Membership

Studio Membership

Studio membership includes

An assigned weekly time slot when the school is open - about 46 weeks per year
Access to our availability calendar to reschedule lessons when needed
Performances: formal recitals, informal recital parties
Access to our lending library & studio subscriptions
Small resources like supplemental printed music/worksheets.

Studio Membership is year-round, including July and August. Please do not 'take off' in the summer as it makes it difficult to retain experienced and excellent teachers - it is unfair to them to see a significant drop in their income in the summer. We aim to hire and employ grown adults who are degreed professionals and not high school and college students. Those who who take off in the summer are placed at the end of the waiting list for new time slots in the fall. Your time slot will very likely be filled quickly. Thank you for the 83% retention rate we had in summer of 2024! Summer of 2025 looks like it will be closer to 90%!

$150 a month provides for a 30-minute time slot

$225 a month provides for a 45-minute time slot

$300 a month provides for 60-minute time slot

Home Schooler rates (lessons before 3:00pm)

$125 a month provides for a 30-minute time slot

$205 a month provides for a 45-minute time slot

$250 a month provides for 60-minute time slot

Adults Only - "Punch Card" lessons.

10 lessons that can be scheduled at your convenience. Either choose a weekly time slot, or move your lessons around to fit your schedule.

Take one or two a month, or one or two a week.

$400 for a block of 10 lessons.

Studio Membership Payments

We use PayPal/Stripe the industry standard for safe online payments. Payments are drawn on the 25th of the month for the upcoming month. For newly-registered students, payments are made by credit card. After the student has been attending for a few months, we welcome our clients to set up a linked bank account

Electronic payments help keep our operating costs low. Unfortunately, teachers cannot accept payments at any time.

Absences and Makeup Lessons.

We assume that there may be a few days a year when you might have to miss lessons. Therefore, we add two free weeks of lessons to our yearly schedule. If you missed a lesson or two - these weeks cover two missed lessons per year. If you didn't miss any - they are 'freebies'.

If you know ahead of time that you will be absent, we can offer any open lesson slots within a two week period for you to reschedule.

Additionally, all missed lessons can be made up by video.

Instructions for video makeup lessons here

If a student will be absent, please send a courtesy email. text, or fill out our absence form on our home page so that we can let the teacher know.
When a teacher cancels we will either reschedule or (more likely) issue a credit to your account. If a member cancels, they lose the benefit of that time slot. Lessons canceled by students are not refunded and clients are not guaranteed an available time to reschedule but two free weeks are added to the school year to accommodate for the occasional absence.

Please remember that one-on-one instruction with an adult who is fully invested in your child's development is something rare in a young person's life. Please take the steps necessary to ensure that team sports and other events' schedules work around your one-on-one lesson time. If your schedule changes, talk with us and we will do what we can to accommodate the sudden change in your schedule.

Teacher Absence, Snow Days, School Closings

There are some days when we will need to close due to weather. If we can reschedule the entire missed day, we will. For example, if we close for snow on a Thursday in January, we might reschedule that day for a Thursday during our Spring Break. When local schools close for weather, we close as well. Our calendar is available on our website, please be aware of the days our school is closed. When we know ahead of time that a teacher will be out, we will try to reschedule or find an excellent substitute (often one of our other staff teachers). If we cannot find a substitute, we will contact you via text, email or both and issue a refund. When lessons are cancelled by us, a refund will show on your next invoice.

Rescheduling a lesson - short term

If you need to shift your lesson for a week or two, email us and we will let you know the times that are available. We will hold your original spot for up to two weeks. All verbal arrangements must be verified by email. Please do not ask your teacher to rearrange their schedule, please allow the office to make those adjustments.

Changing lesson time - long term

If you need to shift your lesson for three weeks or more, or will be taking an extended absence, email us. Your original spot may be filled, however, so please let us know if and when you would wish to switch back, we will do what we can to make it work.

Recitals

Recitals offer students an opportunity to perform for their families and peers. Recitals are short - about an hour - and very friendly. We usually hold recitals near our Pitman location. We know how challenging it is to schedule recitals so we offer several recital times to choose from. The weeks of full-school recitals are not a part of our yearly lessons schedule, so students who do not participate in recitals are not charged for those weeks. Recitals are offered at no charge to the family members attending.