Overview
Discovery Through The Arts offers private and ensemble music lessons alongside education and community outreach programs that unleash creativity, imagination and fun through exposure, participation and appreciation of the arts. With over 40 years of teaching experience, we’ve developed a holistic teach-to-learn approach that offers comprehensive training with a focus on building emotional and artistic connections.
Using a range of musical styles and inter generational teaching, we develop extraordinary musicians who are also outstanding human beings. Through ‘DTTA Youth Advantage’, our not-for-profit arm, we collaborate with foundations, social service and community groups to spread the natural healing power of the arts. Our music mentors help participants discover their own potential, preparing them for a lifetime of success.
Madoka Murata
Founder & Director
Madoka is the creator and director of Discovery Through The Arts.
With 45 years of teaching experience, Madoka is exceptionally equipped to effectively tackle the challenges presented by a broad array of learning styles and differences — a benefit to all students, and especially to those who have cognitive, emotional and/or physical difficulties or delays, students who are on the autism spectrum, as well as students who are extremely gifted.
An accomplished pianist, visual artist, and martial artist, Madoka draws on her vast experience and intense interest in many arts areas, to inform and inspire her teaching. Developing this multidisciplinary approach has enabled her to more effectively address her students’ diverse needs, as it allows communication with the students through more avenues and ways of thinking, while also encouraging creativity and thinking outside-of-the-box.
Alongside her own teaching, over two decades ago she initiated a Teach-to-Learn program, through which her students can work through an apprenticeship of teaching to become instructors themselves.
In more recent years, her continued drive to inspire and educate youth has led to the launch of community outreach activities and partnerships of Discovery Through The Arts with various organizations across the GTA, bringing the joy and power of music to groups of disadvantaged youth through the talents, skills, and energy of the DTTA programs and team.
Madoka’s firm belief in “creating and developing human beings — not performance machines” continues to nurture her ever-growing family of students, musicians and artists.
We need your help, to help youth who otherwise may not be able to access the arts, music specifically, in order to help them learn to succeed in other areas of their lives.
"I am a mom of a son, who suffered for years with depression and anxiety. Picking up a guitar and teaching himself, then getting into music at school opened a whole new world. But he was alone and could not find others to collaborate with, until a local mom, whose children also benefited by this program and are now professional musicians who give back, referred me to Discovery Through The Arts. Now he has a community and a place to grow, but the organization can not just sponsor youth like my son without your help. Thank you for considering supporting us" Cindy Fuller
