NGU String Project

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The NGU String Project

The NGU String Project is a joint effort between North Greenville University (NGU) and Mountain View Elementary School. It was created with a vision to increase accessibility for Upstate SC children to study stringed instruments. NGU string students and faculty come to Mountain View Elementary School to teach group classes for students in third through fifth grades. Students in third through fifth grade from any school (public, private, charter, homeschool) are invited to participate.

The NGU String Project is made possible through the support of foundations, businesses and a growing community of individual supporters. Consider making a tax-deductible gift so that we can bring you the music you love. 

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The goals and objectives for the NGU String Project are to:

  • Provide an opportunity for SC Upstate elementary school-aged children to study string instruments
  • Reach out to the underserved community in Greenville to ensure that all students have equal opportunity to grow their natural gifts and talents in strings
  • Help strengthen existing and stimulate the growth of new public school orchestra programs in the SC Upstate
  • Encourage Upstate string players to become string teachers
  • Help the American String Teachers’ Association alleviate the nationwide string teacher shortage, especially in the SC Upstate
  • Offer supervised teaching experience for NGU string education majors

 

Policy Statement

 

Become a Teacher in the Strings Project

North Greenville University’s String Department seeks highly motivated and qualified string music education majors to work as teachers in the NGU String Project. Participants receive a string project scholarship and graduate as experienced string teachers, gaining valuable experience from their very first to their final semesters at NGU, learning musical/pedagogical skills, organizational skills, and interpersonal/communication skills.

NGU String Project classes are taught at Mountain View Elementary School under the supervision of the Director of the String Project. Participating NGU string music education majors teach first-year large group classes involving all four bowed stringed instruments, second-year smaller classes of one type of bowed stringed instrument, and third-year (and later) private lessons. Participants will also conduct first, second, and third-year orchestras.

Eligibility to teach in the NGU String Project is dependent on a successful application and audition to NGU’s Cline School of Music as a String Music Education Major. Submit your application to the Cline School of Music online at Music Scholarship Application.

Dr. Michael Weaver
michael.weaver@ngu.edu
NGU String Project Director | String Program Coordinator
North Greenville University
Cline School of Music
864.977.7994

Liz Boehm
liz.boehm@ngu.edu
secretary
Cline School of Music
864.977.7080

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