Hello! Youth Volume is

  • youth ages 3-18 learning to play violin and viola in order to grow RICH Changemaker Skills:
    • Resilience
    • Innovation 
    • Collaboration 
    • Higher Order Thinking
  • cultivating a Studio Culture & Teaching Approach using the world-class Suzuki method & social justice practices aka "Equity Pedagogy".
  • ​studying genres with historical significance to our cities during annual Place-based Music Celebration workshop series, performance, and an album release. We do this to develop positive cultural identities in our students as city residents and as Black, Indigenous & Youth of Color (over half of Youth Volume). 
  • making quality arts education accessible to families experiencing systematized oppression with grassroots student recruitment strategies and by maintaining a community-supported fund for financial aid.
  • striving towards racial and economic justice, both as a community of people and a non-profit, through our practices inside and outside of the classroom.
  • queer-owned and operated.

We grew!

There are now TWO Youth Volume studios:
  1. The original is a sunny classroom in Cathedral Church of St Paul building in the arts district of Detroit. Detroit Youth Volume was founded in 2010.
  2. The newest is a cozy garden-level suite in the historic Old City Hall in downtown Marquette. Marquette Youth Volume was founded in 2022.

SUSTAINERS are fans who give MONTHLY, QUARTERLY or ANNUALLY.​

So far Youth Volume has about 20 Sustainers who give between $5 and $100 each month. Fans can sign up to give quarterly, annually, or monthly.

"Recurring giving" is an innovative method of supporting community arts. It stretches donors' capacities while allowing our small organization to more accurately predict how much $ will roll in each month to subsidize tuition for families who could not access quality music education otherwise. 

Pledge your love to young musical changemakers who need you! 

Growing Equitable Music Studios:
​a Course of Action

For studio music teachers who believe
every child can change the world. 
Expand studio diversity, access and inclusion
​while nurturing students as changemakers. ​
Detroit Youth Volume's co-founder & Director, Clara Hardie, presents a six-week Course of Action entitled Growing Equitable Music Studios (GEMS)! Case studies and templates from Detroit Youth Volume are provided as inspirational tools.

Click the "Learn more!" button so receive GEMS email communications. You can also follow Clara's Facebook/Instagram accounts!

Prospective students may schedule a phone call with Clara to receive additional course information and get registered by emailing clara@detroityouthvoluem.org. 

Dates & course content details can be found in the Teaching Training & Think Tank tab above.

Youth Volume Think Tank

The Youth Volume Think Tank is generating practical solutions for individual music teachers to nurture their studios with diversity, equity and inclusion ASAP. 

Upcoming Spring 2023 Tank Tank sessions will feature graduates of the virtual Growing Equitable Music Studios Course of Action who will share the results of their course work and answer questions from our virtual audience.

Any one is welcome! Click button to join email list or email clara@detroityouthvolume.org to be sent the Zoom link once.

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"Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.” ~Shinichi Suzuki