Early Childhood Music

Villa Musica's early childhood music classes offer fun music making opportunities for babies, toddlers, and preschool children with their parents.  These classes incorporate music paired with movement, singing, signing, dancing, and rhythm to enhance growth and development.  Research shows that rhythm impacts all parts of the brain, thus enhancing those areas that affect communication, motor, cognitive, social, and emotional skill levels.  Music and rhythm are also a great way to promote interaction between parent and child.  These classes introduce children to purposeful play and interactive music making experiences and at the heart of this is improvisation, the instinct children have to create music. "Learning is an act of discovery." Jean Piaget, Ph.D.

Family Music for Babies and Toddlers

Class ID # 215
Ages: 1 and 2 year olds (parent/guardian participation required)
Wednesdays 9:30-10:15am
Saturdays 3:00-3:45pm
Number of participants: max. 8 children
Cost: $240 (16 weeks)

Music for big little kids

Class ID # 210
Ages 3 and 4 year olds (parent/guardian participation required)
Wednesdays 10:30-11:15am
Saturdays 4:00-4:45pm
Number of participants: max. 8 children
Cost: $240 (16 weeks)

Summer Session: June 25^th, 2012 – August 18^th, 2012

Cost: $120 (8 Weeks)

2011-12 Semester Dates
Fall Semester (16 weeks) September 12th, 2011 – January 21st, 2012

No Class Thanksgiving week

Winter Break: December 19th 2011 – January 1st, 2012

Spring Semester (16 weeks) February 6th – June 9th, 2012

Spring Break: April 2nd – 15th, 2012

To register for our Early Childhood Music classes please click here.

Cami Smith

Cami Smith is a board certified music therapist (MT-BC) with advanced level training in Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) through the Center for Biomedical Research in Music at Colorado State University.  She is also a trained Suzuki violin teacher and a piano teacher.  She began her musical studies at the age of 3 1/2 in Buffalo, NY and continued her training in Toledo, OH.  She graduated from the College of Wooster in Wooster, OH in 2000 with a degree in Music Education with an emphasis in Music Therapy.  Cami has been a Neurologic Music Therapist for 10 years, teaching violin privately for 22 years, and piano privately for 3 years.  Before moving to San Diego, CA, she worked in Phoenix, AZ in the largest Neurologic Music Therapy clinic in the country and maintained a management position for 4 years.  After moving to San Diego,  Cami began her own music therapy and teaching company in 2008 to provide more opportunities for people to receive music therapy services, private violin and piano lessons, and adaptive music lessons.  Cami has extensive training in classical, Suzuki, and fiddle music and additional behavioral and sensory integration training.  Cami is thrilled to continue her professional work with Villa Musica as a music therapist, early childhood music instructor, and violin teacher.  She continues as an active performer in a local Irish band.