Welcome
The Music Academy proudly announces its 2007-08 schedule of lessons and programs. As the region’s premier community music school, The Music Academy encourages children and adults to pursue music for its educational rewards, the challenge of cultivating a new interest, or for pleasure, relaxation, and enjoyment. Our school provides an environment where students seeking preparation for a professional career, as well as those interested in “playing for fun”, are equally encouraged. Because we welcome students of all ages and skill levels, our primary objective is to help students realize their “personal best”.
Private lessons offer the most individualized instruction available, and are available to both children and adults. Group lessons are an opportunity to explore a variety of musical options in a setting shared with other learners, with many of this year’s courses aimed at adults. Adult and Youth Choirs feature highly-qualified vocal faculty offering instruction in the joyful art of choir singing. The Musicians All! program and Musical Theatre group lessons help the youngest learners get a proper (and fun) start to their music education.
The Music Academy’s Suzuki and Talent Education Program, the first of its kind in our community, allows students to benefit from a combination of individualized private lessons and same-level group learning, and is appropriate for students as young as three years old.
Valued world-wide as a successful and esteem-building approach to music education, the Suzuki Program helps students to realize genuine progress through the integration of discipline, love, and the student’s natural abilities.
The Music Academy is offering the community’s first Early Music Institute, founded in 2007 by Carol Pharo and Sabra Statham. The Institute’s goals include providing both instruction in early music genres and styles, and a venue for area performers and teachers to share their love of and expertise in early music with each other. Renaissance and Baroque Dance and Dance Music, Historical Chant Group, and Period Instrument Consort, along with special events and workshops, will complement study of this stimulating musical genre.
Technology and music come together in two of our newer programs: Group Piano for Adults and Computer Based Sound Recording utilize the latest equipment and incorporate the most up-to-date techniques in music education.
The Music Academy operates Outreach
Programs in the county for children and families in the Mountaintop and Philpsburg areas. Funded in part by support from Centre County Community Foundation and other community support, families living in these areas who want to learn more may contact Sabra Statham, Program Coordinator at 387-6817 or Moshannon Valley YMCA at 342-0889.
Recitals, special events, faculty performances, and a fine music library afford additional opportunities for music study. Scholarships, group lessons, and payment plans make enrollment at The Music Academy financially practical.
Please look through this catalogue and consider adding music study to your life. We warmly welcome inquiries and all new students...and remember:
Playing music makes you smarter!
The Music Academy Board of Directors
Patricia Kelley — President
Kenton Shaffer — Vice President
Carolyn Stebbins — Secretary
Mary Ann Frazier, Philip A. Klein, Carol McAdams, Cynthia Schein, Norma Condee — Ex-Officio
Bonnie Tatterson — Executive Director