Mystery Park Arts been focused on establishing an International Institute of the Arts in Miami - starting with the SoBe Music Institute. We need your help to:
Expand SoBe Music Institute Programs
- Raise funds to provide free or inexpensive musical instrument, composition, voice, musicianship, music appreciation & music-theater instruction to all levels and ages and from all socioeconomic backgrounds at SoBe Music Institute; Music for Youth, Music for Seniors & Music for Adults:
- Summer Programs for Children, Seniors & Adults (Instrumental, Voice / Music-Theater, Musicianship & Multi-Media Music History / Appreciation)
- Fall/Winter/Spring Programs for Children, Seniors Adults (After-School Program for Children, Intensive Instrumental, Ensemble, Vocal & Compositional Studies for Adults and Intermediate/Advance Children), Multi-Medial Music Appreciation for Seniors)
- Instrument, Equipment & Library fund to make instruments available to all students free of charge during the program, as well as needed equipment and a library of music scores and workbooks.
Build Miami's World Class Institute of the Arts.
- Raise funds to establish and build a world-class Institute of the Arts on Miami beach (a major community arts educational Institute and a degree-granting conservatory-level arts university), Our Long term plans to develop and build of a world-class arts education institute in the south for the community and for professional degrees in music, music-theater, theater, visual arts, film-video, and literature.
- Raise funds for future Arts for Youth, Arts for Seniors & Arts for Adults which will provide professional instruction in all the arts for children from all socioeconomic backgrounds; After-School and Summer Programs (Music, Visual Art, Creative Writing, Movement/Dance, Theater, Musical Theater, Video & Film).
- Raise fund to establish the one of the nations highest degree granting conservatory level arts programs
- Raise funds to support the Institute's ongoing diverse projects, which include recordings, concerts and other cultural innovations city, county and worldwide.
- Raise funds to establish an Annual Winter Music Teaching and Performance Festival on South Beach -- Professional musicians will teach and interact with students on an intensive basis culminating in performances in and around South Florida.
The Corporation is also authorized to improve public knowledge, acceptance and understanding of new music, music-theater, modern opera, and other new creative arts, by educating and informing the public and by engaging in activities in support of such arts; to identify, develop, and promote new and emerging art forms of historical and cultural significance (e.g. Internet); to help create an environment for contemporary artists to continue producing new music and new music-theater, by holding music competitions, by providing management services, workshops and lectures in new music and music-theater, modern opera, and other new creative arts; to engage in any and all other activities which will directly or indirectly help in the growth and development of new music, new music-theater, modern opera, and other new creative arts.
The corporation is not formed for any pecuniary profit or for financial gain and no part of its assets income or profit shall be distributed to or inure to the benefit of any private individual. Reasonable compensation, however, may be paid for services rendered to or for the Corporation or in furtherance of its purposes."
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SoBe Music Institute
SoBe Music Institute (Miami's Institute for Performing Arts), began operations in December 2005 as the music educational component of the non-profit arts & education corporation Mystery Park Arts Company, Inc. SoBe Music Institute's Executive Artistic Director is distinguished composer and professor Carson Kievman (PhD Princeton University, MFA California Institute of the Arts, composer-in-residence for the Tanglewood Music festival, the New York Shakespeare Festival, Donaueschingen Festival, NationalTheater Mannheim, the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pennsylvania Ballet, winner of multiple awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Florida Department of State, among others).
- Giving extraordinary music instruction to children without regard to their ability to pay or even find this level of instruction anywhere in south florida.
- Giving extraordinary music instruction and high-level free performances to adults and seniors who would not otherwise have an opporunity to be exposed to music at this level.
- Currently located in the historic Carl Fisher Clubhouse and park. The oldest, and one of the most beautiful, buildings in South Beach.
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Directors and Advisors
Board of Directors
Leslie Cooper - DouglasEllimanFlorida, Real Estate
Jack Gelfand, Ph.D. - Princeton University/SUNY Oswego
Carson Kievman, Ph.D. - SoBe Music Institute
Mark Needle, J. D. (chair) - Miami-Dade Department of Education
Ronald A. Unger, CPA - Gerson, Preston, Robinson and Co., P.A
Advisory Board
Michael Andrews- Director, South Beach Chamber Ensemble
**Ray Breslin - President, Collins Park Neighborhood Association
Tracy Brighty - Executive Director, Lied Austria
Diane Camber - Executive Director/Chief Curator (ret.), Bass Museum of Art
Charlie Cinnamon - Charles Cinnamon Associates, Public Relations
Jack Firestone - Firestone Capital Management; Former Executive Director, Louisville Orchestra
Karen Fryd - Executive Director, South Florida Youth Foundation
**Howard Herring - CEO New World Symphony
Horst Kohlem - Sculpture/Painter; Miami Beach/Karlsruhe, Germany
*Nancy Liebman (chair of Advisory Board) - Arts Advocate
Gustavo Matamoros - Director, Subtropics Music Festival
Albert Milano, CEO Concert Association of Florida
Johnny Regan -President, Vision Miami
Laurinda Spear - Co-Founder/Principal, Arquitectonica
Edward Villella - Founding Artistic Director/Chief Executive Officer, Miami City Ballet
Lawrence J. Wilker - President & CEO, Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
* invited to join the Board of Directors
** invited to join the Board of Director, ex-officio
National Artistic Advisors
David Arden - Pianist and President, Keys to Achievement Foundation
Earle Brown (d.) - Composer and Professor of Music
Keith Carradine - Stage & Film Actor
Patricia Collins - Broadway & Opera Lighting Designer
Lynn Taylor-Corbett - Broadway & Film Choreographer
Mario di Bonaventura - Conductor, Former Dean, Boston University Department of Music
Andre Ernotte (d.) - International Stage Director
David Delta Gier -Music Director, South Dakota Symphony, Associate Conductor, New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Paulette Haupt - Director, Eugene O'Neill Music-Theater Conference
Leon Major - Artistic Director of The Maryland Opera Institute at the University of Maryland
Daniel Selsnick - Film Producer
Morton Subotnick - Composer, Professor of Music California Institute of the Arts
Edward Villella: Founding Artistic Director, Miami City Ballet
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Our Partners
SFCA-ISAW/Subtropics Festival - Gustavo Matamoros, Artistic Director
Miami Beach Arts Trust - Harvey J. Burstein, Chair
Lied Austria - Tracy Brighty, Executive Director
Our Staff & Volunteers
Carson Kievman - Executive Artistic Director
Silvia Maria Lorenzo, Office Manager
Maggie Curran - Marketing/PR Consultant
Nadia De Leon - Grantwriting
Ron Ungar - CPA Consultant
Vanetta Nikolov -Financial Consultant
Taichi Akutsu - Faculty Coordinator
Viktor Niklov - Faculty Advisory Committee
Valeria Proana - Faculty Advisory Committee
Ryoji Yamaguchi- Assistant Faculty Coordinator
Julie Abel - Parent Action Committee
Laurie Cabalero- Parent Action Committee
Lilian Vigil - Parent Action Committee
Carol Jacque- Parent Action Committee
Li-Mor Raviv - Parent Action Committee
Ivona Shedroff - Parent Action Committee
Monica Duran - Parent Action Committee
Sumer Mixon - Parent Action Committee
Maggie Curan - Parent Action Committee
Adiana Martinez- Parent Action Committee
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Our DONORS & SPONSORS (under construction)
| Anonymous |
Kris Beldin |
Ray Breslin |
| Janis & Cesar Costa |
Jack & Marsha Firestone |
DR. ROBERT N. GINSBURG |
| ALICE HAXTON |
JENNIFER HEBERT |
JANET R. LIEDEKER |
| THOMAS MOORE |
MARK NEEDLE |
PATRICK PECORARO |
| RONALD UNGER C.P.A. |
EMA SAVAHL DESIGN |
MAGGIE CURRAN |
| LI-MOR RAVIV |
SUSAN GALE, P.A. |
HARVEY J. BURNSTEIN |
| WAYNE ROGERS |
AMPARO UNGER |
ROSA GONZALES |
| JAROSLAVA LORIE |
MARCELO & ALEJANDRA PAEZ |
IRA & STACEY SHANE NUSBAUM |
| EDREI SWANSON |
LEVENTE KOVARY P.A. |
CAROL A. FOSTER |
| HENRY LOWENSTEIN |
SAUL GROSS |
ROBIN BURRIS |
| Miami-Dade County Commissioner Chairman Bruno A Barreiro for continued music education programs in the Miami Beach area |
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FIRESTONE FAMILY FOUNDATION |
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AUDREY LOVE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION |
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