Upper West Side
$30
Bloomingdale School of Music
A neighborhood music school since 1964 offering early childhood classes, private lessons, group classes and ensembles, in person and online.
Music for kids in NYC
147 music programs for kids across all five boroughs of New York City, 9 of them free. Early music, instruments, choirs. Includes Bloomingdale School of Music and Greenwich House Music School.
West Village
Price on site
Greenwich House Music School
Greenwich House
The West Village's oldest community music school offers early-childhood music and art classes for kids up to six, private lessons on piano, guitar, strings, voice, drums and more from age four, and children's ballet. Students perform in the school's own concert hall.
Upper West Side
Price on site
Kaufman Music Center
A music hub near Lincoln Center that houses the Lucy Moses School community arts classes, the Special Music School, and Merkin Hall. Families come for early childhood classes, lessons and kid-friendly concerts.
Norwood
$20
Bronx Bops at Bronx School for Music
Bronx School for Music
Small caregiver-and-child music and movement classes for babies and toddlers, split into age groups from 6 months to 3 years. A separate Prelude Prep class gets 4- and 5-year-olds ready for private lessons.
Pelham Parkway
Price on site
Bronx House School for Performing Arts
Bronx House
Bronx House's performing arts school on Pelham Parkway offers private, semi-private and group music instruction for kids, alongside dance, drama and visual art. Financial aid is available for families who need it.
Prospect Heights
$415
City Sounds Music Together – Brooklyn Brainery
City Sounds Music Together
Prospect Heights families join 45-minute Music Together classes at Brooklyn Brainery, with singing, dancing and instrument play for babies through preschoolers and their caregivers.
West Village
Price on site
City Sounds Music Together – Greenwich House Music School
City Sounds Music Together
City Sounds runs Tuesday-morning Music Together classes inside Greenwich House Music School, giving babies and toddlers a musical start with their caregivers.
West Village
$460
City Sounds Music Together – West Village Nursery School
City Sounds Music Together
An after-school Music Together class at a West Village nursery school where young kids and their grown-ups sing, move and play instruments together.
Downtown Brooklyn
Price on site
Guitar Center Lessons – Brooklyn
Guitar Center
Downtown Brooklyn's Guitar Center offers private lessons for young players on guitar, bass, drums, piano and voice, plus DJ instruction. Lessons are scheduled around the student's week.
Long Island City
Price on site
Guitar Center Lessons – Long Island City
Guitar Center
This Queens Guitar Center runs private lessons for all ages on guitar, bass, drums, piano, voice and DJ. Kids can rent gear and get instruments set up in the same store.
Union Square
Price on site
Guitar Center Lessons – Union Square
Guitar Center
The Union Square Guitar Center has lesson studios where kids and teens take one-on-one lessons in guitar, bass, drums, piano, voice or DJ skills. Instructors tailor each lesson to the student's goals and level.
Lincoln Square
Price on site
Lincoln Center Kids & Family Programs
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
A season-long lineup of kid-oriented concerts, dance, theater and hands-on workshops across the Lincoln Center campus. Offerings include sensory-friendly shows and programs from resident groups like the Philharmonic and NYC Ballet.
Upper West Side
Price on site
Lucy Moses School at Kaufman Music Center
Kaufman Music Center
Kaufman Music Center's community school offers music, dance and theater classes and private lessons for kids at every level, starting with early childhood music.
Flatiron
Kids $466
Music Together in the City – Madison Square Park
Music Together in the City
An open-air Music Together class held near Madison Square Park where babies, toddlers and preschoolers sing, dance and shake instruments alongside their grown-ups. Families take home a song collection to keep the music going between classes.
Tribeca
$382
Music Together in the City – Pier 26 Tribeca
Music Together in the City
A late-afternoon Music Together class on the Hudson River Greenway where families sing, clap and play instruments by the water. Kids from infancy to preschool take part with a caregiver.
Greenwich Village
$382
Music Together in the City – Washington Square Park
Music Together in the City
Parents and young children gather outdoors in Washington Square Park for a weekly Music Together session of songs, rhythm play and movement. The mixed-age format lets siblings join the same class.
Lenox Hill
Price on site
New York Conservatory of Music
An Upper East Side conservatory where children take private instrument lessons with professional concert musicians, plus theory and group classes. Students get chances to perform in recitals at well-known Manhattan venues.
Boerum Hill
Price on site
NikosKids – Boerum Hill
NikosKids
NikosKids offers a Wednesday morning Music Together class in Boerum Hill where babies, toddlers and preschoolers make music with a caregiver. Sessions mix songs, rhythm play and movement.
Gowanus
Price on site
School of Rock Brooklyn
School of Rock
Kids learn guitar, bass, drums, keys or vocals through one-on-one lessons and then rehearse in bands that play live shows at Brooklyn venues. Programs start with Little Wing for 4- and 5-year-olds and run through teen performance groups.
Oakwood
Price on site
Staten Island Family Music – Oakwood Heights
Staten Island Family Music
Staten Island's long-running Music Together provider holds family and babies classes at Oakwood Heights Community Church. Children up to five sing, move and play instruments with their caregivers in 45-minute sessions.
West Brighton
Price on site
Staten Island Family Music – Spotlight Studios
Staten Island Family Music
North Shore families take Music Together classes at Spotlight Studios on Forest Avenue, with morning, afternoon and early-evening options. Babies, toddlers and preschoolers sing and play instruments alongside a caregiver.
Gowanus
Free
Willie Mae Rock Camp Music Lab
Willie Mae Rock Camp
A free after-school music lab for girls and gender-expansive youth where participants learn audio production, songwriting, sampling, film scoring and coding for music. An advanced series digs into mixing, signal processing and interactive media.
Prospect Heights
$35
AudraRox Musical Theater – Prospect Heights
AudraRox
Preschool musical theater class where 3-5 year olds sing, act and move through short story-based shows. Runs in six-week sessions in Prospect Heights.
Carnegie Hill
Price on site
Diller-Quaile School of Music
A long-running music school known for early childhood classes for babies and preschoolers, plus instrument and voice lessons for older kids through high school.
All 147 listings
- Bloomingdale School of Music · Upper West Side · $30
- Greenwich House Music School · West Village · See site
- Kaufman Music Center · Upper West Side · See site
- Bronx Bops at Bronx School for Music · Norwood · $20
- Bronx House School for Performing Arts · Pelham Parkway · See site
- City Sounds Music Together – Brooklyn Brainery · Prospect Heights · $415
- City Sounds Music Together – Greenwich House Music School · West Village · See site
- City Sounds Music Together – West Village Nursery School · West Village · $460
- Guitar Center Lessons – Brooklyn · Downtown Brooklyn · See site
- Guitar Center Lessons – Long Island City · Long Island City · See site
- Guitar Center Lessons – Union Square · Union Square · See site
- Lincoln Center Kids & Family Programs · Lincoln Square · See site
- Lucy Moses School at Kaufman Music Center · Upper West Side · See site
- Music Together in the City – Madison Square Park · Flatiron · Kids $466
- Music Together in the City – Pier 26 Tribeca · Tribeca · $382
- Music Together in the City – Washington Square Park · Greenwich Village · $382
- New York Conservatory of Music · Lenox Hill · See site
- NikosKids – Boerum Hill · Boerum Hill · See site
- School of Rock Brooklyn · Gowanus · See site
- Staten Island Family Music – Oakwood Heights · Oakwood · See site
- Staten Island Family Music – Spotlight Studios · West Brighton · See site
- Willie Mae Rock Camp Music Lab · Gowanus · Free
- AudraRox Musical Theater – Prospect Heights · Prospect Heights · $35
- Diller-Quaile School of Music · Carnegie Hill · See site
- Greenpoint Academy of Music (GAMA) · Greenpoint · $30
- Katie's Corner - Kids Music Classes · Upper West Side · $37
- Manhattan School of Music Precollege · Morningside Heights · See site
- NikosKids Music Center – Park Slope · Park Slope · See site
- School of Rock Manhattan (Upper East Side) · Upper East Side · See site
- Tam Tam Music Together – Bed-Stuy · Bedford-Stuyvesant · $451
- Tam Tam Music Together – Carroll Gardens · Carroll Gardens · $451
- Tam Tam Music Together – Clinton Hill · Clinton Hill · $451
- Tam Tam Music Together – Cobble Hill · Cobble Hill · $451
- Tam Tam Music Together – Fort Greene · Fort Greene · $451
- Third Street Music School · East Village · See site
- After School Rocks · Fresh Meadows · See site
- Baby Bandstand at Brooklearn · Carroll Gardens · See site
- Bargemusic · Brooklyn Heights · Free
- BKCM Community Music Center at Chestnut Commons · Cypress Hills · See site
- Bronx Conservatory of Music · University Heights · See site
- Brooklyn College Preparatory Center for the Performing Arts · Midwood · See site
- Brooklyn Conservatory of Music · Park Slope · See site
- Brooklyn Conservatory of Music – Prospect Park West · Park Slope · See site
- Brooklyn Music Factory · Gowanus · See site
- Brooklyn Music School · Fort Greene · See site
- Brooklyn Youth Chorus · Cobble Hill · See site
- Brooklyn Youth Music Project · Park Slope · See site
- Building Beats · Greenpoint · See site
- Church Street School for Music and Art · Tribeca · See site
- Corona Youth Music Project · Corona · Free
- Cortelyou Music & Play · Ditmas Park · See site
- Daniel's Music Foundation · East Harlem · Free
- Family Music Class at TALEA · Williamsburg · $30
- Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School · Upper West Side · See site
- Flushing Town Hall · Flushing · See site
- Harlem School of the Arts – Music · Hamilton Heights · See site
- Heart & Beat Music – Christ Church Riverdale · North Riverdale · See site
- Heart & Beat Music – Hebrew Institute of Riverdale · Riverdale · See site
- Heart & Beat Music – Inwood · Inwood · See site
- Heart & Beat Music – Riverdale Neighborhood House · North Riverdale · See site
- Highbridge Voices · Highbridge · See site
- InterSchool Orchestras of New York (ISO) · East Village · See site
- Jazzmobile · Harlem · See site
- JCAL Youth Music & Piano Classes · Jamaica · See site
- Kids Music Together – Jackson Heights · Jackson Heights · See site
- Kids Music Together – Sunnyside (Parenting Style Studio) · Sunnyside · See site
- Kids Music Together – Sunnyside Ballet Studio · Woodside · See site
- Lehman Center for the Performing Arts – Family Shows · Bedford Park · See site
- Little Mozart School of Violin · Financial District · See site
- Mama Foundation for the Arts – Sing Harlem · Harlem · See site
- Muse Arts Music Together – Center for Family Music · Upper West Side · See site
- Music for Autism · Kips Bay · Free
- Music Together in the City · Chelsea · See site
- Music Together of Bay Ridge – 90th Street Studio · Bay Ridge · See site
- Music Together of Bay Ridge – Dimensions on Stage · Bay Ridge · See site
- Music Together of Bay Ridge – Dyker Heights · Dyker Heights · See site
- Music Together of Bay Ridge – Sheepshead Bay · Sheepshead Bay · See site
- Music Together of Staten Island · Westerleigh · See site
- Music Together with Music and Me – Bayside · Bayside · See site
- Music Together with Music and Me – Forest Hills · Forest Hills · See site
- New York Conservatory of Music – PreK Division · Upper East Side · $53
- New York Youth Symphony · Midtown · See site
- NikosKids – Brooklyn Heights · Brooklyn Heights · See site
- Noel Pointer Foundation · Bedford-Stuyvesant · See site
- Play Learn Grow Mommy and Me Classes · Upper West Side · See site
- Ramblin' Dan's Freewheelin' Band Music Classes · DUMBO · $42.50
- Renaissance Youth Center · Morrisania · See site
- School for Strings · Hell's Kitchen · See site
- Sesame Flyers Steel Orchestra · East Flatbush · See site
- Shostakovich School of Music, Art & Dance · Bath Beach · See site
- Silver Music · Upper West Side · See site
- Sol La Ti's Music Together – JCC Harlem · Harlem · See site
- Sol La Ti's Music Together – Morningside Gardens · Morningside Heights · See site
- Sol La Ti's Music Together – Upper West Side · Morningside Heights · See site
- Sunset Park School of Music · Sunset Park · See site
- The Harmony Program · Midtown · Free
- Treble Time Music · Astoria · See site
- Ume Ume Music + Arts - Park Slope · Park Slope · $25
- UpBeat NYC · Mott Haven · Free
- Wagner College Young Musician's Competition · Grymes Hill · See site
- Young People's Chorus of NYC · Lincoln Square · See site
- Young Singers Academy · Greenwich Village · See site
- Youth Orchestra CYCNY · Bayside · See site
- Youth Orchestra of St. Luke's · Hell's Kitchen · See site
- AudraRox Music for Aardvarks (Brooklyn) · Park Slope · $35
- Bay Ridge School of Music · Dyker Heights · See site
- Bronx Music Hall · Melrose · See site
- Carnegie Hall Family Events · Midtown · See site
- High School Jazz Academy · Columbus Circle · See site
- Hootenanny Art House · Windsor Terrace · See site
- Hootenanny Music Together – Ditmas Park Wellness · Ditmas Park · See site
- Hootenanny Music Together – Meronymy Studio · Sunset Park · See site
- Hootenanny Music Together – Prospect Park Parade Ground · Prospect Park South · See site
- Hootenanny Music Together – Urbane Arts Club · Prospect Park South · See site
- Jalopy Jr. Folk School · Columbia Street Waterfront · See site
- Jazz at Lincoln Center Family Concerts · Columbus Circle · See site
- Juilliard Music Advancement Program (MAP) · Lincoln Square · Free
- Juilliard Pre-College · Lincoln Square · $17,250
- KeyLab · Carroll Gardens · See site
- Keys to Success Music Lessons · Brooklyn Heights · $55
- KOKO Music DUMBO · DUMBO · See site
- Mannes Prep · Greenwich Village · See site
- Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus · Lincoln Square · See site
- Middle School Jazz Academy · Columbus Circle · Free
- Music Box School - Bay Ridge · Bay Ridge · $49
- Music Together of Bay Ridge - Studio · Bay Ridge · See site
- New York City Guitar School - Midtown · Chelsea · See site
- New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts · Lincoln Square · See site
- Opus 118 Harlem School of Music · East Harlem · See site
- Piano School of NYC · Upper West Side · See site
- Play N Music Astoria · Astoria · See site
- Purposeful Play · Williamsburg · $45
- School of Rock Bay Ridge · Bay Ridge · See site
- School of Rock Williamsburg · Williamsburg · See site
- Trinity Youth Chorus · Financial District · See site
- Ume Ume Music + Arts - Bay Ridge · Bay Ridge · $25
- WeBop at Jazz at Lincoln Center · Columbus Circle · Kids $440
- Williamsburg Music Studio · Williamsburg · See site
- Williamsburg School of Music · Williamsburg · $50
- 92NY School of Music · Upper East Side · See site
- Crown Heights Music School · Crown Heights · See site
- Gowanus Music Club · Gowanus · See site
- Little Maestros · Upper East Side · See site
- Moozika Music Classes - Carroll Gardens · Carroll Gardens · Kids $470
- Music for Aardvarks - Upper West Side · Upper West Side · See site
- Noel Pointer Foundation Saturday Strings · Bedford-Stuyvesant · See site
- Tunes for Tykes · Williamsburg · Kids $15
Quick answers
How many music programs for kids are there in New York City?
LittleGotham lists 147 music programs for kids in New York City.
Are there free music programs for kids in New York City?
Yes. 9 of 147 are free to attend, including Willie Mae Rock Camp Music Lab, Bargemusic, Corona Youth Music Project.
What can kids do indoors in New York City on a rainy day?
141 listings are indoors, such as Bloomingdale School of Music, Greenwich House Music School, Kaufman Music Center.
Which boroughs have the most music programs?
Brooklyn (61), Manhattan (58), Queens (13).