Becoming A Musician
2024 - 2025 schedule
11:00-11:30AM | music exploration
1:00-1:45PM | BECOMING A MUSICIAN LEVEL 1
4:00-4:45PM | BECOMING A MUSICIAN LEVEL 2
More class sections may be added depending on interest.
9:30-11:00AM | MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC SKILLS
MORE CLASS SECTIONS MAY BE ADDED DEPENDING ON INTEREST.
Class Tuition: Payment for these year-long programs will be split by semester.
Semester 1 (September 9 – December 20)
Semester 2 (January 6 – May 16)
Plus a yearly supply fee of $50.
Monthly payments and partial scholarships are available! APPLY NOW!
Music Exploration – $400 per semester plus yearly $50 supply fee | (averaging $12/class)
Becoming a Musician Level 1 – $500 per semester plus yearly $50 supply fee | (averaging $15/class)
Becoming a Musician Level 2 – $500 per semester plus yearly $50 supply fee | (averaging $15/class)
Middle & High School Music Skills – $500 per semester plus yearly $50 supply fee
Monthly payments and partial scholarships are available! APPLY NOW!
All Becoming a Musician Classes will culminate with participation in the May Day festival on May 16, 2025!
THESE CLASSES ARE THE FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCKS FOR ALL OTHER CLASSES. ALL SPECIALIZED CLASSES ARE BASED ON AGE APPROPRIATE FOLKSONGS, CHILDREN’S SINGING GAMES, ART MUSIC, AND OCCASIONAL TRADITIONAL HYMNS FOR A JOY FILLED, NATURAL LEARNING EXPERIENCE.
$400/PER SEMESTER (PLUS yearly $50 SUPPLY FEE)
MUSIC EXPLORATION
(AGES 4-5 in september)
- Twice weekly for 30 minutes
- Small class sizes
- Meets and exceeds Utah State Elementary Music Standards
This singing-based Kodály curriculum is used in many elite music conservatories of Europe, and throughout the world. With discovery learning as a foundation, the curriculum utilizes hands-on activities, singing games, movement, folk songs, singing stories, and music of the great composers to joyfully explore foundational music skills.
Students will focus on gaining music experience by singing, listening to, and interacting with a wide variety of music. Children will playfully explore musical opposites, (high/low, fast/slow, start/stop etc.), beat and rhythmic feeling, rhyming and chanting songs, and have positive social interactions with their peers. They will learn to develop critical listening and cognitive skills that are prerequisite for understanding more advanced music in the future.
$500/PER SEMESTER (PLUS yearly $50 SUPPLY FEE)
BECOMING A MUSICIAN LEVEL 1
(MUST BE AT LEAST 6 YEARS OLD in september)
- Twice weekly for 45 minutes
- Small class sizes will be grouped by common ages
- Meets and exceeds Utah State Elementary Music Standards
This singing-based Kodály curriculum is used in many elite music conservatories of Europe, and throughout the world. With discovery learning as a foundation, the curriculum utilizes hands-on activities, movement, singing games, folk songs, singing stories, and music of the great composers to joyfully build foundational music skills.
Emphasis is placed on positive social interactions through age-appropriate music activities where students will develop skills in music sensitivity, the reading and writing of simple rhythms and melodies, critical listening, solfa (the do, re, mi, etc. method which is the phonics system of music literacy), and will progress toward mastering their ability to sing in-tune both individually and in a group. Students will also develop a love and appreciation for the lives and music of the great composers, and world-wide music cultures.
$500/PER SEMESTER (PLUS yearly $50 SUPPLY FEE)
BECOMING A MUSICIAN LEVEL 2
(MUST BE AT LEAST 7 YEARS OLD in september)
- Prerequisite: Becoming a Musician Level 1 or approval from program director
- Twice weekly for 45 minutes
- Small class sizes will be grouped by common ages
- Meets and exceeds Utah State Elementary Music Standards
This singing-based Kodály curriculum is used in many elite music conservatories of Europe, and throughout the world. With discovery learning as a foundation, the curriculum utilizes hands-on activities, movement, singing games, folk songs, singing stories, and music of the great composers to joyfully expand important music skills.
Level II will build on what students have mastered in Level I. Through various age appropriate activities, students will continue to develop and expand skills in music sensitivity, the reading and writing of more difficult rhythms and melodies, critical listening, expanded solfa (the do, re, mi, etc. method which is the phonics system of music literacy), and will continue their progress in their in-tune singing and sight singing abilities. Students will begin to identify, analyze, and recreate elements of the music of the great composers, and world-wide music cultures.
$500/PER SEMESTER (PLUS yearly $50 SUPPLY FEE)
Middle & high school music skills
- Meets once a week for 1 hour and 30 minutes
- Depending on the number of registrants, classes will be split by beginning and more experienced students.
This singing-based Kodály curriculum is used in many elite music conservatories of Europe, and throughout the world. With discovery learning as a foundation, the curriculum utilizes hands-on activities, folk songs, and music of the great composers to joyfully build and refine foundational music skills at a middle and high school level.
Music theory and skills boring? Not in this class! This curriculum will help take the mystery and confusion out of music literacy. Students will develop skills in singing, sight singing, music theory, music history, and music literacy. This is a foundational class and the skills and knowledge gained here can be applied to all aspects of music whether vocal or instrumental. Now is the time for your children to succeed!
