TICKET PURCHASING: Get Tickets Buy Online (link above) Select your showtime, there will be a service charge at checkout Cash or Check at studio (exact change please) SHOWTIMES: Find the performer name in the show lists below. (This is participant list ONLY, not program order) String players should [...]

It's out first time at the Lakewood Ranch Waterside Farmers Market and we couldn't be more excited! To make it easy, this page will cover everything you need to know for your performance day. If for any reason you have another question not answered here, please email info@elizabethfarrellmusic.com or [...]

Mozart, Madonna or Eminem: Whatever your taste, music may help you recover from a surgery, according to a new review of data on the subject. “More than 51 million operations are performed every year in the U.S.,” lead author Dr. Catherine Meads, of Brunel University in the United Kingdom, [...]

Teachers have long observed the effect that music education can have on students, but recent research is showing just how integral learning a musical instrument is to a child’s development. Using the most advanced brain analysis technology, Dr. Nina Kraus from Northwestern University has been able to show precisely [...]

Here are a few things to think about when you are trying to get the most out of your practice time. Find somewhere quiet. This seems too obvious for words, but not only will you be far less likely to succumb to all sorts of distractions, but entering a [...]

Join award-winning American conductor Michael Tilson Thomas in his brilliant presentation on music and emotion.

I used to think choir singing was only was for nerds and church people. Since I was neither, I never considered singing in a group—even though I loved singing by myself. Then, in my 20s, I found myself facing a big, black hole of depression. I remembered how much [...]

Have colds and the flu become an inevitable part of your winter holidays? Sneak these easy disease-fighting habits into your life to help stop sickness in it’s tracks. 1. Sneeze and Cough into Your Arm or a Tissue Whoever taught us to cover our mouths when we cough or [...]

Here you’ll find all the information you’ll need for the 2015 Festival! The link below will give you all the basic information, dates, fees etc.: Festival Information: 2015 But that’s not all – Below are more resources you’ll find helpful! There is a composition competition where students [...]

Principle no. 1: there are no short cuts Let me say that again; there are no short cuts. Now there’s a part of you that knows its true, but there’s another part of you that thinks ‘but I’ll be different, I’ll find a quicker way. You won’t, and it’ll [...]