What is Colourstrings?

Colourstrings is a world-renowned approach to music education.  It was developed in Finland in the 1970s by Dr Geza Szilvay, a Hungarian-born violinist, as an approach to string teaching.  This evolved to form Colourstrings Music Kindergarten, a 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.
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.
"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
“He who begins life with music will have this reflecting on his future like golden sunshine.”
                                                     - Zoltán Kodály