Education

Category: Education

Education and Community Partnership Programs are Flourishing

This season can be best summed up in the new vision statement for Rockport Music Education: Bridging Artists with the Community and Connecting through Engaging programs with Students on and off Stage (ACCESS). Visiting artists continued to challenge students by introducing new repertoire, encouraging new ways of practicing and demonstrating [...]

2023-05-16T12:39:35-04:00May 2nd, 2023|Education, Free Events|

Announcing Rockport Music Scholarship Recipients

The Rockport Music Board of Trustees is proud to announce the recipients of this year's Rockport Music Board of Trustees Scholarship, given in honor of Susan Gray and Alec Dingee and Eve and Phil Cutter.  This year's scholarships were awarded to two talented and deserving young musicians—one from Rockport High [...]

2021-04-21T13:11:41-04:00August 4th, 2020|Education, Rockport Music|

Shalin Liu Performance Center Timeline

On June 5, 2020, the Shalin Liu Performance Center celebrates its 10th Anniversary. The new hall was christened on Opening Night with a performance by the Juilliard String Quartet with a packed house of proud, dedicated supporters who helped bring the award-winning hall to life. Throughout the month of June, [...]

Music Creates Common Unity

A Commitment to Building a Greater Community The theme for this year’s Virtual Gala 2020 is “A Gift of Music to the Community,” and its sentiment rings very true for our corporate sponsor, Wernau Asset Management. In a conversation with Peter Wernau, WAM’s founder and CEO, and wife Thi Linh, [...]

2021-04-21T13:11:41-04:00June 1st, 2020|Education, Rockport Music|

Jazz Workshop Goes to the Schools

by Josue Gonzalez, Director of Education and Outreach This past February we had an extraordinary opportunity to bring together two of our flagship education offerings, Rockport Jazz Workshop and our in-school residency program. Alexa Tarantino, Rockport Jazz Workshop Director, along with faculty members Alita Moses and Steven Feifke paid Cape [...]

2021-04-21T13:11:42-04:00June 1st, 2020|Education, Jazz, Rockport Music|

A Silver Lining for Educators

Thomas Kerans, 6th grader in the Rockport Middle School orchestra, gets some well-deserved creative-time and stress relief from his weekly virtual cello lessons with teacher Ben Swartz. by Josue Gonzalez, Director of Education & Outreach The past few weeks have displayed an incredible resilience and a renewed passion [...]

2021-04-21T13:11:42-04:00April 21st, 2020|Education, Free Events, Rockport Music|