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Finding Confidence, Connection, and Community Through Music
When one family moved to Lafayette more than a decade ago, they were eager to find community and opportunities for their two children. After settling into their new home, they discovered the Center for Musical Arts and a doorway to music that has shaped their family’s...
From Shy Notes to a Confident Voice
At the Center for Musical Arts, our teachers often say that music is just the vehicle. What really matters are the lessons in confidence, connection, and growth that happen along the way. One faculty member, Becca Kronyak, who works with children as young as one year...
A Place of Purpose: What “Community” Means at the Center for Musical Arts
Here at the Center for Musical Arts, (an official “community music school” that belongs to the National Guild for Community Arts Education), the term “community” is just a given and is part of everything that we do. Everyone who walks through the door instantly...
Why Keep Singing?
Sometimes as people age, they stop doing the things they looked forward to and loved when they were younger. This is especially true if dementia enters the picture. People can become isolated, depressed, uninterested in things they used to do. One in ten people 65 or...
How Young is Too Young to Start Music Lessons?
What a great question! Usually, we’re asked how old is too old to start learning to play an instrument. The answer to that question is pretty much never. We humans continue to learn and grow throughout our lives, so learning to play might take a little longer for...
Yes, Keep Singing as You Age
Sometimes as people age, they stop doing the things they looked forward to and loved when they were younger. This is especially true if dementia enters the picture. People can become isolated, depressed, uninterested in things they used to do. One in ten people 65 or...
You Play an Important Role in the Music We Make
Please consider joining our donor family today to support programming and performances that bring joy and connection to our community.
How do you teach music to an infant or toddler?
Here at CMA, among our music classes for children, we offer a class called “First Steps in Music for Infants and Toddlers”, which is based on the Early Childhood Music Education curriculum of the same name developed by Dr. John Feierabend. You may find yourself...
“Investing in a music school… makes humanity better.”
For Fernanda and many other Center parents, learning music is about so much more than skill with an instrument — it is about structure, social and emotional skills, and joy.
Faculty Highlight: Bryan Dubrow
The Center for Musical Arts has a variety of talented teachers. In this interview we spoke with guitar, ukulele, and piano instructor Bryan Dubrow about his cross-genre music projects, his love of the guitar, and his approach to teaching.
Faculty Highlight: Sarah Summar
In this interview we spoke with violin, piano, and composition instructor Sarah Summar about her approach to teaching and the ways that even beginners can use composition and improvisation in their music studies.
Faculty Highlight: Michael Pordesimo
In this interview we spoke with violin and viola instructor Michael Pordesimo about his approach to teaching and the importance of creativity and independence.
How to Sign up for Lessons – New!
It’s complicated! Please hang in there with us as we all get used to this new registration process and software. Please read all the way through this document, and that may make things easier!