Academy

The Academy Music Department offers courses designed to explore a diverse set of musical expressions through band, choir, guitar, Hawaiian music, orchestra, and creative music. These courses encourage students to engage with music's fundamental artistic processes: creating, performing, responding and connecting, recognizing music as an intrinsic and unique aspect of human thought. Our community-centered music offerings provide abundant opportunities for students to develop personal skills through collaborative creation, arrangement, rehearsal, and performance of music. Academy musicians:

• Acquire skills in singing or playing instruments, improvising, composing, reading, and notating music in ways that support life-long participation and appreciation of music.
• Refine understanding, terminology, and descriptive ability to critique, examine and appraise music and musical performances.
• Cultivate healthy personal attitudes such as focus, independence, risk-taking, persistence, resilience, creativity, empathy and collaboration through music making.
• Explore a rich historical and cultural musical heritage, connecting with diverse cultures and disciplines to embody the human spirit through music.