In Monday’s (10/20) Brooklyn Reader (New York), a staff-written report states, “The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music on Friday broke ground on a new 12,000-square-foot campus … The state-of-the-art facility will double the nonprofit’s capacity to deliver high-quality music therapy and music education, significantly expanding the number of New Yorkers it will be able to serve. The campus expansion will house 13 … studios, a performance hall, and a community space, all designed to be ADA-accessible and sensory-friendly. The new space will also become the official home of BKCM’s future Music Therapy Institute, seeded with support from Billy and Alexis Joel’s The Joel Foundation. The Institute will have national reach and advance the field of clinical creative arts therapies by serving as a destination for workforce training, research and advocacy. BKCM’s music therapy program is the largest in New York City, serving 2,700 clients in Park Slope and at 52 sites across the five boroughs…. BKCM is retaining its home of 80 years, its Park Slope Victorian mansion … ‘The new Music Therapy Institute at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music will be a national model for how the arts can support human development, connection and mental health,’ said Billy and Alexis Joel of The Joel Foundation.”
