Community Arts Access Project

The Keyboard Festival will provide area piano teachers the opportunity to be evaluated on their teaching strategies and to receive fresh insights and methods in teaching. The Keyboard Festival will allow area piano students increase their skill level while meeting other piano students, listen to each other play, and interact through fun activities during the Keyboard Festival. Each clinician and teacher is asked to fill out a written evaluation after the completion of the Festival. We encourage parents, students, and volunteers to fill out an evaluation or submit written comments. Following the Festival the Music Center staff and volunteers meet to go over the evaluations and make recommendations for next year which we immediately put in place for the planning. We will track and expect 80% of past teacher participants to attend the 2017 Keyboard Festival and 70% of past student/family participants to return. 30 participating students will perform at a high enough level of proficiency to be a performer in the Honors Concert following the Festival.