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Instruction and coaching using proven techniques that get results !


 
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Songcrafters Coloring Book
"Songcrafters' Coloring Book: The Essential Guide to Effective and Successful Songwriting" is a groundbreaking approach to the art, craft, and business of songwriting.   You'll see songwriting in a whole new way and will gain more control over your creative output.  The New York Times wrote " Bill Pere embodies the link between music and science".    In 2008, Music Connection Magazine named Bill Pere as one of the "Top 50 Innovators and Guiding Lights of the Music Industry".

• Songwriting  • Performance • Voice - Guitar - Keyboard  • Critique • Drama  • Presentation  • Recording  • Production  • Music Technology  • Music Business  • Schmoozing and Collaborating  • MBTI Profiles • Marketing  • Rhythm Training  • Scansion and Metrics

PROGRAMS TAILORED FOR ALL AGES, STYLES, and ASPIRATIONS

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Click Here for Professional Performance, Recording, and Service-Learning Opportunities for Students 

Special Programs and Resources for Home Schoolers


Each person sets his or her own definition of success in the arts, but whatever the goals may be, a balanced skill set and a realistic outlook on the relationship between talent, business, people skills, and luck is essential.

YOU SET YOUR GOALS -- WE'LL HELP YOU REACH THEM

For 30 years, Bill and Kay Pere have learned personally from the top names in the music industry and have developed a program to equip highly motivated up-and-coming artists with the essential knowledge and skills they will need to reach their goals in the music business. Bill, who has written, recorded and released 16 CD's,  is named one of the "Top 50 Innovators, Groundbreakers and Guiding Lights of the Music Industry" by Music Connection Magazine.  He is the President of the Connecticut Songwriters Association, an Official Connecticut State Troubadour, and the 2003 National Independent Artist of the Year. He has written and produced numerous stage plays as well.   Bill is an official critiquer and industry judge for many international song and performance competitions, and much sought after as a national conference presenter.  He has had #1 songs on many song charts,  and is an internationally published author on songwriting and the music business.   Bill is the author of the industry-standard songwriting book "Songcrafters Coloring Book: The Essential Guide to Effective and Successful Songwriting"


In their two teaching and recording studios, Bill and Kay, both award winning songwriters, producers, recording artists and teachers, provide a custom-tailored program which can include:


-- Vocal instruction and coaching

-- Preparation for music and drama auditions

-- Guitar Instruction (including Midi Digital Guitar)

-- Keyboard Instruction

-- Songwriting Development

-- Music Theory and Composition

-- Constructive Critique

-- Drama Coaching

-- Performance Coaching

-- Music Business Instruction

-- Studio Recording

-- Service Learning though Music

-- Creativity Development

-- Production and Arranging

-- Hands-on Midi and Music Technology Instruction

Rhythm Training

-- Statewide performing opportunities

-- MBTI Evaluation

-- Attending Pro Workshops and Seminars

-- Intellectual Property Awareness (copyrights)

-- Negotiating Skills (contracts)

Creative and Career Goal Setting


All of our students are elegible for discounts on membership in the Connecticut Songwriters Association

All of our students are elegible for no-cost participation in the LUNCH Ensemble

All of our students are elegible for free or discounted use of our recording studios

We offer enrichment programs for home schooling as well as for all traditional public and private education

Several of our students have been national contest winners, have gone on to be in Broadway shows, and have had film and recording success.

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Bill Pere - Info
LUNCH Program
CT Songwriters Assoc
Kay Pere - Info
Voice Instruction
KidThink Music Publishing

We are also sponsors and participants in national and international performance
and educational events such as:

 -- The UNISONG INTERNATIONAL SONGWRITING COMPETITION

-- The VOICES FOR HOPE Vocal Competition  (info here)

-- The National INDEPENDENT MUSIC CONFERENCES

-- The NEW ENGLAND MUSIC EXPO

-- The CONNECTICUT SONGWRITING AND PERFORMANCE CONFERENCE

-- YOUTH ACTION CONFERENCE Events

-- The HARRY CHAPIN LEGACY SHOW SERIES


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