124 Main Street
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, B2X 1R9

Lesson Centre: Phone or Text (902) 496-6966

Store Phone: (902) 496-6996

Fax: (902) 496-7404

Lesson Centre Email: dartmouthlessons@long-mcquade.com

Store Email: dartmouth@long-mcquade.com

Lesson Centre Hours
Monday: 10am - 9:00pm
Tuesday: 10am- 9:00pm
Wednesday: 10am - 9:00pm
Thursday: 10am - 9:00pm
Fridays: 10am - 8:00pm
Saturdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Sunday: CLOSED

This Location Offers:

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Private Lessons

Welcome to Dartmouth's largest music lesson centre located at 124 Main street, Dartmouth. We offer 15 spacious studios in house and our very own recital room. Our studios are equipped with state of the art keyboards and acoustic upright pianos as well as a Yamaha Concert Grand. We offer lessons in violin, viola, cello, all woodwind and brass, all styles piano, guitar (electric and acoustic), banjo, ukulele, bodhran, percussion and drumset.

Our Voice Teachers:

Dunnery Bond - Piano, Voice music lessons in Dartmouth

dunnery bond (Piano, Voice)

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Online Lessons:

Teaching Day(s): Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Dunnery Bond is a singer-songwriter who graduated from Berklee College of Music with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance in 2015. He has appeared in six mainstage Neptune Theatre productions, won the nationally aired singing competition "The Next Star" in 2008, and has studied both classical and jazz piano for over sixteen years - including completing his Grade 9 RCM. He has performed with David Foster, Suzie McNeil, Bruce Guthro, Paula Cole, and many other artists. His rate for a half hour private lesson is $26

John Lindsay-Botten - Voice, Piano, Brass music lessons in Dartmouth

john lindsay-botten (Voice, Piano, Brass)

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Online Lessons:

Teaching Style: classical, jazz

Teaching Day(s): Monday

John has a Bachelors in Music in Voice from Mount Allison University and grade 8 Royal Conservatory of Music piano. John originally entered university on trombone but switched to voice after two years. He has sung both solo and chorally with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, the Elora Festival Singers, Nathaniel Dett Chorale, Mississauga Choral Society, and the Toronto Jewish Folk Choir among others, and he took on the lead role of Pierre Elliott Trudeau in Vocalypse Productions’ presentation of G. E. Clarke and D.D. Jackson’s opera Trudeau: Long March/Shining Path. John has produced a CD of his own pop/adult compositions called ‘A Labour of Love’. He has been teaching music since 1994 and his rate for a half-hour private lesson is $27.

Katie Graham - Voice,  Piano music lessons in Dartmouth

katie graham (Voice, Piano)

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Online Lessons:

Teaching Style: classical, rock

Teaching Day(s): Monday, Tuesday, Thursday

Katie has studied a variety of genres in both piano and voice, as well as music theory, composition, and performance. After working her way through the Royal Conservatory of Music, she attended Mount Allison University as a Piano Major in the Bachelor of Music Program. She later transferred to Nova Scotia Community College and completed the Music Arts Program as a Vocal Major, specializing in jazz, blues, folk and pop music. She has had the opportunity to perform on various stages, including The Marquee Ballroom, The Fredericton Play House, Saint John City Boardwalk, and CBC Radio. Her lessons are a happy blend of fundamental theory and feel-good music, which promise to be creative, entertaining and educational at all times! Her rate for a half-hour private lesson is $26.

Laura Gallant - Piano, guitar, voice, uke music lessons in Dartmouth

laura gallant (Piano, guitar, voice, uke)

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Online Lessons:

Teaching Style: jazz, rock

Teaching Day(s): Monday

Laura Gallant is a singer and songwriter who got started on her musical journey taking piano lessons when she was 5. She was always copying singers like Lauryn Hill and Christina Aguilera and then the guitar caught her interest when she was 13. She started learning through her musical family, eventually travelling around playing songs she’d written and learned. She then decided to enrol in the Music Arts program at NSCC, exploring Jazz theory and joining local bands Superfluid and Lazeez, who she fronted and co-wrote music for. She loves sharing her musical knowledge and love for the art with any student who is curious!
Laura is $27 per half hour lesson.