OUR KINDERMUSIK STUDIO STORY
We have always been inspired by music... since we were super young.
For me, I picked up a violin at the age of 6 and immediately fell in love with everything about it! The sound captured my soul! And so began a lifelong love of playing music.
There were many ups and downs along the way. Ever since my husband and I launched our private strings studio in 2004 we have begun a journey of inspiring and nurturing young children and people of all ages to play strings!
In 2014, I began another thrilling journey that re-inspired EVERYTHING I have done since.
I became... a mother. From the first moment I heard my little one's heartbeat... I knew I was responsible for helping to inspire someone else's future hopes, dreams and purpose in life- my baby's. Of course, being a musician and string educator I wanted my baby to benefit from this powerful medium that would help shape him to be his BEST potential!
However, HOW to do this? I knew how to teach young children strings when they reached the appropriate developmental age of 4/5.. but what about before that? My intense research led me to Kindermusik International University- the leader in music and movement classes for children- newborn- seven years old! Since the nearest class to me was Orlando or Boca Raton... well I decided I needed to change that! After an intense and comprehensive six month training in early childhood education I became licensed in the Fall of 2016!
Since 2017, we have had the honor of serving 90+ Kindermusik families on the Treasure Coast! Since 2003, we have assisted over 500 students in private string lessons. Each family we have had the privilege of resonating with has left endearing "heartprints" on our studio's soul! We have seen how music has changed children, parents and bonded our community!
We have always been inspired by music... since we were super young.
For me, I picked up a violin at the age of 6 and immediately fell in love with everything about it! The sound captured my soul! And so began a lifelong love of playing music.
There were many ups and downs along the way. Ever since my husband and I launched our private strings studio in 2004 we have begun a journey of inspiring and nurturing young children and people of all ages to play strings!
In 2014, I began another thrilling journey that re-inspired EVERYTHING I have done since.
I became... a mother. From the first moment I heard my little one's heartbeat... I knew I was responsible for helping to inspire someone else's future hopes, dreams and purpose in life- my baby's. Of course, being a musician and string educator I wanted my baby to benefit from this powerful medium that would help shape him to be his BEST potential!
However, HOW to do this? I knew how to teach young children strings when they reached the appropriate developmental age of 4/5.. but what about before that? My intense research led me to Kindermusik International University- the leader in music and movement classes for children- newborn- seven years old! Since the nearest class to me was Orlando or Boca Raton... well I decided I needed to change that! After an intense and comprehensive six month training in early childhood education I became licensed in the Fall of 2016!
Since 2017, we have had the honor of serving 90+ Kindermusik families on the Treasure Coast! Since 2003, we have assisted over 500 students in private string lessons. Each family we have had the privilege of resonating with has left endearing "heartprints" on our studio's soul! We have seen how music has changed children, parents and bonded our community!
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"We love Kindermusik with Ms. Nicole! The classes are incredibly creative and engaging. Our little one has so much fun each week, and we have seen a lot of positive development. We also love learning new tools like transition songs that we now use at home! Thank you, Nicole!" - Sharon Hayes Packard- Indian River Healthy Start
OUR STUDIO MISSION
Our studio mission is to resonate children and families in thrilling soul-FULL musical memories that will inspire them to GROW into the BEST potential of who they truly are and WANT to BECOME!
At Kindermusik with Ocean Strings Studio we believe in experiencing the BEST of ourselves and others around us by stringing many meaningful MUSICAL moments... at EACH and EVERY CLASS.
By celebrating the unique and creative ideas of each student, a child and their parent forms a bond they share both TOGETHER and as a musical community!
Our studio believes in nurturing and inspiring children and their parents to receive the brain boosting developmental benefits of music and movement... AND to THRIVE as HUMAN BEINGS.
At Kindermusik with Ocean Strings Studio we believe in experiencing the BEST of ourselves and others around us by stringing many meaningful MUSICAL moments... at EACH and EVERY CLASS.
By celebrating the unique and creative ideas of each student, a child and their parent forms a bond they share both TOGETHER and as a musical community!
Our studio believes in nurturing and inspiring children and their parents to receive the brain boosting developmental benefits of music and movement... AND to THRIVE as HUMAN BEINGS.
We welcome you to join our Ocean Strings Studio family where we will S-T-R-I-N-G!
BE:
Soul-full in your love,
Thrilling in your joy,
Resonate authentically,
Inspire to excellence,
Nurture the "whole" potential child AND:
Grow and flourish as spectacular “waves” on the ocean of humanity!
Musical Wishes,
Richard & Nicole Ballinger💕👣🎶
MEET OUR KINDERMUSIK EDUCATOR!
In addition Nicole has passionate interests in community volunteering both with the public school orchestra program and in the Haitian/ French community.
In 2016, Nicole became licensed in early childhood education to begin integrating the highly successful international music and movement Kindermusik program as part of her new studio classes for infants to age five and their caretakers. |
NICOLE BALLINGER
Nicole has been performing strings for the past 25+ years and started her musical journey learning the violin with Suzuki and traditional methods at six years old. She studied under the direction of Ed Edwards, Cindy Nordstrum and other teachers in Rhode Island. After her move to Florida she returned to music performance alongside her husband Richard. She has performed with several chamber groups and community orchestras among them the Indian River Pops and the Treasure Coast Symphony and now currently the Vero Beach Chamber Orchestra. She has also co-founded and is the event coordinator for the ensembles Ocean Strings- a quartet and duo ensemble that has performed for many special events on the Treasure Coast for the past 15+ years. She enjoys teaching multi-genre strings to beginning-intermediate students at their Vero Beach studio. She's a current member of ASTA ( American String Teacher's Association) and SAA ( Suzuki Association of the America's). 
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Nicole, WHAT DO YOU ENJOY ABOUT TEACHING MUSIC THE MOST?
"Ooohhhhh... So many things! If I had to summarize it though..
I absolutely LOVE when we reach an "AHA!" moment either with our children or with a caretaker in our classes! You can tell when MUSIC has just made an impact not only on someone's mind but their HEART.
Its such a special glowing feeling and a GIFT that I get to experience EVERY DAY!"
"Ooohhhhh... So many things! If I had to summarize it though..
I absolutely LOVE when we reach an "AHA!" moment either with our children or with a caretaker in our classes! You can tell when MUSIC has just made an impact not only on someone's mind but their HEART.
Its such a special glowing feeling and a GIFT that I get to experience EVERY DAY!"