Daily Written Student Lesson Reports

The Royal Academy is the only music school to offer daily written student reports after every lesson. These reports are a great tool for helping parents track their child's progression.  Daily written student reports outline a number of events during the lesson such as: what your child and his teacher worked on during their lesson, how well your child is progressing, suggestions the teacher has, and what's for homework. Why? Because as educators we owe it to our parents and students to do whatever it takes to ensure they receive the best possible music education.  At the Royal Academy you will find that we take what we do very seriously and our commitment is completely to our parents and students. Comparatively so, most schools may offer one or two reports per year,( if any at all) at the Royal Academy, we keep you updated from lesson to lesson, not only verbally after each lesson, but also in writing. Please click on the link below for a sample of our student evaluation form.

Student Lesson Report (click me please)
 

Faculty Criteria

The Royal Academy requires that all its faculty members hold a minimum of a Bachelors Degree in Music from a major music school or conservatory with the majority of our instructors holding a masters degree and/or conservatory equivalent diploma.  A Royal Academy teacher is also required to have a minimum of 6 years experience teaching and are required to be fully "cori-checked". 
 

Student Recitals

While most music schools offer one student recital per year, the Royal Academy offer 7-11 student recitals each year. 7 scheduled recitals are available on our website with 4  additional recitals being added in throughout the year.   The Royal Academy student recitals are held at our close affiliate Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) College and all students perform in the very same concert hall as our world renowned musicians and performers do.  Students also perform an a 9' Steinway Concert Grand Piano and all Royal Academy recitals are free.
 

Monthly Tuition Vs. Long Term Commitments

Simply put, we don't require our student's to commit to long term semesters.
 

We Use "Real" Piano's & Instruments to Teach On

At the Royal Academy, we only use acoustic (real) piano's in all of our lessons. We do not use electric piano's or keyboards in any of our students lessons. If you visit any of our locations, you will only find "real" piano's in the rooms with many of our studios housing two piano's in each studio for better "hands on" training for our students. Why do most schools use keyboards and digital piano's in their lessons? Simply because keyboards and electric pianos are very inexpensive to purchase and they require no maintenance such as tuning, regulation, etc. In our book it is called "cutting corners". There is also a great disadvantage to using a keyboard or digital piano vs. a real piano in lessons such as interval issues, technical issues, dynamic issues, etc. The Royal Academy also only uses full size drum sets for their percussion lessons, we do not use pads or kits, again like many other schools.
 

Encouraging A Clean-Sanitary Environment

The Royal Academy has multiple (child-safe) hand sanitizing dispensers installed in all of it's school's, and our student's are encouraged to practice safe measures for preventing the common cold and other flu viruses.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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