The Arts
Music
Discover Bush Music
Bush Music provides the intuition and skills to communicate through the language of music, empowering students to take ownership of creating music. Through this rich program, student musicians are encouraged to see themselves as instrumentalist, vocalists, performers, and musical thinkers.
By honing their skills, students discover strengths where they didn’t know they existed. Together, they build their imagination, collaboration, problem-solving, and connection skills and unleash their inner musician.
Learn more about the Bush performing arts program by contacting Performing Arts Chair Matt Swanson.
By honing their skills, students discover strengths where they didn’t know they existed. Together, they build their imagination, collaboration, problem-solving, and connection skills and unleash their inner musician.
Learn more about the Bush performing arts program by contacting Performing Arts Chair Matt Swanson.
Bush Music Highlights
Lower School Music
In Lower School Music, every student is empowered to discover and cultivate their own musicality. Through active music-making, students build a strong foundation as ensemble players, choral singers, composers, and performers, developing musical intuition and an appreciation of a wide range of musical styles and traditions. Classes utilize a fun, hands-on approach, incorporating movement, games, listening activities, and small-group projects.
Contact Lower School Music Teacher Juliana Cantarelli Vita for more information.
Middle School Music
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Middle School music students experience, perform, respond to, and connect to music using their voice and musical instruments. Students develop their music skills annually through basic music theory, original composition, sight reading, exploration of digital audio workstations, live improvisation, and solo and group ensemble performances.
Contact Middle School Music Teacher Matt Swanson for more information.
Upper School Music
Upper School Music students explore the theory and process of composing, arranging, orchestrating, recording, and producing original compositions. Emphasis is placed on the importance of building strong group dynamics and how these apply to both the creative process and performance. Students produce albums every year on Bush’s own recording label, Broken Records, and showcase their work twice a year in a culminating performance called The Venue, as well as on Bush School’s student-run radio station, 103.1 FM. In total, 1,245 original songs have been produced by Bush record label Broken Records.
Contact Upper School Music Teacher Landon Ashby for more information.
Maya Angelou
“Music has the ability to create ideas in you and me. It has the ability to encourage us to be creative.”
The Bush School is an independent, coeducational day school located in Seattle, WA enrolling 735 students in grades K–12. The mission of The Bush School is to spark in students of diverse backgrounds and talents a passion for learning, accomplishment, and contribution to their communities
3400 East Harrison Street, Seattle WA 98112 (206) 322-7978
The Bush School does not discriminate in matters of employment, recruitment, admissions, or administration of any of its programs on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national or ethnic origin, disability, gender, or sexual orientation. In addition, The Bush School does not discriminate in matters of employment on the basis of age or marital status