Broadway School of Music & the Arts

Specialties

We are dedicated to providing excellent music and arts education to people of all ages in the Greater Cleveland community.

Group classes in Suzuki violin and our Youth Drum Corps are available now.

Instruction is offered to individuals ages 6* years (exact starting age depends on instrument and teacher) through adult in Classical, Popular, Jazz, Spirituals or Gospel styles, among others, in an exciting array of instruments:

Accordion

Bassoon

Clarinet

Cornet

Drum Set

Electric Keyboard

Flute

French Horn

Guitar

Marimba

Oboe

Organ

Piano

Recorder

Saxophone

Snare Drum

Trombone

Trumpet

Tuba

Viola

Violin (Suzuki Method) (*Age 3 ½ and up)

Other group classes are held on an outreach basis in collaboration with our partners Community Assessment and Treatment Services, Inc., University Settlement, Villa Montessori Center and area child care centers for their constituents.

History

Established in 1983.

The Broadway School of Music & the Arts rents, located in the landmark Hruby Conservatory of Music (1918 – 1968) building. The Conservatory was built by the Hrubys, Cleveland’s premier musical family in the early part of the twenthieth century. Four of the Hrubys were members of the early Cleveland Orchestra, founded in 1918, the same year as the Hruby Conservatory was built. The building is prominently positioned in the Broadway Historic District of Cleveland’s Slavic Village area. Through the years, the Conservatory served thriving Polish and Bohemian/​Czech neighborhoods economically dependent upon the area’s steel mills.

Ten years after the Conservatory closed its doors, the building was purchased by Dr. Nicholas Demmy and his wife Olean, who restored it and guided the establishment of the Broadway Branch of the Cleveland Music School Settlement in 1980. In 1983, the organization became an independent non-​profit, and later the building was sold to a private individual.