"Music training is a more potent instrument than any other; because rhythm and harmony find their way in to the inward places of the soul." -Plato
The Music Academy of Rockford College is a not-for-profit community school of music dedicated to providing high quality, affordable instruction, and performance opportunities to academy students, regardless of age or ability.
It is the mission of the Music Academy of Rockford College to inspire in students a life-long love of music and the arts.
The Music Academy of Rockford College is a member of the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts. As a Guild school, we believe the arts are fundamental. We believe excellent instruction and expert individual education in the arts continues to be an important and vital factor in the welfare of all people. We believe the arts give meaning and wholeness to all human existence, extending from the life of the individual to the community and ultimately to our entire civilization. Thus, it must follow the pursuit of the arts is the rightful heritage of every individual and not the privilege of the gifted few.
Therefore, in this as in every other sphere of human activity, the highest quality of artistic endeavor must be made accessible to all interested persons.
Like Jane Addams, founder of the Hull House Community School of Music, we seek
"to give thorough musical instruction to those children showing the greatest aptitude, and to foster in a much larger group the cultural aspects of a musical education.?
Jane Addams
Rockford College, Class of 1882
Nobel Peace Prize, 1931