The School For Strings Inc

The School for Strings, founded in 1970 in New York, NY, is a Suzuki-based music school in Midtown Manhattan. It provides comprehensive violin, cello, and piano instruction for students ages three to eighteen through private lessons, group classes, musicianship/music theory, and orchestra and ensemble classes. A required Parents’ Class for beginners reflects the School’s emphasis on parent involvement central to the Suzuki philosophy.

Programs include an Early Childhood Program that introduces young children to instruments, rhythmic games, and movement, and a Start Up Program offering in-depth introductory study in violin, cello, or piano. The School also offers long-term Suzuki teacher training in violin, cello, and piano through two-year pedagogy seminars covering Suzuki philosophy, detailed study of the repertoire, observation of lessons and classes, and supervised teaching.

Founded by violinist and educator Louise Behrend as The Suzuki Program, the School adopted its current name in 1973 and moved to its present Midtown facility in 1987.