Organization Details:

The Harmony Program trains college and graduate student musicians to teach music to economically disadvantaged young people. Harmony's student-instructors receive professional development training, classroom observation and evaluation, and hourly stipends for their teaching services. Harmony's beginner musicians receive musical instruments, music instruction, books, supplies, and tickets to cultural events, all entirely free of charge.

The dual objective of the Harmony Program is simultaneously to develop a new generation of music students and music instructors. In doing so, Harmony seeks to fulfill the larger social mission of expanding access among under-served communities to music education and the creativity, self-confidence, discipline, and teamwork it engenders.

Description and/or History:
The Harmony Program began as a pilot program in the New York City Mayor's Office and was later incorporated as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization.
This year the Harmony Program entered into a formal relationship with the City University of New York (CUNY).

Harmony now recruits college students from CUNY schools and places them in after-school instrumental music programs in nearby public schools. Participating CUNY students receive training, observation/evaluation, and hourly stipends for their teaching services, while participating children receive musical instruments, daily instruction, books, supplies and cultural experiences...all entirely free of charge.

Contact person: Anne Fitzgibbon, Executive Director, (212) 794-5697, (email)

Address:

535 East 80th Street Room 620 New York, NY 10075 (See a map)

Directions:

Take 4/5 or 6 trains to East 77th or 86th Street. Walk East to East End Avenue.   Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: 77th or 86th,   Walk distance (in minutes): 5