At Trinity Education Center
1323 Central Avenue Alameda CA 94501
510-708-8233 info@ozzysmusicacademy.com
About
Location: We are located at 1323 Central Avenue in the Education Wing at Trinity Lutheran Church. An amazing partnership that allows the team to serve the community through the belief that music improves our lives and the lives of others.
Ozzy's Music Academy
Vision
At Ozzy’s Music Academy, we envision a community of functional musicians who confident in their craft, prepared to share music with age-appropriate peers and excel in not just group settings but with their family, ensembles, and any musical communities and opportunities they may join.
Mission
Ozzy’s Music Academy empowers students to grow as musicians and individuals by cultivating mindfulness, fostering intrinsic motivation, and embracing disciplined practice. Through tiered afterschool programs, band coaching for kids through adults, open mics, jam sessions, and community music events, we provide enriching opportunities that inspire musical growth and personal development.
Core Values
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Accountability: We hold ourselves and our students accountable for their growth and interactions, emphasizing responsibility, compassion, punctuality, and reliability in all aspects of learning and collaboration.
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Preparedness and Focus: We believe that showing up on time, ready to learn, and giving undivided attention are non-negotiable for success, especially when working as part of a group. Respecting others’ time and effort fosters an environment of mutual trust and collaboration.
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Courage to Grow: While not every student may feel ready to perform, we encourage them to take steps toward overcoming fears in a supportive and nurturing environment. We challenge them to explore their potential while respecting their individual readiness, knowing that even small steps toward performing build resilience and confidence. This is a team effort involving not just OMA’s team but families and community as well.
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Resilience Through Failure: We see mistakes and setbacks as essential to growth. Students and families are encouraged to embrace challenges, learn from their experiences, and develop confidence through perseverance.
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Creative Expression: We celebrate the unique voice of every musician and foster an environment where students feel safe to explore, innovate, and express themselves musically. Music is a lifelong practice, OMA just aims to catalyze and enrich the journey where possible.
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Compassion and Community: We value kindness, empathy, and teamwork, creating a supportive and inclusive community that uplifts one another in both music and life. This includes restorative practices and accountability for members of all sorts.
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Family Partnership: Growth through music can evoke a wide range of emotions in students—frustration, confusion, resistance, fear, and even anger. We encourage families to hold space for their children’s experiences by fostering constructive conversations, supportive attitudes, and an inclusive approach that reinforces safety and growth.
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Discipline and Growth: We believe that principles, consistent effort, and focused practice lead to mastery. We support our students in developing the mindsets, tools, skills and habits to succeed as musicians and as people.
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Connection Through Music: We aim to inspire students to connect with others, their audience, and themselves through the universal language of music.
Core Beliefs
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Music is both a journey and a collaborative art, requiring dedication, teamwork, and effort to truly thrive.
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Every student has the capacity to grow, learn, and achieve, regardless of starting point or skill level.
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A structured yet flexible approach allows students to explore their interests while building foundational skills.
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Collaboration depends on mutual respect: Successful group work requires students to listen actively, give full attention to peers, teachers, coaches, and parents, and avoid distractions to ensure a cohesive and respectful learning environment.
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Performing is a personal milestone, not a requirement. We strive to move students closer to performing in front of audiences, but always at their own pace and in their own time.
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Families are key partners in students’ growth. Supporting children through challenges and emotions builds trust, resilience, and confidence as they grow through this demanding and rewards filled practice.
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Failure is not the opposite of success; it is a stepping stone that strengthens resilience and self-awareness.
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Music can be a powerful tool for personal development, emotional expression, and community connection.
Ozzy, Joseph Osborne, is a musician, music educator, and philanthropist bringing music to the East bay and beyond.
Growing up, Joseph was playing piano daily and singing at school in choirs, classes and at church.
Coming from a lineage of musicians and educators, music was all around his upbringing. With uncles having founded and directed collegiate music departments, to violin instructors at international music conservatories, music as a practice and way of life is simply a part of his family. His Father was a passionate hobbyist singer who participated in Choruses and Acapella Quarters.
Joseph studied Education and Music at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, completing his undergraduate degree at Wayne State Teachers College.
After student teaching in rural and suburban Nebraska, his teaching career took him to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State for a few years of scenic beauty and music to revive the elementary music program through an Orff and Kodaly based approach to musicianship and creativity. After two years in the Rain Forest, he moved to Oakland to pursue his Master's Degree in Music, Curriculum, Musicology and Pedagogy.
Since completion of his Master's Degree at Holy Names University, he has taught privately in Charter and Public schools. He is also playing in multiple bands in the Bay Area, persuing recording projects as a vocalist, keyboardist, accordion player and bassist. He also plays low brass, trumpet, alto saxophone, the trap-set, and is a local vocal jazz artist. You can catch him at the Sea-Music Festival at the Maritime Museum, at Fireside Alameda, Eli's Mile High, Geoffrey's Lounge, and Cinema Grill sharing his favorite music with his musical friends and community.
Along with the Academy in Alameda, he also directs Alameda Adaptive Arts, a performance group for adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities. He is elated to guide the practice in ways that supports the troupe's growth in musicianship and joy through sharing, singing, and playing familiar and new tunes on instruments like the piano and ukulele. Alameda Adaptive Arts performs at local and regional music festivals/events including with a Second-Line Brass Band at Kiwanis Christmas and at Thompson Avenue for Christmastree Lane.
Joseph also directs the Trinity Troubadours, a ukulele group aimed at developing musicianship through technique and repertoire, mastering song forms, melodies, scales, chords and improvisation. This group meets most Thursday afternoons at Trinity Lutheran Church in Alameda.
In additional to Joseph's Alameda programming, he and his team have been given the opportunity to ignite a middle school modern band program at the Bayshore School near Cow Palace in South San Francisco. This program aims to build foundations in technique and repertoire as well as context for the history of Popular music in the US since the turn of the 20th century. In the Spring of 2025, he received a grant and numerous instrument donations to begin an after school Jazz-band for advanced students.
He still finds time to work with families and individuals of all ages to connect them to their inner artist and build the practices necessary to grow in regular, successful making music.
He shares the liberating joy and connection of music making that brings people and families closer to themselves and one another through his workshops, lessons, and projects.
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