Music Arts board members and faculty at the Secret City Festival

Music Arts has been part of our city’s festivals for more than 25 years, and this year we’ll again be sponsoring a booth at the Secret City Festival at the Oak Ridge Civic Center June 19th and 20th, 2009.

Please come by and meet some of our instructors and visit with those you already know.

Students are encouraged to show up at our booth with instrument in hand (no, we won’t have a piano this year!) and help entertain festival-goers.  That’s a sure-fire way to attract people to our booth!  Last year we had a guitar student and a flute student who drew an audience.

The Secret City Festival it is free and open to the public from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday. We hope to see you there!

Jeanine Wilkinson

This summer Jeanine Wilkinson will be working as the General Management Intern for the Grant Park Music Festival.

The festival is held in downtown Chicago’s Millennium Park and is celebrating its 75th season.

One of the projects that Jeanine is currently working on is to create a community engagement program where groups of students can come to open rehearsals, with a tour of the Pavilion given by one of the docents.

Music Arts Newsletter Stuffing

Mark your calendars for stuffing, and if you can’t make it you can still consider contributing to the annual fund drive. The funds raised go to a great cause – scholarships for needy students! If you would like to give, your contribution is tax-deductible.

Please contact the Music Arts office for further details!

Those of you who have paid your bills on time (by the 5th of the month) since the beginning of the school year will be delighted to find a 10% discount on your continuing lessons this summer.

Another clever way to save comes from simply referring new students to any of our Music Arts instructors. Our Referral Reward Program is a very popular discount, giving you the opportunity to earn free lessons. Simply refer a new student for private lessons. (Ask the student to identify you as the person who recommended Music Arts!)

For every lesson the new student completes, you’ll be awarded one point. When you’ve accumulated the number of points equaling your instructor’s basic quarterly lesson plan (11, 12, or 13), you’ll have an automatic deduction of one free lesson from your next quarterly bill. And your bonus lesson awards will continue to be applied for two full years, as long as both you and your referred student are studying!

ORYSO has more in the works for later on this summer they have planned an Oak Ridge Summer Conservatory.

Strings and piano students: please consider attending the Oak Ridge Youth Symphony Orchestra – Oak Ridge Summer Conservatory – August 3rd – 10th, 2009. The Application Deadline: July 6th, 2009.

They are offering a one-week long summer camp for strings and piano students. For more information and an application go to oryso.org.

Also please note that auditions for the 2009-2010 ORYSO season will be held on August 22-24th, with rehearsals starting August 30th. This year they will have an advanced Symphony Orchestra, an intermediate Chamber Orchestra, and a Simply Strings (beginner) ensemble.

For more information go to oryso.org.