Bow & Heart

We had so much fun that we forgot to post! 🤭 Not only did we learn about composer Ignatius Sancho (and listen to our teachers play one of his compositions), we also worked on posture and dynamics.

AND, we’re getting ready for our final four classes of the year starting May 7 in Battery Park and the West Village - don’t forget to sign up! In the meantime, see you on this week for “Band Practice Sunday” (check your emails tomorrow, friends!)

Thank you for the BEAUTIFUL photos, ❤️

🚨BIG news, friends! We at .and.heart are so happy to announce our final four group class dates of the year. We’ve partnered with our wonderful friends at to bring our instruction beneath the beautiful trees of the Woodlands on May 7, May 21, and June 25. On June 4, we’ll have class indoors in the West Village!

Join us for what’s sure to be a blast. Sign up at bowandheart.com or send any questions to us here or at [email protected] . 🎻🌳

🚨BIG news: Group classes are OFFICIALLY in full swing and may we just say, we had a ball today. 🎻 Thank you to our awesome students, parents, and teachers for an hour of not only beautifully playing our Suzuki pieces, but also being willing to learn how to communicate musically. We cannot WAIT for the rest of the semester.

What’s that you say?! Suzuki group class starts again in FIVE DAYS?! We are BURSTING with excitement!

Have you signed up yet? It’s not too late. Find us at the link in bio, DM us here, or email [email protected] .

Classes are $25 a pop and are in the West Village through April (stay tuned for our late spring/summer dates indoors *and* outdoors 🌳)

Come play your violin with us! And maybe have a cupcake too. 🧁

To say we are excited is an understatement. We’ve waited MONTHS to say that we are BACK and ready to see you *indoors* with your violins!!! 🎻

Are you taking Suzuki violin lessons in NYC and need a group class? Are you a Suzuki violin teacher with students who may be interested, and/or would you like to teach a class with us?

This winter, we’re meeting every-other-Sunday at 1pm in the West Village. We would love to see you. DM us here, send an email to [email protected], or click our link in bio to find out more.

HOORAY for 2022, friends! We hope you had wonderful holiday celebrations full of relaxation, good health, and hopefully a little hot chocolate (our favorite). ☕️

Normally, we take off January to brainstorm and refresh for our winter/spring semester. This year, we’re “hibernating” a little longer until late spring and early summer: we want to keep everybody healthy by avoiding group gatherings indoors while it’s cold, and, two of our faculty members are expecting babies very soon! 🍼

Not to fear: Bow & Heart likes to call it “productive hibernation” and we’re cooking up some awesome park classes and Zoom sessions for a bit later on in 2022. Don’t forget to check-in with your private teachers about what’s coming, AND keep an eye-out here, our website, and on your email inboxes for all of our EXCITING plans! 🎻💫

See you very soon, friends! Stay cozy. ☃️

WHAT an amazing day! Today was our last in-person class of the semester and it couldn’t have been more cozy and delightful. Thank you to Ms. Chelsea and Ms. Hilary for leading a fabulous class and bringing the yummy hot chocolate, and to our students and families for their excitement and beautiful playing. We can’t wait until the next time we’re all together!

Have a wonderful holiday and we’ll see you on Zoom in December, friends!

We had a SUPER spooktacular Halloween class yesterday on Zoom! We discovered eerie extended techniques on our instruments (col legno skeleton bones, tremolo wind), learned a spooky piece, and revisited some of our favorite Suzuki pieces with a Halloween twist.

Swipe to see Ms. the lamb working on spider bows, Ms. the wizard leading us in an A Minor Twinkle, and Ms. the flower child trying to catch it all on camera📱🎃👻

Warm-ups, bow games, flying music, concerto teamwork, rubber-band scrolls, walking-while-playing, jell-os and blues… whatever we’re up to in class, it’s a BALL! Another super fun park class in the books thanks to our teachers , , and , and our awesome students and families who made the trek to Central Park today! 🌟🎻

TOMORROW! It’s only a day away! We can’t WAIT to see you in Battery Park for our kick-off class (complete with pizza). It’s not too late to sign up: DM us here or email [email protected] for more details on tomorrow and the rest of our exciting semester. 🎻✨

Have you enrolled for your violin group class yet this fall?! Our registration is OPEN and we begin September 19th! We have three park classes and three Zoom classes ready to go to fill our semester, and we can’t wait to see you.

Visit www.bowandheart.com/purchaseclasses to check out our dates, or feel free to message us here (we are ALWAYS ready to chat about group violin). Any and all questions are welcome! 🎻

HELLO from your friends at Bow & Heart! Boy have we missed you this summer. We can hardly contain our excitement to be back.

While we’d hoped for indoor, in-person classes this fall, we’ve decided that as we’re still learning more about the Delta variant, we’ll keep each other safe by meeting outdoors in our city’s BEAUTIFUL parks. We’ll also meet once-a-month online too, because wasn’t that awesome last year?

In the coming days, we’ll announce our park locations for outdoor classes, and our fabulous themes for our Zoom classes. Take a peek at the second slide for dates.

Here’s some more exciting news: registration is NOW OPEN! We welcome all New York City violinists to our park classes, and violinists from around the globe to our Zoom instruction. If you’re interested, there are a few ways to sign-up or grab some more information:
🎻 Message us here or email [email protected]
🎻 Log onto http://www.bowandheart.com/enroll-in-classes
🎻 OR, if you’re a returning student, simply log onto http://www.bowandheart.com/purchaseclasses !

Rosin those bows, friends… it’s time to play together again! 💫

While we are SO sad to postpone our Park Play today due to weather, we want to make sure you and your instruments stay safe and dry! AND, we are already planning a September date to meet in Central Park and kick-off our brand new semester. So, stay tuned, keep cozy today, and if you’re like us, maybe play a tune or two indoors! 🎻☔️

What’s that you say? LESS THAN TWO WEEKS until our next Park Play?!

We are so excited to meet in the park again. Want to join us at 1pm in Central Park on July 11th? All violinists are welcome and it’s bound to be a blast like last time. Message us here or email [email protected] so we can welcome you (and order enough pizza!) 🎻🎵🍕

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What do you think, should this be our album cover? 🎻💫 We had an INCREDIBLE time on Sunday playing our instruments in-person together for the first time in 15 months! We can’t wait to do it again. Thank you for capturing the magic, 📸

How will you find us in the park next week? Search for our new sign! (Don’t worry, we’ll soon give you more details than that 😉)

We are just ONE WEEK from seeing each other and we’re so excited! If you haven’t yet, let us know if you’re coming so we can send you our playlist and get a headcount. 🎻🍕 Happy Sunday!

Whether we’re serenading the ocean, trees, or busy NYC traffic, posing with a mural or in a peaceful backyard, or guiding the bows and fingers of our students, we at .and.heart LOVE being outdoors with our instruments. So won’t you join us with your violins for Sundays in the Park?!

We’ll see you on June 13th in Madison Square Park and July 11th in Central Park, both at 1pm. Let us know if you’re coming so we can count you in on the fun!

Hooray, it’s time to play! 🎻

Come join us in the park this summer with your violins. We welcome all of our friends - those who’ve taken a class with us before, and those who haven’t - so that we can celebrate sharing music together in-person.

Let us know if you’ll join so we can keep in touch with even MORE details!

We can’t wait to see you.

There is NO WAY we could spend all summer without seeing and playing our instruments with you! Get ready to play together in the park once-a-month on sunny Sundays, where we’ll play Suzuki pieces of all levels and listen to our faculty play. We even heard a rumor there’d be pizza… 🍕

Dates and park locations to come soon. 📆

Not a member of Bow & Heart? We would still LOVE to play with you - all are welcome. Drop us a DM here, message us on Facebook or through our website (link in bio), or email maggie@bowandheart to let us know you’re interested in jamming with us! 🎻

Sneaky snapshots (featuring our wonderful teachers’ “impressed” faces and “mid-sentence” faces) from Zoom breakout rooms during our FINAL Studio Class of the semester! It has truly been a joy watching these violinists bloom over the past few months 🌻🎻

What FUN we had today with the inimitable ! Discovering a composer’s musical choices and our own “stories” for a piece (a Suzuki piece that we know well, or perhaps one we’ve never heard before!) is a joyful and creative task, and we’re lucky we had Emmalie and Rebecca to walk us through it today. Little did we know that we have some visual artists in class, too! 👩‍🎨👨‍🎨

Swipe to see us listening to “Two Grenadiers” (and drawing what we heard... 🖍)

Thank you for your visit, - let’s do it again soon! 🎻

HI, friends! We are BACK from Spring Break and guess what? We have news to share!

This Sunday in our classes, we are thrilled to welcome our incredibly innovative and joyful friends from Art Beyond the Ink. They’ll show us how to be creative listeners and how to tell a story with the music we practice and play on our violins (including Suzuki repertoire!) We can’t WAIT. 🎨

For more information on Art Beyond the Ink, check out http://artbeyondtheink.org . And if you’re interested in joining, please send us a DM, email [email protected], or visit us on our website at the link in bio!