Spring is here! And you know what that means, don't you? CREDO SHIRT DAY! Not that you need an excuse to have Credo reunions (Creunions anyone?), but here's one just the same. Credo Shirt Day is coming! So grab your Credo shirt when you go home for spring break, start planning your Creunions wherever you are, and start thinking about how to get your cat to sit still while you take a photo of her in your Credo t-shirt.
Read MoreAnnouncement: Credo's application deadline for violists and cellists has been extended until April 6. As you know, having the right fits for quartets is one of the prime drivers for a great Credo experience. This year we need a few more young violists and cellists - so we've extended the deadline until April 6. (Apply here: https://www.credomusic.org/applyoberlin)
Read MoreEach summer we are pleased to offer a series of (mostly free!) concerts in the Cleveland, Oberlin and Chicago areas as part of our summer programs. Click here to view our summer concert schedule on our website and make sure to mark your calendars! We hope to see you there!
Read MoreWhen alumni think of Credo, many picture the warm days they spent in Oberlin rehearsing, performing, doing service projects, and singing hymns while enjoying the bonfire in Tappan Square. One of the things I love most about Credo though is that neither its spirit nor its work is limited to Oberlin, or even to the summer months. Even now, as snow swirls outside the Credo office, Credites around the country are living out the Credo mission of developing the gift, acknowledging the source, and responding with service. I’d like to share with you some particularly special ways that this mission has been engaged around the country this winter
Read MoreWe are still accepting application for Credo 2018 this month. If applying for financial aid, please submit your application by March 10. All other applications are due by March 25.
Read MoreCredo Alumna Anna Wolle ('12, '15) will move to Senegal (in West Africa) this summer to launch Teranga Strings , a project that will begin with a free summer violin program for forty children in Dakar, the capital of Senegal. The children will hail from two existing non-profit organizations: L’Empire des Enfants, which houses sixty formerly indentured servants, and SOS Village d’Enfants, which houses over one hundred orphans.
Read MoreThis January Credo recruited a group of thirteen Oberlin Conservatory students who spent two weeks on campus learning and growing in ways quite familiar: rehearsing chamber music, being coached by members of Oberlin’s faculty, and performing in Kulas Recital Hall. No amount of imagination could have dreamt up the ways these students would continue to learn and grow through unfamiliar means once they took their hard work to Beaumont, Texas and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Read MoreCredo Music is currently hiring for its 2018 summer internship positions. The internship period is from June 4 - July 27 and will take place in Oberlin, OH. The Credo Summer Internship program is a great opportunity for focused students interested in arts management. Credo’s interns are immersed in the day-to-day operations of running a high-level music festival, and will have regular contact with our operations, artistic, and administrative staff, as well as our faculty and students.
Read MoreThis month a group of 14 students from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music will spend two weeks of intensive chamber music study in Oberlin before heading to Beaumont, Texas and Puerto Rico to serve the communities affected by the devastating hurricanes. They will bring not only music but willing and able hands to help with whatever is needed. The project is a joint effort of Credo Music and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
Read MoreEach year Credo Music begins the Christmas season with two Messiah Sing Along concerts: one in Oberlin and the other in Chicago. The community comes together not only to enjoy and participate in beautiful music-making, but to generously support a local ministry. This year we raised $2500 for the Harmony Food Pantry, a ministry serving the North Lawndale community in Chicago and $2000 for Family Promise of Lorain Country, a ministry serving homeless families in Lorain Country, Ohio.
Read MoreCredo Music will host its annual Messiah Sing Along concerts in River Forest on December 3 at Grace Lutheran Church and in Oberlin on December 10 in Finney Chapel. Come and sing along, or just listen to this holiday favorite.
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce that we are now accepting online applications for our 2018 summer programs.
Credo's programming is intentionally built upon our mission statement "Develop the Gift, Acknowledge the Source, Respond in Service". Our educational programs go beyond technical development, encouraging students to pursue personal excellence on par with their pursuit of instrument mastery.
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