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Photo of a music class Babies Make Music

(Birth to 18 months)

Babies and parents experience rhythmic musical games, lullabies, bouncing songs, and massage songs. Designed to help parents give their babies a rich musical environment, it is a springboard to stimulate daily music-making.


Photo of a music class Toddler Tunes

(18 months to 3 years)

A joyful first music experience. Tots and parents share in a music-making program of rhythms, fingerplays, active movement games, keyboard exploration and singing.


Photo of a music class Kids Make Music

(ages 3 to young 4's)

A creative music course that explores the beginnings of rhythm and melody with emphasis on percussion, singing, and piano exploration. Listening skills and pitch matching are developed using games, puppets, and props. Parent participation required.


Photo of a music class Music In Me / More Music in Me

(ages 3 1/2 to 4)

Music in Me and More Music in Me and dynamic readiness programs for young children with emphasis on ear training, solfege singing, movement, keyboard activities, pitch and rhythm awareness. Creativity is stressed. Parent involvement in class and at home required.


Photo of a music class Rhythm & Rhyme

(ages 4 1/2 to 5)

Children learn elements of music while they improvise, explore sound and move. Students are introduced to the Orff tone bar instruments and taught proper techniques for playing many types of percussion. Language, rhythm and melody are used to weave musical stories. Parent participation required.


Photo of a music class Harmony Road

(ages 5 to 6 years)

The Harmony Road course is carefully constructed for children to learn the basic building blocks of music. Emphasis is on ear training, solfege singing, keyboard playing, ensemble and rhythm acticvities, movement and music creativity. This course gives the student "inner hearing," which makes transposing, improvisation and composing easily accessible in their musical studies. Parent involvement in class and at home is required.


Photo of a music class Young Musician

(6 & 7 year-old beginning students)

The Young Musician course introduces beginning students to keyboard performance and note reading in a holistic program, including the organized development of pitch, rhythm, solfege singing, keyboard and movement activities. Parent involvement in class and home.


Photo of a music class Keyboard Prep

(8 to 10 year-old beginning students)

The Keyboard Prep course is designed for children ages 8 through 10 who are studying music for the first time. This motivating program develops the student's basic musicianship skills through ear training, solfege singing, keyboard performance and writing music. Parent involvement encouraged.


Photo of a music class Keyboard Musician

An advanced course for those students who have completed the Harmony Road, Young Musician, or Keyboard Prep courses.


Photo of a music class Jazz Piano & Senior Piano Ensemble

Advanced courses for students who have completed book 2 or above of the Keyboard Musician course. Senior Piano Ensemble classes meet once a month and are designed for the advanced student who wants additional ensemble experiences. Often, the Jazz Piano and Senior Ensemble classes are taken in addition to another class or private piano lessons.


Piano

Piano courses for graduates of Keyboard Musician Book 4 for continued study in piano with combinations of private classes, group lessons, and computer lab time. Studies will include piano repertoire and key musicianship skills.


Summer Classes

Toddler Tunes

Tots and parents share in a music-making program of rhythms, fingerplays, active movement games, keyboard exploration, and singing. Classes meet for 30 minutes weekly.


Musictime

Musictime is a class for 3 and 4 year old children and their parents. Each session consists of four 45-minute classes of games and songs to teach eartraining, solfege singing, movement, keyboard activities, pitch and rhythm awareness.


Junior Music Camps

Junior Music Camps are music exposure and exploration programs for children ages 4 - 6 or 7. Classes meet two hours daily for one week. Students will participate in singing, movement, rhythm, and craft activities that are thematic with classical music selections highlighted throughout the camps. Exploration of the piano keyboard and mallet instruments is also included. Parent participation is not required.


Senior Music Camps

Senior Music Camp is a music exploration program designed for childen ages 7 - 10, using some of the same song material as the Jr. Camp, but expanded to include rhythmic training with percussion and mallet instruments as well as improvisation, singing, and movement. Classes meet two hours daily for 4 days. A Songs of the Sea program for parents, friends, and family will be presented from 2:00 - 2:30 p.m. on the last day of camp to showcase the learning and creativity of the students.


Young Musician and Keyboard Prep Classes

Young Musician classes are for students ages 6 - 7 who are interested in learning to play the piano as well as developing skills in note reading, eartraining, solfege singing, rhythmic awareness, and movement activities. The Keyboard Prep class is similar to the Young Musician class except that it is designed for children ages 8 - 11 who are studying music for the first time. Students meet for 8 weeks for 55 minutes each week. Parents are required to attend the Young Musician class with their child and are encouraged but not required, to attend with the Keyboard Prep child. A piano or keyboard for practice at home is also required.


Orff Workshop

Students who have had previous music lessons, either privately or in the studio, will reinforce concepts of rhythm while they improvise, explore sound and play both pitched and unpitched percussion and Orff tone bar instruments. Tempo, rhythm ensemble playing, and melody concepts are strengthened through creative story-telling in song. The workshops will run from 9:00 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. with a parent performance scheduled at 2:30 to cap off the day and showcase what the students have learned. Students provide sack lunch. You may do one or both workshops as each one stands alone.