Check out the following link to see all things Opus 118 for the spring of 2016!

 

Opus 118 Spring Newsletter 2016

With the 2015-2016 academic year winding down, our students are as excited about all these upcoming performance opportunities as they are about the warming weather!  Below please find all the details — we hope you can join us!

 

• Friday, May 6th, 5:30PM: 70-Day Practice Challenge Celebration Recital, CPEII Middle School
• Friday, May 13th, 7:15PM: Piano Studio Recital, CPEII Elementary School
• Wednesday, June 1st, 7:00PM: Honors Recital (location TBD)
• Thursday, June 16th, 6:30PM: End-Of-Year Concert, American Academy of Arts and Letters

Do you have your tickets yet?  Tomorrow, Saturday March 12th, is our fifth annual spring concert in collaboration with the Harlem Chamber Players!  Don’t miss this opportunity to hear our talented ensemble students perform pieces ranging from Bach to The Beatles.

We’ll be at the historic St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Harlem at 4PM. Tickets can be purchased here, or at the door. We can’t wait to see you there!

Hey, Opus 118 Alumni – it’s been too long!

In honor of Opus 118’s 25th year providing quality music education to children in East Harlem, we are collecting alumni stories!  Please write to us with your Opus stories: how has Opus impacted your life? What’s your favorite Opus memory? What did music education mean to you? Tell us what you’re up to now!

As we reach our 25th proud year of bringing music into our community, we’re excited to receive, share, and reflect upon stories of those who have come on this journey with us. We will be including a number of these stories in our spring newsletter, so don’t miss the chance to share your love for Opus!

You can submit your alumni stories by emailing afeinman@opus118.org; sending them to us in a Facebook message; OR, sharing them on Twitter or Facebook with the hashtag ‪#‎OpusStories‬. We can’t wait to hear from you!

You are cordially invited to attend either of our two upcoming performances in December. Read on for more details:

Friday, December 18th: Students who have successfully completed our 30-Day Practice Challenge will be performing in a special celebration recital at Central Park East II Middle School Auditorium from 6-7PM.

Saturday, December 19th: Opus 118 ensemble members will be performing holiday classics and more at the Family Pavilion in Union Square during the annual Holiday Market from 2-3PM.

We look forward to seeing you at one of these great events!

The Opus 118 Harlem School of Music fall newsletter for 2015 is now available to view! Please open the attached PDF to learn about what’s going on at Opus.
Fall 2015 Newsletter

It’s hard to believe that summer is reaching its end, but we are excited here at Opus 118 because that means the return of our After-School Program! Lessons will begin this school year on September 28th, 2015 and our calendar can be found here.

We offer private and partner lessons in violin, viola, cello, guitar and piano, as well as after-school ensembles for our returning students and violin groups for beginners.

It is not too late to register for this school year – we take applications on a rolling basis. To apply, please fill out our application here.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask! Please reach out to Hayley at hcollins@opus118.org or give us a call at 646-842-2775.

There have been several updates regarding our Honors Recital that is being held for students who performed exceptionally well at our Performance Evaluation Week. The recital will now be held on Friday, May 29th at 6PM and will take place in the Central Park East II auditorium.

Our previous post about upcoming performances has also been updated to include this new information. We look forward to seeing you there!

 

It is a very busy time at Opus 118 as our students prepare for an array of upcoming recitals and concerts. Here is a quick list of what’s to come for the rest of the school year:

• Friday, May 1 at 5:30 PM — 100-Day Practice Challenge Recital
  Central Park East II Elementary School Auditorium (19 E. 103rd St.)
  Students who completed our 100-Day Practice Challenge by practicing more than 80-days in a 100-day period will perform in this celebration recital and receive prizes!
•  May 29 at 6 PM — Honors Recital
  Central Park East II
  This recital will showcase students who showed exemplary progress in this year’s Performance Evaluations.
• June 1 at 6 PM — Manhattan Borough Arts Festival 2015
  Symphony Space (2537 Broadway at 95th St.)
  Some of our students have been invited to perform at the 2015 Manhattan Borough Arts Festival, a celebration of talented students the area. Our students will be opening the concert!
• June 11 at 6:30 PM — End-of-Year Concert
  The American Academy of Arts and Letters (156th St. between Broadway and Riverside Dr.)
  Students from both our In-School and After-School Programs will join together in our annual End-of-Year Concert. The concert is free and open to the public.

 

For more information, call our offices at 646-842-2775. We hope to see you at these performances!

Spring Break is just a few days away at Opus 118 and we hope all of our families have a nice and relaxing time off! The break does align with the end of our 100-Day Practice Challenge, so we wanted to encourage our students to keep practicing and filling out their Weekly Practice Sheets during this time. We hope to see as many of you performing in the concert as possible!

We also wanted to remind our parents to check their email for reminders about our schedule through the month of April. To check whether we are holding regular lessons, please check our calendar, found here.

We will be in the office during spring break, so if you have any questions, please leave us an email or a voicemail and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Have a lovely break!