Members: Resources
MYS has gathered the following links as potential resources for students, families, and community-members. The links are divided loosely into the following categories, please click on a category to be taken directly to those items.
Local Arts Organizations | Competitions and Scholarships | Fun and Music Theory | Local Lessons and Classes | Practice Resources
Local Arts Organizations
South Eastern Minnesota Youth Orchestras, or SEMYO
http://www.semyo.org/
Cannon Valley Youth Orchestra in Minnesota
http://www.cvyomn.org/
Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies (GTCYS) http://www.gtcys.org
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
http://www.thespco.org
Minnesota Orchestra
http://www.minnesotaorchestra.org
Minnesota Opera
http://www.mnopera.org
Saint Paul Arts and Culture Partnership
http://www.saintpaulculture.org/
Saint Paul Conservatory of Music
http://www.thespcm.org/
Saint Paul City Ballet
http://www.spcballet.org/
Saint Paul Civic Symphony
http://www.saintpaulcivicsymphony.org/
Circus Juventas, a performing arts youth circus school.
http://www.circusjuventas.org/
Twin Cities Jazz Festival
http://www.hotsummerjazz.com/
Music in the Park Series
http://www.musicintheparkseries.org/
Kenwood Symphony Orchestra
http://www.kenwoodsymphonyorchestra.org
Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
http://www.msoa.net/
MacPhail Center for the Arts
http://www.macphail.org
MacPhail maintains a good list of local organizations, including summer schools, instrument rental options, and youth orchestras.
http://macphail.org/links.html
Minnesota Public Radio
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/
Competitions and Scholarships
The Central Minnesota Music School has a nice calendar of upcoming competitions.
http://www.cmmusicschool.org/calendar.php?id=competitions
Musical America has an excellent list of competitions, simply go the website and select which category of links you’d like to see, or search for a particular competition using keywords.
http://www.musicalamerica.com/links
The Minnesota Orchestra Volunteer Association’s Young Artist Competition
http://www.wamso.org/yac.html
The New England Conservatory has a good list of music scholarships to help fund college education.
http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu/financeYourEducation/musicscholarships.html
ViolinMasterclass.com has a comprehensive list of violin competitions and auditions worldwide.
http://violinmasterclass.com/compauditions
Local Lessons and Classes
Educational opportunities at the Schubert Club
http://www.schubert.org/education/education.html
Private Music Instructor directory provided by the Schubert Club
http://www.schubert.org/directory-teacher.html
Lessons, instruments, rentals from Cadenza Music
http://www.cadenzamusic.com/
Lessons and classes from K and S Music
http://www.kandsmusic.org/
Lessons, classes and ensembles from Walker West Music Academy
http://www.walkerwestmusicacademy.org/
Lessons, classes and ensembles from St. Joseph School of Music
http://www.stjoseph-schoolofmusic.net/
Lessons and classes from Simply String Studio
http://www.simplystringsstudio.com/
Fun and Music Theory
ChildrensMusicWorkshop.com has introductory material on a wide range of instruments, including rental information, basic practice techniques, etc.
http://www.childrensmusicworkshop.com/
Violinist.com has wide-ranging content and forums about violins and violinists.
http://www.violinist.com/
A few of the professional orchestras in the US have pages geared towards the younger audience. They often include games (of varying levels of entertaining), composition tools, information about instruments, information about the orchestra, and composer information.
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has a fun site geared towards young music makers and their teachers. While it seems designed towards the grade- and middle-school age students, there’s great information on there for older students as well.
http://www.dsokids.com/
The New York Philharmonic has an excellent site for students and instructors with games, composition tools, instructions on making basic instruments, historical information on composers and compositions, and information on NY Philharmonic players. Highly informative and entertaining.
http://www.nyphilkids.org/
The San Francisco Symphony has an excellent site as well, with games, a music lab, and information about instruments.
http://www.sfskids.org/
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has games, information about instruments, and coloring pages.
http://www.bsokids.com/
The Tucson Symphony has a variety of information for younger students. This site is under construction and is less advanced than many of the others.
http://www.tucsonsymphony.org/kids/
The League of American Orchestras has a very informative site geared towards a slightly older audience. There’s a wide variety of historical information, instrument information, a few games and some decent composition games.
http://www.playmusic.org/
The Nashville Symphony has good information on instruments and players, with great biographical videos of some of the performers.
http://www.nashvillesymphony.org/nsokids/
Sphinx Kids has similar games to some of the other sites but has excellent historical information on minority composers, and also videos of Sphinx alumni performing.
http://www.sphinxkids.org/
Practice Resources
MYS is interested in expanding this section, if you have suggestions for online practice resources, please email MYS.
A free, fully functional online metronome:
http://www.metronomeonline.com/
Smart Music is a software tool for practicing nearly any instrument. It is interactive with feedback capability, meaning a student plays into a mic and the software analyzes the playing. While it’s not as comprehensive as a personal instructor, it can serve as an excellent practice assistant.
http://www.smartmusic.com
MYS is not affiliated with the websites listed and is not responsible for the content therein. MYS does not endorse any of the organizations listed. Links are posted at the discretion of the MYS staff.