Monument Square Community Music School

Deck the halls with Boughs of Holly fa-la- la-la- la, la-la- la-la! Now I’m guessing you couldn’t help but sing along with that could you? Well… get ready to sing some more, because the holiday season is approaching fast! You’ll be hearing the students of Monument Square Community Music School hard at work learning their favorite holiday songs. Along with tons of music, we have a lot of new and exciting projects and events in the works, including a monthly Jazz Jam that will happen at 6:00 PM on the first Sunday of every month at Monument Square Community Music School with an entry fee of $5. We have created this event to give intermediate and advanced students a chance to meet and play with other musicians and to also create a space where students and musicians can show what they have been working on. All are welcome to come join the fun even if it is just to listen. Each Jazz Jam will feature a band made up of teachers and other performing musicians. It’s always a ball here at Monument Square and we look forward to seeing and hearing our students continue to grow everyday.

Until next post,

-Monument Square Community Music School

We hope all of our students are enjoying a relaxing summer vacation! Here at Monument Square Music, we enjoy hearing our summer session students fill the halls with bright, beautiful music all summer long and are excited to have everyone rejoin us in the fall. As we prepare for the new school year, keep an eye out for new faculty, programs, and of course, new students! Registration for fall music lessons is now open, and anyone interested can register here.

Monument Square Community Music school is happy to announce that we will be relocating our music lesson program to downtown Leominster, where we have been giving lessons since November 2017! We love having a store front and being located right in the heart of things in Leominster’s up and coming downtown. We truly hope to enhance Leominster’s art and music scene and we are excited to bring our amazing teachers to the new location. Our school has been growing steadily since we opened our doors in 2012 and it was time to get a new hip spot and take the school to the next level! As always, our music school has a rolling admission, so feel free to register at any time in the semester. It is easy to fill out the registration form here; http://monumentsquaremusic.com/register/private-lessons-registration/  We have expanded our faculty roster and are ready to take on new piano, voice, guitar, drums, bass, sax, flute, and strings students for the new year.

The move took a great of amount of construction and redesigning and we are so pleased with how everything came out. In November, we opened the new space to the public at an open house that included performances from many of the teachers and students. It was a blast! We are grateful to the many family and friends who showed up as well as the press and writers and photographers from the local newspaper; helping us spread the word about our new location! The open house gave us a taste of things to come, and showed us the possibilities of having concerts and performances from teachers, students and other musicians in our space. We think we have something special happening and we are excited to see what the future brings at 20 Main St.!

Here is an article from one of the local newspapers that attended; http://www.leominsterchamp.com/articles/monument-square-music-school-moves-to-new-location/

 

Register for fall lessons today! Give us a call at 617-823-1848 or an e-mail at monumentsquaremusic@gmail.com to register. We have amazing teachers for piano, voice, guitar, bass, drums, saxophone, violin, and cello lessons all right in downtown Leominster MA. We had a great time last year with all of the students and teachers and it has been a pleasure to watch the students grow into musicians. We are grateful to the parents and students, some of who have been with us since we opened our doors four years ago and we are really looking forward to starting off 2016! We are also blessed to have such a great roster of teachers on our faculty. You can check out our teachers’ biographies on this page; http://monumentsquaremusic.com/about/instructors/ We also added three new teachers last year in James Dower, Lizzy Marquis, and Michael Rice. They are all exceptional musicians who also happen to be great teachers! We consider our teachers to be the centerpiece of our school so we have concentrated on getting the best of the best. We feel like our high standard of teachers has definitely had an enormous impact on our music students and we can’t wait to continue serving this community with music lessons!

Summer is coming to an and we are getting ready for another year at Monument Square Music School! We can’t wait to start this school year with our great teachers and students. Many new students have already signed up and it is always great to see so many people begin to learn a new instrument. Every single day we see the confidence learning an instrument and singing can give to a child. We witness over and over again the creative thinking and coordination skills people develop while learning an instrument. We truly see the joy and the sense of accomplishment children and adults gain when overcoming the challenges of learning the language of music! I believe that music is one of the most difficult skills that a person can learn and it does take a great commitment on the part of the student and the teacher; getting through the basics, learning the theory, developing the technique, training the ear, developing the musical memory.. All tough stuff and all of these aspects being tested and improved each week every song learned! With a little bit of practice every day and weekly lessons students progress to the point where the instrument (or voice) becomes a joy to play instead of a beast to conquer! Our teachers try to teach music gradually so nothing is overwhelming. It is always a goal of ours to make sure that the student has a great time and loves what they are doing.

If you are interested in signing up for fall session check out the bios of our truly amazing faculty at this link http://monumentsquaremusic.com/about/instructors/ and register here; http://monumentsquaremusic.com/register/register/! We are so very lucky to have such high quality musicians on our faculty. Getting great teachers has always been our priority since we started the school 3 years ago. We don’t sell instruments, cables, or guitar picks! We decided from the start to concentrate on music instruction and we think great teachers have helped our students blossom and see the results every year at our recital!

 

 

Great sounds at Monument Square in Leominster!

We are excited to be starting winter/spring music lessons and are currently taking new students for piano, voice, guitar, bass, drums, sax, violin, flute and cello lessons. The semester started on January 5th and runs through June 20th. It is so great to hear the students improving and gearing up for the spring recital.  Many great music sounds can be heard in the lobby of Monument Square Music School from students and teachers!

We are also happy to have two great new teachers on staff this year..

Michael James Rice joins our piano faculty. Michael is a great classical pianist and an amazing teacher for students of all ages. He has taught hundreds of piano students over the years and is the lead clinician for Piano Adventures music books in China, and we are very lucky to have his experience and talent at the school!

Our second newcomer is the great vocal talent, Lizzy Marquis. Lizzy is a fantastic singer and pianist who can be found in local music venues performing with her her band “The Lizzy Marquis Experience” and as a solo act. We are glad to have her on our team of voice teachers!

We are glad to be expanding our faculty roster. Check out our other music teachers at http://monumentsquaremusic.com/about/instructors/ Give us a call or email to enroll! http://monumentsquaremusic.com/about/contact/

Monument Square Music is getting a make over!  We are lucky to have the talented artist Emily Ashman painting the music school, bringing lots of life and color to the place!  Our new look is almost complete and the students are very excited about the colorful rooms and cool, musical murals on the walls.  Emily is a multi-talented artist who also excels at photography and graphic design. You can check out her work at http://theillustratedroom.com/  She also holds paint parties at different venues in the area. Check out the dates for these fun events at http://www.wepaintsocial.com/social-calendar/  In the meantime we are very excited to watch this art in progress.  Looking good…. thanks Emily!