MUSICAL FOUNDATIONS Our goal as educators is to impart musical tools that provide foundations of learning in all domains: cognitive, physical, emotional and social. Music touches all these parts of a person when taught with the right approach and equipment at the right age.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Music is a whole brain activity and when taught in a way that joyfully taps into the whole person, it provides a satisfying emotional climate that allows students to reach their full capacity as learners. Whether teens or toddlers, babies or adults, our students experience an education that nurtures them in body, mind and spirit.
PREPARING YOUNG MUSICIANS We are privileged to offer to young children and families the award-winning Kindermusik program. Kindermusik brings together families for joyful music making. Children who participate in its seven year foundational curriculum are very prepared for private instrument study.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Music is a whole brain activity and when taught in a way that joyfully taps into the whole person, it provides a satisfying emotional climate that allows students to reach their full capacity as learners. Whether teens or toddlers, babies or adults, our students experience an education that nurtures them in body, mind and spirit.
PREPARING YOUNG MUSICIANS We are privileged to offer to young children and families the award-winning Kindermusik program. Kindermusik brings together families for joyful music making. Children who participate in its seven year foundational curriculum are very prepared for private instrument study.
Did you know?
- Endorphins released in the brain when we are happily making music facilitate memory and learning.
- Bi-lateral movement strengthens the corpus callosum and lays the foundation for reading. Parker thinks she's just having fun!
So how old for playing 'real' instruments?
Our first instrument is the human voice, and we have the steady beat of our heart teaching us rhythm from before day one. As children grow, age appropriate instruments support their increasing motor competence. In Kindermusik for the Young Child (5-7 years), the singing voice, glockenspiel (pre-keyboard) dulcimer, and recorder, provide exposure to the 'families' of winds, pre-keyboard, strings and vocal music before moving into traditional private lessons. This pressure free approach of making live music in an ensemble of friends along with creative input to direct their own learning, promises success and lasting motivation in music.
Then later on,
learning guitar is as easy as pie...
...or maybe a fiddle.
(Well actually, she's a violinist in a beautiful disguise!)
Thanks to our friend, Dawn, at Brodt Music, we have been working with Will for two years. Going into second grade, and blind from birth, he has perfect pitch and is transposing songs at the piano into any "key." He loves the blues, live performances, broadcasting, and Garrison Keillor.
Check out the research hub of Kindermusik International
"Minds On Music"
Enjoy learning how music makes us grow!