North London Colourstrings - helping children successfully learn music since 1995

Colourstrings is a fully integrated approach to music education for young children, which was developed by the Hungarian-born violinist and pedagogue Dr Géza Szilvay. Based on Kodály principles, this approach starts in Music Kindergarten and takes the young child on a wonderful adventure through musicland where their sense of pitch and rhythm is developed alongside the training of the inner ear. Basic music concepts such as high/low, loud/soft, fast/slow are introduced but always within the framework of age-appropriate games and activities. Colourstrings Music Kindergarten classes are suitable for children from seventeen months upwards  to six and a half years of age: children under three years are accompanied by an adult. There are special baby groups for below age sixteen months.

The instrumental tuition programme, for violin, viola, cello, guitar, piano, flute and mini-bass builds on the foundations already laid in Colourstrings Music Kindergarten and through the use of Kodály ear training exercises and a colour-coded system of notation simplifies considerably the process of learning to read music. Correct technical foundations are carefully laid alongside the continuous development of the child´s musical intelligence. Most importantly, a Colourstrings-trained child learns to hear inwardly what s/he is reading and therefore plays with a much deeper sense of understanding and musicality.

Instrumental tuition begins when the child is ready usually between 5 and 7 years old. Entry to our Colourstrings instrumental tuition training is by open enrolment of children who will normally have completed at least two years of our Colourstrings Music Kindergarten training.

About Colourstrings

North London Colourstrings     Tel: 020 8444 9435       email: enquiries@nlcolourstrings.co.uk