What is the Community Music Center?
In partnership with Chestnut Commons and the Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation, this location is the inaugural site of our Community Music Center Initiative which offers top-quality music education programming at locations convenient and accessible to families across New York City. Chestnut Commons is a new mixed-use building serving residents of Cypress Hills and East New York.
Registration (La inscripción)
Sign up your child for the spring semester at BKCM’s Community Music Center at Chestnut Commons!
Please fill out the Interest Form below to register your student.
The Chestnut Commons CMC spring semester runs for twelve Saturdays, from March 8th-June 7, 2025.
Saturday Classes
- Early Music Learners: 1-3 years old (with guardian) or 4-6 years old (without guardian)
- Found Sound Ensemble: 7-8 years old
- Beginning Guitar: 9-14 years old
- Intermediate Guitar: 9-14 years old with at least 6 months of prior guitar instruction
- Chestnut Band Academy (Beginning and Intermediate): 9-14 years old. The instruments offered are Clarinet, Flute, Trumpet and percussion. 6 months’ experience is required to enroll in the Intermediate Band Academy class.
Payment Contribution
- Early childhood, recorder and guitar lessons are 50 minutes each. You can choose to pay $100, $80, or $60 for 12 weeks.
- Chestnut Band Academy classes (Beginning and Intermediate) are 100 minutes each. You can choose to pay $225, $175 or $125.
*Please pay what you can afford — no student will be turned away due to financial need or due to a lack of an instrument!
¡Inscribe a su hijo/a en las clases de música del BKCM en el Chestnut Commons!
Para inscribirse, por favor llene el Formulario de Interés hoy.
Las clases inician el sábado 8 de marzo. El semestre dura 12 semanas, hasta el sábado 7 de junio.
Clases de los sábados
- Iniciación musical: Para los niños entre 1 a 3 años (con el padre responsable) o niños de 4 a 6 años (sin el padre o responsable)
- Conjunto de sonidos encontrados: Para niños de 7 a 8 años.
- Guitarra principiante: Para estudiantes de 9 a 14 años.
- Guitarra intermedia: Para estudiantes de 9 a 14 años con al menos 6 meses de experiencia tocando la guitarra.
- Academia de Banda de Chestnut (principiante o intermedio): Para estudiantes de 9 a 14 años que tocan el clarinete, la flauta, la trompeta o la percusión. Estudiantes con al menos 6 meses de experiencia en su instrumento pueden inscribirse en el nivel intermedio.
Contribución de la familia
- Las lecciones en iniciación musical, flauta dulce y guitarra tienen una duración de 50 minutos cada una. Puede optar por pagar $100, $80 o $60 por las 12 semanas.
- Las clases de la Academia de Banda de Chestnut (Principiantes e Intermedios) tienen una duración de 100 minutos. Puede optar por pagar $225, $175 o $125 por 12 semanas.
*Por favor, pague lo que pueda. ¡Ningún estudiante será rechazado a causa de necesidad financiera o si no posee un instrumento!
Community Music Center Classes
EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC & MOVEMENT
10:15am-11am (1-3 year olds)
11:15am-12pm (4-6 year olds)
12:15pm-1pm (mixed ages, returning students only)
Our program integrates singing, movement, instrumental play, body percussion, speech, poetry and drama. Children play pitched and non-pitched percussion instruments and experience the basic principles of ensemble playing. The children start learning to recognize written notation combined into rhythmic patterns.
Our very popular song repertoire includes games, chants and dances from the diverse cultures that make up our city. Listening, producing a sensitive tone, maintaining a steady beat, starting and stopping together are concepts that are positively reinforced by our devoted team of early childhood music specialists.
¡La Sra. Emma siempre trae la diversión con canciones, movimiento y juegos musicales!
FOUND SOUND ENSEMBLE
12:15pm-1pm (Ages 7-8)
This fun and instructive class will give students the opportunity to compose songs, explore a wide range of instruments from the wind, string and percussion families, and reenact a story from one of the books we use in class. (An introduction to recorder will also be available to the older students.)
Students will get to make their own instruments, begin to read notes and rhythms, and play music games in an ensemble to develop their creative expression.
¡Los estudiantes componen canciones, exploran una amplia gama de instrumentos de las familias de viento, cuerdas y percusión! En esta clase divertida, también tienen la oportunidad de recrear una historia de uno de los libros que usamos en clase, construir sus propios instrumentos y aprender a leer música y ritmos.
(Para los estudiantes mayores, la instrucción en la flauta dulce sigue disponible.)
BEGINNING & INTERMEDIATE GUITAR
10:15am-11am (beginning)
11:15am-12pm (intermediate)*
12:15pm-1pm (beginning)
Students will learn the fundamentals of guitar performance, including chord shapes, strumming patterns, reading chord diagrams and following lead sheets. Repertoire choices draw from a broad variety of songs from all over the world and include both accompanying singing with the guitar and playing individual parts within a guitar ensemble.
*6 months experience needed on guitar for intermediate class
¡En ésta clase de 45 minutos, los estudiantes aprenden a tocar acordes, rasgueo y a acompañar sus canciones favoritas!
*Se requieren 6 meses de experiencia en guitarra para la clase intermedia
(Los instrumentos pueden ser proporcionados por pedido.)
CHESTNUT BAND ACADEMY (Beginners)
10:15am to 12pm (Ages 9-14)
Our program invites students 4th grade and up to choose Clarinet, Flute, Trumpet or Percussion. Throughout the year, students learn to read notes and rhythms, develop good posture, breath support, and ensemble skills. We introduce students to popular repertoire and styles from the many diverse cultures of our city and the world. Beginning students work in individual instrumental groups while they achieve a basic proficiency on their instrument. After several weeks of practice, students are also given the opportunity to combine with the other instrumental sections to broaden their listening and ensemble skills.
¡Éste programa de 2 horas incluye lección semi-privada y clases de ensamble!
Los Instrumentos ofrecidos son: Clarinete, Flauta, Trompeta ó Percusión.
(Los instrumentos pueden ser proporcionados por pedido)
CHESTNUT BAND ACADEMY (Intermediate)
12:15pm-2pm (Ages 9-14)
Our highly popular Band Academy is geared for students with at least 6 Months experience on one of the following instruments: Clarinet, Flute, Saxophone, Trumpet, Trombone, Percussion. This program is for students who have some proficiency on their instrument. Throughout the year, students continue to learn to read notes and rhythms, develop good posture, breath support, and ensemble skills. We introduce students to popular repertoire and styles from the many diverse cultures of our city and the world. Students are also given the opportunity to combine with the other instrumental sections to broaden their listening and ensemble skills.
¡Éste programa de 2 horas incluye lección semi-privada y clases de ensamble!
*Se requieren 6 meses de experiencia en uno de los siguientes instrumentos: Clarinete, Flauta, Saxofón, Trompeta, Trombón ó Percusión.
(Los instrumentos pueden ser proporcionados por pedido)
Instruments can be provided upon request.
Los instrumentos pueden ser proporcionados por pedido