Registration for the 2024 Summer Music Academy is NOW OPEN! Join us for a fun summer full of music-making and learning! Featuring: Vocal Mashup Camp (a collaboration with Heartland Youth Chorale), Keep It Fresh Group Keyboard, Musical Theatre Studio, Beat to Track Songwriting and Production, and Arts Production! You can register here at https://forms.gle/PHKy25YiA1rhey367

WELCOME!  City Voices is a progressive, community-centered, after-school, tuition-free music program providing vocal and related music instruction to urban students with financial need. Since 2013, City Voices students have learned skills that have helped them earn more than 20 musical leads city-wide, 5 leads at the Des Moines Playhouse, 7 spots in the prestigious Iowa All-State Choir (25% of the city total during that time), and over $225,000 in arts scholarships to 20 different universities to study music. Read about these success stories here! https://wordpress.com/page/cityvoicesdesmoines.org/149385
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CITY VOICES is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization.
​All  contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

You may donate by PayPal here, or send your contribution to:

City Voices, 924 45th Street, Des Moines, IA 50312

Thank you!

Please tune in for our video series “Celebrating Marginalized Composers,” released on our Facebook and Instagram pages. This series will feature students performing songs by composers of all different genres of music from marginalized communities. We hope to shine a light on these often overlooked works and lift them up!

“For You There Is No Song,” by Leslie H. Adams, sung by Damaris Nelson

THANK YOU BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES

for awarding City Voices the 2020 Spotlight Award! Read about it here: 

Bravo Spotlight Award 2020

 

Annika Baker (Hoover, 11) sings “Running” from “Hot Mess in Manhattan” at the Summer 2019 City Voices recital.

Shaddai Johnson (Roosevelt, 11) sings “Chain of Love” at the Summer 2019 City Voices recital.

Owen Yoder (Lincoln, 11) sings “One Percent” from “String” at the Summer 2019 City Voices recital.

ALERT: WHEN DMPS CANCELS CLASSES, THERE WILL BE NO LESSONS AT CITY VOICES EXCEPT BY MUTUAL CONSENT OF TEACHER AND STUDENT. STAY SAFE!

We are members of the Berklee City Music Network.    https://www.berklee.edu/city-music-network/meet-network   

OUR MISSION: City Voices is a nonprofit organization that provides high quality, individualized voice instruction to underprivileged students in the Des Moines area. Helping students build these skills allows them to more effectively participate in vocal music opportunities around them, including their school and community programs. We also believe that, in doing so, we are mitigating inequalities, facilitating student access to experiences that are frequently out of reach due to a lack of financial resources.

Look around our site – we have lots going on!

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City Voices also offers individual guitar lessons! If you want to sign up for guitar, go to Student Information, enter your information and check “Individual Guitar.” Your instructor will contact you! NOTE: we encourage you to also sign up for voice lessons – to do that, you must complete and return the form above.

Check out our YouTube channel at youtube.com/cityvoicesdsm. See some of our great singers sing greatly!

Junior Mayte Gomez-Cruz (Junior, North High School) sings “Stars and the Moon” at the City Voices Winter Recital.