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Welcome to Community Music School of Buffalo
Music for Everyone...for a Lifetime |
| Thank you for considering Community Music School (CMS) for music instruction for you and your child. We are proud to have been serving WNY since 1924. Last year we reached 850 students from the age of 6 months to 86 years and beyond in various city and suburban sites. These people were enrolled in vocal and instrumental lessons and classes in Buffalo, East Aurora, Getzville, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lockport, Snyder and South Buffalo. We entertained another 2,640 people in 52 performances including our popular CMS Neighborhood Concerts, CMS-Chromatic Club Concerts at the Montante Cultural Center, Student Recitals and other events.
Please click the following pages to read our summer Newsletter:
PAGE ONE, PAGE TWO, PAGE THREE, PAGE FOUR
Click HERE to download Registration Form for Individual Lessons (instrumental or vocal)
Click HERE to download Registration Form for Group Classes (for children or adults)
Mission Statement, Core Values and Nondiscriminatory Policy
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| Piano Teacher Needed |
| Published Thursday, July 2, 2009 |
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Due to the recent retirement of Mary Meyer, CMS is seeking a piano teacher for its East Aurora location.
CMS has maintained a satellite at St. Matthias Episcopal Church at the corner of Main and Maple Streets for over 30 years.
Interested candidates should email or send a resume detailing education and both teaching and performing experience. In addition, please include the names and phone numbers of 3 professional references.
A degree in music, music education or a related field is required as well as teaching experience.
More>> | | | | Summer Piano Exploration Class for 4-6 Year Olds |
| Published Wednesday, June 17, 2009 |
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Chris Boyd, pianist and Chair of the CMS Childhood Music Department, will offer her new class for 4-6 year olds this year again this summer. In a small Piano Exploration class setting with a maximum of 6 children, students explore the piano through note reading, movement, games, singing and ear training. Children must have a piano or keyboard at home for practice in between classes.
Piano Exploration, a 45-minute experience, will take place on Tuesdays at 2:30, 3:15 and 4:00 p.m. as well as Wednesdays at 9:00 a.m. and 5:15 p.m.starting the week of July 6.
More>> | | | | Summer Information Is Available |
| Published Tuesday, June 9, 2009 |
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Registration information for new and returning students regarding summer vocal and instrumental lessons as well as classes for children as young as 6 months to seniors is now available. Please call 884-4887 to request a hard copy or download the registration forms below.
Click HERE for individual lesson form or HERE for summer class form.
Lessons may be scheduled for a flexible schedule in July and August. Many classes will begin after the July 4th holiday weekend.
More>> | | | | Ruth W. Marcy Performance Award Winners Announced |
| Published Tuesday, June 9, 2009 |
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Nine students were selected by CMS faculty to receive Ruth W. Marcy Performance Awards at this year's Honors Recitals on June 7 at the Montante Cultural Center.
The winners are:
7 year olds and under Mya Parish, pianist (student of Fran Landis)
8-11 year olds Tie between Giulia Buscaglia, pianist (student of Kenneth Atkinson) and Claire Kim, pianist (student of Shirley Chan)
12-14 year olds Katherine Licata, pianist (student of Shirley Chan)
15-18 year olds 3-way split among Rachel Fein-Smolinski, mandolinist (student of Phil Banaszak), Danielle Green, contralto (student of Joanne Goldman) and Julia Register, soprano (student of Maria Goodrich)
Adults Tie between Antoine Davis, pianist (student of Kenneth Atkinson) and Wayne Mallory, baritone (student of Maria Goodrich)
Judges were pianist Kenneth Atkinson (Chair of the Piano Department), soprano Maria Goodrich (Co-Chair of the Voice Department) and pianist-teacher Fran Landis.
Each winner receives a scholarship for further study at CMS.
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| Divas Cross Over to Broadway |
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This year Divas on Broadway was the theme of the annual Divas recital.
Sopranos Leah Schneider, Audrey Shafer, Maria Goodrich and Cheryl Hudson performed together with mezzo sopranos Joanne Goldman and Jennifer Fitzery, all accompanied by Linda Mabry. Please scroll down for photo.
The ladies were joined by one male Diva, saxophonist and clarinetist Vic Chiodo, who joined Cheryl Hudson for Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man from Show Boat. He and Linda Mabry played an arrangement of Summertime from Porgy and Bess.
The program included music from The Mikado, The Enchantress, The New Moon, The Wizard of Oz, Very Warm for May, One Touch of Venus, On the Town, The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Evening Primrose, The Phantom of the Opera, Parade and Wicked.
What will next year's Divas' theme be? Who knows.
More>> | | | | CMS Celebrated St. Patrick's Day with Green Recitals |
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CMS enjoys celebrating holidays with theme recitals. In March this occurred as Green Recitals at the main building and East Aurora satellite (at St. Matthias Church). Besides pianists, singers and violinists, fiddlers Phil and Gretchen Banaszak treated the audience to some special tunes for the day.
The unexpected pleasure was provided by two violinists, Hannah and Ella Schmidt, who came in costume after marching in a St. Patrick's Day parade. They were persuaded to dance while Gretchen and Phil (joined by several students) played. The audience was so excited and grateful. Please scroll down for photos.
Most people then adjourned to the dining room for green punch and other treats. For Green Recitals, students are encouraged to wear green, sing/play appropriate songs for the occasion or rename their pieces for the day.
More>> | | | | Recent CMS Neighborhood Concert |
| CMS presented Metro Music playing jazz and standards at the Broadway Market on November 29. This CMS Neighborhood Concert was held in conjunction with the Christmas Food Fair which attracted hundreds of shoppers to the Market. The concert was made possible in part by cultural funding from the County of Erie and the Arts Council in Buffalo & Erie County with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts' Decentralization Program. Scroll down for photos.
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