The mission of the David Hochstein Memorial Music School is to provide our community with excellent music and dance education in an environment which encourages personal acheivement. Hochstein also offers a Guitar for Young Children program for students ages 5-9. Lessons are available days, evenings, and Saturdays. Shared Lessons are a fun way to share a musical experience with a friend and are offered primarily in piano and voice for adult and teen beginners. Adults and teens with some experience in an instrument, who are at a similar level may also consider shared lessons as an alternative to private.
Students provide their own partners.
Lessons are either 45 or 60 minutes in length and are available on weekdays, evenings, and Saturdays. All private and shared lessons are arranged by appointment with the Registrar. Early classes in music and creative movement enhance children's natural creative impulses, helping them to develop the skills they need to concentrate, communicate, coordinate, cooperate, and express themselves fully. Hochstein's Orff Schulwerk program provides a fun, activity-oriented, and nurturing environment in which children explore, listen, move, imitate, sing, imagine, and create using the rich musical heritage of many cultures in rhyme, song, stories, and games. Designed for children who have not yet begun or who are in the early years of the study of an instrument, the curriculum includes speech and sound activities, learning simple movement patterns and dances, and using various percussion instruments in improvisation and composition.