Villa-Lobos School of Music - Rio de Janeiro - RJ

Wonderful to see the dedication of teachers and staff of this school. My son attended a piano recital, it was beautiful. Congratulations to all of you. Too bad Brazil fights alone for the culture of this country.

Good morning, I have a suggestion that has nothing to do with musical training, because in fact, I still haven't been able to enroll in school. The school secretary for being on vacation, information given by an employee to me, is not working until 6pm as informed on the website. So, I suggest, at least let it be clearly warned. I say this because there are people who work until the conventional hours of 17h-18h (in this case, me) who plan to arrive at the registration space, until the time described. And twice in a row, it happened to arrive 5-10 min to close the secretariat (according to the website, and according to the employees themselves) with the documents (identity, CPF, 3x4 photo and R $ 50.00) to be able to quickly make the enrollment, and in those two moments, the employees were leaving the moment I arrived and informed me to come back at another time, as the enrollment had been extended. The first time, I understood, because it was a beautiful Friday night, and I understood that as it was the end of the week, the employee could really be super tired, so I understand work. However, on Monday, the beginning of the week, I did not understand, and I found it super unfair. Since the person spends money to try to get there in time to register at the time indicated. A little more empathy for those who are doing everything to try to make dreams come true. Grateful for the attention, and again, it's just a suggestion.

I decided to learn to play a musical instrument. I just wanted to learn to play a musical instrument, of which I chose the guitar and the piano. I enrolled at the Villa Lobos Music School. I believe that school is a place for learning and using content, which does not occur in this school. There are several issues to be pointed out: the cost of the course, for 4 months, is R $ 820.00 in the first instrument and in the second R $ 435 , 00 for 4 months. I paid with the belief that I would learn something. From 3 hours of guitar lessons per week, I only had 40 to 45 minutes per week, because the other 2 hours are imposed on the student for classes that have no interest, that is, music and rhythm laboratory. piano, I only had 15 to 20 minutes of class per week, because the teacher said that for beginners this was enough. The guitar teacher was great (Machado), but the classroom, of just over 2 square meters I had 5 students at different levels of learning, the students' guitars were bumping into each other because the room was so full. I repeated several times with the president of the institution and finally with the two coordinators. During the course of enrollment and classes, it is clear that the school lacks interaction and integration with students, there is no perception of their needs and demands. PROBLEMS FOUND1 - THE SCHOOL HAS NO CONTROL OF THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN THE CLASSROOM; 2 - THE SCHOOL DOES NOT AFTER THE LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE AND INTEREST OF THE STUDENTS TO FRAMEWORK THEM IN THE LEARNING PLAN; 3 - EACH GUITAR TEACHER USES A DIFFERENT TEACHING METHOD; 4 - THERE IS NO CONCERN WITH THE LEARNING LEVEL OF THE STUDENTS; 5 - STUDENTS COMING FROM COURSE OF THE YEAR PREVIOUS STAY IN THE SAME ROOM THAT NEW STUDENTS; When asking these questions for both the president of the institution and the course coordinators, the president told me that he learned to play the guitar at home: QUESTION: Why is there this school? The coordinators were looking for subterfuge to justify so much pedagogical incompetence. It seemed that this school does not value learning / teaching music, but making money, as paying R $ 1,255.00 for 4 months of classes (August-November) and not learning anything at all is not a problem for the student, but for organization of the school, the pedagogical deficiency of the school, the lack of commitment and seriousness with what it intends to teach and the way in which it organizes its students and its content. Given this question and the high amount paid to this school, it is morally correct to request the return of the amount paid for the course, since nothing was learned or learned. I am not satisfied that this school kept R $ 1.300,00 reais from me and I have not even learned musical notes, as they are not given. I complained to those responsible, went there several times and informed them that I would put the complaint on RECLAME HERE, but the school does not allow its valuable name to be listed in companies with problems, which is useless, because this space here at the school shows that it there are many, many problems and students cannot complain to a legal body. This space here is full of complaints from school users. Bad school. I WANT MY MONEY BACK, BECAUSE MUSIC I DID NOT LEARN.

It is a pity that the school does not have a Manager interested in bringing excellence to the school. I am still without access to enrollment for the second semester, without payment because the platform is deficient and not upgradeable. In the beginning there was no percussion teacher on the website and therefore I could not enroll and until today this problem remains. There is no communication by whatsapp, email or phone with anyone interested in solving. The most amazing is that it is the most expensive practical courses of just once a week with just 30 minutes to talk or ask questions about what is not taught. Unfortunate. FAETEC is at a much higher level.

The music theory classes are great, as the secretary of that school.... I have to lock my enrollment because I'm going to have surgery and they don't answer my 2 whatsapp, email and phone numbers.

I studied many years ago. I took a clarinet course with teachers like José Botelho, participated in the popular band with the late Ricardo Lobos, a symphonic band with the master Júlio, playing alongside many colleagues at the time, young people who are now prominent in popular music in RJ. In my day, everything worked fine. Longing.

Horrible experience! Total disregard for students. I enrolled in the basic course in February, the school told me I could set up my schedule, but in the end they chose all the schedules for me, and these schedules matched those of my classes at college, so I couldn't attend classes. In addition to having released these schedules on a Friday, with classes scheduled to start on Monday! They didn't change my schedules, when they answered me to change I had already missed 1 month of classes... A total disregard! I asked for a cancellation and refund, and in addition to refusing to refund the registration fee, they only opened the process today, 2 months later... I don't recommend it! School totally without commitment to its students.

This place was once a great music school, but today it's a third-party company that uses the name and space. The price seems attractive at first, but when you find out that you are taking lessons in groups or 15 minutes a week, you realize that it's actually not a good deal if the goal is to learn an instrument. The space is great for meeting people and the teachers are great, victims of the system as much as the students. I finished the course and until today I have not received the certificate, they do not even respond. They just want to sell.