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WHO WE ARE
Life Skills, Vocation, Music & Arts
Berkshire Hills Music Academy is a unique college-like program for young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities who are looking to expand their social, vocational, and life skills in a music-infused environment.
Questions about BHMA?
Email admissions@berkshirehills.org or submit our inquiry form:
THE VALUE OF MUSIC
Music uniquely stimulates all areas of the brain, promoting significant opportunity for enhanced learning and retention. Our highly trained staff employs the therapeutic value of music to help students, regardless of experience or aptitude, improve and increase:
PHYSICAL ABILITIES
Gross and fine motor skills, spatial awareness, and organized muscle responses
COMMUNICATION
SKILLS
Speech, articulation, and language organization & retrieval
COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING
Focus, attention, and engagement
SOCIAL SKILLS
Teamwork, problem solving, and self-advocacy
STUDENT STORIES
UPCOMING EVENTS
Upcoming Public Performances:
Every Friday: Variety Hour at 2:00pm
December 5th- Woodwind Group 12:15 pm–1:30pm at The Springfield Museums
December 6th- Jazz Ensemble and Jeremy at the South Hadley Holiday Stroll 5:00- 7:30pm
December 8th- Yarde Tavern in South Hadley: Ethan from 4:00-5:00pm, Mark & Michael from 5:00-6:00pm
December 8th- Emily and Franklin 12:00-2:00pm at the Holiday Open House and Festive Market at Wistariahurst Museum
December 12th- Sax Master's Concert at 1:30pm BMC Performance Hall
December 13th- Mark, Tori & Jeremy 12:00-1:30pm at The Springfield Boys & Girls Club Festival of Trees
December 15th- Yarde Tavern in South Hadley: Emily and Franklin from 4:00-5:00pm, Marco and John from 5:00-6:00pm
December 19th- Classical Ensemble from 12:15-1:30pm at The Springfield Museums
December 20th- Winter Ensemble Concert 6:00pm
Past Public Performances: Click here to view!
All videos were filmed & edited by South Hadley Community Television
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