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Fall in Love with Piano — Any Age, Any Level

Kids: Semi-private Piano Playground. 30-minute sessions for fun, confidence, and growth. Membership $100/month

Adults: Relaxed Key Club 60-minute sessions to learn at your own pace and enjoy music. Membership $200/month

Intermediate & Advanced: Elite private lessons for focused, disciplined training. $60 per 30-minute session for Monthly Members.

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Piano Lessons in Arlington, Va

and Dumfries, VA

🎹 Learn, Play, and Love Music for Life

At Obbligato Music, we offer semi-private and private piano lessons for kids, adults, and returning pianists in Arlington, Va and Dumfries, VA. Whether you’re starting fresh or picking up where you left off, our approach blends personalized instruction with the joy of making music.

Our signature program, Piano Playground, offers fun, semi-private sessions for kids with up to 4 students per session, so every pianist gets individual attention while enjoying the motivation of learning alongside peers. Private lessons are also available for intermediate and advanced students seeking more disciplined rigorous training.

Adults explore music at their own pace in relaxed, social Key Club sessions. Explore the music you love, and share the experience with fellow music enthusiasts. It’s perfect for beginners, hobbyists, or anyone looking to bring music back into their life in a fun, social setting.

For intermediate and advanced students seeking a more rigorous path, our Elite Private Lessons offer 30-minute, one-on-one sessions designed to refine technique, master challenging repertoire, and develop true musical expression. Each session provides focused, personalized instruction to help students reach their full potential in a supportive, high-level environment.

From your very first note to your favorite performance pieces, we help you build confidence, play with expression, and truly enjoy the piano with a practice as unique as you are.

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ARE WE THE RIGHT

PIANO STUDIO FOR YOU?

12 BENEFITS OF BEING AN

OBBLIGATO MUSIC MEMBER

1. AT OBBLIGATO MUSIC PIANO LESSONS ARE FUN!

   We are the only studio in Arlington with a play centered approach to music lessons using Piano Maestro’s innovatiive new technology. Learning each new song feels like a game instead of a chore.

2. WE HAVE A HIGHLY QUALIFIED STAFF READY TO TO TEACH STUDENTS OF EVERY AGE

Members of our enthusiastic staff have either college training or professional performance experience or both. Our music teachers are dedicated to learning about your personal musical goals and helping you to achieve them. With multiple teachers to choose from we are confident that we have the right teacher to meet your music lesson needs. In addition to their teaching credentials, our teachers have warm personalities, are extremely friendly and dedicated to teaching you the style of music that you want to learn in your music lesson.

3. WE HAVE A WIDE RANGE OF LESSON TIMES AVAILABLE TO ACCOMODATE YOUR BUSY SCHEDULE

Monday through Friday

Noon to 9:00 pm EST

4. A PROVEN TRACK RECORD OF EXCELLENCE SINCE 2003

Visit our testimonial page to see what our students are saying. Every year, aspiring music teachers start their own studio, and a year or two later it’s closed. Obbligato Music has a proven track record of offering quality piano lessons in Arlington, Virginia.

And we now teach lessons worldwide in our secure online class room. We can meet you in the virtual world anywhere you are.

Our full time mission is teaching music lessons trusted by hundreds of families for twenty years!

5. A COMFORTABLE PARENT’S LOUNGE FOR OUR CLIENTS.

We have the most spacious and parent friendly waiting area in Arlington.

Instead of waiting in a music retail store showroom, our clients enjoy a spacious, professional parent’s lounge with comfortable chairs, Wi-Fi, magazines, and beverage service. We also provide large observation windows on every door so that you can watch your child’s lesson while you wait. Or is you prefer you can sit in on their lesson anytime you like.

6. IN HOME and ONLINE LESSONS

If you can’t make it in to the studio we can come to you in Arlington, VA and Potomac Shores, VA or anywhere in the world in our virtual classroom

7. THE MOST TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED AND FULLY STOCKED MUSIC LESSONS IN ARLINGTON!

Every teacher has access to the latest technology in lessons via iPad. In our Piano Maestro music library we have an ever expanding collection of repertoire for every genre of music. And your access to the same library at home is INCLUDED in your Obbligato Music membership.

We are also the first Arlington piano studio to introduce our students to song writing using AI and emerging technologies

We’ve recently made $10,000 in upgrades to create the best possible experience for you!

8. MUSIC RECITALS IN THE ONE AND ONLY GEORGETOWN PIANO BAR!

We are one of the only music schools in Arlington that offers free recitals at a real piano club where our students get to feel like the pros!

Every parent just wants to know how their child is doing and if they are really progressing. The best way for a parent to understand if their investment in lessons is really worth it, is to have their child participate in a recital.

In June and December many of our students choose to perform in our biannual recitals. We hold these at the very cool Georgetown Piano Bar

Our students LOVE telling their friends that they play the piano in a REAL MUSIC CLUB

9. LUNCH TIME AND EARLY AFTERNOON LESSONS FOR HOMESCHOOLERS, RETIREES, COLLEGE STUDENTS, AND WORKING PROFESSIONALS

We offer lessons starting at noon each day. If you are a homeschool parent, retiree, college student or working professional who has a flexible schedule, take advantage of our lunch time lesson spots.

10. METRO ACCESSIBLE!

We are located on Wilson Blvd in the heart of Ballston and easily accessible to the Ballston Metro Station. Close to our school you will find great shopping, dining in the upbeat, energetic Ballston neighborhood.

11. MONTH TO MONTH LESSONS

Obbligato Music does not require semester minimums for lessons. Every student here is on a month-to-month basis.

If you are ready to start, you have nothing to lose as we only want students who truly want to be here and we will not commit you to a long term contract.

12. OUR MEMBERS LOVE US!

Here’s what our students say about our piano lessons.

“Yes! I am GOOD at this!!!”

“This is FUN!”

“ I want to get advanced at the piano. I LOVE this!”

Those are some powerful testimonials!