Community School of the Arts Archives

Community School receives Wurlitzer Foundation Fund Grant

The NIU Community School of the Arts has received a $2,500 Farny R. Wulitzer Foudation Fund Grant grant from the DeKalb County Community Foundation. This is a continuation of several years of Wurlitzer Grants received by the Community School. In all, $116,100 was...

Apply by October 28 to audition for CSA Sinfonia Concerto Competition 2022

The Community School of the Arts at Northern Illinois University invites musicians eighteen years old and younger to audition in the annual CSA Sinfonia Concerto Competition.  Applications must be received by October 28.  Auditions are scheduled in the Recital Hall of...

Register for lessons, classes and ensembles at NIU Community School of the Arts

The NIU Community School of the Arts has provided high-quality arts education opportunities for community members of all ages for more than 30 years.  CSA programs and activities currently offered for personal enrichment include music and art classes, music ensembles,...

Still time to sign up for summer online arts camps

The NIU Community School of the Arts is offering online summer camps for kids ages 11-19 (grades 6-12). Have fun and make lifelong friends while exploring your love of performing and visual arts. Faculty, staff and alumni from the College of Visual and Performing Arts...
Honors Recital to feature CSA Talent Scholarship Winners 

Honors Recital to feature CSA Talent Scholarship Winners 

Six talented young musicians perform in the annual CSA Honors Recital at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb on Saturday, February 27 at 1:30 p.m.  All are recipients of this year’s CSA Talent Scholarship, awarded annually by the NIU Community School of the Arts. ...

Online Auditions for CSA Youth Sinfonia scheduled for May 30

Online Auditions for CSA Youth Sinfonia scheduled for May 30

High school musicians ages 14 - 20 are invited to audition online for CSA Sinfonia on Saturday May 30.  Auditions begin at 11 a.m. and must be scheduled in advance.  Brass and woodwind musicians, string instrument players and percussionists are encouraged to audition....

Registration is open for NIU Online Theatre Summer Camps

Registration is open for NIU Online Theatre Summer Camps

NIU offers a new and exciting online summer camp experience for middle school and high school students who enjoy theatre arts! For more than 30 years Northern Illinois University has offered fine arts residential summer camps. This summer, Online Theatre Arts campers...

Community School offers Suzuki Workshop November 2

Community School offers Suzuki Workshop November 2

At the annual Community School of the Arts Suzuki Workshop on Saturday November 2, guest Suzuki teachers from Virginia, California and Arizona will visit the NIU Music Building to work with Suzuki Strings violin students and guest students representing Suzuki programs...

NIU Percussion Camp Returns This Summer

NIU Percussion Camp Returns This Summer

Registration is open for NIU Percussion Camp, as part of our annual Summer in the Arts at Northern series.  The College of Visual and Performing Arts invites middle and high school students to explore the amazing world of percussion this summer. Hands-on camp...

CVPA presents second annual Convocation, Monday, Jan. 22

CVPA presents second annual Convocation, Monday, Jan. 22

Experience firsthand the talents of students in the Northern Illinois University College of Visual and Performing Arts at the second annual Convocation, January 22 at 4:30 p.m.  The free event brings together student artists and performers from the NIU schools of art...

Margaret O’Malley wins CSA Sinfonia Concerto Competition

Margaret O’Malley wins CSA Sinfonia Concerto Competition

Violinist and violist Margaret O'Malley of Glen Ellyn, Ill., is this year's winner of the Northern Illinois University Community School of the Arts Sinfonia Concerto Competition.  Margaret won the competition at NIU for her audition of the first movement of the Violin...

Suzuki workshop offered at NIU, Nov. 4

Suzuki workshop offered at NIU, Nov. 4

At the annual NIU Suzuki Workshop on Saturday November 4, guest Suzuki teachers from Wisconsin, Iowa and Alabama will visit the NIU Music Building to work with NIU Suzuki Strings students, and with guest violin and cello students representing Suzuki programs...

Fall-Spring Community School of the Arts schedule is online

Fall-Spring Community School of the Arts schedule is online

The complete schedule of Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 offerings is online now, and registration for fall is underway. Browse through all of the music lessons, music ensembles, music classes and art classes that we have to offer.  Classes are open to anyone from age one...

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