What Sets Us Apart
About
OC Music & Dance is an Irvine-based, non-profit community arts school with a diverse student body of over 400 students, ranging in age from 18 months to adult. Founded in 2017, OCMD ensures every child, regardless of their financial circumstances, has the opportunity to develop their innate talents, learn from the most accomplished professionals, and be encouraged by peers, family, and community. Nearly 54% of our students are on financial assistance, ranging from 25% to 75%. We provide high-quality education, training, and performance opportunities in music, including instrument and voice.
Facility and Faculty
Our 21,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility, built with our students’ needs in mind, encompasses 16 music practice rooms, 2 dance studios, a 100-seat black box theater with full live streaming capacity, a 40 seat café operated by a social venture providing workforce development for emancipated foster youth, and a professional-grade recording studio. Our more than 40 teachers bring an extraordinarily high level of talent, commitment, and a wide range of experience to our school. Many come from the Pacific Symphony, UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Colburn School, Juilliard, Eastman, and other music and dance conservatories. The school’s founder is Charlie Zhang (famous for creating the Pick-Up Stix restaurant chain), and the CEO is Doug Freeman (former chair of the Pacific Symphony and founder of National Philanthropy Day).
We are a Steinway select school
OCMD is proudly one of only a small handful of music schools designated in Orange County. We have 13 Steinway or Steinway-designed pianos, including four grand pianos, featuring both a Model D and Model B Grand Pianos.
Our mission is to nurture, inspire, and empower the children of Orange County and beyond to achieve their dreams and provide a path for them to follow their passions.
Our mission
Our vision is that every child, regardless of his or her financial circumstances, will have the opportunity to develop his or her innate talents, learning from the most accomplished professionals, encouraged by peers, family, and community, and with access to instruments and facilities that enable each student to reach his or her personal best.
Our vision
Health & Safety
With the safety of our families a number one priority, OC Music & Dance is serious about upholding Child Protection laws and policies within the school as well as at public performances and online (website and social media).
As part of your registration, you will have read and signed a media waiver allowing us to proudly use images and video footage of your student for advertising and promotional purposes. Should you have any concerns whatsoever with signing this declaration, please email Lindsay Peckham, Director of Student Accounts and Relations, at Lindsay@ocmusicdance.org and she will happily assist you.
We have a number of CCTV cameras within the school which can be observed from the comfort of Monkey Business Cafe. All of our teachers and staff members have undergone official background checks allowing them to work with children.
OC Music & Dance takes no responsibility for any stolen or misplaced property on school premises and we encourage our families to avoid bringing valuable items into the school where possible.
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An ill student must not attend classes or lessons. Observing this policy will help protect all the students
and staff at OCMD and promote a healthy environment.
Please keep the student home and notify OCMD and their instructor as soon as possible if they have:
Fever: 100.4°F or higher
Eyes/Ears/Nose/Mouth: yellow/green discharge or drainage of ears
Throat: sore and red/blisters
Vomiting in last 12 hours
Rash or skin sores
Respiratory: uncontrolled coughing or sneezing; difficulty breathing
Abdominal pain that continues for 2 hours or increases in severity
Loose or watery bowels in the last 12 hours
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To help mitigate risk for our front desk team, instructors, and students, we ask that parents and siblings wait in their car or upstairs in Monkey Business Cafe while their children participate in classes or private lessons. If you normally observe your student's private lesson from within a music room, you are still able to do so with the approval of your instructor.
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If a student experiences a Close Contact Exposure (15 minutes in a total of 24 hours within 6 feet of a COVID-19 positive person), please notify OCMD as soon as possible. Students with close contact exposures must remain off campus for at least 5 days after exposure and may return to campus after Day 5 if symptoms are not present. Please contact our team regarding virtual options for your student.
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If a student tests positive for COVID-19 please notify us as soon as possible. Students who test positive for COVID-19 must remain off campus for at least 10 days after testing positive and may return to campus after Day 10 if symptoms are not present. Please contact our team regarding virtual options for your student.
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For private lessons, please contact your instructor to reschedule your lesson.
Contact us.
If you have any questions or comments, please don’t hesitate to reach out using the contact form. You can also reach us by email or phone from 9 am-8pm, Monday-Friday and 9am-4pm on Saturdays
Email
info@ocmusicdance.org
Phone
(949) 386-8336