Neighborhood Music School believes that lives change through music. Founded in 1914, we provide low cost/high quality one-on-one music instruction to those who need it most.
Located in a charming Victorian house in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, we are proud to serve as an anchor to our community, a bridge to cultural exchange and opportunity, and an usher to the mentorship between teacher and student that is integral in music instruction and in life.The Victorian house in which the school educates is listed in "Architecture in Los Angeles" (Gebhard & Winter) as one of only two 19th-Century houses in the area.
Located in a charming Victorian house in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, we are proud to serve as an anchor to our community, a bridge to cultural exchange and opportunity, and an usher to the mentorship between teacher and student that is integral in music instruction and in life.The Victorian house in which the school educates is listed in "Architecture in Los Angeles" (Gebhard & Winter) as one of only two 19th-Century houses in the area.
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Our Values
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Neighborhood Music School was founded in 1914 as a Settlement House created to provide music and English instruction to the immigrant communities who had settled in Boyle Heights. Neighborhood Music School is deeply rooted in equity and inclusion. Our community is our core and our strength and we serve students, families and community with the love and respect they have come to know and trust since 1914.
NMS History
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The Neighborhood Music School began in 1914, in a little cottage on a street in Boyle Heights that was named -quite appropriately-Mozart. Founded by musician-composer Carrie Stone Freeman, it was known at the time as the "Los Angeles Music School Settlement." Freeman's gift of $1,000 gave life to this learning center where low-cost lessons enabled children to develop musical talent that might otherwise not have been available to them.
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In 1914, the Neighborhood Music School started as a settlement school to assist new immigrant children to adapt and engage into the culture of Los Angeles. More than hundred years later, the school continues to be a beacon in the community to not only provide quality music education, but to touch the hearts, minds and souls of every student who walks through its doors.
Teaching Artists
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Our teaching staff is composed of professional musicians and educators whose mentoring and inspirational teaching methods encourage students to strive for excellence in all that they do. Our teachers hold graduate and undergraduate degrees from institutions like Cal Arts, UCLA, USC, Stanford, Cal State LA, and other respected universities; many of them also maintain active careers as music educators, composers and performers.
Work at NMS
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Neighborhood Music School is seeking for a seasoned, collaborative, and strategic Grants and Development Manager to join our engaged and interactive team. Neighborhood Music School has been serving the Boyle Heights and surrounding neighborhoods with high quality, affordable music education for 105 years.
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