OPUS students performed at the Alaska Superintendents Association conference at Land’s End in Homer in September. Kenai Peninsula School District Superintendent Clayton Holland expressed his enthusiastic support for OPUS programs
Welcome Abimael Melendez, Homer OPUS’s new String Program Director! Abi (Mr. “Abby” to the kids) grew up in a small, vibrant city in northwest Venezuela and began studying violin at age
A $20,000 grant from Carnegie Hall’s PlayUSA program has made possible the Eagle Ensemble, OPUS’s newest violins-in-the-schools program at Anchor Point’s Chapman School. Beloved local violin teacher and fiddler extraordinaire Katie Klann and
Rasmuson Foundation recently awarded OPUS a $25,000 grant to purchase 86 new violins for our violins-in-the-schools programs! The bulk of these violins are headed to Chapman Elementary School in Anchor
After over two months of pandemic isolation the Homer youth orchestra met outside to make music together in a safe, physically distanced perfect circle.
Blue Ice, was released as a YouTube video by Johnny B, who composed the music specifically for HYSOC, recorded the group in his sound studio, and edited and produced the