Olenka School of Music and the Arts

Olenka School of Music and the Arts is a music school in Hanover, Maryland, serving students from infants to adults across the Columbia and Ellicott City area. The school offers Music Together classes as a Licensed Music Together Facility, group music classes, private music lessons, dance classes, and summer camps and summer programs. Its teaching covers piano, music theory, composition, saxophone, clarinet, flute, jazz theory and improvisation, and keyboard musicianship, along with recitals and events. It holds a rating of 4.50.

The school teaches music as a language, encourages families to learn together, and follows an age-appropriate, progressive path through its curriculum. Classes are designed to be fun, exciting, and challenging enough to push students toward their potential, with the aim of building on natural talent over time. The curriculum has been in use for more than 30 years.

Owner and director Olenka Stasyshyn emigrated from Ternopil, Ukraine, to the United States in 1990 and settled in Maryland. She began teaching piano lessons at age 12 and graduated from Ukraine's Lviv Conservatory. In 1993 she purchased a piano in a shop window on Main Street in Historic Ellicott City and played to passers-by, gaining 120 students within a month, which began the Ellicott Square School of Music. The school now operates from a location on Berger Road in Hanover.

Its staff includes teachers who have taught since 1972, 1978, 1982, 2016, and 2018, among them certified Music Together teachers and instructors holding master's degrees in piano performance, piano accompaniment, music education, and music theory and musicology. The school is known for superb teaching, unique curricula, a progressive path, family learning, sparking creativity, and recitals and events, and it holds a positive rating from the customers who have reviewed it.

For families in Hanover and the surrounding Columbia and Ellicott City communities, the school pairs a long-running, family-centered curriculum with instruction that spans infancy through adulthood.