The Academy

Welcome to an exciting learning adventure! It is our goal to educate, encourage and inspire functional musicians in a positive environment. The academy combines a comprehensive keyboard, guitar, voice, strings, woodwinds and theory curriculum with the advantage of technology as an educational tool.

Our mission is to provide the highest level of music education to people of all ages and abilities; to prepare students for four-year university music degree programs; to expose children to the joys of hands-on music making; to foster the physical and mental development of infants; to provide adults with the opportunity to study music with highly trained and experienced instructors; and to share the dynamic art of music throughout the community through outreach programs and other civic-minded efforts.

This section of the website will provide you with more information about our teachers, classes we offer, tuition, and resources we make available for our students.

Why are the arts important?

1. They are languages that all people speak - that cut across racial, cultural, social, educational, and economic barriers and enhance cultural appreciation and awareness.
2. They are symbol systems as important as letters and numbers.
3. They integrate mind, body, and spirit.
4. They provide opportunities for self-expression, bringing the inner world into the outer world of concrete reality.
5. They offer the avenue to "flow states" and peak experiences.
6. They create a seamless connection between motivation, instruction, assessment, and practical application--leading to "deep understanding."
7. They make it possible to experience processes from beginning to end.
8. They develop both independence and collaboration.
9. They provide immediate feedback and opportunities for reflection.
10. They make it possible to use personal strengths in meaningful ways and to bridge into understanding sometimes-difficult abstractions through these strengths.
11. They merge the learning of process and content.
12. They improve academic achievement--enhancing test scores, attitudes, social skills, critical and creative thinking.
13. They exercise and develop higher order thinking skills including analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and "problem-finding."
14. They are essential components of any alternative assessment program.
15. They provide the means for every student to learn.