Our instructors have extensive experience teaching music to all ages and ability levels. We can tailor a program for your individual or school needs and budget.

Our classes offered include: guitar, piano, general music, and choir.

We have the most innovative, portable, piano lab in Las Vegas. We use traditional methods combined with "The Portable Piano Wizard Lab". We can come to you with a unique system for teaching music reading and piano playing at the same time. In record time, ages 3-adult, using the Piano Wizard "game", have learned to read music in record time (as little as 15 minutes). It's like a combination of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, but for the piano, and taking the player so much further, to actually playing the piano while reading sheet music!

To our friends teaching music at CCSD or private schools in Las Vegas:

Dear Music Directors,

Now that summer's here, I’m sure you’re enjoying a well-deserved, restful summer. If I know some of you, however, you are planning your calendar for 2009-2010 already. As a former band and orchestra teacher for several years in Florida, Georgia, and Las Vegas, and as a hornist in the USAF Band in Boston and the Disneyland Band, I’ve experienced first-hand many of the challenges that you are going through. That’s why I started Ensemble Arts Academy and School Music Source. I would like to offer you my support and services. Here are some of the services we offer.

1.    Instrument Rentals: Free for the first month. In searching for the best supplier, one with the best quality, value, and brand names, we became an affiliate of Veritas Instrument Rental (VIR). This year I've been very happy with the instruments and service. I would like to be included in your instrument rental night in the fall. If you don’t have an instrument rental night I will bring flyers for your students when school starts. I’m also looking for some extra help during the instrument rental season. It’s a great way for you or someone you know to make some extra money and share your expertise. Our goal is to be the first choice of band and orchestra teachers for instrument rentals.

2.    Instrument Repair: Our band instrument repair technician, Rebecca Nolan, is a graduate of the band instrument repair (BIR) program at Minnesota State College-Southeast Technical (Red Wing). She gets rave reviews from our teachers and customers. We can pick-up instruments from your school or you can bring them to us. Our prices are very competitive, but more importantly the repairs are done right guaranteed.

3.    Recruiting & Retention: I have studied with and read texts by some of the best music directors in the country (i.e. Ray Cramer, IU) and have discovered several secrets that improve recruiting, instrumentation, and retention. I’m more than happy to share these secrets with you. After all, your success is our success.

4.    Sheet Music: Our online sheet music shop is comprehensive and competitively priced. Order today and have your music delivered within days, often at deep discounts. Please shop online by visiting: www.SchoolMusicSource.com

5.    Ensembles and Lessons: Our vision at Ensemble Arts Academy is to offer a music learning experience that is exciting, unique, and high quality. We offer lessons for all ages, all instruments and voice, and our professional teachers are university-trained musicians and performers. We will soon be auditioning students for membership in various ensembles, including brass quintet, woodwind quintet, string quartet, jazz ensemble, percussion ensemble, and rock ensembles. Students who win membership in the top ensemble will have their tuition covered for one semester, will rehearse weekly, and will be the musical ambassadors for the academy. I am available for French horn lessons and I offer limited free sectionals for your horns or brass. I have studied the horn with several of the best instructors in the world, including Eric Ruske, Michael Hatfield, and William Robinson. One of my former students, Chris Castellanos, is in the Dallas Brass.

Sincerely,

Claude Borders

4040 N Tenaya Way

Las Vegas NV 89129

(Next to the Dairy Queen, at the NE corner of W Alexander Rd and N Tenaya Way)

Phone (702) 388-0014