Music Corner also offers musician services for weddings, funerals, baptisms, etc. We offer solo violin, piano, piano/violin duet, or piano/violin/cello trio playing best of classical and pop music. Inquire within for availability and pricing.

Whether you sign up for piano, violin, or cello lessons, it is not just instrumental playing
you sign up for. Educated teachers will always offer both instrumental instruction and
musicianship because in essence one cannot have one or the other. Oftentimes I get
students that come with much advanced piece of music and ask if they could play this
song, this would be their ideal instruction. That is equal to someone who is just learning
to read and write, that they want to read for example “War & Peace” by Leo Tolstoy. You
can read it, nothing is impossible, but what about comprehension and interpretation.
What good is it just reading letters and words? It is important to read, play, and study lots
of music that is adequate to your level. Experienced teacher can guide and will have
knowledge of repertoire which they can introduce to you that will take you to that next
level. It is this guidance that is critical to your understanding of music and playing.
Musical studies is a lifetime work, takes a very long time, one grows with it, one must be
patient with oneself.

When signing up for music lessons, the most important goal to remember is you are using your chosen instrument only as a medium to learn and get in tune with bigger knowledge which is musicianship. Please remember it is not only about learning how to play your instrument. It is how you will use your medium, your equipment, to gain musicianship and understand music better as a whole. One must learn to read and write music in order to understand the makeup of music. One needs to understand musical elements in order to enhance music making. One must understand styles which existed in different musical periods which also influenced the great composers who lived in that era. It is very much like learning a language. You must read and write it. You must pronounce it correctly. You must learn to convey meaning with this language. You must learn to communicate.

Music Corner is located in the West Raleigh/Cary border, serving the amazing communities of Raleigh, Cary, Apex, Holly Springs, Garner, and its surrounding cities and suburbs of the Triangle in North Carolina. We offer piano, violin, viola, cello, and voice lessons to students of all ages and levels. We also offer group string classes.

Here are few tips if you are wondering what instrument you or your child should sign up for.  When determining what instrument you would like to begin your musical journey with, keep in mind your hearing/listening ability plays a big role.  Regardless if you have a perfect pitch, relative pitch, or you are tone deaf, your journey should and will begin with ear training. 

If you can recognize and create a musical note from the thin air, you have a perfect sense of pitch or a very good relative pitch, then you should opt for voice or string instrument lessons.  If you need ear training, if you need to rely heavily on a relative pitch in order to recognize a musical sound, then I suggest playing the piano for awhile, begin learning comprehensive musicianship on a keyboard/piano until your ears are well trained rather than opting for instrument such as a violin or cello where it is entirely up to you to create a sound from scratch without help of any reference or frets, etc.  Piano is a wonderful basic building instrument which will help you branch out and apprehend other instruments of your choice. 

Music Corner in West Raleigh is well situated off of Avent Ferry Road on the border of Cary/Raleigh.  We are very close to Combs Elementary, Athens Drive HS, and NC State U.  We are a home studio who welcome students including homeschoolers of all ages and levels.  We offer individual piano, violin, viola, cello, and voice lessons and group string lessons.  We are open from 9 am to 8 pm daily.  All are welcome, let’s make some music!