This Week Mystery Park Arts Company (SoBe Music Studio) will submit 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. 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 degree granting higher education component as well. This fifty-page proposal was four months in the making and involved hundreds of hours of work by staff, board members, advisors and faculty alike. Keep your fingers crossed!

SoBe Music Studio has reached a new milestone - twenty-five professional musician - instructors are now among our ranks. Joining us are cellist Michael Andrews, acoustic/electric guitaist Diego Jinkus, saxophonist Wim Forstmann, baritone Graham Fandei, pianist Victor A Nikolov and harpist Marguerite Lynn Williams. Click on the Full Story link to get detailed information on these great musicians and all of our professional faculty.

SoBe Music Studio now enrolling children, teens, adults and professionals for group classes and workshops in guitar, piano, violin, voice & 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 in the Miami Beach Cultural District, 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 a Miami Beach 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.

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.