We are so glad that you are choosing Musikgarten at Cottrell Piano Studio for your child's early childhood music and movement! Classes are forming on a regular basis. IF YOU HAVE NOT REGISTERED, CALL BEFORE YOU COME, PLEASE.

All payments are due by the first lesson. However, individual payment schedules may be arranged.

Please note that all Music Makers classes are year-long courses, as is Cycle of Seasons.

In addition to Musikgarten classes for ages 0-9, Cottrell Piano Studio offers private/group piano lessons for ages 7 and up. Please contact Mrs. Cottrell at scottrell2@aol.com for further information and available dates and times.

All babies are born with an aptitude for music. But research shows that their aptitude diminishes if it is not nurtured. The best way to nurture a child's music aptitude is through active music making. By singing and dancing for and with our children in a variety of tonalities, meters and styles we are helping our children reach their full music potential.

This class offers adults the opportunity to play with their babies in a musical setting, experiencing music and movement activities designed to delight the child and awaken his or her curiosity about music. By singing, dancing, bouncing, and rocking, the child's music aptitude is being carefully nurtured, laying the foundation for beat awareness, vocal production, and aural discrimination.

Activities include singing, bouncing songs, rocking songs, dances, finger plays, body awareness games and echoes.

This class is designed to bring the joy of music and movement to toddlers and their caregivers.

Activities include singing, dancing, focused listening and simple instrument playing, creating an environment in which the child's music aptitude is nurtured and skills are developed. 

Musikgarten’s All Together Now recaptures the magic of nursery rhymes (a wonderful part of our cultural tradition featuring delightful language and playful rhythms) in a versatile mixed-age curricula for children birth to four.  There is lots of movement for those toddlers, while three year-olds and older will learn language skills and use their imaginations in fun new ways.

Each program is full of music, movement, imagination, and class time fun. The unique Music for Movement compositions on the CDs will enable children to explore walking and jumping (Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick), twisting and turning (Oliver Twist, you can’t do this!) and many more concepts which are just right for your toddler movers and shakers!  Both children and parents will find that after just one class, they’ll look forward to many more! 

Parents will receive a family packet with CD, parent book and either an instrument or manipulative.