An unconventional music school in Tempe

Looking for a better way to do music lessons?

Looking for piano lessons kids won’t want to quit, because they’re both enjoyable and meaningful?

Looking for voice lessons that teach students how to improvise and read music, as well as healthy vocal technique?

Looking for music classes for young children that are not only fun, but also build a foundation for real musical skills?

All lessons at Cadences and Keys are based on research known as Music Learning Theory. It describes how we learn music and how we become musical thinkers.

Students who learn this way become lifelong musicians who can confidently sit at the piano and play with expression and flow, come up with their own musical ideas, and improvise; who can sing in harmony with others and improvise with their voices; and most importantly, who find incredible satisfaction and enjoyment in music.

Classes

Early Childhood Music

Mixed-age classes for ages 0-4

Piano Lessons

For beginners to intermediate students, ages 4 to adult

Voice Lessons

For beginners to advanced students, ages 9 to adult

Meet Chantel

With a bachelor's degree in vocal performance and a master's in music education from ASU, I have been teaching in the valley for more than 10 years, with over 5 years of experience teaching elementary general music, 6 years conducting elementary choirs, 9 years of teaching early childhood music at the Musical Instrument Museum, and 3 years of teaching privately. I have a Piano certification with the Gordon Institute of Music Learning. I sang with the professional choir Solis Camerata for several years and currently serve as the alto section leader for the Sonoran Desert Chorale. I have always loved teaching foundational musical skills and particularly enjoy working with children. I have two children of my own, ages 5 and 2; they love singing, dancing, and playing piano!

Lifelong, confident musicianship

Absorb
Students spend time absorbing songs, chants, and patterns, while learning to feel the music in their bodies.

Imitate
When students are ready to move out of musical babble, they begin to imitate the sounds they hear, building a lexicon of musical ideas as a small child builds a language vocabulary.

Audiate
Audiation is to music what thought is to language; the ability to understand music and to hear it in your head before you perform it.

Create
Students at every level spend time in every lesson improvising, creating and composing with the musical elements they are learning.

Your child can be a lifelong musician.

I can help them get there.