Amabile School of Music

I'm very happy enrolling my kids at Amabile School of Music. The teachers are all professional musicians, and I can tell they are passionate about their teaching. Both of my kids are now improving a lot and they started really enjoying playing the piano. The staff has always been helpful to us. It's a good learning environment and I appreciate the school. Thank you!

I got an excellent music foundation here. I am now in high school and don't take lessons anymore, but I am really glad I learned from the teachers at Amabile. I play a few different instruments now, even though I only took piano there. I branched out because of the basics I learned. I think it was a great place.

We are getting more and more unhappy with this music school because of its poor customer service, high cost and dishonesty by its owner Teresa Yu. It is probably why our music teachers that we like are leaving without any advanced notice. We are left scrambling to find another teacher all of a sudden. Teresa Yu is extremely strict and rigid in her management of the business all in the name of increasing her profit. She is unprofessional. She lied about the number of attendants for the recital because she was not willing to accommodate one extra family member. A few our friends have also left this school one by one lately.

What a wonderful little school with such big love for what they do! As a music teacher myself I've had the chance to visit both the SF location here as well as the Moraga location, and both are more than up to snuff when it comes to what they bring to their students, teachers, and community. A visit there brought me joy to see kids with big grins pasted on their faces while they navigated in or out of the building and the practice rooms, which is honestly a rarity in my experience working with a handful of other music schools in the SF Bay Area. All of the students from kids to adults seem both genuinely interested in their studies as well as excited to involve themselves in them, and as a music teacher myself as of the past 15+/- years, it gives me great hope that a school like Amabile exists to keep music in both the education system and in the hearts of the community at large :)

This school has the worst and unfair makeup policy of all the institutions that we have been to. Like previous reviews of this school, I also find their policy and the director Theresa Yu the director to be not customer centric and favors heavily the school financially. With their policy, what the customers end up paying per lesson is a lot more than what is on the paper or what you think. All makeup lessons are group lessons by zoom, not in person. Their policy allows the teacher to cancel your lesson without obligation from the school to make up another in person lesson for you even though the teacher or school is the one who initiates the cancelation. If the student needs to cancel a lesson, even though the teacher has a vacant spot due to a cancellation by another student, the school still does not allow you to fill that vacant spot as a make up lesson. The school contacts me multiple occasions to ask if our lesson appointment to be moved to accommodate, but we ask to move our appointment a bit on rare occasions, the school never attempt to assist! Their response is always to cancel our lesson and do a makeup group lesson by zoom. And if you want the lesson to be with the same teacher, there are usually only 3 dates available over 3 to 6 months!! Even if you can attend one of those makeup group lessons by zoom, the quality of the lesson is not the same. You lost money there; and if you attend lesson given by a different teacher, that teacher has to start from scratch with you, you lost value/money again; and if you could not attend to any zoom lesson, you just lost the value of the entire lesson which is $72.5 for 45 minutes lesson at the time of this writing. Another unfair practice by the owner of this school Teresa Yu is that she can decide to terminate your lessons without any advanced notice but she requires that you give her at least 2 weeks notice if you want to cancel your lessons. She would cancel your lessons if you make comments that you feel her policy is unfair. Lastly I need to make a comment about Teresa Yu. She is not customer centric to say the least. Communication with her is difficult. She has no perspective or understanding of where I come from. Making money or the bottom line seems to be her only purpose.

I was looking for good piano studio in SF to prepare my kids for ABRSM tests. After searching for a while, we found Amobile. Both of my boys are now on track for both theory and practice tests. And Teresa, the director, is so good at motivating and bring the best out of the kids which she calls by "young artists." She is a true artist herself and is a hard to find music teacher and music learning advocate!

Oh dear, I realize I posted this review before I had come across good piano teachers. This place is not a place that I would ever enroll my kinds in knowing what I know now about what teaching piano entails. My children spent about 2 years at this place and learned absolutely NOTHING. They had to start from zero with their current competent and master piano teacher.

All I can say is, "Wow!" Awesome facilities with very knowledgeable faculty and super helpful staff. This music school is great for students of all ages and interests. You won't be disappointed.

it is a reputable music school with lots of experienced teachers. the school offers students awards and recital opportunities. staff is friendly and helpful. highly recommend!

The teachers are great at interacting with their students and helping them learn and are great at inspiring their students.