About Us
Unique Curriculum + Dedicated Educators
For over 60 years, Baldwin Music Education Center has been sparking a love of music—starting as early as 6 months old and continuing through age 5. Our specially designed group classes are anything but ordinary.
Preschoolers experience a one-of-a-kind curriculum that blends keyboard lab time, rhythm instruments, movement, and singing, all connected to familiar seasonal themes and everyday childhood experiences. Music here isn’t just an “extra”—it’s core to how children learn, grow, and express themselves.
Led by trained, nurturing instructors, students build far more than musical skills. Through active music-making, children develop focus, coordination, creativity, and self-confidence—foundational abilities that support learning for a lifetime.
Interested in Joining the Team of Educators? Send a letter of interest and resume to: Info@BaldwinMusicEduCenter.com
Rachel Kramer, MM, MA, BM, NCTM, President
- Rachel Kramer, NCTM, holds a BM in piano performance and an MA from Eastern Illinois University and an MM in piano performance and pedagogy from The University of Michigan. She is the President of Music Learning Center, Inc. an independent music teaching studio of nearly 200 students ages 6-months-18 years. She is Founder/ CEO of AlivenArts, Founder of Queen City Music Fest and SOS Music Group.
- She has produced many community-based arts programs, served as administrator of the Cincinnati Public School Fine Arts Gifted Testing program, as well as creating educational materials for PBS ThinkTV in collaboration with the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra’s “Carnival of the Animals: Remix” concert.
- Rachel has held positions at the Music Teachers National Association, including Assistant Executive Director and was an Adjunct Faculty member at Wilmington College. Rachel was the Associate Director/Accompanist for MUSE, Cincinnati’s Women’s Choir, and the Associate Director of Music at St. John’s Unitarian Universalist Church. She has been the accompanist for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Coalition Chorale, Wilmington College Chorale and College Community Chorus, and four prison choirs in Ohio. From 1990-1996,
- Kramer served as the Manager of Educational Programs/Publications for Baldwin Piano & Organ Co. Rachel is the 2009 Ohio Independent Music Teacher of the Year.
- Kramer is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music; Specialist in Group Teaching/Recreational Music Making. She has published many articles on various educational and piano pedagogy topics, has presented workshops across the country, adjudicated and has taught group piano to students of all ages for over 30 years from colleges to country clubs – prisons to cruise ships!