View the winning videos from our Hal Leonard Guitar Play-Along Contest – CLICK HERE!
Check out the image below to see our 1st Place Winner, Owen Hiber, and his family with the brand new ESP-LTD EC-1000 Electric Guitar!
(L to R) Connie, Egan, Matt, & Owen Hiber
Another excited young guitarist, 4th Place Winner Ben Elofson (below) displays his prizes!!
Join us for a night of live music featuring students performing with Hal Leonard’s Band & Orchestra Play-Along books. You’ll hear some popular tunes, and get to know these great learning tools from Hal Leonard.
Thursday, May 31 from 6:00 – 8:00pm – Schmitt Music Minnetonka
Hal Leonard Play-Along books help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the notes, listen to the CD to hear how the instrument should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks.
Keep your students playing this summer with fun, educational Hal Leonard Play-Along books! You’ll find huge discounts on all Play-Along books, and special pricing on select print music and accessories during this event! Plus, when you buy a Hal Leonard Play-Along book during the event you’ll be entered in a raffle to win lessons or a Schmitt Music Gift Card.
Members of the Minnesota Concert Opera, Jonathan Ten Brink and Wei Zheng, will perform at Schmitt Music Brooklyn Center. This FREE performance will include an hour of opera arias!
Thursday, May 17 from 7:00 – 8:00pm
Internationally known pianist Mary Dibbern will be performing on piano alongside Jonathan and Wei.
Please RSVP to this event here or call 763-566-4560.
Come join us for an exciting evening of singing at Schmitt Music Brooklyn Center on Thursday, May 3rd at 6:30pm with singer, actress and professor of voice, Wendy Zaro.
Thursday, May 3 from 6:30 – 8:30pm
The television program “Glee” has had a tremendous response resulting in more students wanting to sing and communicate their feelings through song than ever in our history. This vocal workshop will be geared for the young singers, 14-18, who is excited and charged with wanting to let go more in song. Questions such as… How much do I move? How do I gain more control and become less nervous? How do I belt healthy? Students will work in group activities as well as individually. All styles of singing are welcome. (Classical art song, musical theatre, jazz, etc.).
Please RSVP to this event here or call 763-566-4560.
Join us for a special “Pick & Play” event at Schmitt Music Minnetonka, Thursday April 12 from 10am – Noon! Teachers can choose from a special selection of music, play the pieces live in front of other teachers, and get the music for FREE!
Also, a special selection of music will be offered this one day only at 20% OFF!
Please RSVP to Melissa Jerde by email at melissa.jerde@schmittmusic.com or call 952-546-0555.
RSVP by Monday, April 9th and you’ll receive a FREE gift at the event!
You could win a guitar just by getting the most votes in our Hal Leonard Guitar Play-Along Video Contest! Just learn a song from a “Play-Along” book, record yourself performing with the included CD tracks and upload your video to YouTube. Then submit your information and you’re done! All ages and skill levels are encouraged to enter.
“Play-Along” books will help you learn songs by everyone from Lennon/McCartney and The Rolling Stones to B.B. King and Eric Clapton to Weezer and Nirvana… and many more!
Contest Prizes: View details
A big congratulations goes out to Justin Vernon, former Schmitt Music Eau Claire instructor, on Bon Iver’s double Grammy Award-winning album, “Bon Iver, Bon Iver.”
Now you can learn to play all 10 of these beautiful, award-winning songs with the Hal Leonard Artist Songbook – now available at all Schmitt Music stores!
CLICK HERE to buy the “Bon Iver, Bon Iver” songbook online!
Edina Grand Opening event! Join us for this FREE workshop by Melody Bober and Wynn-Anne Rossi.
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This workshop will feature original music and other instructional materials to invigorate your teaching. Topics include teaching teenagers, teaching composition, as well as solos, duets, trios and more!
A composer, arranger, clinician and teacher, Melody Bober enjoys creating motivational piano pieces that foster her students’ understanding and love of music. She holds music degrees from the University of Illinois-Urbana and Minnesota State University. Melody’s dynamic sessions are enriched by her experience as a studio owner, classroom teacher and church musician.
Wynn-Anne Rossi is a nationally acclaimed composer and dynamic educator whose works have reached audiences throughout the United States, Europe, Iceland and Australia. Rossi specializes in composition residencies in public schools, sponsored by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and other professional arts organizations. Special commissions include orchestral and band works inspired by student musical ideas. Her passion for promoting creativity in young musicians reflects in her choice of publications with Alfred, including her series Creative Composition Toolbox.
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Edina Grand Opening event! Join us for this FREE workshop by Christos Tsitsaros.
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Dr. Christos Tsitsaros is Professor of Piano Pedagogy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to moving to the United States, Dr. Tsitsaros studied in Poland (Frédéric Chopin Academy of Warsaw) and France, where he obtained the Diplôme Supérieur d’Exécution from the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris with distinction. He continued his musical studies at the School of Music of Indiana University (M.M, Artist Diploma 1986)) and later at the University of Illinois (DMA in Piano Performance, 1993). Dr. Tsitsaros is active both as a pianist and composer. His educational piano works that have been included in examinations for the Music Teacher National Association, the National Federation of Music Clubs, and the Royal Conservatory of Canada. In addition, he is an editor and recording artist for the G. Schirmer Performance editions specializing in the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Four individual solo albums of his original music appear under the Centaur label.
He frequently appears in workshops and conferences as a performer and lecturer in the United States, Russia, and Canada.
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