Music Instruction 
Award-winning music lessons, ensembles, and group classes for aspiring musicians of all ages and skill levels — children, teens, and adults.
Early Childhood 
Morning & Full-Day Preschool programs with a full, child-centered curriculum of creative specials like music, science, drama, social and emotional learning, and more!
Music Therapy 
Established in 1966, our pioneering Center for Music Therapy (CMT) uses guided music experiences to help individuals meet life's challenges.
BOP STOP 
BOP STOP at The Music Settlement is Cleveland's premier listening room: an intimate, acoustically pristine performance venue with sweeping views of Lake Erie.
Sips, Strings, N' Sights
October 10 from 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Join us at moCa to experience a musical brain break!
Enjoy locally brewed Phoenix Coffee, some original compositions, and moCa’s open gallery space. Perfect for art lovers, music enthusiasts, and anyone seeking a creative break in the heart of University Circle.
Friday, October 10: 12:00–1:00 PM
Location: moCa Cleveland: 11400 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106
Free and open to University Circle professionals
The Music Settlement, moCa Cleveland, and Phoenix Coffee invite you to a midday sensory experience blending experimental music, fresh coffee, and contemporary art. This free lunchtime event features a live performance by harpist Stephan Haluska, musician and instructor at The Music Settlement, alongside saxophonist AJ Kluth, a collaborator of TMS.
Set within moCa’s current exhibition by artist Beverly Semmes, the performance will take place in front of her striking installation of four monumental dresses. We are excited for this dynamic interplay between sound, sculpture, and space.
About the musicians:
Stephan Haluska
Cleveland-based improviser, harpist, composer, and music technologist, Stephan Haluska (he/they) draws from the harp's unique textural, percussive, physical, and kinetic qualities. Viewing the harp as a frequently misunderstood and underrepresented instrument in contemporary music, he often rejects conventional modes of playing in favor of finding new ways to expand his sound palette. Stephan plays with an advanced vocabulary of extended techniques and preparations, which explore the use of various tools, materials, gadgetry, and household objects, and through the use of electronic processing, he interweaves elements of found sound, assemblage, sound art, and movement into his artistic practice.
Since 2021, Stephan has led Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project (CUSP) as Managing Director. CUSP is dedicated to strengthening the artistic engagement of the Northeast Ohio community by championing the creation and performance of new and experimental music through concert programming and other events. Stephan is on faculty at Case Western Reserve University as Part-Time Lecturer in the music department, teaching music technology and on faculty at The Music Settlement, teaching harp, music theory, and music composition.
AJ Kluth
AJ Kluth, PhD, is a musicologist and saxophonist interested in popular music and experimentalisms after 1950. As a full-time lecturer in the musicology program at Case Western Reserve University he teaches lower- and upper-level courses related to popular music, global contexts, social justice, and (post)postmodernity. Dr. Kluth’s greatest long-term concern as a scholar and teacher is the re-visioning of music discourse toward a more global understanding of music study that forefronts inclusion and accessibility.
Since arriving in Cleveland in 2019, Kluth has organized study groups related to music and decolonization and continues to facilitate public-facing discussions about music, class, and race. His ongoing public initiatives work to challenge academic gatekeeping, making space for under-represented musics, artists, and communities in inclusive communities. In 2023 he organized Toward a Different Kind of Horizon at the Cleveland Museum of Art that comprised several days of class visits, panel discussions, and a collaborative concert with Moor Mother, Lonnie Holley, Lee Bains, and Mourning [A] BLKstar. This event fostered interdepartmental collaboration (CWRU’s Department of Music, English, and African and African American Studies concentration) and fostered engagement with more than six hundred students and community members.