Modern socio-cultural and economic processes taking place in our society contribute to the search for the most effective forms and methods of teaching, including music teaching. Such effective forms include dialogical communication and interaction, allowing children to feel and understand a piece of music more deeply. This form also includes artistic communication, which is built between children, children and the composer, children, members of the musical ensemble and the conductor. The purpose of the article: to reveal the content of the stages of the methodology for forming the readiness of students in musical institutions - members of ensembles for artistic communication, including the stages: technical, aimed at improving the technical skills of students and acquaintance with the works and their authors; communication, aimed at forming interaction between all members of the ensemble and the author of the work; performing, aimed at recreating the author's concept in the process of reproducing the work. Methodology and methods. To write the article, the following methods were used: analysis and generalization of theoretical sources on the problem of artistic communication, thelegislative framework of the modern educational process, as well as modeling, which allowed us to create a draft methodology that was implemented in the practice of working with the children's ensemble collective of EDSHI No. 15. Yekaterinburg and DSHI No. 2 of Berezovsky. Scientific novelty. Based on the ideas of M.S. Kagan about the specifics and essence of artistic communication, the content of three stages and sub-stages of the methodology is determined: technical aimed at improving the technical skills of students and acquaintance with works and their authors; communication aimed at forming interaction between all members of the ensemble and the author of the work including sub-stages, "informational" and "figurative"; performing aimed at recreating the author's concept in the process of reproducing the work. Practical significance. The method of formation of readiness for artistic communication in children of primary school age of participants of the violin ensemble has been developed and can be used by teachers of the system of additional musical education, as well as music teachers in secondary schools.