As many of you know, Greenwich High School consistently produces award-winning bands, orchestras, chamber groups, and jazz ensembles.  We, the Greenwich community, are justifiably proud of this. At the Alliance, we are enthusiastic about our students’ high level of music performance and want our music groups to reflect the same wonderful diversity as our town.

As those of you who have children in the Greenwich Public Schools (GPS) music programs know, the greatest progress in band and orchestra comes from weekly private lessons.  Through our Tuning In to Music (TITM) program, the Alliance provides for private instrument lessons for GPS band and orchestra students in elementary and middle school whose families could not otherwise afford it. It is the Alliance’s hope that these students will continue their interest and participation in music at Greenwich High School.

This year dozens of Tuning In to Music students will receive private lessons in violin, viola, cello, clarinet, flute, trombone, trumpet, and saxophone.  Tuning In to Music is run for the Alliance by Ken Kuo, a concert cellist and founder of the Connecticut School of Music. In addition to playing in their schools’ ensembles, TITM students will perform in the annual year-end recital in Spring 2010.   This is an extra concert where students from GPS elementary and middle schools get to perform together in an opportunity that they do not normally have.