Train the ear that everything else depends on

Aural skills are the foundation of musicianship, and almost nobody gets taught them properly. Solfera builds them the way skill is actually built: a structured curriculum, deliberate drilling, and competition that makes you come back tomorrow.

Solfera app: Campaign map with Rhythm and Pitch tracks radiating outward from a central start point Product in development
In development with Music educators · advanced students · conservatory & university faculty · working performers
01 / The problem

Everyone studies music. Almost nobody measures the ear

Aural skills sit underneath every other musical ability. Sight-reading, intonation, improvisation, and ensemble playing all run through them. Yet outside a handful of conservatories, they are taught inconsistently, assessed rarely, and practiced almost never between lessons. Students have no way to know whether they are improving. Institutions have no consistent way to measure whether their teaching works.

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US public school students with no access to school music education.

Arts Education Data Project, 2022

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South Korea's 2026 national budget for culture, sports and tourism, a single country's one-year public investment in arts and culture.

Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism · The Korea Herald, 2025

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California's dedicated arts and music education funding, 2023–24, under Proposition 28.

California Dept. of Education

02 / The platform

Five interlocking parts. One system

A sequential curriculum, targeted drilling, timed competition, ranked tiers, and a global event, designed to build skill and keep you returning to it.

03 / Why Solfera

Structure, competition, and measurement, in one place

Ear-training apps drill exercises without a curriculum. Course platforms teach theory without reinforcement. Consumer apps gamify without standards alignment. Solfera unifies all three.

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A curriculum that sequences properly, not a pile of exercises.

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Competition as the retention engine: deliberate practice needs a reason to continue.

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Progress measured against a standard, so a score means something outside the app.

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Built from the start for institutions to adopt, not retrofitted for them later.

For individuals

Musicians & educators

Whether you are preparing for an audition, teaching a theory class, or closing a gap you have carried since school. The free tier includes the core curriculum, Leagues, and Resonaré.

Solfera for musicians
For organizations

Institutions

Consistent aural skills assessment across a whole cohort, with rostering, educator dashboards, and analytics your department can actually report on.

Solfera for institutions
04 / Mission

Built to be accountable

Read our mission

Solfera's mission is to empower every person on the planet to expand and achieve their artistic potential. Access is the constraint on that, not talent, 3.6 million American public school students have no school music education at all.

Solfera is a Delaware C-corporation pursuing B Corporation certification, submitting the company to an independent standard on how it treats the people it serves, employs, and operates among.