The Timmins Symphony Orchestra has announced that it will be expanding its program offerings in the new year, thanks to a new partnership with The Venture Centre / Le Centre de développement, a community-based, non-profit organization dedicated to creating opportunities for entrepreneurship and to the pursuit of economic growth. The School will be offering piano and percussion for children and adult learners, and its first Children’s Choir – and is now hiring three experienced music instructors to lead these new programs on a part-time basis.

A core program of the Timmins Symphony Orchestra, the Geoffrey James Lee School of Music is Timmins only nonprofit community music program, providing affordable lessons for children and adults in piano, percussion, brass, strings, woodwinds and music theory. There is also an extremely popular Kindermusik program for youngsters under 6 years of age and the Children’s Choir.