Diller-Quaile's mission is to teach music in a way that develops the innate musicality in each student and inspires participation for a lifetime. The School's comprehensive and coordinated approach to lifelong music education is based on the following principles:

• The capacity for understanding and creating music is in everyone;
• Music provides a lifelong source of enjoyment, self-expression, and opportunity for growth;
• Musical expression is achieved through phrasing and tone, to which end musical understanding and technique are essential;
• The student is best served when teaching is responsive to intellectual, social, emotional, and physical development;
• The teacher is critically important, and is most able to realize these principles when open to continued learning through ongoing professional development.

Our faculty nurtures each student's ability to play and sing with knowledge and expression. We provide a foundation for a lifetime of involvement and pleasure in music.