About Us
Locomotion is a family run business providing in home & online music lessons throughout the Greater Toronto Area since 2008.
Music, relationships and community are at the core of who we are as a team.
About Us
Locomotion is a family run business providing in home & online music lessons throughout the Greater Toronto Area since 2008.
Music, relationships and community are at the core of who we are as a team.
Music
We are musicians and music lovers. Our focus is on inspiring creativity while developing skills and techniques that align with how you want to grow as a musician. Our lessons are fun, engaging & educational. We want you to fall in love with music while you grow in your craft.
Relationships
We go beyond just providing music lessons. We believe in developing a trusting, personal relationship where a teacher connects with their students as a mentor and friend. At Locomotion, music is home. We look forward to welcoming you to the Locomotion family.
Community
Supporting our community is at the core of who we are as a company.
Music has the power to transform, heal and empower. Our aim is to build engaging and dynamic partnerships with community organizations to deliver impactful music programs, including music therapy, group & school programs.
Our Story
As a young teenager, Locomotion Music founder David Viva fell in love with music – especially with his guitar. He went on to pursue his passion by studying music at The Musician’s Institute in Los Angeles and then returned to Toronto to play in several local bands. For the next 20 years, life revolved around touring, gigging, writing and recording, all while teaching guitar lessons and running a music school in Brampton. In 2008, David decided to start his own business. Locomotion Music was born and has now grown to include hundreds of students throughout the GTA, over 40 teachers and multiple community music programs.
His wife and business partner, Sabrina comes from a background of working in hospitals and with nonprofit organizations managing volunteers, developing programs & partnerships, fundraising and event planning. After many years in the nonprofit world, Sabrina moved over to Employee Engagement, Corporate Social Responsibility. Working for a private start up out of the U.S., for 7 years Sabrina had the opportunity to consult with Fortune 500 companies on their employee volunteer programs. As a Director of Account Management and Latin America Initiatives, she had the opportunity to work on projects with the United Nations and travel the world working with multinational companies developing their employee volunteer programs. In 2018, Sabrina made the leap from the corporate world to a business owner when she joined David to grow their own family business. Today, Sabrina runs the day to day operations of the business; David continues to teach guitar and they both manage the overall business together.
We welcome you to the Locomotion Music family, where music is home, and home is family.
Preet Joshi – Marketing & IT Manager
Preet is a Digital Marketing Consultant focused on organic inbound and social media marketing based in Toronto. He recently graduated from the Business Technology Management program at Ryerson University and has worked with various businesses and brands to develop their digital marketing strategy.
He has joined the Locomotion Music Team as a Marketing & IT Manager. Outside of work and his freelance practice, Preet likes to spend his time as an amateur photographer, and urban explorer. Through the summers, Preet likes to go on camping and kayaking trips through Georgian Bay and parts of northern Ontario.