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Keep checking back here for updates on Teacher Nancy's condition after her accident.

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A fun group picture of the MusicalMe staff.

Front Row: Katlynn, Polly, Sarah
Middle Row: Mary Lynne, Lizz, Tricia
Back Row: Lee, Elizabeth, Louise, Jessica, Gail

Check out our teachers:

Lizz Anderson, Director
Tricia Bartlett
Jackie Edens
Karen Enfield
Josh Friedman
Nancy Grace
Katlynn Hoegel
Theresa Jones
Louise Lovelle
Jessica Lowe-Wilson
Polly Matsuoka
Mary Lynne McLaughlin
Jonah Morreale
Sarah Pursell
Gail Swain
Elizabeth Torres

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Lizz Anderson

Lizz Anderson is the director of MusicalMe Inc.

She is a professional opera singer and musical theater performer who has performed locally, in the San Francisco Bay Area, in New York City, and beyond. Lizz has studied Early Childhood Education at Cabrillo and earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Theater (Acting Emphasis) from UCSC. She has studied voice with some very gifted teachers, among them: Adrienne Angel, Blanche Thebom, and her best teacher ever, her Mom. She is also Daniel's Mom! Read more about Lizz.

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Tricia Bartlett

Tricia became a registered Music Together® teacher in 2001 and has trained with Sanford Jones on Montessori Bells. She has spent the last 6 years in Montessori environments teaching music & movement to children from 3 months - 6 years and completed an MT® Refresher Course in August of 2006. She has also done outreach programs including interactive music classes with preschoolers and disabled adults or elderly.

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Jackie Edens

Jackie Edens has been a singer and a music lover for most of her life. She has sung in several choirs and vocal groups, and is currently a lead singer for the worship team at her church. Jackie plays the clarinet and a little piano and has sung in two major musical productions: one at the Arco Arena and one at the HP Pavilion. She has taken several music classes at De Anza College as well as private music and voice lessons.

Jackie started teaching Music Together in 2007 and really enjoys teaching. She got started after bringing her youngest daughter to classes when she was only 7 months old and she is now almost 4. After seeing how much this program has enriched her children’s lives it was just natural for her to become a teacher and enjoy enriching the lives of other wonderful babies and children . Also, since she has such a great love for teaching children, Music Together became the obvious choice in her search for a job that she was looking for but didn’t know existed. Teaching these classes has been both a blessing and a pleasure.

Jackie spends most of her time being a mommy and taking care of her 3 children and husband and home. She likes hiking, working out, reading, making and spending time with friends. She loves Starbucks coffee, sushi and shopping at the mall.

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Karen Enfield

Karen started out as a Music Together mom of two when her youngest son was eight months old, and after one year began teaching Music Together classes. Her son who is four and daughter nearly seven, Karen has been teaching preschool music and movement and Music Together for a combination of nearly four years. She plays the guitar and now enjoys the benefits of Music Together unfolding in her daughter and can speak to this experience.

Karen brings a parent's perspective to her teaching and first-hand knowledge of the power of the Music Together curriculum in both of her children.

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Josh Friedman

This is a photo of "Classical Josh".Josh's musical passions are singing and playing guitar (you should hear him perform on the classical guitar - it's breathtaking). He delights in sharing with joy and creativity of music with young children. He is a graduate of Music Together's prestigous Certification Level One training and holds a B.A. in Guitar Performance and a Masters in Music Composition, both from UCSC.

Nancy Grace

Check HERE for updates on her condition after the accident.

Nancy began singing before she could talk and has been singing professionally her entire adult life. She teaches voice to adults whose voices have been stifled by criticism and calls her work, “Singing for Joy!” She is thrilled to be a part of this opportunity to help children embrace their innate ability to make music.

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Katlynn Hoegel

Katlynn Hoegel has been singing since the time she could speak, and has been performing for audiences since the age of 3. She began music training at the age of 6 with piano lessons, and then later voice and guitar. Her experiences are diverse, but it's her enthusiasm and love for music that radiates joy to those she works with.

For over 10 years, Katlynn has been leading music with children and youth in various capacities including: Church Sunday School, Summer Camp, Youth band, YMCA Kid's Corner, and most recently returned from a year of traveling with Youth Encounter leading music for kids groups and large youth gatherings. While attending West Valley College in pursuit of her degree in Early Childhood Education, Katlynn has been a core member of the Chamber Singers and traveled with Masterworks Chorale to Europe in July of 2006.

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Theresa Jones

Theresa Jones has a Bachelor's in Music Education and a Master's in Elementary Education. She taught music and Band to K-12 students from 1994-2001 and spent the last two years teaching 4th grade and kindergarten in Oakland.

Theresa loves being able to teach and bring her daughter, Marcella, to work. They began Music Together classes when Marcella was 4 months old (she's now 1 year+) and so have seen the benefits of the program first hand!

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Louise Lovelle

Louise Lovelle is a long-time lover of music and children and began singing and playing piano at age 3 with her musical family. Louise received her B.A. in Music from UCSC where she performed in several operas as well as putting together a solo recital.

Music isn't the only art-form that has enamored Louise. Following college she attended The San Francisco Circus Center and recently trained and performed in NYC with Firefly Aerial Acrobatics. The past year has been an adventure on two continents and several coasts.

Louise is a singer/songwriter, composing mostly on the guitar and is in the middle of recording her first album. She currently sings soprano in the acclaimed "Choral Project." She is happy to be back home in the Santa Cruz Mountains where the kids are cuter and the pace is calmer.

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Jessica Lowe-Wilson

Jessica is a credentialed educator with 30 years of experience working with young children and families, along with training in child development, music and dance. Convinced that music can bond, heal and transform us, she has enjoyed years of magic music making with her family. She considers Music Together a blessing in her life and has been with us since 1998!

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Polly Matsuoka

Polly comes to Music Together with great enthusiasm because she loves every activity that supports healthy and joyful bonding between parents and children. She has a B.S. in Human Development from UC Davis, and a M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Santa Clara University.

Polly has worked as a preschool teacher, an elementary school counselor, and a parenting instructor. Licensed as a marriage and family therapist, Polly has a part time private practice affiliated with Hope Counseling Center of Silicon Valley.

For many years an oboist, now Polly plays soprano saxophone with a worship team and recorder for fun and for Music Together. She also played handbells with the Celebration Ringers and directed a youth handbell choir. Still, Polly thinks her best preparation for teaching Music Together was singing silly songs in the car on long road trips as a child and having daily “Sing Times” with her 3 sons when they were small. Now that they’ve grown up, she looks forward to helping families create similar traditions through Music Together.

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Mary Lynne McLaughlin

Mary Lynn is an accomplished pianist and flautist. She is a graduate of MT's prestigious Certificate Level One training.

One of her favorite activities is singing in close multi-part harmony with her five sisters. When she enrolled her two toddlers in Music Together classes, she was so impressed with the program that she changed careers to teach others the joy of family music.

Jonah Morreale

Jonah Morreale is a multi-talented musician and self taught teacher of didgeridoo, bass, guitar, Native American style flute, Tuvan and Mongolian throat singing, several forms of hand percussion and human beat box (practically a one man band)! He has been singing and making his own songs since he was a toddler himself! Jonah has worked for Parents In A Pinch and has experience with children birth-6. He loved sharing the fun and joy of music development in children and grownups and directs a private Sound Healing practice (performing music therapy in groups).

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Sarah Pursell

Sarah Pursell is Mark’s wife and Sadie’s mommy. She’s also a brand new Music Together teacher, trained in 2008!

Sarah has been working with kids since she was 18 years old. She began working at a summer camp in Southern California right after high school, eventually became the camp director, and ended up working there for seven summers! She taught herself how to play the guitar because, well…you really can’t work at camp and not play the guitar! After college, Sarah worked at a YMCA after school day camp where she led music with youth.

She then moved to Santa Cruz, where she taught outdoor Education at Mt. Hermon Camp, singing and dancing her way through the forest with 5th and 6th graders everyday. After tearing her ACL and meniscus, her hiking days were over, so she moved back to Southern California where she worked in Children’s Ministry at two churches in Orange County. She was the Director of Programming and Production at Coast Hills Community Church for two years. In this job, she not only got to work with hundreds of amazing kiddos, but she got to plan all the music they sang, teach the band how to lead, and she even got to lead herself! More about Sarah Pursell.

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Gail Swain

Gail Swain is a person who has sung most of her life. Since moving to Santa Cruz in 1982 she has sung in: an Early Music & Shape Note Ensemble; a women¹s band; a rock band; a women¹s original duo; a jazz guitar & vocal duo (Tuck & Patti style) ; a country band; a folk recording project; a women¹s Acappella quartet (What Four!); a very popular Acappella quartet (VocaMotion) ; an inspirational duo; a women¹s Acappella trio (Mama Medicine) , and currently ³Birds Eye View², a jazz and folk duo. Gail founded most of these groups. More about Gail Swain.

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Elizabeth Torres

Elizabeth is bilingual (English & Spanish), a professional saxophonist and a composer. She is a graduate of MT's prestigious Certification Level One training. She holds a B.A. in Music from UCSC and has taught music both privately and in elementary schools to children in grades Kindergarten through 8th.

In her free time she likes to hike in the mountains surrounding Santa Cruz and to swim at her local swim center or in the Pacific Ocean. In the summer, you can find Elizabeth at one of her favorite beaches reading a book or playing Frisbee with a friend. She is also plays Balinese Gamelan with Gamelan Anak Swarasanti. Check it out! See more about Elizabeth.

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