CYT's Cultivate Music Academy

Cultivate Music piano and vocal classes are weekly, 50 minute, small group classes with 2-8 students. These classes will provide the consistency of private lessons at an affordable price in an encouraging environment.
We are trying to keep our prices at the very lowest possible so everyone can have quality instruction. We also have an income based sliding scale for tuition. See below for more information.  
*There must be at least 2 students registered for a class in order for the class to run.

Current 2025/26 Schedule

Monday
5:00-5:50 Voice for ages 10-13 with Amelia Kirk
5:00-5:50 Voice for ages 14-18 with Jessie Doyle

Wednesday
2:00-2:50 Voice for ages 8-12 with Amelia Kirk
2:00-2:50 Music for Kids (ages 5-6) with Jo Ellen Hubert
4:00-4:50 Voice for ages 12-15 with Jo Ellen Hubert
5:00-5:50 Voice for ages 9-12 with Jo Ellen Hubert

We will add classes throughout the year as we have interested students. If you want to take piano, voice, or Music for Kids and the times above don't work for you, please let us know I we can try to set up a class at  a time that fits your schedule. If you have a sibling or friend who would like to take a class with you, even better! Contact Kyla Kay kyla@cytcoloradosprings.org

Registration cost:
For Cultivate Music classes, you will pay the initial materials fee (varies by class) and spring recital fee ($30) in order to register and hold your place. 
Then you will receive a link to set up autopay to pay monthly for the lessons.
Cultivate Music lessons will run September 1-April 30, with a May recital- date TBD
Breaks will be...
Thanksgiving- Nov. 24-30
Christmas- Dec. 22-Jan. 2
Spring- March 23-27

Monthly Tuition:
There are 15 weeks in the fall semester  (Monday classes will have 14) & 16 weeks in the spring semester
Tuition will be charged at $30 per lesson minus one as a built in weather day.
The total charge will be divided over 8 months and be paid September through April.
30 weeks of lessons =$900
$900/8 months = $112.50 monthly ($108.75 for Monday classes)
*** Music for Kids tuition is $25 per class = $93.75 per month

*Please note that registration in Cultivate Music or Dance Classes does not make a student eligible to audition for CYT shows.
 

Income Based Sliding Tuition Scale

As a non profit, CYT desires to have as many students as possible to be able to participate. Because of this, our Cultivate programs will have a sliding tuition scale based on income and number of family members in the household. To apply for the tier 2 and tier 3 tuition discounts, fill out the form here: 
Application form
Sliding Tuition Scale

Current Classes:

Class: Age: Chapter: Location: Day: Time: Start: End:
Cultivate: Monday Voice for ages 10-13 with Amelia Kirk 8-13 Cultivate Music
(Fall 2025)		 CYT Performing Arts Center Mon 5:00pm - 5:50pm Sep 08 Apr 27
Cultivate: Music for Kids 5-6 Cultivate Music
(Fall 2025)		 CYT Performing Arts Center Wed 2:00pm - 2:50pm Sep 03 Apr 29
Cultivate: Voice for ages 12-15, Wednesday 4:00 12-15 Cultivate Music
(Fall 2025)		 CYT Performing Arts Center Wed 4:00pm - 4:50pm Sep 03 Apr 29
Cultivate: Voice for ages 13-18 with Amelia Kirk 13-18 Cultivate Music
(Fall 2025)		 CYT Performing Arts Center Wed 1:00pm - 1:50pm Sep 03 Apr 29
Cultivate: Voice for ages 14-18 with Jessie Doyle 14-18 Cultivate Music
(Fall 2025)		 CYT Performing Arts Center Mon 5:00pm - 5:50pm Sep 08 Apr 27
Cultivate: Voice for ages 8-12 with Amelia Kirk 8-12 Cultivate Music
(Fall 2025)		 CYT Performing Arts Center Wed 2:00pm - 2:50pm Sep 03 Apr 29
Cultivate: Voice for ages 9-12 8-11 Cultivate Music
(Fall 2025)		 CYT Performing Arts Center Wed 5:00pm - 5:50pm Sep 03 Apr 29

Current Teachers:

Amelia Kirk

Amelia Kirk was born and raised in Colorado. She started performing in the Douglas County Children's Chorus, and ended up performing all over the world in choirs and bands. She has also performed in many musicals and operas, which instilled in her a love for theater. Amelia is currently a K-12 music/theater teacher at Home School Academy in District 20. She directs a High School Musical Theater Program there and the students are performing Willy Wonka in the spring. Before moving to Colorado Springs she taught choir at Northglenn High School and had a voice and piano lesson studio. Amelia loves seeing children learn and develop new skills and is excited to join CYT!

Erika Cincotta

Erika has been making music for as long as she can remember. She sang in church choirs and musicals, took dance classes, played flute in bands and orchestras during high school, and continued her musical studies in college, where she received a degree in Music Therapy from Duquesne University. Shortly after graduation, Erika found her passion for making music with young children at Peabody Preparatory in Baltimore, Maryland. After moving to Colorado Springs, she continued teaching early childhood music classes through Pikes Peak Music Together while raising her own children. In 2018, she began working for Joint Initiatives for Youth and Families, where she spent eight and a half years training and coaching parents and professionals to support children’s development in early language and literacy, music and movement, and social/emotional skills. Now a parent of three adult children, she enjoys singing with the Colorado Springs Chorale and is excited to continue her musical journey with Cultivate Performing Arts Academy and CYT!

Jessie Doyle

Jessie Doyle is originally from Boston, Massachusetts. She received her bachelor’s in music with a focus is music theory from Dickinson College and received her Masters degree in Music Education from Boston University. She is currently a music/musical theater teacher at the Home School Academy in Academy District 20. Her areas of expertise are vocals and viola, but she also loves playing the ukulele and piano as well as nerding out over music theory. She is so excited to start her journey teaching at CYT!