Fall Classes Schedule - Saturdays: September 20th - December 13th
Teaching Artist: Mark Adams
- Basics to Brilliance (9-12) | $299
Saturday, Ages 9-12: 1:00PM-2:00PM
This fun, interactive course is tailored to young music enthusiasts with little to no prior piano experience. Through games, hands-on practice, and playful exploration of music theory, students will build confidence and start their journey to becoming little maestros! Each session is packed with engaging activities and is just the right length (45 minutes) to keep kids focused and inspired.
Meet the Teaching Artsist: “Live Life with Passion” is Mark Adams’ motto for the new Jazz generation. This Baltimore native, son of professional musicians, and world class Jazz and Soul pianist began music training at five years old when Velma Adams, his mother and a former music instructor, sat him down at the piano. Seven years later his family re-located to New York City where his late father, the renowned Broadway classical woodwind player Kenneth Adams, inspired him to study classical music and jazz at the Greenwich Village School of Music and to consider a career as a pianist.
Mark Adams is the founder and the faculty advisor for the York College chapter of the National Association for Music Education (NAFME) which provides tutoring in piano, voice and guitar and where lecturers promote awareness of the technical and business aspects of the music industry. The Ken Adams Tones of Tomorrow after School Program in partnership with York College is an essential component of NAFME. Adams is also a member of the Black American Heritage Foundation where he serves as a consultant. In his spare time, Mark Adams offers free individual piano instruction to talented youth unable to afford costly private lessons.
