Vocal and Instrumental Music
Our vision is one of a diversified and comprehensive music program that offers children the opportunity to sing, play instruments, study privately, study music history and theory, and participate in appropriate musical performances. We must have fine teachers to help bring these goals to life. We must be devoted to enhancing children’s self-esteem as they learn to be curious and persistent about their own abilities and the abilities of those with whom they work.
We believe that music helps alert the senses. We know that the success and joy students experience in the rigors of rehearsals and performances help to enliven their
inquisitiveness about other areas of learning. Socrates said, “All thinking begins with wondering.” The Music Department faculty is devoted to providing an environment that allows for this wonderment through exploration, experimentation, and the realization of innate musical instincts.
Classes in general/vocal music begin in preschool and continue through all grade levels. More than 65% of our Upper School students are involved in vocal or instrumental music. Students perfect their individual skills while working together to develop essential qualities of musicianship.
Study/Performance Opportunities
Indiana State School Music Association – Park Tudor students in grades 5-12 participate in the annual ISSMA solo and ensemble contest. Students perform piano, voice and instrumental solos and ensembles at the district and state levels of competition.
Instrumental Music – Performance opportunities include two annual fifth-grade concerts, a sixth-grade concert, school assemblies, two annual Middle and Upper School Band and Orchestra concerts, two Jazz Ensemble concerts and performances at special functions.
Pep Band – The Upper School pep band performs at many home football and basketball games as well as at pep rallies and programs.
Vocal Music – Students perform in the annual Hilbert Center and Lower School Holiday Concerts, Middle School Winter and Spring Concerts, Upper School Winter and Spring Concerts, the Upper School Spring Musical, and Madrigal Singers performances in the community and at various Park Tudor events.
Private Music Instruction – Park Tudor offers private lessons in piano, voice, string instruments and winds.
Young Strings Program - Offered as a supplement to the activities of children who are strongly drawn toward music in their early years.
Music Department Curriculum Overview Grades Preschool-12 (pdf)
