Easton’s Allegro Academy will be hosting a Young Musicians Workshop on Saturday, October 6, 2018. All youth ages 6-18 are invited to participate. The workshop is free to attend and will take place from 10:00 a.m. to noon, registration begins at 9:45. The workshop will be led by Merideth Buxton and Amy Morgan, teachers of the Allegro Academy. Participants will be introduced to beginning violin and beginning to more advanced singing for older ages, through songs, games, and group activities.
Strings instructor Merideth Buxton estimates that she has given lessons to thousands of children, teens, and adults at Washington College, her studio in Royal Oak, and at workshops in New York, D.C., Virginia, and North Carolina. She is the founder, director, and principal instructor of First Strings, a youth outreach program of Chesapeake Music, and also performs frequently as a viola soloist and orchestra member. Merideth’s background includes a Bachelors in Music Education from the SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music and a Masters in Suzuki Pedagogy from Ithaca College. Mrs. Buxton teaches string instruments with the Allegro Academy.
Mrs. Morgan is a native of the Eastern Shore and an accomplished musician whose education includes a Bachelors degree in Piano Performance from Salisbury University and Masters in Choral Conducting from Messiah College. She is the Artistic Director of the Allegro Academy were she teaches voice and piano lessons and is the conductor of the Allegro Children’s Chorus. She has served as the Director of Music at Trinity Cathedral since 2014 and is the founder of the Allegro Academy.
The Young Musicians Workshop will take place at the Allegro Academy, on the campus of Trinity Cathedral, 315 Goldsborough Street, Easton. The Allegro Academy was founded in 2017 with the mission of offering exceptional music education and performance experiences to the greater Talbot County Area, and to make these offerings affordable to all. Programs of the Academy are funded by the Maryland State and Talbot County Arts Councils. For more information please call Amy Morgan at 410-603-8361 or visit www.allegroacademyeaston.com.
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