From first lesson to first recital.
Piano, guitar, strings, voice and drums for ages 3 to 83, taught by working musicians on SE Belmont in Portland.
Free 30‑minute trial · Teachers background‑checked · From $38 a lesson
Piano, guitar, strings, voice and drums for ages 3 to 83, taught by working musicians on SE Belmont in Portland.
Free 30‑minute trial · Teachers background‑checked · From $38 a lesson
Most of our students are between six and sixteen. A third are grown‑ups who always meant to learn.
Ages 3–6
A 45‑minute group class of singing and rhythm. A grown‑up comes too.
Ages 7–12
Weekly 30‑minute lessons and a recital spot every term.
Ages 13–18
The songs they want to play, and a band on Saturdays.
Adults, any age
Evenings, no exams, no pressure. Our oldest beginner was 79.
Saturday, December 12 · 2 pm
Twice a year we rent Belmont Street Hall, and every student who wants a spot gets one. Free, all ages, and you can leave at the interval.
Wrenfield Music School presents
Christian Petzold · piano
Ludwig van Beethoven · voices and chime bars, ages 4–6
François-Joseph Gossec · violin
Lennon–McCartney · guitar and voice
Camille Saint-Saëns · cello, two years in
Claude Debussy · piano
Belmont Street Hall, 3220 SE Belmont · Free entry
Full programOne rate for every instrument, paid by the 12‑week term. Siblings get 10% off, and we lend instruments for the first month.
From age 5 · 5 teachers
From age 7 · 3 teachers
From age 4 · 2 teachers
From age 6 · 1 teacher
From age 8 · 2 teachers
From age 9 · 1 teacher
Every one of them performs, records or plays in a Portland orchestra. They teach because they like it.
Guitar · head of school
Opened Wrenfield in 2009 after twenty years of teaching from his front room. Still teaches every Thursday afternoon.
Guitar & ukulele · runs the Saturday teen bands
Piano & composition · writes for two local theaters
Voice · sings with the Portland Opera chorus
Electric guitar & bass · session player for twenty years
Step 1
Thirty minutes, any instrument, or tell us you’re not sure. We reply within one school day with two or three times.
Step 2
Try the instrument with them. We have every one here, in every size, and nobody buys anything before the second month.
Step 3
Pay by the 12‑week term. Pause for a term whenever life gets busy, and we hold your slot.
“We came for one trial lesson for our son. Three years later, all four of us have lessons on Thursdays.”
Dana Whitaker, Richmond neighborhood · piano, guitar and voice
Thirty minutes with a teacher, any instrument, any age. Walter replies to every request within one school day.