https://www.mjms.school/contactus daily 0.75 2023-08-30 https://www.mjms.school/home daily 1.0 2026-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e88ff9046d9d05b34be2a13/82485907-0bb5-4f6b-85aa-96d23d8f9bad/785FF0B5-4277-479C-B366-92B329DFF205.jpg Home - Music is for Everyone! Welcome to the McDonald Johnston Music Studio! We believe that music lessons should be fun. Challenging, inspiring, eclectic, reflective, engaging, disciplined – yes! – but isn’t it time we all accepted that music-making should be, at its very core, joyful! Over the years, we have made a simple but powerful discovery: if a student enjoys playing, playing (and progress) will continue. We believe that feeling comfortable with the fundamentals is the first step on the road to a lifetime of musical enjoyment. We encourage our students to be involved with making decisions about what songs and artists they’d like to study; we supply arrangements and instruction based around that material. Your favourite Taylor Swift song? A Beethoven composition you’ve always wanted to try? The Beatles? 80s hits from Stranger Things? The snippet of a tune that you made up yourself, that you think might make a great song? All are good starting points! Of course, we have our own suggestions and favourites that we’re happy to share. We welcome everyone; our only pre-requisite is a love of music, and a desire to learn. https://www.mjms.school/about-us daily 0.75 2025-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e88ff9046d9d05b34be2a13/e47fb1bb-2b88-4596-b496-52db72b2679e/IMG_4942.jpeg About Us - Our Story Founded in Toronto in 2006 by Annie McDonald and Michael Johnston, the McDonald Johnston Music Studio (MJMS) provides a wide range of music lessons to people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds. MJMS teaches and celebrates music rooted in traditions of diverse Canadian communities. We are comfortable working in many musical styles: folk, pop, jazz, classical, blues, rock, country, indie, and RCM. MJMS started with a handful of students taking lessons from Michael in our Toronto apartment in 2006. From 2007 – 2010, hundreds of students came to our home studio for lessons on piano, guitar, accordion, voice, songwriting, recording, and theory. In September 2010, we opened our music school on Roncesvalles Avenue with four dedicated teaching rooms and space for our March Break and summer music camps. We began offering in-home lessons in Toronto’s West End in 2015, and in 2018, a new chapter began for MJMS as we moved into our largest space yet, a brand-new renovated studio HQ at 2176 Dundas Street West, Toronto. Beginning in 2020 MJMS is proud to offer virtual lessons so you can safely learn with us wherever you are. In the spring of 2021, we officially changed our name to McDonald Johnston Music Studio Inc - still MJMS, for short! - to reflect our 15 years of business partnership. Our wonderful community of instructors and students, neighbours and friends motivate and inspire us daily. We love what we do! https://www.mjms.school/get-started daily 0.75 2025-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e88ff9046d9d05b34be2a13/edd6572e-d668-4e5d-b034-f81f13f53542/IMG_8849.jpeg Get Started - Join us at our Roncesvalles studio! Piano, guitar, ukulele, drums, bass, voice, songwriting, accordion, theory or recording. We would love to be a part of your musical journey! Registration for our 2025-26 studio year is now open! 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