Best Music Schools in Irvine

Glee Music Academy is a music school based in Lake Forest that specializes in singing classes (Pre-Glee and Glee Club) for grades K-8. Established in 2014, the school uses pop music as its repertoire to train its choir performing groups to make the glee experience fun and educational. The school also provides private lessons for children and adults in piano, voice, and guitar. Additionally, it offers professional advice to create the perfect plan for its students to realize their music goals. The school strives to build up the confidence of its students and help them become talented musicians. Glee Music Academy is a family business.

The Irvine School of Music started out as a private piano studio in 2004 and has grown to become a music school that offers a comprehensive array of private and group music lessons to accommodate students of all ages, levels, and interests. Its programs include all the major instruments and a variety of dynamic enrichment opportunities, including piano lessons (classical and jazz), voice lessons, guitar classes, violin lessons, drum lessons, saxophone lessons, clarinet lessons, flute lessons, songwriting, composition, and music theory lessons. The Irvine School of Music also offers the following group music lessons: children's choir, teen choir, adult choir, guitar, violin ensemble, songwriting workshop, and theory/ear training class.

Mosaic Music is a community music school in Orange County that was established by Juilliard-trained director Rhys Buchele in 2006. It provides a variety of private music classes for learning guitar, piano, violin, viola, cello, voice, ukulele, flute, clarinet, saxophone, and music theory. Each of its music instructors has been carefully selected for their credentials, personality, and level of personal commitment to their students. The teachers can customize the level of difficulty of the lessons to match each student’s current learning level. Mosaic Music has large, comfortable studios equipped with cutting-edge music technology. It offers students instant take-home videos and CD-quality recordings of their lessons so learning and practicing at home can be made easier.

The Music Vault Academy is the only school in Orange County that provides comprehensive learning services, from playing an instrument and performing in bands, to album recording, production, and marketing. It offers various private lessons, group classes, workshops, and clinics to students of all ages and skill levels. Music lessons are customized to the needs of each music student and incorporate the music style that the student wants to play, be it classical, rock, jazz, country or pop. It provides music instruction for the following: piano, guitar, voice, drums, violin, cello, saxophone, harp, DJ-ing, and music production. Students are encouraged to participate in bands or ensembles and perform in recitals and jam sessions to develop their team-playing skills.

Orange County Music School offers comprehensive instruction in both theory and practice to people of all ages, from small children to senior citizens, and skill levels, from beginner, intermediate to advanced music students. Its programs encompass basic music theory, piano, percussion, keyboards, vocals, violin, guitar, and forming a band and playing rock music. The Tustin-based school holds recitals and concerts at least twice a year to provide students with confidence-building performance experience. Orange County Music School also offers private lessons, including private lessons from an Academy teacher right in the student’s own home, as well as online music lessons via Skype. The school extends one free introductory lesson per family.

Founded in 2004, the Van Tuyl Music Academy is the original school of rock, pop, blues, jazz, electronic dance music, musical theater, metal, funk, modern music and performance-based education. It offers quality music lessons to kids, teens, and adults who are living in Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, and Orange County. Its talented music instructors specialize in voice and singing lessons, guitar lessons, piano and keyboard lessons, bass guitar lessons, drum lessons, DJ lessons, music theory lessons, and rock band classes. By 2017, the Van Tuyl Music Academy not only operates as a music performance academy, but it is also a professional entertainment company and a music video production studio.

WePlay Music is an Irvine-based music school that caters to toddlers as young as 18 months to kids and adults ages 6 and above. The institution offers individual and semi-individual classes covering string instruments, woodwind instruments, percussion instruments as well as voice and music theory. Aside from this, the school also offers preschool music classes that focus on the development of a child's memory skills, motor skills, critical thinking skills, and bilateral coordination.