Lessons & Classes
Private Lessons
Private lessons with a specialist who can instruct the student in the technical skills and nuances of their instrument will exceed the scope of any general music program. Private lessons my be started at any time.Private Lessons by Special Arrangement, some lesson fees are higher with “special arrangement” faculty. Call the office for fees. These include: Voice, Violin, Viola, Latin Percussion and Private Acting Lessons.
Available: Piano, Keyboard, Guitar, Electric Bass, Drums, Percussion, Violin, Viola, Cello, String Bass, Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Saxophone, Trombone, Trumpet, Tuba and other Orchestral instruments.
Musicianship and the practical experience of performing with other musicians is so vital to a musician's development, that we encourage every student to take a muscianship class and appropriate performing ensemble. To make this affordable, students taking private lessons may take both a musicianship class and a performamce ensemble fo a discounted tuition. For very young children Musikgarten may be substituted for a musicianship class.
Development Classes
Instrumental students benefit by taking Musicianship class and a playing in a Performance Ensemble. (See Performance Ensembles below)
Group Lessons! Here’s a less expensive way to study music!
Note: Group Lessons work best for beginners starting together!
Group Instrumental - 45 Min. Classes (Minimum 3 in a class)
Performing Ensembles
Vocal & Percussion Ensembles
Let a professional put you into a group and start performing. Sessions priced the same as group lessons, but designed to get you playing music with other instruments. The teacher will tutor the students through the selection of music, arranging it for their instrumentation and helping them perform it. Weekly 45 minute sessions. (30 min for Duos, 60 min for Quartets) Schedule arranged by Instructor.
*(Pre-requisite 2 years study or Audition). 16 week semester.
Beat the Drums
Ages 8 - adult
Percussion Ensemble For Kids & Adults!
Learn timing, co-ordination, teamwork and joy, with this terrific class in hand drumming and other percussion instruments. Explore Folk, Latin, African and Cuban styles. Great for
parents and children participating together.
Fall 9/22/09-1/19/10 • Spring 2/2/10 - 5/18/10
Tuesdays: 7:15 -8:15 pm
Saturdays: 1:00 pm - 2:00pm
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Suzuki Strings
Musicianship Classes
(FKA Music Theory)...
Is VITAL to a musician's development. For very young children Musikgarten® may be substituted for a musicianship class. Sight-singing skills, ear-training and theory are invaluable to professional musicians! Students learn to read, write, transpose and sight-sing music. This course is a “must” for those students who wish to become ‘real’ musicians and develop a thorough understanding of music. (A prerequisite for composition.)
| Tuesdays | Fall 9/22/09-1/19/10 | Spring 2/02/10-5/18/10 |
| Wednesdays: | Fall 9/23/09-1/20/10 | Spring 2/03/10-5/19/10 |
| Thursdays: | Fall 9/17/09-1/21/10 | Spring 2/04/10-5/27/10 |
| Saturdays: | Fall 9/19/09-1/16/10 | Spring 1/30/10-5/29/10 |
| Sec. 1 (Children 8 - 12) | Thursdays: | 4:00 - 5:00pm |
| Sec. 2 (Teens & Adults) | Thursdays: | 7:00 - 8:00pm |
| Sec. 3 (Level 2) | Thursdays: | 8:00 - 9:00pm |
| Sec. 4 (Children 8 - 12) | Saturdays: | 11:30 - 12:30pm |
| Sec. 5 (Teens & Adults) | Saturdays: | 12:30 - 1:30pm |
| Sec. 6 (Singers Only) | Mondays: | 6:00 - 7:00pm |
Composition & Arranging
(Prerequisite: 1-2 years instrumental study & Theory)
Harmonize your own songs or arrange a favorite piece. Part-writing leading to use of computer composition software.Knowledge of scales and chords a miust!
Schedule by arrangement.
Two 16 week Semesters
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