HELLO. WE ARE YOUTH VOLUME!

In Detroit and Marquette, we are youth ages 3-18 learning to play violin and cello in order to grow RICH Changemaker Skills:
  • Resilience
  • Innovation 
  • Collaboration 
  • Higher Order Thinking

We are striving towards racial and economic justice, both as a community of people and an organization, through our practices inside and outside of the classroom.

We are cultivating a Studio Culture & Teaching Approach using the world-class Suzuki method & social justice practices aka "Equity Pedagogy".

​We are studying genres with historical significance to our cities during annual Place-based Music Celebration workshop series, performance, and an album release. We do this to develop positive cultural identities in our students as city residents and as Black, Indigenous & Youth of Color (41% of Youth Volume). 

Thanks to our Equitable Tuition Fund, 100% of our students benefit from practicing creative collaboration within a socioeconomically diverse group of people. 23% of YV students receive financial aid. We are making quality arts education accessible to families experiencing systematized oppression with grassroots student recruitment strategies and a community-supported financial aid fund.

Youth Volume is womxn & queer-owned and operated.

STUDIO LOCATION

​Youth Volume was founded in Detroit in 2010 and became a hybrid studio experiment in 2021, when Director Clara Hardie moved back to their Michigan Upper Peninsula hometown. Students in Detroit meet with Clara virtually for weekly lessons. Marquette students receive lessons at our space at SOMA Studios 1221 Division #201 Maquette, MI 49855. We gather virtually once-a-month for Saturday morning collaborations.
Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart. 
- Shinichi Suzuki

Ultimately we need agents of social justice who are able to solve deep-rooted problems, imagine new realities and build movements that span communities across the world.
- Guide to Humanizing Schooling, PIE

Give the gift of music.

Let’s make quality music education accessible to low-income families in Detroit & Marquette! YV’s Equitable Tuition Fund is supported by individual donors and small grants. Together, we are nurturing beautiful humanity & beautiful talent in Michigan string-players ages 4-18! 
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THANK YOU for supporting our musical changemakers!

Growing Equitable Music Studios
THINK TANK & COURSE OF ACTION
for music teachers who believe every child can change the world!

Expand studio diversity, access and inclusion while nurturing students as changemakers.

​Youth Volume's co-founder & Director, Clara Hardie, presents a six-week Course of Action entitled Growing Equitable Music Studios (GEMS)! 

Each GEMS cohort of 5 music teachers (from around the world!) will meet on Monday and Fridays for two hours of live Zoom coaching and peer mentorship.

Each GEMS Graduation Ceremony couples as an open-to-the-public Think Tank. We are collaboratively generating practical solutions for individual music teachers to nurture their studios with diversity, equity and inclusion ASAP. 

Watch us go!

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