The Avila Music School is a a quality music school in Thunder Bay. We are a not-for-profit registered charitable organization that promotes music education. It embodies a co-operative of outstanding musician / teachers who, for a nominal monthly fee, rent studio space from the Avila Music School. Each teacher has his/her own students and fee structure and contracts with the student/parent for payment of those fees in exchange for music lessons. Our reputation as “Avila” that began in 1967 continues.

Avila is a music school that focuses on private lessons for people of almost all ages. Most children begin weekly lessons after the age five, when basic literacy skills of reading, left to right directionality and some social/emotional maturity has been established. Alternately, people return to lessons as an adult simply for pleasure. We often hear of the regret, “Why did my parents let me quit lessons when I was a kid?” Still others, older adults, enjoy the companionship of learning with others and sharing their playing of familiar pieces, such as duets, with our teachers or students or their own family. We have all read of the benefits of music for the brain; it is well documented that learning a new language or learning an instrument creates and maintains valuable brain pathways. The expectation is that a student remains with their teacher for the school year (September to June). more... See more text