Best Piano Instructor Stamford Near Me

4worldlovers: Welcome to Stamford Music & Arts Academy! Thanks for taking a moment to consider our school for your children’s music education. Learning an instrument and playing music are priceless gifts parents can give to children, and the skills and family memories last forever.

My own journey as a player and performer started at 4 years old in Viet Nam, when my mother, a career cellist in the Hanoi Symphony and my father a well-known painter, decided to give these gifts to me. It all started with choosing the right music schools, teachers, and mentors on my own 35-year journey.

As Artistic Director at Stamford Music & Arts Academy, I’m passionate about bringing high-quality music education, music appreciation, and music performance skills to children and adults. This passion is shared by the entire SMAA faculty, who all believe in the transformative power of music.

A hallmark at SMAA is recognizing that every student is different, and that their music learning journeys follow unique paths. We work diligently to understand student and parent goals, personalities, and learning styles to customize lesson and theory programs and teacher assignments.

Our customized curriculum and rigorous conservatory style program have consistently developed musical talent at all levels since 2014. SMAA students regularly win top awards at prestigious competitions and festivals and attend leading music colleges. Students learning for fun also thrive here.

4worldlovers:
Our state of the art facility was built to provide music lessons in a fun atmosphere.


Overlooking a beautiful pond, our spacious, acoustical rooms enhance the experience and maximize enjoyment of music lessons for kids and adults alike.


Our friendly reception desk is open long hours allowing for easy scheduling, registration or recital planning.

At Long Ridge Music Center, we teach piano, guitar, voice, violin, cello, drums, and more.

Music lessons at Long Ridge Music Center are for all levels and range from beginner music lessons, intermediate and advanced.

If you or your child are interested in taking piano lessons, voice lessons, violin lessons, cello lessons, guitar lessons, drum lessons or bass lessons, we'll be happy to have you join us.

If you're interested in learning how to play an instrument that is not listed above, such as banjo, trumpet, saxophone or sitar, please let us know as we may be able to arrange for music lessons for these instruments as well.

We also run student recitals and offer programs for music theory, practice partners, band ensembles, chamber music, adult evening play groups and music teacher performances.

The music teachers at Long Ridge Music Center are carefully assessed and qualified by our management.

We interview and audition music teachers to ensure that their personalized music teaching philosophy is one that we support.

Music teachers have different styles for teaching and they excel in varied musical genres, age and musical proficiency levels.

Being able to select from a large pool of highly qualified teachers allows us to match the best music teacher based on the student/parents preference in order to reach the best results.

Long Ridge Music Center is conveniently located on Long Ridge Rd, just off the Merritt Parkway exit 34.

We are within minutes drive from Stamford, Greenwich, New Canaan and Darien, CT... as well as Pound Ridge, Bedford and Armonk, NY.

Most of our students arrive from the above listed towns but some come from further away such as Westport, CT or Rye, NY.

Yes. We rent musical instruments including violin, viola, cello, flute, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, saxophone and drum kits.

Some of Long Ridge Music Center's young guitar students may also rent special sized guitars.

Piano rentals, leasing and a variety of other piano related programs are available through our affiliate business, Allegro Pianos, with whom we share our building.

We can offer 'in home music lessons' but rarely do so for several important reasons.

Student's approach, especially children, is substantially different when lessons take place at our facility.

They are better prepared, advance faster and are more likely to enjoy the benefits of music playing over students taking lessons at home. It is likely that the specific, distraction free environment offered at our facility contributes to this success.

In addition, most of the best music teachers prefer a music studio environment where they can focus on teaching music lessons rather than spend their time driving from one location to another. At Long Ridge Music Center, we value and prefer to work with the most qualified and experienced music teachers.

Unfortunately, while interviewing and assessing prospective music teachers, we found most often that those willing to provide in home music lessons did not meet our expectations and could not teach at our music school..

4worldlovers:
Gab Kallay Music provides piano lessons and voice lessons to children and adults of all ages. With the option to take lessons at Gab Kallay's home music studio or at the student's home, we provide a comfortable and nurturing environment for students in Fairfield County, CT, specifically Stamford, Greenwich, Darien and New Canaan, CT.

Virtual lessons available! Gab is excited to offer virtual lessons via Skype and Zoom for students. This is a great opportunity to learn from the comfort of your own home. Please visit our Contact page to inquire about scheduling.

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