News & Events

Congratulations!

Saturday, February 20, 2021 by Yulia Berry | Auditions

Congratulations to my student Chloe who made to S.E.M.S.B.A. Junior Festival
(Southeastern Massachusetts School Bandmasters Association)! 🎉🎶👏👏

First Place!

Wednesday, February 17, 2021 by Yulia Berry | Competition

Congratulations to my 12 year old talented student on being awarded First Place in the Category "Junior Flute, Young Prodigy" in the US International Open Music Competition with over 200 participants from around the world!

She played Partita by J.S.Bach.

Very proud of her and mine work! 🎉🎶

A flashback: an excerpt from our Flute Recital

Sunday, February 14, 2021 by Yulia Berry | Recital

Concerto in C Major for two flutes and piano. An excerpt from the II movement

Flutes: Teresa C. and Yulia Berry

Piano: Daniel Padgett

Teach music, not coding!

Monday, February 1, 2021 by Yulia Berry | Research

The latest reasearch just came in!

"What actually does increase other skills and brain power is teaching kids to play a musical instrument, according to a January 2021 study conducted at the University of Zürich and published in The Journal of Neuroscience."

"...A summary of the research (which involved scanning the brains of both musicians and non-musicians) published in Inverse explains that musicians' brains were vastly more structurally and functionally connected than non-musicians, especially in areas of the brain responsible for speech and sound (especially the auditory cortices of both hemispheres). ... The musical group also showed stronger connections from the auditory cortices to other brain areas in the frontal, parietal, and temporal cortex known to be involved in the control of higher cognitive functions like memory, working memory, and executive functions."

"This increase in brain power and functionality remains even if the child does not continue to play the instrument. "The earlier the musicians had started with musical practice, the stronger these connectivities," says professor Simon Leipold, a co-author of the study.

In short, if you want your kids to be smarter, you're better off having them learn a musical instrument or take music education in school, rather than teaching them to code."

https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/want-smarter-kids-teach-music-not-coding-according-to-mit.html