Arboretum Music School provides music instruction to students of all ages and ability level in piano, voice, guitar, flute, clarinet, violin, and viola. All lessons are private one-on-one instruction giving students maximum attention and benefit. The typical lesson is 30 minutes per week, but longer lessons can be arranged for any student. Lessons are available for all ages and abilities. We even have lessons for adults!

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Parental Involvement

Encouragement of parental involvement and communication regarding progress and satisfaction of students work. Flexible scheduling and low competitive rates with payments due on a monthly basis.

Performances

Regular recitals are held, giving students the opportunity to apply and demonstrate their skills and talent in a performance setting. Students are also given the opportunity to perform in year round community events. Arboretum Music School belongs to many prestigious music organizations, giving students multiple chances for competitions.

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Instructors

Our instructors are trained professional educators, all of whom hold or are completing degrees in music. Every instructor has experience teaching all ages and abilities. Students can become inspired by watching their talented teachers.

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Why Piano Lessons May Be Critical to Your Child’s Success

It’s awe inspiring when you see a child sit down to a piano and play a complicated piano composition completely from memory. Many young children pick up piano technique very quickly and can be offered piano training as young as age six. If you’re considering whether or not to give your child piano training, here are some reasons why piano lessons are an excellent choice for a young child:

Piano lessons may help your child develop thinking skills.

A study on six year old children showed that children given nine months of piano training scored an average of three points higher on intelligence quotient tests than those who didn’t receive training. Learning to play the piano involves use of a variety of segments of the brain including areas housing spatial reasoning skills, emotion, creativity, and motor skills. Giving your child piano lessons may ultimately translate into more effective cognitive skills in school.

Piano lessons help with focus and concentration.

Another reason why piano lessons are helpful to children is that piano training requires focus and concentration. To play the piano successfully, a child must be able to read the music and translate the notes on the page into hand movements that express the musical passage. This requires a great deal of focused concentration on the part of the child. Development of the ability to focus can aid in achieving academic success later in life.

Piano lessons help to develop memorization skills.

Most piano teachers host recitals for their piano students. Each child plays a song or songs from memory. By participating in piano recitals, your child will develop the ability to memorize long passages of music and execute them in front of an audience. This is an excellent way to develop memory skills.

Piano lessons help to build confidence.

When a child studies piano and successfully masters the skills involved in playing music, he develops self esteem and confidence in his ability. This confidence will follow your child throughout his school years and can make him a more successful student. This is why piano lessons are so often recommended at a young age.

Piano lessons help your child overcome shyness.

By participating in piano recitals, your child becomes comfortable performing before a group which can be instrumental in helping your child overcome shyness. It also gives your child a skill he can perform at school events such as talent shows.

Piano lessons can be a lifelong asset to your child.

Unlike gymnastics and some sports where the opportunity to play and be successful is limited to those who are young, piano lessons will give your child a skill he can carry into adulthood and even into old age. An eighty year old can derive just as much pleasure as a six year from playing a beautiful song on the piano.

If you want to give your child a head start in life, you may want to consider the considerable advantages of piano lessons. You’ll be rewarded when your child fills your home with beautiful music.

Why Are the Arts Important?

They are languages that all people speak that cut across racial, cultural, social, educational, and economic barriers and enhance cultural appreciation and awareness.
They are symbol systems as important as letters and numbers.
They integrate mind, body, and spirit.
They provide opportunities for self-expression, bringing the inner world into the outer world of concrete reality.
They offer the avenue to “flow states” and peak experiences.
They create a seamless connection between motivation, instruction, assessment, and practical application--leading to “deep understanding.”
They make it possible to experience processes from beginning to end.
They develop both independence and collaboration.
They provide immediate feedback and opportunities for reflection.
They make it possible to use personal strengths in meaningful ways and to bridge into understanding sometimes difficult abstractions through these strengths.
They merge the learning of process and content.
They improve academic achievement--enhancing test scores, attitudes, social skills, critical and creative thinking.
They exercise and develop higher order thinking skills including analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and “problem-finding.”
They are essential components of any alternative assessment program.
They provide the means for every student to learn.

Adapted from "Why the arts are important?" by Dee Dickenson

Why Take Music Lessons?

Music is worth knowing.
Music is one of the most important manifestations of our cultural heritage. Children need to know about Beethoven and Louis Armstrong as well as about Newton and Einstein.
Music is a potential in every individual that, like all potential, should be developed to its fullest.
Music provides an outlet for creativity, self-expression, and individual uniqueness. It enables us to express our noblest thoughts and feelings.
Music teaches students about unique aspects of their relationships with other human beings and with the world around them, in their own and other cultures.
Music opens avenues of success for students who may have problems in other areas of the curriculum and opens approaches to learning that can be applied in other contexts.
Studying music increases the satisfaction students derive from music by sharpening sensitivity, raising their level of appreciation, and expanding their musical horizons.
Music is one of the most powerful and profound symbol systems that exists.
Music helps students learn a significant lesson--that not all aspects of life are quantifiable.
Music exalts the human spirit.

Adapted from The School Music Program: Description and Standards, Music Educators National Conference, 2nd ed., 1987