Guitar Horizons
We believe music is a powerful tool for social change and guitar education is an ideal vehicle for delivering the benefits music has for individuals and communities.
Teaching Artists
SLCG employs expert Teaching Artists who co-teach with Classroom Music Teachers. This provides valuable guitar knowledge and empowers Classroom Music Teachers to run the program on their own.
Professional Development
SLCG offers professional development sessions where Classroom Music Teachers engage in practice teaching. In addition, SLCG hosts an annual Teacher Training Seminar led by the developers of GuitarCurriculum.Com from Austin, TX.
In School Residencies
SLCG brings artists from all over the world to perform concerts right here in St. Louis. Some of these artists also visit schools to perform for and engage with young students providing a model of success and inspiration.
All-Metro Guitar Day 2024
Please join us for this public recital on Sunday, April 21st, 3:00pm in the Lee Theatre at UMSL’s Touhill Performing Arts Center!
All-Metro Guitar Day is an annual concert put on by St. Louis Classical Guitar to feature the hard work from our students who participate in the Guitar Horizons program. These programs focus on learning the guitar in an ensemble setting, specifically curriculum created by Austin Classical Guitar. These students, ranging from Elementary to High School level, will perform in a guitar orchestra all together, as well as featured smaller ensembles. School districts involved include Hazelwood, Ferguson-Florissant, SLPS, Normandy, and Gene Slay Girls & Boys Club.
Free and open to the public!
Teaching Artists
Providing Teaching Artists (TA) to music classrooms is the most impactful way for SLCG to reach our communities. Our TAs are experts in their field and can assist classroom music teachers in navigating the trickiest parts of teaching guitar. Learn more about each teacher below:
Currently, Guitar Horizons supports 25 programs with a TA. These programs are focused in Ferguson-Florissant School District, as well as neighboring north county schools and St. Louis City Public Schools. In each of these programs, our TA attends twice weekly to co-teach with a classroom music teacher either during school or as a before or after-school class.
Professional Development
SLCG provides ongoing Professional Development (PD) opprotunities for music teachers and guitar instructors in the St. Louis and regional area.
We are lucky to have worked with Austin Classical Guitar for 7 years to provide a comprehensive teacher training option each summer. The Teacher Summit is a three day training session designed to serve both new and veteran guitar teaching partners with deep dives into the latest music, resources, adaptations, and techniques available for classroom success.
Be on the look-out for teaching training opportunities Summer 2024!
Learn more by reading our blog post below:
In School Residencies
2023 Residency Artists - Adam Levin
Exposing children to engaging and inspiring performers can impact their lives in ways we cannot even imagine. Since a Saturday evening performance can be difficult or impossible to attend for many kids in St. Louis, SLCG brings performers directly to them!
Each year we host one or more In-School Residencies where artists from our series travel to several schools to perform for and engage with students. Previous Residency Artists include The Kithara Duo, Duo Noire, and Grisha Goryachev.