Last weekend thirteen WHEELS middle and high school students auditioned for Camp MSM, a competitive summer program at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music. They learned a lot from the experience and were excellent representatives of WHEELS Music.

Last weekend ten WHEELS middle and high school students performed at Jazz at Lincoln Center with a combo and the Middle School Jazz Academy big band. They played jazz standards like "Take the A Train" and "Come Sunday" with some of the best young jazz musicians in the city!

Also last weekend, thanks to the generosity of Access Orpheus, WHEELS students and families got to see pianist Khatia Buniatishvili perform with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall!

On Friday 6th grade music students presented musical instruments they created and compositions they wrote at the first annual 6th Grade Musical Instrument Expo! Families as well as students and teachers from different grades came to see the 6th graders' presentations.

WHEELS Music students performed at the WHEELS Wolves basketball home game last Thursday, and helped celebrate our win!

















Meanwhile, in 6th and 7th grade music classes students have been composing and performing their own compositions for keyboard, percussion and band instruments!

WHEELS band students performed at the WHEELS Wolves basketball home game last week, and they will perform again this week at Thursday's home game!

All 90 WHEELS 7th graders performed in concerts today! Every student played piano as well as percussion, and some played additional instruments, performing songs like "Oye Como Va," "Compadre Pedro Juan," and "Lean On Me." We're very proud of our students' hard work in 7th grade general music class and band class, and thankful to all of the families, teachers and students that came to hear them play.

WHEELS music students in 8th-12th grades played three concerts in a row Thursday, Friday and Saturday. First was Capital One's holiday party, next was our annual College March, and last was Synpulse's holiday party. We're very proud of our music students' professional and creative performances, and of all our seniors we celebrated at the College March!