One Size Doesn’t Fit All When it Comes to Bands and Band Music

This is especially true when you are speaking of a band or ensemble. One of the beautiful advantages of conservatory qualified educators with training, experience, and passion for composition is that we are happy to write music and arrangements tailor fit to the needs of our students and groups.

Just Two Days till Fall!

Fall is just TWO days away at TIA and you will NOT want to miss all the fun opportunities for music making!  We still have space available in our homeschool drum lab, homeschool brass lab, and adult piano! We are also enrolling for private lessons in guitar and drums. Fall Session 2018 Sept 5-Dec 15 […]

A Celebration of Scales

Join us for our first annual celebration of scales! This will be a fun time of music students coming together to celebrate scales and the journey of music discipline and education.    We will have three parts to the celebration:  1. Major scales in the circle of fifths 2. Natural minors in the circle of […]

Summer Music in Olympia at TIA!

Summer is just over two months away at TIA and you will NOT want to miss all the fun opportunities for music making!  Summer Session 2018 July 5th-August 29 (8 weeks) Summer Break, August 30th– September 4th                 PIANO, DRUMS, AND BAND INSTRUMENTS   Piano Lab (with SD) Piano […]

Summer Winds!

Looking for something fun, new, and productive for your kids to do this summer? Enroll them today for our beginning wind instrument class! They will learn to play the saxophone, clarinet, flute, trumpet or trombone in a fun environment taught by a conservatory trained musician and educator with over twenty years experience as an educator […]

Rhythm and Melody this Summer: Basic Music Instruments

Olympia, Tumwater, and Lacey residents, have your children begun the journey of music yet? Are you looking to enroll them in a music program this summer? Our Rhythm and Melody class was created by popular parent request, and it is back this spring! The class is split between a period of time spent learning to […]

Embrace #GivingTuesday this year: Make a Difference through Music

You can make a difference though music by supporting a local non-profit arts academy right here in Olympia, WA. Any donation small or big can help, but for every $20 we receive this year in our 2016 Instrumental Music Scholarship Fund, we can provide one month of elementary instrumental music classes tuition free to a […]

Zimbabwe: A Brief Story of Music and Community

Music develops more than just minds, creativity, discipline, and art. Music builds and develops community. In the twentieth century, music among the indigenous peoples of Zimbabwe was simple. People made music informally, simply for enjoyment. British colonizers introduced music presented as live art near the end of the nineteenth century. But musicians from North America […]

The Stench of that Something Special

Not long ago we visited a local Asian market to buy some groceries. We decided it would be fun to pick something exotic up, and took a risk in grabbing a box of cookies which we could not read the label of.  We had no idea the kind of stench that was to be unveiled […]

Four Practical Reasons Why Everyone Should Study Music:

Recently I discussed four simple reasons your child should study music. Really at least three of those four reasons apply not just to children, but everyone. Music education is not just for children, it’s for everyone! Because music is a necessary part of human existence. Here are four practical reasons why everyone should study music: […]