wbay.com:
Bach to Rock, America’s music school for students of all ages, announced today that it has signed its first-ever franchise agreement with Amplified Capital Partners, LLC to open a chain of Bach to Rock schools in Nassau County, NY, Westchester County, NY and Fairfield County, CT. The first location is slated to open in the fall of 2012.
“At Bach to Rock, we’ve experienced tremendous success serving the greater Washington D.C. area, and we are excited to expand our footprint in Connecticut and New York,” said Brian Gross, president of Bach to Rock. “With interest in playing music at an all-time high, we are confident that a musical hotbed like the New York metropolitan area will embrace the teaching methodology and philosophy of Bach to Rock, which is learning to play music while having fun.”
Bach to Rock opened its first corporate-owned location in Bethesda, Maryland in 2007 and has since grown to six Corporate-owned schools, including two in Maryland and four in Virginia. Co-founded by a Julliard-trained middle school teacher, Bach to Rock transformed music instruction into a team sport by coupling rigorous individual instruction with “jam sessions” that keep students motivated by playing in a group. In 2011, Inc. magazine named Bach to Rock as one of the fastest growing private companies in America and the Washington Business Journal named it the number one company to watch in 2012.