We are offering our first ever Group Songwriting Class over Zoom! This biweekly course will be held remotely every other Wednesday from 7:30-9pm starting on April 29th. We will be offering a teen section for students ages 14-17, and an adult, 18+ group that will meet on opposite weeks. You can expect to learn the tools to write your own music by analyzing the songs you love in addition to the work of your peers. Our goal is to help you grow as writers and musicians through collaboration and practicing creativity together.
Our 2020 Spring Break and Summer Camps will be held this year using Zoom! Each camp is an action packed week of creative music making, art projects and performances. Read about the camps and sign up below!
Explore is an introductory music class for kids from ages 4-5. The goal is to teach kids music fundamentals like rhythm and melody while helping to foster their love of music and spark their creativity. Each month of the class focuses on a musical project such as learning to play a new song as a band, songwriting, recording and looping, and more.
Emerging Artists I is for students, ages 6 and 7, who are excited to explore the instruments that we offer and perform as a band. Students will come together for weekly, hour-long rehearsals that will include lessons in foundational musicianship skills including rhythm, melody and the basics of drums, vocals, keys, and guitar.
Emerging Artists are young musicians on the rise, eager to hit the stage and perform. This program is for kids 8-10 who’ve had a few months of private lessons or experience in Emerging Artists I and have some basic fundamental skills on either guitar, bass, drums, keys, or voice. The goal is for kids to use these new skills and work together as a band to put on an amazing show, and make giant personal strides in the process.
So you’ve learned the basics of your instrument, time to join the band! Sunburst Rocks is our group band performance program for kids ages 10-17. This program includes weekly 2-hour band rehearsals and seasonal performances at great venues and events.
Are you an aspiring young singer? Check out the Suntones! Our group vocal and a’cappella program for kids 10-17. Each week, kids get together for a 2 hour rehearsal and work on harmony, melody, rhythm and a set of songs for a seasonal concert.
At WSBR: Sunburst Radio, students ages 10-17 learn digital music composition, songwriting, beat-making, interviewing skills, live sound recording, performance, and other producing skills to produce their own professional quality radio program.
Ready to make some noise? The Sunburst Drum Ensemble is for dedicated drum set students interested in joining together to make some seriously powerful grooves!
The Sunburst House Band is an audition only program that puts together an all-star group of kids to represent Sunburst. Each year in February we hold an audition open to any Sunburst students 10-17 and choose between 5-8 band members to be our House Band for the year.
Sunburst Rocks 21+ is a band performance program for adults only. Our band members will get together once per week for a 2-hour coached band rehearsal, taking the skills they’ve been honing on their individual instruments and putting them together into a whole greater than the sum of its parts.
Our Band Coaching program is for bands who’ve formed in our group programs or outside of Sunburst who are ready to really get involved in the Pittsburgh music scene.
