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What are your dreams for your children?
Intelligence? A well-rounded personality?
Kind hearts?

Research proves that you can increase your children’s intelligence by introducing them to classical music early in life.

FACT: 95% of a child’s brain development takes place before age 4.
FACT: A child’s brain works on a “use it or lose it” principle. It discards synapses not used or stimulated early in life.
FACT: There is a huge increase in synapses during the first year of life, but the window of opportunity when the child’s brain is like a super sponge, soaking up new information more readily, extends throughout childhood.

…all good reasons to introduce your children to classical music as early as possible.

Musical Environments is a music and art school for children from prenatal babies to age 10 based on holistic educational approach with an emphasis on classical music.

Musical Environments has created an alternative musical atmosphere where children grow into classical music so that they can unfold their full potential. Here your children enter a soothing environment far from noise, electronic games and media. Instead, they enjoy a combination of creative arts and playful activities while being exposed to classical music. The Musical Environments’ curriculum is a child’s dream come true! At the same time this holistic approach

  • Stimulates their brain development
  • Instills in them a love for classical music and fine arts
  • Inspires their imagination and nurtures curiosity for learning
  • Improves their ability to solve spatial problems (The Mozart Effect)
  • Lays a foundation for them to unfold their talents and be the best they can be
  • Increases their potential to process and remember information they were exposed to while listening to classical music
  • Transforms them into well-rounded individuals.

Read more research on brain development; find out about The Mozart Effect.

Tanya’s unique approach to musical education

Not all classical music is appropriate for young children and babies. Tanya Irwin, founder of Musical Environments, is a classically trained musicologist (from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Ekaterinburg, Russia); she understands the effects of different types of classical music on a child’s brain; she surrounds your children with music that connects them to their hearts and brings more richness and beauty to their lives. With Musical Environments, Tanya introduces her unique approach to early childhood music education to Santa Barbara.

Click here to read Tanya’s story of growing up immersed in a rich cultural and musical heritage where everyone knows how classical music affects our soul, mind and spirit.

Take this positive step in your children’s development

Imagine your sense of warm satisfaction when you know you’ve given your children the very best opportunities for learning and growth, during the period when their brains are most open to absorb information that will affect their whole lives.

When is the best time to begin? As early as possible, even while your child is still in the womb.

Call (805) 280-1072 to sign up for a class or to schedule a visit to the only school in Santa Barbara that offers this transformational musical education for children from prenatal babies to age 10.

New students get 10% off the first session… and we offer discounts for siblings too.
Prenatal babies are free!

















Musical Environments®
is a musical oasis for children
where they learn to appreciate
classical music while engaging
in creative activities...



"Music is a more potent instrument than any other form of education. Children should be taught music before anything"

Plato



"... Before beginning to learn an instrument, the learner, whether a child, adolescent or adult, should already be spiritually in possession of some music; he should, so to speak, carry it in his mind, keep it in his heart and hear it with his mind’s ear. The whole secret of talent and of genius is that in the case of a person so gifted, music lives a full life in his brain before he even touches a keyboard or draws a bow across the strings. That is why Mozart as a small child could “at once” play the piano and the violin."

Heinrich Neuhaus



"The secret of all man's progress is the love of his environment"

Dr. Mario Montessori



"The sense of hearing connects with the heart, and music and sound touch us most directly"

Katharine Le Mee



For schedule and fees contact Tanya Irwin
Santa Barbara, CA
805.280.1072
tanya@musicalenvironments.org

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Tanya's Piano Studio