High School Students

The Community Service Program (CSP) allows high school students to work with Academy program students as coaches. It is an excellent opportunity to develop pedagogical skills as well as allowing more advanced students to give back to the musical community by nurturing younger students. CSP students are mostly string players, although we are seeking to expand opportunities for CSP students to support musical education in other ways (e.g., video editing, general musical education etc.). This program provides an opportunity for CSP students to earn volunteer hours.

Meets: Fridays evenings
Location: Rancho Senior Center, 3 Ethel Coplen Way, Irvine,
Cost: NONE (This is a volunteer program)

CSP Coordinator, Joyce Maxson

​​Joyce is a retired music teacher who taught for 35 years in public schools in California and Colorado. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree in Instrumental and Vocal Music from Chapman University studying piano, clarinet, voice, and viola. She has a Masters in Elementary Reading and Literacy, a Masters Certificate in Orff-Schulwerk from Memphis State University, she studied for one year at the Orff-Institute Mozarteum in Salzburg, and has a Level 1 Suzuki Violin Teaching certificate from the Suzuki Association of the Americas. Joyce has taught numerous orchestras, choirs and general music, as well as Suzuki violin for grades 1-5. She developed performing folk dance groups at public schools, including a Vietnamese Folk Dance group. She is currently working with the Pacific Symphony in Heartstrings Community Engagement, and is thrilled to be at CYOSC as the Community Service Program Coordinator.

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