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Transform Your Passion Into Proficiency
Enroll in the best online music classes available—offered by Interlochen’s world-class faculty—and significantly improve your musical skills.
No matter your instrument or musical background, Interlochen offers music courses online that can help you develop your music performance skills and expand your capacity to create music. For nearly 100 years, Interlochen has served as the national leader in music education for young artists. In recent years, faculty have added virtual music courses to extend Interlochen’s premier music training to children, teens, and now adults everywhere—helping them grow in their musical pursuits and increase their proficiency. Interlochen Online provides students around the globe with online music classes in instrumental and vocal performance, music theory, composition, production, and songwriting.
Master Your Instrument and Musicianship from Home
Interlochen offers you unique access to excellent training with premier music faculty—all hosted digitally and enabling you to learn in the comfort of your own home. Realizing that not all students are able to study at Interlochen Arts Academy (our internationally renowned boarding school) or attend Interlochen Arts Camp in the summer, our instructors are now providing the same exceptional music classes online for teens and adults.
Four-week online music classes are offered for teens and adults who want to learn in a small group, discussing music with the instructor and classmates in online chats and practicing and completing projects individually during the week. Optional one-hour live class meetings enable students to learn from a professional faculty member, meet a community of fellow musicians, and solicit feedback on their skills. If you miss a class, the meetings are recorded for you to watch later at your convenience.
Each course includes a mix of video segments, guided learning, hands-on activities, and discussion with fellow students. Within four weeks, each student prepares a performance or completes an artistic project, like a new song or polished mix. Personalized, constructive feedback is also provided to each student by the professional faculty leading the course.
Online music certificate programs provide an opportunity to earn an Interlochen credential. Certificate programs are a package of three courses in your musical speciality. Teens and adults are using these certificates to help stand out on résumés, college applications, and their LinkedIn profiles. For teenagers, this is also an engaging way to earn high school credit if they successfully complete their studies. The certificate programs are accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS), the same body that accredits Interlochen Arts Academy.
Private online music lessons through Interlochen are another way for children, teens, and adults to advance their abilities as an artist without traveling to meet with a music teacher. Students log on for 50 minutes of individualized instruction each week, led by a premier musician who specializes in their instrument or musical specialty. Lessons are tailored to the age, experience, and interest of the student and are coordinated to accommodate each student’s schedule.
A Virtual Music Community
Interlochen’s online music courses include a huge variety of instrumental, vocal, theory, and composition options, with sessions for teens and adults. Students enrolled in Interlochen Online courses get the chance to meet others from around the world who share their passion for music and are growing in their musical understanding and skill. Discussions and friendship with fellow musicians form a significant part of the Interlochen Online music course experience, and students benefit from the sense of community they experience digitally as they study music online with their new friends and potential future collaborators.
Expert-Led Online Courses
Interlochen’s faculty are known worldwide as expert educators, professional musicians, and experienced mentors. Each teacher has a deep understanding of music training—from initial lessons to proficiency—and even though Interlochen Online music classes are not experienced in person, our faculty work meticulously to coach each student as directly and individually as possible on their journey of learning music. A huge part of Interlochen’s outstanding reputation is the high-caliber faculty who teach the online music courses and guide students in their growth as musicians.
From Beginners to Virtuosos: Elevate Your Skills
Whether you’re a musical novice or an experienced artist wanting to polish your talent through the teaching of a professional musician, Interlochen’s online music courses, certificate programs, and private lessons can adapt to meet your interests and skill level. Interlochen’s music courses are known around the world as the best online music opportunities available for all artists.
Students can enroll in courses focused on any of the following musical instruments or topics.
- music theory
- composition
- music production
- songwriting
- piano
- guitar
- voice
- ukulele
- strings
- percussion
- woodwinds
- brass
Check out our online music classes. With world-class faculty, excellent music instruction, and a flexible digital class format, Interlochen allows you to enjoy the best online music programs available.
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