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We work with children from age 4 through age 13. Groups are arranged by age and stage rather than by age alone, so a seven-year-old who has been playing for two years and a seven-year-old starting fresh will not be put in the same room.
If your child sits just outside that range, call us anyway - we would rather talk it through than turn away a family by policy.
None at all. Most of our students have never touched a keyboard before their first day, and there is no audition or assessment to get in.
We have never believed musical ability is something a child either has or does not have. It is built, slowly, by children who are given the time to build it.
Three steps. First, get in touch and we will arrange a visit or a free trial lesson. Second, your child meets their instructor and sits in on a real class. Third, if it feels right, we enrol them.
Nobody is asked to commit before their child has actually been in the room.
Because our groups are deliberately small, availability moves throughout the year. Some age groups have space immediately; others open up at term boundaries.
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Group piano lessons run a full hour, once a week. Not fifty minutes, not thirty. Young children need time to settle before they learn anything, and an hour gives them that.
Small enough that every child gets hands-on time at a keyboard in every single lesson, and small enough that an instructor notices when a child is struggling before that child has to say so.
Reading music, rhythm, hand position and technique, and playing alongside other children - which is a genuinely different skill from playing alone.
Alongside that: patience, focus, and the experience of being bad at something and then, week by week, becoming good at it. Most parents tell us that second list is what they notice first.
Not to start. Keyboards are provided here, so you can enrol without buying anything.
Once your child is settled and enjoying it, having something to practise on at home does speed things up - but we would rather you waited and were sure than spent money in week one.
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Yes. Our after-school programme is a licensed childcare programme in the state of Maryland, which means we are held to standards on staffing, safety, premises and staff screening that a lesson studio never has to meet.
Children arrive, settle, and have something to eat. Then homework comes first, with a staff member sitting at the table rather than supervising from across the room. After that: music, enrichment activities, recreation, and time to simply be a child.
Yes, every day, at no extra cost - and so is music instruction. Neither is an upgrade or an add-on fee.
Most parents tell us the real benefit is what happens at home afterwards: the evening stops being a negotiation about unfinished worksheets.
Children are only released to adults you have authorised in advance, and we check identification for anyone we do not recognise. Every arrival and departure is recorded.
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A full day mixing music instruction, academic practice, outdoor recreation, and creative projects, with character development threaded through the whole thing. Every camper gets piano - it is not an optional extra.
Camp runs in weekly blocks across the summer. Which weeks are available, and whether you can book them individually or as a block, depends on the year and how early you ask.
No. Camp is open to any child aged 4 to 13, whether or not they have ever been to us before. Plenty of families meet us for the first time in July.
Comfortable clothes they can play outside in, and a water bottle. Instruments and materials are provided.
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Every adult on site meets the screening and training requirements of our Maryland childcare licence. Our instructors are hired for how they handle young children, not only for how well they play, and they tend to stay for years rather than semesters.
You are welcome to meet whoever will be teaching your child before you enrol. We would encourage it.
Fees depend on which programme you choose and how many days a week your child attends, so we quote per family rather than publishing a single figure that would be wrong for most people.
Families' circumstances change and we would rather know early than have a child simply stop appearing. Notice periods and any refund arrangements are set out clearly in your enrolment paperwork.
Bring them for a visit before they start, so the room is familiar and the instructor has a face. Shy children usually settle faster in a small group than they would one-to-one, because the attention is not all on them.
And tell us. An instructor who knows a child is anxious will handle their first fortnight completely differently.
Three ways to get a real answer from a real person.
The fastest route. Most questions take about ninety seconds on the phone.
Better for detailed questions, or if you would rather have the answer in writing.
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