Lawrenceville-Suwanee School of Music

My 10 year old daughter attended the week long Music and Arts camp this past June. She had such a great time and still talks about it. She loved experiencing the variety of fine arts offered. Learning about the drums quickly became her favorite instrument. Then later in the week she enjoyed the drawing and painting. The classes were well organized and I highly recommend the Lawrenceville-Suwanee School of Music and Arts. Miss Valencia is great, and your kids will love it.
5 8 years ago (27-08-2017)

This is the Best music school in gwinnett county if not the state. They work really hard encouraging our children to shine in their abilities. The glow party was an Amazing way to encourage everyone to continue to strive for greatness. THANK YOU! ❤🏆💯
5 8 years ago (25-08-2017)

The teachers are Awesome! My daughter has been going here for years, she enjoys her teach so much, they truly teach the kids a love of music.
5 8 years ago (30-08-2017)

I vacillated for a while on whether or not to leave the feedback for this place that is warranted, but after months of mulling it over, I know it is the right thing to do. This is where my child learned how to play the violin. Initially, the teacher wanted me to be present during the lesson in order to guide her and be involved with her learning how to play it, despite my complete lack of knowledge or experience with it. That proved only to hold her back, since I do not know how to play the instrument and despite the teacher showing me what to correct my child on. I made it clear with the teacher that my involvement was only holding her back and that my obligation was ensuring she practiced, getting her to the lessons on time, and paying for the lessons. Once I stepped out of it and made it between her and her teacher, my child flourished in playing. When she was given her song to play for the recital, she was barely moving through the book and progressing forward. She practiced Twinkle Twinkle Little Star from June-July until the recital in December, and she hardly worked on much more than that. That was issue #1. Issue #2 was I let the office receptionist know in advance that we would be gone for 2 different weeks during the summer for family vacations, and she assured me that my child would be able to make up those lessons, privately. Every time I brought making those 2 lessons up, I was assured they would be made up by such-n-such a time. I figured once the summer break was over with and school started back up, making up those lessons would be a great challenge since the teacher's schedule was full, and there was a student right after mine. I had been told they would be made up before the December recital. I realized in early December, 5 months after the fact and bringing it up at least twice, that wasn't happening. I called and spoke with the owner who seemed to be very caught off-guard and nervous about this. She insisted on meeting with me in person, so I did. When we met, instead of being apologetic for the way things had gone and simply correcting them, she was defensive. and the meeting lasted 45 minutes, and I was still confused. She defended the parental involvement approach that I suspect comes from her (and not the teachers), when I had not even brought that up with her. She agreed to allow my child to have her lessons extended 15 minutes to make up one of the lessons and she would have a group lesson to make up the other lesson. Apparently, the group lesson was their make-up policy that I had signed off on, but I did not have a copy for myself to refer to, which would have rectified all of that. I have no idea why the receptionist did not just set my child up for the group make-up to begin with, but that was never mentioned at all by her. The group make-up ended up being canceled due to weather, and no make-up day for that make-up day was issued by the studio. The teacher was out sick for another lesson, and their solution was to give her a lesson 2 days after her regularly assigned lesson, which is useless since there would be very little progression in skills in practicing for 1 day in between. All of this could have easily been rectified from the very beginning with the summer make-up lessons by crediting our account OR informing us about the group make-up lesson, which obviously did not happen. Between the lack of make-ups and the confusion about it when there should have been none, the defensive, hostile attitude of the owner in place of simply making things right and the nagging feeling that they were holding my child back led me to pull her from here, and it was the right thing to do, because she has flourished and progressed. She is eligible and is strongly encouraged to play in the orchestra. For her last recital, she practiced the song for 2 weeks, and she did a fantastic job. The owner did refund us for all of the missed lessons, but it is a shame she just did not do that to begin with. The teacher here was good, and I strongly suspect she was simply following the protocol of the owner.
2 8 years ago (29-07-2017)

My daughter has been attending Lawrenceville-Suwanee School of Music for over a year now and I could not be more impressed. Ms. Giles, Mr. Ozzie and the staff are absolutely amazing towards the students. I personally see a difference in my childs' performances... She truly loves playing the piano. Thank you Ms. Giles and staff for everything!
5 8 years ago (25-04-2017)