All scheduling matters should be discussed with your teacher, not the administration or the directors of the school. Please contact your teacher directly by phone or email. Your teacher’s contact information can be found by logging into your student portal and clicking “contact info”.
In order to qualify for a make-up lesson please give your teacher at least 24 hours advance notice. To cancel a lesson go to the My Music Staff Student Portal and make the changes as soon as you know your needs. Please also contact your teacher through their preferred communication channel.
The best way to schedule a make-up lesson is to go to your portal in My Music Staff (MMS) and find an available time in the teacher’s schedule. If the teacher doesn’t have an open space or the space you find doesn’t fit your schedule, you can call or email your teacher directly. Teaching instrumental lessons is a performing art; as such, it has a specific time and place to be performed. Your time slot is yours and the teacher is ready to perform during that time, so he/she deserves to be paid for it.
There are no make-ups for group classes or chamber music classes you miss. Please understand that the class will take place even without your presence.
Parents, please pick up your child on time! We cannot be responsible for them when their lesson is over, since we usually have another lesson scheduled right away. Please instruct your child to wait inside the school, not on the sidewalk. (We cannot be responsible for children once outside the building and some neighbors don’t like having children wandering the block.)
If you’re not accompanying your child to their lesson, please come in during the last 5 minutes of the lesson to get important information or make sure to ask your child about their lesson and any information that may have been sent home.
At the beginning of each month, you will receive an invoice through email for the lessons scheduled within that month. The invoice can be paid by clicking on the “click here to pay online” button. Bills can be set up so that they are auto-paid each month by clicking on accounts, adding a payment method, and checking the automatically paid emailed invoice box. If lessons are changed after the beginning of the month, the bill for that month will not be changed. Lessons changed after bills are sent out will be recorded on the next month’s bill.
If you do not receive an invoice, or if the invoice payment options do not work for you, please contact Sarah Gasse for assistance. She can be reached at sarah@gasseschoolofmusic.org.
Payment of invoices in full is due 31 days after the invoice has been sent. Invoices that are more than seven days past due will be subject to a 10% late fee. If you’d like or need to pay in cash or check, please put the payment inside an envelope with a note stating who the payment is for and put it in the safe box installed in the waiting room. Please don’t give the payment to your teacher.
If you need to terminate your commitment for lessons with us, we require a 4-lesson notice. The reason we organize the school year in semesters is to support the commitment of the student and to ensure continuity for the teacher. The teacher has committed his/her time to you for the entire semester and needs adequate time to find a new student. For that reason, we request payment for 4 lessons after your notice of termination.
The teacher will not be required to teach any lessons if you have overdue invoices. Late invoices will have a 10% fee attached to them.
We appreciate your support. Referrals are our main source of new students. We will be glad to give you a $25.00 credit for the next month for every student who registers with the school from your referral.
The school expects all students to play in one recital each semester (not including summer).
Graduation recitals are required for Suzuki students. We consider them to be extremely instructional. An audio or video recording of all the pieces of the graduating book should be given to your teacher one month prior to the recital date. Students and guests are expected to stay for the entire recital. It is disruptive to leave during a performance. We understand that there are exceptions. Please discuss any exceptions with your teacher prior to the recital.
The School strongly recommends that all string students be enrolled in at least one Suzuki group or chamber music class. Please note that group and chamber classes will not offer makeup lessons. Group class and chamber music class will meet even without your presence.
GSM invites high-performing students to participate in many outreach events throughout the year. These are great learning opportunities not to mention a great way to show off your playing abilities too. We strongly recommend participating if you are invited.
By registering at GSM, you give permission to use, free of compensation, your likeness in a photograph or video of the registered students, their parents and/or legal guardians, in any and all of GSM’s printed and digital publications for purposes of publicizing GSM’s programs or for any other related, lawful purpose.
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If there are some problems, such as practices, lack of motivation, scheduling, communication with your teacher, etc., please keep us informed. Your teacher cannot help if he/she is not aware of the situation. Please do not let a misunderstanding go on for a long time.