Specialist Children's Music School in Glasgow West End, Cathcart & Milngavie

Specialist Children's Music School in Glasgow West-End, Cathcart & Milngavie

Give your child the best musical start

Give your child the best musical start

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Babies & Toddlers

Mother and child laughing with colourful scarves over their heads.

Preschool and Primary 1

4 young girls learning to play the violin

Violin Lessons

Girl receiving piano lessons, she is smiling and her tutor is sitting beside her.

Piano Lessons

Girl receiving piano lessons, she is smiling and her tutor is sitting beside her.

Guitar Lessons

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Glasgow Children’s Music School is a specialist Children’s Music School based in the West End of Glasgow, Cathcart and Milngavie. We offer early years’ classes for babies and toddlers, music classes for preschool-aged children and children in Primary 1, holiday camps and small group, 1:1 and 2:1 lessons on a range of instruments.

We aim to instil a love and enjoyment of music in every child and provide a fun and inclusive learning environment where each child is supported to achieve their own musical potential.

We are open 7 days a week and offer a free trial class for all our baby, toddler, preschool and Primary 1 classes.

Timetable

We offer a range of classes and lessons for babies and toddlers, preschool and primary 1 aged children, holiday camps as well as instrumental lessons in violin, piano and guitar.

Children's music class, the teacher and the children are throwing colourful scarves in the air, everyone is smiling and laughing.

Booking

Book a FREE TRIAL class for any of our baby, toddler, preschool and Primary 1 classes online.

Children's music class, the teacher and the children are throwing colourful scarves in the air, everyone is smiling and laughing.

Get in Touch

Get In Touch to enquire about our current availability for instrumental lessons or to arrange a trial lesson.

Timetable

We offer a range of classes and lessons for babies and toddlers, preschool and primary 1 aged children, holiday camps as well as instrumental lessons in violin, piano and guitar.

Children's music class, the teacher and the children are throwing colourful scarves in the air, everyone is smiling and laughing.

Booking

Book a FREE TRIAL class for any of our baby, toddler, preschool and Primary 1 classes online.

Children's music class, the teacher and the children are throwing colourful scarves in the air, everyone is smiling and laughing.

Get in Touch

Get In Touch to enquire about our current availability for instrumental lessons or to arrange a trial lesson.

Our News

Junior Strings Success!

Our new Junior String Ensemble were looking and sounding great last weekend at their first rehearsal! Led by tutor Emma Tomlinson, Junior Strings aims to provide a fun, first experience of ensemble playing for young string players.  Being part of...

Junior String Ensemble – starts April 2024!

We are so excited to start our new junior String Ensemble next term! The group will take place in our bright and spacious studio at Maryhill Burgh Halls one Sunday per month and will be directed by tutor Emma Tomlinson who has a wealth of...

New Family and Early Years Music Classes at Maryhill!

Next term we are adding three new classes to our timetable for babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers! Our new classes take place in our bright and spacious new studio, Studio A, at Maryhill Burgh Halls. With plenty of room to move around inside, we...

Violin Lessons – NEW availability!

We are delighted to announce we have new availability for violin lessons on Thursdays from the end of February with tutor Cameron Nixon at Maryhill Burgh Halls! Cameron is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire Scotland and is a trained singer as...

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Bookings are now open for Summer Camp 2026! Details below. 🥳🎻🎶🎵 ... See MoreSee Less
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3 days ago

SAVE THE DATE! SUMMER FIDDLE CAMP 6th - 8th AUGUST 2026 🎻🎶We are delighted to announce that this years Summer Camp will take place on Thursday 6th - Saturday 8th August, at the GCMS Studios, Maryhill Burgh Halls. Join the band, enjoy fun musical games and learn lots of new tunes on your instrument! Suitable for all young string players with a minimum of six months playing experience aged 6 years and up. Led by GCMS tutors Emma Tomlinson and Katie Hepburn and guest tutor Alistair McCulloch (Fiddle Instructor, Royal Conservatoire Scotland). Camp will culminate with an informal concert for friends and families on the final day and our traditional court yard ceilidh! For more details please email info@thegcms.co.uk www.thegcms.co.uk ... See MoreSee Less
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So so lovely to be back singing, dancing and playing with our Saturday Primary 1s and Preschoolers yesterday! We had lots of fun dancing with the parachute, visiting Musicland and practising our rhythm writing. Well done everyone 👏 🎶 Glasgow Children's Music School ... See MoreSee Less
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1 week ago

Huge congratulations to all our pupils who sat and passed their ABRSM Exams last month! And a special well done to Ingrid who achieved a distinction, the highest mark possible, in her grade 1 piano exam! Very well done everyone. We know how hard you all worked and are extremely proud of you all. 🙂🎹🎻🎶 ... See MoreSee Less
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Spring Break Friday 3rd - Sunday 19th April Glasgow Children's Music School is now closed for the Spring Break. Lessons/ classes will resume again from Monday 20th April. From myself and all the teaching team, we wish you a lovely Easter time! 🐣🐇🌷 🎶 ... See MoreSee Less
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