Does your child dream of playing the piano? The Lauber Academy of Music is the perfect place for piano lessons for children! Our teachers love helping little musicians discover the magic of the piano. Here, learning is fun and exciting!

At what age can a child start taking lessons?

Piano lessons for children  can begin as early as 4. However, there are only a few of the teachers on the team who specialize in teaching kids that young, since it requires a very different approach then when they begin at the age of 7. So if you have a very young child, make sure and call us quickly because those spots are taken up very quickly.

Why choose the Lauber Music Academy?

• Our teachers are very friendly and patient and have anywhere from 10 to 40 years of experience.
• Learning is fun
• Each child progresses at his or her own pace

What your child will learn:

1. Piano basics: how to place fingers and read music
2. Enjoyable melodies they’ll love to play
3. Music theory, but in a fun way
4. How to develop their musical ear

Does your child dream of playing the piano?

Your child already has a few basics and wants to go further? Great! Here’s what we offer:

• Lessons adapted to each child
• A mix of musical styles to keep things interesting
•  concerts to shine in front of family and friends

We organize 2 to 6 concerts a year. It’s a chance for children to show their progress and build their self-confidence!

We organize 2 to 6 concerts a year.

For little virtuosos who want to become real pros:

• Take their piano technique to the next level
• Prepare much  more difficult pieces
• Learn to play with confidence in front of an audience using mental preparation techniques inspired from sports psychology, NLP and various other approaches.
• Participate in local, provincial, national and even international competitions.

For little virtuosos who want to become real pros.

It is important to have a solid piano technique in order not only to play pieces that are gradually more difficult and interesting, but also to do so without any risk of injury.  Piano technique falls into two categories: finger technique and arm (or forearm) technique, both of which work together of course.

Here is an example of a finger exercise that is simple to learn but very difficult to play at a high speed.

Here is the same student, while training his arm technique at the age of 11 playing the octaves from the Tchaikovsky concerto.

Having developed such a solid piano technique allowed him to record all 12 etudes opus 10 by Chopin, considered one of the most difficult set of pieces in the repertoire. The following  video, which he did at the age of 15 won him a 3000 euro scholarship to study 10 days  in Positano, Italy with the great pianist Louis Lortie https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Lortie

The same video also won him a gold medal in the International WPTA competition in Finland.

You can see the incredible progress he made during the 7 years he studied at the Academy (he began at 10 and was with us until the age of 17) in this short video:

And finally here is the review Moxi left us after completing his studies with us:

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Of course, it is very important not just to have children play fast pieces ( even though they tend of love these types of pieces above all!) but also to make sure they  play lyrical pieces as well, because this is how they will develop a sense of musicality. Here is Aya, age 9, playing a lovely waltz by Chopin.

We here at the Academy are qualified to prepare students for piano exams from a variety of programs such as the Vincent d’Indy School of Music, the Ecole preparatoire de l’uqam, the Royal Conservatory of Music, the McGill conservatory and others.

Students perform in recitals several times a year, as we combine our resources to organize 4 to 6 piano concerts a year. These are always appreciated both by the students and their parents.

It can be very useful and rewarding for some piano students to participate in competitions. While this is never compulsory, it can help foster a sense of pride and also allow them to compare their level with that of other children of the same age.  Competitions need not be something stressful if the preparation is approached in such a way as to help the student remain composed and calm during the piano performance. And even during the competition, there can be some humorous moments that both parents and children alike will cherish for a long time, as you can see at the 1;30 mark of this video. This is Jonathan, age 6 at his first ever piano competition. He won 3^rd place.