Welcome to Musik Start Studios!
Our family music classes provide a consistent and purposeful music beginning for young children along with their caregivers. We've adopted a comprehensive curriculum founded on the principle that all children are musical. This Musikgarten curriculum was designed to develop that musical aptitude during the first six years of the child's critical development.Experienced instruction
Our Lead Teacher Mrs. Julie is a licensed Musikgarten Instructor who founded Musik Start Studios with her husband in 2003. Prior to this, she was a trained Musikgarten Specialist (since 2001). Julie's two sons have eagerly enjoyed Family Music classes with mom since birth, and her youngest, two daughters, are a delight during times of music.
In 1996, Julie pursued Music Therapy education at Western Michigan University and went on to earn her Bachelors of Science as a voice major in 2001 from North Central University. For several years, Mrs. Julie taught and coordinated the early childhood education program at church while implementing Musikgarten’s sacred curriculum God’s Children Sing.
In 2006, she became the Music Specialist and Extended-day Teacher for Little Voyageurs Montessori. As a music teacher, she's taught classes in local churches, daycares, schools and community centers across the Twin Cities.
Mrs. Julie says:
In our Family Music classes, I take delight in the endless energy of your children, in their joy in having you there to share rocking and jumping, hugging and bouncing, being together in the wonderful environment of music. Thank you for investing into your child’s life!
The next musical steps are very important for your child! Each Musikgarten class is part of a sequential education program that develops all aspects of your child’s growth in a fun, nurturing, and holistic setting. You’ll find that not all music programs are alike-or good.
A good music program will focus on the child’s listening skills and allow the child to continue to enjoy and participate in varied musical experiences. It will utilize classical music as well as songs that are familiar to the child and integrate the use of tonal and rhythmic patterns-the basis for a music vocabulary. I hope you will choose Musik Start Studios to enrich your child’s life!
Thank you,
Mrs. Julie