String Project@Wayne, recently named String Project of the Year by the American String Teachers Association, is accepting teaching internship applications for Fall, 2011. String Project@Wayne is an intensive teacher-training and string education program that offers three levels of string lessons for Detroit-area children in grades three to seven, taught by WSU music majors. To qualify, interns must be a first- or second-year Music Major at Wayne State and play bass, viola, cello or violin as a primary instrument. Interns receive a stipend of $3,000 per academic year to teach and prepare lessons for ten hours per week.

Every Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday afternoon, and Saturday throughout the school year, more than 150 children come to Old Main to learn fundamental physical skills, elementary music theory and ear-training. Classes are small-no more than 10 students to a teacher-and cost approximately $4 per session. Each December and April, a final performance is held at Orchestra Hall to enthusiastic audiences.
String Project@Wayne, directed by Dr. Laura Roelofs, Associate Professor of Music, receives grants from WSU's Office of the Vice President for Research and the NAMM and D'Addario Foundations, among others.

Interested students should complete a WSU undergraduate application, register for a new student audition on March 4, and complete a String Project internship application. Additionally, incoming music majors who audition on or before March 4 are considered for talent-based Dept. of Music scholarships valued up to $8,200 a year. For more information visit music.wayne.edu. For specific String Project internship questions email Dr. Laura Roelofs at llroelofs@wayne.edu.

Founded in 1918, the Department of Music cultivates music as a contemporary and global art, grounded in a long historical tradition, by combining higher education with professional training and experience for its undergraduate and graduate/professional students. Building on the strengths of its geographic and cultural setting, the Department maintains public access to its performances and degree programs, offers high-level professional and academic standards and unique creative and scholarly opportunities appropriate to a large research university, and cultivates a deep aesthetic understanding of music in our students and the larger urban arts community.