After submitting more than a dozen original compositions to the Little Kids Rock 2016 Songwriting Exhibition, WHEELS Music students were the lucky winners of a PA system and loop pedals from Little Kids Rock!

Yesterday, WHEELS Music students got to see pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii rehearse with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra!

WHEELS band students performed yesterday at the TAC-D Summer Institute at NYU for the third year in a row. It was great to see many people in the audience singing and dancing along!

Last weekend nine WHEELS students performed with middle and high school bands at Jazz at Lincoln Center! Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra trombonist Vincent Gardner even sat in! We're very proud of our students' hard work.

This evening one of our eighth grade music students had the honor of playing viola with members of the New York Philharmonic as part of the Harmony Program All Stars! It took a lot of hard work to get to this level and be selected for this performance.

Yesterday WHEELS had the privilege of hosting the jazz big band from La ENA (Escuela Nacional de Arte), the top music school in Cuba. This band of talented high school students is performing in New York City throughout this week thanks to collaboration between La ENA, Jazz at Lincoln Center and Horns to Havana. WHEELS middle and high school students got to hear an incredible concert of jazz standards and Afro-Cuban music, and were also fortunate enough to have time to meet the student musicians and ask them questions.

WHEELS band students performed last Wednesday for an enthusiastic crowd at our Family Teacher Association's International Potluck! Thank you to all the families, students and staff for showing support and sharing great food.

WHEELS band students had three big performances over the past week. Tuesday night was the EL Education Gala, Wednesday night was WHEELS Up, and Sunday afternoon was Good Deeds Day with the VH1 Save the Music Foundation at Herald Square!