Powers Music School
Powers Music School is a musical institution serving New England for more than 60 years. Powers Music School is a community music center based in Belmont, Massachusetts. The School provides private music lessons, early childhood and group classes, ensembles, orchestra, theory, music therapy, and performance opportunities to over 1000 students throughout Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.
Powers Music in the Community
[edit]Powers Music School provides the greater Boston community with access to music education programs, well-known faculty, festivals, performances, and outreach programs. Powers offers instruction and performance opportunities for interested students of all ages. In addition, Powers Music School also runs the summer programs Music on the Hill (MOTH), Suzuki on the Hill, String Traditions, and Kids Crescendo. Music on the Hill (MOTH) offers jazz and classical training to advanced high school students, with an emphasis on chamber music, while Kids Crescendo provides a creative musical environment for younger kids.
Powers Faculty (partial list)
[edit]Judith Bedford, Bassoon
James Doran, guitar
Sarah Freiberg, cello
Vladimir Gurin, Piano
Jane Hershey, Viola da gamba, viol consort
Levon Hovsepian, piano
Yasuko Ishibashi, piano, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, Pow-Wow
Xue (Shirley) Liu, Piano
Collen McGary-Smith, cello
Tamara Medoyeva, piano
Natacha Rist, piano
Kathryn Rosenbach, Piano, piano accompaniment
Lucy Joan Sollogub, Guitar, mountain dulcimer
David Stevens, Saxophone, Clarinet
Liana Zaretsky, violin, MOTH**