Meet Our Teachers

 

All of our teachers are passionate about music and the development of children. They create a fun, informal, social setting that spurs engagement and supports each child's musical development.

All Music Together® Teachers have...

* learned about the research-based Music Together curriculum design
* learned how to assess children's music development
* learned developmentally appropriate practice and music
* practiced using child-development observation tools during the demonstration class
* learned to design lesson plans that result in classes with artistic energy and flow
* learned more about parent education and the importance of involving adult primary caregivers

photo Jeanina Quezada, Center Director

Jeanina, Center Director of Foothills Music Together, has performed in Europe and the US both as an accompanist and soloist. She has taught Music Together since 1996 and opened Foothills Music Together Center in 1997. She received her Certification Level 2 in 2016 from the Music Together headquarters in Princeton, NJ.  Jeanina did her undergraduate work at USC in piano accompanying/collaboration. She is an accredited and fully trained Suzuki piano teacher and enjoys working with young children and their families both in her Music Together classes as well as in her private piano studio. Jeanina has taught the Suzuki piano method since 1981 both in Los Angeles and Milan, Italy. She was drawn to Music Together both as an early childhood music educator as well as a mother.
     
photo Audrey LaVelle

Audrey discovered Music Together classes with her one-year-old daughter in 2002, having been attracted to the program because it reminded her of happy times singing in Camp Fire Girls. She earned a Masters of Fine Arts from the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago, and has more than two decades experience working as an actor, writer, director and coach in theatre, independent films, commercials, and voiceover. Audrey has taught for Foothills Music Together since 2004 and absolutely loves working with young children and their families. (photo by Rebecca Little)

Join us for the Tambourine Song Collection this Spring!

You'll learn twenty-five Music Together songs and activities you can recreate at home, including our first French-Canadian folk song, "V'là l'bon vent." Your children will experience the contrast between galloping, slowing, sleeping, then jumping up with delight to gallop again in "See the Pony Galloping." In addition to your weekly classes, your tuition includes recordings and materials for you to use at home, including an illustrated songbook and access to the songs through the Music Together app.