This studio offers a curriculum designed to:

• Help students of all ages develop their musicianship
• Create performance opportunities for students in the local community and beyond
• Connect studio curriculum with students’ school music experience
• Encourage students to explore cross-curricular connections (i.e., music’s relationship to Science, Math, Physics, Language, Technology, Environment, etc.)
• Nurture the idea of, and desire for, life-long learning

This studio’s curriculum incorporates the spectrum of American music genres (i.e., blues, jazz, rock, folk, etc.) as well as world, western classical, and other genres of music that meet the needs and interests of students. It is driven by the Rare Earth Music Studio mission and grounded in a philosophy influenced by the work of leading scholars in the field of music education.