The music education program at SEA provides students in K4 through Eight grade with the comprehensive fundamentals of music making. By the time students graduate from SEA, they are integrating and utilizing all of the skills that they have gained in cumulative years to play, compose, and understand music. Dan Rather wrote, "Music is exciting! It is thrilling to be sitting in a group of musicians playing (more or less) the same piece of music. You are part of a great, powerful, vibrant entity. And nothing beats the feeling you get when you've practiced a difficult section over and over and finally get it right (yes, even on the wood block). Music is important. It says things your heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders, turns smiles into frowns, and vice versa.” 

 

 

Sweetwater Episcopal Academy recognizes that performance is a very integral part in a student's musical development. Students in K4 through Second Grade perform in both a Christmas production and a Spring production each year. Students in grades 3-8 perform in a traditional Christmas production as well as take part in Evening of the Arts, an event designed to showcase the many musical and artistic individual talents our student's possess, as well as conglomerative grade-level performance efforts in music, art, and dance. 

 

 

Choral music is the basis of the music program at SEA. The choirs that stem from SEA students exist to educate and train students in the arts and technique of choral music, and to perform with the highest artistic standards/ It is SEA’s intent to provide the highest quality instruction and singing technique and music theory, and to expose our students to the best repertoire and the highest performance standards appropriate to their age and ability.

 

 

 

Julie Shatley-Campese