Location

St. George’s Church    13532 38th Avenue    Flushing,  NY    11354

Phone (718)321-8496     Fax (718)321-8520

Mission

To bring music instruction to the masses, regardless of age or focus, and provide a platform for the development of professional and technical skills that will prepare every student to achieve his or her personal goals for artistic expression through performance.

Vision

To create an artistic community in which students of all ages and interests will have access to the instruction, training and experience that will serve as the foundation for their growth and development as an artist and performer.

Philosophy

Music is an underestimated phenomenon that has a therapeutic, spiritual, cultural and emotional effect on all of our lives and is a unifying force, bridging cultural, religious, ethnic, and age differences in our diverse society.

Because music exists almost everywhere in the world, music is a thread that runs through all of our lives and connects the human family. Our lives are surrounded by music everyday that we live: weddings, birthday parties, graduations, television, movies, funerals, churches, airplanes, supermarkets, and elevators all present music for us to hear.

There is probably not a man, woman or child on Earth who has not sung their favorite song or whistled a melody. Music is inside all of us; and because of this everyone is a musician at heart; we think music and we live it. Music is a mode of existence, a way of life that is much more than just a form of entertainment.

Our goal at CenterStage is to teach our students the technical aspects of music theory and harmony to enable them to channel the music that they desire through their instruments and voices.

We believe that the performing arts are spiritual as well as technical, and as such, we are teaching students to heal the planet through the arts as they perform for others, bringing joy, concert by concert, show by show.

Unlike all the other performing arts, music is the only performance art that does not require sight to be enjoyed. Someone who is blind can passionately enjoy music as deeply as someone who has the gift of vision; music is a microcosm of the world.

European music, American music, Spanish music, Greek music, Indian music, French music, Korean music, Chinese music, African music, German music, Colombian music, Jamaican music, Russian music, Japanese music, Brazilian music, or any other music that you can think of are all created from the same 12 diatonic tones.

There is diatonic equality in music. No one style of music is better or superior than the other. Music is culture expressed through sound.

Concept

CenterStage provides not only musical instruction in a variety of genres but emphasizes the culmination of that instruction in the ability to perform with ease and skill in the artist's chosen path. In addition to providing instruction in Jazz, Classical and Contemporary styles, CenterStage provides artists with the opportunity for ensemble work. The primary goal of these ensemble programs is to help students develop a style and ease of communicating with other musicians that is so important to confidence in live performance. Our music workshops provide study in vocal and instrumental technique, harmony, and other creative skills to help students of all ages and interests prepare for live performance, overcome stage fright, and focus their attention on themselves. Many technically proficient vocalists and instrumentalists are not good entertainers and are boring to watch in concert because they have not learned how to move, how to work a stage and communicate with an audience. There is a difference between singing or playing, and entertaining. Our objective is to prepare students to be able to entertain.

The ultimate outcome for CenterStage students is becoming comfortable, skilled and technically proficient at their craft. Through study with professional musicians, coaching in movement and presentation, students will be able to prepare themselves for a workshop concert that will have all of the nuances common to a professional concert situation.

To successfully complete a course of study, students will have to prepare for this concert by selecting the music, preparing arrangements and charts, creating the order of the sets, and addressing all of the details professional would be responsible for.

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