Looks like it's going to be a great season! I'm looking forward to a kicking studio with a lot of new concepts and students ready to learn about the wonderful language of music.

I have a lot of great things planned for this year. I hope you all stay tuned to the developments in this studio.

What do I have in mind?

The best thing for the year is going to be the benefit concert that is in the works for Angel Covers in Broomfield, Colorado. We're hoping to raise a lot of money through the piano to send to these folks. They do a great service by sending resources, such as blankets, books and shoes to children that are in orphanages around the world. This concert will be a combination of some great classical music and my featured students for the year. Keep in touch, I'll let you know when.

Next best thing is the recent acceptance of our first scholarship! Taji-lee Dunn (one of my students), has been given the Developing Musicians Scholarship. She will receive one semester of lessons for voice and piano, and will record four songs in the Grasshoppa Production Studio.

Stay tuned to the Artist Playground packet, coming for teachers and students. This is a game pack, filled with methods and easy ways to implement major theory concepts. Kids will be able to find easy and fun ways to learn theory and piano, and teachers will have easy tools to help teach. I'm really hoping to have some of the things out by the end of this year. (That's my New Years Resolution).

Of course I'm going to do seminars! I just don't know what yet. If you have any ideas for what you want to hear about, feel free to contact me.

Anyone who is interested in chatting about music, or wants to know more about my programs, feel free to shoot me an e-mail at info@apollomusicstudios.com. I'm always interested in hearing from you.

May blessings fill your New Year!

Welcome to Apollo Music Studios!

Thanks for visiting us!  At Apollo Music Studios, we do things a little bit differently.  

So, a little bit about me.  I'm Brooke, and am on this crazy venture to change the way that music is taught.  I grew up learning classical music from a father who was a musician.  All of my teachers were very strict, from five years until college.  I realized early on that the disciplinary and technical aspects were slowly taking over the thought process for musicians.  

I got to college, ready to learn, only to realize that nothing was different.  I really thought that somewhere, they would be.  As soon as I started wishing, I was thrown into two years of pedagogy class, where the same mentality was thrown at us with learning and teaching music students.  

I did what every twenty something year old should do - I decided that I would just never become involved in music.  

Well, that's not quite how things worked, obviously.  With my studio, I love teaching, I love my students and everything is great fun.  

That's because for these first few years, I've been rebelling against the norm.  I've been teaching with the Artist Playground style.  

If you come to my studio, you are going to receive top notch methods, all that are continuously being developed by me.  The main thing that I base my teaching off of is confidence building.  That's right.  I make sure that it's realized that it's okay to make mistakes and just plow towards the music.  

The second thing that I've developed is a lot of games.  I try not to make everything in music so dull, especially the theory part.  That would be the Artist Playground method.  

Of course, now and then, I lay the rules down, but really I don't believe that is what this is all about.  It's more like exploration and having fun with everything.  

There you have it.  That's Apollo Music Studios.  Trailblazing the way for new methods of teaching music!