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Guest post: Estela Aragon is a professional classical trumpeter currently residing in the city of Columbia, South Carolina. She is the founder and owner of the innovative MusicFit Academy, which offers private music lessons intertwined with physical well-being. Aragon was an active trumpeter in the Tampa Bay area in Florida, often performing as the principal trumpeter of the Tampa Bay Symphony, as a soloist and with numerous ensembles.
Aragon has seven years of experience teaching the trumpet to young players. She was a brass instructor with focus on trumpet at Don Banks Music in Tampa, FL, and shortly after started her own small studio, the TrumpetFit Studio. Her students often advance in chair placements at their own schools and win auditions into county and state honor bands.
Estela Aragon received her B.M from the University of Tampa and a M.M in Trumpet Performance from the University of South Carolina School of Music. She formerly studied with Aric Brian (professor of trumpet at the University of Tampa and active freelance musician), followed by studies with James Ackley (former Principal of the Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra and internationally acclaimed solo artist) and world renowned trumpeter Allen Vizutti.
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Greetings musical minds! I’ve got a cool subject today, one which I luckily stumbled upon in my program of a play called “Inventing Van Gogh” last night. I have been wanting to write a short blog about this many times but never got around to it. So let’s get to it.
Music is scientifically proven to improve mathematical skills. In an info graphic that can be seen here: http://dailyinfographic.com/music-lessons-make-you-smarter-infographic, we can see that “in a study of 96 children ages 5-7, those who received 7 months of supplementary music and arts classes earned HIGHER MATHEMATICS SCORES than those with the schools’ typical music and arts training.”
Math is not the only benefit, reading skills are also proven to be better. After all, music is yet another language us musicians speak! In the same info graphic as above we see another study “with over 500,000 high school students” that proved “a strong correlation between music instruction and HIGHER READING TEST SCORES.”
Music has a profound impact in brain activity. According to an article in INSIDE Magazine, “studies over time showed that the brain changes shape as the result of exposure to music: that discovery was mind-bending.”
In an even better example of the power of music, “researchers pitted music against anti-anxiety drugs in pre-operation patients, and they discovered that the patients who listened to music had lower cortisol levels (the hormone secreted to deal with stress) than the group who took medication.” A cool little thing I learned last night: sad music makes the brain release prolactin, the hormonal tranquilizer found in mother’s milk, making sad music a NATURAL TRANQUILIZER. -INSIDE Magazine.
SO, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? BECOME A PART OF SOMETHING THAT’S NOT ONLY FUN AND SELF-FULFILLING, BUT A PART OF AN ACTIVITY THAT ACTUALLY MAKES YOU SMARTER.
Please visit: www.musicfitacademy.com.
