Owensboro Summer Music Academy, 2024 (NOTE–>start date is now May 23)
Music Classes for grades 1-8 held from May 18-July 13
Note changes in red–>Classes will be held on these days: start day is May 23; then May 31; June 3, 11, 20, 28; July 1, 5, 9, 13
Cost: $80 per 10-week class.(That’s 8 dollars per 50 minute class!) Payment due at first class. No refunds after 2nd week.
Classes offered:
Beginning Violin/Viola/Cello (10:00-10:50): No experience necessary.
Advanced String Orchestra(11:00-11:50): Offered to students with 6mos+ experience
Bluegrass Beginners (12:30-1:20): Guitar and Ukulele. No experience necessary.
Summer Band (1:30-2:20): Open to students with at least 6 mos experience on flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, sax, trumpet, French horn, trombone, baritone, tuba, percussion.
Piano/Composer Club(2:30-3:20): offered to students with at least 6 mos. piano experience; students will need bring own portable piano/keyboard and laptop computer to access music app(chrome music lab.) PLEASE NOTE:Instrument rental not included. I can help find good used instruments and have a few to rent.
contact Wade Coley below for more info below.
Spunky Monkey
Spastic Plastic!
About the director
Wade Coley is a Christian who has been blessed with a beautiful wife, Peggy, and six wonderful children. He moved from Maryland in August, 2022, and is enjoying a new start here in Owensboro teaching and performing music!
A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory Institute of Music, John Hopkins University MD, he holds a Bachelor’s degree in trombone performance, music education, and also a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from UMBC. Up until last year, he taught instrumental and vocal music for Baltimore County School. He has also directed church choirs, coached Honors Band and All-State sectionals, freelanced on trombone, and has been active as a composer and arranger.
His elementary students worked hard each year, earning Superior ratings and 1st place at the Music in the Parks Festival at Hershey Park, PA. Those were fun times!
During that time, he directed the Carroll Music Program in Jacksonville MD, which offered group lessons for strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion He is thrilled to begin the same program here at the Owensboro Music Academy!
Summer Classes 2024
See above for classes offered this summer!!
Private Lessons -
Private instruction offered on piano, guitar, ukulele, and all brass, woodwind, or bowed stringed instruments
Perform!
Recitals will be given every in December and in May. Have fun playing for family and friends!