Music belongs to everyone! This "Kodály Music Explorers" program is for children three years of age and older who wish to explore music through a singing approach.
Guided by the belief that music enhances the quality of life, our goal is to instill and nurture a love of music in young children and their families.
Knowing that the early years of life are the most important period for children to develop musical ability and awareness, our aim is to establish a firm foundation of basic musicianship skills and music literacy in preparation for, or as an enhancement to, further music study.
"A musical culture that has real depth must always be founded on singing. .... Only the human voice, the most freely accessible and yet the most beautiful of all instruments, can provide the basis for a musical culture." Zoltan Kodály
Private music instructors are thrilled to inherit our young graduates who can read and understand music, and have the co-ordination, concentration and background to progress very quickly in their instrumental or vocal studies.
Singing provides the foundation for the child's musical development. In the same way that children develop language by constantly hearing speech, they learn to match pitch and develop musicianship by hearing singing role models frequently and at close range.
The Kodály Concept and other teaching philosophies emphasize singing because:
"Singing is the foundation of music in all things." Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
"If you can sing it, you can play it." Jamie Aebersold, jazz musician
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