Left of centre: A Yamaha teacher engages a whole primary school in an interactive music presentation

Right of centre: Yamaha Music Point students performing at a local concert

Right: A Yamaha teacher caught in action teaching a guitar class

Yamaha Schools in the UK

Yamaha Music School

Yamaha Music School (YMS) is central to Yamaha's global strategy for music education. Its courses and teaching system were first introduced in the 1950s by the Yamaha Music Foundation and have evolved since then to reflect the best of new pedagogical thinking, while never compromising on quality.

YMSs are run by private operators and focus on the Music Foundation's acclaimed Junior Music Courses (JMC), starting with four-year-old beginners. YMS - now found all over the world, including the UK - has championed the ears-before-eyes learning approach, which is as natural as the way we all learned to speak and which is a central tenet of the core Yamaha Music Education System.

JMC teachers receive a high level of professional development from our key instructors, who themselves take part in regular shared European seminars, to ensure the highest standards of teaching and learning.

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Pictured here: Junior Music School key instructors from all over Europe taking part in a JMC seminar in France

Yamaha Music Point

Yamaha Music Point (YMP) is Yamaha's music school brand with a focus more on our popular music courses. In the UK this includes keyboard (Play For Keeps & Junior Play For Keeps courses), guitar, drums and vocals. The Yamaha lessons they provide are designed to be fun but, at the same time, take students as far as they wish to go, towards the highest levels of musicianship.

Yamaha UK's partnerships with Trinity-Guildhall and with Rockschool examination boards have enabled us to develop bespoke examinations for our students, based on their Yamaha course materials, which lead to recognised UK qualifications and the associated UCAS points necessary for those applying for full-time courses at UK higher education institutions. The UK's YMP community teaches around 8,000 students every week, aged from around six years to well into retirement.

To find out more about Yamaha schools and their courses, go the the main Yamaha UK site.

Enrol in a Yamaha school

We have Yamaha schools across the world. Use the UK postcode search facility to choose the course you're interested in - for yourself or your children - and find your nearest Yamaha school in the UK which offers it.

Open a Yamaha school

Would you like to open a Yamaha school? To find out more, contact Nigel Burrows, music school manager, Yamaha UK.