Happy New Year!
Hope Academy’s winter term begins this week on Saturday, January 9. Registrations have been pouring in and most Saturday classes are filled. If you haven’t registered yet please call to see if there is room for you (412-441-3800 x11). You can download Hope Academy’s 2009 – 2010 course brochure to view all of our course and private lesson offerings. If there is room in the course you are interested in, print out the registration form, fill it in and bring it with your payment to the first class or private lesson you are attending.
There is still room in our FREE after-school vocal and drumming ensembles that meet on Wednesdays.
- 4:30 to 5:45 Voices of Hope 1 Singing and Drumming (4th – 6th grades)
- 4:45 to 5:45 Voices of Hope 2 Singing (7th grade and up)
- 5:00 to 5:45 Voices of Hope Jr Music (1st – 3rd grades)
- 5:45 to 6:30 Voices of Hope Performance Choir (select students)
There is also always room for young musicians in EL CEO (East Liberty Community Engagement Orchestra) A Community Orchestra for Kids (and their Families) Who Have a Passion for Music!
Hope Academy’s new East Liberty Community Engagement Orchestra (EL CEO) was inspired by the National System of Venezuelan Youth and Children’s Orchestras (El Systema), whose young members are a source of national pride, much like football stars in other Latin American countries. Participation in Hope Academy’s EL CEO is free and open to young musicians, and their musically-inclined parents, of all ability levels.
Conductor Federi
co Garcia (Artistic Director of Alia Musica Pittsburgh) selects music from the symphonic and popular repertories, ranging from pieces by Tchaikovsky to the theme from the Harry Potter movies — and everything in between — and creates arrangements to suit each musician’s ability. Musicians of all levels are welcome to join and participate! Weekly rehearsals take place on Saturdays at East Liberty Presbyterian Church from 3:00 to 4:30 pm throughout the year; the winter term begins this Saturday! Please join us.