Harbor Conservatory for Performing Arts

For additional information please call 212-427-2244 ext. 572/573

Established in 1970, the Harbor Conservatory of the Performing Arts is the only multi-disciplinary performing arts school serving the East Harlem community. Most of Boys & Girls Harbor's educational, recreational and after-school programs receive performing arts training through the Conservatory. We offer low-cost, high-quality instruction in vocal and instrumental music, dance and drama to over 1,300 children and teens and 300 adults, after school and on Saturdays throughout the year. 

While our Conservatory offers training in a broad array of styles in music, dance and drama, all divisions follow comprehensive sequential curricula modeled on NY State School Music Association guidelines. Students are required to master the fundamentals of a particular form before moving on to more advanced work. The Conservatory hosts a variety of ensembles, master classes, and workshops that offer students hands-on learning opportunities, and also produces regular public performances to expose students to the challenges of performing before an audience. Over the years the Conservatory has collaborated on a variety of projects with organizations such as the Caribbean Cultural Center, the American Symphony Orchestra, ArtsConnection, The Museum of the City of New York, Central Park SummerStage, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, HOSTOS Center for Arts and Culture, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the South Street Seaport Museum.

With the founding of the Raíces Latin Music Collection in 1979, the Harbor leads in the preservation and documentation of New York's Latin music legacy. Raíces ("roots" in Spanish) is New York's largest collection of materials tracing and documenting the Afro-Caribbean roots and the subsequent evolution of Salsa and Latin Jazz, and is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution.

Visit the Harbor Conservatory at http://harborconservatory.org