Private Lessons Overview
Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, Guitar, Voice, Singing, Flute, Clarinet & Saxophone
Exceptional Private Music Lessons for All Ages and Levels
At New Mozart, we offer exceptional private music lessons for students aged 5 and up. Whether you’re a complete beginner or a professional musician, our personalized approach ensures that every student receives the guidance and support they need to thrive.
Flexible and Commitment-Free Learning
Lessons are available year-round, and you can join us at any time. While there’s no long-term commitment, many of our students stay with us for years, building lasting relationships with their teachers and achieving remarkable progress.
Serving Local and Global Students
Our students come from across the Peninsula, including Menlo Park, Los Altos, Atherton, Redwood City, Mountain View, and beyond. Since launching online lessons in March 2020, we’ve welcomed students from across the United States, making our programs accessible to music lovers everywhere.
Why Private Lessons?
Private instruction is the most effective way to learn an instrument. With one-on-one attention, our teachers tailor lessons to each student’s unique learning style and musical interests. This personalized approach ensures that fundamentals like hand positioning, posture, and technique are mastered, while also allowing students to explore the music they love most.
Our teachers can focus entirely on each student’s needs—whether that means spending extra time on a challenging concept or accelerating progress in areas where a student excels. This flexibility ensures that every student learns at their own pace and reaches their full potential.
Experienced and Caring Instructors
New Mozart’s private lessons are taught by highly qualified music educators with bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in music. Beyond their impressive credentials, our teachers are passionate, nurturing, and dedicated to helping students achieve their musical goals.
Celebrating Student Success
Our students have been featured on Nickelodeon, Bravo, and Palo Alto Weekly, and they consistently excel in prestigious programs like Certificate of Merit, ABRSM, Guild, Carnegie Hall Achievement, NATS, and ASTA. Whether your goal is to perform on world stages or simply to enjoy playing for fun, we’re here to support you every step of the way.
Find Your Perfect Teacher
With a diverse lineup of teachers and teaching styles, we’ll match you with an instructor who aligns with your musical goals and personality. Whether you’re aiming for high achievement or pursuing music as a joyful hobby, we’re here to help you succeed.
Ready to start your musical journey? Contact us today, and let us help you find the perfect teacher for your needs!
New Mozart School of Music
Phone
Call 650 324-2373
Text 408 520-1585
Contact form
Address
2100 El Camino Real Suite C Palo Alto
Office Hours
M-F 10p–9p
Sa 9a–4p
Su Closed
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““I am a professional, classically trained singer who has performed regularly at the New York Metropolitan Opera for the past 10 years...
I have spent a lot of time in music classes for my young daughters, and The New Mozart School of Music is absolutely unique in its approach to teaching music to young children...
We are so fortunate to have this amazing school in our community.”
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Piano Lessons
New Mozart offers piano lessons to students of all ages and abilities from beginners to very advanced students.
We offer every style of piano lessons from classical to jazz and pop. We have students who want to play just for fun and students who excel with the Guild Auditions, Certificate of Merit, Carnegie Hall Royal Conservatory Achievement, & ABRSM exams.
As we have so many teachers on staff we are able to match students with a teacher that works best with their particular age, ability and interests. We start piano lessons from age 5 onwards.
Before age 5 we recommend our group piano based music program, Harmony Road or our pre-piano private lessons.
Our piano lessons are all private one-on-one instruction and lesson lengths are 30 minutes, 45 minutes or 1 hour. While our piano lessons are all private, parents are more than welcome to sit in on their child’s lessons.
For our advanced piano students we have teachers with master’s and doctoral degrees in piano who can prepare them for conservatory entrance or to complete their certification with the Guild Auditions, Certificate of Merit, ABRSM, and Carnegie Hall Achievement exams. Every year our piano students win various competitions and scholarships.
Voice Lessons
We have many students who take voice and singing lessons at New Mozart. Our voice lessons are all private on-one-one instruction.
Students sing all kinds of music from their favorite artists to classical arias.
Our voice teachers all have a university degree in music specializing in voice and sing everything from pop and jazz to opera.
New Mozart teachers all have performance backgrounds as well. Just a sample of what a student will learn in singing lessons includes how to breathe properly, how to increase their range, proper pitch, how to project and stage presence. New Mozart also offers 3 optional performance opportunities each year.
Our voice students have appeared on national TV (Bravo & Nickelodeon) as well as local musical theatre productions, opera productions and festivals.
We provide a professional accompanist who rehearses with the students and plays for them at the recitals.
Violin, Viola, & Cello
Lessons
Our strings program offers private instruction in violin, viola and cello.
Our private violin lessons start as young as age 5. Due to the size of the instrument, most cello lessons start at 6 years of age or older.
We have students of all ages from adults to children. For younger children we highly encourage a parent to sit in on the lesson to help the student at home with things such as posture and hand positioning.
Our violin, viola and cello teachers have university or college degrees in their instrument and many perform regularly with local orchestras or bands.
Basic restrictions are usually due strictly to the size of the child – e.g. hand size for piano or lung capacity for brass and woodwinds.
Our violin and cello students excel in ASTA exams and perform in various venues.
Guitar Lessons
Our private guitar lessons include acoustic, electric and bass guitar.
We have an excellent guitar teaching staff and teach guitar lessons in everything from rock to jazz, classical to pop, Spanish to chording.
Many of our teachers actively perform in bands and concerts throughout the Bay Area and beyond.
New Mozart's guitar teachers have university training so they know the proper theory and technique no matter if a student is interested in metal or in classical. Guitar lessons at our schools are enhanced by the opportunity of learning how to jam with other musicians in a rock band setting or how to perform solo in one of our recitals.
No matter what type of guitar lessons you are interested in, we have the teachers to help you.
Typically a student would be 7 before starting guitar lessons, due to their hand size, but some younger students start with a junior sized guitar.
HARMONY ROAD
If your child is younger than 5, we recommend our Harmony Road program. For over a decade we've been innovating how we teach piano to the youngest children in the Peninsula using this highly effective piano based group program to children 3-6. Developmentally appropriate and fun classes are taught by nurturing teachers with early childhood music background.
Students who have gone through Harmony Road are some of our most talented private lesson students.
Go to the Harmony Road page of our website here to find out more information.
Each year many of our students participate and excel in the following exams.
