Music Program

There is a growing pool of research* that supports the belief that music and arts training for children may significantly affect non-musical intellectual skills. This seems to translate especially to increased success with mathematics. The research included piano training, as well as singing, and visual arts instruction. The studies seem to indicate that arts exposure is of significant value to children.

*Learning Improved by Arts Training, Gardiner, Fox, et. al. - Brown University, Providence, RI, 1996.

Music Training Causes Long-Term Enhancement of Preschool Children's Spatial-Temporal Reasoning, Rauscher, Shaw - University of Wisconsin-Oshkosk and University of California, Irvine, 1997.

Increased Corpus Callosum Size in Musicians, Hand Skill Asymmetry in Professional Musicians, and in vivo Evidence of Structural Brain Asymmetry in Musicians, Schlaug, et. al. - Harvard Medical School, 1995.