The Music Explorers
The Music Explorers is a children’s music course.
Welcome to The Music Explorers — a world where imagination and music meet. Together, we set off on creative adventures through different worlds and soundscapes. Some parts of our journey are guided; others are open and free, inviting children to listen, move, and express themselves in their own unique way.
Here, every child’s ideas matter. When children bring their imagination into the music, they build confidence, curiosity, and connection. Sometimes they’ll be the idea-giver, leading with creativity; other times, they’ll be the team player, listening, responding, and working together. Music naturally mirrors these relationships — leader and listener, solo and ensemble — giving children a joyful way to explore essential life skills.
Because I want to be able to incorporate the children’s ideas, I am for the first time trying out with the younger ones (3.5-4.5) a mixed language class. It’ll be in both German and English. This way I can incorporate their ideas into musical games, whilst practicing musical elements stand at the forefront, but we will be using both English and German in songs and rhythmic pieces, to where co-ordination comes into play.
Our musical world is rich and diverse. We’ll sing both familiar and original songs, discover playful rhymes, and open our ears to sounds from many cultures and styles. We’ll explore music with and without words, strengthening melodic and rhythmic memory, and learning to hear not only the melody, but the harmony that surrounds it. As we grow, we’ll create our own songs, build simple arrangements, and bring them to life on instruments. As groups progress, we explore solfège to deepen their musical understanding.
Movement is at the heart of everything we do. This is not a sitting-still class! We move, play, dance, and use our bodies as instruments — clapping, stamping, and exploring rhythm through motion. Step by step, children develop coordination between body and voice, hands and feet, heart and sound — discovering how music can move us, inside and out.
Lots of different instruments are used in the course- this include Orff instruments (claves, maracas, drums, and more), chime bars, handbells, ukulele, and piano.
My goal is to create a warm, safe, and curious space where children can explore, grow, and simply be in music — a place where imagination leads, confidence blooms, and music becomes part of everyday life.
Where and When?
To book a class: Click on the appropriate time to be taken to the booking page.
Music Explorers: 3.5 – 4.5 years old : Thursdays 15.30- 16.15 ( German and English)
Music Explorers: 4.5-5.5 years old: Thursdays 16.30-17.15 ( German)
Music Explorers: 4.5- 5.5 years old: Wednesdays 16.15-17.00 ( in English only for children with a native speaker in the family/ attending a bilingual kindergarten!)
Learning English through Music and Movement 4.5-6 year olds: Wednesdays 17.15 – 18.00
Where? The Little Music Den, Mantlergasse, 1130
Maximum group size 6/7 children.
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