There are many reasons a child should learn a musical instrument. Not only does it give them the opportunity to make music, a significant body of research points to benefits for cognitive and academic ...

Payam Khastkhodaei thought it was the biggest achievement in the world when he placed second in a state-level piano competition. Then his students started sweeping competitions across the United ...

Last year school boards in Surrey, Burnaby, Maple Ridge and Merritt eliminated Grade 7 band programs to save money. Those blows came after the Vancouver School Board 10 years ago cut funding for band ...

Darius Partovi started taking classical piano lessons when he was 7, but he soon grew restless and gave them up. It wasn’t until COVID-19 shut down schools that he returned to his keyboard out of ...