Hiring Well & Professionalism

Yes, you need to be able to play well and know music well to work as a professional musician. But often times you will get and keep the work you have more because of who you are as a person than how you play. Nobody wants to work with jerk, and nobody wants to take lessons from someone like that either.

Advertising Sponsor Opportunity

If you know anyone with a business that may be looking for some more advertising, ThurstonTalk.com, which has a pretty big local reach, has done an article on us in the past, but they have reached out asking for our business. It’s $200 a month, so we can’t afford it, but if a local business wanted to donate to us for this, we would happily list them as a sponsor giving them advertising as well.

Can You Help Spread Word?

We have enrolled seven new students so far this week, which is so awesome! We can use your hep though! Especially with our Burien site, we are still struggling to get the word out. Please tell everyone in Burien, South Seattle, and Des Moines you know! Advertising in the area is crazy expensive, like everything these days! And we ty to keep our budget low so we can offer affordable tuition. Please, tell your friends! Joshua is still enrolling for piano and guitar lessons, daytime for homeschoolers/adults with flexible schedules, and a few late afternon/evening spots.

Festival 2023!

Festival 2023! Festival is a lot of fun. In short, Festival is an adjudicated event/performance opportunity for music students to play or sing their music in front of an audience of one. That audience of one is a professional musician-educator with extensive experience in music that will evaluate the student carefully in all areas of […]

Festival 2023 is Coming!

We love Festival! TIA is the only local club in the area for the National Federation of Music Clubs, the largest non-profit organization in America promoting and supporting American music performers and music education. Festival is a lot of fun. In short, Festival is an adjudicated event/performance opportunity for music students to play or sing […]

Do you love music? Can you spare $5? $10?

Do you love music? Can you spare $5? $10? A kind community member has offered us their childhood baby grand piano which will be a very welcome addition to our studio at The Tuned In Academy! But it will cost us $300 to move. Every bit helps. Give the gift of music today and give […]

Festival on Stage

Festival on Stage is a community event that we welcome and invite all of TIA and the greater Olympia community to come and enjoy! At this event, all the students that worked so hard on their Festival music will play their music for the community from the stage.

Festival 2022!

TIA is the only local club in the area for the National Federation of Music Clubs, the largest non-profit organization in America promoting and supporting American music performers and music education. We have an annual adjudication event (Festival) which is open to non-TIA students in the area studying music elsewhere, and there are many other opportunities as well including serious cash incentives and scholarships for TIA students through NFMC.

Our annual event is this Saturday, and students are going to be amazing!
We also have some great local leadership and professional musicians/educators from the community serving as adjudicators!

Why We Love Student Teachers

We are so excited this week to have two brand new student teachers kicking off full days of teaching! We also have a new associate faculty member starting this week as well, but this important note is about student teaching and why it is such an important part of TIA! We love student teachers at […]

Music Making at Revel Lacey

After all of this Corona time, it is so good to be able to get back into the community making music for the people! Thanks Revel for the invite! We believe music matters and makes a difference, and we love making community music.