Hey! Check out our new LYRA Academy! Ready for fun and challenge? Kids rock at LYRA Academy's STRING CAMP, June 6 - 10.
LYRA, in partnership with Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, is offering our first after-school Beginning Strings Program, which started in January 2011. This program is open to all elementary school children as a new educational option to students in metropolitan Atlanta.
This exciting new after-school program combines traditional classroom strings teaching with a multi-disciplinary approach, combining Suzuki and other teaching methods. This course offers children the valuable opportunity to study a stringed instrument. Children learn rhythm, pitch recognition, playing as part of an ensemble, fun musical classics and the basic elements of how to play a stringed instrument, all in a fun and relaxed learning environment. Students will present a concert for family and friends on the last day of class. The teachers, Jane McRae and Kristeen Sorrells, are experienced and gifted in their ability to connect with young children.
In its ongoing Artist Residency at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, LYRA has maintained its presence as a community and educational resource to the city of Atlanta since 2003. In these challenging economic times, many schools systems in Georgia have been forced to curtail funding for all but the most essential academic programs. As a result many schools districts in metropolitan Atlanta have eliminated instrumental music programs at the elementary level. Now, LYRA, Inc. will continue to expand its collaborative relationship with Callanwolde Fine Arts Center by implementing its first after- school beginning strings program.
LYRA, Inc. is a string quartet- based arts organization whose mission is to provide community and educational service to the city of Atlanta. The LYRA String Quartet has reached thousands of children in 10 counties throughout Atlanta, in over 100 appearances onstage and in schools, both through its residencies at Clayton College and State University (1998- 2000), Forest Park High School (2000- 2006), Callanwolde Fine Arts Center (2003- present) as well as its collaborations with the nationally recognized Sound/Learning Program (2002- 2008) and Spivey Hall Noteworthy Young People’s concerts (1998- 2009). The LYRA String Quartet has been awarded grants through the Dekalb and Clayton County Arts Councils, Richard Franklin Arts Studios, and the Georgia Council for the Arts. Since 1998 LYRA, Inc., through the LYRA String Quartet, has been an invaluable resource to the city of Atlanta and the Southeast through its community engagement and educational outreach.
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