There is a huge body of research that demonstrates the value of musical education. Here are just a few highlights:

• Learning to play a musical instrument trains a huge range of different skill sets, including problem-solving, literacy and fluency, abstract thinking, creativity and spatial awareness; in fact, there is no activity human beings engage in that activates more areas in your brain than playing music with other people

• Because of the range of skills that develop through music, a student who pursues a musical education will almost definitely improve in their other subjects as well

• For many students, music is a place where they safe and where they feel they belong; the act of collaborative creation (like playing music in a band, for instance) inevitably creates a bond between the collaborators

• The Music program offers many leadership opportunities and different ways to encourage personal growth and self-efficacy

• Playing music builds confidence, helps people manage their emotions and is SO MUCH FUN!