The teachers here are great and so is the student service desk! The teachers are really good at zoning in on the details and little mistakes I make on my playing and give really detailed and helpful advice! Student services also gets my lessons to me in an orderly manner when I want them. Hence, this school is great for people of all ages and skill levels to attend!

Top notch school of music instruction for all ages

MacPhail is a Minnesota treasure. The people who work, teach, learn and perform here are part of the heart and soul of Minnesota music culture. They are paid pittance but give all they have. They truly love music. I have followed its fortunes while attending events for over 10 years. Drop in sometime you will not be disappointed!

MacPhail is committed to the Community of Apple Valley. Music matters in our lives and music is alive in Apple Valley, having our newly expanded MacPhail Center for Music! There is easy access to the center which is right on Cedar Avenue. Find your happiness and experience how you can enrich your life, through music !

It should have a full house, great performers!

Ive been going to MacPhail before they constructed the new building. Beautiful architecture and wonderful teachers. Definitely recommend it. You can also get room keys just to practice!

Teachers were great. Awesome place

Love this school! I have two kids involved in two different programs at two different locations -- Minneapolis and Apple Valley. Both are first rate, staffed by fantastic, experienced teachers. MacPhail is the gold standard.

Take the sing, play, learn class! It was so much fun! (even with my 3 month old baby)

Amazing children’s classes. Very well planned and executed.

My son is currently signed up for weekly music therapy and I would like to remove him. I was given an email address to cancel his future visits but it was non existent . We have heard wonderful things about macphail music therapy helping kids with ASD Communicate through music , and when I signed our son up thats exactly what we were looking for. Someone to sing songs with him so that he could learn colors, the alphabet, body parts etc. our first visit I was already disappointed but I thought Id give it another shot. The disappointment came from the teacher having a very strong accent that was hard for me to understand let alone my child who needs to learn how to communicate. Also, on the second visit she asked what my goals were. Which are for my son to be happy and learn how to communicate some more through music . After describing our needs several times , the teacher only seemed interested in teaching our son what piano keys to press to play a song (keys had different colors) . Our son needs to learn his colors and how to complete a functional sentence before we want to even consider piano lessons. She also tried to teach him guitar chords and bell notes. I see how this would be a good program for children who are looking to learn to play musical instruments but that is it. I disagree wholeheartedly that this program is considered therapeutic or could ever help with children who have special needs, I feel upset knowing that I owe this business over $100 dollars because of how wrongly music therapy was advertised. ( The visits are $60 for one thirty minute session each week). The first visit , consisted of the teacher looking up songs on YouTube (which were bizarre Disney cover songs that I had never heard and trust me I can sing every word to frozen lion king and moana songs ) to add to a playlist that was never used, and letting us go about 10 minutes early because my son was upset . $60 for twenty minutes of the teacher looking at a screen and my son crying to leave.

Beautiful building and great family concerts

Wonderful people

Its good

Great music therapy

Wonderful place

Awesome

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