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Bethesda-Chevy Chase
Music Together Montgomery
Location(s): Bethesda, Silver Spring, Rockville, Takoma Park
Music Together Montgomery provides informal music and movement classes for children from birth to age five using the internationally recognized Music Together music program. Classes are offered for mixed-age groups (meaning siblings can attend the same one) and run in 12-week sessions.
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Meadowlark Music
Location(s): Chevy Chase
Meadowlark Music offers baby and toddler music classes at parks, backyards, and venues in southern MoCo and Nothern DC. They also offer private lessons on Ukulele, Guitar, Piano and Voice for kids (ages 5 and up) and adults. Meadowlark can also be booked for birthday parties.
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Chevy Chase Arts Academy
Location(s): Chevy Chase
CCAA offers individual music lessons to kids and adults on a wide range of instruments. They instruct in piano, electric and acoustic guitar, drums, bass, saxophone, violin, flute, clarinet, ukulele, banjo, and voice. Lessons are available 7 days a week and scheduled once per week. The cost is $55 for 30 minute sessions.
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Bach to Rock
Location(s): Bethesda and Gaithersburg
Bach to Rock is a franchise music school that specializes in group and individual lessons for kids, teens, and adults. Their Rock n Roll program offers weekly parent-and child music classes for ages 1-3. Music education group classes continue for the 3-5 and 5-7 age groups. Their 101 classes in offer private lessons for piano, guitar, ukulele, drums, voice, and songwriting begin at age 7. Private and semi-private lessons are also offered. Camps and parties are also an option. Two franchise locations in MoCo.
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Washington Conservatory of Music
Location(s): Bethesda
WCM is a nonprofit community music school serving children, teens, and adults. Group classes, private lessons, and camps are all offered. Early childhood music classes begin at age 3 months and specialized instrument instruction begins at age 4. Traditional private lessons are offered in guitar, piano, voice, ukelele, french horn, trombone, trumpet, drums, marimba, timpani, bass, cello, viola, violin, clarinet, flute, oboe, and saxophone. Suzuki Strings, Jazz Studies, and ABRSM instructio is also offered.
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International School of Music
Location(s): Bethesda and Potomac
The International School of Music is a full-service music school that offers music education for babies as young as 6 months old through adults. Preschool music classes begin with caregiver and child classes for kids ages 1-3 and continue with music education classes through age 7 including glee club classes, instrument exploration, and keyboard. Private Suzuki Strings lessons begin at age 4. Private lessons in piano, guitar, voice, violin, viola, cello, flute, drums, saxophone, clarinet, harp, recorder, trumpet, trombone, and bassoon begin at age 5. Summer music camps begin at age 4. ISM is also home to several bands and ensembles.
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Ms. Ellie's Music
Location(s): Chevy Chase
Ms. Ellie's Music offers shir a song classes for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers with their caregivers. Shir a song classes are music and movement classes that combine both Jewish and secular music. Classes are offered for mixed age groups ranging from infants to age five.
Gaithersburg
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Bach to Rock
Location(s): Bethesda and Gaithersburg
Bach to Rock is a franchise music school that specializes in group and individual lessons for kids, teens, and adults. Their Rock n Roll program offers weekly parent-and child music classes for ages 1-3. Music education group classes continue for the 3-5 and 5-7 age groups. Their 101 classes in offer private lessons for piano, guitar, ukulele, drums, voice, and songwriting begin at age 7. Private and semi-private lessons are also offered. Camps and parties are also an option. Two franchise locations in MoCo.
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Music Together
ClefTone Studios
Location(s): Rockville, Gaithersburg, Potomac, Poolesville
ClefTone Studios provides early childhood music education classes for children from birth to age five using the internationally recognized Music Together music program. Classes are offered for mixed-age groups (meaning siblings can attend the same one) and run in 6 or 12-week sessions seasonally.
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Pritchard Music
Location(s): Gaithersburg
Pritchard Music offers both private lessons and group classes for both children and adults. Private lessons and group classes are offered on Piano, Voice, Guitar, Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass, Clarinet, Flute, Oboe, Saxophone, Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Baritone, Euphonium, Tuba, Percussion, Ukulele and Drums. A Young Beginner program in piano is offered for kids ages 3-5.
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Engel Paino Studio
Location(s): Derwood
Engel Piano Studio offers 45 minute and 60 minute comprehensive lessons in piano for all ages and abilities. Lessons include the study of scales, chords and arpeggios as well as music theory and performance skills. Classes are offered in an in-home studio or online.
Germantown
Olney-Sandy Spring
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Music Together With Sonia
Location(s): Olney-Sandy Spring
Music Together with Sonia uses the internationally recognized Music Together childhood music program offering informal music and movement classes for children from birth to age five. Sonia also offers the Music with Babies class for newborns to 8 month olds. Classes run in 12 week sessions.
Poolesville
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Music Together
ClefTone Studios
Location(s): Rockville, Gaithersburg, Potomac, Poolesville
ClefTone Studios provides early childhood music education classes for children from birth to age five using the internationally recognized Music Together music program. Classes are offered for mixed-age groups (meaning siblings can attend the same one) and run in 6 or 12-week sessions seasonally.
Potomac
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Music Together
ClefTone Studios
Location(s): Rockville, Gaithersburg, Potomac, Poolesville
ClefTone Studios provides early childhood music education classes for children from birth to age five using the internationally recognized Music Together music program. Classes are offered for mixed-age groups (meaning siblings can attend the same one) and run in 6 or 12-week sessions seasonally.
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International School of Music
Location(s): Bethesda and Potomac
The International School of Music is a full-service music school that offers music education for babies as young as 6 months old through adults. Preschool music classes begin with caregiver and child classes for kids ages 1-3 and continue with music education classes through age 7 including glee club classes, instrument exploration, and keyboard. Private Suzuki Strings lessons begin at age 4. Private lessons in piano, guitar, voice, violin, viola, cello, flute, drums, saxophone, clarinet, harp, recorder, trumpet, trombone, and bassoon begin at age 5. Summer music camps begin at age 4. ISM is also home to several bands and ensembles.
Rockville-North Bethesda
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The School of Music
Location(s): Rockville
The School of Music provides weekly private studio lessons in cello, clarinet, mandolin, ukelele, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, flute, voice, viola, and banjo. Group lessons are available in ukelele and guitar. Virtual lessons are also available and they run summer camps. Their storefront also offers instrument sales, rentals, and repairs.
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Music Together
ClefTone Studios
Location(s): Rockville, Gaithersburg, Potomac, Poolesville
ClefTone Studios provides early childhood music education classes for children from birth to age five using the internationally recognized Music Together music program. Classes are offered for mixed-age groups (meaning siblings can attend the same one) and run in 6 or 12-week sessions seasonally.
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Bones Jones Music
Location(s): Rockville
Bones Jones Music specializes in guitar instruction, both acoustic and electric, as well as bass. Their instruction includes learning your favorite songs to keep it interesting. Lessons begin for kids at age 9, and a free intro class is offered. Bones Jones also offers a week-long rock band summer camp fid kids ages 9 and up.
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Levine Music
Location(s): Silver Spring and North Bethesda
Levine is a large music school with campuses across the DMV. Two locations are in MoCo. They offer instruction in over 22 instruments and voice with Suzuki method, private lessons, ensembles, and group lessons offered at varying ages based on the instrument. Levine also has an early childhood music program with several different class offerings including caregiver and child classes for ages 0-3. Summer camps are offered beginning at age 4. Levine also offers a music therapy program.
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Washington Brass Institute
Location(s): Rockville
Washington Brass Institute provides instruction by talented brass artists and educators in the region. Private lessons of 30 and 60 minutes in length are offered for students of all levels, including beginners, on trumpet, french horn, trombone, euphonium, baritone, and tuba. Arrangements for lessons are made via each artist and instrument. A summer boot camp is also offered for sixth graders and older at all levels.
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Expressions Music Academy
Location(s): Rockville
Expressions Music Academy provides music lessons in several states across the county and has a location in MoCo. Expressions offers private lessons in piano, voice, guitar, ukulele, drums, violin, cello, clarinet, flute, saxophone, trumpet, tuba, and more for ages 6 to adult. They offer 30, 45, and 60-minute lesson plans seven days a week. Expressions also offers an early childhood music program for kids ages 3-6 called Animal Adventures. Online classes are available.
Silver Spring
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Baby In Tune
Location(s): Silver Spring
Baby In Tune is for babies 0-8 months old and their primary caregivers. Taught by a licensed music therapist, Baby In Tune classes are organized around a volunteer host's location and then filled with the instructor's help. Classes focus on building a parent support network, bonding, and songs.
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Classic Guitar and Bass Studio
Location(s): Silver Spring
Classic Bass and Guitar offers private, customized lessons in a variety of styles of bass and guitar. Lessons are given once a week for all ages and all levels, and range from 30 minutes for very young children, to 45 minutes for most students learning popular styles like Rock or Blues, to 60 minutes for Classical or Jazz
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School of Rock
Location(s): Silver Spring
School of Rock is home to a music program designed to get kids on stage performing while they learn musical proficiency. Their Rookies program for ages 6-7 is designed for kids with no musical background to begin learning about music basics and exploring different instruments during a weekly group lesson. Their Rock 101 program begins at age 8 and includes a weekly private lesson and weekly group rehearsal with their chosen instrument. Their performance program is geared towards playing in the band and is offered for 8-18 year olds. Instruction is available in guitar, bass, drums, voice, keyboard and piano. Summer camps are offered for kids beginning at age 7.
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Levine Music
Location(s): Silver Spring and North Bethesda
Levine is a large music school with campuses across the DMV. Two locations are in MoCo. They offer instruction in over 22 instruments and voice with Suzuki method, private lessons, ensembles, and group lessons offered at varying ages based on the instrument. Levine also has an early childhood music program with several different class offerings including caregiver and child classes for ages 0-3. Summer camps are offered beginning at age 4. Levine also offers a music therapy program.
Takoma Park
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Richardson School of Music
Location(s): Takoma Park
Richardson School of Music offers online and in-person private lessons for piano, guitar, voice, strings, drums, brass, woodwinds and more. Classes are offered in 30, 45, and 60 minute increments. All lessons are arranged with your private teacher following an initial meeting to determine best fit. Group classes are offered in strings, guitar, piano, songwriting, vocal ensemble, digital music, and music theory, and you do have the option of creating your own group music classes for groups of 3-5 kids. They also offer a summer music exploration camp for kids ages 5-12.
Wheaton
In Home or Locations Vary
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Winterhalter Music
Location(s): In-home throughout MoCo
Winterhalter Music offers in-home lessons for kids beginning at age 4 for full 30 minute lessons. They also instruct older kids and adults and will occasionally schedule 15 minute lessons with younger students. They teach lessons at all levels in piano, guitar, voice, cello, drums, violin, viola, saxophone, clarinet, flute, trumpet, trombone, string bass, bass guitar, ukulele, and euphonium. Most lessons are held weekly.
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Joyful Keys Piano Studio
Location(s): In-home throughout MoCo, studio in Gaithersburg
Joyful Keys Piano offers in-home lessons throughout MoCo to students of all levels, backgrounds, and ages, ranging from 3-year-old beginners to adults. Classes are taught by a concert pianist and held once a week for 30, 45, or 60 minute sessions.
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Rhythm 'N' Ruach with Auntie A
Location(s): Throughout MoCo
Rhythm 'N' Ruach is a national program that offers both Jewish and secular musical programming. They specialize in teaching Jewish music, instruments, and values in their weekly family music and movement class for kids from birth to age 6. Auntie A teaches the program locally throughout the DMV, and also offers kids yoga and birthday parties.