The Brooklyn Music Studio

Unfortunately we didn’t have a good experience with this school. Not recommending to anyone who just wants their kids to enjoy playing the instrument and be proud of themselves during the process. Definitely don’t come here if you are changing from a different teacher. The violin lesson was not inspiring at all. I have a really strong will kid who hates the lesson so much, that he said he will never touched violin ever again. We hardly hear him playing anything at home except doing all the notes naming/fingering/plucking practice, he just lost all the interests and motivation. My son doesn’t respond well to his teaching style, but no adjustments made to suit his interests of learning. And then the teacher started asking me if my son ever got evaluated for ADHD or other behavioral disorders, blame on the kid who can’t be focused during his lesson when there was always phone calls came in during our lesson. All we did for the past 7 months was constantly correcting his fingers on the string rather than letting him play, then correct. We as adults can’t even keep the attention on if someone else constantly interrupts, not along kids.

I have been a student at Brooklyn Music Studio since I was 7 and it has been an absolutely incredible experience! Hagai and Jinah are amazing teachers, who are very good with working with kids of all ages and up to all levels. I am now going to Brown University for music and I can't capture in a review how grateful I am to the Brooklyn Music Studio for teaching me so much! Jinah is an amazing music theory teacher as well as a virtuosically talented piano teacher and player, and Hagai is an incredible violin and viola teacher and player (he focuses on building the most important technique skills and is kind and patient while still a challenging teacher.) In their lessons, both Hagai and Jinah meet you where you are, giving you the tools and skills to improve without shaming you. They are also extraordinarily welcoming, kind and funny people!

Through The Brooklyn Music Studio, when my boys were younger, they experienced Suzuki violin with wonder and devotion. Jinah and Hagai are so talented and simply golden. My sons, now teenagers today, continue to embrace music with appreciation and creativity that was inspired from their earlier years at the Studio. It’s a very special place!

The Brooklyn Music Studio, Hagai.and Jinah are just amazing. My two children started with Hagai and Jinah since the age of 4 and have grown up 18 and19 years old(graduated from the Studio) playing the violin/viola. I can only praise their teachers because of their knowledgeable consistant, child friendly teaching approach to the Suzuki method. They've encourage and challenged my kids and myself during difficult times and worked with my family to see them graduate and not only that become lovers of music!

The magic of the Brooklyn Music Studio is its teachers' ability to combine warm, delight-inducing musical education with precise and effective teaching of technique. My son started studying with Jinah about four years ago, after I realized that his in-home piano teacher wasn't actually teaching him how to shape his hands and body to bring beautiful sounds out of the instrument. That was exactly what Jinah began to do from day one, and the transformation in our son's playing has been wonderful. Jinah also fosters her students' joy in music through her group lessons, recently focusing on the work of particular composers each month (this spring we studied Debussy, Prokofief, Piazzolla, and Chopin). Hagai Kamil, who teaches violin, is equally wonderful, as is Erich Schoen-Rene on cello. We've loved our experience at BMS in every way.

My sons, 11 and 7 have been taking piano lessons with Jinah since they were 5 years old. She is truly an amazing person and teacher. In all the lessons that I have attended with my kids, Jinah is patient, friendly and passionate in teaching. She encourages my kids to feel confident and proud of their accomplishments. I am very happy that my boys have become an amazing pianist.

A wonderfully rigorous and joyous Suzuki program and conservatory in the heart of Park Slope. My child began there just shy of four years old and now eight years later has had options to enter pre-college programs like Julliard or Manhattan Music as well as more casual options through chamber and piano trio groups. Because the school offers so many options and the teachers are artists and professionals as well as parents my child has been deeply nurtured and equipped to find his own path through the rich world of music. The intimate and dynamic program offers the rare opportunity for music students across the spectrum to learn theory, and technique in an immersive Suzuki setting but at their own pace.