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Vance Music strives to develop skilled, creative, well-rounded, critical, and confident individuals through music education. We offer accordion lessons, cello lessons, clarinet lessons, double bass lessons, electric bass lessons, electric guitar lessons, electric violin lessons, flute lessons, guitar lessons, keyboard lessons, mandolin lessons, oboe lessons, organ lessons, piano lessons, saxophone
06/03/2026
🤩🎻🎹🎤 Students, Orchestra Day sign up is open! Please fill out the form by this Friday (participating or not) so our teaching staff can get music to participants ASAP! Visit our website events page for more details and the Google Sign-up Form.
06/02/2026
🤩🎹 Rex and Meghan had new piano students on Saturday! Welcome to Vance Music!
05/05/2026
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03/15/2026
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Music lessons “grow” a child’s brain by physically altering its structure and accelerating the maturation of neural pathways, particularly those responsible for sound processing, motor control and communication between the brain’s hemispheres. These changes are a result of neuroplasticity - the brain’s ability to reorganize itself in response to intensive multisensory and motor demands.
To elaborate, researchers using MRI scans has shown that even as little as 15 months of musical training can lead to visible structural changes in a young child’s brain:
🧠Corpus Callosum: The bridge of nerve fibers connecting the left and right hemispheres of the brain becomes larger and more robust. This enhances communication between different brain regions, improving overall coordination and problem-solving.
🧠Motor Cortex: Areas of the brain that control finger movements (the precentral gyrus) show greater relative size expansion, especially in children playing instruments like the piano or violin that require high manual dexterity.
🧠Auditory Cortex: Music training accelerates the development of the auditory pathway, helping the brain process sounds, pitches, and rhythms more accurately and efficiently.
The structural “growth” translates into several enhanced cognitive abilities, often referred to as “far transfer” skills. Because music and language share similar neural pathways, music lessons can speed up language acquisition, reading skills, and the ability to detect subtle differences in speech.
Learning to play an instrument is a “full body workout” for the brain that strengthens working memory (holding and manipulating information) and increases the attention span. The pattern recognition, counting, and understanding of fractions (rhythm/meter) involved in music are directly transferable to mathematical problem-solving. Music training also improves the brain’s ability to plan, organize and complete tasks.
These neural enhances are most profound when training begins during “sensitive periods” (typically before age 7), but they can provide lifelong benefits.
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02/07/2026
Best of luck to our student performing in the KSHSAA Regional Piano Festival today!
02/04/2026
🥳Save the dates: 2026 monthly recital dates are here!
02/03/2026
Policies, Pricing, & Dates - https://mailchi.mp/a4a6de2a44bd/2026pricing
❄️🎹❄️Attention Middle School & High School Pianists:
The Wichita State University Middle School & High School Piano Festival has been rescheduled to January 31st & February 1st. Check out our website post (link in comments) for more information:
01/23/2026
❄️🎹❄️Attention Middle School & High School Pianists:
The Wichita State University Middle School & High School Piano Festival has been rescheduled to January 31st & February 1st.
Please watch the VM website for a post coming soon with further details. For now, here are some basic notes on schedules & room assignments:
🕐Schedules will remain the same. Students who have schedule conflicts will submit a video for their comments and rating. There are requirements for video submissions, so please wait to review the upcoming website post before recording.
🚪Room assignments have had some adjustments:
Saturday students will remain in their assigned rooms. Sunday high school students will perform in C-107. Sunday middle school students will perform in C-116.
01/22/2026
❄️❄️Winter Weather options for Vance Music Students ❄️❄️
If you're scheduled Friday or Saturday this week and you believe weather conditions will be unsafe to come in, please remember you are welcome to reschedule to another day or take your lesson online at no additional cost. Please email Marissa ([email protected]) at your earliest convenience if you are interested in either of these options so she has time to make arrangements for you.