09/21/2025
Learning an instrument as an adult reduces the risk of dementia! 🎶💪
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1KCK4Qj1KU/
Studies have revealed that learning to play an instrument as an adult can reduce your risk of dementia by a whopping 64%!
Learning music increases the brain’s ability to form new neural connections and reorganize existing ones, a property known as plasticity. It has been shown to increase gray matter volume in areas linked to high-level cognitive function.
The complex demands of playing an instrument improve various cognitive abilities, including memory, processing speed, verbal fluency, and attention.
Learning to play an instrument also develops cognitive reserve which refers to the brain’s ability to tolerate and compensate for changes caused by aging or disease. Engaging in music enriches this reserve allowing the brain to remain functional for longer despite potential brain changes.
Playing an instrument also engages a unique combination of sensory and motor systems. This multisensory, multicoordinate activity effectively exercises multiple brain regions simultaneously.
Music practice can also help reduce stress, anxiety and depression, which are all associated with increased dementia risk.
By keeping the brain actively engaged through the above mechanisms, learning to play an instrument is an incredible holistic way to significantly reduce your dementia risk!
PMID: 25544932
05/06/2025
Yes! Music lessons help develope the brain! 🎹🎶
01/07/2024
Please visit the 'About' page above! It's where you can learn more about what I offer as a vocal coach and piano teacher. Thank you! 🎶
08/09/2023
🎶 PIANO and/or VOICE LESSONS IN YOUR HOME on the UES! (Or mine! Virtual as well!)
20+ years experience teaching both piano and voice, and I have some openings! Please contact me for more info! To read more about me, my website address is below. Check 'about' on this page for contact info!🎶
Voice/Piano Lessons | steffanibennett
Welcome music lovers! I am a passionate teacher, singer, and musician based in NYC who loves sharing the incredible training I was fortunate to receive. I offer lessons both in your home and mine (UES)! My mission with every student I teach is to bring out their inner musician, tap into what brings...
07/25/2022
As a past winner, I was asked to contribute a blurb to this new book on songwriting. Very exciting! 🎶
(FYI, I teach music theory and 'songwriting' in addition to voice and piano!)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B5PLFGKX?utm_content=215675156&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&hss_channel=fbp-262844446590 #
12/23/2020
🎵Wishing you all a very happy holiday, and a peaceful, healthy New Year!
*I will be continuing virtual lessons, so you can contact me from anywhere in the US and Beyond! (I now have clients in California, Toronto, and Florida, in addition to NYC)🎵❄😊
08/29/2020
🎵I have been teaching virtually through this awful pandemic. Contact me for lessons on FaceTime or Zoom! Music is healing!🎵💜
03/19/2019
IT'S TRUE! Consider music lessons for your child!🎵
A child’s brain develops faster with exposure to music education
A study by researchers at the University of Southern California shows that exposure to music and music instruction accelerates the brain development of young children.
03/15/2019
Erin go bragh! I am heading back to Jax for a second Sunday with David Raleigh, to sing some standards and some traditional Irish tunes! 🎶☘️Please join us between noon and 3 pm!
03/15/2019
David and I are back singing this Sunday brunch at Jax BBQ! Please join us for St. Patrick's Day! We will be singing some songs from the old country!🎶💕☘️
Top of the mornin to ya! 🍀 Come celebrate St Patrick’s Day with green beer and bbq at David Raleigh's Rhythm & BBQ Sunday Brunch this Sunday 3/10 at JAX BBQ!
Steffani Bennett will be gifting us with songs from the “ole country” that her parents taught her and you gotta know her Irish eyes will be smilin!:-)
496 9th Avenue at 38th Street Seatings at 12 noon and 1:45pm 212.273.1168 Reservations