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.

Our programs

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, bass, piano, flute, clarinet, trumpet, guitar, harp, Suzuki violin, Suzuki cello
• Musikgarten: ages birth to 7 years
• Shenandoah Valley Youth Symphony and Junior Strings: grades 3-12
• Harrisonburg City Schools String Program
• Outreach String Project

Read more about EMU’s Preparatory Music instructors

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.