Music Instruction
All Ages/ Youth - Teen - Adult
Dance Instruction
All Ages/ Youth - Teen - Adult
Theatrical Instruction
All Ages/ Youth - Teen - Adult
- Project Improv
- Black Box Jam
- Playgroup Theater (Ages 5-7)
- F.A.S.W. JR Company Theater
- F.A.S.W. Company Theater
Other Services
Fine Arts Stageworks
12228 S Harlem Ave
Palos Heights, IL 60463
708-361-6160
info@fineartsstageworks.com
Press & Testimonials
Palos Heights Public Library
Posted on 16, August, 2010 by Mary Cullen, Head of Youth Services
Dear Brooke,
Thank you so much for the six $100 certificates you donated to our Summer Reading Program Make a Splash, Read. The children and parents were delighted with such a generous prize. Usually our top monetary prize is a $50.00 savings bond. $600 is unbelievable!
We appreciate your generous donation to help us promote literacy and reading in our community.
Best wishes with your new endeavor. Please let us know if we can help in any way.
Thank you so much.
Mary Cullen, Head of Youth Services
The Regional News
Posted on 03, June, 2010 by Kevin Olsen
Brooke Kosowski, of Palos Heights, sings the national anthem at the Palos Heights Memorial Day ceremony on Monday as Veterans' Commission Chairman Scott Allen salutes. She is a cantor and children's choir director at St. Alexander Catholic Church.
In Orland Park, bagpiper Mike Cotiguala led the Orland-Palos Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2604 as they posted and retired the color guard at the village's Memorial Day ceremony Monday afternoon.
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City of Palos Heights
Posted on 31, May, 2010
Dear Brooke:
Your singing for Memorial Day was awesome! Thank you!
We had a very successful Memorial Day program. I received many, many comments from those attending, not about the rain, but positive remarks about your beautiful singing, the speechs, the band's music and the VFW tribute. The people of Palos Heights were touched and impressed.
Again, thank you.
Sincerely,
Dan Dahl
Memeorial Day Chairman
Posted on 04. Dec, 2009
I wanted to thank you for another wonderful theater experience. My daughter had a blast and the show was simply terrific. I don't know how you do it in just 3 weeks.... it's amazing! My daughter wanted me to tell you, "Please tell Brooke that I said thank you for giving me a chance." She really enjoys FASW summer theater camp. Her middle school does not have a drama department - so she is especially grateful for this opportunity. My daughter is really hoping to be involved in high school theater and I know her experience with you has given her the confidence she'll need someday for those high school musical auditions.
Very Fondly - Debbie Trapp
Posted on 04. Dec, 2009
Of all the enrichment experiences my kids have been in...Fine Arts StageWorks is at the top. Our son has been a football captain and won many athletic championships. However, your program is by far the greatest experience! We owe it all to you.
-M. L. Duffy
SOUTHTOWN STAR
Posted on 08. Oct, 2009 by Michael Drakulich
He's toured the country extensively to follow his dream of being a musician and earning a living at it. He's recorded original material and been a studio musician.
But the 37-year old Greene recently got engaged and wants to start a family soon. So he's curtailing his road trips a bit and getting back in the classroom to teach guitar at Fine Arts Stage Works in Palos Heights.
Greene isn't new to teaching. In the past it's been a great way for him to be practical about his earnings yet still give him the flexibility he wanted to travel and record.
Green is a Purdue University graduate but his degree isn't in music. He got a degree in marketing upon the advice of his instructors.
Greene, who lives in Orland Park, also has been a studio musician and recorded music for television programs and commercials such as the
Most students, he says, just want to have fun and learn to play along with some of their favorite songs. It may be a bit surprising but he said the hardest thing to teach most of his students isn't complex fingering or picking techniques. It's getting them to be able to tune their instruments by ear.
Greene isn't new to teaching. In the past it's been a great way for him to be practical about his earnings yet still give him the flexibility he wanted to travel and record.
I enjoy teaching. I feel like I'm giving back to the community and helping students achieve their goals. Teaching allows me the opportunity to work during the day and still perform at night,he said.
Green is a Purdue University graduate but his degree isn't in music. He got a degree in marketing upon the advice of his instructors.
They told me to pursue business. There isn't much I could do with a performance degree, they said. And I'm glad I made the choice. I've learned to manage and operate my teaching business,he said. Greene has been a part of just about every aspect of music. He has been a producer and touring musician. He's been a songwriter, having recorded three full-length CDs that have been featured on Chicago radio stations such as WKQX-FM (101.1), WLUP-FM (97.9) and WXRT (93.1).
Greene, who lives in Orland Park, also has been a studio musician and recorded music for television programs and commercials such as the
Dr. Philshow,
Judge Judyand WBBM-TV (Channel 2) news in Chicago. Being a regularly employed studio musician is a particularly tough side of the business to break into, he said.
Those jobs are harder to come by. Studio producers have their go-to guys. The way to do it is networking with other musicians and taking advantage of the opportunity when someone has to bow out,he said. With his new teaching gig at Fine Arts Stage Works, Greene is taking on new students of all abilities. And no matter what age or experience his students bring, he is convinced they can learn a new skill.
Most students, he says, just want to have fun and learn to play along with some of their favorite songs. It may be a bit surprising but he said the hardest thing to teach most of his students isn't complex fingering or picking techniques. It's getting them to be able to tune their instruments by ear.
When you tune a guitar by ear, you develop a sense of pitch. Once you have that you can learn to pick up the notes in a chord or scale or learn to play favorite songs by ear.