Statements
Mission
Overture Music Academy exists to serve the Middle Tennessee community by providing excellence in music instruction in a Christian environment.
In addition to offering music instruction, our intent is to develop a supportive community for our musicians and their families.
We offer opportunities for student leadership in all the bands and choirs, which includes but is not limited to student section leader, student conductor, and music librarian.
Our focus is to see development of good moral character and community citizenship in each of our students.
In our choral program, we provide classes that develop holistic singers trained in proper vocal technique and equip them for a lifetime of singing in ensembles ranging from Renaissance to Modern. We offer a non-audition choir for 6th-12th grade students as well as an audition-only choir for 8th-12th grade students who wish to have an additional musical challenge. Our training choir serves to build younger musicians' readiness for using their voices in our performing choirs. Students are encouraged to participate in Middle Tennessee Vocal Association honor choirs.
Our band students are trained in traditional concert band literature and instrument specific technique (scales & score reading). Overture's three bands allow students from Elementary to High School to develop as musicians in an ensemble and to access other community opportunities such as Middle Tennessee Band and Orchestra Association.
Theory students at Overture study deeply the language of music and the inner working of music composition. High schoolers work rigorously on music concepts that align with AP Music Theory coursework, but they go even further and are challenged to think about music in its historical context. Students who complete theory coursework at Overture are prepared for testing out of music theory and aural skills classes at even the most prestigious of 4-year colleges offering BM in music.
Background
Overture Music Academy was launched summer of 2021. We served 45 students from 29 families in the Middle Tennessee area. Our students come from Cheatham, Hickman, Williamson, Davidson, Rutherford, and Maury counties.
Classes run one day each week from August until May.
We have two semesters that each terminate with concerts featuring the 3 bands and 2 choirs. Students perform in the community as a central component of their involvement at Overture in addition to the two semester concerts.
Impact
In year one of existence, we kept our budget expenditures under our income and had a profit of $3,000, which reflects our fiduciary responsibility and longterm goal-setting.
Our middle school and high school students were awarded honors in the Middle Tennessee Vocal Association and the Middle Tennessee State Band and Orchestra Association.
Our students served the community throughout the year with music at BelleMeade Plantation, four Assisted Living facilities, two area churches, & a preschool demonstration.
Our three graduating seniors each received both academic and merit based scholarship for their 4-year college of choice in which they will further their education in the arts.
In the coming years, our plan involves expanding our choral offerings to include a full training choir that serves ages 6-11 and developing our Nuvo instrument class that prepares students for traditional band instruments. We will continue to encourage our students to audition for area honor ensembles & scholarship opportunities as well as a summer programming such as Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts, summer camps such as Brevard Music Center & Interlocken & Sewanee.
We'll be seeking to add staff to further expand musical instruction in both band and choral ensembles as well as academic course offerings in music history and theory.
Needs
Overture Music Academy is seeking to build capital that affords our new organization to expand its programming to serve a broader middle Tennessee community in the following ways:
facility rent assistance up to $10,000
gift of land and/or a meeting location that can serve other homeschool tutorials in the middle Tennessee area on days OMA doesn't meet
band instrument lending library up to $5,000 (or donations of instruments)
scholarship students in need up to $5,000
instrument acquisition $10,000
music library development $2,000
Service Categories |
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| Primary Category: | Arts, Culture & Humanities - Music |
| Secondary Category: | Arts, Culture & Humanities - Arts Education |
| Tertiary Category: | - |
Areas Served
| TN - Williamson |
| TN - Rutherford |
| TN - Maury |
| TN - Hickman |
| TN - Cheatham |
| TN - Davidson |
| TN - Dickson |
| TN - Giles |
| TN - Marshall |
| TN - Sumner |
| TN - Wilson |
| TN - Bedford |
| TN - Lewis |
| TN - Lawrence |
| TN - Robertson |
