How a lesson room works

We ask your written permission before we share any photo of your child, on this site, in newsletters or on social media, and you can change your answer at any time. We never put a child's name with a photo, and the photos on this site are examples until we replace them with our own.

A student with a fever or a cough stays home. Tell us by text or a call, and we will offer the time to the waitlist or a make-up where we can.

The studio closes for the winter holidays, a week in late summer and national holidays. We tell families about any other closure at least a week ahead, in writing.

Parents of younger students collect them at the door of the lesson room. We hand a student only to the adults on your pickup list and ask for ID from anyone we do not know. Teens may leave on their own if you tell us in writing.

A parent is welcome to sit in on any lesson, and the hall has a bench for waiting. At a recital, we ask families to silence phones and hold applause until the end of each piece.

We ask for a month's notice before a student stops, so the time can go to a family on the waitlist.

Wear what is comfortable at the bench. For a recital, concert dress is whatever the student feels good in. There is no uniform.

Phones stay in a bag during a lesson, except when a teacher asks to record a practice note for the student.