Our Studio
Raritan Music Center opened in April 1997 and has been growing ever since.
Our studio features 11 individual teaching rooms for private instruction. Our pianos are tuned and maintained regularly to ensure a quality instrument for students to play during their lessons.
Currently we have over 20 teachers who provide private lessons in piano, voice, orchestral strings, woodwinds, brass, and guitar. All of our teachers are highly qualified with various backgrounds to meet your needs.
Whether you have a young child ready to embark on a lifetime of music, an older student preparing for auditions, or a spouse who has always wanted to learn to play an instrument, Raritan Music Center teachers and staff have the experience to help you achieve your musical goals.
Why We Teach Music
MUSIC IS A SCIENCE
It is exact, specific, and highly organized. It embodies many levels of physics from acoustics to architecture.
MUSIC IS MATHEMATICS
It is rhythmically based on the subdivision of time in space into fractions, which must be done instantaneously, and not worked out on paper, in a highly specific form with regard to exact placement and symmetry. It is disciplined and logical.
MUSIC IS LANGUAGE
It is composed of phrases, thoughts, and ideas. Its goal is to communicate and to reach a part of us where words no longer suffice. Most of the terms are in a foreign language, mostly Italian, German or French. The line notation is certainly NOT English, but a highly developed and organized symbolic system and a unique language in and of itself.
MUSIC IS HISTORY
It is the only art form we can hear as people hundreds of years ago heard. Unlike paint, whose image is always there once created, music is perpetually "repainted" each time it is performed. The feelings and thoughts of countless generations are forever cast into sound.
MUSIC IS PHYSICAL EDUCATION
It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, eyes, hands, lips, cheek and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragmatic, back, stomach and chest muscles. There are as many calories burned by a symphony trumpet player in one performance as there are by a quarterback in a professional football game.
MUSIC IS ALL OF THESE THINGS AND MORE, BUT ABOVE ALL, MUSIC IS AN ART
It allows a human being to take science and technique and create EMOTION. This is the one thing that science cannot duplicate - human feelings and emotions.
Our Performance Opportunities
Raritan Music Center holds seasonal recitals throughout the year and end-of-the-year recitals in June, where all students are given the opportunity to perform in front of an audience.
In addition, Raritan Music encourages students to become involved in outside music competitions and evaluations, such as The Associated Board of the Royal School of Music (ABRSM), and the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA)