Music School in East Brunswick & Whitehouse Station
Musical Instrument Sales, Rentals & Repairs
Reserve Your School Band & Orchestra Instrument Rental for September
Closed for Summer Break
East Brunswick Academy is Closed 6/23/19 through 7/8/19
Whitehouse Station Academy is Closed 6/19/19 through 7/7/19
To Sign-Up for Summer or September Click Here. To rent a musical instrument Click Here and leave us a message. We’ll be in touch the week of July 8th.
Rentals Start @ $29.99/month. 3-Month & 10-Month Rentals Available.
Music Notes’ Instrument Rentals are new instruments or like-new instruments. Visit Music Notes Academy East Brunswick. Complete the Rental Agreement. We’ll have your instrument ready for September. Accessory packs, music stands and method books available.
Summer Nights @ Music Notes Starts July
Summer Nights @ Music Notes includes Private Music Lessons, String Quartets, Chamber Ensembles, Rock Bands, Drum Circles and more. Students of all ages and ability levels can start or continue their musical journey with Music Notes. Adult Students & Parents Save $49 when enrolling for Summer ’19 & School Year ’19-’20 together.
Summer Hours @ East Brunswick Academy
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays ★ 3pm to 9pm
Summer Starts ☀️ Tuesday, 7/9/19
Summer Hours @ Whitehouse Station Academy
Mondays ★ 3pm to 9pm
Summer Starts ☀️ Monday, 7/8/19
Private Music Instruction
Private music lessons and instruction at our music school includes piano, guitar, bass guitar, woodwinds, brass, percussion, violin, viola and cello. Students can also study musical theater, music theory, composition and song writing, music technology, audio engineering and production.
” [Music Instruction] Improves cognition skills. Teaches attentiveness. Aids in memory retention. Provides motivation. Encourages effort, patience, creativity, commitment and more. “
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MAMTG’s Student Music Festival ’19
We are a leading member music school and sponsor for MAMTG’s Student Music Festival. Music competitions, evaluations, showcases and more. It’s a great weekend for students and parents in our music education community. We are proud to produce such a great performance event for students and other music schools in the tristate area.
Congratulations to all participating Music Notes Academy students
Our winning students for solo competitions
Ashlee Yamzon ★ Strings Standard Solo Level 2 🏆 4th Place
Madison Barnes ★ Strings Standard Solo Level 2 🏆 2nd Place
Ahan Kaushik ★ Piano Open Classical Solo Junior A 🏆 2nd Place
Neil Bajaj ★ Piano Standard Classical Prep A 🏆 3rd Place
Rithvik Juluru ★ Percussion Open Solo Intermediate 🏆 3rd Place
Jade DiCriscio ★ Piano Standard Classical Prep B 🏆 1st Place
Dhruv Rao ★ Piano Open Classical Solo Elementary A 🏆 5th Place
Jade DiCriscio ★ Piano Open Classical Solo Elementary A 🏆 1st Place
Arnav Bhatt ★ Guitar Standard Solo Level 1 🏆 1st Place
Emerson Guy ★ Piano Open Classical Solo Elementary C 🏆 2nd Place
Shikha Shrestha ★ Guitar Standard Solo Level 2 🏆 1st Place
Aiden Ney ★ Guitar Standard Solo Level 4 🏆 1st Place
Karthik Thallam ★ Guitar Standard Solo Level 6 🏆 1st Place
Emerson Guy ★ Piano Open Pop Solo Elementary 🏆 2nd Place
Rani Ney ★ Strings Open Solo Elementary 🏆 3rd Place
Anamika Rao ★ Piano Open Classical Solo Senior 🏆 2nd Place
Ashlee Yamzon ★ Strings Open Solo Junior/Senior 🏆 1st Place
Dylan Walczak ★ Piano Standard Classical Level 3B 🏆 1st Place
Anamika Rao ★ Piano Standard Classical Level 4A 🏆 2nd Place
Madison Barnes ★ Woodwinds Open Solo Intermediate/Junior 🏆 2nd Place
Instrumental Bands
Instrumental Bands are for students playing together in a group class setting. This includes our student rock bands, TiedNotes Open Ensembles, chamber groups and string quartets. Ask us about upcoming auditions, student ensembles and bands.
Music Education 1st
Music Notes Academy is a 2012 award-winning NJ SBDC music school
East Brunswick
Private music lessons at our East Brunswick Academy are available for young children, adolescents and adults. We teach students how to play piano, guitar, bass guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, violin, viola, cello and sing. Our fineTUNE program allows for short-term commitments to music learning and improving. Unlike other music schools, we teach music on upright and baby grand pianos, real drum sets and snare drums. We have a marimba, guitar and bass guitar amplifiers, PA systems and music production equipment at the Academy.
Whitehouse Station
Private music lessons at our Whitehouse Station Academy are available for young children, adolescents and adults. We teach piano, guitar, Loog Guitar, bass guitar and music theory at Music Notes Whitehouse Station. Students learn to play music on a real upright piano, not a keyboard.
Music Store at East Brunswick
Since 2007, we’ve been selling, renting and repairing musical instruments. Our rental instruments are usually brand new instruments. Most of our instrument rentals turn into purchases, so our rental inventory is consistently replenished. We do not continually re-rent old instruments. Rentals start at $29.99 per month. 3-Month and 10-Month commitments available with additional savings.
Music Notes East Brunswick & Whitehouse Station
Private Instruction
Music Lessons for all ages
Instruments & Voice
Degreed Music Teachers
Optional Concerts & Recitals
backbeat Group Music Classes
Accompaniments & Recordings
Audition, Exam & Assessments Prep
MAMTG’s Student Music Festival
Guitar for Young Children w/Loog Guitars
Performance PLUS
Music Lessons for the serious student
Concerts & Recitals required
MAMTG’s Student Music Festival required
Eligibility for 1 Make-Up Lesson
Consistent attendance & practicing required
Student receives school year evaluation & grade
Student receives certificate of completion
Letters of recommendation & college audition prep
fineTUNE
1 or 2 Lesson Commitments
Ask about Accelerando Music Program
Ask about Summer Nights @ Music Notes
Musical Theater
Musical Theater Workshops & Classes
Group Piano Classes
Group piano classes for children
Tuesdays & Wednesdays at East Brunswick Academy
Degreed Teachers
Music teachers here are degreed, experienced and dedicated to teaching music. Music teachers are employees, not independent contractors. This is important. It takes a lot to become a Music Notes teacher.
Music Notes Academy
Comprehensive private instruction, instrument sales, rentals and repairs. Your music education is important to us.
graceNOTES for Music Teachers
We want to help private music teachers succeed. This is graceNOTES, our Affiliate Teacher program. We want to help new music teachers maintain standards of excellence in the field of teaching music. Music teaching is a professional field like any other. We cannot teach everyone. However, we can help others be a graceNOTE Music Notes teacher.
Concerts & Recitals
Private music teachers can host their own concerts and recitals at our East Brunswick Academy.
Exams & Assessments
Music students can have their music exams and assessments at Music Notes Academy East Brunswick.
MAMTG’s Student Music Festival
Submit your students to MAMTG’s Student Music Festival. Competitions, Evaluations & Showcases.
Become a graceNOTES Music Notes’ Teacher
Be a graceNOTES Music Notes’ Teacher. We will help with curriculum, instruction and all the music teaching business stuff that goes along with being a sole proprietor music teacher. It’s consulting for music teachers. Discounts on our Learn Today, Play Tomorrow® Student Assignment Book. Plus, great purchasing power on instruments, accessories, teaching aides, sheet music and instructional books.
About Music Notes
In 2000, Music Notes Academy began as an in-home music lesson provider, starting with drum lessons in Bridgewater, NJ. The approach was comprehensive instruction, teaching percussion students how to play the drums, read music, learn music theory and gain proficiency in rudiments and performance techniques.
In 2006, we began teaching all instruments and offering student concerts, recitals, percussion ensembles and rock bands in Madison, NJ at The George Burroughs Auditorium. For school year ’09-’10, we launched Music Notes In Your School and we became the Purnell School’s music education provider.
In school year ’10-’11, Music Notes Academy acquired Brunswick Music Academy in East Brunswick, NJ. We then began teaching music theory, musical theater classes and workshops, developed our LittleNotes early childhood program and expanded our musical instrument sales, rentals and repairs division. We introduced Summer Nights at Music Notes, Saturday Concert Series and continued teaching Rock Bands and String Quartets. We were nominated and won SBDC’s Small Business Success Award for 2012.
Starting with the ’12-’13 school year, we became Whitehouse Prep’s music education provider where we instructed their daytime music classes. This great relationship blossomed into opening within their school and teaching private music lessons as Music Notes’ Whitehouse Station location.
In 2015, we released our Learn Today, Play Tomorrow® Student Assignment Book through backbeat Music Publishing and became the staff and producer of MAMTG’s nationwide Student Music Festival. In August 2016 we moved to our current building, which is larger and more suitable for our students and parents. As a leading member music school for MAMTG, Music Notes has been integral in the improvements and enhancements of its student music festivals since 2015.
We continue to collaborate with local professionals and organizations in music education. We were an affiliate store for Music & Arts from April 2016 through March 2018. We began a partnership with Song Piano in November 2016 which has led to Music Notes Academy having a Song Piano Kawai piano at our East Brunswick Academy for students learning piano. School Year ’17-’18 saw the beginnings of a great partnership with State Theatre NJ. Summer Semester 2018 saw a new partnership with Piano Piano in NYC for piano rentals, sales and service.
For Music Notes Academy, everything we’ve done since the first music lesson in 2000 has been centered and focused around a comprehensive approach to learning music. We are passionate about teaching music to students and adults, encouraging the musical arts and sharing in the benefits of a music education.
East Brunswick Magazine
Here we are again, supporting the East Brunswick community. See us in the Things To See & Do section of the new East Brunswick Magazine. Click on the magazine cover to read and download.
We love our students and parents
“Thanks for your help. When we came home after today’s (guitar) lesson, Ibrahim told his grandmother that he had fun and was excited to play.”
S. Ahmed 9/6/18
What a great music school! Love instructor Sean and Director Brandon and other highly qualified and experienced staff. Great talents!!! Also loved their fabulous work organizing the MAMTG Student Music Festival 2017.
Music Notes Academy is absolutely wonderful! Brandon was incredibly professional and so easy to work with. The teachers love what they do and know what they are doing. It was such a pleasure to work with them and I can’t wait to continue my lessons!
My daughter began classes with this school three years ago. The individual attention, support and patience displayed by their instructors is amazing and has helped my child become more passionate about piano.
My daughter has been attending Music Notes Academy since she was three and I would recommend this school to anyone who wants to learn any instrument at any age. Mr. Stephen is the best! Love him! And Brandon is awesome as well. They are both the most kind sincere and patient teachers I have ever seen. They are dedicated to their students and truly want them to reach their full potential.
We are very happy at our new home at Music Notes Academy for our 10 year old playing violin. Immediately after the trial lesson my daughter was enthused and identified what she was learning that had been missing at her previous place. Instruction is professional quality, well rounded and suited to age and maturity. Our eldest son is at Juilliard so we have done a lot of music instruction over the years. We highly recommend Music Notes Academy.