Lessons in Your Home With Experienced and Friendly Teachers
Lessons in your home are ideal for the busy Houston family, and it’s our mission to make lessons as convenient as possible, so that you can fit music into your life! Our friendly and fun teachers use Suzuki and traditional methods for lessons with beginners, kids or adults. They are all active musicians in the Houston area and have degrees from the renowned music institutions in Texas and beyond. Teaching is an important part of their work, and they love sharing their talents with students of all ages.
When you contact us for lessons in your home, our music education specialists will help you find the perfect teacher for you or your child. We have assembled a fantastic team of teachers working all around Houston, dedicated to helping you meet you or your child’s musical goals.
“Aside from being convenient, the teachers I have met are warm and welcoming.”
When you sign up for lessons with City Strings & Piano, we find a time that consistently works for you and your teacher. Having a dependable lesson time greatly increases your child's success in their music lessons. We suggest the same for practice time. Our fastest progressing students tend to practice for smaller amounts of time, but nearly every day, and often at about the same time each day.
We pride ourselves on offering the personal touch that all the best music lessons have. You can contact your teacher directly at any time, and we encourage you to do so, especially if there is a questions about practice! Our team is always available to discuss your progress and loves to hear about how all our students are doing.
Scroll down to read about news from our Houston studio, meet our amazing team of teachers, and contact us to see how you can sign up!
Contact Us
Get started with music lessons near you in Houston. Use our form, email, or text to inquire. We'll learn about your musical objectives and connect you with a suitable teacher. Enjoy violin, viola, cello, or piano lessons in the comfort of your home.
Tuition for weekly lessons is $168, $244 or $319 per month for 30, 45 or 60 minute lessons. Additional time for longer lessons or lessons for siblings or parents is discounted 10%, reflected in the tuition amounts above.
Meet Our Teachers
Meet some of our amazing violin, viola, cello and piano teachers, below. Our team is full of experienced, friendly and fun teachers and performers available for great lessons in your home! Many are experienced Suzuki teachers as well, so be sure to ask about that when you contact us if you are interested in Suzuki lessons.
From an early age, Genevieve Gilbert has always had a keen interest in the arts. As a child in Lakewood, Ohio, Genevieve studied art, dance, theater, and singing. She also began private piano lessons, and soon took up the violin through her local public school program. Studying with many violin teachers varying in styles from classical to fiddle to blues, Genevieve was introduced to an alternative approach to music and violin that would forever influence her. At the same time, Genevieve sang in the Cleveland Orchestra Children’s Choir, played violin in the Lakewood Project (a pioneer High School Rock Orchestra directed by Dr. Elizabeth Hankins), Cleveland’s Contemporary Youth Orchestra (Directed by Liza Grossman), including performances with Mike Garson, Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo, and STYX.
After a year abroad in Taiwan as an International Rotary Ambassador, Genevieve continued her music education in Cleveland. Thanks to the city’s eclectic music scene and exceptional selection of professional musicians, Genevieve was fortunate to study with the award-winning Danish violinist Dr. Hanne-Berit Hahnemann. It was through Dr. Hahnemann’s musical wisdom and mentorship that Genevieve gained a complete appreciation for violin pedagogy and her artistic capabilities.
Genevieve has participated in master classes and orchestral studies at the Brevard Festival Summer Orchestral Program and Berklee’s String Fling in Boston, and has received private instruction from Takako Masame of the Cleveland Orchestra. Takako’s instruction, in thought-provoking detail, offered a clear vision of how Genevieve could combine her long and continuous list of musical influences from the classical, jazz, avant-garde, pop, and rock genres into her music making.
Genevieve has participated in Cleveland’s Thagaraja Festival held at Cleveland State University under the direction of Shashikiran Kn and Leo Coach. The Cleveland Thagaraja Festival is the largest Indian classical music festival outside of India. It was first celebrated in 1978 and has now grown to be a 12-day festival with more than 8,000 attendees with 2,000 appearing for the opening weekend.
Genevieve has a friendly, upbeat personality, and she teaches violin lessons to students as young as age three through adulthood.
Houston Violin Lessons
Violin Lessons are available to beginner, intermediate, or advanced students of all ages. Three, four, and five year-old beginners benefit greatly from the Suzuki Method, which was developed specifically for very young children. Six-year-olds and up can use either Suzuki or more traditional note-reading based methods to start their violin journey.
Violinists under the age of thirteen will need a fractional sized instrument, and we recommend renting as students will need a larger instrument every couple of years.
Featured Students
We love to share news about our students and tips from them to inspire them and others. It's always good to know what other students who take lessons in their home are doing. Enjoy news and practice tips from our students below.
Congratulations to Ella for discovering a new schedule that led to a huge improvement to her practice! Ella just started playing the violin in the winter and has been doing a wonderful job in her lessons. Finding the time to practice can be hard, though, when you are adding a whole new activity to your schedule. After trying several different approaches and strategies, we discovered that practicing in the morning before school was the best time for Ella and her family. If you can work it into your morning routine, it can be ideal for establishing a regular practice habit. Not only does it ensure that practice doesn't get pushed aside by other things that come up during the day, but it also allows your child to approach the violin with a fresh mind and spirit! Give it a try--we think it can lead to great results! Once Ella started practicing in the mornings, she began to learn all of her songs so much more quickly and is almost done with Twinkle. Her violin lessons have been even better and she is learning so much more. Congratulations to Ella! Keep waking up to practice every morning!
Houston, TX