The Music Department offers a wide range of courses that afford all students the opportunity to make a lifelong connection to the art form by experiencing the music of different time periods, styles, and cultures through listening, study, creation, and performance. Students begin to explore music in Kindergarten through vocalization, Orff and rhythm instruments and production. In Fourth Grade all students play the recorder while fifth graders study singing in addition to playing an instrument. Primary and Lower School students regularly perform in School assemblies throughout the year. Beginning in Sixth Grade, students make the choice of either participating in orchestra or band, or singing in the chorus, and Seventh Grade marks a student’s first opportunity to engage in formal jazz study. In addition to the many in school and evening performance opportunities in both vocal and instrumental music, our Upper School students have the option of studying Music Theory and Composition.