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- Register for Studio Lessons, the Afterschool Music Program, Saturday Music School or the Performance Workshop (August-May) here
- Register for Day Camps (K-5 grade) here
- Register for middle and high school Performance Workshops & Camps here
- Register for Atlanta Music High School here
- Register for CMC Atlanta GAP here
for students grades 9-12
CMC Atlanta offers several different program options to meet diverse family educational interests, varied commuting and activity schedules, and variable family budgets.
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for students grades 6-8 (prep), 9-12
Our Vision & History
In 2017, CMC Atlanta founded Atlanta Music High School (AMHS) to fill a critical gap in local education. Before AMHS, Atlanta lacked a private conservatory option where teenagers could pursue both rigorous academics and deep, pre-professional musical training. For years, dedicated local students faced a difficult choice: compromise their academic goals, sacrifice their musical passion, or leave Georgia entirely to board at expensive out-of-state institutions like the Interlochen Arts Academy.
AMHS changes that narrative. To deliver an elite, globally recognized education alongside world-class musical training, AMHS proudly names the Atlanta International School (AISx) as our preferred dual-enrollment academic partner.
A Path for Every Musician:
Traditional to Progressive at AMHS, we believe that musical excellence takes many forms. We welcome and foster a wide range of artistic styles, ensuring that every student can discover and refine their unique voice:
- Diverse Musical Genres: Our curriculum fully supports intensive study in Classical, Jazz, Rock, and Folk music styles.
- Traditional Mastery: Students pursuing classical or acoustic traditions receive rigorous, conservatory-level training rooted in time-honored practices, deep historical context, and technical precision.
- Progressive & Modern Tech Practices: For students looking toward the current state and future of the music industry, we offer a progressive curriculum that seamlessly integrates modern music technology. Students learn the ins and outs of audio engineering, electronic music production, digital composition, and modern recording techniques alongside their performance training.
One Student, Three Exceptional Campuses
Our unique AISx-CMC Atlanta dual-enrollment model gives students the ultimate Atlanta experience, utilizing three specialized environments to optimize their academic, creative, and performance goals:
- Academics in Buckhead via AISx: Students attend their core academic and optional International Baccalaureate (IB) coursework through the flexible AISx Learning Track at the historic Atlanta International School Buckhead campus. This setup provides an elite, globally connected academic foundation.
- Conservatory Immersive in Sandy Springs (Brandon Hall Dr): The day-to-day musical core of AMHS thrives at our gorgeous, sprawling Brandon Hall campus in Sandy Springs. Nestled deep in the woods right on the Chattahoochee River, this serene and beautiful natural environment allows students to escape traditional classroom distractions and entirely immerse themselves in daytime rehearsals, masterclasses, and intensive personal practice.
- Performance & Urban Artistry in Inman Park: AMHS students can also integrate our historic Inman Park Church educational and performance spaces into their regular experience. Located in the vibrant, creative, and historic counterculture hub of Atlanta, this facility serves as an inspiring urban backdrop for collaborative projects, modern music tech tracking, community showcases, and dynamic live performances.
The Musical Core
To fulfill our pre-professional mission, the AMHS curriculum focuses on three core musical pillars:
- Applied Music (Private Lessons): Students receive intensive, one-on-one instruction from highly skilled, devoted faculty members to refine their technical mastery.
- Musicianship, Theory, Composition & History: Students enroll in comprehensive music theory, composition, history, and advanced musicianship classes. Taught by experts, these courses meet multiple times a week to build deep conceptual understanding.
- Performance, Production & Portfolio: Students collaborate in dynamic small groups tailored to their musical interests, including chamber ensembles, jazz combos, and rock or folk bands. Students also produce their own tracks and albums as part of their music academic coursework.
Every student's course load and weekly schedule is custom-designed upon enrollment. Through close consultation with students and parents, we balance the individual's artistic goals, personal interests, and academic requirements.
Additional Flexible Pathways
While AISx is our flagship and preferred partner track, AMHS remains highly adaptable to the modern educational landscape. We welcome student-musicians utilizing other accredited academic pathways that free up essential daytime hours for music, including:
- Online Programs: Synchronous or asynchronous schools, such as the state-run Georgia Virtual School.
- Nontraditional School Calendars: Local in-person schools with condensed daytime schedules (e.g., Rivers Academy, Capstone Academy, William & Reed Academy).
- Public School Flex Options: Hybrid scheduling through local public institutions like Midtown High School or Decatur High School.
- Homeschooling: Fully customized independent study tracks.
Programs Offered
- Atlanta Music High School: Open to dedicated student-musicians in grades 9–12.
- AMHS Prep Program: A parallel, immersive track for passionate students in grades 6–8 looking to build an early foundation in musical practice and performance.
Connect With Us
Take the next step in your musical and academic journey. To request more information, schedule a campus tour, or arrange your interview and placement audition: Email us or call (404) 614-0466
AMHS & GAP Elements
- Studio Lessons
- Comprehensive Musicianship Program
- Performance and Music Projects
- Intern & Externships
Whether your interests are Classical, Jazz, Blues, Rock, or American Folk & Roots music, traditional or experimental approaches, lessons with our faculty provide the means and the motivation for developing musical skills and understanding. When you arrive, if not before, we match you with the desired resource-- a great teacher-- and pair you up in an inspiring setting.
Options include:
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The Comprehensive Musicianship Program (or CMP) Courses and Workshops provide essential support for CMC Atlanta students. Time spent one-on-one or in small group classes taught by music theory, harmony, composition and improvisation specialists works in tandem with private lessons to foster musical understanding, skills, and ultimately, the framework for performance and creation.
CMP Overview
For each of our AMHS and GAP students, we develop a unique curriculum that meets the students needs and interests.
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Performance Program While some students study music with no performances in mind, most people take lessons and classes with the goal of developing the skills and confidence to play for others, either friends and family members or an appreciative audience, small or large. After all, who wants to be alone hour after hour in a practice room, taking lessons week after week, with no end, no purpose, no clear goals in sight?
Drawing on Studio Lesson and CMP Course & Workshop training, AMHS and Gap students form small ensembles of all kinds--
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AMHS and GAP students are encouraged to work with CMC Atlanta faculty and administrators to take on an internship or externship. These arrangements are designed to meet the student's short and long term goals, and they can be either administrative or instructional in nature.
Internships are sometimes, but not always, available as an element of GAP and upper level; AMHS enrollment.
Read MoreWhat Comes after AMHS?
Program graduates accepted to:
- Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA)
- Berklee College of Music (Valencia, Spain)
- Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
- Cleveland Institute of Music (Cleveland, OH)
- Oberlin College-Conservatory (Oberlin, OH)
- Peabody Conservatory (Baltimore, MD)
- Vienna Institute for Modern Music (Vienna, Austria)
- Loyola University (New Orleans, LA)
- NYU Clive Davis Institute (New York, NY)
- Bard College (Red Hook, NY)
- Howard University (Washington, D.C.)
- Humber Polytechnic (Toronto, Ontario)
- Lamont School of Music (Denver, CO)
- Georgia Tech (Atlanta, GA)
- Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA)
- Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL)
- Covenant College (Lookout Mountain, GA)
- Kennesaw State University (Kennesaw, GA)
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Why AMHS? +
A creative musical output requires an approach that immerses the student in a community of practicing musicians and encourages the student to engage in a crucial set of activities with teachers and peers in a disciplined and ongoing way. The educational or (perhaps, put better) human goal of cultivating musical artistry and understanding drive the curriculum and schedule for individual students and the AMHS community. Because of the condensed academic schedule, the AMHS experience also provides balance and harmony between traditional academics and passionate pursuit of musical skills and authentic artistic personal expression. We think this balance and harmony are crucial for student happiness and success.
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Who is eligible? +
Since AMHS curriculum and schedules are designed on an individual basis, AMHS is suitable for students falling on a continuum from some experience to Pre-Professional levels of training. Since the program immerses the student in music performance, music education, and music outreach experiences, students who enroll should be passionate about music and in most cases have had at least a foundational education, whether formal or informal.
Students are divided by interest and skill level, so we are able to accommodate diverse skill levels without undermining the experience for advanced students or putting a less experienced student in an unnecessarily intimidating situation.
Atlanta Music High School is open to 9th-12th grade students. Atlanta Music High Prep is open to students grades 6-8.
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Where? +
AMHS is based primarily on the campus of AIS Sandy Springs and optionally CMC Inman Park; however, elements of AMHS (private lessons, rehearsals, personal practice space, or internships) can potentially be arranged at any of the four CMC Atlanta locations:
- AIS Sandy Springs/CMC Sandy Springs 1701 Brandon Hall Dr Atlanta, GA 30350
- CMC Inman Park 1015 Edgewood Ave NE Atlanta, GA 30307
- CMC Decatur 189 Sams St, Suite B, Decatur, GA 30030
- CMC Dunwoody 5518 Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd Dunwoody, GA 30038
We also use a variety of community resources and local performance venues, as needed
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When? +
AMHS offers coursework year round:
- Fall Term: August - December
- Winter Term: January - May
- Optional Summer Term: June - July
Although we operate on a traditional academic term cycle, students may register and begin at any time pending an audition/interview.
Once a student enrolls at AMHS, we plan directly with the student and family to create an individually crafted schedule that accommodates the student's interests, goals, and academic coursework, regardless if the student is cross enrolled at the Atlanta International School, another public or private school, or home schooled.
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What style of music? +
We offer training in
- Classical Music
- Jazz Music
- Rock and Pop Music, and
- American Folk & Roots Music
Traditional and experimental approaches within these fields are supported.
Students are not limited to a single genre or style. All students are taught to read and understand music using the terminology and conceptual frameworks used by professional musicians in these different styles.
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How much? +
Term tuition, music training only:
- August-December, $6000-$7500 paid in full or monthly installments
- January-May, $6000-$7500 paid in full or in monthly installments
- optional June-July Summer Term, $1600 paid in full or in monthly installments
Please note: there is an annual registration/enrollment fee of $350 per student; other fees and restrictions may apply. Tuition rates are subject to change with 60 days notice.
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