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Pentucket Music Academy Session 2 began in February

Have you been wanting to learn a new instrument, or to brush up on one you’ve played for years? Pentucket Music Academy  offers private lessons on most wind, brass and orchestral string instruments, as well as voice, guitar, percussion.  These lessons are offered for weekly thirty, forty five  minute or one hour lessons taught by qualified instructors recruited and supervised by the Fine and Performing Arts Dept in conjunction with the Community Ed Dept. These lessons are open to ALL ages and ALL abilities! If interested, please visit www.prsd.org/music-academy or email Rebecca Schauer at RSchauer@prsd.org.  Late starts will be pro-rated.

 

Click here to print the PMA Registration Form

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Is your child a budding virtuoso?  Have you always wanted to learn an instrument but never had the chance? Pentucket Community Education’s private music instruction program offers high quality lessons on voice and most instruments for students aged 5 to 105!

 

Weekly thirty-minute, forty five-minute, or one-hour lessons will be offered on wind, percussion, and string instruments as well as voice and guitar.  Some instruments may not be offered every semester due to student enrollment.  Lessons will be held at the Pentucket Middle and High Schools in the after school and early evening hours from 3:00pm-8:00pm.  Every effort will be made to accommodate time requirements when schedules are compiled.

 

The second semester of the 2012-2013 school year will be 15 weeks long, beginning the week of January 22.  Lessons will be scheduled in half hour, forty-five minute or one-hour blocks ($28, $42 and $55 respectively) depending on recommendations jointly made by the parent and the instructor.   Lessons should be paid to the Pentucket Regional School District either in full for the semester or in three payments, with the first installment being paid prior to the first lesson.  These installments are as follows:

 

Thirty Minute Private Lesson:     Three payments of $140

Forty-Five Minute Lesson:           Three payments of $ 210

Sixty Minute Private Lesson:       Three payments of $ 275

 

Please Click Here for Pentucket Music Academy Registration Form 

Please Click Here for Pentucket Music Information Sheet 

Our Teacher Biographies!

Rebecca Schauer came to the Pentucket Regional School District in 2010 following a one-year teaching fellowship at Phillips Exeter Academy. Ms. Schauer taught privately for the Hopkinton Public Schools from 2005-2009 and has taught independently since 2000. She also developed a Summer Strings Programs for the Milford Public Schools in 2006.  She currently teaches privately for the Program for Students on the Autism Spectrum at The Boston Conservatory in addition to her students at the Pentucket Music Academy.  Ms. Schauer holds a Bachelor's and a Master's in Viola Performance from Boston University's College of Fine Arts.  She is also in the process of receiving a Graduate Diploma in Music Education from The Boston Conservatory.  As a performer, Ms. Schauer has played with ensembles such as the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and the Neponset Valley Philharmonic Orchestra.   She has attended music festivals at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and the Heifetz Institute.  In addition to playing and teaching string instruments, Ms. Schauer also enjoys cooking, running, practicing yoga and spending time with friends and family.
 
Andrew Price, oboist, plays professionally in Boston and teaches oboists of all ages. He taught instrumental music at a public school for twenty years as well as having taught oboe at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute for 10 years. He now plays for The Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, principal oboe with the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Civic Symphony Orchestra and occasionally with the Boston Pops and Boston Symphony Orchestra. He is happy to be helping Mr. Beatrice and the students of The Pentucket School District Band Program.
 
Greg Smith  A native of Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, Greg Smith currently serves as principal trumpet in the Glens Falls Symphony in Glens Falls, New York, and as third trumpet in the Atlantic and Cape Cod Symphonies in Massachusetts. As an active orchestral performer throughout New England, he has also appeared with Emmanuel Music, the Granite State Opera, and the Berkshire, Granite State, Indian Hill, Nashua, New Bedford, and New World Symphony Orchestras.  Mr. Smith received a Graduate Diploma from the New England Conservatory, and a Bachelor's Degree from Bard College – where he was a two-time winner of the college’s concerto competition and appeared as a soloist with the American Symphony Orchestra and the Bard College Orchestra.  Additional studies include fellowships at the Tanglewood Music Center, Pacific Music Festival, Spoleto Festival USA and the International Festival Institute at Round Top. 
 
 
Jeffery Kazukiewicz is the founding member of the Wolfeboro Chamber Ensemble and MusicDirector of the First Congregational Church of Wolfeboro. He is performing extensively as an orchestral player, chamber musician, and soloist performing with ensembles such as New England String Ensemble, Portland Symphony, Landmark Orchestra, New Hampshire Symphony, Boston Virtuosi, Vermont Symphony and others. Mr. Kazukiewicz has appeared as a guest soloist numerous times performing the Tchaikowsky Violin Concerto, Tzigane by Ravel, Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5, Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 and Meditation of Thais by Jules Massenet.
      Mr. Kazukiewicz was guest artist in the Ludwig Diehn Series held at Old Dominion University where he premiered and recorded the Sonata for Violin & Piano by L. Diehn. His live performances have been broadcast via WBFO Buffalo 88.7 NPR Radio and WGBH Boston Radio. He was the former first violinist of the Marini String Quartet.
      In addition to the classical world Mr. Kazukiewicz was the violinist for the Grammy Nominated Jan Lewan Orchestra. With them he has recorded six albums. He was also active with Steven Sondheim and Arthur Laurents, in the revival production of "Do I Hear a Waltz" by Rogers and Hammerstein. He has made an appearance performing in the Schubert String Quintet in the movie "The Human Stain" starring Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman.
      Mr. Kazukiewicz began violin studies at the age of 7 in Buffalo, NY under Frances Bagdol Kaye, and Charlie Haupt of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. By age 14, he was awarded Town Proclamation award for "Highest Commitment to the Arts." He earned his Bachelor's Degree from Ithaca College under Pamela Gearhart and Debra Moree and his Master's Degree from the University of Akron where he was the teaching assistant to Alan Bodman.