Music Education

A quintet of jazz players assembled for Music at the Intersection will pay tribute to the indelible contribution of jazz musicians and educators from the east side of the river.

The HEAL Center for the Arts, a nonprofit in Grand Center focused on music education, won a $75,000 grant from the Lewis Music Prize. The organization’s leader plans to hire more visiting artists and serve more students.

A local elementary music teacher picked up the ukulele during the pandemic and is now teaching it to all of her students at Henry Elementary School in the Parkway School District.

Music teachers in the St. Louis region and across the nation will perform three pieces with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in its Extra Credit concert. The free concert will allow musicians to showcase their talents to students and their communities.

An East St. Louis music teacher, named Art Educator of the Year by the Arts and Education Council of St. Louis, is making stringed instruments and classical music accessible to all.

The trumpeter and bandleader plays at Jazz St. Louis through Sunday.

Johnetta Haley touched hundreds of students as a music teacher. She also helped thousands more by founding one of the largest Head Start programs in the country.

There’s music in the air at Al Chappelle Community Center.The St. Louis Housing Authority facility, which serves residents of the adjacent Clinton-Peabody…

Alex Cunningham is sprawled across the hallway in a corner of the University City High School music department. His laptop rests on his chest. Headphones…

Music is vitally important to Riverview Gardens High School band director Harvey Lockhart. But his students' well-being ranks even higher.During the past…