What is Colourstrings?

"Colourstrings is a family-centred and a child-centred educational philosophy, programme and technique which, with the help of music, desires to strengthen a happy childhood." - Dr. Geza Szilvay, founder of Colourstrings​

Colourstrings is a world-renowned approach to music education.  It was developed as a method of strings-teaching in Finland in the 1970s by Dr Geza Szilvay, a Hungarian-born violinist, and called 'Colourstrings' as it uses a visual approach (changing the colours of the music stave).  This then led to the development of the Colourstrings Music Kindergarten, a singing and movement-based method of teaching young children music, which is used worldwide today.

Colourstrings music education is based on the principles of Zoltán Kodály,  a Hungarian composer, educator and ethnomusicologist who developed a systematic approach to music learning through singing and folksong.  Kodály believed that children should learn the fundamental elements of music through singing games and rhymes, before learning an instrument.

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What makes Colourstrings different?

• Colourstrings is not a franchise but an approach to music education which is internationally acclaimed by music professionals and educators.
• Colourstrings teachers are music graduates who have undertaken the Colourstrings training qualification (a process which takes at least a year) and who are highly trained in early years pedagogy.
• Live music is key to Colourstrings, with singing and instruments in every class.
• Colourstrings strives to make every child a creative, confident music-maker.  Children who follow a Colourstrings programme will become musically literate before learning an instrument.