The Benefits of Music Education

Click the links below to read about music advocacy and research on the benefits of Music Education

The key to raising literacy and numeracy standards

Music makes the Difference – What research says about the ways music can help your child.

Why Music? An article exploring how music contributes to our lives and what it means to be human

Music to our Ears - A Guide for Parents in the Campaign for Music Education in Schools. ‘Music to Our Ears’ is part of the Parental Engagement Project, an initiative of Shark Island Productions, The Caledonia Foundation and the Music Council of Australia

What if every child had access to music education from birth?

Richard Gill on the value of Music Education

The Benefits of Music for the Brain

Music is Good – Music Australia 

Music Education isn’t a luxury.  All our children should be learning music Leon R. de Bruin

Bigger Better Brains – a website dedicated to research and education about how music learning develops brains.