World Champion Musician • Master Teacher • Best Selling Author
2X TEDx Speaker • Entrepreneur • Keynote Speaker
Let me be the first to welcome you to the Bartell Music Academy.
Since 2003 we have helped hundreds of students begin and continue on their musical journey.
We offer a variety of options from band experience, variety of performance opportunities in addition to online and in person private music lessons on piano, accordion, violin, ukulele, voice, bass, guitar and drums. – All in one location!
While you are here researching the best school for you or your child, please consider the 10 benefits of becoming a student of Bartell Music Academy and find out why the Academy is the best choice for your family.
Patricia Bartell
CEO and Owner
Private Music Lessons for beginners are 30 minutes long, once a week, at the same time each week. Music lessons are prepaid for a month at a time. You can cancel anytime within that same month. No long contracts. Music lessons are month-to-month.
During lessons, students are given small milestones to reach and celebrate along the way. These milestones give them achievable wins that keep them going and encourage their progress. If students don’t prioritize what needs to be done and create those small goals to reach and celebrate on the journey to the big goal, they lose interest in music. Our Repertoire Challenge is one of the tools we use to help them set goals and celebrate their wins! We love teaching students the value of prioritizing and giving them the milestones to hit until they can choose and plan out their own milestones and reach them successfully. It’s those small wins, strategically planned and executed, that motivate them to keep going; but more importantly, celebrating who they become in the process of achieving those set goals.
Each year, Bartell Music Academy offers two recitals that are optional and free for students and their families. One recital is in July and one during the winter. The biggest event of the year is our Winter Gala Recital, held in December at the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox. This fun event is FREE to students, parents and friends.
Once-a-month, all of our students are invited to join our themed Talent Shows via ZOOM!
Our quarterly Academy Talent Show opens up opportunities for students to play for each other and support each other.
In addition, they learn tips and tricks about dealing with performance nerves straight from our director, Patricia Bartell, who is an award-winning international artist and has performed around the globe both as a soloist and with many well-known classical artists and symphonies.
Every student receives their own personalized Student Music Journal as a student of Bartell Music Academy.
Their teacher will fill their music journal with assignment sheets, sheet music and other extra-curricular resources such as rhythm and sight reading material that will help them along their musical journey.
And as a parent you will always know what your child is supposed to be practicing every week!
Once students reach a basic knowledge of their instrument, they are invited to join one of the Bartell Music Academy Bands.
They learn to play music together, make friends, and even produce their own music videos!
Each band has their own unique name and style of music they choose together with their band teacher.
We understand that as much as students love starting music in the beginning, having their own friends along the music journey is really fun, encouraging, and helps keep them playing music for the long term.
Weekly, half-hour Private Lessons with one of our amazing instructors! (In person or via Zoom)
Student Music Journal
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“Great people, sincerely involved in spreading joy through the music.” – Sally Hetland
Free Parking Lot and Free Street Parking Available
LEARN TO PLAY
Piano Lessons
Guitar Lessons
Violin Lessons
Drum Lessons
Accordion Lessons
Voice Lessons
Ukulele Lessons
Bass Lessons
MUSIC PROGRAMS
Private Music Lessons
Online ZOOM Lessons
LOCATION
Bartell Music Academy
418 E Pacific Ave
Spokane WA 99202
(509) 251-2743