News

Leo Steinriede was selected as the winner of the prestigious Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 8th Annual Essentially Ellington Dr. J. Douglas White Student Composition and Arranging Contest.

Faculty member Martha Glaze-Zook will present a new webinar, “Discovering and Exploring Musical Play” on March 5 on the Hearing First platform.

Settlement student Gabby Greene returns to our Willow Grove Branch for voice instruction after performing in the Broadway cast of School of Rock.

Obataiye Lyles, Josif Collazo, and Blue Shelton were named among the winners of this year’s Study-Grant, which supports high school artists.

When faced with a large tuition bill for a summer piano academy, our Germantown student Obataiye Lyles decided to raise the funds himself on GoFundMe.

In the Summer 2019 edition of the Greater Northeast Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce’s InBusiness magazine, Settlement Music School CEO Helen Eaton explains how community arts schools are uniquely positioned to help advance Philadelphia’s economic future through what they teach.

Cole Griscom performed his own composition, Theme and Variations in E-flat Minor, at the Golden Key Music Festival in Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall.

Jadon Heath, piano student of Stephanie Ben-Salem at our Wynnefield Branch, took the Gold Medal prize in both the Contemporary and Classical categories of the NAACP’s Philadelphia region ACT-SO competition.

We talked with pianist Sandra Carlock, Arthur Judson Distinguished Faculty Chair, who has been recognized as a Top Music Teacher by Steinway & Sons for the third year in a row.