About Us
WillYouLearn™ offers private music lessons in-home and on-line to students of all ages. We offer instruction in piano, bass, drums, violin, cello, voice, guitar, ukulele, percussion and more. We conduct arts and education assemblies during the school day and offer after school programs from private lessons to ensembles.
Our Method
Think of how you learned your first language. Did you begin with textbooks? Could you read before you could speak? Could you write before you could talk? No! You listened and imitated the people around you until words had meaning and language became your own. Learning music should be no different.
We teach our students to listen and imitate until music becomes their own. We know that putting the ear at the center of focus, rather than the fingers or the mind, is the key to developing a student’s unique musical voice. Our students learn to speak the language first, then read and write until playing their instrument becomes a form of expression as natural as speech.
Think of how you learned your first language. Did you begin with textbooks? Could you read before you could speak? Could you write before you could talk? No! You listened and imitated the people around you until words had meaning and language became your own. Learning music should be no different.
We teach our students to listen and imitate until music becomes their own. We know that putting the ear at the center of focus, rather than the fingers or the mind, is the key to developing a student’s unique musical voice. Our students learn to speak the language first, then read and write until playing their instrument becomes a form of expression as natural as speech.
Our Faculty
Our faculty members are a hand picked group of teaching musicians. We are all professional musicians and fixtures in the NYC music scene. We perform frequently at venues from the Blue Note to the Bitter End, Carnegie Hall to Smalls. You can hear our voices, instruments, and compositions on countless recordings, film scores, and tv shows. We've appeared on Fox 5’s Star of the Day, Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle, Netflix's Maniac.
Each WillYouLearn faculty member is a graduate from a top music program including NYU, New England Conservatory, Peabody, Manhattan School of Music, to name a few. We’ve studied music in the academy and honed our craft on band stands from L.A. to Shanghai, and learned to speak the language right here in New York alongside legends like Roy Hargrove, Jeremy Pelt, Ron McClure, Jean-Michel Pilc, Stefon Harris, Scott Colley, Christian McBride and others.
Faculty members are thoroughly vetted, interviewed multiple times, background checked and trained in our methods. They are assessed not only on their skills as musicians but on their skills as teachers. Each member has extensive teaching experience and vast knowledge of their craft. Above all, WillYouLearn teachers bring dedication, compassion, humor, light heartedness and support to each and every student.
Our faculty members are a hand picked group of teaching musicians. We are all professional musicians and fixtures in the NYC music scene. We perform frequently at venues from the Blue Note to the Bitter End, Carnegie Hall to Smalls. You can hear our voices, instruments, and compositions on countless recordings, film scores, and tv shows. We've appeared on Fox 5’s Star of the Day, Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle, Netflix's Maniac.
Each WillYouLearn faculty member is a graduate from a top music program including NYU, New England Conservatory, Peabody, Manhattan School of Music, to name a few. We’ve studied music in the academy and honed our craft on band stands from L.A. to Shanghai, and learned to speak the language right here in New York alongside legends like Roy Hargrove, Jeremy Pelt, Ron McClure, Jean-Michel Pilc, Stefon Harris, Scott Colley, Christian McBride and others.
Faculty members are thoroughly vetted, interviewed multiple times, background checked and trained in our methods. They are assessed not only on their skills as musicians but on their skills as teachers. Each member has extensive teaching experience and vast knowledge of their craft. Above all, WillYouLearn teachers bring dedication, compassion, humor, light heartedness and support to each and every student.
Our Students
We've taught three year olds their first lessons, prepped high school students for college auditions, and reacquainted octogenarians with the instruments of their youth.
We’ve taught in grade schools, prep schools, boys and girls clubs, colleges, private homes and universities. We've created after school music programs, given assemblies and classes at schools throughout the city including Marymount, the Avenues World School and the Hewitt School.
We've taught three year olds their first lessons, prepped high school students for college auditions, and reacquainted octogenarians with the instruments of their youth.
We’ve taught in grade schools, prep schools, boys and girls clubs, colleges, private homes and universities. We've created after school music programs, given assemblies and classes at schools throughout the city including Marymount, the Avenues World School and the Hewitt School.
Our Mission
Our mission is to help students make music their own and to bring out each student's unique musical voice. From Bach to Bebop, Mozart to Metallica, we are here to share our passion and joy for music that has brought us all to the most diverse musical city in the world, New York.
Our mission is to help students make music their own and to bring out each student's unique musical voice. From Bach to Bebop, Mozart to Metallica, we are here to share our passion and joy for music that has brought us all to the most diverse musical city in the world, New York.
