As psychiatrist and trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk states in his acclaimed book, The Body Keeps the Score: brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma (2015), “children have a biological instinct to attach. They have no choice…”

Vast amounts of research has shown that music training has a tremendous impact on the development of the brain (Tierney & Kraus, 2013). Lifelong musicians display differences in brain structure when compared to nonmusicians, such as white matter organization and thicker gray matter in motor and auditory cortices.