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Young Musicians page 4
Youth Ensembles page 6
Youth Theory page 10
Adult Theory page 12
Adult Ensembles page 14
Adult History page 18
Plan your exciting musical year ahead!
PASADENA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
Young Musicians
August 26, 2024 – June 2, 2025 (36 weeks)
TUITION $1,008
YM Infants
Saturdays 10:15am – 10:50am Sharon Weed
YM 1
Saturdays 9:30am – 10:05am Sharon Weed
YM 2
Thursdays 10:15am – 10:50am Sharon Weed
Saturdays 11am – 11:35am Sharon Weed
YM 3
Thursdays 11am – 11:45am Sharon Weed
Saturdays 9am – 9:45am Mary Alonso
Saturdays 10am – 10:45am Mary Alonso
YM 4
Tuesdays 3pm – 3:45pm Mary Alonso
Wednesdays 3pm – 3:45pm Rachael Denny
Saturdays 11am – 11:45am Mary Alonso
YM 5
Mondays 3pm – 3:45pm Rachael Denny
Wednesdays 4pm – 4:45pm Rachael Denny
YM 6
Thursdays 4pm – 4:45pm Rachael Denny
YM Ensemble
Saturdays 11am – 11:55am Rachael Denny
YM Jazz
Saturdays 10am – 10:45am Sherry Luchette
Bridge to Piano 1
Tuesdays 4pm – 4:55pm Rachael Denny and Saturdays 9am – 9:55am Renee Gilormini
Bridge to Piano 2
Saturdays 10am – 10:55am Rachael Denny and Renee Gilormini
Youth Ensembles
Mariachi Pasadena!
Intergenerational (12 WEEKS)
August 27 – November 12, 2024
Tuesdays 6pm – 7:30pm
Instructor: Sarah Bauzá
ADULTS AND YOUNG ADULTS AGES 12+
TUITION $216
Mariachi Pasadena! students learn to play and sing mariachi standards in an ensemble setting. This includes learning songs and instrumental tunes from all over Mexico and Latin America.
Chamber Music (34 WEEKS)
September 9, 2024 – May 19, 2025
Mondays 7:15pm – 9:15pm
Instructors: Andrew Cook, Elizabeth Hedman, Aimée Kreston, Patrick Rosalez, Tomsen Su, and Erika Walczak
AGES 11 AND UP
TUITION $1,512/$1,368 *
Instrumental students are eligible, by audition, to participate in PCM’s chamber music program. Chamber groups are formed for string players and pianists based on skill level. Auditions are via video submission. Please contact us at music@pasadenaconservatory.org or 626.683.3355 for more information.
* Discount for students concurrently enrolled in individual lessons.
Jazz Combo (36 WEEKS)
August 30, 2024 – May 30, 2025
Fridays 4pm – 5pm
Instructor: Danny Janklow
AGES 12 AND UP
TUITION
$1,008
Students participate in jazz combos composed of rhythm sections (i.e. piano, guitar, drum set, and percussion) and various wind instruments. Students of all instruments may apply. Literature for each group may be an assortment of standard jazz repertoire as well as arrangements and original compositions.
At least two years of previous instrumental study required.
Guitar Chamber Music (36 WEEKS)
August 31, 2024 – May 31, 2025
Saturdays
Instructor: Scott Tennant
TUITION
$1,512/$1,368 *
Students are placed into guitar duos, trios, or quartets based on skill level and preference.
Audition required. Meeting times to be determined by the participants and instructor.
* Discount for students concurrently enrolled in individual lessons.
Guitar Suzuki Groups and Ensembles (36
WEEKS)
August 27, 2024 – May 27, 2025
TUITION $540
Guitar Suzuki Ensemble
Tuesdays 5:30pm – 6:30pm
Instructor: Brian Barany
Intermediate Guitar Ensemble
Wednesdays 5pm – 6pm
Instructor: Dr. Bryan Fasola
Pasadena Youth Guitar Orchestra
Wednesdays 6pm – 7pm
Instructor: Dr. Bryan Fasola
String Ensemble (34 WEEKS)
September 9, 2024 – May 19, 2025
Mondays 5:30 – 6:15 pm
Instructors: Natalie Brejcha, Brandon Encinas, and Erika Walczak
AGES 10 AND UP
TUITION $792
String Ensemble is a chamber music experience that builds and develops the skills necessary to work in a high level string ensemble program. Students are required to attend weekly coachings/rehearsals, and are challenged on their sight reading skills, musical interpretation, team work, and soloistic abilities.
Audition required. Ages 10+ (Suzuki level 4+ for violin; Suzuki level 3+ for cello/viola) or under 13 (below Suzuki level 4 for violin). Contact us at music@pasadenaconservatory.org or 626.683.3355 for more information.
String Suzuki Groups and Ensembles (34
WEEKS)
September 9, 2024 – May 19, 2025
TUITION $540
Suzuki Cello/Bass 1
Mondays 5:30pm – 6pm
Instructor: Simone Vitucci
Suzuki Cello/Bass 2
Mondays 6pm – 6:30pm
Instructor: Simone Vitucci
Suzuki Violin 1A
Mondays 5:30pm – 6pm
Instructor: Megan Shung
Suzuki Violin 1B
Mondays 6pm – 6:30pm
Instructor: Megan Shung
Suzuki Violin 2
Mondays 6:30pm – 7pm
Instructor: Brandon Encinas
Suzuki Violin 3/4
Mondays 7pm – 7:30pm
Instructor: Hester Taylor
Bridge to Strings (36 WEEKS)
August 26, 2024 – June 2, 2025
Mondays 4pm – 4:55pm
Instructors: Sherry Luchette and Hestor Taylor
TUITION $1,008
Youth Theory
August 26, 2024 – June 2, 2025 (36 weeks)
TUITION $720/$360 *+
Using Royal Conservatory curriculum, students learn theory concepts such as time and key signatures, scales, intervals, triads, and chord symbols based on corresponding levels. Courses include reading about and listening to works by renowned composers.
For more information and class descriptions visit the Technology, Theory, Composition page at pasadenaconservatory.org.
+ Material fees not included
* Discount for students concurrently enrolled in individual lessons
** Course offered on Zoom only
Theory Prep
Mondays 3:45pm – 4:15pm
Instructor: Renee Gilormini
Theory 1
Mondays 4:15pm – 4:45pm
Instructor: Renee Gilormini
Theory 2
Mondays 4:45pm – 5:15pm or Tuesdays 6:15 – 6:45pm **
Instructor: Renee Gilormini
Theory 3
Mondays 5:20pm – 5:50pm or Tuesdays 6:45 – 7:15pm **
Instructor: Renee Gilormini
Theory 4
Mondays 5:50pm – 6:20pm
Instructor: Renee Gilormini
Theory 5
Mondays 6:20pm – 6:50pm
Instructor: Renee Gilormini
Theory 6–9
For class placement and times, please contact us at music@ pasadenaconservatory.org or 626.683.3355.
Adult Theory
Introduction to Music Theory (12 WEEKS)
August 27 – November 12, 2024
Tuesdays 2:15pm – 3:15pm
Instructor: Dr. Kathryn Eames
TUITION $180
Using Royal Conservatory curriculum, students refresh their knowledge and expand their horizons through sequenced instruction in music theory. This course is for beginners through intermediate singers and players. A Royal Conservatory book* is required ($19.95).
Intermediate Music Theory (12 WEEKS)
August 27 – November 12, 2024
Tuesdays 1pm – 2pm
Instructor: Dr. Kathryn Eames
TUITION $180
Using Royal Conservatory curriculum, students continue to expand their horizons through sequenced instruction in music theory. This course is for intermediate singers and players who have completed Intro to Music Theory. A Royal Conservatory book* is required ($19.95).
* Materials can be purchased in the front office or at various online retailers.
Jazz
Theory
(12 WEEKS)
August 26 – November 18, 2024
Mondays 1pm – 2pm
Instructor: Sherry Luchette
TUITION $180
The Adult Studies Jazz Theory class is for beginning to intermediate ability levels. This class will include ear training drills on music intervals, triads, and 7th chords. Students will study lesson topics from Shelly Berg’s book “Essentials of Jazz Theory,” including various scales, chord patterns, and soloing exercises that can be directly applied to jazz standards. Students will bring their instruments (pianos provided) and will be given weekly practice assignments that are in line with their experience level.
Adult Ensembles Chamber Music
Introduction to String Ensemble (12 WEEKS)
August 29 – November 14, 2024
Thursdays 6pm – 7:30pm
Instructors: Erika Walczak and Simone Vitucci
TUITION $480
For adults new to string instruments, this class focuses on fundamentals: tone production, intonation, reading and playing in an ensemble setting.
String Ensemble (12 WEEKS)
August 29 – November 14, 2024
Thursdays 4:30pm – 6pm
Instructors: Erika Walczak and Simone Vitucci
TUITION $480
Students acquire ensemble chops while learning just enough about music theory, history, ear training, and healthy practice habits to support their development as a whole musician.
Flute Ensemble (12 WEEKS)
August 28 – November 13, 2024
Wednesdays 5:30pm – 6:30pm
Instructor: Barbara Mullens Geier
TUITION $336
The Adult Guitar Ensemble gives guitarists the rare but exciting opportunity to play orchestral repertoire on the classical guitar in a group setting. Rehearsals are fun but focused on preparing for a public concert at the end of each semester. All guitarists with some music reading abilities are welcome to join with minimum audition requirements. Each meeting is led by a conductor.
Guitar Ensemble (12 WEEKS)
August 28 – November 13, 2024
Wednesdays 7:15pm – 8:45pm
Instructor: Dr. Bryan Fasola
TUITION $480
This is a performance-oriented ensemble for adult amateurs. The ensemble studies and performs original and arranged works for guitar ensemble, with two to four instruments per part, and is led by a conductor. Audition required.
Jazz
Jazz Combo (12 WEEKS)
August 26 – November 18, 2024
Saturdays 11am – 12:30pm or Mondays 2pm – 3:30pm
Instructor: Sherry Luchette
TUITION $480
Students learn to play jazz and blues standards in an ensemble setting. Through guided listening, students learn about melody, arrangements, chords, scales, and jazz improvisation.
Recorder
Baroque to Folk: Recorder Ensemble (12 WEEKS)
August 29 – November 14, 2024
Thursdays 9:30am – 11am
Instructor: Rachael Denny
TUITION $216
Students play soprano, alto, and tenor recorders in small consorts, with an emphasis on individual musicianship within the ensemble. Students explore music written and arranged for the recorder, from early music of the Renaissance and Baroque to contemporary arrangements of popular music.
World Music
Mariachi Pasadena!
Intergenerational (12 WEEKS)
August 27 – November 12, 2024
Tuesdays 6pm – 7:30pm
Instructors: Sara Bauzá, Gustavo Hernandez, and Maira Solis
ADULTS AND YOUNG ADULTS AGES 12+
TUITION $216
Mariachi Pasadena! students learn to play and sing mariachi standards in an ensemble setting. This includes learning songs and instrumental tunes from all over Mexico and Latin America.
Vocal Arts
Glee Club (12 WEEKS)
August 29 – November 14, 2024
Thursdays 11am – 12:30pm
Instructor: Dr. Joshua Tan
TUITION $216
Glee Club members have fun while learning about proper vocal health, choir etiquette, and how to read music through the study of solfège and ear training. The club ventures through various genres of choral repertoire including classical, contemporary, jazz, and musical theater.
Adult History
Woodstock,
Live Aid,
Wattstax, and More: Festivals, Concerts, and Recordings that Changed the World
(10 WEEKS)
September 13 – November 15, 2024
Fridays 10am – 12pm
Instructor: Dr. Oliver Greene
TUITION $320
Festivals, concerts, and recordings have served as artistic mediums to promote pop, rock, rhythm n’ blues, funk, folk, jazz and other styles of music for many decades. From the late 1960s through the 1980s, these mediums of expression provided popular musicians opportunities to communicate beliefs they shared with other Americans on the Vietnam war, civil rights and racial injustices, famines, genocides, oppression, sexual identity and freedom, gender issues, and cultural recognition. This was a time when musicians openly protested the wrong-doings and inequalities of society without fear of retribution from record labels, politicians, or influential corporations.
This course is a chronological overview of ten of the most influential music events in American history. These include the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals, Monterey International Pop Festival, Woodstock, Harlem Cultural Festival (Black Woodstock), Altamont Free Concert, Atlanta International Pop Festival, Concert for Bangladesh, Wattstax Concert, Live Aid Concerts and the “We Are the World” recording, and the Farm Aid Concert for America.
The Great Symphonic Poems and Orchestral
Works (8 WEEKS)
September 9 – October 28, 2024
Mondays 9:30am – 11am
Instructor: Dr. Vatché Mankerian
TUITION $192
It was the insatiably curious genius, Liszt, who, by aspiring to tell stories through instrumental music, sans paroles, came up with the concept of the symphonic poem, both for orchestra and the piano.
This course focuses on works for orchestra which are not symphonies but are (or not) symphonic poems, works such as, Liszt’s Les preludes, Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Debussy’s La Mer, Strauss’ Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Sibelius’ Lemminkäinen Suite, Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, Gershwin’s An American in Paris, Respighi’s Roman Trilogy, and Holst’s The Planets, among countless others, which have become and remain audience favorites.
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