Thank you to the Jazz Foundation of America for bringing pianist Bertha Hope, bassist David Colding, drummer Lucianna Padmore, and singer Antoinette Montague to perform and teach music history to WHEELS 6th graders! It's such a blessing to have world-class performers visit WHEELS and inspire us to be better musicians and people.

Thank you to Sarah Elizabeth Charles, Jordan Peters and Harlem Stage for an incredible afternoon of music today. In addition to performing for WHEELS students, Ms. Charles and Mr. Peters engaged the students in conversation about themes like home and belonging, and improvised music with them!

Thank you to ICEBERG New Music for visiting WHEELS today to present their compositions to our third and fourth graders (the next generation of composers)!

We're very proud of our Pre-K through 4th grade students that performed and displayed work at yesterday's Winter Arts Showcase! Thank you to all the families and members of our community that came out to support our students!

Congratulations to the WHEELS band students that performed at the 2018 Johnny Pacheco Latin Music and Jazz Festival at Lehman College! They played new arrangements of Ivan Lins' "She Walks This Earth" and Charlie Parker's "Billie's Bounce." Thank you to Dr. Kurt Gartner for excellent feedback! Check out the video of the performance.

WHEELS students and families got to see Orpheus Chamber Orchestra perform at Carnegie Hall last night! They also got to try playing some of the instruments in the orchestra.

WHEELS middle grades students had the honor of being invited to see Orpheus Chamber Orchestra rehearse with Avi Avital (mandolin) and Ksenija Sidorova (accordion) last Friday. The students got to meet the musicians and learn about how they work together. We're looking forward to seeing Orpheus perform at Carnegie Hall next week!