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Big Ear Games brings the sound of music education to children

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Finnish music education startup Big Ear Games scored a big partnership with the Lang Lang International Music Foundation to bring its music education app to more than 24,000 elementary school kids in the U.S.

And then the very next day, most schools in the U.S. went into home-schooling mode as the coronavirus pandemic began to spread. Big Ear Games CEO Aviv Ben-Yehuda was also scheduled to start a fundraising trip in the U.S. But now it’s adapting with a virtual music education strategy for music fans and learners, using its mobile app on iOS and Android.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.