Preparatory Music Program
Shenandoah Valley Preparatory Music became a program of EMU’s department of music in 1988 and is dedicated to providing the highest quality music education to all students in the central Shenandoah Valley regardless of age, race, ability, financial circumstances, or ethnic origin through private and/or group instruction in a variety of musical areas as well as through performance settings. Under the direction of administrative director Sharon M.D. Miller, musical instruction is given to 370 students in the following areas:
- Instrumental music instruction: violin, viola, cello, piano, flute, clarinet, guitar, Suzuki violin, Suzuki cello
- Musikgarten: ages birth to 7 years
- Shenandoah Valley Youth Symphony and Junior Strings: grades 3-12
- Harrisonburg City School Strings Program: grades 3-4 in the elementary schools and grades 5-8 in the middle schools
Our students and performances
Believing music can enrich everyone’s life and is to be shared, performances are arranged in formal and informal settings on EMU’s campus and throughout the community to provide quality music education to the residents of the greater central Shenandoah Valley area. Participants come from as far north and east as Woodstock and Luray and from as far south as Waynesboro and Lexington. Students also travel from West Virginia.
Upcoming events
- January 21 Suzuki Violin students are playing in Norfolk prior to VA Symphony Concert with Gil Shaham.
- February 12 Preparatory Music Chamber Recital in EMU Common Grounds Coffee House at 5:15 pm.
- February 25 Suzuki Violin Workshop with Nadine Moehlenkamp in Lehman Auditorium and Martin Chapel.