SMYRNA/VININGS, EAST COBB On Tuesday, October 22nd at 12pm, The Music Studio Atlanta was recognized as the 2024 National Music School of the Year by Music Academy Success, the largest international trade organization dedicated to music academy owners. To celebrate this prestigious recognition, The Music Studio Atlanta hosted a special reception at its East Cobb location. Guests included Marty Fort, CEO of Music Academy Success, the studio’s teachers and staff, local dignitaries and Cobb Chamber leaders, select students and families, friends, supporters and members of the media. District 3 Commissioner JoAnn Birrell created a proclamation to honor this special event.
The Music Studio Atlanta boasts more than 1200 students between their in-home and two studio locations, with an impressive roster of 65 of the best music instructors in Atlanta, and is one of the largest music studios in the country. They have also been recognized in 2023 and 2024 by the Cobb Chamber as a Top 25 Small Business of the Year award, as well as Top 3 Best of Cobb award. Cecilia Rowe, Director and CEO of The Music Studio Atlanta, credits her amazing team of teachers, staff members, and the support of her family and husband, Sean Rowe, owner of St. Angelo’s Pizza, with locations in Smyrna and Cartersville.
The awards ceremony included a presentation of a crystal trophy to Director Rowe and a check for $1,000 followed by a celebratory dinner with Mr. Fort.
The 2024 School of the Year award was presented on stage in April to Director Rowe at the National Music Studio Owner Conference in Las Vegas, hosted by the Music Academy Success. At that time, The Music Studio Atlanta, chosen from a collection of national candidates, brought the trophy home to East Cobb, Smyrna/Vinings. This nomination is a testament to those schools that have demonstrated exceptional performance and dedication to music education as determined by their peers.
Director Cecilia Rowe says, “It is an immense honor to receive the 2024 National School of the Year award, and I am deeply grateful to Music Academy Success and my peers across the country for this recognition. Over the past 30 years, music education has not just been my profession—it has been my passion and my life's work. The joy of watching our students discover their own love for music has been the greatest reward of all. This award is a testament to the incredible community we’ve built together—students, teachers, and families alike. I am profoundly thankful for each and every person who has been a part of this journey. Here’s to many more years of making music and inspiring future generations.”
About The Music Studio Atlanta
The Music Studio Atlanta opened in 2011 growing out of Courtnay & Rowe In-Home Music Academy and continuing a 30+ year tradition of offering quality music lessons to thousands of Atlanta students, of all ages and levels. With physical studio locations in Vinings and East Cobb, this multi-award winning studio offers lessons in piano, voice, guitar, drums, strings, woodwinds and preschool music, 7 days a week and employs a large roster of top-notch teachers and support staff.
Students enjoy many opportunities to perform including Holiday/Winter Concerts, bi-monthly Open Mic Nights, Summer Recitals, St. Angelo's Summer Series, and their Destination Performance Series where students perform on some of the most famous stages across the country.
The Music Studio Atlanta is especially proud of its proprietary, patent-pending reward curriculum, which encourages student progress through a series of rewards and recognition, as well as their involvement in their local community with their Café Jam program that goes into elementary schools performing and educating students about music in the school cafeteria at lunchtime.
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4895 S. Atlanta Rd, NE, Suite 108, Atlanta, GA 30339
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2100 Roswell Rd #1128, Marietta, GA 30062
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