CONCORDIA CONSERVATORY PRESENTS A LIVESTREAM VERSION OF THE ANNUAL MUSIC PLAY-A-THON FOR SCHOLARSHIP
Bronxville, NY – Concordia Conservatory presents its annual Music Play-a-thon for Scholarship as a LIVESTREAM EVENT on Saturday March 13 from 9:30 am – 4:00 pm from the Sommer Center at Concordia College New York.
“With restrictions on in person gatherings still in place, we are transforming our Music Play-a-thon for Scholarship into an even bigger event this year, able to reach more viewers and donors via the internet,” said Kathleen Suss, Executive Director of Concordia Conservatory.
The Music Play-a-thon for Scholarship will feature Conservatory faculty and student instrumentalists and vocalists performing in front of a livestream camera throughout the day in five and ten minute intervals. Students have asked family and friends to make a suggested $10 donation in in support of their performances.
The public can watch the livestream on the Conservatory’s YouTube channel and make donations at concordiaconservatory.org or by contacting Melinda Magnani at Melinda.magnani@concordia-ny.edu or 914-395-4507. All funds go directly to the Conservatory Scholarship Fund and the Outreach Program. Concordia Conservatory has been holding annual student and faculty fundraising events since 2003.
The Music Play-a-thon for Scholarship ensures scholarship funding to students of all ages with an inability to afford instruction/therapy. In addition the Conservatory offers free outreach enrichment to area elementary, middle, and high schools in the Westchester and Fairfield communities. The scholarship fund awards over 600 need and merit based scholarships per year.
Concordia Conservatory’s mission is to inspire, instruct, and enrich lives through music by offering excellence in education and performance.
About Concordia Conservatory
Concordia Conservatory, a preeminent center for music education in Westchester County, is a welcoming community where children and adults find lifelong inspiration and joy through learning, performing, listening to, and participating with others in music. Concordia Conservatory offers top quality music programs for early childhood, youth, adults and seniors. The Conservatory’s mission is to inspire, instruct, and enrich lives through music, offering excellence in education and performance. Concordia Conservatory is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt educational institution. Since 1977, Concordia Conservatory has offered music programs for early childhood, youth, and adults. Financial aid and active community outreach partnerships provide access for all. Concordia Conservatory is governed by a 17-member board of directors.
The mission of Concordia Conservatory is to inspire, instruct, and enrich lives through music, offering excellence in education and performance. Concordia Conservatory, an accredited member of the National Guild of Community Arts Education, offers top-quality music programs for early childhood, youth and adults and seniors in Bronxville, New York. With a faculty of highly educated, working musicians and artists, Concordia Conservatory has developed a rich array of programming. Offerings include private instruction in all instruments including voice, group and chamber music instruction, music theory and composition, musical theatre classes, an annual tuition-free community musical production, early childhood music classes, concert series, and camps, music and literature series at public libraries, an honors music program, classes, and music private instruction. Concordia Conservatory’s student body of over 1,500 is drawn from diverse surrounding communities that cover the gamut economically, from affluent Bronxville to impoverished Yonkers. Conservatory’s financial aid and active community outreach partnerships provide access for all, and the diverse faculty and student population represent over 20 countries. Currently over 400 students receive financial aid or full scholarships.