The most advanced music school in Basel

School Of Rock offers you a modern teaching concept and a varied selection of private lessons and workshops. We'd like to awaken your joy for music in an easy-going yet professional atmosphere. We give you the opportunity to develop in music lessons adjusted to your personal needs – no matter what level you're on or what your musical interests are.

The best way to learn music is to play it. You can practice what you've learnt on stage in one of our exciting workshops. Our team of teachers is made up of young and motivated professional musicians, who all have experience in playing live and teaching. With us you will find the best opportunities to learn electric guitar, acoustic guitar, electric bass or ukulele, vocals, piano, keyboard and drums.

We've directed our school towards young and old. We have students between 4 and 84 years of age. That's why it's important for us that children, adolescents, employed individuals and pensioners get a lesson time that fits their needs perfectly. This means we're open from Monday to Saturday as well as during school holidays. Lessons take place between midday and 21.30h.

Our secretariat will make sure, that your lessons can take place under ideal circumstances. We're reachable almost around the clock and will happily answer your questions in English. We take care of your lesson cancellations e.g. when you are on holidays and lesson postponements so you can catch up the lessons.

In case you are unable to attend your lesson at SOR it can be held online. One of School Of Rock's specialties is the Backstage Area, where you as a student have your own account. The teachers write a short entry after each lesson and can link lesson material for you to use. As well as that, you can easily get in touch with your teacher through the Backstage Area.

Click here for more information on our team of teachers! Besides teaching at SOR our teachers are producing a lot of good music. Follow our Spotify playlist and discover the broad musical spectrum.

SOR Timeline

2012

Matthias van Stipriaan founded School Of Rock as a private guitar school in the autumn of 2012 after studying and working as a guitarist in Los Angeles for two years.

2013

In the spring of 2013 we moved to a new premises on the Dreispitz and expanded the team of teachers. At the same time the first workshops started to take place. Towards the end of 2013 Matthias, together with his brother Dominik van Stipriaan, founded the School Of Rock GmbH.

2014

The premises were upgraded, so that multiple lessons could take place simultaneously. In June we started to build up the secretariat. In August Dominik van Stipriaan started working full time for School Of Rock, making sure the back office ran smoothly.

2015

The release of the Backstage Area (login area for our students) in May 2015 was a success and in the same year we experienced a large accumulation of students.

2016

In 2016 we extended our offer with the Voice-Meets-Guitar-Workhop, the Children's-Birthday-Workshop and student concerts. We started with the renovations of our new premises on the Freilagerplatz in the autumn and at the end of the year we moved to the newly furnished school.

2017

We celebrated the opening of the new location in February and started offering private lessons in drums, piano, keyboard and vocals in modern facilities. As of late the rooms can be rented by musicians and bands. We feel happy and content in the new location and are glad to have more than twice as many students by the end of the year. 

2018

With the pop choir, the team building workshop and band coaching we successfully extended our offers. In the summer we celebrated 3 times as many students since we moved into the new location. In the fall, we restructure the secretariat to meet the growing demands.

2019

We expand our location by building a new room for vocal lessons. The number of students is still climbing and so is our Pop Choir that is now rehearsing in a large external room. Towards the end of the year we introduce new lesson formats that give our students even more choices and more flexibility.

2020

The Corona pandemic has been a challenging time for us as well. Thanks to the shift to online lessons we were able to sustain most of our services even during the shutdown. Simultaniously we have used this time to further develop our premises (secretariat, internet connection, air conditioning).

2021

In the second pandemic year we are nevertheless growing, we can start new workshops and extend our location. Online lessons are not just a temporary solution anymore. Therefore we elaborate a concept that guarantees a top-quality online lessons.

2022

We are starting 2022 with a new structure and new employees in the secretariat. We provide a top service for almost 600 active students. In October we celebrate 10 years of SOR! Immediately afterwards, we make a major expansion in our location, so that now 15 classrooms are available.

2023

In spring, we launch early childhood music education. This means that even the very youngest children can now make music with us. At the fall concert, our adult students show what they can do. With single lessons, our choirs and workshops, we now have almost 700 active students.