CCM Prep Programs
College-Conservatory of Music, 2600 Clifton Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45221
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CCM Prep Programs offer activities in music, dance and theatre arts, including dance and musical theatre, jazz performance, jazz ensembles, jazz history, jazz theory, jazz improvisation, jazz arranging, and an instrumental music program focused on strings. The program also includes learning to play music in an ensemble, weekly Community Piano Lessons, and college audition preparation for high school students. The CCM/CPS Summer Jazz Academy concludes with a performance by all student groups.
• Ages: 0–18 years old
• Schedule: The CCM/CPS Summer Jazz Academy is a week long experience, weekly Community Piano Lessons are held on Sundays at the church and on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at Taft Elementary School, and a Concert Series featuring local musicians and ensembles occurs roughly once a month.
• Price: The CCM/CPS Summer Jazz Academy is offered free of charge to CPS students and for a highly discounted tuition for regional students; Lives United/Vidas Unidas provides cost-free programming and free reservations of the performance space for local musicians or artists; the Ben Carlson-Berne Scholarship Fund provides high-quality music lessons to underserved youth in the Cincinnati community who show an interest in classical music and commitment to taking private lessons, with deeply discounted private lessons from the time the scholarship is awarded until high school graduation.
CCM Prep offers programs in music, dance and theatre arts for people of all ages and abilities, including adults, young children, teens and pre-professional students preparing for a future in the performing arts. Programs are offered at CCM’s Uptown Campus and through select partnerships across Greater Cincinnati. CCM Prep works with the Cincinnati Public Schools’ Arts Curriculum office, the CPS Strong Pathway, and several CPS schools through the CCM/CPS Summer Jazz Academy, the CCM Prep/CPS Strings Partnership at Hays-Porter Elementary and Woodford Academy, and the CCM Prep Dance and Theatre Arts Partnership at Roll Hill School and College Hill Fundamental Academy. Lives United/Vidas Unidas is a community music and arts initiative that provides cost-free programming and regularly collaborates with the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Prep Division, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Nouveau program, Cincinnati Public Schools Jazz Academy, and William Howard Taft Elementary School.
In the initial year of the CCM Prep/CPS Strings Partnership, all third-grade students at Hays-Porter Elementary received group lessons in their music classes, and the partnership later expanded to all Hays-Porter fourth graders and Woodford Academy fifth and sixth graders in the 2023–24 school year. The CCM Prep Dance and Theatre Arts Partnership provides weekly after-school experiences with professional teaching artists in dance and musical theatre at Roll Hill School and College Hill Fundamental Academy. The Ben Carlson-Berne Scholarship Fund, established in 2004, provides high-quality music lessons to underserved youth in the Cincinnati community who show an interest in classical music and commitment to taking private lessons, with deeply discounted private lessons from the time the scholarship is awarded until high school graduation.
CCM Prep is fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music, the National Association of Schools of Theatre and the National Association of the Schools of Dance. It is a member of the National Guild for Community Arts Education, the Ohio Alliance for Arts Education, the Greater Cincinnati Alliance for Arts Education, the Cincinnati Music & Wellness Coalition, and the Suzuki Association of America, and is a founding member of the Music Development Program. CCM Prep is grateful to supporters ArtsWave, Ingalls Foundation, The Louise Taft Semple Foundation and Preston Brown Foundation.
Isidore Rudnick is identified as CPS Arts Curriculum Manager. Nicole Ortiz is listed as a contact at CCM for Lives United/Vidas Unidas. Elaine Cox is Senior Director of Development and Alumni Relations and Adjunct Instructor of Arts Administration, Annie Bloemer is Associate Director of Development, and Marie Morgan is Alumni Engagement Program Director for CCM and DAAP.
Last updated June 27, 2026.
• Ages: 0–18 years old
• Schedule: The CCM/CPS Summer Jazz Academy is a week long experience, weekly Community Piano Lessons are held on Sundays at the church and on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at Taft Elementary School, and a Concert Series featuring local musicians and ensembles occurs roughly once a month.
• Price: The CCM/CPS Summer Jazz Academy is offered free of charge to CPS students and for a highly discounted tuition for regional students; Lives United/Vidas Unidas provides cost-free programming and free reservations of the performance space for local musicians or artists; the Ben Carlson-Berne Scholarship Fund provides high-quality music lessons to underserved youth in the Cincinnati community who show an interest in classical music and commitment to taking private lessons, with deeply discounted private lessons from the time the scholarship is awarded until high school graduation.
CCM Prep offers programs in music, dance and theatre arts for people of all ages and abilities, including adults, young children, teens and pre-professional students preparing for a future in the performing arts. Programs are offered at CCM’s Uptown Campus and through select partnerships across Greater Cincinnati. CCM Prep works with the Cincinnati Public Schools’ Arts Curriculum office, the CPS Strong Pathway, and several CPS schools through the CCM/CPS Summer Jazz Academy, the CCM Prep/CPS Strings Partnership at Hays-Porter Elementary and Woodford Academy, and the CCM Prep Dance and Theatre Arts Partnership at Roll Hill School and College Hill Fundamental Academy. Lives United/Vidas Unidas is a community music and arts initiative that provides cost-free programming and regularly collaborates with the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Prep Division, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Nouveau program, Cincinnati Public Schools Jazz Academy, and William Howard Taft Elementary School.
In the initial year of the CCM Prep/CPS Strings Partnership, all third-grade students at Hays-Porter Elementary received group lessons in their music classes, and the partnership later expanded to all Hays-Porter fourth graders and Woodford Academy fifth and sixth graders in the 2023–24 school year. The CCM Prep Dance and Theatre Arts Partnership provides weekly after-school experiences with professional teaching artists in dance and musical theatre at Roll Hill School and College Hill Fundamental Academy. The Ben Carlson-Berne Scholarship Fund, established in 2004, provides high-quality music lessons to underserved youth in the Cincinnati community who show an interest in classical music and commitment to taking private lessons, with deeply discounted private lessons from the time the scholarship is awarded until high school graduation.
CCM Prep is fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music, the National Association of Schools of Theatre and the National Association of the Schools of Dance. It is a member of the National Guild for Community Arts Education, the Ohio Alliance for Arts Education, the Greater Cincinnati Alliance for Arts Education, the Cincinnati Music & Wellness Coalition, and the Suzuki Association of America, and is a founding member of the Music Development Program. CCM Prep is grateful to supporters ArtsWave, Ingalls Foundation, The Louise Taft Semple Foundation and Preston Brown Foundation.
Isidore Rudnick is identified as CPS Arts Curriculum Manager. Nicole Ortiz is listed as a contact at CCM for Lives United/Vidas Unidas. Elaine Cox is Senior Director of Development and Alumni Relations and Adjunct Instructor of Arts Administration, Annie Bloemer is Associate Director of Development, and Marie Morgan is Alumni Engagement Program Director for CCM and DAAP.
Last updated June 27, 2026.
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