There are so many proven long term benefits to your child's participation in a quality music education!
Confidence
Effective Communication
Analytical Reasoning
Problem Solving
Creativity
Accountability
Perseverance
Ingenuity
Flexibility and adaptability
Texas All-State musicians have consistently scored on average 24% higher than the national average and about 29% higher than the Texas average!
Of all the Texas All State Bands, Choirs, and Orchestras...the STRING Orchestra (as opposed to a full symphony with brass, woodwinds, and percussion in addition to the string sections) had the HIGHEST average (without all those band kids to bring down the average!).
"Musical activity involves nearly every region of the brain that we know about, and nearly every neural subsystem." Daniel Levitin, This is Your Brain on Music, p. 299