Boston (Top40 Charts / Berklee City Music) Today, the Berklee City
Music Network announces its newest Network member, Vancouver -based
Sarah McLachlan School of
Music . With a commitment to providing music education to underserved and at-risk youth at no cost, the
Sarah McLachlan School of
Music becomes the 43 rd site, and first international site, to join the Berklee City
Music Network. Together, the Berklee City
Music Network sites provide a pathway to higher education by engaging passionate, talented youth in underserved communities in a contemporary music education program.
"It's a great honour for the
Sarah McLachlan School of
Music (SoM) to be recognized as the first international site of Berklee City
Music Network. Through our shared vision, SoM and Berklee City
Music Program come together in the belief of the power of music to foster young people: their life skills, leadership, community and creative thinking, in an ever-changing world,"
Sarah McLachlan , singer-songwriter, and founder of
Sarah McLachlan School of Music, said.
Berklee City
Music is a nonprofit program that harnesses the energy of contemporary music to provide free education to 4th through 12th graders in underserved communities at 43 Network sites, reaching more than 16,000 students in the United States and Canada . The
Sarah McLachlan School of
Music joins this consortium of like-minded music programs that meet Berklee City Music's criteria, including:
- a commitment to providing opportunities;
- a means of creating social value with music resources to youth from underserved communities;
- a clearly articulated commitment to contemporary music education;
- are well-established and favorably regarded in their community;
- and provide well-maintained program facilities suitable for delivering a high-quality music education in a safe environment.
"We are proud and excited by the confidence the
Sarah McLachlan School places in the Berklee City
Music mission, indicative of their election to seek membership in what now has become an international initiative; we look forward to the partnership and learning from the incredible work they, too, have been doing to reach underserved communities with the gift of music education," J. Curtis Warner, Jr. , Executive Director, Berklee City Music, said.
As a member, The
Sarah McLachlan School of
Music also becomes part of a virtual network that offers instant access to the Berklee PULSE™
Music Method , a proprietary online music education platform, as well as webcasting and videoconferencing technologies to provide face-to-face interaction between Berklee City
Music Network students at member sites, and faculty and students at Berklee College of
Music and Berklee City
Music in
Boston .
"We are so honored to have the
Sarah McLachlan School of
Music join the Network and we look forward to seeing young people from across North
America develop their musical skills and self-confidence through our system. With leaders like
Sarah McLachlan , whose passion and commitment to music education for youth is so strong, the City
Music Program has never been more energized to fulfill its deeply purposeful mission," Mark Campbell , Vice President for Enrollment, Berklee College of
Music , said.
