The Music Place

Our Mission

To inspire, equip and instruct children and adults with foundational skills in music, and performing arts through a positive educational approach which emphasizes the great value of learning as a fun process...to provide ongoing instruction and encouragement in a wholesome loving manner that promotes a lifetime enjoyment of the performing arts, and to train up a generation of educators who value the uniqueness of each child's learning style, personality and aptitude.

Our Core Values

• Music learning is a journey that begins between parent and child.

• All people are created unique, equal and deserving of respect.

• All abilities and disabilities should be respected.

• Great teachers are those who are teachable and embrace a lifelong journey of learning.

• Music Education should impart a lifetime enjoyment of music and performance.

Our Educational Philosophy

At The Music Place we recognize that the first five years of life are an extraordinary time, filled with wonder and exploration. It's in these early years that the path to future educational success is established. And music is an important stepping stone on that path.

A Positive Experience is a Must! The philosophy that underlines everything that we do here is based on the understanding that learning must be a positive experience for kids: it should be fun! In fact, research has consistently verified the fact that highly successful students in all fields1 have one basic thing in common: they have worked through three very different phases of learning:

Phase 1 (Keep it fun to build momentum.)

Phase 2 (Momentum helps me work hard to progress.)

Phase 3 (Progress feeds passion toward excellence.)

Our Unique Curriculum

The Music Place, and its founding director, Janice Morris, have designed an easy-to use, copyrighted music curriculum that uniquely combines the high energy of auditory, kinesthetic and hands-on learning with academic motivation. Children as young as two years old can actually learn to read music using this approach, while elementary school-aged children, using the same format enhanced with more sophisticated tools, get just as excited about learning.

A curriculum that is both fun and academic works because its approach is developmentally sensitive and is adjusted to address the physical, social and mental readiness of the child, so all can learn easily, and therefore happily.

Fun, playful handouts of notes, instruments and composers are part of the outlined Early Music Awareness™ curriculum that has been used in public and private schools since 1987. Happy learning!