Keep Music Alive is excited to announce the 12(th) Annual Teach Music Week happening Monday, March 16(th) through Sunday, March 22nd, 2026. This annual week-long celebration invites musicians, music ...

Exploring the best age to start music lessons, the American Music Institute highlights the cognitive and social benefits for ...

A child sits at a piano. (Image by Vlad Vasnetsov from Pixabay.) If there’s anything we all might be able to agree on about the past year of a global pandemic, it’s that it has been stressful. Many ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In 2004, a paper appeared in the journal Psychological Science, titled “Music Lessons Enhance IQ.” The author, composer and University of Toronto ...

Timothy McKenry is a syllabus consultant and examiner for the Australian Music Examinations Board. There are many reasons a child should learn a musical instrument. Not only does it give them the ...

Researchers have found that piano lessons have a specific effect on kindergartners' ability to distinguish different pitches, which translates into an improvement in discriminating between words. Many ...

Conjoint parent-child music lessons can be a recipe for success. Source: Ketut Subiyanto/Pexels Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that parents who play an instrument themselves often approach ...

Managing Editor From jingling bells to beating on drums, making rhythmic noise is the sound of music created during a new class offered for children on Saturdays mornings. Led by musician and educator ...