Piano Lessons and Other Opportunities for Homeschooled Children
The choice to educate your children at home shows a great commitment to the quality of your child’s education. Piano lessons are a great addition to a complete homeschooled child’s curriculum. Research shows the positive impact music instruction, and piano lessons in particular, have on the academic success of children from preschool age through high school and beyond. I will take great care in providing your child with excellent, well-rounded music instruction while meeting the needs of your child specifically.
Morning and afternoon times are available for homeschooled students. In addition to regular weekly lessons, regular group studio classes are offered to enhance the student’s music education and to provide social interaction and sharing opportunities. These group gatherings include activities to enhance the music instruction covered in the lessons and will also include instructions in a variety of other topics including music history, composers of the past and present, music theory, composition and arranging music, etc.
If you are interested in more information on lessons for yourself or your child, please click on contact and complete the contact form. For more about Amy, please visit background.
Music Research
Music majors are the most likely group of college grads to be admitted to medical school. Physician and biologist Lewis Thomas studied the undergraduate majors of medical school applicants. He found that 66% of music majors who applied to med school were admitted, the highest percentage of any group. For comparison, 44% of biochemistry majors were admitted.
Source: "The Case for Music in the Schools", Phi Delta Kappa, February, 1994.
Students who were exposed to the music-based lessons scored a full 100% higher on fractions tests than those who learned in the conventional manner. Second- grade and third-grade students were taught fractions in an untraditional manner by teaching them basic music rhythm notation. The group was taught about the relationships between eighth, quarter, half and whole notes. Their peers received traditional fraction instruction.
Source: Neurological Research, March 15, 1999
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