Vocal and Instrumental Music
The Music Department offers a comprehensive and diverse music program that offers students opportunities to sing, play instruments, appreciate music history and theory, and participate in musical performances. The well-trained faculty encourages students to explore, experiment and develop their own musical instincts. The self-discipline learned through the practice of music is a valuable skill that can enhance a child's development in other areas of learning.
General music classes and vocal music classes begin in junior kindergarten and continue through all grade levels. More than 65 percent of our Upper School students are involved in vocal or instrumental music.
Study and Performance Opportunities
Young Strings Program – This program is offered as a supplement to the activities of children who are strongly drawn toward music in their early years.
Instrumental Music – Performance opportunities include two annual fifth-grade concerts, a sixth-grade concert, two annual Middle and Upper School Band and Orchestra concerts, two Jazz Ensemble concerts, school assemblies and performances as special functions.
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.
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.
Pep Band – The Upper School Pep Band performs at many home football and basketball games, as well as pep rallies and school programs.
Private Music Instruction – Park Tudor offers private lessons in piano, voice, string instruments and winds.