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Early Childhood Music: Music Fundamentals includes creative movement, songs, improvisation, singing, piano skills, and miming. The program is taught by instructor Gloria Chuang as part of Crowden's Early Childhood Music classes, which introduce musical building blocks and elements of collaborative music making in interactive settings. Music Fundamentals uses creative movement, songs, and improvisation to teach children to respond to music with their bodies in a collaborative, social environment, and it creates an intentional learning experience rooted in early musical literacy and rhythmic movements.
• Ages: 3–6 years old
• Schedule: Saturday classes in 12-class Fall and Spring sessions
• Price: Tuition: $580 per session + $20 registration fee
Music Fundamentals I offers singing and movement for ages 3 to 5, and Music Fundamentals II is a new program beginning in Fall 2025 that focuses on piano skills and movement for ages 5 to 6. Each session includes 12 classes, with Fall sessions running from September 20 to December 13 with no class on Thanksgiving Break on November 29, and Spring sessions running from January 24 to April 18 with no class on April 5 for Spring Break. Full payment of tuition and fees is submitted with the registration form.
Crowden has been a Berkeley institution since 1983 and serves roughly 8,000 individuals each year through music education offerings for the general public, a day school for grades K to 8, concerts and events, and community partnerships. Crowden’s coeducational day school for Kindergarten through eighth grade provides an independent K–8 education with chamber music at its core, produces over 60 public concerts each year, and children attend Crowden concerts free of charge. The mission for Early Childhood Music states that Music Fundamentals builds on a love for learning instilled with songs, play, and miming, and defines success as both the acquisition of foundational musical concepts and skills and the adoption of scholarly habits within a culture that values learning above all other endeavors.
Last updated May 11, 2026.
• Ages: 3–6 years old
• Schedule: Saturday classes in 12-class Fall and Spring sessions
• Price: Tuition: $580 per session + $20 registration fee
Music Fundamentals I offers singing and movement for ages 3 to 5, and Music Fundamentals II is a new program beginning in Fall 2025 that focuses on piano skills and movement for ages 5 to 6. Each session includes 12 classes, with Fall sessions running from September 20 to December 13 with no class on Thanksgiving Break on November 29, and Spring sessions running from January 24 to April 18 with no class on April 5 for Spring Break. Full payment of tuition and fees is submitted with the registration form.
Crowden has been a Berkeley institution since 1983 and serves roughly 8,000 individuals each year through music education offerings for the general public, a day school for grades K to 8, concerts and events, and community partnerships. Crowden’s coeducational day school for Kindergarten through eighth grade provides an independent K–8 education with chamber music at its core, produces over 60 public concerts each year, and children attend Crowden concerts free of charge. The mission for Early Childhood Music states that Music Fundamentals builds on a love for learning instilled with songs, play, and miming, and defines success as both the acquisition of foundational musical concepts and skills and the adoption of scholarly habits within a culture that values learning above all other endeavors.
Last updated May 11, 2026.
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