The Melbourne Inner North Performing Arts Academy

is a social enterprise community music school that provides a nurturing, student-centered, life enriching and musically challenging learning experiences for students of all ages, both adults and children.


We use our funds to serve the community with the social outcome of common good and betterment of the community. MINPAA is socially innovative in the way it thinks outside of the box and generates enough income to cover its costs.

MINPAA achieves this by providing accessible music education for all communities, as well as providing volunteers and trainees access to employment and training
We derive all our income from providing services and trade through improved market access, and the majority of our profits are channeled towards our social mission of bridging communities through music education.
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We pride ourselves on having a high-level, concise, and multi-layered curriculum incorporating Feierabend, Orff & Kodaly methodologies, along with Volaris, Suzuki, Alfred's and ABC instrumental curriculum.

We offer school pick up from Coburg North Primary School 5 days a week

Our community focussed performing arts experiences celebrate diversity, and warmly welcome asylum seekers, single parents and those in need. By instilling students with a life-long love for music, bridging communities through music and engagement with cultural diversity, we enrich the social and intellectual fabric of our local community
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Programs we offer include:

Baby Sensory Music Enrichment classes Mondays 
Vocal and Group classes in all disciplines
Kindergarten multi-instrumental 2 hour drop-off sessions 6 days a week
Family Choir
The Melbourne Children’s Choir - as part of the Boite Children's Chorus, Wednesdays 3.45-5.15
Rock Band, Songwriting, and Parent & Child Musical Journeys
Home Visits

We also incorporate the Australian Curriculum for Music Education and ensure the following standards are met in all lessons at the academy - Early Childhood - Grade 2
become aware of rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre and texture
explore sounds as they learn to listen to and make music
learn to discriminate between sounds and silence, and loud and soft sounds
learn to move and perform with beat and tempo
learn to listen as performers and as audience
Grade 3-4
extend their understanding of the elements of music as they develop their aural skills
match pitch and show the direction of a tune with gesture or drawings
recognise difference between notes moving by step and by leap
recognise and discriminate between rhythm and beat
explore meaning and interpretation, forms, and elements including rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre and texture as they make and respond to music
learn to listen as performers and as audience, extending their awareness of themselves and others as performers and as audience
Grades 4-5
further their understanding of rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre and texture in music
extend their understanding and use of aural skills as they sing and play independent parts against contrasting parts and recognise instrumental, vocal and digitally generated sounds
explore and use rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre and texture in music they perform and compose
explore meaning and interpretation, forms and elements of music as they make and respond to music.
Grades 5-6
further their understanding of rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre and texture in music
extend their understanding and use of aural skills as they sing and play independent parts against contrasting parts and recognise instrumental, vocal and digitally generated sounds
explore and use rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre and texture in music they perform and compose
explore meaning and interpretation, forms and elements of music as they make and respond to music.

We have a team of wonderful teachers available to teach in the privacy of your home or office
Our custom built studio is at 4 Bolingbroke st Pascoe Vale as well as home visits throughout the whole of Melbourne
We also teach Tuesdays at Galada Community Centre
Contact us for more information
Melbourneinnernorthpaa@gmail.com

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Music gives a soul to the universe, flight to the imagination, and life to everything - Plato

WE BUILD MUSICANS OF THE FUTURE BY BUILDING BRIDGES

​THROUGH MUSIC EDUCATION

I acknowledge the traditional Aboriginal owners of country throughout Victoria and pay my respect to them, their culture and their Elders past, present and future

We support Music Victoria and Rainbow Families in our community