Media & Press
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MacPhail Center for Music is ready to assist reporters and researchers with stories related to music education, the impact of music on young children, music and memory, and much more. Contact us and we will connect you with an appropriate person to assist with your inquiry.
Media Contacts
If you are a reporter on deadline, please email your request to Mikalia Bradberry, Marketing Manager. Please include details about your request and your deadline in your message.
For people outside the media who have general inquiries, please email Student Services or call 612.321.0100.
About MacPhail
MacPhail Center for Music transforms lives and strengthens communities through the power of music. As the nation’s largest community music school, MacPhail annually serves more than 15,000 students of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities through diverse music learning experiences. Our extraordinary faculty offer individual lessons and group classes on more than 35 instruments and in voice, composition, electronic music, and the recording arts. We offer instruction in four locations, online, and through dozens of community and school partnerships. For more information, visit macphail.org.
Our Impact
- MacPhail serves students in 83% of Minneapolis and Saint Paul zip codes.
- 42 of 87 counties in Minnesota receive MacPhail programming.
- In the last two years, MacPhail increased the amount of financial assistance available by 48%.
- In the last 3 years, MacPhail has provided 6,720 K-12 students no-cost music education reflecting the background, cultures, and interests of 6,720 K-12 students.
Annual Reports
FY23: digital, pdf
FY22
FY21
FY20
FY19
Other Resources
MacPhail Life Span Chart
MacPhail Fact Sheet
MacPhail Logos
Need something else?
To reach the office of the CEO, Paul Babcock, email Wendy Kellogg, Executive Assistant and Board Liaison, or call 612.767.5368.
Board communications may be sent to Marshall Tokheim, Board Secretary, via email, in care of Wendy Kellogg, or by USPS in writing c/o MacPhail Center for Music, 501 South Second Street, Minneapolis, MN 55401.
To reach MacPhail Center for Music’s main line, please call 612.321.0100 or email.
For donor relations questions, please email the Development Team at [email protected] Individual Gifts Manager or call 612-767-5309.
MacPhail in the news
- MacPhail Music for Life Director Kristyn Rupp featured on Alzheimer’s Speaks – November 2024
- Star Tribune – MacPhail Music therapists use music to treat a wide range of health issues – September 2024
- McKnight Fellowship for Musicians Announces Four New Recipients for 2024 – June 2024
- MacPhail Faculty Pinar Başgöze and Rebecca Merblum speak about MacPhail Presents: Native Sprits Sing on Fox9 – June 2024
- MacPhail Electronic Music Recording Arts Director Michael Cain speaks with CBS Minnestoa on work with Boston Ballet – May 2024
- MacPhail’s Madeline Island Chamber Music Emerging Artists Quartet-in-Residence Lírios Quartet featured on CBS Minnesota – April 2024
- MacPhail COO Paul Babcock speaks about visiting Madeline Island Chamber Music Emerging Artists Quartet-in-Residence, Lírios Quartet on KSTP – April 2024
- Fox 9 – MacPhail Guitar Instructor Austin Wahl makes headlines with “Play for Paws” program – April 2024
- MacPhail COO Paul Babcock awarded the National Guild’s Duffie Adelson Award – April 2024
- MacPhail Austin’s New Music Therapy Program featured in Austin Daily Herald – March 2024
- CBS Minnesota – Michael Cain, MacPhail EMRA Director talks Concert for Peace with EKWE App – March 2024
- MacPhail EMRA Director Michael Cain & EKWE App strikes a chord with Fox 9 – March 2024
- Former MacPhail Student Reiki Hall to perform at First Avenue – January 2024
- Lindsay Lewis speaks on McKnight Fellowships for Musicians with Northwest Minnesota Arts Council – January 2024
- WCCO Mid-Morning: Health Benefits of Adding Music to Your Life in 2024 w/ Paul Babcock – January 2024
- MacPhail Giving Voice Chorus Members featured on WCCO – December 2023
- CBS News Minnesota — Cultivating a New Generation of Artists w/ Michael Cain- November 2023
- WCCO Radio – Michael Cain joins radio host Vineeta Sawka to discuss the 50th anniversary of hip-hop and the next generation of musical artists
- Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) – MacPhail’s Andrea Leap speaks about trying new things in the second half of life – September 2023
- CBS Minnesota -MacPhail Community Youth Choir Performs on WCCO for Sounds of Summer – July 2023
- MPR News with Angela Davis – J.D. Steele: Spreading Joy and Cheer through Song – May 2023
- Star of the North – Giving Voice Founding Artistic Director Jeanie Brindley-Barnett Feature – February 2023
- CBS Minnesota – MacPhail’s Free Family Music Series featuring The Paper Clips – January 2023
- Austin Daily Herald- Bringing Musical Experiences to Life- profile of MacPhail Austin Director, Cheryl Berglund
- CBS Minnesota -Learning through music at MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis – November 2022
- MacPhail to Host Ode to Sondheim – August 2022
- “Connections and Transformations–the MacPhail music special” wins Silver Telly Award – May 2022
- 10 Current Black Minnesota Musicians You Need to Know: Congratulations L.A. Buckner – February 2022
News releases
- MacPhail COO Paul Babcock awarded the National Guild’s Duffie Adelson Award – April 2024
- MacPhail CEO retiring after growing organization to largest community music school in the US – November 2023
- McKnight Fellowship for Musician Recipients 2023-24 – May 2023
MacPhail—Austin Grand Opening of New Building – September 2020