CCM Announces New Community Engagement Initiatives Fueled by 2012-13 ArtsWave Grant
By partnering with several area organizations, UC's College-Conservatory of Music looks to provide under-served communities with new opportunities for education and participation in the performing arts.
Date: 1/10/2013 12:00:00 AM
By: Curt Whitacre
Phone: (513) 556-2683
By: Curt Whitacre
Phone: (513) 556-2683
The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) is proud to announce several new collaborations supported by a grant from ArtsWave. Awarded in June 2012, CCM’s $50,000 ArtsWave Community Partnership grant was designed to develop mutually beneficial projects that will advance both organizations’ goals for the community and the arts sector.ArtsWave’s generous support will help CCM enhance its current collaborative relationship with the School for Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) and will also allow CCM to formalize new partnerships with several community outreach programs, almost all of which were initiated by CCM faculty, students or alumni.
These partnerships are designed to provide under-served geographies and populations in Cincinnati with direct access to CCM faculty and alumni, along with students, staff and administrators. The initial community partners include:
• SCPA – ArtsWave funding will allow CCM to expand its collaborative relationship with SCPA, creating new opportunities for SCPA students to:
- receive assistance from faculty members of both CCM and the CCM Preparatory Department (CCM Prep), who will help guide students through college application requirements, prepare for auditions and more.
- audition before a “mock” panel of CCM faculty and administrators to help students prepare for college entrance.
- collaborate with CCM on joint performances.
• Music for Youth in Cincinnati (MYCincinnati) – ArtsWave funding will help CCM support MYCincinnati’s string quartet, the Price Hill String Quartet, which is comprised of two MYCincinnati directors and two current CCM students.
• Queen City Chamber Opera – ArtsWave funding will help CCM support future performances of the opera company, beginning with the Jan. 26–27, 2013, double bill of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Zaide and Carl Maria von Weber’s Abu Hassan.
• Whiz Kids – ArtsWave funding will help CCM Prep bring its collaboration with Whiz Kids to three area schools: Chase Elementary School in Northside, Rees E. Price Academy in East Price Hill and John P. Parker School in Madisonville. Grant dollars will fund workshops, curriculum and CCM students to facilitate the program.
Learn more about CCM’s ArtsWave Community Partnership grant by visiting https://www.uc.edu/news/NR.aspx?id=16123.
About the School for Creative and Performing Arts
SCPA is a K-12 Cincinnati Public School offering world-class pre-professional arts training and advanced college preparatory academics. Approximately 1,370 students attend SCPA, which is housed in the new Erich Kunzel Center for Arts and Education in downtown Cincinnati. Artistic departments include Creative Writing, Dance, Drama, Instrumental Music, Technical Theater, Visual Arts and Vocal Music. Academic departments include English, Foreign Language, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies. All students are admitted through highly selective auditions in the art majors. Students in certain grade levels are permitted to participate in more than one art major. Arts Board Exam Reviews are conducted each semester to ensure that students maintain high artistic standards. Academically, state proficiency test scores at most grade levels are among the highest in the local system. Learn more about SCPA by visiting http://www.scpak12.org.
About the Cincinnati Out Reach Music Project
The Cincinnati Out Reach (COR) Music Project is an after-school program for high school students co-founded and directed by CCM graduate students Deron Hall and Louisa Shepherd. Inspired by “El Sistema,” Venezuela’s National Network of Youth and Children Orchestras, COR embraces the idea of changing young people’s lives through the discipline of music education and training.
By relying on donations and grants for instruments and other training materials, the program provides under-served students with the opportunity to take music lessons without the expenses normally involved. CCM students act as the COR Music Project’s master teachers, providing lessons in vocal and instrumental performance. Learn more about the COR Music Project by visiting http://www.cormusicproject.org.
About Music for Youth in Cincinnati
Music for Youth in Cincinnati (MYCincinnati) is a free youth orchestra program in Price Hill. Founded on the idea that personal transformation can be achieved by striving towards musical excellence, MYCincinnati offers children in Price Hill the opportunity to learn violin, viola or cello and play in an orchestra.
MYCincinnati is also inspired by “El Sistema,” Venezuela’s revolutionary youth orchestra program that uses music as a vehicle for social change. Students enrolled in MYCincinnati meet for 10 hours a week in Price Hill. The program consist of group and private lessons, sectionals, orchestra, musicianship and frequent performance. Learn more about MyCincinnati by visiting http://www.mycincinnatiorchestra.org.
About Queen City Chamber OperaQueen City Chamber Opera is a professional opera company dedicated to presenting operas by canonical composers in intimate alternative spaces throughout Cincinnati. The company focuses on accessibility and emerging artists and currently comprises 23 CCM students and alumni. Learn more about Queen City Chamber Opera by visiting http://www.facebook.com/QueenCityChamberOpera.
About Whiz KidsSimilar in nature to CCM’s COR Music Project collaboration, CCM’s Preparatory Department (CCM Prep) has begun collaborating with Whiz Kids, a literacy-based, after-school tutoring and mentoring program that connects adults in the community with at-risk elementary students in the Cincinnati Public School District. CCM Prep employs current CCM students who team with this nonprofit organization by leading a music class for elementary students involved in Whiz Kids, taking place after that program’s initial designated hour of tutoring has concluded.
The goal of this music class is to equip elementary students with a general knowledge and appreciation of music, while simultaneously creating organized teaching opportunities for CCM students. Through this collaboration, elementary students will form relationships with their teachers, creating encouragement and support for these otherwise at-risk students to stay in school and to live healthy, successful lives in the community. It will also broaden the perspective and worldview of CCM’s students, encouraging later involvement in their communities. Learn more about WhizKids by visiting http://www.citygospelmission.com/whizkids.html.
About ArtsWave
Formerly known as the Fine Arts Fund, ArtsWave helps create the kind of thriving arts environment that makes the Cincinnati region a better place to live, work, play and stay. ArtsWave supports and collaborates with arts organizations large and small throughout the area. Music, dance, theatre, galleries, museums, art centers, festivals and more create community-wide benefits for everyone here.
The arts create benefits like attractive, lively neighborhoods and a population that comes together to share ideas and experiences. Learn more about ArtsWave by visiting http://www.theartswave.org.
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