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Upcoming Events

Free Family Music Series

Performance Series

The MacPhail Presents 2024-2025 season is here!

Discover an eclectic lineup of performances spanning a range of genres that highlight the incredible talents of MacPhail’s faculty, students, and guest artists. There’s something for everyone in this vibrant series. We invite you to join us and experience the transformative power of music. Explore the calendar today.

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Suzuki Talent Education

One of the largest and most established Suzuki programs in the country!

Suzuki lessons are offered on piano, violin, viola, cello, guitar, flute, and harp for students as young as age three or four through high school.

Suzuki Talent Education

Project Amplify for K-12 Music Education

Project Amplify is a grant-funded, music education initiative offered to Minnesota K-12 music classrooms at no charge to the school. The program focuses on strengthening learning opportunities for K-12 Minnesota music students from historically marginalized backgrounds. This effort provides transformational programming that nurtures creativity, honors students’ backgrounds, and provides tools and resources to support K-12 educators.

Learn more about Project Amplify

Financial Aid & Scholarships

Applications for all MacPhail Center for Music metro sites and online as well as for Austin, MN for the 2023-2024 school year are now being accepted. Financial aid is available to qualifying students in the form of reduced tuition. Awards are determined on a sliding scale.

Prelude: Singer-Actor Lab

Prelude helps students prepare for a career in the performing arts. Students are guided and supported as they develop skills, gain confidence, learn to collaborate, tell their stories, and learn to trust themselves.

Sing Play Learn with MacPhail®

Designed for a child’s specific stage of development, each class encourages children to explore musical concepts and experiment with new instruments. Your child will develop school-readiness skills in an active learning environment that feels like playtime!

MacPhail on Madeline Island

The idyllic setting of Madeline Island is the perfect place to get away from the noise of everyday life. Immersed together in music, collaboration, joy, and the majesty of the island, our event and retreat attendees relax and recharge while enjoying music at a whole new level.

Give the Gift of Music

MacPhail supports music learning for students of all ages. Please consider including MacPhail Center for Music in your year-end giving plans. You make the day brighter with your gift of music!

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