Advanced

Kids, make great music and great friends at Community Music Center this summer!

Play in a jazz band and learn to improvise, swing, and balance a group sound playing standard forms and tunes. Students will also work on intonation, tone quality, rhythmic accuracy, shaping a musical phrase through articulation, dynamics, and the use of accents and sforzandos. The band will put on winter and spring performances at CMC.

Teens: if you love to sing and perform, CMC’s Teen Chorus is for you! Singers will have a chance to learn more about vocal and performance technique, harmonizing, and basic note reading while learning a varied repertoire. The chorus will work on a program to perform in concert.

Teens: if you love to sing and perform, CMC’s Teen Chorus is for you! Singers will have a chance to learn more about vocal and performance technique, harmonizing, and basic note reading while learning a varied repertoire. The chorus will work on a program to perform in concert.

Offering several Music Theory classes accross a range of experience levels, to older teens and adults.

Offering several Music Theory classes accross a range of experience levels, to older teens and adults.

Violin & cello lessons from age 6 with instructor's consent; Voice, Theory and Musicianship age 16 and up. 30 min., 45 min., and 60 min. lessons available.

Violin & cello lessons from age 6 with instructor's consent; Voice, Theory and Musicianship age 16 and up. 30 min., 45 min., and 60 min. lessons available.

String students: if you are interested in developing the skills to play in a full orchestra setting or in intermediate to advanced chamber ensembles, this workshop is designed especially for you. This class is a great introduction to ensemble playing and is particularly helpful for students with little or no ensemble experience.

Learn how to combine your acting and solo singing skills by preparing scenes from operas and musicals! Students will be cast in scenes for one to five characters and develop these scenes for a performance at the end of the session. Classes will address character development, stage technique, musicality and style issues. Students will work on their own scenes and observe the development of other participants’ scenes