“It's my favorite 45 minutes with my daughter all week.”

We are thrilled to welcome Adam as a new teacher in winter 2017. His warmth and easy rapport with children and adults alike, as well as his passion for teaching, make him a perfect fit for Music Together. Adam has performed principal tenor roles in opera houses throughout North America, Hawaii and Japan. In July 2006 he completed a five year Artist-In- Residency for Opera San Jose, performing over 32 roles. He is currently a member of the San Francisco Opera Chorus. Adam is also a teaching artist for the San Francisco Opera Guild’s Opera A La Carte and Book To Bravo educational programs with students in the 5 th -12 th grades. He is a voice student of Deborah Benedict, Dewey Camp, and Joseph Frank.

Jeff's musical journey began at a young age with the encouragement of his parents and caregivers, first studying piano before discovering clarinet, trumpet, and most recently, ukulele. While he originally studied to become a professional trumpet player, life had other plans and music stopped being an integral part of his life...until enrolling his daughter in Music Together at 4 months old. Seeing the style of teaching children music through play, and seeing how babies and children connect with caregivers through music was all it took for him to sign up for the teacher training program. Jeff's style is playful and loving while being firmly grounded on an impressive background in musicianship and music theory.

Lanie grew up singing, dancing, playing the piano, clarinet, and oboe (and has since added ukulele to her bag of tricks). . . but above all, she loves singing and dancing! Lanie became a registered Music Together teacher in 2017, shortly after her son was born and she became especially interested in childhood musical development and cultivating joy as a life-long habit through song and movement. She has over 10 years of experience as a teaching artist in classrooms and enrichment programs around the Bay Area, teaching performing arts, storytelling and puppetry arts.

For over a decade, Lanie has also been a children's party entertainer, performing at over 1000 parties in the Bay Area, and (of course!) leading children in song and movement at every opportunity. Also a life-long lover of theatre, Lanie has several professional puppetry, prop and costume design credits to her name with various theatre companies around the Bay Area, and always loves working with children's theatres. 

Brenda is our sorceress and superhero of all things administrative. Her family has been part of Music Together for over ten years, and she has attended our national director's conference. Her knowledge of our program is broad and deep. She also knows all the nuts and bolts of the administrative side of Sing Dance Play.