At the Colburn Community School of Performing Arts, we offer a wide range of learning and performance opportunities for students ages 18 and up. Whether you’re looking to join an adult ensemble, take private lessons, or learn about music fundamentals so that you can support your child’s music education, our program is the place for you!
Discover the joy of making music with our Adult Beginning Guitar class! Designed for beginners, this engaging course helps you build your skills, explore different styles, and play with confidence.
Fall & Spring Semesters: 16 weekly sessions for a comprehensive learning experience.
With hands-on instruction in a supportive group setting, you’ll master chords, strumming techniques, and even a few favorite songs—all while connecting with fellow music enthusiasts. Take the first step toward unlocking your musical potential!
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Discover the joy of making music with our Adult Intermediate Guitar class! Designed for intermediate guitar players, this engaging course helps you build your skills, explore different styles, and play with confidence.
Dalcroze methods engage students in interactive dynamic learning experiences that can help them develop analytical listening skills and open them up to their own innate musicality. This series of progressive lessons will enable participants to experience Dalcroze methods directly and show how they may apply these methods in their own teaching. Each session will feature a 70-minute session exploration of Dalcroze Rhythmic Solfege and a twenty-minute Q&A session. Designed specifically for music educators regardless of their prior exposure to Dalcroze methods.
Class Dates February 2, March 2, April 6, and May 4
When we listen to music, we are experiencing an intricate network of interactions linking the performers, concert space, and our own mechanisms of hearing. This course explores how the hidden worlds of acoustics and psychoacoustics shape the way we hear music, with hands-on projects and demonstrations of sound production, propagation and perception.
No prior experience is required—just a sense of curiosity and a basic familiarity with musical concepts like notes, notation, or instruments. There is no homework or outside assignments, but students will engage in in-class experiments and discussions, with optional opportunities to explore concepts further at home.
The course is led by Dr. Brandon Rolle, a composer, educator, and expert in psychoacoustics whose career spans prestigious institutions and groundbreaking new music organizations. Dr. Rolle has taught at UC Santa Barbara, Cal State Northridge, and Chapman University, and currently serves on the faculty at the Colburn Conservatory. His compositions have been widely commissioned and awarded, and he brings a deep passion for sound and music to every class.
This class is offered online and in-person.
At the Colburn Community School of Performing Arts, students of all ages and ability levels can receive one-on-one instruction on any instrument, including voice. Our esteemed faculty share their expertise to help students develop their musicianship, technique, and confidence.
All students interested in private lessons must first submit an inquiry using the form below.
Inquiry Form
You will be contacted by the appropriate department chair within seven days of submitting your inquiry. For 2023-24 private instruction pricing, please see page three in the Schedule of Classes.
Adult group classes are semester based and will be held eight times for 60 minutes each per fall and spring semester, and six times in summer. Actual meeting dates to be arranged with Ms. Lundgren. Please contact klundgren@colburnschool.edu for approval to enroll.
Colburn’s Adult Jazz Workshops consist of musicians who are proficient on their instruments and experienced in jazz studies. Various styles of jazz repertoire are explored and learned aurally along with discussion of theory and approaches to improvisation. This ensemble is a great opportunity to grow individually and as a cohesive unit in an encouraging, challenging environment. All instruments, including strings and vocalists, are welcome.
There will be a culminating concert on Sunday, July 6 in Mayman Hall.
Audition required for new students. Please contact Liz Kinnon before enrolling at ekinnon@colburnschool.edu.