These businesses were voted the Best Music Classes in the Bay Area in Bay Area Parent’s 2024 Best of the Best reader poll. Read the full list of winners here.
East Bay
Gold: East Bay Music Together. Provides children’s music classes at locations throughout the East Bay, Head Start centers, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland and a residential treatment/incarceration facility for women and children. Multiple locations. eastbaymusictogether.yourvirtuoso.com.
Silver: Bay Area Academy of Music. Pleasanton. bayareaacademyofmusic.com.
Bronze: Starland School of Music. Alameda. starlandmusic.com.
Peninsula
Gold: Murphy Music Camps. Award-winning professional musical staff offers quality instruction while providing a fun, dynamic and creative environment. San Mateo. murphymusiccamps.com.
Silver: Voena Professional Children’s Choir. Redwood City. voena.org.
Bronze: Music Together Little Musicians. San Carlos and Redwood City. littlemusicians.net.
San Francisco/Marin
Gold: Mini Music. Created especially for infants, toddlers and kids up to age 5, along with parents or caregivers, the program includes singing, playing musical instruments, rhythmic movement and dance. Corte Madera, Greenbrae and Sebastapol. minimusictime.com.
Silver: In Harmony Music. Multiple locations. inharmonymusic.com.
Bronze: San Francisco Music Together. San Francisco. sfmusictogether.com.
Silicon Valley
Gold: San Jose School of Music. Offers private lessons for voice, piano, guitar, drums, strings and more. San Jose. sanjoseschoolofmusic.com.
Silver: The Music Place. Multiple locations. musicplace.com.
Bronze: Willow Glen Music School. San Jose. willowglenmusicschool.com.