Welcome To ArtStars

I am looking forward to working with your young musician/s this year. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to share my love for the piano with your child. I am firmly convinced that exposure to music enriches our lives and develops and maintains mental capacity.

KEEPING IN TOUCH:

In order to facilitate communication, I would like to request that each student's family register on my website: www.artstars.biz. Select "Piano Lessons" from the home page. From there, select "Student Registration" and kindly provide the information requested. It will be automatically forwarded to me.

PRACTICE GUIDELINES:

I strongly advise short, frequent practice sessions over longer, infrequent times at the piano. I realize that students are juggling many activities, so if you can help your piano student find little blocks of time where he/she can review the piano pieces for the week, that will greatly enhance the piano progress. The goal is to return to piano class "well-practiced," so that I will not have to spend time reviewing and can go on to new music.

STUDIO POLICIES:

ArtStars is a tuition-based studio, not a payment per-class-studio. This means that the payment per month is the same, whether your child will have 3,4,or 5 lessons in a month depending on calendar variation. After many years of the "counting up lessons plan," I firmly feel that an equal tuition payment is a simpler system and it is in common use by most piano studios. The tuition covers 35 one-half hour lessons from September to June. Enclosed (under Schedule) is a calendar for you and your student to follow. The tuition payment is due at the first lesson of each month. Please write out your check to ArtStars. If the payment is not received by the 15th of each month, a $15 late fee will be added.

Please be advised that a class that is missed will not be made up. Also, every teaching slot is filled, so I kindly ask parents to not ask for a rescheduled time for a lesson that might conflict with another student activity. There simply are no other time slots available. If a conflict arises and you choose to not attend  a piano class, since I have allocated my time to that slot, no reimbursement will be given nor will it be rescheduled.

Make-up classes will be provided if I need to cancel a class, or if there is inclement weather. All snow days will be made up in the summer.

Spring recitals are planned for Sunday, May 17th and Sunday, June 14, 2009.

Again, thank you for the opportunity to work with your musician/s, and I wish you many joyful musical moments.

Mary Jane Cogan, M.Ed.

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