Inspiring Minds and Enriching our Community through Music Education Since 1914
Neighborhood Music School was founded in 1914 as a Settlement House created to provide music and English instruction to the immigrant communities who had settled in Boyle Heights.
We are proud to be a community music school that focuses on the unique development of each student at every phase of their individual journey.
NMS strives to connect our students, teaching artists, and community with the vast cultural, creative, and generative opportunities that the Los Angeles landscape has to offer.
Lessons at NMS are open to students of all ages and experience levels.
At Neighborhood Music School, music education is about more than learning an instrument. It’s about creating a place where students feel supported, challenged, and inspired as they develop their own relationship with music.
Our professional teaching artists bring their experience as musicians and educators into every lesson, providing thoughtful mentorship that meets students wherever they are in their musical journey.
From a student discovering an instrument for the first time to an experienced musician continuing to grow, NMS provides opportunities to learn, perform, connect, and create.
For more than a century, generations of students and families have made NMS their artistic home - and we continue to build on that tradition by making meaningful music education an accessible and welcoming part of our community.
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