Southport Performing Arts Conservatory

S.P.A.C.E offers private and half private music lessons for
* Piano * Violin * Cello * Bass * Guitar * Flute * Percussion * Harp * Voice starting at age of three to adults. Guitar and flute is recommended at the age of 8.

This fourty-five minutes class is intended to allow students of all ages and levels to experience improvisation and creativity through music. It will provide basic concepts to help initiate each student's ability to write and improvise music. The class is intended to be fun and an experience that is mind opening and new.

This class will be forty-five minutes and an extension to the "Creative Theory & Improvisation" class but will concentrate more on jazz idioms and concepts. It is intended to be for those that have a further interest in jazz music and improvisation. In depth, the class will explore harmonic and melodic ideas of many different jazz styles and eras, including Big Band, Be-Bop, Hard-Bop, Free, Fusion, and Modern. Historical contexts will be presented and explored as well. Students will learn different approaches to improvisation through the jazz language.

S.P.A.C.E offers chamber music coaching of string, woodwind, brass, percussion, piano, guitar, and mixed ensembles of interested and qualified students each year. Chamber ensembles meet weekly and are coached by experienced professional chamber musicians. Groups will be determined by age, ability, and instrumentation. Students are expected to participate to numerous performance opportunities and two end-of-semester workshops throughout the year.