Mystery Park Arts/SoBe Music Studio is proud to announce the implementation of Music for Youth, our proprietary & unique after-school music immersion program, for South Point Elementary School on Miami Beach which began on Monday, February 5, 2007.

During this program, professional musician / instructors will introduce musical principles based on one of four instruments, with a varied curriculum suited to a child's learning abilities. Since this is usually a child's first introduction to a structured music program, Mystery Park Arts creates a fun atmosphere for learning and experiencing music without intimidation. The unique and multifaceted immersion program is designed not only to be entertaining and exciting, but also to help the students develop a deepened sense of musical phrase, structure and form, as well as improve their performance skills.

SoBe Music Studio has reached a new milestone - twenty-six professional musician - instructors are now among our ranks. Joining us are cellist Michael Andrews, guitarist Diego Jinkus, baritone Graham Fandrei, saxophonist Wim Forstmann, pianist's Victor A Nikolov and Ariana Ochoa and harpist Marguerite Lynn Williams. Click on the Related Website link to get detailed information on these great musicians and all of our professional faculty.

SoBe Music Studio is now enrolling children, teens, adults and professionals for group classes and workshops in guitar, piano, violin, voice, composition & ensemble playing. Go to our website for more information SoBe Music Studio then call (305) 674- 9220.

In order to facilitate our transition from SoBe Music Studio to the new Institute of the Arts, we are putting together an advisory board made up of distinguished local residents that are deeply involved in cultural affairs of the area. This advisory board will get together periodically to discuss and advise about current and future plans related to the development of an Institute of the Arts. Our recruitment process is underway and we already have an impressive roster of board members, including: Ray Breslin, President of the Collins Park Neighborhood Association; Diane Camber, Executive Director /Chief Curator of The Bass Museum of Art; Horst Kohlem, Visual Artist; Gustavo Matamoros, Composer/Director of Subtropics Music Festival of Miami, Laurinda Spear, Founding Principal of Arquitectonica and Edward Villella, Artistic Director of the Miami City Ballet.

A few weeks ago Mystery Park Arts Company, Inc. (the not-for-profit parent company of SoBe Music Studio) submitted a major new proposal to the City of Miami Beach for a city-wide Music for Youth After- School program and summer camps for instruments and voice/music-theater (and other arts in the future). The proposal also included the utilization of historic city buildings in the designated Cultural District for a present and future campus site for our programs and a new world-class Institute of the Arts for community arts learning and a degree granting higher education component as well. This fifty-five page proposal was four months in the making and involved hundreds of hours of work by staff, board members, advisors and faculty alike.

Feel free to contact us anytime and please make your voice heard by contacting your local city council members to show your support for our proposal. Keep your fingers crossed!

We want to thank all of our Supporters, Students, Faculty, BOD & Advisors, the City of Miami Beach, City of Miami and Miami-Dade County for their encouragement and support, without which none of this would be possible We need you continuing assistance with financial & in-kind donations as well as volunteer work in order to achieve what we all want - a major new world class institute for the arts in Miami. Please ask your friends, colleagues and neighbors to join us in our quest! We look forward to continuing our relationship in the new year.

"a great teacher will inspire and nurture a student’s musical growth and instill a lifelong love of music"