Neighborhood Music School

Neighborhood Music School, founded in 1911 and based in New Haven, CT, is Connecticut’s largest non-profit community arts organization and one of the 10 largest community arts schools in the United States. It provides music, dance, drama, and film education for ages 6 months to 80+ through one-on-one lessons, classes, ensembles, workshops, and summer programs. Programs include more than 30 instruments, seven genres of dance, the Greater New Haven Youth Ensembles, Suzuki, Young Artist Diploma, the DELTA Program, The Renée B. Fisher Competition, and Dance for PD®. The organization also operates ATLAS Middle School and a state-certified preschool.

Serving more than 3,000 students annually from over 80 cities and towns, Neighborhood Music School engages a faculty of 130+ teaching artists across its 30,000-square-foot New Haven campus and additional program sites in Guilford, Madison, and Woodbridge. Approximately 1,200 students take private music lessons, and the school presents more than 200 events and productions each year. Guided by a mission to deepen the human experience and build connections through the performing arts, the school promotes equity and access through financial aid, with 15 percent of students receiving assistance.