Online Courses
Please contact Wharton Arts Student Services at (908) 790-0700 or info@whartonarts.org to be placed on the Performing Arts School Waiting List for all sold out or closed classes.
Acting For the Camera
Wednesdays 5:30-6:30 p.m.
8 Weeks Start Date: 4/7/2021
Ages: 7-16
Instructor: Sara Giacomini • Virtual Class
Tuition: $160
With so many productions and classes taking place virtually these days, it’s important for young actors to be familiar and confident performing in front of the camera. Learn camera technique, tips, and tricks through scene and solo work in our Acting for the Camera class!
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Audition Bootcamp
Mondays 5:00-6:00 p.m.
8 Weeks Start Date: 3/1/2021
Ages: 7-13
Instructor: Mariah Dalton • Virtual Class
Tuition: $160
Work on your acting, singing, and dance skills as you prepare for a mock audition at the end of this Broadway Bootcamp! Learn scenes, monologues, songs, and dance combos to “audition” for the big show. Students will improve triple threat skills throughout the course, and will also learn what it’s like to go through the professional audition process! Class will culminate with a showcase featuring the “audition” material from class.
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Vocal Ensemble Project
Thursdays 5:00-6:00 p.m.
8 Weeks Start Date: 3/4/2021
Ages: 7-13
Instructor: Ema Mitrovic • Virtual Class
Tuition: $160
Work on your singing from the comfort of home! Dive into vocal technique, vocal recording, and how group singing is possible virtually in our Vocal Ensemble Project. Students will submit their own vocal recordings to be mixed as a series of fun ensemble pieces for a final showcase at the end of class.
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Basic Video Editing Class
Tuesdays 6:00-7:00 p.m.
4 Weeks Start Dates: 2/2, 3/2
Ages: 12+
Instructor: Joe DeVico • Virtual Class
Tuition: $100
The NEW! Basic Video Editing Class teaches the concepts of basic import, editing, and compositing using freely available non-linear video editing software. Students will create an original video using all the concepts covered in the class.
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Creative Composition Using Technology
Mondays 6:00-7:00 p.m.
8 Weeks Start Date: 2/1/2021
Ages: 12+
Instructor: Joe DeVico • Virtual Class
Tuition: $200
The NEW! Creative Composition Class teaches the concepts of basic composition and digital audio recording using freely available software including notation and audio recording software. Students will compose an original piece of music utilizing a combination of live performance, pre-recorded loops, and software samplers and synthesizers to realize their composition.
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Intro to Jazz Theory
Saturdays 10:00-11:00 a.m.
8 Weeks Start Date: 2/6/2021
Ages: All
Instructor: Dave Schumacher • Virtual Class
Tuition: $200
The NEW! Intro to Jazz Theory is an eight week series of classes covering scale and chord construction, scale and chord relationships, song forms, common chord progressions, and more!
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Jazz History Listening Class
Saturdays 9:00-10:00 a.m.
4 Weeks Start Date: 2/6/2021
Ages: All
Instructor: Dave Schumacher • Virtual Class
Tuition: $100
The NEW! Jazz History Listening Hour is a series of four classes surveying the history of Jazz through listening to essential recordings. Each week a different era of Jazz will be covered from Early Jazz and Swing to Bebop and Hard Bop/Cool Jazz.
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Jazz Masters Series
Saturdays 9:00-10:00 a.m.
4 Weeks Start Date: 3/6/2021
Ages: All
Instructor: Dave Schumacher • Virtual Class
Tuition: $100
The NEW! Jazz Masters Series is a series of four classes with each class examining the music and contributions of a Jazz Master. Artists to be covered in the first series will be Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, and Miles Davis.
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Pathways to Piano
Ages 4.5-5.5 Year 1
Thursdays 4:30-5:20 p.m.
Saturdays 12:15-1:05 p.m.
15 Weeks Start Dates: 2/20, 2/25
Instructor: Joyce Alexander • Virtual Class
Tuition: $300
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Ages 5.5-7 Year 1
Thursdays 5:30-6:40 p.m.
Saturdays 10:50 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
15 Weeks Start Dates: 2/20, 2/25
Instructor: Joyce Alexander • Virtual Class
Tuition: $375
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Ages 5.5-7 Year 2
Thursdays 3:00-4:10 p.m.
Saturdays 9:30-10:40 a.m.
15 Weeks Start Dates: 2/20, 2/25
Instructor: Joyce Alexander • Virtual Class
Tuition: $375
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Out of the Box Music for the Very Young
Ages 3-5 Saturdays 11:00-11:35 a.m.
10 Weeks Start Dates: 1/30/2021
Instructor: Margaret Persing • Virtual Class
Tuition: $125
Creative and “playfully theoretical,” Out of the Box Music prepares your child for success in singing, dancing, piano, violin, ukulele, and recorder. This multi-sensory program will build your child’s musicianship by connecting beat, rhythm, melody, form, dynamics, tempo, and all things musical with their world of dramatic musical play. Your child will be reading the music with their eyes, ears, and bodies!
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Basic Composition for Instrumentalists
Thursdays 4:00-5:00 p.m.
8 Weeks Start Date: 2/4/2021
Ages: 14+
Instructor: Craig Graham • Virtual Class
Tuition: $200
The NEW! Composition for Instrumentalists class teaches instrumental composition in a creative, educational environment. Topics of study include major scale theory; harmonizing the major scale; diatonic chord progressions; phrasing, passing, target and void notes; melodic and harmonic motives; song forms; tempos and time signatures; intros and endings; the study of musical styles; listening and analysis; and lyric writing.
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Songwriting
Thursdays 5:00-6:00 p.m.
8 Weeks Start Date: 2/4/2021
Ages: 12+
Instructor: Craig Graham • Virtual Class
Tuition: $200
The NEW! Songwriting class teaches song composition in a creative, educational environment. Topics of study include composing in major and minor keys; using advanced harmony (chords with extensions and inversions); secondary dominant chords; analyzing compositions; progressions with defending bass lines; key changes; odd time signatures; theme and variations; composing a 12-bar jazz blues and 32-bar AABA composition; and composing in several musical styles.
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The Beatles
Thursdays 7:00-8:00 p.m.
8 Weeks Start Date: 2/4/2021
Ages: 14+ (Recommended for Adults)
Instructor: Rob Heinink • Virtual Class
Tuition: $200
The NEW! Beatles Play-A-Tune class is a chance to put your guitar skills to the test by learning 8 great songs by the world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll group: The Beatles. Students will combine open position chords, power chords, some barre chords, and maybe even some lead guitar fills in learning the following songs: I Want to Hold Your Hand, Let it Be, Come Together, 8 Days a Week, Back in the USSR, Nowhere Man, Get Back, and While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
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Broadway Babies
Saturdays 9:30-10:30 a.m.
10 Weeks Start Dates: 1/16 & 3/27
Ages: 4-6
Instructor: Allie Mannarino • Virtual Class
Tuition: $200
Winter Theme: Lion King
Spring Theme: A Year with Frog and Toad
This virtual class plans to transition to in-person learning in Spring 2021.
Broadway Babies is an introduction to the essentials of musical theater. Students learn about the “triple threat” skills of singing, acting, and dancing as well as rudimentary music notation. A performance will be held on the final day of class.
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Explorations in Musical Theater
Fridays 4:00-5:45 p.m.
15 Weeks Start Date: 1/29/2021
Ages: 7-11
Instructor: Timothy Cole & Mariah Dalton • Virtual Class
Tuition: $550
Class Show: A Year with Frog and Toad
This virtual class plans to transition to in-person learning in Spring 2021.
Explorations in Musical Theater for the budding performer is an opportunity to utilize triple threat skills in a performance setting. Students audition for and then produce a show from start to finish. During the first 3 weeks, students receive audition materials and preparation.
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Dance, Sing and Act
Wednesdays 4:00-5:30 p.m.
10 Weeks Start Dates: 1/13 & 4/7
Ages: 7-10
Instructor: Sara Giacomini & Christian Rosky • Virtual Class
Tuition: $300
Winter Theme: Lion King
Spring Theme: A Year with Frog and Toad
This virtual class plans to transition to in-person learning in Spring 2021.
Dance, Sing and Act teaches students the fundamentals of musical theater performance. Each week students enhance their skills while preparing for a final performance of scenes, songs, and dances from the class theme!
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Musical Theater Company
Tuesdays 4:30-6:30 p.m.
15 Weeks Start Date: 2/2/2021
Ages: 11-16
Instructor: Allie Mannarino & Christian Rosky • Virtual Class
Tuition: $600
This virtual class plans to transition to in-person learning in Spring 2021.
Company is an advanced musical theater class where students write their own musical with original songs, script, and characters! This collaborative and creative class will guide students through the process of putting together an original show from start to finish. Students will have the opportunity to engage in songwriting, playwriting, improvisation, musicality, choreography, ensemble building, and set/costume design as well as develop technique in dance, voice, and acting all while rehearsing for the final show.
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Improv Kids
Tuesdays 4:00-5:00 p.m.
10 Weeks Start Date: 1/12/2021
Ages: 7-10
Instructor: Lilli Markey • Virtual Class
Tuition: $200
Improv Kids virtual class teaches the fundamentals of improvisation with a unique character-based approach. Students will learn the basic tools, rules, and philosophy of improv through games, drills, and virtual scenes…all through their computer screen!
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Improv Teens
Tuesdays 5:15-6:30 p.m.
10 Weeks Start Date: 1/12/2021
Ages: 11-16
Instructor: Lilli Markey • Virtual Class
Tuition: $250
Improv Teens virtual class teaches the fundamentals of improvisation with a unique character-based approach. Students will learn the basic tools, rules, and philosophy of improv through games, drills, and virtual scenes…all through their computer screen!
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Ask Us A Question
Questions about our group classes? Do you need help enrolling in a class?
Our Director of Student Services Kristen Wuest is here to assist you. For more information, reach out to our Student Services team at 908-790-0700 or email info@whartonarts.org.
In addition to group classes for kids, teens, and adults, Wharton’s Performing Arts School offers private music lessons online via Zoom in voice, piano, violin, viola, cello, bass, guitar, flute, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, French horn, saxophone, percussion, and harp.
30, 45, and 60-minute private music lessons are available in flex packages, by semester, and for the academic year. Ask about our sibling discount and Financial Assistance! For more information, call 908-790-0700 or email info@whartonarts.org. Fall online private music lessons begin Friday, September 11, 2020. ENROLL NOW!