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CONGRATULATIONS COMPETITION WINNERS!!
SCMTA District Auditions
Lonnie Russell - will go on to SCMTA State Auditions
CSOL Summer Scholarship
Lonnie Russell – Furman Summer Keyboard Institute
Nicholas Bentz - Aspen Music Festival with Herbert Greenberg
David Zhang
William Zhang
MENC All State Orchestra
David Zhang, First Chair Cello
William Zhang, Cello
Achievement Day Honors Recitalists
Alexander Miller
Selina Pi
Lonnie Russell
Achievement Day Honors
Sasha Grigorieff
Mikhail Pekar
Audrey Trieu
Esther Yu
The Charleston Academy of Music (CAM), founded in January 2003, is a non-profit music preparatory school whose goal is to be recognized as the premier music preparatory school in South Carolina. CAM’s mission is to empower students to become believers and achievers by providing superior professional music instruction, education, and performance opportunities. The faculty includes talented musicians from the College of Charleston and the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. CAM offers individual instruction in piano, violin, viola, cello, guitar, and voice. In addition to private lessons, CAM offers music theory classes, chamber music classes, performance classes, and master classes with national and international artists each year, thereby providing music training of the highest quality.
By providing conservatory-style music training to young (K-12) and adult students, CAM teaches our students to become outstanding performers, composers, teachers of music, and to become enthusiastic and musically-literate members of the audience. CAM recognizes that tomorrow’s leaders are today’s youth and we strive to offer our young students a complete music program that will give them the confidence, determination, self-fulfillment, and core values that will help them to become the future leaders in our community.
The vision for CAM was the brainchild of founder and director, Eunjoo Yun. This vision became a reality in 2003 through the generosity of Charles Fox of Fox Music House, in donating space and instruments, and with the support and guidance of Enrique Graf (see bio), Founder and Director of the International Piano Series at the College of Charleston.
Since 2003, CAM has developed a variety of programs to meet the needs of both students and parents. Our Satellite Program is designed to give students the opportunity to take music lessons at their own school with CAM faculty members teaching on school premises. We have established Satellite Programs with Charles Towne Montessori, Charleston Day School, Mason Preparatory School, Charleston Catholic School, Trinity Montessori, the Little School at Grace Church, James Island Christian School, Porter-Gaud School, Montessori of Mt Pleasant, Pinewood Preparatory School, Christ Our King Stella Maris School, and Coastal Christian Preparatory School. Since fall of 2005, CAM has partnered with Ashley Hall School, in order to develop Headmistress Jill Muti’s vision of the Applied Lessons Program.
In spring 2006 CAM launched the Honors Program and Music Café. The Honors Program provides scholarships for gifted students. These scholarships are awarded based on need, teacher recommendations, and auditions. The Honors Program has partnered with the WINGS for kids at Memminger Elementary since fall of 2006, bringing classical music to young people who otherwise may not have access to it. In addition beginning in 2007 CAM students began giving Outreach Concerts in schools and churches that serve communities with little access to classical music. Music Café, organized by Susan McAdoo (see bio), is an informal place where music lovers and musicians come together for Conversation and to play music together. They are able to meet other leaders of the community who are involved with the arts. Music Café will feature Guest speakers.
Charleston Academy of Music is currently sponsoring students in MENC (National Association for Music Education). Being a member of MENC provides excellent opportunities for students to perform in competitions and with orchestras on the regional, state, and national levels. CAM is also a member of MTNA (Music Teachers National Association) and the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts. CAM students make great progress resulting in winning major competitions every year including; Charleston Symphony Youth Orchestra Competition, the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities and The Guild of the Greenville Symphony Piano Competition, MTNA State Competition, SCISA Music Festival, SCMEA Regional and State Orchestra Auditions, Youth Orchestra of the Lowcountry Concerto Competition, and Charleston Symphony League Summer Scholarship Competition. Annually CAM students are selected to play in the SCMTA Honors Recital. One of CAM’s students has composed works for Beaufort Symphony Orchestra. The last two years CAM students and Faculty have been invited to play during the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. Faculty concerts have received wide critical acclaim from the Post and Courier: “While diverse the compositions had one common thread. Complex show-off pieces, they shared rhythmic demands that required – and got – killer technique and interpretation that only professionals of this level could begin to attempt.” (2006) “Packed house hears samples of shining talent” (2007).
If you are planning a concert series, outreach event, or a concert party, CAM can make the event memorable giving it texture and depth with CAM faculty in concert. Whether you desire string quartets, piano trios, or solo performances, CAM faculty can provide you with excellent classical music.
The Charleston Academy of Music has received support from South Carolina Arts Commission, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Coastal Community Foundation, The Joanna Foundation, Zucker Family Endowment, Bakker Family Fund, the Blackbaud Endowment, and ACMP Foundation.
* Charleston Academy of Music admits students of any race, color, national or ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school.
CAM’s new office and studios are located at 763 Meeting Street, downtown Charleston.
For more information about CAM and its programs, please call (843)805-7794.
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