Piano Enlighten Program for Senior

Fingers with Mind Flow

Combined piano and music therapy program

Research and clinical studies are constantly proving how music empowers our daily lives, and how it can bring positive effects for your health and well-being. As a senior, making music and playing piano also give additional valuable health benefits. For instance, playing piano stimulates many parts of the brain increasing neural connections, hand-eye-ear-mind coordination, cognitive skills and fitness, and helps your memory and sense of clarity. It is also proven to significantly improve your mood, since your mind is happy and peaceful. You will be able to play songs in the first class, and able to communicate and express your emotions through music in a fun environment.

Learning music and piano is not just for children, it will be easy and fun to develop this new hobby. Your enjoyment and accomplishments will break any prior misconceptions of learning piano – you will go from CAN’T to CAN! The pleasure and benefits of learning piano and the opening of the doors to the world of music will bring joy to you!

Piano Village Foundation is a non- profit 501C(3) organization, we help enhance the lives of others through teaching, performing and enjoying all genres of music via the piano. This unique program for adults and seniors is designed by Felicia Feng Zhang’s structured 5 Cores and 3EFM Method.

Our program will cover:

1. Music language and fundamentals – Piano is the best instrument to build a solid musical foundation. This will lead you to be able to learn all of the elements of music, sight-reading, and explore other instruments with ease.
2. Finger Fitness: Making sure all 10 fingers are musically fit!  Each finger connects with the cells of your brain and will stimulate brain activity as well as improve cognitive skills. It is also another great way to stay mentally fit.
3. Building multitasking abilities. Through piano exercise, we lead your mind, hands, fingers, eyes and ears in multitasking coordination abilities.
4. Through coaching you how to memorize a piece naturally, the whole learning process will delay and reduce the effect of Alzheimer’s.
5. Music Communication:  Music is a universal language of mankind. You will learn solo and ensemble pieces, giving you a unique and joyful way to connect with a friend or family member, to express your feelings, passion, and love through your playing, to make a musical play dates, to combat isolation and to make new connections.
6. Reducing stress, enjoying music, and relaxation. Your mind will soon be filled with joy for music and be peaceful instead of being bogged down with irrelevant, unnecessary thinking. When peers learn together, they inspire each other, and fresh new things will accompany you every day.
7. Creativity: Through playing piano, your mind will start to be more imaginative and joyful. You will have to use both sides of the brain simultaneously.
8. We will use Eurhythmics to train your understanding of musical concepts in rhythm, and to express music feeling through body movements.
9. We will help you set goals to accomplish, and give you a sense of direction, motivation and purpose in your life while encouraging and challenging you to achieve every milestone along the way. You will feel a great sense of achievement and be highly satisfied and proud of your accomplishments.

Class setting: 6-8 students per class, meet twice per week for 6 weeks. Performance at the end of each session.

Length of Class: 45 minutes

Enrollment: Year-round.  Students will be grouped based on skill level.