LOS ANGELES MUSIC AND ART SCHOOL

LAMusArt’s Music program offers students an opportunity to grow in musicianship through sequential, individualized training. We match them with a highly skilled Teaching Artist for one-on-one music instruction, offered in over 8 instruments including piano, guitar, percussion, strings, brass, woodwinds and voice. Private lessons are offered to students of all experience and skill levels. Weekly lessons are designed to build the skills, discipline and appreciation for music that will benefit students for the rest of their lives. Recitals and school-wide programs, such as Stars for the Arts and the Spring and Winter Concerts, offer our young people opportunities to share their progress and achievements with family and friends.

LAMusArt’s Visual Arts department offers students group classes beginning at age five and continuing through adulthood. The small class sizes ensure individualized instruction, where teachers gauge student development and adjust curriculum according to each student’s specific progress. All classes place emphasis on creative exploration, expression and development. Our instructors’ expertise in their field provides students with a progressive curriculum that ensures that all students are challenged in their artistic development and are able to apply their skills towards creative success. The Visual Art department presents several opportunities to showcase student work throughout the year.

In our Dance program, students can begin exploring movement at age four with our Parent & Me ballet class, develop and fine-tune ballet skills in our multi-level comprehensive ballet program, and explore other forms of dance through Hip Hop, Jazz, Modern, and Musical Theatre dance classes. Each year, we host several recitals to give dancers the invaluable chance to showcase talent, skills, and progress and develop self-confidence. Whether onstage or in the studio, dance offers a chance for young people to develop a healthy body image and active lifestyle through movement and discipline. Through dance, students experience the freedom of expression and communication through movement. Each dance class is limited to 15 students.

LAMusArt offers weekly drama classes that expose children as young as 8 to the art of acting. Youngsters learn basic dramatic skills such as creating characters, reading and memorizing lines, and stage direction. As the class progresses, students advance their proficiency by challenging their development as actors, utilizing the art of improvisation and character analysis. In addition to audition techniques and design elements incorporated in the curriculum, our Drama program prepares students to enter the world of theatre as well-rounded performers.

The Tuition-Free Music Ensembles program is comprised of five sectors; the Mariachi Ensemble, the Orchestra, the Choir, the Jazz Ensemble, and the Strings program. These ensembles are offered to students free of tuition and meet weekly for rehearsals of 1-3 hours.

Playmaking is a 10-week creative writing program where students ages 9-11 learn the fundamentals of playwriting. The program culminates in a production of the students' original plays performed by adult actors.

The Audio Engineering and Music and Production program is hands-on, technical course designed to provide students with an overview of the recording studio environment, equipment, platforms, and software functionality in order to prepare them to for the production of their own music projects over the course of a 10 week session.

Camp MusArt is a five-week arts enrichment program that takes place each summer at LAMusArt. Students ages 7-15 take daily lessons in music, art, dance, and drama, and launch a fully produced musical production at the end of the fifth week where they are the stars of the show. As one of our most popular programs, Camp MusArt serves 60 students and almost 500 audience members each year.