Happy Friday! Amna and Mayra passed their MLS Rockstar test! We are extremely proud of them and their hard work! Amazing work girls!
Summer Camp Excitement!
We are less than a week until our anticipated UCM Summer Camp! Have you signed up yet? Get ready for a musical blast for your children! Sign up today!
What We Offer Here At UCM!
Happy weekend UCM Family! At the United Conservatory of Music Fresno, not only do we offer top quality music lessons in-person as well as on Zoom, we provide our families and students with a safe and healthy environment. In addition, you get to be a part of our wonderful family! Be safe and healthy this week!
Happy Fourth of July from UCM!
We want to wish our UCM Family a happy 4th of July! Be safe celebrating today and we can’t wait to see you all tomorrow!
UCM News and Notes Packet!
Happy Friday UCM Family! Make sure to grab a UCM News and Notes packet from the front desk when you check-in!
We are closed for 4th of July!
Happy Thursday! Just a friendly reminder that we are indeed open tomorrow but closed on July 4th! Have a safe and happy weekend UCM fam!
Music Ladder Trophies!
Look at the amount of trophies our students have earned! We cannot be more proud of our excellent music students and we can’t wait to see them excel even more!
Double the Fun!
Double of Ms. Katie? We are loving our new location and the in-person/zoom lessons! It is a start of a new week and another week of music lessons! We can’t wait to see all of our student’s faces!
Sign up for our Music Summer Camp!
Sign up for our annual UCM Summer Camp this July! Have your kids experience a fun and exciting musical journey!
Date and Times:
UCM Summer Camp 1- July 13-17th (For voice, guitar, drums, and piano!)
Strings Camp - July 20-24th
UCM Summer Camp 2 - July 27-31st (For voice, guitar, drums, and piano!)
Camps will be from 9:30-3:30PM
Info:
Every camp will be offering private and or group lessons along with a small/large ensemble practice and or workshops with all of the participants.
We are following guidelines for social distancing and cleaning procedures in order to promote a clean, safe environment for all of our Summer Camp students.
Throwback to our favorite times!
Throwback to one of our favorite moments: Halloween! We can’t wait until our students dress up and show us their amazing costumes again!
Happy Thursday!
Ms. Kendall here wanted to wish our UCM Family a happy Thursday! Come by and say hello to our wonderful front staff members!
Happy Father's Day!
We wanted to wish all of our dads a Happy Father’s Day! Thank you for being a part of our family and hopefully you had a wonderful time yesterday with your families!
Come Swing By!
Happy Friday UCM Family! We hope you are enjoying our In-Person Lessons again! Greet our front staff while your here and say hello! We can’t wait to see all of our student’s faces again!
Wednesday Fun!
Happy Wednesday UCM Family! We cannot be more excited to see many of our student’s wonderful faces in-person again! These twins had a wonderful piano lesson and we can’t wait for more students to show up at our new location!
If you are a current student, please take our student questionnaire here!
UCM Annual Summer Camp!
Welcome to UCM’s Annual Summer Camp! Join us now for a fun musical experience over the summer and catch the early bird special before June 30th! Click the button below to sign up for our amazing summer camp for your students this upcoming July!
Check out our voice summer camp!
And pictures from our other summer camps here!
Weekly Stringtime Masterclass with Mr. Christopher Clark!
Join us this Friday at Leo Kim's Weekly String Time Masterclasses as we welcome one of our own teachers: Mr. Christopher Clark! He will be talking about his path in music and being a 21st century African American musician. Click "Sign Up" to get in on this special session!
UCM is Reopening!
UCM is reopening for In-Person Lessons on June 15th!
A World Famous Special Guest: Mr. Michael Purcell
Mr. Michael Purcell
Join us this Friday at Leo Kim's Weekly String Time Masterclasses as we welcome a special guest this week: Mr. Michael Purcell, a world famous Philadelphia Luthier! Come join the fun tomorrow to see how Cellos are really made!
UCM Thank You Video - A Message to all our families!
All of us here at the United Conservatory of Music want to relay a thank you to all of our supporting families and students! We can't wait until we see your smiling faces again! Here is a short video featuring all of our faculty!
Find out about our Virtual Lesson options here
~A Special Guest~
UCM is honored to have Fresno State Professor Dr. Thomas Loewenheim featured in our Free Online Master Class tomorrow Friday May 15th @ 11:00am.
Feel free to join us tomorrow by clicking the signing up button at the bottom of the page!
Click here to find out more about the business of UCM!
Bio:
"Thomas Loewenheim is a modern renaissance man: a unique musician who enjoys an international career, combining cello performance, conducting, and teaching at the highest levels. He has toured North America, Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East, performing with orchestras, giving recitals, and playing chamber music, and has been broadcast over the national radio networks in Austria, Canada, and Israel.
Loewenheim is currently Head of Strings, Professor of Cello, and Conductor of the University Orchestra at California State University, Fresno, and the conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of the Youth Orchestras of Fresno. Previously he taught at the Indiana University String Academy and the Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN), and served as music director and conductor of the Musical Arts Youth Orchestra (MAYO) in south-central Indiana.
As a conductor, Loewenheim has earned a reputation for getting the most out of any orchestra, whether coming in for a single performance or festival week, as at the Hong Kong International School Choral and Orchestra Festival, or building an orchestra over a period of years, as at MUN or for MAYO. He founded the iMAYO festival in Bloomington, Indiana, and was a co-founder of the international Tuckamore chamber music festival in St. John's, Newfoundland.
Through his own performing, working with some of the great musicians of our day, and his cumulative experience as a teacher, Loewenheim has synthesized an approach to teaching and conducting which produces a technical confidence that rapidly enables music-making at a sophisticated level. He is currently demonstrating this approach in his master classes around the world.
Loewenheim is also an active researcher, who has been rediscovering lost masterpieces, then performing and editing them. He has been the dedicatee of a number of cello works, most unaccompanied.
Loewenheim earned a doctorate in cello performance from the renowned Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, where he studied with Janos Starker and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, and was mentored in conducting by David Effron. He received a master's degree from the University of Michigan under Erling Blöndal Bengtsson and a bachelor's degree from the Rubin Academy for Music and Dance in Jerusalem. He also took part in master classes with Yo-Yo Ma, Mischa Maisky, Antonio Meneses, Arto Noras, Aldo Parisot, William Pleeth, and Menahem Pressler, among others. He plays a Jean Baptiste Vuillaume cello, made in 1848." - Fresno State