Cedar Falls June 2015 Musician of the Month: Bonnie Sun
Bonnie is currently in 8th grade at Bunger Middle School. She has been taking piano lessons with Virginia Lee for the past four years. Bonnie is a motivated student and an enthusiastic learner. She has made a lot of progress over the years. When Virginia assigns music...
Marion June 2015 Musician of the Month: Emma Benjamin
Emma has studied piano with Alice Lindsey for six years. She is a sixth grader at Taft Middle School. She was nominated by Alice because her lessons are always prepared and she plays expressively. Her advice to other musicians is that practice makes perfect. Emma...
Quad Cities June 2015 Musician of the Month: Avery Monson
At only 10 years old, Avery has been playing violin for 4 years, ukulele for 2 and taking drums with Ken for 2 years. She is in 5th grade at Orion Elementary School. She plays basketball, LOVES legos, has been in the Youth Symphony Orchestra for two years and next...
Urbandale June 2015 Musician of the Month: Abby Deeds
Abby is in 5th grade at Western Hills Elementary. She has studied piano with Paige Silberhorn for three years. Abby also plays the flute! Her teacher, Paige, says “Abby is a joy to work with! She is very talented and works hard eery week. She even memorizes a lot of...
Telling the Story: Proactive is Better than Reactive
With the reduction of funding for educational programs on many levels, and with the unprecedented pressures put on schools, districts and states by the No Child Left Behind Act, responsibility for retaining arts programs rests with every arts educator, every parent...
Telling the Story: What Research Shows
Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development finds that the arts provide critical links for students to develop crucial thinking skills and motivations they need to achieve at higher levels. From reading and language development to fundamental...
Coralville May 2015 Musician of the Month: Erin Paterson
Erin is a 12th grader at Iowa City High School and has been taking voice lessons with Alice Feldman for four years. Alice says "Erin is a very enthusiastic learner and shows confidence. She has more knowledge of Broadway musicals than anyone I've ever met! I look...
Cedar Falls May 2015 Musician of the Month: Megan Hermanson
Megan is a senior at Cedar Falls High School and a piano student with Louann Flaherty in our Cedar Falls Conservatory. She has been studying with Louann for almost three years now. Louann says "I nominated Megan because she just loves music! She is a careful, detailed...
Cedar Falls May 2015 Musician of the Month: Bonnie Sun
Bonnie is currently in eighth grade at Bunger Middle School. She has been taking piano lessons with Virginia Lee for the past four years. Bonnie is a motivated student and an enthusiastic learner. She has made a lot of progress over the years. When Virginia assigns...
Quad Cities May 2015 Musician on the Month: Adrian Connolly
Adrian is a guitar student of Tony Carducci in West Music Quad Cities. According to Tony: "Adrian is exceptionally humble, a great kid, a great guitar player, and he is busting his butt to do all sorts of stuff. He deserves to be recognized." Adrian has only been...