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featuring the MusikGarten® Curriculum
Mary Rekers, Director 513-771-7675
Children are naturally drawn to music. By considering music education for your child at an early age, you will take a first step toward bonding musically with your child and enriching your family life with active music-making.

Our program uses the Musikgarten Curriculum. Only Musikgarten offers a comprehensive, sequential plan for the musical development of your child from birth to age 10. Each of our 6 courses stands on its own and fits the developmental needs of the child. Class time is educational, fun, and purposeful.Musikgarten:

• Awakens your child's natural music abilities.
• Develops your child's ear through listening and the voice through singing
• Nurtures your parent-child bond through shared musical activities
• Prepares your child for instrumental lessons through playful repetition of tonal and rhythm patterns
• Musically guides your child from infancy to age 9

We understand the challenges of juggling a busy family schedule and have a flexible class make-up policy for occasions when illness or an unavoidable conflict occurs.

Spring Mini-Musical "Peter Rabbit"

An all new original musical for young children! This class will be a fun way to learn traditional songs, simple dance movements and create costumes that will wow the audience at the end of session performance. The play is created and taught by Miss Mary and Miss Nancy of the Musik Kids program. The performance will be on March 15th at 2:45 pm.

Click here for more information or to sign up.

Baby Music (3 - 13 months)

Sing, bounce, wiggle, giggle, play instruments, rock, and dance with a group of adults and their babies! It's fun, it strengthens bonding, AND it increases your child's musical aptitude to its fullest potential! The CD, instrument bag, rattle, scarf, and rhythm sticks will bring the music into your home, car, and everyday life!

$190/15 week session / 30 minute weekly class includes CD, parent activity book, and instrument bag for baby.

Choose a session:

Toddlers Plus (18 months - 4 years)

Start your day off happy, or end your day with a contented toddler! This 35 minute class is filled with singing, chanting, moving, dancing, listening, and playing instruments. The activities enhance your child's musical aptitude and listening abilities. This class will lay the foundation for singing and vocal development, listening skills, and purposeful movement.

$190 / 15 week session / 35 minute weekly

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Pre-School Music (3 -5 yrs.)

Celebrate your child's love of nature, growing independence, and need to communicate through activities involving the four seasons (45 minute class). The musical skills of the previous class are more finely developed, with the addition of dramatic play in a musical context. Rhythm and tonal patterns highlighted within every lesson.

Singing in the rain, jumping in the leaves, making snow angels, your child’s imagination and verbal skills are now an integral part of music-making as we sing and play our way through the cycle of the seasons! Your child will be delighted to learn to play patterns we sing in class on special instruments designed for this age. Steady beat, tonal and rhythm patterns are part of every class, along with building your child’s repertoire of songs! (Fall semester CD, parent booklet, pouch and listening cards; as well as Winter CD, booklet, pouch, and listening cards are included in the above fee).

$220 / 15 week session / 45 minute weekly

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YOUNG MUSICIANS 1 (4 - 6 yrs.)

Musik Kids is an active approach to musicianship with singing, creative and structured movement, playing instruments, and reading and writing musical notation. Parent Share Time the last 10 minutes of class.

YOUNG MUSICIANS 2 (5 1/2 -7 yrs.)

In Young Musicians 2, the children continue to build musical skills through ensemble playing, ear training, singing, folk dancing, and reading and writing musical notation. The class uses a rich repetoire of music from around the world. Parent Share Time the last 10 minutes of class.

KEYBOARD CLASSES 6 ˝**-12 yrs

Keyboard study with peers nurtures the musician inside each child. The children learn to play the keyboard through movement, singing, drumming, and playing games. Levels 1 and 2 parents are required to stay for class and learn along with the children; Levels 3 & 4 parents are required to attend last 15 min. of class.

*NEW! HOMESCHOOL WORLD MUSIC

World Music Class is coordinating with the Art Workshop's Homeschool Class: Art Around The World! Each month Mrs. Kopp and Mrs. Rekers (aka “Ms. Mary”) will explore different cultures through the music and art of that area. Musically, the children will be exposed to keyboard, recorders, xylophones, and other folk instruments. Singing, playing instruments, note reading, and music appreciation are included in every unit of study.

A 20% discount is given for enrolling in both homeschool music and homeschool art class! Click here to see Art and Music Combination Class information.
CD/binder and other materials included.

12 classes / 55 min. / $175

These classes are open for enrollment at any time during the session, space permitting.

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New! Homeschool Group Keyboard 8-11yrs

HOMESCHOOL WORLD MUSIC AND ART CLASS COMBINED

Exploring Art: Focus for this age is on developing motor skills like cutting and drawing and learning basic art concepts: line, color, texture and shape while having the freedom to explore art materials.
5-7 yrs / 12 wks. / $244

Art Around The World: Different art styles and techniques from around the world and throughout history will be used to help your child explore the world of art. Use of our state-of-the-art technology lab will allow us to include claymation and photography in the curriculum.

8-12 yrs / 12 wks / $244

These classes are open for enrollment at any time during the session, space permitting.

Choose a class (2 hours each, 1 hour per section):

Musik Kids Faculty

Mary has presented at Regional Montessori conferences, the National Orff Association's Conference, pre-school teacher development days, and for the children's librarians of the Hamilton County Public Library.

Call 513-771-7675 to contact Mary for more information about Musikgarten at The Center, or send an email to Mary.

Dr. Stephen Reen
Recognized as one of the top five group piano teachers in the country in 2001 by the Music Teachers National Association, Stephen Reen teaches early childhood music and movement classes and group piano classes to children and adults. Reen holds three degrees in Piano Performance: the Doctor of Music from Indiana University and Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

With over 20 years of teaching experience, Dr. Reen has taught piano for Indiana University and S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo. Reen's teaching has been featured in American Music Teacher magazine and in a film produced by the National Piano Foundation. He has been a presenter for the MTNA National Convention, the IMTA Convention and various piano teachers' associations throughout the U.S. Dr. Reen is a member of the Early Childhood Music and Movement Committee for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy and is founder and President of the Columbus Academy of Music, Columbus, Indiana. An organist and choir director, Reen has appeared in solo and chamber music recitals throughout the U.S. and Canada with his wife, cellist Sophie Reen.

Kelli Domke

Kelli sang all the time as a little girl, and remembers a childhood richly colored by those songs. A classically trained singer, her musical studies have included work at The University of Houston (undergrad) and the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music (graduate studies). Despite all this, she still loves to sing like she did as a girl... like a regular person! As the happy mama of two song-loving boys of her own, she knows from experience that the songs we carry in our hearts are among our strongest parenting tools. She's excited to share Musikgarten music with you and your little ones

Liz Archer has over twenty years experience as a professional singer both in her native England and in the US. She has over 5 years experience teaching singing to children and young adults. Liz was first introduced to Musikgarten when she brought her 6 week old son to class. It wasnt long after that she took the training and has been a Musikgarten teacher for over 4 years. She is currently a member of Muse, Cincinnati's womens choir who celebrate their 25th anniversary this year.

You will experience Elizabeth Lotspeich gently rocking with infants, enthusiastically bouncing with the toddlers, or weaving an adventure story with the pre-schoolers. Elizabeth has an extensive background in early childhood education and movement and play with children and adults. Formerly a teacher with The Children's Home of Cincinnati and The Waldorf School of Cincinnati and a park naturalist with Cincinnati parks, Elizabeth has worked and played with people of all ages. She has researched, created, performed, and directed interactive school plays and puppet shows with nature or historical themes as the major focus. Now Elizabeth is combining her own passion of music, singing, dancing, playing and nature with the families of Musik Kids, creating the joy filled activity of making music as a part of their everyday life.

A piano teacher for over 15 years, Nancy also taught music at a children’s preschool and a kindergarten group class at her home studio. She holds an English degree and was working towards her Masters in Elementary Education in Massachusetts when her husband’s job transfer brought them to Cincinnati. She loves writing music for children and is learning to play the guitar.

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