Bloomingdale School of Music

BSMs After School and Weekend Program provides private and group instruction to approximately 650 students of all ages weekly on more than 20 instruments, including cello, clarinet, flute, guitar, percussion, piano, saxophone, trombone, violin, and voice, as well as several ensemble opportunities. Additionally, the program offers an Early Childhood track, with various classes utilizing Dalcroze and Orff approaches for children aged 3 months to 6 years. BSMs faculty is comprised of exemplary instructors, coaches, and mentors, with 80% holding advanced degrees in music.The Music Access Project (MAP) is a full scholarship, multi-year pre-college conservatory training program for talented low-income and underserved students. Annually, MAP serves between 15 to 20 students selected by audition. Students receive a comprehensive music education including a 60-minute private lesson, 90-minute chamber music coaching, weekly orchestra or jazz ensemble rehearsal, theory classes, and special monthly workshops. Roughly 200 MAP alumni have graduated the program and 98% have gone on to study at the college level, many finding work as professional musicians, arts administrators, and music teachers in the New York City Public School system.Project Bridge is a program that aims to support NYC public school students and teachers in existing instrumental programs in secondary schools. Participating students receive a free weekly 45-minute private instrument lesson throughout the year at Bloomingdale. Instruction is designed to reinforce and support the work being done by the public school teacher. PB serves between 10-15 students annually. The Professional Training Program is a one to three year intensive program designed for young pianists who are interested in eventually attending a pre-college music program such as BSMs Music Access Project. Students receive weekly private instructions, chamber ensemble opportunities, music theory classes, and performance courses throughout the year.BSM's Free Faculty Concert Series presents 20 to 25 free concerts each year, serving audiences of over 1,000 people per year. These concerts, curated and performed by BSM's faculty of professional musicians, offer a rich variety of free, high-quality performances that are entertaining and informative, presenting a wide range of musical styles and traditions. Concerts are hosted free of charge at BSM's home on West 108th Street, allowing anyone in NYC to experience live music in an intimate community setting.Bloomingdale Training Program: Bloomingdale Training Program (BTP) is a comprehensive music education program with both piano and guitar tracks. It is an intensive program designed for students ages 8 to 17 who are interested in making the most of their music education by enhancing their private lesson studies with chamber music, theory, and other special events. BTP aims to strengthen students musical abilities and provide them with the required tools they would need to push them to the next level of achievement.bsmny.org is a mission-driven community-oriented Internet website that extends Bloomingdales mission to the Internet. Last year, the site registered over an average of 5,000 weekly visits where people registered for lessons, browsed faculty biographies and performance calendars, learned about musical instruments interactively, and read features highlighting specific musical topics of interest.The Bloomingdale Student New Music Project is a series of commissions, collaborations, web features, and performance that promotes the process of creating original music among children. The project commissions a professional composer to create new works for children; in addition, young composers at Bloomingdale, some as young as six years old, write music that is played by other children or faculty at the project's annual culminating concert, Album for the Young. For both students and composers the Student New Music Project opens up a window into the other's working methods and creative process.With the purpose of re-starting in-person classes, Bloomingdale, in communication with community music schools across NYC, created a detailed plan for a three phase reopening plan that kept our community safe. We began a limited in-person reopening in July 2021. After finishing our 2nd floor renovations, Bloomingdale was able to fully re-open our building for in-person programming by late fall 2021. Whereas our student population shrank to 400 students during COVID-19, in FY22, we are now seeing pre-pandemic levels in our registrations. Approximately 600 students walk through both our physical and virtual doors each week. It has been a tremendous joy to welcome back a vast majority of the student community in person.