Charter School Music Program at Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School

MISSION STATEMENT

Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School’s Music Department provides a comprehensive education to the aspiring young musician by setting high artistic standards while broadening musical horizons. Students gain the educational, social, and emotional foundation necessary to embark on successful professional careers as musicians.

COURSE OF STUDY

The music curriculum is designed for the prospective college student, as well as the future professional musician, by providing a solid foundation in performance skills, ensemble experience and music theory. Required courses include music theory, piano classes, private lessons, and performing ensembles. Through required participation in performing ensembles, students are able to apply concepts they have learned from their class instruction in a practical setting. Lincoln Park music students will be given the opportunity to work with college professors and professional artists through masterclasses and workshops.

FACULTY

The Music Department offers both private and classroom instruction by some of the area’s finest musicians. All members of the Music Department faculty are professional musicians, and the faculty includes college instructors, both current and retired, and Pennsylvania certified teachers.

Some of the organizations represented by our faculty include the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Opera Theater, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, Pittsburgh Camerata, River City Brass, Carnegie Mellon University, Geneva College, Indiana University of PA, Slippery Rock University, and Youngstown State University.