- Summer Term begins Sunday, June 14th
- Fall Term begins Sunday, September 13th
- Your private lessons can begin today!
The Shedd Institute's Community Music School offers classes and private lessons for all ages in a wide range
of musical instruments and styles. The school also offers summer music camps, a school music enrichment
assembly program, and special workshops associated with select Shedd concerts.
Private Lessons
Private and semi-private lessons run all year round at The Shedd and can be arranged to fit into
your schedule and interests. You can sign up for private lessons any time and start right
away. Just contact the Registrar's office, and we'll be glad to help you set up lessons for yourself or your child.
Private Lessons...
Music Courses
Our academic year corresponds roughly to that of Eugene-Springfield's public school calendar:
Ten to 12 week courses are offered fall, winter and spring, with camps filling
summer break. You sign up for courses on a term by term basis, but some you may join in-progress.
Fall Term, 2020...
Music & World Cultures
Music and World Cultures is our assembly-style offering to area schools and home schoolers.
We hold a 10:15 am performances by select guest artists throughout the year, featuring a wide
range of musical genres, including jazz, Hawai'ian, Bluegrass, taiko, American folk music,
and more. Each program comes with a curriculum packet for participating classes.
Summer Camps
Most summers we offer a range of music camps for elementary, middle, and high school students
featuring a variety of musical experiences, from Summer SongFest (an introduction-to-music
camp for elementary schoolers) and Musical Theatre Sampler (which introduces middle schoolers
to the many facets of one of America's great musical traditions), to our advanced performance-oriented
Musical Theatre Training Academy for high schoolers looking at a career in musical theatre,
to camps in jazz, chamber ensemble, and guitar. This summer, we have one camp on the schedule:
Mariachi del Shedd (August 3-14).
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Notes from the director... - June 2020
Breaking The Time Barrier
by Ginevra Ralph, Director of Education
We’ve talked regularly here about the 6 barriers to lifelong music participation. Five of them The Shedd can do a lot about – the 6th, not as much. That 6th barrier, you have told us, is people not having “enough time”. But “time” is what we all have a lot more of just now. Maybe more than we want!!
So maybe it’s time to try out a new instrument – and to do it with your child/grandchild or friend. Learn something brand new for both of you together for extra fun! Or maybe it’s time to pick up an old favorite that has been gathering some dust over the years.
You can take lessons now in person at The Shedd in the 3 floors of gorgeous, new, individually vented classrooms – or on-line if you prefer. The building is open 9:00-5:30 M-F, and we can schedule very flexibly to fit your time and personal schedules.
There’s no time like the present!!
School Philosophy
The Shedd Institute's mission is "to serve as a cultural center where people find and nurture community
through discovery, creation, and celebration.” Our Community Music School reflects this mission in practice
by encouraging experimentation (with instruments, instructors, musical styles) and the joy of making
personal connections; responding to inquiry and supporting collaborations; and eliminating the stultifying
“pressure of excellence” when celebrating student learning.
You are the music. The Shedd Institute Music School provides private and semi-private music, voice,
and dance instruction designed to fit you and your interests. Our primary goal is that our students
continue to make music throughout their lives for their own enjoyment, to share with your family and friends,
not to perform in Carnegie Hall! At The Shedd, you are the music, and the music is for you!
We believe that it is critical for each student to find the instrument, musical style(s), and instructor that best
fit his/her interests, learning styles, schedule, and budget. Often, that "fit" changes with the student's growing
experiences, and we provide options for students to make those changes flexibly and without feeling guilty about it.
The School offers need-based financial aid for youth and adult students alike, thanks to the generosity
of donors and corporate sponsors, so that cost is not a barrier to learning music.
Confidential financial aid applicaiton forms can be downloaded online from our edocument archive
(click on the link below) or picked up at the Registrar's
office. Submit the appropriate form for either a class or private lessons to the Registar.
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