Lessons can be 30 min, 45 min or one hour long at the mutual agreement of the teacher and student. The school’s schedule is organized in terms, each term having 4 lessons.
Payments can be made by cash or check, always at the beginning of each term for one or more terms. Students who register for 6 terms are offered one free lesson as an incentive.
Lessons can start any time during the year, even during the summer school break.
There is no registration fee for any of Thorncrest Music Academy’s programs. You can contact us by phone or use the online form to schedule your lessons today.
Thorncrest Music Academy has a 24-hour cancellation policy for private lessons. No make-up lesson will be given for lessons cancelled with less than 24-hours notice.
Each student may re-schedule a maximum of two lessons per session (Fall/Winter, Winter/Spring and Summer) when those lessons are cancelled with 24-hours or more notice. Lessons cancelled beyond the two per session allowance will be charged and no make-up lesson will be given.
A missed lesson cannot be applied as a credit towards future lessons.
All lessons cancelled by a student’s teacher will be re-scheduled as a make-up lesson.
There is a $15.00 service charge for all returned checks.
A student’s lesson time cannot be guaranteed if the student is absent for more than two weeks, unless payment has been received for the lessons to be missed.
A student’s lessons may be suspended if payment is not received in a timely manner.
Refunds for private instruction are given with one week’s notice. Any remaining post-dated checks will be returned to the student.