PCM sponsors concerts, master classes, the Old Time Fiddlers' Festival, Saxophone Day, student recitals and workshops. In summer there are private lessons, music courses and a creative project for kids to write their own play, compose the music, choreograph the dance and design the sets. The school provides all art materials to its 250 visual arts students each year. Teachers help their intergenerational class participants develop artistic skills, expand creative problem-solving skills, explore the creative process, deepen their spiritual awareness, and discover and express their own unique voice. Music Founded by May Garrettson Evans, The Preparatory offers instruction in music and dance to a diverse student body of over 2,600 students beginning at 10 months through adult.
Certificate programs are available in both music and dance disciplines.
Through its Elderhostel Program, the Prep also serves over 2,200 senior citizens a year, who participate in residential courses in music and dance. The dance program includes ballet, contemporary, jazz, tap and Spanish Dance. The Prep's Outreach Program in the Baltimore city schools makes music courses available by faculty, who are concerned with the total emotional and intellectual development of younger children. Other special programs include the Arts for Talented Youth, Pedagogical Studies and New Directions. In addition to its main school in downtown Baltimore, the Prep has branches at Towson, Columbia and Annapolis, and beginning in 1999-2000 in Montgomery County.