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K Music Academy offers private music lessons, group classes, band programs, music theory, and performance opportunities, including international competition and performance. Students can take piano, guitar, voice, violin, drum, brass, woodwinds, ukulele, and cello lessons, as well as participate in choir and the ECE Harmony Road “Toddler Tune” early-childhood music program. The program also offers summer lessons, make up classes, and all inclusive recitals.
• Ages: 0–18 years old
• Schedule: 30 minute lessons scheduled once a week, with lesson times available six days a week
• Price: $42.50 / 30 minutes. One-time Registration Fee of $35 due at time of registration. Annual Membership Fee of $50 due every April or 1 month after new enrollment.
K Music Academy has fully stocked lesson rooms equipped with amps, drum kits, keyboards, pianos, and more, and a waiting room for parents with seating, kids’ toys, free Wi‑Fi, and magazines. Instructors each hold at least a Bachelor’s degree and have professional performance experience. Mariana K. is the founder of K Music Academy.
The mission of K Music Academy states that it brings the highest standards of the Russian/American Music Education system, preserves and nurtures creativity in students, and teaches students to reach their goals with its special training. The program offers Certificate of Merit exam preparation, ABRSM preparation, and opportunities to compete in various music festivals and international competitions and perform around the world. It uses the Musical Ladder System that rewards students with wristbands, trophies, and certificates, and offers lessons tailored to each student’s strengths and needs, with lessons offered year‑round and make up classes that never expire.
K Music Academy provides all inclusive recitals held twice a year locally with access to a grand piano, a free annual picture day where students can bring their instruments for professional photos, and performance opportunities at local events while serving the communities of Pasadena, Burbank, and surrounding areas. The program lists flexible scheduling options, affordable pricing and payment plans, a supportive and encouraging learning environment, a wide variety of qualified instructors, the widest range of lesson times available six days a week including early morning and lunchtime options, month‑to‑month lessons and ACH payments with no semester commitments, and a beautiful location serving San Marino, San Gabriel, Altadena, Arcadia, Monrovia, and surrounding areas.
K Music Academy is described as having a proven track record of excellence with year‑round music lessons in Pasadena and is noted as Pasadena's #1 Choice for Music Lessons, the best of Pasadena, and reader recommended as best music school. It has been Reader Recommended for Pasadena Weekly's Reader Recommended Best Music School.
Parent and student comments include long‑term study with Ms. Khachatryan and Mariana, descriptions of disciplined teaching methods, children passing the CM test with honors and attending CM Convention, and children playing several songs after only a few lessons. Other testimonials describe unique teaching techniques, professional teachers and staff, good music training that includes self organization and perseverance, and refer to the school as an amazing music academy, a wonderful place to learn music, one of the best music schools in town, and the quintessential music school for young and adult musicians.
Last updated July 1, 2026.
• Ages: 0–18 years old
• Schedule: 30 minute lessons scheduled once a week, with lesson times available six days a week
• Price: $42.50 / 30 minutes. One-time Registration Fee of $35 due at time of registration. Annual Membership Fee of $50 due every April or 1 month after new enrollment.
K Music Academy has fully stocked lesson rooms equipped with amps, drum kits, keyboards, pianos, and more, and a waiting room for parents with seating, kids’ toys, free Wi‑Fi, and magazines. Instructors each hold at least a Bachelor’s degree and have professional performance experience. Mariana K. is the founder of K Music Academy.
The mission of K Music Academy states that it brings the highest standards of the Russian/American Music Education system, preserves and nurtures creativity in students, and teaches students to reach their goals with its special training. The program offers Certificate of Merit exam preparation, ABRSM preparation, and opportunities to compete in various music festivals and international competitions and perform around the world. It uses the Musical Ladder System that rewards students with wristbands, trophies, and certificates, and offers lessons tailored to each student’s strengths and needs, with lessons offered year‑round and make up classes that never expire.
K Music Academy provides all inclusive recitals held twice a year locally with access to a grand piano, a free annual picture day where students can bring their instruments for professional photos, and performance opportunities at local events while serving the communities of Pasadena, Burbank, and surrounding areas. The program lists flexible scheduling options, affordable pricing and payment plans, a supportive and encouraging learning environment, a wide variety of qualified instructors, the widest range of lesson times available six days a week including early morning and lunchtime options, month‑to‑month lessons and ACH payments with no semester commitments, and a beautiful location serving San Marino, San Gabriel, Altadena, Arcadia, Monrovia, and surrounding areas.
K Music Academy is described as having a proven track record of excellence with year‑round music lessons in Pasadena and is noted as Pasadena's #1 Choice for Music Lessons, the best of Pasadena, and reader recommended as best music school. It has been Reader Recommended for Pasadena Weekly's Reader Recommended Best Music School.
Parent and student comments include long‑term study with Ms. Khachatryan and Mariana, descriptions of disciplined teaching methods, children passing the CM test with honors and attending CM Convention, and children playing several songs after only a few lessons. Other testimonials describe unique teaching techniques, professional teachers and staff, good music training that includes self organization and perseverance, and refer to the school as an amazing music academy, a wonderful place to learn music, one of the best music schools in town, and the quintessential music school for young and adult musicians.
Last updated July 1, 2026.
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