This Summer: Don’t Just Play Music—Create It

Ready to find your song and your voice this summer? Join our Songwriting Performance Program, where students transform their skills into original music and develop a sound that’s uniquely their own. This class helps students apply the musicianship skills they’ve built through School of Rock lessons and performances into creating their own songs—shaping a truly original sound and voice.

What to You'll Learn: 

• Crafting dynamic chord progressions
• Creating engaging melodies
• Methods to developing rich harmonies
• Techniques to writing meaningful lyrics
• Using improvisation to spark creativity
• Learn how to support peers in the creative process 

Program Details: 

• Program Dates: June 24 - September 16, 2026 with live performances on September 20th! 
• Weekly Jam Sessions (75 mins)
• Kids: Wednesdays, 7:00 – 8:15 PM
  Adults: Wednesdays, 8:15 – 9:30 PM

Pricing: All prices are in addition to the standard monthly tuition

• Performance Program: $149/month
• Immersion Program: $249/month
• $49 performance fee (due two weeks before the show)

We’re looking for at least 10 students per class, and spots are expected to fill quickly. Registration closes June 12.

KIDS REGISTRATION FORM

ADULTS REGISTRATION FORM 

Timothy, a member of Old Haverford Monthly Meeting in Havertown, PA, is an educator, multi-instrumentalist, writer, and artist who loves to explore the intersections between language, music, and art through storytelling, dynamic musical interplay, improvisation, and an unabashed love of the groove. As part of his work as the music teacher at Delaware Valley Friends School, in Paoli, PA, Tim created a music curriculum for adolescents with Dyslexia and ADHD that uses improvisation, addresses language learning needs, exercises executive function skills, and builds capacity for Social Emotional Learning. This work has extended into the rest of Tim’s life – from facilitating community drum circles all around the Philadelphia area to playing drums on stages all around the country; from creating stories to share with his students that bring the magic of music to life, to writing original songs and collaborating with musicians from across the globe. Tim is the author of Serafine Finds a Song, a storybook guide to musical improvisation for readers of all ages, and his most recent album, Spirit in the Storm, fuses together fingerstyle guitar, progressive rhythms, and cosmic lyricism. You can find Tim’s music wherever you get your favorite songs!