Jeanina, center director of Foothills Music Together, has performed in Europe and the USA both as an accompanist and soloist. She has taught Music Together since 1997 and is an accredited Suzuki piano teacher. Jeanina did her undergraduate work at USC in piano accompanying. She enjoys working with children and has taught the Suzuki piano method since 1981 in Los Angeles and Milan, Italy.

Stephanie has been teaching Music Together since 2001. Following her undergraduate work at UCLA, it struck her that teaching Music Together was a great opportunity to serve her community. Her aim is to foster in other families the unique musical bond that she and her son enjoy. Stephanie is thrilled to be sharing her skills and experience; she particulary loves singing along with her classes to gentle lullabies strummed on her well-worn guitar.

Maggie is a singer/songwriter/musician and for the past 20 years has also been a professional actor, appearing on Broadway and teaching and performing improvisation with the Groundlings in Los Angeles. Maggie also teaches Music Together at a local nursery school; but most importantly, she is the mother of two small children.

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.

Angie graduated from the Los Angeles Music Academy in 2001 and toured Costa Rica as a representative for LAMA. She was working as a singer, songwriter, vocal coach and arranger when her mother and brother (both Music Together teachers and music educators) referred her to the Music Together workshops. She fell in love with the program, one which she feels is a fun, free, and inspirational way for children to learn about music. She was raised with music and it continues to be a huge part of her life.

Nura has always seen the world as her home and music an outlet that transcends cultural expectation. Born in Luxembourg, Nura was raised by a Persian mother and an American father.

Nura received her formal music training at the Conservatory of Luxembourg, where she studied solfege, piano, guitar, classical and jazz voice. She was a recipient of the 1997 Achievement Scholarship for the Berklee College of Music, in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated in August of 2001.

She has worked with children for thirteen years in various capacities from teaching in class rooms to directing after school programs, including teaching Music Together for three years in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Patrick is a singer-songwriter whose love of music finds its greatest inspiration in his three-year old daughter, Cecilia Jude. Patrick started making music in Chicago and brings to California a mid-western earthiness along with the remarkable ability to captivate and inspire children of all ages. As the lead singer in a rock-n-roll band, Patrick is best known for his beautiful melodies and guitar style.

Gretchen has worked as an actress and singer in Los Angeles, New York, Japan, Russia, and many, many places in between. She received her Bachelor's degree from Occidental College and then began performing professionally. She can be seen on stage, on the big and small screens; and heard on the radio and CDs....Gretchen discovered Music Together with her lovely daughter Genavieve.