Rebecca and Emily, 7th graders at the Connelly Middle School in NYC’s East Village have received the Respira/Luz Scholarship for Music, Spring 2012.  From January through June, they will have weekly lessons after school, and can bring their saxophones to and from school to practice.  

Their instructor, Lauren Hecker, is completing her Master’s Degree in Music Education from the City University of New York’s Hunter College.  In addition to saxophone, Ms. Hecker teaches flute, clarinet, oboe, piano, and chorus, and has worked at the Arts and Technology High School, PS 212, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High School, and Styvesant High School.

Both girls are excellent students, and role models for their peers for their upstanding moral character.  They are very excited to be learning the saxophone, and already can be found practicing their instruments during lunch…