Use your Step Up scholarship for music lessons.
Flame Arts is an approved Step Up For Students provider. Florida families can now use scholarship funds for private, live online music lessons — piano, guitar and voice.
Your scholarship can pay for music lessons.
If your family has a Step Up For Students scholarship, you can use those funds to pay for your child’s music lessons with Flame Arts — the same way you would for tutoring, curriculum or other approved services.
We are listed in the EMA Marketplace as Flame Arts | Music School, under Elective Courses → Music Lessons. You reserve the funds through your EMA account, and we take care of the rest. No out-of-pocket payment, no reimbursement paperwork on your side.
Four scholarship programs, all accepted.
PEP
Personalized Education Program — for homeschool families building their own curriculum.
FTC
Florida Tax Credit Scholarship — income-based support for private school and educational services.
FES-EO
Family Empowerment Scholarship for Educational Options.
FES-UA
Family Empowerment Scholarship for Students with Unique Abilities.
Don’t have a scholarship yet? Many Florida families qualify and don’t know it. Applications are open at stepupforstudents.org — eligibility is determined by Step Up For Students, not by us.
Four steps. About five minutes.
01 — Log in to EMA
Sign in to your Step Up For Students EMA account.
02 — Search the Marketplace
We appear as Flame Arts | Music School, under Elective Courses → Music Lessons.
03 — Choose your plan
Pick the plan that fits your child — Support, Foundation or Excellence.
04 — Reserve the funds
Confirm and reserve. We’ll reach out to schedule the first lesson.
Stuck at any step? Message us and we’ll walk you through it — we do this with families every week.
Three plans. One standard.
Flame Support
$40 per lesson · $160/month
30-minute weekly private lessons, fully personalized to your child’s musical style — the music they already love becomes the material they learn from.
Flame Foundation
$45 per lesson · $180/month
30–45 minute weekly lessons with everything in Support, plus guided follow-up during the week and an interactive whiteboard with practice goals, available right after each class.
Flame Excellence
$65 per lesson · $260/month
45–60 minute weekly lessons including a music production module — recording, releasing and building the student’s own body of work.
Piano, guitar and voice — with music production, songwriting and performance. Private, live, 100% online. Ages 4 through 12th grade. Lessons available in English, Portuguese and Spanish.
Ten years teaching. Sixty-plus students.
Lessons are taught by Jefferson Cesar, founder of Flame Arts — ten years teaching music in Brazil and the United States, with more than 60 students over his career, ages 4 to 65.
He currently teaches 30 students, 25 of them across Florida — Miami, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton and Orlando.
As a performing artist, he is a 2024 Latin Grammy nominee for Best Christian Music Album as a member of Vocal Livre, holds a Gold Record for “Dias de Paz,” and is a Yamaha-endorsed artist.
Ready to start?
Look for Flame Arts | Music School in your EMA Marketplace, or message us and we’ll guide you through it.
Flame Arts is an approved Step Up For Students provider. Scholarship eligibility, award amounts and funding decisions are determined solely by Step Up For Students. Flame Arts is a division of Flame Group LLC.