MMTA’s Music Connect Program

Your MMTA Board and Music Connect Committee are proud to bring you a reimagined program that ensures scholarships are granted in a fair and fiscally responsible way. Over 60 students have received tuition-free lessons since this program’s inception in 2018.

Thanks to the very generous donations of so many towards our recent Flute and Piano Benefit concerts, we are pleased to have approved FOUR new grants. 

Applications will be accepted starting on October 1, 2026, and will close immediately after those four “first-come-first-served" applications have been approved. Please disregard the application dates (July 15 - Sept. 12) in the program descriptions.

We are truly connected in our love of music-making and in the joy we feel when we help a student put music in their heart forever!

MMTA believes that any person who has musical ability and interest in playing an instrument or singing deserves the opportunity to explore this talent.  

The MMTA Music Connect Program (MCP) offers music lessons tuition-free to students who have a demonstrated financial need and will study with an MMTA member in good standing. 

Contact Alison Barr, MMTA’s Music Connect Program Chair

 

Application Process:

Teachers, to recommend a student for study in your studio:

  1. Please read thoroughly the Description for MMTA Teachers. (pdf)

  2.  Click the follow button and fill out the online MMTA Teacher Recommendation Form.


Students, to apply:

  1. Please read thoroughly the Description for Student and Parent / Guardian. (pdf)

  2.  Click the following button and fill out the online Student/Parent Application Form.

Music student

“If you change one heart, you are changing the world.”

- Alex Elle, author


This program exists for ALL of us and we hope it will become self-sustaining into posterity.  

Your tax-deductible contribution will help.

And, you will ensure that a deserving student, somewhere in Massachusetts, will have lessons that they would not otherwise have.