell
THE INSTITUTE
PortraitSara McKelvey
DANCE INSTRUCTOR & CHOREOGRAPHER
The Annie Moses Band · Since 2003
Founded as the chamber-folk ensemble of the Wolaver family, the Annie Moses Band predates and powers the Institute. Twenty years on the road; a working laboratory for everything we teach.
The Annie Moses BandThe Institute Letter
A monthly note from Nashville.
On what we are staging, teaching, recording, and reading.