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JYMS IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE OUR VERY OWN LOCAL ARTIST GALLERY AT THE SCHOOL. OUR FIRST OPEN NIGHT WILL BE SATURDAY, JANUARY 28TH. FOR MORE INFO, EMAIL US , OR CHECK OUR FACEBOOK PAGE .

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JYMS performs at The SA Rampage Game

Glee Club GLEE CLUBWe will start preparing for our performance in the All-School Concert on Feb 26th. Rehersals are:Thursday nights at 7:00pm (for 3rd-Middle School Grades)Tuesdays nights at 6:00pm (Mini-glee)Meanwhile don't forget to check out the Glee club's 2011 Christmas perfomances on our Youtube Channel.

Glee Club Riverwalk Boat Caroling

YPC

YOUNG PERFOMANCE CLUB (YPC) Do you enjoy performing? Would you like to have more opportunities to perform in front of people ? The YPC is now accepting applications for this upcoming year. We will go perform at public places (libraries, senior homes...) as well as work on music projects that will be displayed during next years annual concert. The more you participate the more chances you'll be honored at our concert. Feel free to download the YPC application . For more info you can contact Ms. Aimee.

YPC 2011 Application.pdf

Our next performance will take place at: TBD Sign up at the School or let Ms. Aimee know if you plan to attend.

Music Fairy

MUSIC FAIRY STORE Our very own music fairy opened her own special gift shop. Make sure you practice and come to class to receive your fairy bucks. You can buy special items in the shop. The store is stocked with new magical prices every week.

Get your fairy bucks everyday after class!!! Make sure you practice so you can spend your fairy bucks at our NEW store!

Jensen's Yamaha Music School is a research and development center for Yamaha Corporation's Music Education System . Since 1993, JYMS has piloted courses for 4 and 5 year olds, 6-7 year olds and most recently the Music Wonderland course for 3 year olds. JYMS was one of the first schools in the US to offer the New Junior Music Course for 4 and 5 year olds. JYMS also teaches it's courses on the latest state of the art technology. We are the first school in the nation to teach the 8-adult course Keyboard Encounters on a classroom set of Clavinova 403 series digital pianos. These amazing instruments enhance the musical experience with arrangements, sounds, recording capabilities, piano action-feel and follow-the-lights technology.

At Jensen's Yamaha Music School, we create musicians for life. Being an authorized Yamaha Music School, we offer only Yamaha Certified Courses that are research based, developmentally appropriate, and designed to nurture the child's creative spirit. Because of the rapid growth of their ear and brain development, children ages 3-7 have a once in a lifetime opportunity to acquire a musical ear and a strong comprehensive musical foundation.

Events

UPCOMING EVENTSFREE PREVIEW CLASSESFOR NEW STUDENTS!To Sign-up email us!(contact page)Glee Club AuditionsMeets Tuesdays from 6:45 - 7:45pm - talk to Ms. Lois about joining our very own Glee Club.Preview ClassesJanuary 14th, 2012All-School ConcertSunday, February 26, 2012at Jo Long Theater at the Carver CenterThe Theme is "Shall We Dance..."

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Teachers

Lois M Jensena native of San Francisco, first studied piano with Bethel Melvin, a private piano teacher and composer. She began studying organ in 6th grade and was the church organist beginning when she was 12 years old. She directed her first choir at 15 years old and has been a church musician for most of her life.Ms. Jensen began teaching Yamaha in 1969. Yamaha Music Education System (YMES) recently presented an award to Lois in appreciation of 35 years of dedicated teaching. She has owned her own school in San Antonio, Texas since 1976 where she pilots new curriculum for YMES. In addition, Ms. Jensen currently trains teachers all over the US and is a Key Teacher for the Yamaha Corp. of America.Her Students have performed their original compositions in the Yamaha Pan-American Concert in Boston, Massachusetts at the Berklee School of Music, National Concers in San Diego, Phoenix, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Several students have been admitted to NESA (North East School of the Arts). Graduates of her classes are music majors or graduates of the schools of music at the University of Texas at Austin, Rice University, Texas State University-San Marcos, SMU, and University of Houston.In addition to working with Yamaha, she worked at University Presbyterian for 23 years as a youth choir director, organist, and adult choir director. Some of the major works she conducted were: Christ lag in Todesbanden by J.S. Bach, Faure's Requiem, Resphigi's Laud to the Nativity, Durufle's Requiem, Shubert Mass in G, Gospel Mass by Robert Ray, The UPC youth choir toured with a musical each year in which Ms. Jensen directed and choreographed the shows. Some of the shows were: Godspell, Children of Eden, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Cotton Patch Gospel. She also wrote several musical scripts Paul II, Buildin', and In My Life, the Beatles Music from us to you.Ms. Jensen participated in musical theatre throughout high school and college. In San Antonio she performed with Music Theatre, SALT, Offstage INC. She sang Aldonza in Man of La Mancha, Dolly Heart in Grass Harp, Laura in the vampire opera Carmilla, Cole, Promenade, Gallantry, Gertrude Stein's First Reader. In California she performed Marian the Librarian in Music Man, South Pacific, Camelot, Brigadoon.She also sang with Mastersingers perfoming in the operas: Hansel and Gretel and Daughter of the Regiment with Beverly Sills.
Noelle C Jensena teacher and full-time admisnistrator at Jensen's Yamaya Music School in San Antonio,Texas.She began her music training at age 3 when she was enrolled in the Primary Course of the YMES. Sh has been playing the piano and singing since age 3 and added clarinet at age 11. She also plays the guitar, recorder, and the flute.She is a native of San Antonio where she graduated from Jefferson High School. After Graduation, Noelle attended The University of Texas at Austin where she received a Bachelors of Music in Music Studies (Choral Emphasis) with All-Level Certification in the state of Texas. While at UT, Noelle studied piano with Dr. Betty Mallard and was a member of the university of Texas Longhorn Band, University Singers, Concert Chorale (under the direction of Dr. Craig Hella Johnson), Tau Beta Sigma, Sigma Alpha Iota, and the Golden Key Honor Society.Noelle was trained in the Yamaha Music Education System in 1995 in Toronto, Canada and became one of the first students of the Yamaha system to become a teacher in the US. She is certified to teach all of the courses by Yamaha Corp. of America and is a Piano Grade 5, Electone Grade 5, and Fundamentals Grade 4 in the International Yamaha Exam System.Noelle and Lois have presented at the Texas Music Educators Association State Convetion and San Antonio Association of the Education of Young Children. She has also presented at a YMES Administrators' Seminar in Phoenix, Arizona. Noelle was recently chosen to be a Yamaha Music Education System Specialist where she assists with teacher training in the US.
Aimee E Jensena Yamaha Education System graduate. She began music lessons at age 3 in Yamaha Primary Course. At age 8 she wrote her first composition, and won Honorable Mention in Yamaha's I Can Compose Too Contest. She continued to compose music and performed her original pieces in Regional and National Yamaha Junior Original Concerts in Massachusetts, California, Minnesota, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Dallas, Texas. Aimee graduated from Jefferson High School in 2001, and spent her four years singing in choir and playing trumpet in the Longhorns Band, at UT Austin.She also performed in numerous musicals including Godspell (1999), Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1997), Cinderella (1999), Amahl and A Night's Visitors (2000), Children of Eden (2001), and Pirates of Penzance (2001). In May 2005 she graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Music Degree. Her studies included piano, composition and music education.

Courses

The Yamaha Way
Music Wonderland
Jr Music Course
Young Musicians Course
Jr Extension Course
Private Lessons

The Yamaha Way
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Learning is Natural: The Yamaha Way Yamaha created courses to help children develop their musical abilities and creative expression naturally. Young children hear and remember musical pitches, rhythm patterns and harmonies in much the same way as they learn to walk and talk. By making the most of their sense of hearing, which is at its prime at a surprisingly early age, our courses guide children along the same learning path they have followed since birth. The results are a love of music and the development of their comprehensive musical abilities, including music reading and keyboard performance.

Music Wonderland

Music Wonderland (MW) Ages of students: 3 year old beginners Course length: 1 year Class schedule: One class per week Parent participation: Required Music Wonderland enables parents and children to enjoy expressing music together. Your childs imagination will delight you as we experience music through creative stories with colour illustrations, and together you will look forward to discovering music with the CD and books at home.

Jr Music Course

Junior Music Course (JMC) Ages of students: Pre-K & Kinder Course length: 2 years Class schedule: One class per week Parent participation: Required The Junior Music Course is the flagship of the Yamaha curriculum. Years of research and development has confirmed that 4 and 5 years old is an ideal time to acquire the most important attribute of a fine musician: a musical ear. Through solid repertoire, solfege training, ensemble, creativity, and music theory, children develop this musicality. Each week, the child attends with a parent learning partner and participates in singing, movement, keyboard playing and reading activities. Children learn on state of the art instruments in class and continue that learning at home through engaging textbooks, cds, dvds and a musical Laptop. At the end of the 2 year course, children will be eligible for the Junior Extension Course.

Young Musicians Course

Music Adventure Course (MAC) Ages of students: 1st & 2nd grade Course length: 2 years Class schedule: One class per week Throughout the curriculum students will learn and love music. This developmentally appropriate course effectively gives them a solid musical foundation and the facility to play keyboard and sing in a fun environment.

Jr Extension Course

Junior Extension Course (JXC) Ages of students: 6-7 year olds Qualifications: Graduate of the Yamaha Junior Music Course Course length: 2 years Class schedule: One class per week Private Lessons: Optional Building on the skills and musicality developed in the Junior Music Course, and capitalizing on the physical, mental and emotional development of 6-7 year olds.

Private Lessons

Private Lessons Piano lessons are offered only for advanced piano students depending on availability and student level. Please ask any of our teachers if you're interested in setting up private lessons.

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Jensen's Yamaha Music School

2241 NW Military Hwy. Ste. 202-B

San Antonio, TX 78213

(Copper Crest Village. We're in the block between West Ave. & Lockhill-Selma directly across from Castle Hills First Baptist Church)

Tel.: +1 210 366 5048

E-mail: info_jensensyamahamusic.com

Teachers Emails:

Ms. Lois- lois_jensensyamahamusic.com

Ms. Noelle- noelle_jensensyamahamusic.com

Ms. Aimee- aimee_jensensyamahamusic.com

Feel free to fill the Contact form on the right with any questions/suggestions/comments regarding any of the classes.

From all of us at Jensen's Yamaha,

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