by Deniro Gomez | Feb 20, 2025 | Teacher Feature
“Finding Your Voice”—a phrase we hear often in movies, speeches, and conversations. But how do we truly find it? For 2024 Manilow Music Project Teacher Award Maria Taylor, a teacher at Bronx Health Sciences High School, it began before she could even talk. Maria grew...
by Deniro Gomez | Dec 20, 2024 | Teacher Feature
We’ve all attended concerts filled with the harmonious blend of strings, drums, winds, and more. But what we don’t often see is the effort, care, and cost that go into maintaining those instruments and supporting the musicians who play them. Even the most talented...
by Deniro Gomez | Nov 6, 2024 | Teacher Feature
ST. LOUIS – When Melissa Gustafson-Hinds, Director of Bands at O’Fallon Township High School, stepped into the spotlight at Barry Manilow’s “The Last St. Louis Concert” this past July, it wasn’t to conduct—but to accept the Manilow Music Project Teacher Award...
by Deniro Gomez | Aug 13, 2024 | Manilow Music Scholarship
CUDAHY, Wis. — Alex St. Louis has always known he’d spend his life surrounded by instruments. “Music has changed my life for the better, and through music it is teaching life lessons. Just to become a better human, to do better things in the world,...
by Deniro Gomez | Jul 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
A teacher from Northeast Wisconsin is being honored by music legend Barry Manilow with a $10,000 grant. Ashley Siegrist, a music teacher at Bay Port High School, was named Green Bay’s winner of the Manilow Music Project — a contest created to support...
