Work One-On-One
One-on-one instruction is offered in both the Individual Lesson Program and the Suzuki Program.
Individual Lesson Program
One-on-one instruction is one of the most transformative ways to learn to play or sing. In weekly lessons, your teacher gets to know you and can give you the personalized feedback, encouragement and inspiration to help you make beautiful music. The Individual Lesson Program starts with the lesson, but it also includes performances, supplemental classes, and more.
Suzuki Program
More than fifty years ago, Japanese violinist Shinichi Suzuki realized the implications of the fact that children the world over learn to speak their native language with ease. He began to apply the basic principles of language acquisition to the learning of music, and called his method the mother-tongue approach. The ideas of parent involvement, loving encouragement, a musical environment, and developing the whole child are some of the special features of the Suzuki approach.
Tune Up Lessons
A Tune Up lesson is a free 30-minute lesson available once a year for anyone who has previously enrolled in at least one full semester of lessons at UVMC. Our goal is to help you reconnect with music-making, practice, and/or past instructors, regardless of where you are in your musical journey! Tune Up lessons are open to students who enrolled in Individual Lessons, Suzuki Lessons, or Mini-Group Lessons more than one year ago. This program is not currently open to those who only participated in group classes or ensembles, or who have enrolled in a UVMC lesson program within the past year.