Missouri String Project - Community Programs - School of Music

Contact
Leslie Perna, Professor of Viola
Director, Missouri String Project
259 Fine Arts Building
University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri 65211-6120
phone: 573-882-2748
fax: 573-884-7444
email: mostring@missouri.edu

click here to enroll via the
NEW online application*

*If you submitted an online application prior to 8/21/12,
please re-submit. This was due to an email address error.
We apologize for the inconvenience.

pdf downloads:
MSP Application
MSP Open House Information flier

For further information about all of the
School of Music’s community programs, please contact Jonathan Kuuskoski, Director of
Entrepreneurship and Community Programs
140 Fine Arts Building
Columbia, MO 65211-6120
phone: 573-882-2605
fax: 573-884-7444
email: KuuskoskiJ@missouri.edu

The Missouri String Project has been a part of the Columbia community since 1973. The Project has a two-fold mission – to prepare University music students for their future as public school and private teachers, and to introduce 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students to music by giving them the opportunity to study the violin, viola or cello. MU music education and performance majors serve as teachers, and receive instruction and guidance from MU viola professor Leslie Perna, the Director of the MSP. Young students are provided instruction through group lessons and string chamber orchestra rehearsals, and perform their own concerts each semester. These students benefit from inexpensive yet extensive instruction from excited and energetic teachers, while teachers who participate get invaluable hands-on teaching experience in a supervised atmosphere of learning before they graduate to jobs in the public schools or begin their own private teaching studios. Dozens of teachers from the project have found the experience invaluable as they pursue a career in teaching, as well as in their day to day professional lives. Hundreds of young students have begun their musical lives with the MSP, and many still play today.

The 2012-13 MSP concerts will take place Friday, December 9th, 2012 and
Sunday, May 12th, 2013 at 3:00pm in the Fine Arts Building Recital Hall

Monday Group Class
(4:10-5:00PM for 1st Years;
5:10-6:00PM for 2nd Years)
Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25
Mar. 4, 11, 18,
Apr. 1, 15, 22, 29
May 6

Wednesday Group Class
(4:10-5:00PM for 1st Years;
5:10-6:00PM for 2nd Years)
Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27
Mar. 6, 13, 20
Apr. 3, 10, 17, 24
May 1, 8

Friday String Orchestra
(5:10-6:00PM)
Feb. 8, 15, 22
Mar. 1, 8, 15
Apr. 5, 12, 19, 26
May 3, 10

Your class day will remain the same as last semester, unless you request a change.

3rd Year Students Meet:

Wednesday Group Class
(5:10-6:00PM)
Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27
Mar. 6, 13, 20
Apr. 3, 10, 17, 24
May 1, 8

Group lessons take place in the Fine Arts Building (FAB):
Violins, FAB 145 & 146
Violas, FAB 148
Cellos, FAB 134

All Orchestra classes take place in Loeb Hall, room 201 (1st & 3rd Years) and 112 (2nd Years)

Tuition is $180 per semester*, due the first Friday class, February 4th.
*We keep our costs very low, and are able to offer an outstanding fee. Students receive 1 group class and 1 orchestra class per week, plus the final concert and possible private lessons for this one low fee. The Missouri String Project is self-supporting, and this fee pays our hard-working teachers. Checks, made payable to the Missouri String Project, or cash are accepted. The MSP enrollment form and your payment will reserve a place for your child in the MSP. Therefore, this fee is non-refundable. 3rd year students should also register for MYO Junior Strings, as they rehearse with that group on Sundays. The $180 covers enrollment in both programs. It is not possible for 5th graders to register for only MSP or MYO at a reduced rate.

We'd like to hear from you! If you have any questions, please contact us by calling 884-4939 or emailing mostring@missouri.edu.

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