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STRINGS Amanda Markley Cristina Cosoreanu Leah Hagel- Kahmann Maureen Kelly Annette DiToma Elias Gross Rachel Myers Richard Young Anna Hess Jordan Myers

VOICE Anabelle Wright- Gatton Brittany Benningfield Suna Avci-Gunther Thomas Gunther

WOODWINDS Joe Adams Doug Drewek Sara Finnie Cara Thomas

BRASS Eric Murine Ryan Moore Daniel Johnson Jacob Carpenter

GUITAR Ross Whitaker

PIANO Igor Bogdanic Cara Thomas

PERCUSSION Joe Frank Williams Chris Butler

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Donor InformationThe Central Music Academy is a non-

profit 501(c)(3) organization. As such, it is funded through grants and through the generosity of private donors. This support

allows CMA’s financially disadvantaged students to receive free lessons, finances the Academy’s purchase of instruments

and sheet music, and pays for quality professional musicians to teach private and group lessons. All contributions,

which are tax deductible, ensure that CMA will be able to continue to enrich the lives

of many children for years to come.

Donations can be made through our website, www.centralmusicacademy.org

or by mail to: Central Music Academy

219 E. Short StreetLexington, KY 40507

If you have any other questions, contact Erin Walker Bliss or Michelle Clouse at

859.221.4666

Community PartnershipsThe Central Music Academy has collaborated with the Fayette County Public Schools, the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra, the Central Kentucky Youth Orchestra, the National Symphony, the East End Association, LFUCG Partners for Youth, LexArts, the Carnegie Center, the Kentucky Arts Council, M.A.S.H. of the Bluegrass, UK, the Downtown Lexington Corporation, the Salvation Army, WUKY, Hurst Music, New Horizons Band, Kentucky Refugee Ministries, the Hispanic Education Association, the YMCA, and other neighborhood and community organizations. Through these connections, we have been able to offer private lessons, group classes, and camps to more than 800

children since 2005.

The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, provides operating support to CMA with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

About CMAThe Central Music Academy exists to provide free music performance education for financially disadvantaged children in downtown Lexington, Kentucky. Our faculty members give lessons on 18 different instruments. To give the students a chance to demonstrate their musical skills to their friends and family, we hold recitals each year, and we request that each of our students attend and participate in community outreach performances and masterclasses around Lexington.

The Central Music Academy’s teachers also offer unique courses of study outside of regular private lessons. CMA has programmed jazz and improvisation classes, group guitar classes, clarinet choir, a Wee Move and Groove class for preschool-age kids, and an after-school steel band. Over the summer, the Central Music Academy hosts a World Percussion Camp, which allows students to study music theory, African and Brazilian drums, Chinese percussion, Caribbean steel pans, and “Stomp”-style musical creation (using any type of cheap household object as an instrument).

The Central Music Academy is excited to have two locations to reach

children in downtown Lexington!

To register for lessons, please submit an application through our website, www.centralmusicacademy.org.

Get InvolvedThe Central Music Academy is the only organization in

Lexington that focuses its entire efforts on providing

free music lessons to financially disadvantaged

children. If you are between the ages of 8 and 18 and

if you qualify for free or reduced lunch through FCPS,

then you qualify for free lessons at CMA. We offer

lessons on a variety of instruments (see the

back for a list of instruments offered). If you

are interested, please submit an application

through our website.

Location The Central Music Academy is located at

105 Spruce Street in downtown Lexington,

one block west of the intersection of Elm

Tree Lane and Corral Street. The space

includes multiple teaching studios and

ensemble rooms, a waiting room, ample

parking, and offices for staff. Starting

in the fall of 2014 we will also be giving

satellite lessons at STEAM Academy,

located at 123 East 6th Street.

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