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Causes: Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Schools
Mission: To provide the highest standard of music education and artistic development available in the pacific northwest for aspiring young musicians in a challenging and supportive environment.
Programs: The starling project, with funding from the dorothy richard starling violin foundation, trains classical violinists toward careers as violinists in the future. The starling foundation stipulates that up to eight students who study with margaret pressley can be selected by her to be eligible to receive tuition toward violin lessons during the conservatory's school year. It also pays the director, ms. Pressley, an annual salary during the school year. It funds conservatory tuition, pianist fees, travel fees, administrative fees, violin supplies, and anything else that ms. Pressley stipulates as needed for violin education through this fund.
junior and senior division music academic programs. Provided pre-college classical musicians with academic training courses taught by expert faculty.
collegiate-performance preparation program provided pre-college musicians with weekly rehearsals and solo performance opportunities on instruments of choice, with guidance by expert faculty in public speaking, collegiate research, performance etiquette, rehearsal coaching with the conservatory's official pianist/collaborator, and monthly outreach solo concert opportunities to the senior community.
westside chamber music program provided pre-college musicians with the opportunity to be coached by expert faculty in weekly ensemble rehearsals in preparation for bi-annual concert presentations.
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.