SPA Pricing and Policies

Prices are for a year (15 lessons in the fall / 15 lessons in the spring)

String Private Lessons

Electric Bass • Electric Guitar • Acoustic Guitar • Ukulele • Viola • Violin

• 30-minute lessons | $1,014
• 45-minute lessons | $1,438
• 60-minute lessons | $1,852

Other Private Lessons

Clarinet • Flute • French Horn • Low Brass • Oboe • Percussion • Piano • Composition • Songwriting • Music Production • Saxophone • Trumpet • Voice‍

• 30-minute lessons | $925
• 45-minute lessons | $1,337
• 60-minute lessons | $1,770

Ballet Classes

Click here to view the full list of pricing and class schedules.

Children’s Choir

3rd–6th Grade

• Tuesdays | 3:40–5:00 p.m. | $325

Homeschool Choir

6th–12th Grade

• Tuesdays | 3:40–5:00 p.m. | $330

Beginner Piano Class (Semester-Long Only)

Ages 6–9

• Wednesdays | 5:15–6:00 p.m. | $170

Strings Class (26 Classes per Year)

• Wednesdays | 5:00–6:00 p.m.
  Free for students enrolled in private lessons through SPA.

$380 for students enrolled in private Suzuki lessons (NOT through SPA).

Registration

New students

First, click the Register button on the SPA home page, and register for your chosen lesson type or class. When asked for the name of the instructor, please select New Student—Need Teacher Assigned.

The staff will pair you with a teacher, so you only need to wait for a call from that teacher, which will usually come within 48 hours of registration. You and your new teacher will decide on a weekly lesson time. If we are unable to pair you with a teacher or if no teacher has a compatible schedule, we will gladly and quickly refund your payment in full.

If you have any questions before you register, contact the SPA office by calling (901) 347-5711 or emailing spa@bellevue.org to discuss your needs.

Returning students

As long as you and your teacher have already coordinated your lesson time and duration, you are welcome to register by clicking Register on the SPA home page.

Tuition Payment Plan

When you register for lessons in the fall, you are securing your spot and your lesson time for the entire school year (both fall and spring semesters).

You may choose to pay the full tuition balance upon registration. However, most people are automatically enrolled in our new Easy Payment Plan.

In the Easy Payment Plan, you will only pay a deposit at registration. Within a week after registration, you will receive an email containing a breakdown of tuition owed, a link to pay, and a schedule of dates and amounts due. The first payment is due on August 7, and every subsequent payment is due on the first business day of each of the following months (September, October, November, February, and March). To ease your financial burden around the holidays, there are no payments due in December or January.

At the end of each month, you’ll receive a reminder email containing an updated pay schedule and the link to pay. The online payment system saves your information, so your payments are easy to make. There is no longer a $14 semesterly fee to utilize the payment plan.

‍Click here for detailed payment plan information.

New Refund Policy

Students may drop lessons at any time during the year and will not be expected to make any further payments. However, there will be no refunds for previously made payments.

Multi-Lesson Discount Plan

Any family with more than one student registering or one student registering for multiple lessons may receive a tuition discount, starting with the second lesson (excludes fees; lower-priced lessons will be given the discount). To receive this discount, email Darla Lovett at dlovett@bellevue.org after you have registered and paid the deposit, and she can adjust your account accordingly.

Missed Lessons

Teachers are not required to make up lessons missed by students. Lessons that were missed due to student absences will NOT be rolled over to the next semester. Tuition will not be refunded for the student’s absences. These policies are in place to protect the teacher’s time. SPA pays teachers for the time they set aside for us, whether they spend their time teaching a lesson or sitting in their room without a student to teach. This is one reason SPA is able to attract and keep top-caliber teachers.

However, any lesson missed because of the teacher will be made up before the beginning of the next semester.

In the event of inclement weather, SPA follows Bellevue’s policies. If the church is closed, SPA is also closed. This means that SPA will not necessarily follow the school systems’ responses to inclement weather. Visit at bellevue.org for weather updates. If you decide to miss a lesson but the church is still open, the teacher is not obligated to make up that lesson.

SPA will follow the church office schedule for holidays. If the church is closed for a holiday, then SPA is also closed.

For a full list of SPA policies, please see the Student Handbook found below under Documents.

SPA 2023–2024 Student Handbook

Click here to see our Student Handbook.

For our Parent String Handbook, click here.

New Suzuki parents, click here for more information.

General SPA calendar

Find our general SPA calendar here.

Ballet calendar

For calendar questions specific to ballet, click here.