21 January, 2016
A Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation grant of $10,000 to the Hopkinton Center for the Arts (HCA) partially funded the hire of a part-time Music Program Director. In March, Erin LaPrad of Milford, MA, was hired to oversee music programming at the HCA. Since her hire, the HCA has seen an increase in the number of private music students, ages 6 to 65, by more than 30 percent to 150 participants in 2016. As part of her position, LaPrad has hired five new instructors and in Fall 2015, she developed a new Music Therapy program, which provides piano and vocal instruction, as well as music-assisted therapeutic services to children and adults with special needs.
“With the opening of the new arts center, demand has soared for guitar, piano, strings, and voice lessons,” said Kelly Grill, the HCA’s Co-Director. “Thanks to grants like this one from Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation, we are able to foster the arts in the MetroWest area by providing quality music programming for all ages.”
Erin LaPrad, a long-time resident of Milford, MA, has been teaching guitar at the HCA for several years. She is the guitarist and singer for the cover band According to Nancy and the award-winning original band Karmic Brick. She has performed in several Enter Stage Left Theater (ESL) productions at the HCA and is the president of ESL’s adult chorus The Treblemakers. LaPrad earned her B.S. in Film and Television Production from Boston University.
About the Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation
The Foundation was established in 2000 to carry out further the philanthropic mission of Middlesex Savings Bank by supporting the communities served by the Bank. Over the past 15 years, the Foundation has provided more than $3 million in grants to over 300 nonprofit organizations, supporting services, and programs in a wide variety of fields, including education, and basic human services. Since the inception of the Foundation, Middlesex Savings Bank has funded the endowment with over $15 million in contributions. More information is available at https://www.middlesexbank.com/community-and-us/community-support/Pages/c....
