Experience Further Music School Difference
Founded in 2007, Further Music School now is one of the largest and well-recognized music schools in New York. With more than 5000 students currently enrolled, we strive to not only teach and develop well-rounded, lifelong musicians but also to encourage a passion for music by hosting concerts, exhibitions, and special cultural events. Our programs include genres such as classical, jazz, blues, rock, popular, and folk, providing the highest quality, music-centered education for children and adults of all ages.
Join us and develop a life-long passion for music!
2025 New Year
Group Music Lessons
From our Early Childhood Music Courses for toddlers ages 2-4 to group piano lessons for young beginners ages 5-10 to adult group piano lessons, Further Music group music courses offer diverse programs for all age groups. The early-bird enrollment for 2025 is now open; reserve a spot to start your new year musical adventure with us!
WHY FURTHER MUSIC?
Further Music School is the most popular and well-recognized music school in the New York area. Our Lower Manhattan, Upper East Side, Queens,and Long Island locations offer high qualified music education to students from New York's five boroughs and Long Island. Here are the benefits of becoming a Further Music student, which will highlight why are NYC' top choice for music lessons:
Comprehensive Music Lessons
Further Music School offers music lessons in a variety of instruments. Our Lower Manhattan, Upper East Side, Queens,and Long Island piano lessons, violin lessons, guitar lessons, viola lessons, cello lessons, voice/singing lessons, saxophone lessons, clarinet lessons, and flute lessons provide comprehensive and professional music education to children. Group piano lessons, Early Childhood Music Classes and ABRSM exam preparation classes round out the selection of experiences offered.
Unique Music Practice System
Practicing is a major concern for parents when it comes to learning a new instrument. Over the years, we have constantly devoted ourselves to motivating students to practice and we have come up with a grand solution. Further Music is the only music school in New York that offers a highly developed practice system. By choosing Further Music, you choose our system and will no longer have to ask for students to practice because they will want to practice on their own.
Performance Opportunity
At Further Music, we value opportunities for students to further advance their skills in not only learning music but also in performing. We hold concerts 3 times a year for our students. The recitals and concerts display and elaborate on each student's achievements in their instrument of choice, including piano, guitar, violin, viola, voice/singing, flute, cello and more. Our students have unique performance opportunities at world-class concert halls such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Opera America, The Dimenna Center and Steinway Hall.
World-Class Faculty Team
The Further Music instructors are all graduates with M.A and Doctorate degree from the prestigious music colleges and universities, including the Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, Berklee College of Music, and Mannes Music School. Other than that, we offer monthly training and workshops to our faculty members in helping with their professional development. We are truly confident in their abilities to make your learning experience worthwhile. Read more about our Faculty
Secured Success
Further Music School is an authorized ABRSM center in New York. Our exemplary exam preparation has shown stellar results in the past years. Due to our immense experience in preparing students for the ABRSM and NYSSMA exams, 100% of our 500+ students who have taken these exams have passed since 2012. The worldwide exam pass rate is approximately 87%. Additionally, 89.2% of Further Music students have passed annually with “Distinction” on these exams, while the worldwide Distinction rate is only 2%.
Student Progress Track
We truly believe any kind of learning should come with goal setting and progress tracking. For each student's learning periods, our professional faculty team will review the progress of each student. Students and parents will also be able to keep track of their lessons and homework notes in our new practice journals. At the end of the sessions, each student will receive the progress report card and is invited to quarterly recital.
We are so confident that you will LOVE our lessons that we are happy to offer a 14 Days Money-Back Guarantee when you initially register for any private lessons package. If, for any reason, you are not satisfied with the instructor or lesson, simply contact us by the 2nd lesson and we will issue a refund for the rest of the tuition. We're also happy to work with you and solve any issues, questions, or instructor change requests ANYTIME!