Welcome to
Music Room and
Uplevel U: Music!
For all your musical needs since 1960
Music Room was founded as Bessing's Music Store in 1960. It was moved to its current Borden Road, Cheektowaga location in 1976 and was renamed The Music Room. In 2013, Karen Janiszewski took over ownership and has worked tirelessly to give customers, students and their families an experience like no other in the WNY area. To celebrate growth and survival in the past decade, we celebrate with a new website experience and a new department to bring what we do best beyond the Western New York locale, through Uplevel U: Music.
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Music Room boasts a music lessons program based on individualized methods, diversified needs for achievement, and community, all while keeping that neighborhood, family atmosphere that people crave. We also have the most flexible musical instrument rental program in the area, do most music instrument repairs on-site that instruments need, and our music store retail area is stocked with all the music instrument supplies that band and orchestra programs recommend.
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Students that take music lessons with us are known to achieve lofty goals and carry their newfound skills into other areas of performing arts. Our music lessons faculty creates professionals, students that become college music majors, and music hobbyists of all ages that embrace music as a part of their identity.
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The launch of the Uplevel U: Music project in 2023 presents to the world one of the first catalogs of online music PD courses specifically created for music teachers. Relevant professional development courses for music teachers is very difficult to find but with Uplevel U: Music, school and studio music teachers from around the world may strengthen their skills through online, on-demand PD right from their home.
News
Special Hours for the Week of Monday 3/25 - Saturday 3/30!
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Monday: 4:30 to 8:30
Tuesday: 3:00 to 7:00
Wednesday: 3:30 to 7:30
Thursday: 3:00 to 8:00
Saturday: 9am to 3:30pm
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One of our students was just recently accepted to SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music and SUNY Fredonia.
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One of our students is working hard to become a finalist in the main national Elvis ETA in Memphis.
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One of our students was just cast as Miss Hannigan in her school's production of Annie.
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One of our students just picked up his fourth instrument that he's learning.
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One of our students learned to read notes on the bell kit so fast, he was given a solo in the school concert for a very famous "Harry Potter" theme.
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One of our students was just awarded a solo for the next jazz ensemble concert.
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One of our students just achieved 3rd in her Senior Class Rank.
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More coming...
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Where are all these amazing student achievements coming from? We don't force students to be the best and the greatest, but we are proud to help inspire them to do great things! So whether you want to join the list or learn something amazing for fun, come see what our secret is.
Uplevel U: Music News!
Uplevel U: Music is beginning to get some national attention in the news!
Check out our latest feature in:
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We are back to Fall/Spring Hours!
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Mondays: 3pm to 8pm
Tuesday: 2pm to 7pm
Wednesdays: 3pm to 8pm
Thursdays: 3pm to 8pm
Saturdays: 9am to 3pm
Closed Fridays and Sundays. Additional hours by chance or appointment.
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We still have rentals!
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It's time to gear up for back-to-school music program needs! Come see us for instrument rentals, method books and supplies.
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Did you know we have an internship program? It's made for high school seniors that are preparing to enter a college program for music education or music business! More details on the lesson page. Currently we have no openings- we have two awesome interns right now. ;)
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