Housed in the SEMM Foundation facilities is our music education
division, SEMM Music Academy, an acclaimed music academy that offers
private and group music lessons to students of all ages and levels.
More information about out music academy is provided below. SEMM
Music Academy’s faculty of more than 16 degreed and professional
instructors with national and international credentials, are committed
to helping students experience the joy and pleasure of music. Our
Academy specializes in high quality music education and professional
music performance. We offer a variety of programs to all students, in
all disciplines of music, for all ages, levels and styles of music. To
meet the cultural demands of the students, in addition to English, the
Academy also has dedicated multilingual teachers with extraordinary
professional experience that can converse with students in Spanish,
French and German. Our faculty, in addition to being
accomplished performers and composers, are musicians and educators
dedicated to the art of teaching. Through classes in music theory and
history, ear training, composition, improvisation and performance
skills, as well as through intense coaching in private and small
ensemble environments, we help introduce and guide our students through a
rich musical community that can become a home for them throughout their
lives. Our Give Back and Pay Forward Music Arts Initiative As
concerned parents and educators, either through our own personal
experience of having school aged children in the public school system,
or in discussing the current music education programs in the public
school system with teachers and administrators, we realized current
economic conditions had made it difficult for instrumental band and
vocal instructional school programs to fill the student’s learning needs
alone. We realized there were a number of school aged children
with musical talent or limited training opportunities that may not be
participating regularly in an organized school program and for those
students, we wanted to reach out and introduce them to this art form. As
a result, in a special partnership with the Columbus City Schools, the
Academy developed and implemented an unprecedented scholarship program
to provide free and reduced fee private music instruction to an
anticipated 186 school children from elementary through high school.
Our "Give Back and Pay Forward Music Arts Initiative" is a program that
helps students reach their potential. To date, we have given over 200
children free private scholarship lessons and assisted several into
being accepted in College. We believed this program would create
a "trickle up" economic benefit to retail music stores and others of
which these students would become customers buying reeds, slide oil,
sheet music, other accessories, and even instruments. Chances are,
these students would not have been customers had we not reached out to
teach them or rejuvenate their musical interests. With the
inclusion of our radio station, we plan to expand this program and
structure it to effectively support as many organizations and community
causes that mirror our industry and culture. We believe that it takes
more than just caring; it takes proactive action to build or rebuild and sustain our
music community. We must keep the pipeline of young budding musicians full to insure that the art of music remains alive and vibrant.
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