New Mozart School of Music

I would add one more positive feedback — our son has been a student with Ms Irina Behrendt for over 8 years. Irina is passionate and remarkable, whose ability to inspire the younger to love classical music, «from better to best» amazes me. Highly recommend Irina Behrendt.
We never have had an issue with New Mozart Office.

I took guitar lessons from teacher Larry and I absolutely loved it. He is a great teacher and a great musician! The times are flexible, the office responded to all my inquiries really fast and got around sorting my silly schedules off.
I can really highly recommend the school.

I’ve been taking lessons at NMSM for about 4 years now. I tried a bunch of different voice teachers in the south bay before deciding on NMSM! Teacher Diane can explain breath support and voice techniques in ways that make much more sense to me than previous teachers I’ve had. And the NMSM staff is so friendly and considerate! Thank you!

My children have been taking lessons with Teacher Paul at the New Mozart School of Music. Paul is an excellent teacher — patient, kind and diligent. He is very concerned with the children learning to read and identify music, not just to play a piece, and for this I am very grateful as I feel that they should indeed know how to read and write whilst learning to play songs. I would highly recommend this music school and Teacher Paul.

I used to work for New Mozart for two years. The teaching staff and director, Christine, are such talented musicians and friendly teachers. It was a great environment to work in and it was great to see how quickly individual children progressed at this school. Each teacher has their own individual style of teaching and music background which makes it a perfect school for beginners and more advanced musicians. I thought it was great that we had programs available for children as young as 2 and for adults of any age.

New Mozart gets good teachers, but it is so painful to deal with the front office that it’s almost not worth it. Their customer service is the worst I’ve ever experienced. They are incredibly aggressive about billing, but don’t care at all whether the student is learning.

We are delighted with the New Mozart School!
Our son has been taking violin lessons there, and he loves Teacher Olga.
Christine, the Director, has created a very special environment where the love of music is paramount.

I took lessons at New Mozart for seven years, and had a few different instructors. They were all very knowledgeable, friendly & professional. New Mozart is suitable for all genres of music & musical interests — I learned a great deal during my time there.

My daughter is 7 now. She started to participate in NMSM harmony road group lesson when she was 4. Since she progressed faster than average, the school staff was very understanding and flexible and allowed her to skip a couple of levels in between and finished the harmony road program in 1 year as oppose to usual 2 years length. Then we started private piano lesson with NMSM. The school provides great (MANY) opportunities and exceptional venues for recitals and honor recitals every year, which kept my daughter motivated to practice and put up great performances in front of big audience. Our piano teacher is a great teacher too — he’s been helping many students to get pass certified exams. But since I’m more interested in competition, he’s fully supporting our interest and helped us preparing and strategize for competition. All these efforts from NMSM contributed to my daughter’s winning 2 piano awards including a first prize during our first competition experience this year. Thank you NMSM our home for music!

Excellent school. Several of my friends have highly recommended this school for my nephew. The staff is very friendly and the school offers opportunities for students to perform in live concerts. I highly recommend any potential students to attend one of their concerts — very well done.

Mozart would never agree to study there.
Yes, they have some talented teachers. Yet — in one year — our 2 girls had to switch from a teacher to another teacher, 3 (THREE) times.
Well, teaching music is, first of all, a commitment. They do not care how a 10-​year-​old girl feels after she had connected to the music AND the teacher, and suddenly her teacher is leaving, or he stops teaching on Tuesday, but he can not teach her on any other day…
Music is a connection between people. They do not understand what real «Harmony» in life is.
We felt they run their business without any heart! It is money-​oriented, not Music.
I have never wrote on-​line another 1-​star review, on any thing.
I would give them no star at all, if only I could, but 1 star is the minimum.

My son and daughter have been studying music (guitar) at New Mozart since past 4 years. I must admit this was our 4^th or 5^th music academy and we were apprehensive when we started there since our expectations are very high. BUT We have been thrilled at the quality of the music teachers, the method of teaching and MOST importantly how the teacher (Thomas) ensure the kids are engaged and interested.
To make my point– I don’t have to ask my kids to practice– they get so excited about their piece that they want to come home and practice!!!
Also the director Christine has been very helpful when a guitar teacher has moved on by ensuring the kids got the right kind of teacher that suits their personality. This, I think very few music academies do for their customers. She knows each student so well that she won’t hesitate to let us know which teacher works for kids and which doesn’t. Goes to show the love and commitment to providing world class music to kids!
Also their admin staff is very kind, flexible and always willing to help.

My elementary-​school-​aged son is a near-​beginner guitar student and has been taking lessons with Patrick at New Mozart for the last 7 weeks. Patrick is just phenomenal. He’s amazingly positive, nice, funny, supportive, and effective. He has my son jump into new chords and songs. My son suggested a couple of songs from the radio and Patrick learned them and teaches them. He uses play along techniques, plays piano accompaniment, and has a programmable drum machine. He is able to gradually teach music theory in a way that in no way interferes with the jamming and the fun. My son is thriving. We’re on a wait list for additional time with Patrick!
The staff has been courteous, responsive, and efficient. I prefer email communications – and they are clear and concise over email.

We have been very happy with Jenn, cello teacher, and the New Mozart staff! Love the group lesson that Jenn has each week, and the community feel it has. Recommend New Mozart enthusiastically!

This place is amazing. The front staff are so helpful and the teachers are patient, experienced and talented. My and my son’s learning was 10 times as fast as it would have been if we hadn’t been here. Thank you so much.

My daughters love the teachers at New Mozart. I was very pleased how well my girls played at their first recital after a semester of group classes of Harmony Road I. I was really amazed by what and how the Harmony Road II kids played. The Harmony Road classes are parent participation which is very helpful for parents who have no or limited musical training, so I was able to help them with practice when my wife was busy.

My daughter has been taking classes at New Mozart for over two years. She first took the Harmony Road group lessons and she is now taking private lessons. We’re very happy with the school and plan to continue with classes there.
We’ve never run into problems with administrative staff mentioned in other reviews.

I LOVE New Mozart School of Music. I am an adult guitar student and wanted to learn the guitar since I was very young but never got an opportunity until last year. I have been a student here for 18 months now. Not only am I very happy with my progress but going to class is so much fun too. I look forward to my class each week so much that for me, it really is the highlight of the week. The teachers are fabulous, it really doesn’t matter who the teacher is here because they are all great, what matters is one’s own interest and hard work. After all, a teacher can not practice for a student.
The administrative staff is extremely helpful, supportive and very responsive. My experience has always been very positive and the staff has actually gone out of their way to accommodate my needs. They have been very patient with all my questions and have always been accurate with the billing. Once the teacher was unwell and my class was cancelled and I was refunded the money immediately and promptly. They are gracious, sweet and extremely committed to their work. The reviews of the others here do not do justice to this wonderful Mozart family.
Mozart School of Music doesn’t just teach music, it helps one to realize one’s most cherished dreams. I would strongly recommend this school for all children and adults who want to learn music and are passionate about it.
This school is the best thing that happened to me since I started out here. Thank you Mozart School of Music.

I started to take violin lessons from Michele last year. At the beginning not only could I not play any musical instruments, I couldn’t even read musical notes. Therefore, going into this I really didn’t have very high expectations that I would improve much in a year. Fast forward to today and I now manage to read musical notes and play the pieces written by classical composers such as Bach, Handel and Brahms!
This is all thanks to Michele, she is an amazing teacher. She encourages me when I’m down and pushes me when I get lazy. Once you start taking her class, you will realize she is as an accomplished musician and an experienced teacher. She is also very clever, and that helps to have her students achieve the goals. Thank you Michele, you are making my dreams come true!

We have had two kids at New Mozart for about a year, and I’ve found it a good experience. The thing I’ve liked the best is the range of instruction styles from very good teachers.
Our daughter’s current piano teacher, Leah, is more formal in her expectations, and I’ve seen my daughter’s attention to detail improve dramatically. Over the summer she had summer session with Danielle, who really gives the kids a love of music, and last year she had lessons with Robert, who encouraged her to create her own songs –this for a six year old just starting lessons! I think each teacher’s personality has broadened my daughter’s music experience, and the proof is in the fact that she hops on the piano at any chance.
Our son takes guitar lessons with Vincent, who is a more of a rock guitar teacher –in fact he teaches a class called «rock band» or something like that. He’s really patient, really connects with his students, and it was fun at our first recital last summer to see Vincent’s students all on stage at the same time, rocking out to «I love rock & roll.» Now Vincent is teaching our son a song that he can play as a duet with his sister!
We chose New Mozart after looking at another local music /​art school. At that place, we were told we’d need to make an appointment to see the director, and fill out an application –for two grade school kids to take lessons!?! At New Mozart, we chatted with the staff, who looked up lesson availability right then and there, and we left the office as customers.
Recitals happen twice a year, and we’re not sure if we’re going to do them all, or just be a «summer recital» kind of family, we’ll have to figure that out, for younger kids the recitals can get long.
I’d definitely recommend New Mozart if you’re looking for music lessons in the Palo Alto area (studio locations above a church near midtown, and above Pizza My Heart downtown). A heartily deserved four stars!
(So why not 5 stars? I’ve saving my 5-​star review for Julliard, when my kids get in there)