Summer Enrollment Coming Soon!
JMU Music Academy
Designed for beginners and developing learners, Music Academy classes are tailored for adults to make music in a fun, no-pressure environment!
These recreational music classes meet on JMU campus and are open to JMU faculty, staff, students, and adults of the local community.
Classes are offered in full sessions or half sessions depending on theme or instrument. For more details, read below.
Summer enrollment coming soon! Registration will be available under the specific classes below.
Music Academy Offerings
Guitar Classes (Summer Offerings)
Five weeks of beginner guitar including various ways of getting started!
Time: Tuesdays, 6:00-6:50pm
Dates Offered: May 26-June 23 OR July 7-August 4
Instructor: Thaddeus Jackson
Email: jacks2ti@jmu.edu
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Special class for teens.
Time: Tuesdays, 7:00-7:50pm
Dates: July 7-August 4
Instructor: Thaddeus Jackson
Email: jacks2ti@jmu.edu
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Piano Classes (Summer Offerings)
Contemporary and traditional Christian worship songs in different styles and genres for beginner level for 5 weeks.
Time: Tuesdays, 6:00-6:50pm
Dates: May 26-June 23
Instructor: Natalie Doughty
Email: doughtna@jmu.edu
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Contemporary and traditional Christian worship songs in different styles and genres for intermediate level for 5 weeks.
Time: Tuesdays, 7:00-7:50pm
Dates: May 26-June 23
Instructor: Natalie Doughty
Email: doughtna@jmu.edu
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Beginner piano class covering various ways to get started at the piano.
Time: Tuesdays, 6:00-6:50pm
Dates: July 7-August 4
Instructor: Natalie Doughty
Email: doughtna@jmu.edu
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Special piano pop chording and improvisation class for beginner and intermediate teen piano players for 5 weeks.
Time: Tuesdays, 7:00-7:50pm
Dates: July 7-August 4
Instructor: Natalie Doughty
Email: doughtna@jmu.edu
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Voice Classes (Summer Offerings)
Beginner voice class concepts and tunes!
Time: Tuesdays, 6:00-6:50pm
Dates: May 26-June 23
Instructor: Georgia Orfanides
Email: orfanigm@jmu.edu
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Covering beginner voice concepts in one week instead of over the course of five weeks.
Time: Monday-Friday, 6:00-6:50pm
Dates: June 15-19
Instructor: Georgia Orfanides
Email: orfanigm@jmu.edu
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Natalie Doughty
Director and Primary Piano Instructor, JMU Music Academy
Thaddeus Jackson
Guitar Instructor, JMU Music Academy
Georgia Orfandies
Voice Instructor, JMU Music Academy
Linlin Uta
Aural Skills Instructor; Music Theory Instructor, JMU Music Academy
