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Unleashing the Power of Music!

PCM offers a wide variety of custom made in school residencies that meet the Arizona Arts Standards and National Standards for music discipline at the appropriate level and integrates activities that meet the education standards and ties in directly to your curriculum.

PCM also offers training for Educators on how to use music as a tool in the classroom! Click Here for more information!!

Programs that PCM has established curriculum for:

Age and Grade Level Year Long Residencies: Residency Goal is for students who have low exposure to music education: Half Day and all day kindergarten, special education classes, transitional classes, Charter Schools, Enclosed classrooms, etc.

World Music: a fantastic program using music to enhance geography and social studies

Key Concepts of Sound: Exploring the scientific principals of sound complete with real instrument experiences and science experiments.

Sensational You: learning about your body, physiology and biology with how the human body is its own instrument

The following programs are tailored to fit your specific needs can be arranged anytime through out the year. PCM's professional faculty can provide any of the following classes at your location.

Careers in Music

One and a half hour session- Ideal for grades 7-12. This workshop helps students explore possibilities for future careers in music. Students join several of the professional faculty of the Phoenix Conservatory of Music in fun musical activities designed to introduce them to the many career possibilities in music. Students learn to reach beyond the concepts of performers, teachers and music retail while learning about careers in music law, purchasing, producing and music libraries. There are dozens of real jobs in music that are not commonly thought of i.e. music historian, music photographer and others.

Exploring Music

Each of these three workshops are facilitated by two members of the Conservatorys professional faculty and are structured to present a fun way for participants to learn about and explore instrument in the percussion, wind and string families. Each of the three workshops focuses on a specific instrument group, i.e. percussion, and include common and ethnic instruments in that group. Students are led through demonstrations and hands-on activities designed to help them develop a true understanding of the principles of sound related to these instruments. Every participant should complete each workshop with the basic knowledge of how these instruments work and how they are physically played by their performers.

Session A (ages 7-10)

Session B (ages 11-14)

Session C (customized age group)

Instrument Making Workshop

One hour each. Students will learn to make music with recycled and household items. Explore real instruments, learn about their properties and how they produce sound then experiment with common items such
as chop sticks, coffee cans and water bottles to create real musical instruments to play along to your favorite songs. One PCM faculty member will be guiding the activities, one volunteer of facility staff/faculty will need to supervise every 8 students.
Session A (ages 5-10)

Session B (ages 11-14)

Session C (customized age group)