Powers Music School is a musical institution serving New England for more than 60 years. Powers Music School is a community music center based in Belmont, Massachusetts. The School provides private music lessons, early childhood and group classes, ensembles, orchestra, theory, music therapy, and performance opportunities to over 1000 students throughout Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.

Powers Music in the Community

Powers Music School provides the greater Boston community with access to music education programs, well-known faculty, festivals, performances, and outreach programs. Powers offers instruction and performance opportunities for interested students of all ages. In addition, Powers Music School also runs the summer programs Music on the Hill (MOTH), Suzuki on the Hill, String Traditions, and Kids Crescendo. Music on the Hill (MOTH) offers jazz and classical training to advanced high school students, with an emphasis on chamber music, while Kids Crescendo provides a creative musical environment for younger kids.

Powers Faculty (partial list)

Judith Bedford, Bassoon James Doran, guitar Sarah Freiberg, cello Vladimir Gurin, Piano Jane Hershey, Viola da gamba, viol consort Levon Hovsepian, piano Yasuko Ishibashi, piano, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, Pow-Wow Xue (Shirley) Liu, Piano Collen McGary-Smith, cello Tamara Medoyeva, piano Natacha Rist, piano Kathryn Rosenbach, Piano, piano accompaniment Lucy Joan Sollogub, Guitar, mountain dulcimer David Stevens, Saxophone, Clarinet Liana Zaretsky, violin, MOTH**