title: Powers Music School
text: # Powers Music School
  
  Powers Music School is a musical institution serving New England for more than 50 years. Powers Music School is a community music center based in Belmont, Massachusetts. The School provides private music lessons, early childhood and group classes, ensembles, orchestra, theory, music therapy, and performance opportunities to over 1000 students throughout Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.
  
  ## Powers Music in the Community
  
  Powers Music School provides the greater Boston community with access to music education programs, well-known faculty, festivals, performances, and outreach programs. Powers offers instruction and performance opportunities for interested students of all ages. In addition, Powers Music School also runs the summer programs Music on the Hill (MOTH), Suzuki on the Hill, String Traditions, and Kids Crescendo. Music on the Hill (MOTH) offers jazz and classical training to advanced high school students, with an emphasis on chamber music, while Kids Crescendo provides a creative musical environment for younger kids.
  
  ## Powers Faculty (partial list)
  
  Judith Bedford, Bassoon
  
  Laura Blustein, Cello
  
  Jessica Cooper, Early childhood
  
  James Doran, guitar Carol Hunt Epple, flute, baroque flute, MOTH** Susanna Fiore, Family Drum Jam, Keys for Kids, Musikgarten Sarah Freiberg, cello Andrew Goodridge, Piano Vladimir Gurin, Piano
  
  Jane Hershey, Viola da gamba, viol consort Levon Hovsepian, piano Faith Hutchison-Williard, flute Yasuko Ishibashi, piano, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, Pow-Wow Veda Kogan, piano Lisle Kulbach, piano, lap harp, recorder Xue (Shirley) Liu, Piano
  
  Collen McGary-Smith, cello Tamara Medoyeva, piano Peter S. Morelli, piano Dubravka Sajfar Moshfegh, viola, violin Sam Ou, cello, MOTH**
  
  Jane Parkhouse, Co-Artistic Director for Pow-Wow Dimitar Petkov, viola, violin, MOTH** Alfa Radford, organ Natacha Rist, piano Kathryn Rosenbach, Piano, piano accompaniment Jay Rosenberg, Suzuki guitar, recorder Michael Shea, Piano) Lucy Joan Sollogub, Guitar, mountain dulcimer Gary Spellissey, Percussion David Stevens, Saxophone, Clarinet Liana Zaretsky, violin, MOTH**
  
  