If so, then you qualify for a FREE 30-Minute trial lesson!!

All you have to do is register online and put ‘Free Lesson with Rental’ in the special offer section.

We believe you will love taking lessons and will choose to continue. Regular lessons for band instruments are a full 45 minutes!

Mrs. Balzer will be providing lessons for woodwinds, including Clarinet, Flute, Sax, and Recorder. She is also available for beginning piano and guitar students.

Be sure to visit our Private Lessons page for information on music lessons with Celia Balzer, or to register online.

Jackson Rowles

Our Student of the Month for June of 2010 is Jackson Rowles. Jackson has been studying piano with Tina Smith since November of 2008, and particularly enjoys having the opportunity to play duets during his lessons.

Jackson’s favorite composer is Mozart, and like Mozart he has also been composing music. Some of his masterpieces include Breakfast and A Night in the City. One of his favorite keys to work in is E Major.

Jackson’s goals are to continue studying and get better both at playing and composing. Showing a sensitivity and wisdom above and beyond his years, Jackson says, “You play with your heart, and your heart plays you.”

We look forward to seeing exciting things from Jackson in the years to come!

Sierra Adams on Guitar

Sierra is a fantastically consistent student, and shows perfectly how persistent efforts produce steady progress and results. This is a wonderful long-term approach to music study that helps one develop into a great musician and lifelong music lover.

Sierra particularly likes playing the classical style of guitar, including the Aaron Shearer preludes. She enjoys working with Said because of his sense of humor, and he shows her new techniques which allow her to play easier.

One of the things she is definitely going to get with her $20 Gift Certificate is a new supply of guitar picks, as she always seems to be losing them. And that, as much as anything, is the sign of a true guitarist!!

Congratulations, Sierra!!

The new bulk lesson time options now available are 2 Hours of Lesson Time, and 3 Hours of Lesson Time. These are in addition to the still available offers of 4 Hours of Lesson Time and 6 Hours of Lesson Time.

For those who wish to pay for lesson tuition on a monthly schedule, then these are the offers that will work based on the lesson durations.

Even though some months have 5 weeks of lessons, we usually find that there is a one week break in lessons every few months as well. So as long as the monthly payment is consistent, then there may only be a need every 3-4 months to make a slight change to the due date of payments. If you wish to choose the Monthly option, then let me know and I will work with you to pick a monthly due date that will work for you based on the current amount of lesson time on account.

You may review the specific discounts and the per-lesson rates that each of these offers provides on the Private Lessons page:

http://marylandacademyofmusic.com/private-lessons/

If you have any questions, let me know!

All lessons have been cancelled.

I have posted some of the pictures from the workshops in a Facebook album. If parents or other students also took some photos, then please feel free to post them or send them along to me and I’ll be happy to add them to the album.

Based on how the program has gone so far this year, we are going to start reserving the Wednesday evening workshops for adults and young adults about age 13 and older and the Saturday afternoon workshops will be for the younger students ages 5 – 12. We are also going to try and limit the workshop participants to about 12 per session.

We hope this will be an incentive for our adult students to participate, as they will know that those Wednesday evening sessions will place them with other older students.

Also, with the limit of 12 students per workshop, this makes it even more important to plan out and sign up for your workshops ASAP! If you don’t have your next workshop planned, then take a moment to sign up online right now.

Remember the key points of the program:

As always, if you have any questions then please let me know or come see me when you are here for your next lesson!

Alex Callahan

We are excited to let everyone know that we are now using schedulicity.com for the school’s scheduling needs. This service has many new fantastic features for you the students and parents, as well as for the school and the teachers.

Here are the key features for our students:

– Automated Reminders: Please add no_reply@schedulicity.com to your address book to avoid e-mails being routed as spam. Schedulicity will send e-mail reminders about lessons, cancellations, and schedule changes.

– Cancellations & Schedule Changes Online: If you choose to register at schedulicity.com, then you will be able to make lesson cancellations (up until the usual 48 hours notice) and reschedule lessons at any time 24/7. When you do so, then your teacher is automatically informed of the schedule change!

– Schedulicity Works with You: Use schedulicity from your home computer or from your iPhone, Android, or Blackberry. You can also set it up to Sync with your Outlook, iCal, or Google Calendar.

Feel free to check out the schedulicity web page for more information, or to register as a client for the additional features:

http://www.schedulicity.com/

If you have any questions, please let me know or stop by and talk to me the next time you come in for a lesson.

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Regards,

Scott D. Farquhar, Director
The Maryland Academy of Music
marylandacademyofmusic.com

Remember to Play Every Day!