Music Matters
72%
72% of business leaders say that creativity is the number one skill they are seeking when hiring.
- Navigator: Facts & Figures - Americans for the Arts and Vans Custom Culture
22%
Kindergarten through third grade children have 22% higher math scores if they are involved in a music program.
- University of Bristish Columbia
10 yrs
Musicians with at least 10 years of instrumental musical training remined cognitively sharp in advanced age.
- Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, July 2012
53%
America is a country full of music makers, 113 million, or 53% of Americans over the age of 12, are current or former music makers.
- 1997 "American Attitudes Towards Music" poll conducted by the Gallup Organization
7.2 pts
Children involved in music score 7.2 points higher on I.Q. tests.
- American Psychological Association, 2006
66%
66% of music majors who applied to medical school were admitted, the highest percentage of any group.
- "The case for Music in the Schools," Phi Delta Kappa, February 1994
46%
The University of California study showed that after eight months of keyboard lessons, preschoolers showed a 46% boost in the spatial reasoning IQ.
- "Music and Spatial Task Performance: A Casual Relationship," University of California, Irvine 1994