ODU Community Music Division

The Community Music Division of Old Dominion University (established in 1984 as the Community Music Academy) offers the finest level of private music instruction, classes, and ensembles to Hampton Roads residents. We welcome, instruct, and encourage people of all ages and abilities. Our varied staff holds degrees in music and specializes in the instruments that they teach. Most are active performers or teachers in the Hampton Roads community and beyond, and all are encouraged to join and participate in national music organizations. The CMD faculty has nearly 30 instructors and faculty members and offers private and group instruction in most instruments and voice.

Lessons are taught on the Norfolk campus in the Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center, 49th Street and Elkhorn Avenue. Students may choose to participate in Community Music Division recitals held in the Chandler Recital Hall at the end of each semester. Our pianists will perform on one of the University's nine-foot Steinway concert grand pianos at recital time, or they may use the new grand piano in our Choral room for the National Piano Guild Auditions sponsored by our center on our campus in June. Our group harp students will use one of four lever harps purchased specially for our program. The CMD is one of the few organizations in our area to offer lessons on the Japanese Koto.