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San Jac to offer pre-college piano class
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| Martha Braswell and other San Jacinto College music instructors are involved in coordinating the upcoming pre-college piano class. |
San Jacinto College Central will offer a pre-college class for beginning piano students. The original projected start date for the class was Oct. 1, but due to Hurricane Ike the class will now begin the first week of January 2009. The first class will be for elementary students, possibly third- through fifth-grade students.
“There will be a fee for the pre-college piano class, but it will be quite affordable in comparison to private lessons,” said Martha Braswell, music professor at the College who is coordinating the program.
The location for the pre-college piano class will be the Monte Blue Music Building, room 108, and instructors from the music department will staff the class. Each class will be limited to 12 students.
“The rationale behind the concept of a pre-college piano class is two-fold,” noted Braswell. “Qualified piano teachers are rather scarce, especially in this area. Those who do teach have waiting lists for students. The concept of piano lessons for children has been around since the invention of the piano in the early 1700s. Persons of education during that time were considered ‘unfinished’ if they could not play a keyboard instrument. Today, keyboards are readily available, but instruction is not included in the public school, and so it is very important to offer this to our community.”
For more information about the piano and organ workshop or the pre-college piano class, contact Braswell at 281-476-1501, ext. 1603, or via e-mail at martha.braswell@sjcd.edu.
San Jacinto College offers a wide range of music degree options and private music lessons at all three campuses. The North campus is located at 5800 Uvalde Road in East Harris County. The South campus is located at 13735 Beamer Road in the South Belt-Ellington Field area. San Jacinto College Central is located at 8060 Spencer Highway in Pasadena.
For more information about San Jacinto College, call 281-998-6150, or visit www.sanjac.edu.
“There will be a fee for the pre-college piano class, but it will be quite affordable in comparison to private lessons,” said Martha Braswell, music professor at the College who is coordinating the program.
The location for the pre-college piano class will be the Monte Blue Music Building, room 108, and instructors from the music department will staff the class. Each class will be limited to 12 students.
“The rationale behind the concept of a pre-college piano class is two-fold,” noted Braswell. “Qualified piano teachers are rather scarce, especially in this area. Those who do teach have waiting lists for students. The concept of piano lessons for children has been around since the invention of the piano in the early 1700s. Persons of education during that time were considered ‘unfinished’ if they could not play a keyboard instrument. Today, keyboards are readily available, but instruction is not included in the public school, and so it is very important to offer this to our community.”
For more information about the piano and organ workshop or the pre-college piano class, contact Braswell at 281-476-1501, ext. 1603, or via e-mail at martha.braswell@sjcd.edu.
San Jacinto College offers a wide range of music degree options and private music lessons at all three campuses. The North campus is located at 5800 Uvalde Road in East Harris County. The South campus is located at 13735 Beamer Road in the South Belt-Ellington Field area. San Jacinto College Central is located at 8060 Spencer Highway in Pasadena.
For more information about San Jacinto College, call 281-998-6150, or visit www.sanjac.edu.
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