Mission: Pedagogy Over Profit
"Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow."
--Kurt Vonnegut, from A Letter to A Xavier High School Student, 2006
All peoples of the world deserve access to a quality arts education.
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Nicole Sonneveld believes that this type of transformative instruction can and should be available to all willing learners, regardless of race, gender identity, socioeconomic status, dis/ability or location. Therefore, she is firmly committed to providing free nuanced, engaging and uniquely personal music lessons to students in the greater Chicago metropolitan area who may be otherwise shut out of the incredibly privileged and thusly overwhelmingly white, patriarchal and Westernized classical tradition.
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Currently, Nicole is in development on a musical collaboration featuring the creative ideas of people with severe physical disabilities and is incredibly excited to see how the project materializes.
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Everyone can and should have a place at the table, and everyone does with Nicole.
