Improving learning skills, emotional well-being,
and quality of life through music.
Friendly Atmosphere | Rigorous Studies
Comfortable Studio | Flexible Summers
Competition and Exam Options | Emphasis on Classical Music
Multiple Performance Opportunities
Our schedule for the 2025 - 26 school year is full.
Please consider contacting Luke Bastian at bastianpiano.com
or The Music Connection at 651-464-5252.
Events
School Year Lessons Beginning Wednesday, September 3rd
No Lessons for MEA break Wednesday - Friday October 15th, 16th, and 17th
No Lessons for Halloween Friday, October 31st
Performance Parties Friday November 14th and 21st. 6:00 - 6:45pm
Fall Recital Saturday, Nove,ber 22nd at 10am. Forest Hills Church
Our Philosophy
Achievement
Mr. Nolden specializes in traditional, classical music and teaches students to understand the finest music of Western civilization. To accomplish this, students will gain mastery of proper piano technique, music theory, music history, and performance. In addition, students will become competent in improvisation, transposition,
and learning by ear.
Fulfillment
"What piano instructors really teach is a way of living, a pursuit of life in which all sides of our being – sensory, physical, intellectual, and spiritual – are put to use. Performance is a remarkable synthesis:
it is certainly work, and the study of performing, is, in a sense, the growing awareness of the self and its abilities. Even if the student doesn’t make a living in music, the study of music has helped him know himself, and he will do whatever work he does better because of that study.” - Robert Weirich
Enjoyment
Student progress is based, most importantly, on the child’s enjoyment of playing the piano. We work hard to make progress in learning, yet any child who is joyfully engaged in the lesson, in practicing at home, and in the thrill of making music, is the true sign of success.
About Mr. Nolden
Bruce Nolden has a degree in piano performance from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota and a Master’s degree in piano pedagogy from Saint Cloud State University.
He is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music with the Music Teacher National Association, an edorsed judge with Minnesota Music Teachers Association, and an active member of St. Paul Piano Teachers Association.
He has been teaching piano in the Forest Lake Area for 30 years and frequently accompanies at local schools and churches.