London

Hammersmith and Fulham

Our Little Birdsong Concert series is designed especially for babies and young children together with their families/loved adults. Enjoy a live performance in a relaxed setting, where for babies & toddlers can have fun exploring, babbling along to the music & interacting with musicians. Children can dance & enjoy the music up close.

Little Birdsong

Using a long-standing framework for keyboard learning our pupils learn to incorporate technique with learning creative composition, singing and notation. Many genres and styles are explored including classical, jazz, pop and blues. Lessons develop each child's understanding of notation, rhythm, technical dexterity and composition. Sight-reading and aural training run alongside a repertoire of pieces each term. Our annual concerts celebrate every pupil’s achievement with performances on our Boston Steinway grand piano.

Piano - Monday 4pm

Our guitarists learn from a structured framework involving posture, technique and repertoire. Units such as strumming, plucking and developing compositional skills are enjoyed with a wide range of genres, songs and special compositions. The guitar groups perform together regularly, and enjoying singing too!

Guitar - Monday 4pm

An innate understanding of music is taught using a bespoke framework to capture all areas of development including composition, playing together and solo, trying a range of different instruments and listening different genres. Notation is introduced through movement, flash cards and playful visual resources. Special topics capture a sense of adventure and helps creative musical play to flourish.

Instrumental Play - Monday

Guitar - Monday 5pm

Piano - Monday 5pm

Piano - Tuesday 4pm

These bright, cheerful instruments are the most perfect small string instruments for children to enjoy learning music in their earliest stages. With a similar framework to guitar tuition pupils learn to strum, pluck, sing along, play together and perform to each other.

Ukulele - Tuesday

Piano - Tuesday 5pm

What is an agogo? How about a Woosha?! Young children experience a whole range of percussion instruments, how they work, the history and different sounds they make. Through live instrumental play, children learn music terminology, and play different genres solo, in groups, and get the chance to perform too!

Percussion Play - Tuesday

Joyful, shared instrumental play, moving, dancing and listening to real instruments. Topics are captured with colourful puppets, ribbons, scarves and beautiful resources for all.

Musical Play (18mths - 3yrs) - Wednesday

Musical Play (3mths - 18mths) - Wednesday

Pre-school ages develop earliest musical comprehension through a range of thoughtfully woven music activities, using visual resources, a range of instruments (un-tuned and tuned), musical games and notation flash cards. As a precursor to instrumental lessons, music appreciation classes capture imaginative musical play whilst embedding a thorough understanding of how music works.

Musical Stories - Wednesday

Piano - Wednesday 4pm

Now the fun really begins! Lessons are driven by the child’s sense of curiosity in how music works. With song, notation and appropriate piano technique, lessons are an excellent introduction to notation and piano learning.

Piano Play - Wednesday

Piano - Thursday 4pm

Piano Play - Thursday

Piano - Thursday 5pm

Musical Play (18mths - 3yrs) - Friday

Musical Play (3mths - 18mths) - Friday

Developing spontaneous speech and nurturing language is achieved from immersive musical play. A music framework encompasses movement, miniature stories, songs and instrumental play. The shared process of learning provides ideas and resources for continued musical support at home.

Music for Language Development

In small groups, we begin to develop our pupils' skills in more depth by exploring formal techniques. They include plucking, bowing, posture and cross-bridge playing. Children are encouraged to listen and perform to each other, as well as to play along with the music teacher. Aural and sight-reading exercises given each week prepare our young musicians for later experiences with orchestral groups. As with other groups all pupils perform in an annual concert.

Violin - Friday

Piano - Saturday 9:30am

Musical Stories - Saturday

Piano Play - Saturday

Music House for Children

We have been nurturing musical learning for nearly 25 years. Much of our inspiration comes from the great Italian Reggio Emilia, French Émile Jaques-Dalcroze and Hungarian Zoltan Kodaly. Using moving, listening, looking and vocalising to learn, communicate and understand is at the core of each approach – our children’s joyful response tells us we are doing something right.

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We encourage enquiring minds and creative independence. Our child-initiated approach helps children to compose, learn new skills, and importantly helps with language and life skills. Our teaching programmes, multi-arts projects, shows and storytelling workshops are constantly refreshed by working with like-minded specialists.


Our musicians and teachers love teaching and performing and share our ethos in nurturing independent, curious and creative musical beings. We collaborate to find new ways of delivering music, developing language acquisition and drawing on children’s strengths whatever their need. We keep up-to-date with our colleagues around the world in the ever-changing global shifts in approaches to education.

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Music House for Children’s school is a hive of teaching, learning, performing, with training opportunities for teachers too. Our year-round workshops, lessons and performances are a fabulous array of artistic ideas with embedded learning goals. Music facilitates areas critical to young children’s development including communication, an understanding of the curriculum and life-skills. Our training courses, provide a complete package of resources, ideas, songs and skills for nursery groups and early years professionals.

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If you are looking for bespoke music projects to assist language, music and life skills in children with additional needs have a look at our research to see what so many children have achieved through musical engagement. Our studies include speech and language delay, deafness, autism and profound cognitive impairment.

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We like and choose our teachers and partners because they care about music education. They are passionate about creative learning, and love working with children. Many former teachers and trainers continue to endorse our work around the UK and further afield.

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Our aim for the next two decades? To carry on, of course!

Little Birdsong

Music House for Children

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