Church Street School of Music and Art
Joshua Levitin is an experienced instrumental faculty member at Church Street School of Music and Art, teaching beginner to intermediate piano students. Joshua also serves as a music teaching candidate at Rutgers University, honing their instructional and classroom management skills. Previously, Joshua has worked in development roles at various organizations such as New Jersey Performing Arts Center and The Little Orchestra Society, demonstrating strong writing and fundraising skills. Joshua has a background in professional writing and musicology from Carnegie Mellon University and is continuing their education through the Alternate Route Program at Rutgers University.
Church Street School of Music and Art
Church Street School for Music and Art specializes in process-oriented approaches to arts education. Our objective is to facilitate creativity and give voice to the natural musical and artistic sense through direct, physical experience. In music classes, this means total music education - not just brainwork or fingerwork, but ears, mind and body working together. While we emphasize skill building and the development of technique, we also emphasize improvisation and composition as a way for the students to truly "own" their experiences. In art classes, this means the creation of art from the inside out. Art is a reflection of our life experiences. At Church Street School we have ongoing exhibits of our students' work, but process, not product, is stressed in our classes. Students create with freedom to find their own voices rather than having all the choices made for them.