Neighborhood Music School believes that lives change through music. Founded in 1914, we provide low cost/high quality one-on-one music instruction to those who need it most.Located in a charming Victorian house in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, we are proud to serve as an anchor to our community, a bridge to cultural exchange and opportunity, and an usher to the mentorship between teacher and student that is integral in music instruction and in life.The Victorian house in which the school educates is listed in "Architecture in Los Angeles" (Gebhard & Winter) as one of only two 19th-Century houses in the area.
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Neighborhood Music School was founded in 1914 as a Settlement House created to provide music and English instruction to the immigrant communities who had settled in Boyle Heights. Neighborhood Music School is deeply rooted in equity and inclusion. Our community is our core and our strength and we serve students, families and community with the love and respect they have come to know and trust since 1914.
The Neighborhood Music School began in 1914, in a little cottage on a street in Boyle Heights that was named -quite appropriately-Mozart. Founded by musician-composer Carrie Stone Freeman, it was known at the time as the "Los Angeles Music School Settlement." Freeman's gift of $1,000 gave life to this learning center where low-cost lessons enabled children to develop musical talent that might otherwise not have been available to them.
Our teaching staff is composed of professional musicians and educators whose mentoring and inspirational teaching methods encourage students to strive for excellence in all that they do. Our teachers hold graduate and undergraduate degrees from institutions like Cal Arts, UCLA, USC, Stanford, Cal State LA, and other respected universities; many of them also maintain active careers as music educators, composers and performers.
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