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 class is designed to teach students the basic building blocks of music. Emphasis is on ear training, solfege singing, ensemble and rhythm activities, sight reading, movement and music creativity. The classes are the beginning of simple harmonization of melodies and selected harmonic progressions through singing and keyboard performance.

This forty-five minutes class investigates harmonic structure in music through improvisation, composition, analysis, and keyboard performance.

This class is open to upper-intermediate, advanced and to gifted students. It teaches players the communication in music with eachother to accomplish their ensemble. The class is organized in workshop format. In the class each pair performs for their colleagues and in turn observes the others' instruction, scores in hand. Intensive study of technical as well as interpretive aspects of each sonata will be the focus. Performance presence and refinement of ensemble playing, discussion and hearing of concepts will be encouraged.

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.