CHIME (Citizens Highly Interested in Music Education) provides essential funding and volunteer efforts in support of music, drama and dance programs throughout the Piedmont school system. CHIME helps fund vocal and instrumental coaches and accompanists, supports musical instrument purchase and repair, provides teacher stipends, and funds grant requests in support of performing arts programs. CHIME is a key reason for the outstanding quality of performing arts programs in the Piedmont schools. Please support CHIME by becoming a member.

CHIME was started in 1968 and has been the key advocate in keeping music and drama in our schools. Most recently, we underwrote part of the cost to perform the musical Bye, Bye, Birdie at PHS, helped create and are underwriting the after school Band and Orchestra Clinics for minimum days at PMS, contributed towards the effort to take A Streetcar Named Desire to Edinburgh, invited CHIME members and the community to a lovely and educational evening of music with the Cypress String Quartet, and helped save the endangered 4th grade instrument rotation from being cut last year.

CHIME Music Resource Guide:

A resource guide provided by CHIME to help you help your child get a start on their journey to a lifelong love of music and improve their musical skills inside and outside of school.

Click HERE to access the CHIME Music Resource Guide.

CHIME is now on Facebook!

Please visit our Facebook page and “LIKE” us!

Instrument Donation:

Clean out those closets and recycle those gently used musical instruments! CHIME is collecting instruments that are no longer needed, but in good condition, to donate to the District’s music department. All donations are tax-deductible.

For more information, send an email to info@chimeofpiedmont.org

CHIME Honors Recital:

Friday, June 1st at 7 p.m. at The Piedmont Center for the Arts

Piedmont school students of all musical levels who wish to be chosen for our CHIME HONORS RECITAL should send a recording of the piece they wish to perform by May 7, 2012. Guidelines are as follows:

●    Email an audio with video recording to Tom Nemeth at TNemeth@PacUnion.com.
●    It may be solo or accompanied; instrumental or vocal. Small ensembles are encouraged.
●    Include the student’s name and age and the music teacher’s name in the body of the email as well as the name of the performance piece and composer. No performance should exceed 6 minutes in length.

●    All residents of Piedmont are eligible to perform, regardless of school affiliation. Performance may be accompanied or not.

Upcoming Piedmont School Performances

Band/Orchestra concerts

PMS Orchestra Spring Concert - Tuesday, May 22

PMS Band Spring Concert - Wednesday, May 23 

PHS Band/Orchestra Spring Concert - Thursday, May 24

Concerts at 7:30pm, at the Alan Harvey Theater, PHS

Havens school 5th Grade Spring Concert - Tuesday, June 5, 12am – Wed, June 6, 12am

PHS Acapella Annual Revue

Friday, June 1st through Sunday, June 3rd

The Piedmont High School Acappella Choir’s annual choral Revue, “Change the World”, songs of love, hope and inspiration, will be presented Friday, June 1st through Sunday, June 3rd at the Alan Harvey Theater on the PHS campus. Directed by Joseph Piazza, “Change the World” is an uplifting concert full of choreographed vocal music, including such hits as Heal The World, Go the Distance, What A Wonderful World, Seize the Day, from the musical “Newsies”, Circle of Life, and Go the Distance.  The program culminates in a glorious performance of It Gets Better, the signature piece of the Dan Savage anti-bullying campaign. All 125 Acappella students will be performing in “Change the World” in large and small group numbers, and many as featured soloists.

Performance times are Friday, June 1st at 8:00 p.m. and Saturday, June 2nd at 8:00 p.m., with two performances on Sunday, June 3rd; at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. General admission tickets prices are $15.00 for adults and $10.00 for students. A limited number of $25.00 reserved seat tickets are available for all performances.  For information, or to purchase tickets to the show, please contact Jan D’Annunzio, PHS Music Administrator, at 510- 654-2400.  Tickets may also be purchased from Acappella students or at the theater box office before each performance.