Community Music Center of Boston

Specialties

Providing Music Lessons and Classes to All Ages!

Private Instrument Lessons (Piano, Percussion, Voice, Violin, Trumpet and many more!)

Early Childhood Classes for ages 5 months+

Beginning Instruments for ages 4 – 7

Music Therapy

Adult Lessons

Ensembles

Children’s Chorus

A Capella Chorus

Free Concerts for the Community

History

Established in 1910.

Founded in 1910, CMCB is the product of two historic settlement schools that worked primarily with immigrant children — the Boston Music School Settlement and the South End Music School, which merged in 1968. We operate a lively, bustling 8,000 square foot instructional facility at the Boston Center for the Arts, in the heart of Boston’s South End.

We serve more than 5,000 students each week, both on-​site in the Boston Center for the Arts and in nearly 50 community sites each year. We have unwaveringly maintained our original mission to provide music education to those children and adults who would otherwise not have access to such opportunities. Core to our values is the conviction that music education is and should be a formative part of every child’s education. We award more than $ 150,000 –about 6% of our overall budget– every year in scholarships and financial aid.